Italian composer, guitarist, producer and teacher Luca Turilli offers commentary on the band’s upcoming release, The Cold Embrace Of Fear – A Dark Romantic Symphony, scheduled for North American release on January 25th, 2011. The album was released in Europe in October as a regular audio CD, limited edition digipack and limited edition vinyl.

“Essentially it is a long huge song, sounding very symphonic, full of orchestral sections that are very soundtrack oriented with narrations and spoken parts. More than in other cases, we tried to create a real movie atmosphere with very dynamic musical results. You will just need to close your eyes and explore those new emotional dimensions we wrote the music for.”

About the lyrics on The Cold Embrace Of Fear – A Dark Romantic Symphony and its connection to The Frozen Tears Of Angels, Turilli adds:

"After the long journey to the icy, frozen northlands at the borders of the known world, while facing concrete natural obstacles and the inner-demons lying in the depths of their conscience, the five main characters reach the ancient gothic fortress of Har-Kuun, the real monument of evil trapped between ice and snow, the mystic place where Erian’s book could be finally found. The Cold Embrace Of Fear tells about the entrance of those bravehearts in the ancestral world of Har-Kuun and the dramatic search for the holy book of the angels, the only possible way to understand something more about the dark secret threatening the whole known world. Also, in this case, I liked to create particular ‘bridges’ connecting the new chapter of the saga with our modern life on the basis of symbolism, ancient wisdom, and spiritual evolution. To someone who knows something about modern psychology and the study of the different ‘selves,’ the hidden geometries and gothic labyrinths of Har-Kuun will reveal themselves very clearly.”

Produced by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli, the tracklisting for The Cold Embrace Of Fear – A Dark Romantic Symphony is as follows:

'Act I: The Pass Of Nair-Kaan'

'Act II: Dark Mystic Vision'

'Act III: The Ancient Fires Of Har-Kuun'

'Act IV: The Betrayal'

'Act V: Neve Rosso Sangue'

'Act VI: Erian’s Lost Secrets'

'Act VII: The Angels’ Dark Revelation'

Audio samples from The Cold Embrace Of Fear – A Dark Romantic Symphony can be heard here.