It sounds about as good as I could have hoped. It makes me think Paracletus will be more sonically diverse than Fas, which was either completely quiet or sandblasting your face off. I would like it very much if it went back to the Si Monumentum... idea of every song being different and serving its own individual purpose in the album. This doesn't seem to be the case, though; the beginning and end of this new song, along with the remarkably short 40-some minute album length, suggest that Paracletus will flow like a single very long track.
Not that I'm complaining, anything by Deathspell is 100% welcome
Also I know that I am complaining like the whiny bitches I imagined would complain when it was announced DsO had gotten Season of Mist to handle distribution of their new album, but the fact that anything is getting revealed ahead of the release date sort of damages the whole mystique that the band, along with most of the bands on NoEvDia, maintained for so long. It's obviously pretentious bullshit, but that pretentious bullshit appeals to me
I'm going to stop whining about awesome things that I support now I mean what is this the internet?