Nightbreed of Macabria’ represents a musical travelogue through a beautiful yet unspeakably grotesque realm of the imagination, that owes something to the cinematic vision of Gothic director par excellence Tim Burton, achieved through the band’s most ambitious use of lavish symphonic orchestration to date. Such diverse elements, that owe something to the band’s Latin blood – the stylish splatter of Italian horror, the symphonic excess of her opera, the blood-soaked allure of her long history – combine to make Theatres des Vampires one of the most elegantly dark, and eerily compelling metal bands the world has to offer.