Heaving and hulking and yet emitting a wealth of nuance and especially atmosphere for something sospiraling and gnarly, OCULUS create a dissonant and chaotic experience that nevertheless manages apalpably linear flow. Orthodox black metal in the most classic sense, The Apostate of Light verilyilluminates every crypt-dark passage with the blinding light of Lucifer. That the album was written in2014 and yet still sounds timeless in any era is all the more remarkable.