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: The Gate

Interpret:
Tristania
Album:
Ashes
An army of ambition 
is moving 
and it shakes the ground 
Ten thousand hungry hearts 
with iron heels 
Burns and rapes 
Sucks the earth dry 
Cuts and slays 
All that gets in its way 
Mighty forces of destruction 
Way beyond control 
Nothing sleeps tonight 


Decay and sinister silence 
Your world ripped in dust and ruins 


I shed no tears for your pain 
I shed no tears for the past 


Unleash all the beasts from imprisonment 
And arm them with sticks and stones 
Bring them into the land of chaos 
Watch mankind’s last gate fall 


Trembling hands in fire burned 
As we march into the night 
Every last stone will be turned 
Within the bright daylight 


We are the hounds of hell 
You will kneel 
You will bend 
We feast at her grave 
In the bloodmist we stand 
Victorious