Hubris hails from New York and this is their second full length and first in fourteen years, with a couple of EPs and a split filling that gap. They play strong second wave style black metal with riffs that are cold as ice and a level of technicality not often seen in black metal. They clearly take influence from death metal as well, and they weld that intensity to the blackness, creating a juggernaut of evil sound. This is very much in the camp of Gorgoroth or 1349 as far as any similarities can be assessed at all, as this is a fairly unique-sounding band. They keep the mentioned intensity ratcheted up quite high all the time with adept blastbeats and slick guitar work. I think the drummer is probably one of the most vicious black metal drummers I've heard in a long time, and his fills and rolls make quite the impression along with his speed and all the little things he's doing to really keep the music moving. Fans of blasting black metal would do well to investigate this band, because what they're doing here is astonishingly good.
