What makes this creepy-crawly Kraut crew stand above the black-metal pack are Teutonic symphonics and electronics -- straight out of Rammstein, in many cases, with robotic beats jackbooting in their lederhosen ("Kreuzigung"), Gregorian chants and steeple bells that'd make Enigma cry ("Kreuzritter"), and all manner of stained-glass, high-mass, stations-of-the-crass production touches ("Gedenket Der Toten"). Opening and closing cuts are quite catchy too. But the farther the music stays from metal, the better it is -- though the hush-and-grumble vocals that suggest Gollum rapping are rather neat.