Well, just look at the name of the band and the title of the album- what do you think is going to come pouring out of the speakers, party anthems? The Blood Divine were, of course, a goth metal band. I say were because they broke up in 1998. "Rise Pantheon Dreams" is actually a career spanning retrospective, combining tracks from their two albums and a few choice bonus cuts. A British-born, ice-water veined supergoup consisting of 4 Cradle of Filth heathens and 1 Darren White, the former vocalist of Anathema, Blood Divine were not nearly as morose and creepy crawly as their batwing brethren, injecting plenty of thrash metal guitar, funky 70's Hammond organ (!), and Brit-punk spunk into the standard suicide metal formula. Although I have to cop to missing them the first time around, and it looks like HIM seamlessly picked up right where they left off, I have to say that this is pretty righteous for a genre that usually falls flat without a chesty supervixen up front (ahem!), and Blood Divine definitely deserves a listen, if only a posthumous one. Oh yeah, and the death n' roll meets Uriah Heep boogie of "Crazy Horses" is practically worth the price of admission alone.