Celesty's second album is another one of those releases which has the initial problem of not only the lyrics being hard to read, but also the song titles. This creates an immediate barrier which makes the record hard to approach. It helps even less when the material is as wobbly as this. The vocals are weak (even the touches of black and death metal screeches and growls don't have much of an effect), and too much of the material is rambling and rather aimless.
There are some reasonable moments here and there, and the attempts by the band for more expansive, complex material (exemplified by the last two, lengthy and segmented tracks, "Legacy Of Hate Part I" and "Legacy Of Hate Part II") are laudible. But it just doesn't really work - overall, it's an aloof, frustrating album which can't match its lofty ambitions.
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