"This album is the Sister album to HARVEST RAIN "Blood Hymns". It also contains the original members of HARVEST RAIN. The songs were recorded during the same Yuletide - Winter Solstice Sessions as the tracks on "Blood Hymns". In fact there is really nothing all that different from this version of "Pillars of Ice" than on the BLOOD HYMNS version except the chanting in the song which is a "Listian Magickal Formulae" or an "Armanen Magickal Formulae" (Listian as in Guido Von List). This version of "Thuletide" is the original. I added the icy keyboard version on BLOOD HYMNS later on right before that album was released. This album was in fact the original album that I had released under the moniker of "CAIN RIVER" instead of HARVEST RAIN. It was my first attempt at playing HARVEST RAIN with electric guitars, drums and record what one could call a "rock" or "dark wave" album instead of being strictly limited to dark folk. The album is inspired by MIGUEL SERRANO just as BLOOD HYMNS was and is. The extra tracks were recorded mostly during the same sessions, but kept off of any albums"- said Jason Thompkins.

Discography:

A Frost Comes with the Wind (2002) – demo/CD
Security of Ignorance (2002) – 10"x12" (White Marbled vinyl)
Evening and Devotion (2004) – 7"
Night Chorus (2005) - CD
Songs from Evening (2005) – CD-R
Night's Glow (2006) - Digipack CD
Blood Hymns (2007)
The Land of Tears is so Mysterious (2010) - CD with 16 Page Booklet of Arctic Photography and Lyrics

Tracklist:

01.Pillars of Ice
02.A Gentile Man
03.Iron Flowers
04.Labour
05.Coat of Arms
06.Red River Tide
07.Thuletide (Orginal Version)
08.Limbs and Wind

Extra tracks:

1.Blue Ice
2.An Empty House
3.Bringing in the Sheaves
4.The Grip of Nightfall
5.Shovel

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