Read the entire review at The Silent Ballet.Everything on hand seems tailor-made to appeal to instrumental Nine Inch Nails fans (think Ghosts I-IV). Variety, faux-metal passages, electronic elements, and a ritualistic mystery — they're all here. Daniel Vincent's once-heard vocals are definitely much sweeter than Trent Reznor's, but there is something that Reznor does well that is missing here. For all its complex arrangements, great sounds, and varying parts, this album's labyrinth doesn't have a thread to hold onto. Everything changes before we've had a chance to get to know it (the exception being "Magick Is The Science," which does revisit a theme), and so the album has the effect of holding the listener at arm's length. "Look through this window, and behold!" it says. But pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. It's not an intimate experience.
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