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: Midwintertears
Shadowcast upon my heart endark... thy bleak midwintertears condemned to mourn in silence The pale moonrise in her eyes Serene... like a frozen stream the flowing beauty in thy tears I crave for thee my once beloved Beyond... the veils of darkness lost where now thy roses wrapped in dusk Dark enchantress I suffer thy fullmoonnights Trespass my undesired darkness Tears... flowing through thy dreams Dark enchantress the seventh fullmoon rise I drown in dusk and dark rivers Summon all my dreams like roses on your epigraph written in my tears thy sorrow and my bleeding heart She comes so serene my fallen beauty crowned with leaves Take me to thy dream Thy candle will forever burn in me…