Style: dungeon synth
Primary Emotions/Themes: the kingdom of the forest and its denizens
Thoughts: I want to sit down and be taken far away. Far away from the busyness of the city. Far away from the stress and constant bickering of people. Far away from concrete, from steel and the smell of burning tar.
Take me to a place where there are rolling hills. Take me to a place where the air is fresh. Let me go amongst the trees and flowers. Let me step into the mossy grounds. Let me go to the hollows and the meadows. Take me away from all of this into the kingdom of the forest.
Moloch's Forest Kingdom is dungeon synth pure and simple. There is nothing else that this could possibly be. The synths are droning and have an acoustic feel to them. They exemplify what the music speaks of: a simpler place where life is free to exist on its own with minimal interference from humans.
It's this simplicity that drives the entire album. The melodies rarely have more than a few notes to them, and the songs rarely ever have more than a few measures or bars to the entirety of their construct. The atmosphere is full yet simple, much like a forest canopy shielding the animals below from the sun above.
Music like this does not come across my turntable very often. Often times dungeon synth will be too active or too dreary for its own good. Moloch does not fall into either of those traps. Forest Kingdom has the perfect amount of repetition without feeling redundant, and it balances light and dark tones in the music to near perfection.
I want to get away, I want to be away from civilization. I do not want to be where I am, but alas I am stuck. For some very brief moments though I can close my eyes and allow Moloch's Forest Kingdom to take me to places far away in my imagination. A place unmolested by humans, a place of peace.
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