The Enigma Of Life is the fifth full-length album by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 band Sirenia

Sirenia (band)

Sirenia is a gothic metal band from Stavanger, Norway which incorporates a mixture of gothic metal and symphonic metal, as well as extreme metal and death metal elements...

 and their second with the Spanish vocalist Ailyn

Ailyn

Pilar Giménez García is a Spanish singer, known as Ailyn. She is the female vocalist of the gothic metal band Sirenia.-Musical start:...

. It was released on January 21, 2011, through Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast

Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...

. The album was mastered at Finnvox studios in Finland. It is the first album by Sirenia to have more than nine tracks. The download-only single, "The End Of It All

The End of It All

The End of It All is the 37th release by avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek, released by his own Corwood Industries label . It was his second of four released in 2004. Jandek returns to electric guitar on the album, though his playing style and guitar tone sound like an electrified version...

", was released on December 21, 2010.

Track listing

All songs written by Morten Veland.

1. "The End Of It All
   The End of It All
   The End of It All is the 37th release by avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek, released by his own Corwood Industries label . It was his second of four released in 2004. Jandek returns to electric guitar on the album, though his playing style and guitar tone sound like an electrified version...
   
   " – 4:31
2. "Fallen Angel" – 3:59
3. "All My Dreams" – 4:42
4. "This Darkness" – 4:00
5. "The Twilight in Your Eyes" – 4:00
6. "Winter Land" – 3:55
7. "A Seaside Serenade" – 5:53
8. "Darkened Days to Come" – 4:22
9. "Coming Down" – 4:38
10. "This Lonely Lake" – 3:33
11. "Fading Star" – 4:46
12. "The Enigma of Life" – 6:14

Bonus tracks:

1. "Oscura Realidad" (bonus track/Spanish version of "This Darkness") – 4:31 (from 3:44 until the end there is only silence)
2. "The Enigma of Life" (acoustic version; digipack bonus track) – 5:51
3. "El Enigma De La Vida" (iTunes bonus track/Spanish version of "The Enigma Of Life")
4. "El Enigma De La Vida" (Spanish acoustic version of "The Enigma Of Life"; North American bonus track) – 5:51

Sirenia

• Ailyn
  Ailyn
  Pilar Giménez García is a Spanish singer, known as Ailyn. She is the female vocalist of the gothic metal band Sirenia.-Musical start:...
  
   – female vocals (on all tracks)
• Morten Veland
  Morten Veland
  Morten Veland is a Norwegian musician. He was one of the founding members of the Norwegian gothic metal band Tristania and later founded Sirenia....
  
   – rhythm and lead guitars
  Guitarist
  A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
  
  , clean male vocals, harsh vocals, bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , programming, drums

Additional musicians

• Stephanie Valentin – violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
   (on most tracks)
• Damien Surian, Mathieu Landry, Emmanuelle Zoldan, Sandrine Gouttebel, Emilie Lesbros – choir
  Choir
  A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
  
  (on all tracks)