Release Year: 2013
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: emotional haunting atmospheric gothic metal
after a revolutionary debut album introducing romantic atmospheric gothic metal, seven Norwegians were inspired to come back with another set of songs in autumn of 1996, and this sophomore longplay has turned into an absolute classic of melancholic doomy genre, a quintessential, fundamental, textbook “beauty and the beast” type of release with charmy fragile female and rough guttural male vocals, as well as epic, harmonious, emotional vibe and memorable accents, causing an instant and immense rise of the genre in later nineties; recent German digipak re-issue comes with a remastered sound, liner notes of band members in the booklet, and three demo versions of album songs as bonus