...I guess that this is the last Emit release, since the band is changing it's name to Hammemit? That seems to be the case, and this final flourish from the enigmatic blackened psychonauts is a "best of" collection of recordings from the past several years, a collection of sixteen tracks that have been culled from various unreleased tracks, the Death Musick split tape with PTC, the Conscience recordings, and the Symphonia Sacrosancta Phasmatum / Emit split 10", all recorded between 2004 and 2007. This later material from Emit showcases the extremes of the band's sound, from the bizarre percussion/chant rituals soaked in endless folds of diseased blackness, to blasts of hyperdistorted black metal that's buried underneath so much noise and weird samples that it turns into an oily, filthy ambience. Most of the recordings that are included here are from the solo incarnation of Emit, the sole product of the mysterious Unknown Ikon who plays all of the instruments and supplies the field recordings, ambient drones and fucked up industrial sounds that are splattered across the album. Some weird shit here..."Behind These Eyes" combines a stumbling motorik-like drumbeat with modulated feedback, and "Decay And Arise" sounds like a ritualistic drum circle jamming along with a wobbly bassline in the middle of a huge cathedral. "The Return" sees groaning, anguished moans and pulsing percussion swirled with horror movie pipe organs, kind of like Abruptum gone krautrock. The more abstract, ambient tracks focus on weird, echoing voice recordings, drifting slabs of Lustmordian drone, haunting organ melodies, eerie harmonica-like strains, and spluttery percussion. A few tracks travel into deformed black metal territory, like "The Herald Precedes The Prince" which combines warbling, ultradistorted black metal "riffs" with distorted pipe organs and sloppy, stumbling drumming, kinda like Havohej run through a vomit-splattered vinyl copy of a haunted house sound effects record. It's all very weird and abstract, a kind of ambient outsider black metal, or super abstract black ritual ambience, or some bizarre fusion of the two. Definitely fits in with the kind of abstract black drift that Autumn Wind specializes in, and sits nicely alongside similiar slabs of infernal ambience like Vomit Orchestra, Nordvargr, MZ.412, Abruptum, Ruhr Hunter, and Lustmord. The disc comes with a heavy-gloss 8-page booklet that includes some interesting liner notes written by Unknown Ikon that address the themes behind the recordings, as well as the weird, creepy artwork that always accompanies Emit's brain-damaged black noise-psych. Limited to 1,000 copies.