"By 1995 a Greek label was interested in signing Shadowcaster and releasing a CD. I had never been offered a CD deal before. At this point Buried Beneath were recording demos and I couldn't believe my solo-project attracted a label. I hastily said yes but Unisound Records took a year to get the CD out. They also did NOT use the cover and logo I sent them. They had some artist paint a gay castle and there's a boring logo I never saw til the CD's arrived. The picture meant to be the cover was eventually used as the cover for the 3rd Tearstained CD "Final Thoughts". I had to pay $400 for my own CD's when they shipped them to me. Also lots of typos. The debut CD, entitled "Abandonment", has 6 new songs and 3 songs from the promos (the last 3 songs). The new songs had more experimentation with actual composition, sometimes with good results and sometimes not. I was experimenting and learning to play at the same time. I'm a guitar player, drummer, bassist, all self-taught, and I was taking on keyboards in under 2 years of toying with them. But the CD cover I think is just stupid. I never liked the way the CD came out."
Mikael Bayusik
Tracklist:
0:00 Wisdom Is My Misery (Melancholia's Caress)
8:14 Abandonment
11:29 In The Darkest Reaches Of A Distant Cavern At The Very Depths Of A Great And Silent Lake.
17:05 We Are The Elite (Into An Abstract View A Sail)
20:59 Ereshkigal's Gift (The Descent Of Inanna, Part II, The Ascension)
46:34 The Shadowcaster
56:44 Prolonged Aftermath, Then Solitude (Fearless And Surreal, 3D Movement)
1:02:59 My Summoning Of The Darkest Princess
1:06:25 I Am Truly Free: The Blackenss Within
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