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: Magical Fix
I've been marooned in the mesh of the mind andthe flesh Misguided by bliss and seduced by the blessed The more I taste their chaste embrace I'm dying to leave I've been bruised by the Beast, kept opponentsappeased By keeping up the flame, now my soul is released It's all arranged, my body stays And I'm in for a ride When I close my eyes for the last time Where the circle starts, when the bells chime Please don't shed a tear for me I'll be around Now I'm reversing the curse, I'm disclosing the cure Keep humming in my hearse and I know it for sure It's time to cross the great divide So why access denied I've been framed by the fume of penultimate doom In a tomb with a view beneath flowers in bloom The less I think of how it stinks The more I'm alive The cure sublime Blew many minds to pieces First distant, moving closer, into universal recess The war supreme tore souls to shreds Among the living, dying, dead With a fiery fix you'll live as before With a magical fix you'll be begging for more