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The rating does not in any way reflect on Ihsahn and his work - that is untouchable. I have his complete discography, this was the last missing piece so I was really looking forward to it.What comes as a let down is the packaging of the CD - not sure if this so some special subpar edition from Candlelight or what but when I see description CD, I expect CD in plastic cover. When I see digipack CD I know I can expect digipack (and those come with the plastic inside where you can safely mount the CD so it does not scratch.) But this one is only a folded cardboard sleeve - sort of promo packaging which I find really annoying because it provides zero protection to CD or the booklet and is not practical for storing at all (yes, as crazy as it sounds, some of us still collect and want to keep hardcopies instead of having everything in digital form).Emperor is dead!! Long live the Emperor!!

Very good.