Everyone and their brother has tried to successfully mend genres. The mile-wide difference between "Oi Magoi" and the dime-a-dozen nameless amalgams of the metal world is that Hail Spirit Noir is galaxies beyond the rudimentary concept of meshing sounds. The way the songs are geared and the musical avenues taken by the band are incredible, twisting and inverting the angles of black metal, progressive rock and psychedelic rock to bring out the remarkable colors of each from each. They don't perform these tunes through transitions but one huge melting pot of mayhem, where the wild and wacky rock riffs and Deep Purple-esque keyboards connect smoothly to tremolo picking and blast beats as if this whole style wasn't already a common anomaly. How many groups are this imaginatively enriched? Try not a lot.

But "Oi Magoi" somehow manages to be a step up from "Pneuma," which was no crapshoot itself. The slew of vocal styles-shrieks, clean singing, low croons-are coordinated slickly into whatever crazy storm of instruments the band applies, however madcap they may be. 70s-styled rockers like "Blood Guru" and "Demon for a Day" parade the group's trinity of flairs through bouncy rock sequences, shrieked vocals, fast-picked riffs and blast beats cooked over the light guitar tone, cheesy choruses that one can't help but sing along to, and an amalgamated production that brings out the message delightfully. The heightened black metal awareness on "Satyriko Orgio (Satyrs' Orgy)" acts astoundingly in altering the pace after three songs that were much more influenced by rock structures, though not short on shrieks and black metal riffs hooked around certain nooks and crannies.