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: Pale Enchantress
Dark... thou embrace my bleeding heart My dreams... uniting our tearful eyes... enchanting At night... I kiss the serpent in thy tears For years... thy sorrow I've mourned Harken my moonchilds cry yearning for another night Mourning my once beloved mesmerized and ravendark My pale enchantress of the night at last my candle's burning down The wintermoon is shining bleak for thee my enchantress Enchanting all my dreams a beauty and her flood of tears Nightfall embrace my heart mesmerized and ravendark My pale enchantress of the night I desire thee Fearful I walk with thee... through dusk Through winds of loss... Her beauty and her flood embrace my bleeding heart Tearful I fall with thee... at last Lead me there... to where thy shadows cast They dance in velvet darkness lost Rise... bleak winterfullmoon Rise... In life... I kissed the serpent in thy tears For years... thy sorrow I mourned…
