Well, I suppose Voices can squeak by with a little credit on the musical end, though the awesome knockers are sorely missed. "From the Human Forest..." is a solid ride of depraved, maniacal death/black metal under a progressive lens, lasting for fifty-four minutes and never halting the constant attack. Comparisons to Akercocke are inevitable, because the inherited traits are too gigantic to ignore. Whereas Akercocke used a riff attack that was more straightforward and in the vein of traditional death/black metal, the riffs on "From the Human Forest..." are a lot more chaotic, disjointed, and unusual. Granted, the mixture of both genres comes out frequently, yet the guitar work is much more volatile and erratic overall. David Gray is all about the blast beat here; it's almost constant barring a few exceptions.

The vocals (Peter Benjamin's?) are raspy shrieks, nothing to get weird about. They do, however, occasionally use clean vocals that sound eerily like Jason Mendonça's seductive, shadowy expressions—Jason, one of Akercocke's main creative forces along with Gray, isn't involved with Voices, unfortunately. The songs aren't as adventurous as Akercocke's, although there are progressive elements and experimental touches fluttering about. Longer anthems like "Eyes Become Black" and "Sexual Isolation" tend to add a variety of oddities that flesh out Voices' style; the former applying female vocals which sound excellent and the latter running through a gauntlet of riffs and themes foreign to much of the remaining record. They have more worth than the blast-based quickies like "Dnepropetrovsk," usually.