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, who also contributed keyboards to some tracks.

Track listing

# "Sorrowfull Farewell" – 4:52 # "Among Two Storms" – 4:09 # "A Dead Poem" – 4:08 # "Out of Spirits" – 4:06 # "As If by Magic" – 5:51 # "Full Colour Is the Night" – 4:47 # "Semigod" – 4:39 # "Ten Miles High" – 4:34 # "Between Times" – 5:03 # "Ira Incensus" – 5:16

Credits

*Sakis Tolis – guitar, vocals *Costas Vassilakopoulos – guitar *Andreas Lagios – bass *Georgios Tolias – keyboards *Themis Tolis – drums, backing vocals

References

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