After I got this CD I played track 5 (Reverence) first and I knew the rest of the CD was going to be lame. The songs have no direction and the music itself is just some sort of 'progressive' exercise in the melodic black metal sound. It's as if some music students in college decided to write a melodic bm CD but had no real insight as to what they want to acheive. I listened to the whole thing a couple of times and I haven't listened to it since. It's too 'gothic' for me as well.My version came with a video, 3 tracks from the Reverence MCD, and a live track. I gave it two stars because the CD is lame, but it's not a complete waste.