On their third full-length dose of unrelenting darkness, Atlanta’s Cloak offer up sober meditations on chaos, bloodshed and death eternal while still delivering melodic black metal thrills. Too highbrow to slot into the motorcycle mania of blackened thrash bands like Knife and Bewitcher, Cloak nonetheless spew up enough apocalyptic groove in leatherbound blasters like With Fury And Allegiance and the buzzing Invictus to satisfy black’n’roll fiends. If Watain listened to a Hellacopters record once in a while, they might sound like this. The album’s biggest surprise is Eye Of The Abyss, a gothtinged creepy-crawler that sounds like Danzig chewing glass at a Ghost show. It’s a killer track, and just might be the feel-bad hit of the summer. ■■■■■■■■■■