Maybe because of the initial cover that had to be replaced with the (very nice) current one, the title of this album always makes me think of The Beast Within - second episode of the Gabriel Knight game trilogy, which tells the story of a forbidden passion and of a fight for life and principles. The hero's internal conflict is as powerful as the struggle against the enemy; and when the enemy also exercises a fatal attraction on his rival, the fight becomes a lot more than a matter of life and death.
I don't know if the album in question was inspired at all by the above story, but the music definitely has an insidious charm, accentuated by the splendid vocals and lyrics. A dark, unsettling atmosphere dominates; the passion and weird beauty of the melodies "bites" its way into the listener's heart, leaving behind a strange and bittersweet feeling...
An album worth discovering.