Entry 255 - Mortiis - Ånden som Gjorde Oppr​ø​r

 

I've been listening to a lot of dungeon synth lately. I had yet to go back and revisit the grand daddy of them all though: Mortiis (yes I know Fata Morgana is also Mortiis but... ya know.). Today that changes.

Everything that is good about dungeon synth started with Mortiis. Every stereo type probably came from his early works. Everything through The Stargate is a seminal work for the genre... to put it simply there may not be dungeon synth as we know it today without Mortiis' involment.

Ånden som Gjorde Oppr​ø​r itself is two long songs that are split up into individual sections. It gives the feeling of a bunch of smaller compositions that were stitched together to create a longer piece. It's not a bad thing by any means, but these could easily have been 5-7 mini songs each as well.

That's pretty much all there is to it. This is one of the founding records of the genre and it sounds like it. This is one of the albums that modern artists try to recreate when they are writing "classic dungeon synth." That in and of itself is more than enough for this record to be on repeat spins.