"Lunar Poetry's" title evokes the very nature of what this band was and maintains to this day, riding the rails of pure Hades while incorporating the mesmerizing elements familiar to Goth listeners, but wholly more tranquil and a touch more tragic.

"Tears of Paganism" fogs up the foreseeable distance, momentarily settling the listener into a false sense of complacency before the title track grabs you in its clutches, seemingly wrenching every last ounce of lifeblood before taking you into impending damnation. But amidst all of the dread and devastation lies a body of emotion, written within folk-like passages, crafty as they are catchy, stimulating as they are sordid, while the ravenous vocal exploits of one Varggoth, whose bi-polar latitudes reach silence-shattering screams onto a gentle whisper while drawing upon all points between.

One of the more tastefully written and performed Black Metal pieces, "Lunar Poetry," an unsettling vision, vaguely obscured, their first and for many a definable moment and no less is true here. Amazingly thorough and superior on many levels, one need only seek out "Autodafe/Barbarians Dreams" in all its blackened splendor for the measure of the heightened talent level of this band, welcoming the elements of life, death, and post-Frost melodrama and modernism put to death. There's also the addition of a concluding bonus tale "Return of the Vampire Lord" which runs over ten minutes and much like the preceding, blends a fiery mix of power, speed, symphonic and atmospheric textures that alone make "Lunar Poetry" an elite addition to the catacomb of any dark music collector.