Krieg: The Isolationist

We would have thought Blue Miasma was the closing chapter for Krieg. But as it is, Imperial had brought the outfit back to life bringing Leviathan's Wrest into the recording process- we do remember Wrest for his drumming efforts in Nachtmystium's Addicts. So the expectation here was naturally a more wretched Krieg with a shroud of signature grimness, bearing the Leviathan brand black metal which the industry, on this side of the pond, had come to respect. That's quite the case with The Isolationist but Krieg remains to be Krieg in essence- the force which delivers black metal with unpretentious urgency. The fresh element in this release has got to be those blips, blurbs & tweets adding a pinch of cosmic perspective akin to the ones heard in Nachtmystium's Assassins but done in limitations & good taste. Krieg continues to fly the black metal flag high in the United States of America.