Drums in the Deepwood

by Elyvilon

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unicorny_md This album is such a blast to listen to, I love the high energy and how the tone will shift so there is never a dull moment in each song. An absolute bop from start to finish! Favorite track: Gristle and Bone, All Turned to Stone.

baboonsandmoons Rad storytelling with music. Like reading a beloved book. Favorite track: A Hunger to Carry Off Flocks.

sjöhäxan One of the most immersive and expertly composed albums of the year, filled to the brim with fantasy elements of the scandinavian sort. Old stories of trolls and their mischief deep in the woods are told through brassy synth and driven by powerful beating of drums. A must-have for those looking for a magical escape into the darkest of woods. Favorite track: A Hunger to Carry Off Flocks.

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1.	A Great Stirring 02:50	lyrics	buy track
And so begins the pounding of drums. Leathern skins dance and ring, calling to life that dread chorus of the Deep Places of the world - for the ringing of unfathomable trumpets to shake the land once more.
2.	A Hunger to Carry Off Flocks 06:48	lyrics	buy track
Bottomless, wild-eyed, yellow-toothed, gaunt. A hunger to gnaw down the roots of mountains and drink up the seas, to carry off each beast of the land and gnash its teeth at that carefree sky lying so boldly beyond reach. Root and stone and tooth and bone: all cry out at the insatiable dust in their bellies. And so hunger without cease lopes through dark hills and dwindling twilight, shepherd's finest in the crook of each arm.
3.	Just Stones Beneath the Bridge 04:39	lyrics	buy track
Warhorn calls hang on the mist like cloying geists, taunting us to move on should we dare. Should we deem it possible to face what lies beyond the river. The bridge is narrow, the way is dark, and just beyond the Deepwoods loom - grim and leering. Men and horses alike balk at some unseen foulness therein... but surely those are just stones beneath the bridge?
4.	Peikon Luola 04:50	lyrics	buy track
Kaarnan kansa suon suojassa Sammalen syömä, sulkavan surma Viherkiven väki, hallan halkeamat Soinnut suloiset, saloilla soivat Vaan luolassa peikon kaikuu kivi, hönkii harmaja henki, koloissa kumajavissa Keltahammas, kelojen kantaja, juurien jäytäjä, likainen lanko Syvämetsän syventäjä, sävelten syöjä Luuhuilut laulaa luolassa peikon
5.	What Broods Under Deepening Cloudmurk 05:09	lyrics	buy track
Lo, I hear its breathing Though I see not where it lies As stony weight of darkness Descends upon my eyes Stumble in root, in bramble in briar As the Deepwoods' chorus chants I tumble in thorn and fœtid mire As the Deepwoods' terrors advance
6.	Moss Laden and Shambling 07:19	lyrics	buy track
I spied it across the clearing, and I thought it not alive 'til the creaking roots and tumbling vines sent shivers down my spine
7.	Gristle and Bone, All Turned to Stone 07:48	lyrics	buy track
Lichens cling and mosses encloak the great stones betwixt the pines. Their granite slopes soar to rest 'neath the sighing needles, their stalwart bases crowd the roots below. Tumbled cromlechs sprawling, a manadnock of crumbling forms. Clamb'ring o'er crags and crooks, ferny clods break free. And as I tread, I can help not but muse - that under mossy patina lies, a visage gazing upon me.
8.	Gahanka 01:33	lyrics	buy track
"Yes, it's the gahanka, the troll war beat," said Vimes. "They say that within ten minutes of hearing it, you're dead." Behind Pessimal, Detritus grinned, the torchlight turning his diamond teeth into rubies.
9.	Drums in the Deepwood 03:30	lyrics	buy track
Unfettered rollick and unrivaled pandemonium, cacophonic revelers contort and cackle. The inky black silhouettes casting ghoulish shadows of atavistic reproach and chthonic desire deep into the onlooking night. Where the flickering flames and jubilant forms of the Deepwood are etched into the glassy eyes of each awestruck onlooker. Under the thunder of drums the Deepwood rears and looms. For in the face of such ravenous majesty, what can one do but watch?

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They say that in those long-harbingered days of distant decline, when the edges of the map creep back in around us and all is wreathed in that deepest of fog... when every hovel of man and scar upon the land has been subsumed back into the mossy ground, and when the sun's mist-strewn rays are estranged to the realm of dirt and pine needles, held at bay by the bold branches of those great trees that have taken root around our fickle human knowing... that when all sojourns are complete, all wrongdoings put to rest, and when the sleeplike silence of forgetfulness, oblivion drowns out the chatter of life... that there, in the Deepwood, the great ringing of unfathomable trumpets will again be known, and the Questing Soul will awaken anew.

credits

released May 20, 2022

All tracks written and performed on synthesizer by Elyvilon, in some misty corner of the Deepwood. Mixed and mastered by Tristan Feilla in collaboration with Mark Stewart and Barrow Hoard Records. Cover art by David Thiérrée, and adapted by the mysterious specter that dwells in Dungeons Deep and Caverns Old. Special thanks to Runesong for Finnish language lessons, lyrics, and lore. Dedicated to the unending wonder that my Grandmother's tales were able to instill into world, and the folks of Melkor's dungeon most vile.

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