Visions from the Spiral Generator is the fourth full-length album by Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 progressive

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

/folk metal

Folk metal

Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...

 band Vintersorg

Vintersorg

Vintersorg is a Swedish band from Skellefteå, formed in 1994 under the name Vargatron . Musically, Vintersorg has covered a wide number of heavy metal genres; while the band is mostly rooted in extreme metal styles, particularly black metal and Viking/folk metal, it has also expanded into...

. It was released on June 24, 2002. This album saw a drastic shift in style in the band that was foreshadowed on the band's prior album, Cosmic Genesis

Cosmic Genesis

Cosmic Genesis is the third full-length album by Swedish progressive/folk metal band Vintersorg. It was released on November 3, 2000. The album signaled a move away from the folk metal of the previous two albums to progressive, as well as lyrical themes, now mostly written in English, moving...

. The lyrics continued to be mixed between English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

, and the music continued to be even more progressive and technical, moving farther away from the band's original folk influences.

Track listing

• All Songs Written and Arranged By Vintersorg.

1. "Quotation" – 0:50
2. "Vem styr symmetrin?" ("Who Controls the Symmetry?") – 4:36
3. "A Metaphysical Drama" – 5:20
4. "Universums dunkla alfabet" ("The mysterious Alphabet of the Universe") – 4:33
5. "E.S.P. Mirage" – 5:00
6. "Spegelsfären" ("The Mirrorsphere") – 6:11
7. "The Explorer" – 6:47
8. "A Star-Guarded Coronation" – 5:16
9. "Trance Locator" – 2:22

Vintersorg

• Mr. V
  Andreas Hedlund
  Andreas Hedlund , also known as Vintersorg and Mr. V, is a Swedish vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who has played in several heavy metal bands.-Biography:...
  
   - All vocals, rhythm and lead guitars, keyboard, Hammond, loop editing
• Mattias Marklund
  Mattias Marklund
  Mattias Marklund is a guitarist who plays in Vintersorg, Casket Casey and TME. He also did guest guitar work for Vintersorg band mate, Andreas Hedlund's progressive rock band, Waterclime.-With Otyg:...
  
    - Lead and rhythm guitars

Additional Musicians

• Asgeir Mickelson
  Asgeir Mickelson
  Asgeir Mickelson is a Norwegian musician, artist, photographer and music reviewer. Although primarily a drummer, Mickelson has stated that he considers himself a musician above a drummer, and is also a guitarist and bassist....
  
   - Drums
• Steve DiGiorgio
  Steve DiGiorgio
  Steve DiGiorgio is an American bassist and musician.DiGiorgio has played bass guitar in heavy metal bands such as Death, Autopsy, Control Denied, Testament, Vintersorg, Iced Earth, Sebastian Bach, Charred Walls of the Damned, Obituary, and is a founding member of Sadus. He is widely renowned for...
  
   - Bass
• Nils Johansson - Analogue synth, loop editing, Hammond on "Universums dunkla alfabet"
• Lars "Lazare" Nedland
  Lars Nedland
  Lars Are Nedland , known also as Lazare, from Kristiansand, Norway, is the vocalist, drummer and keyboardist for acclaimed avant-garde black metal band Solefald. He is also keyboardist for the progressive black metal act Borknagar...
  
  - Hammond on "A Metaphysical Drama"

Production

• Produced by Vintersorg
• Engineered by Vintersorg and Borge Finstad
• Mixed by Borge Finstad
• Editing by Jeff Wagner