"Saturnian Rings" is the fifth album by one of the oldest and most famous Russian gothic-rock bands. Its career started with modern forms of gothic-rock, and album by album the band's sound comes closer and closer to the early sounds of gothic-rock and post punk.
"Saturnian Rings" is some sort of a destination point, some sort of a last house on the block. On this album band appears with absolutely non-commercial outlook, giving up a certain part of its audience for the sake of revival of traditional sound.
Band members' interest to the role of Roman God Saturn in medieval alchemic teachings has served as a framework for this album; lyrics to some songs are inspired by writings of Gustav Meyrink, well known Austrian author. This is not just another use of occulted subject as mysterious bait for the listeners. This is a simple historic interest, an effort to reevaluate the historical and intellectual heritage of Western European culture from own point of view.
Along with 10 original tracks this album contains 4 bonus tracks. Bonus tracks are the remixes of the DopelgangeR song by Two Witches (Germany/Finland), Redemption (USA), The Way Of All Flesh (UK), Secrecy (Portugal). Also, there is a special appearance of Pavel "NWO" Gromov, the front man of Moscow based band Antisisters. He sings on one of the tracks.