"The writing, recording, and production of this album has been one hell of an ambitious and exciting undertaking. Along with building the recording environment one piece at a time, we set out on a seemingly-impossible course to write interesting and truly original music, influenced by the diversity of the many genres on the opposite ends of the world of music.
The atmospheres of the different songs drift between foreboding despair, crushing victory, godless arrogance, composed humility, lost love, magnificent power, and heartless betrayal. The lyrics are also based on many different ideas, such as historical battles where the victors were against all odds, ancient cataclysmic earthly and mythical events, the duty to abandon love and life in service to the homeland, and the individual's dismal pilgrimage toward religious corruption or from religious confinement."
