Set Sail to Mystery

Track listing

Trivia

• "A Curse of the Grandest Kind" takes its lyrics from an excerpt of Lord Byron's 1817 dramatic poem Manfred.
• "Descend into Maelstrom" references both in its title and lyrics Edgar Allan Poe's short story "A Descent into the Maelström".
• "I Dined with the Swans" was inspired by the life of German serial killer Peter Kürten.
• "A Romance with the Grave" was based upon a poem by Heinrich Heine.
• "Mother Nothingness " references the eponymous deity created by Clark Ashton Smith as a part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
• "The Foul Within" is based upon the 1973 film The Exorcist.
• "He Who Paints the Black of Night" was inspired by Oscar Wilde's novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
• "By the Misery of Fate He Was Haunted" is an English-language adaptation of Czech black metal band Master's Hammer's song "Já mizérií osudu jsem pronásledován...", originally present on their 1992 album Jilemnický okultista.

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Personnel

The Vision Bleak

• Ulf Theodor Schwadorf – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards
• Allen B. Konstanz – vocals, drums, keyboards

  Guest musicians

• Niklas Kvarforth – vocals
• Thomas Helm – additional tenor vocals
• Sophia Brommer – additional vocals

  Miscellaneous staff

• Martin Koller – production