The first disc also includes "Goetia (Invoking the Unclean)", a thirteen-minute "aural séance", recycling the titles of Cradle's abandoned and wiped first album, and first demo.
Filth wrote in an online update: "All songs will be fully orchestrated akin to a horror movie soundtrack (think Danny Elfman, John Williams, Christopher Young, etc.)
and [the record is] composed solely of tracks from our first four releases – 1994's The Principle of Evil Made Flesh; the 1996 EP V Empire; 1996's Dusk... and Her Embrace and 1998's Cruelty and the Beast – [with] "Funeral in Carpathia" being my favorite conversion thus far.
"Guitarist Paul Allender stated in an interview: "One thing I want to do the next time we gig, is play some of these old songs live but have the whole new orchestrations on backing track.
Well, last week, [Dani] Filth sent me an email, and after many chats I have decided to take him up on his offer to participate on the new orchestral album Midnight in the Labyrinth.