These Australian ambassadors of black metal really blaze in this 2004 debut. After an extended intro, the trio gets right to the point, barraging listeners with fast-picked riffs and blast beats set to the sound of Disaster's throaty screams, before slowing for the last track, "Invisible Paths." The production is crisp and the lines are mixed well, so that no instrumentation is lost and even the high-speed guitar lines can be heard clearly.

The Furor isn't unlike a lot of the black / death-crossed music you've heard already, but the band does a better-than-average job on all fronts: The vocals are absolutely sinister and are dynamic enough to avoid monotony, the guitars are tight and varied and their riffs creative, and the drums don't simply amount to a sea of blast beats.

Invert Absolute is a prime example of extreme metal – harsh, pounding instrumentation chugging through well-arranged songs, hardly slowing to build atmosphere, and accompanied by solid, throat-ripping vocals. Albums like this may not be hard to find, but it's always heartening to hear a band that gets all of the basic elements right and can pull off corpse paint and spiked armbands to boot. (7.5/10)