LUCIFUGUM - Stigma Egoism - CD

While the influences were certainly present on the previous full-length, 'Stigma Egoism' is definitely the Lucifugum album which most resembles Dub Buk's 'Rus Ponad Vse!' in style. Stripping out much of the melody of '...And The Wheel Keeps Crunching...', Lucifugum crafts an album of incisive, militaristic black metal with significant thrash elements and a sense of melody derived from a combination of primitive black/thrash and Ukrainian folk. This is possibly Lucifugum's most direct and savage album (at least at this point in the band's career), and is certainly in the upper echelon of the artist's releases.