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Release Date
1 January 1996
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Length
9 tracks
Velvet Darkness They Fear is the second album released in 1996 through Massacre Records.
Velvet Darkness They Fear used Raymond Rohonyi's Early Modern English lyrics. Der Tanz der Schatten is the exception, which is written in German. The songs themselves rarely have a clear story, but death, undeath, demons and similar supernatural elements are all prominent. The lyrics to the songs are referred to within the sleeve notes as 'plays', 'poems' and one 'soliloquy', depending on the parts the singers play.
The fifth track, "And When He Falleth," includes a section of Jane Asher and Vincent Price's dialogue from the film The Masque of the Red Death.
The album was very successful, selling over 125,000 copies.
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