The Norwegian guitar and synthesizer duo Solefald (Cornelius Jakhelln and Lazare Nedland) were formed as yet another Norwegian black-metal project. Given the school's precedents, The Linear Scaffold (1997) was mostly irrelevant, and would remain their "heaviest" album. However, Neonism (1999) began to steer towards brainy compositions and philosophical lyircs, that eventually led to the increasing complexity and technical exhibitionism of Pills Against the Ageless Ills (2001), possibly their apex, and In Harmonia Universali (2003), works that evoke King Crimson's and Yes' progressive-rock.