Track listing

1. "Universal Creation Array" - 8:20
2. "Distorted Dimensions" - 4:34
3. "The Grand Design" - 6:20
4. "When the Dream of Paradise Died" - 5:10
5. "Fall and Rise" - 7:17
6. "The Darkest Path" - 5:05
7. "Convictions and Contradictions" - 3:39
8. "Where the Cold Winds Blow" - 6:52
9. "The Last Line" - 8:09

Line-up

• Lars E. Si
  Lars Eric Si
  Lars Eikind, also known as Lars Eric Si, has been a part of the Scandinavian rock/metal scene for many years. Both as musician and producer. He has been involved in a numerous bands, either as a full time or session member....
  
   (Age of Silence
  Age Of Silence
  Age of Silence is a Norwegian avant-garde progressive metal band formed in 2004 by Andy Winter of Winds.-Current members:* Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland - Vocals...
  
  , ex-Khold
  Khold
  Khold is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 2000 after the split-up of Tulus. The band plays midpaced and somewhat "groovy" black metal and has a history of touring with bands such as Behemoth and Satyricon.-Current line-up:*Gard - vocals/guitar...
  
  , Tulus) - Vocals
• Carl August Tidemann
  Carl August Tidemann
  Carl August Tidemann is a highly technical Norwegian Neo-classical metal guitarist and composer, best known for his work in progressive bands like Arcturus and Winds.- With Tritonus :# Shadowland Demo...
  
   (ex-Arcturus) - Guitars
• Andy Winter
  Andy Winter (musician)
  Andy Winter is a Norwegian keyboardist that is a founding member of the Norwegian bands Winds and Age of Silence and is part of the American bands Sculptured and formerly Subterranean Masquerade....
  
   (Age of Silence
  Age Of Silence
  Age of Silence is a Norwegian avant-garde progressive metal band formed in 2004 by Andy Winter of Winds.-Current members:* Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland - Vocals...
  
  ) - Piano, keyboards
• Hellhammer
  Jan Axel Blomberg
  Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg is a three time Spellemannprisen award-winning heavy metal drummer. He is most well known for his drumming with the band Mayhem, with which he began his career...
  
   (Age of Silence
  Age Of Silence
  Age of Silence is a Norwegian avant-garde progressive metal band formed in 2004 by Andy Winter of Winds.-Current members:* Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland - Vocals...
  
  , Arcturus
  Arcturus (band)
  Arcturus is an avant-garde metal band formed in Norway in 1987. They named it Arcturus , after the Behenian fixed star Arcturus.-Biography:The band has released four official full-length albums...
  
  , ex-The Kovenant
  The Kovenant
  The Kovenant is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo/Hamar. The band originally formed as Covenant in 1993, but in 1999 were forced to change their name to The Kovenant due to a dispute with a Swedish electronic band of the same name....
  
  , Mayhem
  Mayhem (band)
  Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...
  
  ) - Drums

Session members

• Agnete M. Kirkevaag – Soprano Voices (Madder Mortem
  Madder Mortem
  Madder Mortem is a Norwegian progressive metal band. They were formed in 1993 as Mystery Tribe.-Current lineup:* Agnete M. Kirkevaag − Vocals * BP M...
  
  )
• Lars Nedland
  Lars Nedland
  Lars Are Nedland , known also as Lazare, from Kristiansand, Norway, is the vocalist, drummer and keyboardist for acclaimed avant-garde black metal band Solefald. He is also keyboardist for the progressive black metal act Borknagar...
  
   – Alto Voices (Age of Silence
  Age Of Silence
  Age of Silence is a Norwegian avant-garde progressive metal band formed in 2004 by Andy Winter of Winds.-Current members:* Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland - Vocals...
  
  , Borknagar
  Borknagar
  Borknagar is a progressive black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. The band's style combines folk metal and black metal with progressive and melodic elements...
  
  , Solefald
  Solefald
  Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's...
  
  )
• Dan Swanö
  Dan Swanö
  Dan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.As a multi-instrumentalist he is...
  
   – Tenor Voices, Death Growls (Edge of Sanity
  Edge of Sanity
  Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :...
  
  , Nightingale
  Nightingale (band)
  The band's latest album is White Darkness and it was released 4 June 2007.-Line-up:*Dan Swanö : Vocals, guitars, keyboards...
  
  , Second Sky, ex-Bloodbath
  Bloodbath
  Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm formed in 1998.-History:A year after being formed, the band, then consisting of Mikael Åkerfeldt on vocals, Dan Swanö on drums, Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström on guitar, and Jonas Renkse on bass, released their EP Breeding...
  
  )
• Øystein Moe – Bass (ex. Tritonus, Ulver
  Ulver
  Ulver is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler , Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and...
  
  )

• Andre Orvik – First Violin
• Vegard Johnsen – Second Violin
• Dorthe Dreier – Viola
• Hans Josef Groh – Cello

External links

• kvltsite.com review