
written and produced October 2024.
Precursor to the full length 'Coldest Keep in Bitter Heavens'.
Entranced by the Ice Storm: A time-traveling android is lured and frozen by ice magic inside of a snowy mountain cave.
Giga Axe Beam: Data log and inner monologue of interdimensional android investigating a strange signal and mysterious artifacts in an ice cave, eventually succumbing to a giga axe beam produced by one of these artifacts.
This chapter of Gonemage is sonically heavily influenced by late 90’s/early 2000’s symphonic black metal/extreme metal and industrial black metal like Emperor, Cradle of Filth, Arcturus, Dødheimsgard, and Aborym, yet fused with a backline of 8-bit and 16-bit soundfonts of C64, SNES, and Sega Genesis.
Credits
Galimgim - lead vocals, all instruments (guitar, bass, drum programming, synth), production
Frostbyte (guest):
Æggnyth - additional high vox on 'Entranced by the Ice Storm'