The album differs from future releases, as it is void of any clean vocals and contains more prominent elements of melodic death metal

Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...

, including harmonized/dual guitar riffs and melody progression. The album also contains the band's longest studio song, "Home to Me", which runs for 6 minutes and 47 seconds.

Track listing

1999 demo

The band released a three song demo in 1999 with songs that eventually ended up on the album. With the exception of "Follow", the songs appear in the same form as they do on Behind Silence and Solitude with almost the same production quality.

1. "Follow" - 5:04
2. "Shading" - 3:53
3. "Erase" - 6:19

Personnel

• Philip Labonte
  Philip Labonte
  Philip Steven Labonte is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as the lead singer of the American metalcore band All That Remains and formerly of Shadows Fall.-History:...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
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• Chris Bartlett – guitar
  Guitar
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• Oli Herbert – guitar
• Dan Egan – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Michael Bartlett – drums
  Drum kit
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