He tells Prog: "We very much were treading water with three or four hours of demos and several hours of improvised music. I saw definite cohesion between some of the songs, and they turned into the first EP and later into several other albums that I'm working on at the moment.

"But these five songs, while expressing more or less equal parts of my personality, had nothing to do with each other; or so it seemed. I delved deeper into them and found their oneness in the album you hear."

The album was recorded with the assistance of ten other musicians � including Lemouchi's sister Farida, also of The Devil's Blood � but Lemouchi is convinced he can deliver an effective live set at the album launch on December 7 at the Temporary Arts Centre in Eindhoven, Netherlands.