Either way, the lyrics are very effective in creating sort of this strange gothic atmosphere, where there's this sort of unsettling feeling or feeling of grim portent or whatever you want to call it.

They were sort of the forebears of the Southern gothic movement. They used a lot of Southern imagery, and the format of having just guitar and drums was so different that right away, it made them stand out.

In starlit nights I saw you,
So cruelly you kissed me.
Your lips a magic world,
Your sky all hung with jewels.
The killing moon
Will come too soon.

- The Killing Moon

I like my atmosphere. We're not ritzy or elegant, but we're not hash slingers, either.

By creating a true little village, there's tons of incentives to come in.

Frankly, we've done it in the fairest and most cost-effective way we could do it,