mandag den 4. februar 2019

Wyernsnout - Wyern



A French-based dungeon-synth/music act which already has added several (21 to be exact) only-digital releases out. No physical releases yet! From a Halloween tribute release, black-metal covers release and several other dungeon-synth related ones. I really didn´t know which release I should have a look on, but I knew that I have always had a certain fetish with the mythical dragon-like creature known as the Wyern. Where I have this fetish from... I do not know. Maybe it has something to do with the logo for that Roleplaying Game company called Chaosium?. They released roleplaying games like like Call of Cthulhu, Runequest and Elric (in case you were wondering!). But anyways!

What we have here is a small mini-album containing 4 tracks. From Caverns, Reflections, Flight and Journey.

First track Caverns starts off with a lovely labyrinthian and subterranean synth tune. Twisted, sinister with tiny streaks of madness here and there. Resamples somehow some of the first Raison D´être recordings, very primitive in an honest way BUT effective. The tune gives the listener a sense of being at lost in a huge cave-like labyrinth, the kind of caves with toxic mushrooms - troglodytes and a man-eating wyvern of course! 

Second track Reflections being more of a hypnotizing piece. Starts off with a static drone-synth and later on gets into good company with a crystal-like ghost-like tune. A streak of a silent madness lurks within the monotonic pleasant melodies!

Third track Flight lets the listener take a deep breath from caverns and strange reflections within. Epic melancholia on frosty wings could be a nice way to describe this track. Almost winter-synth here without the ambient/drone-elements. Great track!

Fourth and last piece simply called Journey, being a more down-to-earth kind of a piece. Landing down on snow-covered soil (from the epic flight!). A journey awaits through frosty and ice-peaked landscapes. The madness of the two first tracks are not there, and the melancholia of the third track has been replaced by a sense of hope?. Still, murky and moody bass-synths are in the background, but the icy front-melody almost gives the track a merry element to it. A really beautiful ending for this album!

A great mini-album (not a groundbreaker) but works fine it is simplicity. I really like the way how the synth-tunes are, very epic and beautiful winter-landscape sort of. Is it too short?. No, it isn´t!. It works perfectly as a mini-album (You´ll understand when you hear it). Pleasant listening, and don´t let the wyvern catch you!  


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