Without a doubt, this is the most lavishly packaged mini-CD I have ever encountered. The eight songs that comprise this work are housed inside a DVD-sized digipack, complete with a slipcase featuring the morbid photographic manipulations of Joachim Luetke. Of the tracks themselves, five are new (one being a phenomenal interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Conqueror Worm”), two are instrumental reworkings of tracks from the previous album, and one is a new version of the Sopor Aeternus classic “Do You Know My Name?”. The music follows in the vein of the previously released La Chambre D’Echo: classical instruments hybridize with electronic flourishes to create the soundtrack of a Dark Age that never really existed. All the while, the eccentric voice of Anna-Varney evokes restless spirits of darkness, depression, and reconciliation. A bit dramatic, perhaps, but exquisitely necromantic throughout.

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