In early 2005, Robert Brown took the creative leap of transforming Abney Park from a largely goth industrial band into a steampunk band. As Brown said on his live journal post March 13, 2005, "(We) seem to be a sort of specialized variation on Steam Punk, sort of a ‘Victorian Sci-fi Adventurer’. As if we just arrived by jet-powered-zeppelin for a midnight dig just outside of Cairo in the 1900s - I'm excited because I feel like for the first time our appearances are starting to capture the same level of imagination and exotic tones the music and lyrics always have."