Singer Timo Kotipelto composed three tracks and wrote most lyrics together with his Cain's Offering partner and former Sonata Arctica member Jani Liimatainen.

The band members have described the album as a blend of old school and modern power metal, though this direction was not planned, according to keyboardist Jens Johansson.

After discussing suggestions from the members, they finally agreed on bassist Lauri Porra's Eternal, making it the band's seventh album with a seven-letter title.

[3] "Lost Without a Trace", Porra's only writing contribution, is about a man that is in search of his love, but flees every time he finds it, afraid of a real commitment.

[3] "Feeding the Fire" states that humankind, instead of taking actions towards the protection of planet Earth, is just making things worse.