After the widely praised and very successful previous album "Das M?rchen vom Schnee", Brocken Moon didn't try to repeat themselves or outdo that album but went more back-to-the-roots for a completely different experience. The music tends more towards primitive, ritualistic, depressive Black Metal, in order to provide a proper vehicle for the lyrics, which basically deal with negative emotions such as fear, despair, hate, grief and depressive states of mind in general. That is also the reason for the title "Hoffnungslos" which translates into "Hopeless". Thus the fairytale approach of their previous album made way for grim, cold hopelessness and creeping despair, deeply rooted in the mid 90s Black Metal underground.
