I think this is best Metal: Death,Black album. After seeing Enter The Darkest Thoughts Of The Chosen / Agony’s Silent Paradise, I had to have a good Ophthalamia CD. You need to listen A Long Journey. It’s really cool. One of Ophthalamia’s best albums yet.
The beautiful sound of this track makes you want to close your eyes and sway away with the music. This track is possibly the biggest guilty pleasure on A Long Journey. A Journey In Darkness / Entering The Forest is pretty funky and mellow. Myself / Dreaming as well as many of songs is a short story in miniature. Intro - A Cry From The Halls Of Blood / Empire Of Lost Souls had me crying as I was able to relate so well. It is succeeded by an outstanding track, however: Shores Of Kaa-Ta-Nu / The Eternal Walk Pt. II, which shows, blatantly, how much Ophthalamia has evolved as a singer. This Is The Pain Called Sorrow / To The Memory Of Me is the more seemingly obscure song on A Long Journey that bear up best to repeated listening. I loved Outro - I Summon Thee Oh Father / Death Embrace Me the first time I heard it. Sons Of Satan defines beauty, yet is as unforgiving as an astringent stone.


