Just got turned on to this proggy, offbeat Finnish black metal outfit via the new album III: Domini Ascensionem, the third from the one-man band after a series of super-limited discs on Ewiges Eis Records. And like most of the stuff that I pick up from Misanthropic Art, this is fantastic, quirky black metal that twists the style into it's own mutated form. Dodkvlt's absurdly catchy and progressive version of Finnish black metal has a lot of classical and electronic elements that are woven into the music, and also show off lots of soaring guitar parts that sound to me like they could have come off some anthemic 80's hard rock song, often leading right into one of Dodkvlt;s blasting, complex black metal assaults. This is amazing stuff, starting with the twelve minute opener "Dark Void Architect " as it moves through twisting arrangements of chaotic blasting power and slower, more emotionally wrought sections of lush gloom-rock and passages of ominous piano, intense strangled screams and doom-laden riffage taking over, only to open up into stunning passages of orchestral string sections full of grim symphonic power that seem to rework motifs from Clint Mansell's score for Requiem For A Dream. That opener later mutates into a strange lopsided blackened, off-time thrash, with more of those awesome melodic leads and soaring tremolo riffs. The other songs get more adventurous, working in weird time signatures and some odd, almost jazz-like bass playing that gives this a very unique rhythmic feel, like the strangely jazzy "As I Descend Into The Bottomless Void", but there's also swirling psychedelic chaos and Deathspell-ish dissonance that is unleashed on tracks like "Abysmal Mausoleum". It's one of the catchiest, most hook-heavy prog/black metal albums I've heard in a long time, and is additionally enhanced by Maxime Taccardi's surreal artwork. Recommended to fans of Ihsahn, Negura Bunget and Enslaved and that sort of progressive, sweeping heaviness.