MACTÄTUS - Blot CD

To say this album was a surprise to me would be something of an understatement - not a unduly large one, to be sure, but there still was that element of pleasing novelty about this, coming from a band I had pretty much completely written off after trying (and utterly failing) to understand their latest work, 'The Complex Bewitchment', with its laughable cover artwork... which I know was not the fault or mistake of the band, Napalm being one of those record labels that plans those things out themselves, and seems to make decisions regardless of the group's priorities or desires. So, to continue, after laughing Mactätus's newest album to scorn, disliking both its lyrical and musical messages, and bemoaning the utter lack of true creativity shown there, I couldn't help but approach this, their first album, which something approaching trepidation... or maybe a certain wariness.