"Shadow's Mignon" was born out of a silly idea Henning Pauly had one day. He heard some classic metal in the car and decided to try to write some music in this style on his own. He employed the help of singer Juan Roos to give the project the definite metal vocal sound. At some point Keyboard player Stephan Kernbach brought over his Roland D50 for the official 80 key sounds. He laid down some parts of his own, especially his signature Hammond B3 playing.