For this album in itself is all been said. I got there mid-90s for the first time from a friend borrowed (from the gothic scene) and what can I say: it blew me away at that time! Something so intense and gloomy I have not heard since. Why the "review" only now write: Well, because it is one of the very few albums that I always regularly out hole still after all this time out of my CD shelf and do not wear out even after multiple listening and almost always even better ..... Thanks Dead Can Dance for such epochal masterpiece !!!! Will accompany me all my life!