The first record "Universal Fantasies" contains quite a "common" metal with furious distorsionsound and fast power metal rhythm. Lyrics tell about "everyday" and melancholic subjects as you can see. We still needed some practise in songwriting but there are also some real classics of ours in the first album!
Recording and mixing periods are marked separatedly beacause the whole process took a little more time than nowadays. The songs are also composed during a bit longer period than I approximately do today but that's how the first records usually goes! Despite that fact "Universal Fantasies" do not comprise of "just some demo recordings from early days". The album is really composed in purpose to make a complete album. Well, that's all to say about the fisrt one!
1. A Divine Combination 5,11
2. Holocaust 4,13
3. Road To Nowhere 5,39
4. Oriental Procession 6,10
5. Shadows Of The Past 4,14
6. Synthetic Melancholy 4,03
7. Through the Storms 5,07
8. Universal Fantasies 6,00
9. Weak Ice 4,00
Produced by J. Muhonen and V. Härmälä
All songs written by J. Muhonen
except #1, 3, 5 and 7 lyrics by V. Härmälä
#9 is inspirated by Lucjan Czapliski
Arrangements by J. Muhonen and V. Härmälä
Recorded and engineered by J. Muhonen and V. Härmälä at Brimstone Records June 2000 ->
Mixed and mastered by J. Muhonen and V. Härmälä at Brimstone Records during 2000-2001