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By Lane Oliver
Within moments of this album’s beginning you can smell the thick, nostril flaring smog that would billow from the smoke stacks of some environmentally unsafe factory. A factory that resides within the ruins of a crumbling city whose own citizens brought about its own corruption and destruction. You see, Batillus’s Concrete Sustain possesses a sound reminiscent of collapsing buildings within a post-apocalyptic metropolitan city. Please put on your hard hat before listening to this one.
When I first sat down to do this review, I couldn’t. This is the kind of record that needs to be spun a few times before any final verdict is made. After I gave the release a good five or six spins, I had come to my conclusion: this record would be disappointing if you went into it with your mind set on Nachtmystium’s signature black metal sound, which I am assuming most people did, due to the negative comments on iTunes. People are thinking this is a disaster of a release, which I can understand if you fall into the aforementioned category. I went into this expecting black metal and that is not what was delivered. 
