This trek begins to unfold with what sounds like a demon awakening from a slumber deep in a snowy cave or a man scraping against moist cave walls. Church bells are heard overhead, with all blending into jewel-encrusted keyboarding that dances around like ice pixies. The atmospheric black metal comes into play, with ambient diversions chopping into the track. 25+ minute long "I - L'Abime des Jours, l'Ecume des Nuits" pretty much sets up what to expect with the rest of the album: long ambient passages of coldness, bursts of thick atmospheric black metal and an overall feeling of enchantment. Take a track like "L'Eveil dans le Mort IV - Le Cimetiere Perdu" and you're getting soft, gothic-themed synth / piano. Then "Apres la Nuit VI - Orlok" jumps at you with maniacal black metal for those in padded cells. The painfully lo-fi black metal will bring a wicked smile to purists. The music will also win over any fan of mind-encompassing, synthy music as Neige et Noirceur captures the unsettling mystery and strange calmness of wintertime perfectly on "L'Abime des Jours, l'Ecume des Nuits".

This re-release can't be easily written off as with most. Neige et Noirceur have the whole beauty through insanity thing down. The music is recorded through a frozen filter that makes sure every note is well below freezing and the vocals are drowned and evil, Zifond screaming like a mad-man and whispering like an imp.