The album featured guest appearances by Ulf Theodor Schwadorf (The Vision Bleak, Empyrium), Kvohst (Dødheimsgard, Code, Hexvessel) and Morten Gass (Bohren & der Club of Gore).

Secrets of the Moon were called "the chameleons of black metal" in German Rock Hard magazine due to their style changes with every album.

[5] Although their style changed, Thrawn, who is one of their main songwriters, still has the same influences as when he started making music, like 1990s Swedish death metal.

[1] Their second album Carved in Stigmata Wounds, featuring fast as well as slow, doom metal-like passages with keyboards, was compared to Samael.

[1] Thelemnar names "nature, darkness, Satan" as main influences[9] and recommends to read Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Aleister Crowley,[10] whose Gnostic Mass starts the album Carved in Stigmata Wounds.