Snow Blind

"Photokeratitis, also known as “snow blindness”, is caused by intense exposure to UV light, such as sunlight reflected from ice and snow."

Lyrics

 * 1 "The word I translated as “blinding” (照り返し) in a later verse means “to shine; reflect; throw back light” in its verb form (照り返す)."
 * 2 "A blizzard giant" is possibly a reference to Blizzard, a series of Amiga accelerator boards designed by Phase5.

Connections

 * "Snow Blind" shares its title with a Black Sabbath song. Its highly likely that Black Sabbath's "Snowblind" was one of the five songs from Black Sabbath Vol. 4 that a recently-defined Mandrake covered in about a week in 1973.
 * The song's intro features a looped sample of vocals from "Oh Mama!" (One Pattern version) played backwards, gradually shifting to higher pitches as its speed increases, each part panned different to each speaker (centre, left, right, centre, right, left).
 * The bird chirping sample is the same one used on "Karkador", "Root of Spirit" and "Grid".