Release Year: 2018
Artist Origin: NED
Style: expressive emotional ethereal atmospheric metal
third full-length [1995] of unique Dutch ensemble is marked with their decision to bid farewell to male vocals, and focus exclusively on mesmerizing singing of Anneke van Giersbergen, who has joined them one year before, and it has changed the ethereal progressive atmospheric metal world forever - these eight amazingly confident and cohesive tracks have instantly become a groundbreaking, fundamental achievement for the band, promptly causing the rise of a new subgenre with emotional song structures and female vocalists, while Anneke's impressive range, special feeling, combined with masterful instrumentation of the guys did the magic of an exceptional success story; recent Dutch three panel digisleeve edition comes with a remastered sound