This album is full of bone-crunching riffs that will take over your soul in no time at all. The band are experts at painting a bleak picture for all of us sludge metallers to get are teeth stuck into. The album starts off with the excellent 9:43 minute track - The Soldier Of My Words - which starts off with a sublime riff that sets the scene brilliantly well and harks back to the days of early Mastodon. - Leviathan era. Then the bleak hardcore based vocals of talented vocalist kicks in to show you that this band means business. The 10 mins just files by and you will now be sold on this great band. A great start to a fantastic album with more top-notch Sludge Riffage to follow. Next up is the awesome title track and probably my fave track of this outstanding album. - Black Hearts Bleeds Black This is where the band take this album onto another level from their competitors. Cue a riff that Mastodon/Baroness would be proud to call their own kicks in. Blending bleak hardcore growls with despairing lyrics to fend off all clean living rock fans. This is music that only Sludge Metal fans will truly worship.