“Talk of one-man black metal band the Botanist typically focuses on the project's instrumentation of choice: hammered dulcimer beaten into radiant arrays, backed by tumults of drums and the genre's itinerantly withering vocals. But "Mandrake Legion", the tense tune on the Botanist's fourth LP, IV: Mandragora, out February 19 on the Flenser, should reinforce the battle-cry approach that's been here ”
