Touched by the Crimson King

Track listing

Personnel

• Hansi Kürsch - vocals
• Jon Schaffer - lead, rhythm, bass, and acoustic guitars

• Bobby Jarzombek - drums and percussion
• Jim Morris - guitar solos and backing vocals
• Rubin Drake - bass and fretless bass guitar
• Howard Helm - piano and backing vocals
• Kathy Helm - backing vocals
• Tori Fuson - backing vocals
• Jesse Morris - backing vocals
• Krystyna Kolaczynski - cello

  Lyrical content

• "Crimson King" is a reference to the Crimson King, the main antagonist of The Dark Tower series. The song also strongly references Randall Flagg, one of the King's many servants. Hansi in an interview has also stated that the Crimson King is Satan.
• "The Gunslinger" is referring to Roland of Gilead, the protagonist of the Dark Tower series. The song refers mainly to the plot of.
• "Terror Train" is a reference to Blaine the Mono, from the third and fourth novels of the Dark Tower series.
• "Beneath These Waves" is based on Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
• "Seize the Day" is based on Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
• "Love's Tragedy Asunder" is about a man whose wife is terminally ill, and he assists her suicide, and ends up killing himself.
• "Wicked Witch" is about the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.
• "Dorian" is about Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• “Down Where I Am” is about a baby born with Down syndrome and the struggle of his father and the emotions going in and out of his mind.