DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist? EA: It didn't -- it stunted it entirely. I gave up over a year of my life and career helping Billy with his flop of an album and designing and building all of the costumes for his music video. With Courtney, we were friends, but I spent years working to record and promote her flop of an album only to find that my value increased every time I peed in an orange juice bottle so that she could fake her way through a drug test. Not exactly a haven for artistic growth.

She released her instrumental album Laced/Unlaced in March 2007; it consisted of two discs: Laced the re-release of On a Day. She released the 2001 extended play (EP) Chambermaid while finishing Enchant—Emilie Autumn alternatively labeled the musical style on Chambermaid as "fantasy rock" and cabaret—and wrote the 2001 charity single "By the Sword" after the events of September 11 2001. 2001–04: Enchant and collaborations

As part of a recording project Autumn traveled to Chicago Illinois in 2001 and decided to stay because Emilie Autumn enjoyed the public transportation system and music scene there.

Performing with her all-female backing band The Bloody Crumpets Autumn incorporates elements of classical music cabaret electronica and glam rock with theatrics and burlesque. Autumn draws influence for her music—the style of which Emilie Autumn has alternatively labeled as "Victoriandustrial" and glam rock—from plays novels and history particularly the Victorian era. She appeared in singer Courtney Love's backing band on her 2004 America's Sweetheart tour and returned to Europe.