Actually I remember liking both their albums a lot when I first discovered them, probably through this forum, but I forgot all about them. I seem to recall that they had riffs. Need to refresh my memory on them though.
EDIT: Yeah 30 seconds is all I needed to remember that this was exactly the kind of black metal I'm fine with. Reminds me more of the kvlt prog metal band Spectral Incursion than anything from Norway.
EDIT #2: Actually it was because of Occultation that I discovered them, but Negative Plane seemed neater