From rotting misery and paroxysmal darkness, carried in perpetual ascent through the left hand path to the macabre end, is the Sumerian echo of disembodied spirits captured in Binah. Its emissions hark from an era when guitars were crusty and obscure, productions were something that happened in Film and Theatre, each riff was not an act of technical prowess but a crucial tool of invocation, clean voices were anathema, and Anathema had disappeared after "An Illiad of Woes".