The sound in this album is fuller than the previous two albums and louder with more modern metal influence. It is the first time there is a female singer not credited as Norton. In the title track there is a heavy metal growler shouting words among what sounds like neoclassical darkwave chillout music and I don't think it works that well. There are clips of Gollum from a Lord of the Rings film among other samples that make this sound increasingly like dance music. There is a probably better new version of "Fairy Vision". "Darkotic" sounds surprisingly like early Burzum in places. "Mystic Drug" is very good but I have no idea what genre to compare it to, something eastern perhaps, it even has a good guitar solo.There is a cd-rom video on this with their best attempt at music video so far. A bit Argento-ish.I enjoy their new music better if I treat it as a different band. But something else that bothers me about the band has nothing to do with the music: the artwork has some photos of nice architecture, statues and old paintings but most of it has a very cheap artificial photoshop look that plagues a lot of prog and metal bands. But I suppose the artificiality is a problem with their new music too, even if I can enjoy patches of it.((The star rating represents how much I want you to buy this item and should not be taken as a measurement of artistic merit))