Copyright © 1995 Napalm
1. Soul Wandering
2. Lugburz
3. The Passing of the Grey Company
4. Morthond
5. Marching Homewards
6. Orthane
7. Uugolianth
8. Dagor Bragollach
9. Through the Forest of Dol Guldur
10. The Legend of the Master-Ring
11. Dor Daedeloth
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Develop the promise of Emperor in epic wandering melodic black metal, adding the ambience Ancient and Graveland created, and a reasonable idea of the starting point for this album appears. Describing wanderings, melodic lines drift through circuitous mazes of themselves before resolving into coherent themes with the harmonies of the piece. Keyboards over tremolo sawing guitars create a background atmosphere of intense and timeless depth. Careless grace and fearless variation stimulate romanticism in soaring melodies and harmonious theme structures. Shrieking vocals guide long songs with Tolkien-inspired imagery. A journey through night uses both darkness and light to reveal an epic nature to existence.
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