Reception
Although criticized for production issues, varying song material and sometimes playing out of key, the album received positive reviews from the underground media. For example the German gothic music and subculture magazine Orkus wrote about the album in its November issue in 1997: "Metallic guitars combined with hypnotic—melancholic—melodic keyboard sounds, a strongly whispering singing and a beautiful female voice to a symbiosis that is not only fun, but also very fresh sounding!" Other zines also gave the album favorable reviews. Refraktor 6 wrote: "Here is now my masterpiece of Necromance... Friends of gothic sounds can access this without hesitation." Different Frequenzies gave it 3 out of 4 and wrote: "Necromance gave me an interesting insight into a religious world and created with White Gothic a very innovative piece of music that music fans should not miss..." Dark Heart wrote in winter 1997/1998: "Every song on the album is a gem in itself, you would not want to miss that if you heard it once... on its CD Necromance establishes their status as gothic - outright cult band."
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