Five years after their debut, The Apostate Of Light (via Blood Harvest Records), Serbian / Czech / US trio OCULUS are set to unleash their second full-length album Of Temples And Vultures. Combining dissonant riffs with haunting melodic passages underscored by the organic, yet heavy production, Of Temples And Vultures condenses the best parts of its predecessor and whips them into an even harder-hitting and more coherent effort. Downright spooky in places, yet never loosing focus on what is at heart a perfect amalgam of atmospheric black metal and brutal death metal.
