It´s all a bit campy and delivered with a gleam in the eye, and although they deliver their music with great skill and conviction, Macabre are not an act, who take themselves too seriously, which in this case is a great thing. They possess the rare ability to put a smile on your face, while at the same time make your stomach turn with some vile gory details from some of the hideous real-life murders they sing about. They would take the serial killer theme much further on subsequent releases, and on "Gloom" they combine their serial killer tunes with more general gore themed tracks. Among the real-life serial killers they sing about on "Gloom" are the infamous German serial killer Fritz Haarman, who was suspected of cannibalizing his victims, but also selling the remaining meat to unsuspecting customers on the black market of the starving 1920s German Weimar Republic, and the American serial killer Gary Leon Ridgway, who is better known as The Green River Murderer.