This album is a classic. An amazing classic, even if it is often underrated.
The first thing you will notice is the drumming which is powerful and never lacks of originality and technique. The guitars play a heavy and very melodic kind of death metal and sometimes leave place to an acoustic guitar intro or intermezzo (like in "A Bolt of Blazing Gold" and "Through Ebony Archways"). The acoustic guitar never sounds cheesy or out of place, it gives a note of sadness and melancholy, instead, and melts very well within the songs. I can say the same thing for the beautiful female vocals, which also appear in the songs above and sound quite tragic rather than meek.
This is the best way to kill this album.
Every song is filled with a great variety of melodies and each melody is important for the mood of the song. Usually riffs aren't repeated but they're often subjected to variations and trasportos. You really can't get bored of this music. If Dark Tranquillity had released this album without lyrics, leaving just the istrumental part of each song, this would have been the same great album it actually is.

Limited edition: 100 copies in dark black shell.

Tracklist
1 Nightfall By The Shore Of Time 4:37
2 Crimson Winds 5:16
3 A Bolt Of Blazing Gold 6:59
4 In Tears Bereaved 3:42
5 Skywards 4:52
6 Through Ebony Archways 3:38
7 Shadow Duet 6:52
8 My Faeryland Forgotten 4:29
9 Alone 5:32