To je bil zame verjetno eden najbolj pričakovanih albumov v zadnjih letih. Že več kot leto nazaj sem si dal dol z njihove strani 2 demo mp3-ja za tale prihajajoči album in sem bil močno fasciniran. Nažalost pa je prišlo v tem času do sprememb v bendu in rezultat je tale cd, ki ni niti približno tako dober kot njihov prvi mcd ''The frozen divide'', ki je zame eden najboljših albumov vseh časov. Običajno bend svojo glasbo razvija in postaja s časom vedno boljši, v tem primeru pa se je izkazalo ravno obratno, vendar kljub mojemu razočaranju nad to plato, si komadi še vedno zaslužijo dobro oceno, saj nikakor niso slabi, ampak le ne dosegajo pričakovanj, ki so bile očitno previsoka. Res me čudi kako to, da so komadi na demotu zveneli bolje kot tu na tem cd-ju? Njihovi prejšnji komadi so bili bolj agresivni, hitrejši, bolj temačni in atmosferični...najboljši blackmetal kar sem ga kdaj slišal! Tu pa je glasba počasnejša, in se zdi, kot da bi zamenjali bobnarja, ki pa daleč zaostaja za bobnarjem iz prejšnjega albuma. Vse skupaj je obarvano bolj heavy-metalsko, čeprav se še vedno pojavljajo black-metal kosi in še vedno ostaja mešanica melodicnega in temačnega, tako kot na prejšnjem albumu. Vokal je postal bolj metaski in deluje kar temačno, čeprav ni tako perfekten kot prej. V komadih se pojavlja tudi klavir, ki mu običajno dela spremljavo dobro heavy-metalsko žaganje ali pa kaka super solacija, katerih na tem albumu ne zmanjka, pojavlja pa se tudi speven vokal, ki name ne deluje nevem kako dobro. Imamo tudi dva inštrumentalna komada in pa akustiko, kar je vsekakor dobra stvar. Ovitek je zelo dolgočasno opremljen in izgleda bolj, kot da bi bil narejen v stilu ''Samo da je nekaj'', kot pa kaj drugega. Besedila so kar zanimiva...dobro napisana, poetična, obarvana temačno in pravljično, ter seveda polna metafor. Čeprav je to dober old-school-metal zveneč album sem po drugi strani močno razočaran nad bendom!

English version:
This was probably one of my most expected albums in the last few years. For more than one year ago I downloaded a few demo mp3s for their upcoming album and I was strongly fascinated. Unfortunately, there were some changes in the band during that time and here we have the results which aren't even close to their debut mcd ''The frozen divide'' (which was one of my favourite albums of all times). Usually it happens that a band develop it's music and became better with time but in this case it happened just contrary. Well, in spite of my disillusion over this release, I still think songs deserve a good mark since they are not bad at all, but they just don't reach my expectations which were apparently a little to hight. It really makes me wonder how can songs from the demo sound better than here, on this full length? Their old songs were more aggressive, faster, darker and more atmospherical...the best blackmetal I ever heard! But here, we have slow music and it seems like they replaced the old drummer with some new guy who's far behind the one from previous album. Everythings is more heavy-metal sounding, although there are still some blackmetal parts and there's still present a taste of melodic and dark mixture like it was on their debut. Vocalist sounds like some metal dude with darken screaming, which's cool but not as perfect as before. Through the songs sometimes appears piano which usually has a company of a good heavy metal playing or some amazing guitar solo you can find in every single song. Sometimes echo singing has it's moments but I'm not that musch enthusiastic about that. CD include also two instrumental songs and some acoustic moments which's a good thing! The lay-out is boring and sometimes I think it looks like that just becouse they were out of time. The lyrics are quite interesting... good writen, poetic, metaphoric, coloured dark and fabulous. Although this's a good old school metal sounding album I'm on the other hand deeply disappoited over the band I used to love so much...