Amidst Pines mixes reverence for ancient times and tones, blurred into a distant past of memory and majesty, reborn through modern strains of black metal's current fascination of a halcyon paganised Americana. This album marks another milestone in the intoxicating new wave of historic romanticism in USBM, of bands like Plainchant, Primeval Well, Ink and Fire, and Grave Pilgrim that rough up the bucolic tranquillity of centuries past through war torn and battle-scarred histories, pummelled into the canon of black metal's similarly inspired themes, and detonated into the present.
