Oulu, Finland's flagship hardcore band Kuroishi return with their 4th LP. By now, everybody should be familiar with their signature style of Tragedy-influenced hardcore. Big epic guitar solos atop heavy, brooding riffs and high-charge drums. It is the same darkness and ice that bore Wolfbrigade and Unkind after all. Kuroishi continue to push and pull themselves in slightly different directions, keep their signature style but lean into different ideas. Check the frantic anxiety of riffing in "Turhautumisen Liekki", or the black metal blast flourishment of "Egocide of the Warmad". Feel the goosebumps in the creepy guitar arpeggios and spoken words of "Aivojen Kasijarru", let your spirits soar with the epic melodic backing vocals of "Kun Tiedostat Virheesi". Simultaneously familiar but distinctly different from their other records, Kuroishi continue to be one of the hardest working bands in the game, dedicated to thoughtfully crafting each album as a separate experience and not rehashing the same tired ideas into frayed pieces.