Released on vinyl, this is an unusual black metal album. On the one hand, it's about 60 percent pure driving riffage bolstered by absolutely booming, cavernous vocals. But on the other hand, alongside the killer guitars and drums that anchor the album, the most prominent instrument on 'Lights In The Howling Wilderness' is a mouth harp that twangs and twongs away on every single song. It's a sound that, in a different context, would make most of us think of banjos, washboards and riverboats, but in the hands of Jassa it's like a portal to another dimension.