I haven’t heard of many gothic metal bands from Portugal, where this great band hails! This product gives you some unforgettable gloomy metal music. There’s a wide range of instruments played in this mcd but it’s all done and mustered together to relish the listener with some excellent gothic doom metal! In Peccatvm have used each instrument with perfection and in a sequence, for the listener to enjoy the cd to the maximum. The first track is the intro; instruments like violin and cellos are crafted very well here and it looks like it’s the beginning to some real depressive music, but it isn’t. My opinion changes here, when I hear the very next track. A great compilation with amazing melodies, beautiful sounding keys to start off with the second track and the tracks ahead. When you get to listen to some lead work, it makes the entire song complete and more impressive; the vocals are exhibited in growls as well as in clean singing. As mentioned earlier the band plays some good gothic metal music, and the listener is surely to find some dark, misty feeling in the background with female vocals in a whispering format. They aren’t given a lot of importance, I’m glad! I don’t find a single minute in this entire cd where the music seems to be going offbeat or sounding monotonous. The sadness is mixed up with some headbanging stuff and the presence of groovy guitar patterns in between and the bass-drum work. One might not play a doom/gothic metal cd till the end, maybe you need something intense and not the same depression all throughout, but what if you have the combination of groove and the doom atmosphere all together? Excellent production! No problem with the sound quality. The cd ends up with an acoustic – classical outro and is very well done again! Overall there’s excellent musicianship and of course I look forward to hear their next complete album! The tracks have great time presence too; the cd has 5 tracks with an approx. timing of 18 minutes. Listeners who enjoy bands like Empyrium, Agalloch etc. do not miss out this band! (5/5) PS: Website for more information: www.inpeccatum.8m.com