Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Monuments Of Deceil
2. Inside The Chamber
3. Sword
4. New Dawn
5. Siege Of Atrocity
6. Morpheus
7. Faith
8. Temple Of Light
9. Somnolent
10. Allurance
11. Fraqments Of Fear
12. Symbolism

Disc 2:

1. Embodying
2. Shroud
3. Of The Tribe
4. Mythos
5. Twilight Ritual
6. Bleeding
7. Tundra
8. Sphere
9. Embryo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49459 in Music
• Released on: 2002-03-12
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

worst delerium stuff
I fell in love with Delerium's special atmosphere. I loved voices and sensations of Karma, Poem and Chimaera. I tried but I hardly reach the end of this cd without falling asleep. it's not Delerium's music, it's just a collections of ideas of sounds used to perform and create all the rest. I didn't like it.

Great! But far more instrumental and experimental than their later more mainstream offerings.
I would give five stars to both Delerium's earlier and later works. While their later works accompanied by all of the sugar-coated female vocals would fit into the nightclubs of today, I find that these earlier recordings hark back to the underground sounds of the 80s. The feel of most of the tracks on both CDs remind me of a combination of Dead Can Dance, and the experimental electronics of Throbbing Gristle, Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel (aka Foetus Inc, aka Jim Thirlwell), and early Cabaret Voltaire (if you removed Stephen Mallinder's vocals and just left Richard H Kirk to play with his electronics). Whether you call that "dark" or "ambient" or "gothic", or whether you call it more "experimental" in nature... I like it! But if you are expecting these "Archives" to be similar to their later works with all of the guest female vocals, this may not appeal as much to you due to the lack of vocals and sparser arrangements of melodies.

Must have Delerium
If you don't want to pick up all their back catalog, this is a great CD to have.