Style: dungeon synth, winter synth
Thoughts: There is a place, deep in the mountains where no one roams. Snow falls here undisturbed for decades, the wind slowly corralling it into groves and crevices in the mountain range. The air whispers secrets that no man knows. The ground is frozen with the wisdom of generations. This is the realm of Eisreich.
I have another release from Gimrick and to say that the two releases are similar would be an outright lie. Die Mauem Der Nacht is dungeon synth sure, but it's so littered with synthwave that it feels almost like a completely different project.
Eisreich is a quiet album with moments of glorious beauty. The melodies are soft, cold, and almost sound like a lullaby in some instances. They stir up the cold in me, the perfect music for a clear winter night. A night where the stars are visible for all to see in an endless light spectacle. These melodies reflect the purity of nature from a place of enteral cold, slow, brooding, eternal.
Eisreich is simple in its approach. The songs often only contain a few notes and silence. The silence can often span seconds at a time before another note comes in. I absolutely love this approach because it really drives home the bitter cold and calm that a deep perpetually frozen mountain range would have.
Eisrech translates roughly to "ice rich." This is a prefect title for the music that Gimrick has created. Simple, to the point, and entirely accurate to the music contained within. Excellent, if short, dungeon synth of the highest order.
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