Wovenhand: the mere name makes you think of a secret society, witchcraft. And the first song seems to confirm that: The circle is vicious/Spoken behind the hand/It is the storm/That brought me in.

Has David Eugene Edwards, the former 16 Horsepower frontman, currently the man behind Wovenhand, gone satanic? No, but with Mosaic Edwards, who was raised rigidly Christian, does conjure up a world in which Christianity shows an ominous side. War is looming, and Jesus is the supreme commander. 'Full Armour' puts it like this: In the helmet of his salvation/With his belt as truth/The chest plate of his/Righteousness/And his gospel boots/Full armour/Full armour.

The music is electronically scrambled unplugged gothic, at one time like patches of mist over a swamp, at another creaking, like in 'Slota Prow'. In which Edwards' voice sounds like Vlad The Impaler on a badly tuned radio.

It is all completely devoid of any sense of humour and without any notion of relativity, but it is music that seizes you.