Recently reissued and re-mastered for Cd by Fall Of Nature, this Funerary Call album first came out on vinyl on Fluttering Dragon in 2004 in a limited edition of 333 copies. The Black Root featured more of this seminal black industrial outfit's graven doom-laden ambience, which sounds like Lustmord scoring a black mass, or utterly stygian ambient doom, or pummeling mechanical horror, at varying points.

The death ceremony begins with "In The Half Light"; massive orchestral black ambience slowly drifts through vast chthonic chambers, peals of distant war-horns blaring deep beneath the earth. Then the title track comes rumbling in on a black wave of doom-laden heaviness, crushing Sunn-like guitars and peals of industrial noise reverberating through the depths, monstrous growls and strange wordless chanting drifting over eerie minor key piano notes floating in the blackness. On "Works Of Fire", a distorted vocal recites some mysterious verse as pounding tribal drums and rumbling tectonic drones flow in, joined by more distorted chanting as the sound is whipped up into a hypnotizing fire ritual. "Dawn Of The Final Purge" has ghoulish cackling and scraping metal set aghainst a backdrop of minimal dark electronic ambience and droning synthesizers, and "Thee I Invoke" is a dreamlike death-trance of slurred growling vokills, deep dubby percussion and looped drones.

The heaviest material is saved for last. On "Furnace God", slow stomping martial rhythms meet grinding metallic scrape and screech, creating abrasive rhythmic machine throb that reminds me of MZ.412; then a crushing slow drum beat drops in, and suddenly it becomes almost like a pitch black Godflesh jam, super-heavy and percussive, pounding massive gouges into the earth. "For Thus You Will Sow" is another seriously heavy machine-dirge, with bursts of clanking percussion strafing a strange heaving slow motion industrial dirge, and putrid guttural vocals and sheets of black drift disturbed by blasts of grinding noise, and the album closes with the martial percussion and Lustmordian ambience of "Upon The Heath". It's amazing stuff that straddles the line between the blackest corners of the Cold Meat back catalog and the heaviest strains of black metal-influenced industrial, and both this and Funerary Call's last album Dark Waters Stirred are recommended listening for followers of pitch-dark ambience.