[1][2] A music videos was made for the cover of the medieval piece "Herr Mannelig" (with lyrics in Swedish and featuring the making-of footage from the recording sessions) and for "The Purple Sky", directed by Michael Rother and Tim Loeschmann.

Midnattsol mastermind, singer and main songwriter Carmen Elise Espenæs was involved in a parallel musical project called Savn,[3] and she was dedicated to her two sons, born in 2012 and 2014.

In December 2017, Liv Kristine (Carmen Elise's older sister), was introduced as the band's second official singer, after her sudden departure from Leaves' Eyes in 2016.

[4][5] Previously, bassist Birgit Öllbrunner, drummer Chris Merzinsky and guitarist Matthias Schuler left the band for personal reasons before the recording sessions began at the end of 2017.

Adolph (a friend of keyboardist Daniel Fischer) had already worked with Midnattsol on their debut album Where Twilight Dwells (2005) The album is characterized by its great compositional variety, including some slower songs than in previous works in a doom metal style such as the dark version for "Herr Mannelig", energetic themes such as "Syns sang" (about the Germanic goddess Syn), folk ballads such as "Vem kan segla", as well as a greater number of lyrics in Norwegian.