In a 2002 interview, composer Edward Douglas said this of the album: The focus of Vampyre is really on the music and its role in helping the listener craft their own story for the disc.

When writing, we wanted to create pieces that incorporated the multiple levels of the vampyre: the hunger, the reflection, the predators, the prey, the passion, and the fury.

[5][4][6] The CD release party was held at the Phantasy Nite Club in Cleveland, and featured haunted house actors performing choreographed mini-scenes.

[7] Horror magazine, Rue Morgue, called the album "a return to the more gothic flavourings" of the band's 1999 release, Realm of Shadows, with Mike Ventarola of the gothic music magazine Legends adding that the album "brings listeners through many layers of a storyline, not by spoken prose but through inflections and nuances of sound that create a wordless script.

[11] A review in Gothic Beauty Magazine called it the "perfect accompaniment for Live action role-playing games (LARPs) and RPGs.