Originally released in 1998, the songs on this demo tape were composed during winter 1997 to somehwere around summer 1998. In 1998/1999, I worked on a successor, which should become another demo tape focussing on the Beowulf saga, therefore under the working title „Beowulf“. Only 2 tracks (an Intro and a full song) were completed, apart of a few song fragments.

Now in 2017, 20 years leater, „Shrouded In Mystery“ is being rereleased in a remastered version. This just implies a light improvement of the sound characeristics, a reduce of hiss and repair of lost treble. The recording was taken off the original master tape. Also, both finished „Beowulf“-tracks make for the bonus tracks on the B-Side. The „Beowulf – Intro“ was dubbed from an old rehearsal tape, including the sound effects used in the past, and remastered as well. „Beowulf – Stadt“ was once recorded directly off the old keyboard outputs, missing the sound effects and acoustic instruments (which were done quite sloppy anyway). The last track is „In Caverns Deep (diff. Vox)“, which was included on the orginal tape as well and features growled vocals instead of the whispered vocals of the main version.

released February 2, 2017