Black silhouette upon a darkened azure scenery
Cold hand receives this battered stone
This battered stone…
Twilight caress the windswept features
Unyielding shadow blacker still
Its shadow blacker still
All the wise dead gaze on the horizon
Into clouds as if contemplating where fire reborn
A fire reborn
Black silhouette, its shadow blacker still
Some artists choose not to evolve and make the same record over and over, some just can't avoid improving and maturing, and I think this is a clear case of that. Ihsahn is a very talented musician............. and I don't think you can blame him for moving ahead. You just can't write the same music when you are 19 yrs old than when you have 34........You can't expect him to write clones of "Ye entranciperium" for the rest of his life..........this is a great and inspiring record.