...the music needs to be grand, monotonous, repetitive and melancholic. All these elements can be found in _The Ancient Returns_. There is no point to mix hundreds of riffs with virtuoso solos as the listener (in this case myself) will lose the plot and will not be able to evoke those aforementioned images. Generally speaking, the album wants to evoke an image of what once was... of a utopian world full of values and respect. A world that I have yet to come across in all its glory -- but I am still searching...
Alexandros / Macabre Omen interview, Chronicles of Chaos, 2006
In the making for over a decade, MACABRE OMEN released their debut album The Ancient Returns on this day in 2005 through Polish label Blutreinheit Productions. The album was recorded at Big Wave Studios, Italy with members of FROSTMOON ECLIPSE.