Whilst playing with German Melodic Black Metalheads DARK FORTRESS, Walter "Crom" Grosse began working on a solo-project that was worlds apart from the raw aggression normally associated with the genre in which he started. The more the work progressed, the more Grosse realised that he much preferred to forge his own musical path, a path where melody is the defining factor, and, following on from the positive response to his debut EP "The Fallen Beauty", he decided to focus his attention solely on the band that had become CROM. Delicate acoustic guitars are counter-pointed by crushing metal riffs.
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