First of all, hats off to Muspell Records for including such a detailed and informative press release. Four pages worth. Most of the time, all we get is half a photo copied page with quotes from other sources. They certainly put a lot of effort into getting this out to people.

Anyway, Mountain King has taken a fairly straight forward approach to black metal on “Gotos-Antichristus.” Some blast beats, mostly mid-tempo, an occasional acoustic moment and mostly dominated by fast and high pitched lead riffing. Very raspy vocals that have that trademark “distant” sound. The problem with all of this is that it goes in one ear and out the other no matter how hard I try to focus on it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge black metal fan and follower, but not once was there anything to get excited over or made me think “damn, I need to hear that again.” The title track is the slight exception, but otherwise, there’s no atmosphere, little creativity and even less power and strength. There’s a very flat vibe to the whole thing.

Basically, it’s not that this album is bad by any means, it’s just that I’m incredibly indifferent towards it. “Gotos-Antichristus” has “lost in the sea of mediocrity” written all over it.