Arcane Art is the Norwegian dark ambient / neoclassical darkwave project of Karsten Hamre (Penitent, Dense Vision Shrine) with Bernt E. Egeland and a host of guest vocalists. This debut album features tracks from the "Arcane Art" 10" vinyl (Prophecy Productions), released a few years before this full-length.

"An intense, concrete, aesthetically clear and lyrically charming opus that has but a few relations with the medieval epoch - most probably it was inspired by the renaissance age with its categories of Universal Soul and the cult of an ordinary person's beauty, where a creator/artist is the central image, equal to god and the one who rejects it; the epoch of titans, whose existence is reflected within comprehension of the eternal problems and ideas - grandeur and failure of the Artist, who is identifying himself to the Universe, a person's weakness in the eyes of fate, but at the same time - overcoming the very fate by the obsessed / cursed artist" (Stigmata).

Features art by Michael Riddick (The Soil Bleeds Black).