the album's first track is a re-recording of "shadows of the past", the first track of the band's first album "journey of the dunadan", originally released in 1993. this version was made by schendel, originally as a part of a planned entire re-recording of the album, to celebrate the band's fifteenth anniversary. although this new version of the album never came to be, schendel had already completed the new version of the first track, using orchestral sounds that were not available to the band back in 1993.