I'm not sure how I feel about Drudkh - Estrangement yet. It seems like it borrows something from each of the preceding releases. In some ways this is really cool, and in a way it is also disappointing. It has a lot of the aggression of Forgotten Legends. The drumming recalls that album quite a bit, with a decent amount of blasting. The same rhythm as on Forests in Fire and Gold comes up. There are a couple of riffs that sound directly pulled from Autumn Aurora, namely the closing riff on the first song. The guitar has the extra trebly, ethnic sound as Swan Road in a few places. The guitar solos from Blood In Our Wells are back, along with the generally lush production. The band has also noticeably borrowed from Negura Bunget in the use of bass guitar and some of the drum beats.
Length is a problem here. The songs are just not really memorable enough. I liked the direction they were going on Anti-Urban. The band seems to be moving sideways here.