When you think of industrial black metal, you'd think of bands like Dodheimsgard, Mysticum, Thorns, Aborym...bands who were playing something that was recognizable as black metal, but subverted it by experimenting with electronic rhythms, noise, actual metal abuse and other sounds that were lifted from industrial music. The same can't quite be said of Cssaba; this obscure Polish band almost seems like the inverse, an apocalyptic electro-industrial band that's prone to injecting regal black metal riffs and crushing heaviness into its pounding programmed beats and expansive passages of cosmic ambience and abstract electronic noise. It's a solo project from Nihil, the guitarist/keyboardist for Polish black metallers Massemord; on this, his only as Cssaba to date, Nihil crafts pulsating electronic fields and minimal beastscapes, strange symphonies of broken toy melodies and cut-up classical music, sometimes disappearing so deep into experiments with noise and programmed rhythms that you could forget that this has a whole black metal influenced side. And then it'll suddenly appear, a regal blackened dirge will drop in over wavering synths and a pounding breakbeat, or a rush of buzzsaw tremolo riffing that comes screaming through one of Cssaba's many forays into black-hole drone, or glom onto something like "A (A Date With Trees)" that resembles a warped blackened electro-pop song a la Manes. The more beat-driven songs like that one bring this album closer to the satanic techno-BM of Aborym and Neo Inferno 262, but then it's back to more abstract soundscapery and experimental piano and weird Godfleshy heaviness. It's one of the more offbeat industrial black metal albums of the past few years for sure, recommended to fans of the weirder and more experimental fringes of this sort of stuff (think Diapsiquir, Alien Deviant Circus, Gorgonea Prima).