After the great success of their enchanting 2021 debut album, "Daughters Of The Night," mixing symphonic-gothic and power metal elements, alternating between cervical-breaking fast and heavy episodes and piano-driven intense ballads, the Italian metal band Nocturna dives again into the meaning of the term 'duality' and all its more morbid connotations. The romantic inspiration of the lyrics on "Of Sorcery And Darkness" marries perfectly with the band's sophisticated sonic approach, and the celestial voices of Grace Darkling and Rehn Stillnight paint mysterious and sensual portraits of an ancestral time (yet so close to us). It is a solemn, grim, and never-so-lost paradise.