Style: Ambient, dungeon synth
Primary Emotions/Themes: Scrying through the palantir, the visions it brings are not for the feint of heart.
Thoughts: Glasberg's take on dungeon synth leans heavily into the dark ambient genre. Not only does it have slow brooding passages, but the overall tone and feel could easily be placed within the dark ambient genre - were it not for the use of specific instruments and a heavy reliance on melody and meter.
Each of the songs feels like I am listening to the music through some type of mist or obfuscation. The production applied to the music is distorted, obscured, withdrawn. There are moments however where the music becomes crystal clear and the richness of it's glory can be heard bright as day. It's like coming into a clearing in a thick and ancient forest, a relief as it were.
The songs themselves have a simple nature to them. They don't demand much of the listener, however they do have that constant obscurity to them. I'm consistently wondering if I'm missing some details because of the production.
Urklang des Blutes will not be on heavy rotation for me, however I am not going to discard the record by the wayside either. It fulfills a specific need that my collection has and it will be befitting on the fall and winter months. Now if you will excuse me I need to go back to scrying to see what other treasures this album may hold.
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