"The Rift" arrives as an eight-minute epic from the album, following title track "In the Shadow of Your Shadow" and previous single "A Way Back", exploring the loneliness of the human experience and the pressigng desire to belong.

Speaking about the track, vocalist Johannes Persson says: “'The Rift' is about the loneliness of the human experience and the urgent need to belong, to seek refuge in the collective. There’s a kind of euphoria in knowing your peers’ mantras, in feeling chosen for a greater cause. Those shared beliefs tell you who you belong to. More importantly, they tell you who is excluded.”