V roce 1996 dva bývalí členové Uzi Suicide, Morten Veland a Einar Moen spolu s Kennethem Olssonem založili kapelu Tristania. Krátce před natočením dema v roce 1997 se skupina rozrostla o další členy: Vibeke Stene, Anderse Hidle a Rune Osterhuse....

Píseň: Lethean River

Interpret:
Tristania
Album:
Beyond the Veil
Rise my clandestines 
thy secrecies invoked 
Streams of argentine 
across eyelids are drawn 


Rise upon the tide 
my castaway's outworn 
Fall from distant worlds 
and redeyed skies above 


Gesture of an argentine moisture 
like snow upon the riverine 
Gesture of an argentine moisture 
so sore upon congeal skin 


Ardency of life forsakened 
time will gather the source 
of thy secrecies 
Ardency of life forsakened 
in swarthy hours thou ponder still 


Invoke thy aeons in a dream 
entrancing sleep 
profound and prolix 
Estranged to life's utility 
Bequest thy endurance 
in the times of lethargic 


Lead me down in wailing hours 
to the riverside 
Reveal to me thy secrecies 
hidden in the wan deep 
of thy infinite mourning 
Lethean river carry me 
beneath thy riverine