The album is in many ways closer to the first, in that it's a lot less chaotic than the second, with fewer riff changes per amount of time, and with a melodic sense that's somewhere between the two albums- frequently more sonorous and gentle like the first album, but occasionally bursting into the sort of insanity featured on the second. Lots of unusual chord constructions; sort of like Pure Holocaust in this respect. The overall feel is sort of an impending doom, yet with joy in the possibility of this destruction- again, Pure Holocaust (particularly the title track) seems the best comparison.