Artist : Torchlight

Genre : Dungeon Synth, Neoclassical, Dark Ambient

Country : Italy Salerno

DISCOGRAPHY

 

1. 

   Of Breathing Forests & Uncharted Seas

   This album is conceived as a sort of escape both from society and from reality itself. The sea, opera's reading key, is a line of breakage with the earth civilized by men and a road towards which the soul can gradually lose any useless superstructure. Like a raft, the imagination wanders in those places that consciousness seems to have always known, carried by the waves of thoughts, emotions, sensations of freedom and peace and vision of mystical nature. Each song will take the listener further, until he completely loses contact with what he was before leaving. The gentle tides' lulling, the seagulls singing at sunset on empty beaches, the pristine and voluptuous forests never trampled by man, the moon that magically draws with its reflection in the nightly waters: each element are symbols of an imaginary land which probably don't exist but which every man keeps intact in his heart and tries to reach it whenever he feels he needs it. So close your eyes, leave everything behind and let yourself be carried far away, into realms where nature lives indifferent to man. Bring nothing else beside yourself and escape, get lost in uncharted seas and into lands where no one will be able to reach you except the real you.

2. 

   In a Foreign Village...

   A long and dreary drum, a howlin' cymbal What will the wanderer find in a foreign village? Black clouds gather above the land where an evil and crazy tyrant reigns.
   His many victims, killed for fun lie in the ground but their souls keep on roam.
   Thousand of whispers in the crumblin' towers "Do not play with the demons' powers!"
   The terror takes hold of everyone's hearts And the hope for rilief is falling apart.
   The villagers' moanin', year after year, starving and frightened by the bloody king's spear. A choir of prayers come up to the sky that shines of a dreamy and deadly cold light. A long and dreary drum, a howlin' cymbal What will the wanderer find in a foreign village?

3. 

   Holy Forest of Infinite Consciousness

4. 

   Dungeon Sins [EP]

   In the darkness of the dungeons, unspeakable secrets and forbidden desires redeemed with blood and madness.

5. 

   Haunting Dreams for the Dying King

   This album was conceived as an idealistic journey in the dreams of a king in agony. Songs do not follow a logical plot but are result of thoughts, visions, affections and fears infected by the idea of coming death.
   No book will remember this oniric pictures: the memory of ancient battles, the walks in the forests, the shining bell towers at twilight have turned black like king's eyes, forgotten.

6. 

   Witchcraft

   «The castle had been abandoned many years ago and became a place of black arts.
   The wizards observed the stars from their crumbling towers, among dusty books and goat's bones. Their opaque eyes had seen dreadful things. They talked to the dead and the dead replied, instructing them on past events and the others that still have to happen. The witches whispered near the lake, between the old chapel and the Raven ruins, making divinations and spells. The maiden's blood was mixed with magic herbs and drunk in turn. In a psychedelic delirium, the naked witches ran through the trees, howling and croaking. Their glassy tears were enlightened by the full moon while their souls burned in a black flame. Then there was a cavernous and austere cry through the forest. A large moving flame approaching the castle, crawling through the trunks and foliage of the oaks. It was a being of light in a shimmering robe of fire. He was called "The Master". The features of his face were gentle but his voice was inhuman. He was staring at the castle, saying:[...] and from the empty halls a scratching moan and a multitude of colored lights. Hundreds of souls roamed the castle, cursing and murmuring. Necromancy had been done.Then the Master went away rising into the dark sky, slowly fading between the constellations. All that remained were crystal cobwebs between the branches that dropped blood, bile and poison.»

7. 

   Lothlòrien [EP]

   There lie the woods of Lothlórien! ' said Legolas. `That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. Not till the spring comes and the new green opens do they fall, and then the boughs are laden with yellow flowers; and the floor of the wood is golden, and golden is the roof, and its pillars are of silver, for the bark of the trees is smooth and grey. So still our songs in Mirkwood say. My heart would be glad if I were beneath the eaves of that wood, and it were springtime! '

8. 

   The long quest

   “The long quest” is conceived as a journey into a dreamland where pristine nature reigns and unknown creatures living in it. Plants, trees and elements of the Earth show anthropomorphic traits and communicate with other living things in a telepathic way, without using a codified language. The backbone of the whole album is supported by the sound of an organ that recalls the reverberations of this communication between creatures that live in this magical land. In the background, drums coming from the depths of the caverns, choirs from the ruins of the temples, pads that hold mesmeric arpeggios. This journey will bring Torchlight to get in touch with the primordial essence of life: a long quest for hidden and forgotten beauty, whose vision is only possible through a long journey and a meditation of the mighty wonders of creation.

9. 

   Realms of oblivion

This album was conceived as a journey into the forgotten kingdoms, where knights fought against dragons, forests shone with magical light and valiant men reigned over enchanted realms. This work is a memory of the past and an ode to the dead kings and to the castle's ruins.