This style seems to sit in a midway between Gothenburg Death Thrash Metal and Modern Thrash. Tuning style is pretty Neo Thrashy with the crunchy guitar tone and the tight snares. Although fast tremolo picking, Dissection like solos and dissonant melodies adds it a Melodic Black taste. This must be their effort of mixing everything they like, and the result is pretty stunning.

Ever since Gorguts spawned its unorthodox soul crushing "Obscura" onto the world in 1998 there has been an arms race of sort by adventurous tech death metal bands to take such otherworldly atonal entanglements of sonic terror ever further down a rabbit hole so riddled with avant-garde aggressiveness and tortuous labyrinthine nihilism that in comparison to established scenes of extreme metal, these new cutting edge wizards of convoluted complexity sounded like invading alien forces more than anything within the established metal universe…

Aiming to encompass many sides of their multifaceted sound, Helsott strides ambitiously into their third full-length Will and the Witch as a conceptual record…