Consistency is really fucking important. Many artists will knock one good release out of the park and then drown in irrelevance thereafter, because nothing followed. For Arkhtinn, consistency seems to be as natural and easy as breathing in your sleep. Not only do they never release anything subpar, they instead seem to improve with every release. V contains the meanest of all their black metal tracks so far, combined with the most fragile and beautiful ambient piece. De rigueur! David Fischer
Puisque le chant était le plus grand défaut de EOS, c'est cet élément, désormais assuré par AW seulement, qui sera le point de départ de mon commentaire sur ALMA, sorti à peine six mois plus tard. Il est plus varié mais AW se refuse quand même à abandonner le copier coller ce qui fait qu'on aura tendance à oublier qu'il est là : un comble pour une voix aussi torturée ! Pourtant, pour ce qui est du black metal cosmique, mon avis reste le même : ALMA est un abîme de terreur plus violent que EOS ! Jordan Vauvert
Arkhtinn's demo work culminates in VI. Each of the two tracks manage to surpass almost any of their predecessors. VI's black metal track embodies the cold-sweat inducing knowing of an imminent disaster - say the panic while approaching a cosmic gate to a dimension filled with grim horrors. II is the official sonic equivalent to what is found on the other side. Hellish, and nothing but sublime. It cannot be a coincidence that the follow-up to this demo is named 'First Catastrophe'.
Arkh10/10. David Fischer