Some albums tell you everything you need to know in the first track. The Regeneration Itinerary tells you everything in the first two minutes, and then tears that map to shreds. Opener Inertia crashes in with all the hallmarks of progressive black metal, with relentless blast beats, cavernous growls, and glittering, sky-high synths, but halfway through everything drops out and a deep, throbbing techno bassline slips you into another record entirely. The guitars return, but the relentless industrial kick keeps pounding through the chaos.

The Regeneration Itinerary is a progressive metal record with the gleeful genre-hopping audacity of a great DJ set. It’s 60 minutes of intricate, unrepentantly grand metal that constantly mutates without ever losing its relentless throughline. The Ways of Sulphur opens with punishing blast beats before breaking into an irresistably groovy mid-tempo section, draped in layers of choral synths and swelling orchestral strings that wouldn’t feel out of place on an 80s superhero soundtrack, and these experimental choices keep you locked in for the ride. The album evokes the fearless spirit of early The Mars Volta or Rush and the triumphant scale of late-80s arena metal. More than just riffs and brutality, this is an hour-long journey through the outer edges of black and progressive metal, techno, orchestral bombast, and sheer audacity. The orchestral and compsitional ambition has the gravity of a full-blown film score. The closer The Discord Static distills everything into a three-and-a-half minute explosion, opening with a jungle breakbeat before hurtling into thrash riffs and building to a final blowout of screams, shredding, and drum fills, all pushed deep into the red. When it finally cuts to silence, it leaves you exhausted, disoriented, but above all, endlessly entertained.