Personnel

• Nick Van Dyk - composer
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
  , lyricist
  Lyricist
  A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   and guitar
  Guitar
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• Rick Mythiasin - vocals
  Singing
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• Bernie Versailles - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
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• Jason Rullo
  Jason Rullo
  Jason Rullo is the drummer for the progressive metal band Symphony X. He has been featured in the Modern Drummer readers' polls. He also performed on the 2003 self-titled album by Redemption, a super group including members of Prymary and Fates Warning...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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Guests

• Michael Romeo
  Michael Romeo
  Since 2005, Romeo has taken advantage of a new custom model, Caparison Dellinger II - Michael Romeo Custom, which he used to record the Symphony X album Paradise Lost...
  
   - orchestration
  Orchestration
  Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium...
  
   on Tracks 1-4
• Mark Zonder
  Mark Zonder
  Mark Zonder is the drummer of American heavy-metal band Warlord. When the band was in a hiatus, he joined Fates Warning. His artistic name in Warlord is "Thunder Child"...
  
   - drums on "As I Lay Dying"
• Ray Alder
  Ray Alder
  Ray Alder has been the lead vocalist of the progressive metal band Fates Warning since their 1988 release No Exit. He has released two albums Engine in 1999 and Superholic in 2002 with Engine....
  
  - vocals on "Desperation Part II"

Track listing

1. "Desperation Part I" - 5:56
2. "Desperation Part II" - 4:32
3. "Desperation Part III" - 5:43
4. "Desperation Part IV" - 5:08
5. "Nocturnal" - 3:51
6. "Window To Space" - 13:26
7. "As I Lay Dying" - 5:08
8. "Something Wicked This Way Comes" - 24:29
   • I. Arrivals
   • II. Torments
   • III. The Carnival
   • IV. Pursuits
   • V. The Autumn People
   • VI. Temptations
   • VII. Confrontations
   • VIII. Departures