I’ve always described Lacrimosa as the perfect music for a Sunday morning. Your head’s aching, you don’t feel like doing much and yet you have to get out of bed. The need for music that lightens your path and in addition does so without any further ‘contribution’ to your sore head. Welcome to the world of Lacrimosa! Studio album no. 8 welcomes you with a 13-minutes epic journey through the magical world that lies somewhere in-between gothic rock and classical music. There’s no need for me to say that Lacrimosa is the only band that can do it the way so perfectly displayed in "Kyrie". The party continues with the first single, "Durch Nacht und Flut" and as "Sacrifice" blasts through my stereo I only realize the strength this album. This band manages to silence the entire German gothic scene, using no more than 8 songs.

At first, eight songs seem very few but considering that none of Lacrimosa`s album contained more than 8 songs, Tilo Wolff & co. present you a stunning 65 minutes of unique gothic metal that already wipes the floor with all competition for 2003. Imagine the quality of the songmaterial if I remark that this follow-up to "Fassade" (2001) does not hold one single song that does not match the extremely high standards. The sound of this album is Lacrimosa pur-sang; the perfect mixture between the use of an entire orchestra and yet the elements of the rock-scene fit in very well. The breath-taking "Apart" and the slow "Eine Nacht in Ewigkeit" will leave stunned. To be only surpassed by the last tones of the mighty "Die Schreie sind Verstummt". Speechless.. yes indeed.