The first time I got acquainted with this band's music, was through their four songs on the split-EP with black metal band Mordecai. Now the full length album with its ten songs is rotating in my CD player, making me wonder how much progress the band's made. With the first assault on my ears, I'm inclined to think the band moved on to black metal. Yet that's far from accurate. The opening track Frostmind has the inhuman speed and nasty biting vocals you can often hear black metal bands do. To do Immortal Souls more justice, I can describe their music as the perfect blend of power metal mixed with the crispiness of black metal and the grunting vocals of death metal (though they sometimes touch the hissing sound of black metal). But it's all covered with a thick layer of melody. Basically the music has a lot of energy and power. The added melody is created by lead guitar playing on top of the riffing. The production of this album is solid and it's a shame this album (recorded in winter 2000) took so long to see the light. A worthy progress from the split-EP days.
