After a strange and a-typical opening sample from an old military promotional video dealing with a test explosion of a hydrogen bomb, and two minutes of corny vintage film score, this album EXPLODES... wait.. no it actually fades in with an odd militaristic snare/tom roll repeated over a noodley harmonic minor guitar riff. Strange to say the least. Never in the history of metal has there been an extreme metal album that starts off with like this one, a two minute sample, and a fade in, before launching into the roaring blast beats. Before getting to a description of the the music though, the audience should understand that this is not presented as a typical raw black/death album. Most of the songs have lengthy intros, some from differing sources, containing the same type of vintage melodramatic film score that has never really been exploited on this type of album. Not what one would expect when popping the first full length Goatpenis album into their player... In the end, what these segues and intros provide is a unique feeling of "vintage black and white nuclear cold war atomic paranoia." It becomes evident from the imagery, lyrics, and visual presentation of the album that this atmosphere was all planned to give the listener something unique and new. Now, to answer the most important question at hand, ?so how is the actual music?? one must keep this odd presentation in mind, but also listen to the songs and judge them without bias. After the strange minute long fade-in riff, which follows the sampled intro, the first song does finally burst into an intense blast beat, over a vicious tremolo picked riff in a harmonic minor scale, building from the notes in the fade-in riff. Right away it becomes clear that unlike most of the preceding Goatpenis recordings, this album possesses a crystal clear production, and all the instruments are very discernable. The drums are very high in the mix, but even though the guitar has a harsh and heavily distorted sound, it?s tone is set just so, enabling it to cut to for front and pierce the listener. The harmonic scale mentioned previously is dominant throughout most of the riffing on this album, and through at first seems a little odd, ends up making perfect sense, lending a slick and sinuous feel to the music that complements the style perfectly. Many of the riffs on this album seem off kilter at first, for example the main chorus riff in ?Machine Voidness? but end up sticking in your brain and coming back to you, their slick strangeness actually makes them acutely memorable. This is not a grind record. Or a ?black noize? record. The abundant stylized riffing serves to easily tear down any misconception about the quality of the songs in ?Inhumanization?. This album builds on, and intensifies, the sadistic black metal style that inspired so many bands in the early nineties. Goatpenis carry the torch of South American black metal into the bleak, decimated future, and add their own unique and sinister presentation.