#Wilderun

[steve-needs-a-hug]

post-apocalyptic San Francisco in The Shannara Chronicles season 2 (2017)

[haveyouheardmetal]

Pictured: Veil of Imagination, released in 2019

[metalone]

Wilderun "Far From Where Bits Unfurl" 2023 8-bit version of "Far From Where Dreams Unfurl"

[midnight-and-his-melodiverse]

Wilderun's The Garden of Fire is a fuckin' symphonic metal masterpiece holy shit, \m/

[starkatstories]

opening with Passenger was such a inspired fucking choice

[themetalgodsmeltdownposts]

(The Metal Gods Meltdown)

[blogapart3bis]

Wilderun / Soilwork / Kataklysm à Lausanne

Aujourd'hui sur Blog à part – Wilderun / Soilwork / Kataklysm à Lausanne Oui, je sais que c’est un mardi, mais le fait que Wilderun passe enfin en Suisse écrase toutes les considérations. Donc go Les Docks de Lausanne! #concert #progmetal #deathmetal

Oui, je sais que c’est un mardi, mais le fait que Wilderun passe enfin en Suisse écrase toutes les considérations logistiques et autres. Y compris le fait qu’ils sont en première partie de Soilwork, que je connais mal et Kataklysm, que je ne connais pas du tout. Et c’est donc parti pour les Docks de Lausanne. Je décanille pour arriver à l’ouverture des portes a 18 h 30. Ça commence tôt, mais si…

[greenteaforbreakfast]

Azt olvastam valahol, hogy ez az album olyan, mintha a Devin Townsend producált volna az Opethnek egy albumot. Na ezt én arra javítanám, hogy mintha a Devin Townsend a Steven Wilson tehetségével producált volna a 20 évvel ezelőtti Opethnek egy broadway musicalt.

Ja. Elég tökéletes. :)

ÉS AKKOR MOST MINDENKI EGYÜTT!

So you should run far from where dreams unfurl

You'll claim the land but you'll miss the world

You cannot hide from earth and sky

The conceiver and its host must die

So run far and leave your corpse

Within the realm of the dead or worse

There is nothing you can think or say

There's another way

There's another way

[wild-moss-art]

A web of dead converging branches drips with blood and squandered chances

[wilderun]

Wilderun's Merlin will be going on a co-own to be evaluated as the next generation of my program ❤️ He will be the first of the puppies to leave, on the 27th. We are so excited for his new family to meet him!

[severalpossiblemusiks]

2, 10 and 30?

2. A band I always come back to.

I think this is gonna sound cringe, but one of the first bands to get me into metal was a Christian glam metal group called Stryper. While their lyrics are overtly Christian and prosletizing, their musicianship is incredible and I have yet to find a dual-guitarist lineup I like better. Their early stuff in the 80s is like a mixture of glam and power/speed, and their more recent stuff after getting back together in the 2010s gives me a lot of Judas Priest vibes, lots of classic heavy metal with touches of power metal.

10. Most underrated musician.

I could list many musicians here. Some of them are actually quite popular within their own circles, but in terms of the general population they may not have a large following. First is Django Reinhardt, a Belgian/French Romani guitarist who effectively created the jazz manouche style (sometimes called g*psy jazz), and accomplished this with only two functioning fingers on his left hand due to severe burns. He also influenced the likes of Tony Iommi, Jerry Garcia, and Eddie Van Halen. Second is Paco de Lucia, a Spanish/Portuguese flamenco guitarist who branched into jazz and made "new flamenco" a world fusion style of flamenco and jazz. His works with jazz fusion guitar legends like Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin are some of my favourite pieces of music ever. Third is Buckethead. The man just hangs out and releases like 20 albums a year, almost all of them instrumentals. There are some other artists and groups like Leah McHenry (who goes by LEAH), Eye of Melian, dArtagnan, Steeleye Span, Imperial Age, Lords of the Trident, Sunburst, Blazon Stone, Númenor, Fire Whale, Grimgotts, Daniel Amos, Fief, Ziggurath, Crazy Lixx, Bloodywood, Crown Lands, Haralabos Stafylakis, T. Patrick Carrabre, Harmonium, Auri, Wilderun, Vials of Wrath, Karen Sunabacka, Oceans of Slumber, Signum Regis, and Paul O'Dette. (Sorry about the lengthy list. Also this covers metal, rock, classical, jazz, folk, and more)

30. A song from your favourite band.

[pillowfriendly]

tagged by @ferrocyan c:

last song: scentless core (fading) by wilderun :)

favorite color: gray blue! or blue gray! whatever you call the inbetween of those!

last movie: uhhh. i forgot. i think it was furiosa which i liked

sweet/spicy/savory: savory... i like sweet also but not too much. im a baby about spice u_u

currently watching: leverage... those rascals get up to some funny little heists

relationship status: long term partner but not getting married til its legally expedient cause i dont like the idea of being married and we dont wanna do all that tbh

current obsession: hollow knight!! i lost my switch version somehow so got it on steam and am playing through again. nail go whack whack whack whack

last thing i googled: the definition of welter. gotta look up every word i don't know so a lot of my phone tabs are words that i skim through now and then to refresh on the new ones :V

[leighways]

Whatcha listening to these days Mx. Leighways!

ANON ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD. 12 DEAD AND 47 INJURED

RUBS MY EVIL LITTLE HANDS TOGETHER

UNFORTUNATELY I WILL ALWAYS BE A METALHEAD AT HEART. I SUBSIST ON A DIET OF MELODEATH WITH A GENEROUS HELPING OF EXPERIMENTAL PROG ON THE SIDE. LOVE ME SOME 7+ MINUTE BANGERS WITH FULL ORCHESTRAL BACKING, MULTIPLE SOLO FEATURES, AND A NICE DUSTING OF BLOODY MURDER SCREECHING ON TOP

WHAT'S THAT? YOU'D LIKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS? YOU WEREN'T JUST MAKING POLITE CONVERSATION AND THIS IS DEFINITELY WHAT YOU CAME HERE FOR?

GOOD!

ALLOW ME TO PULL FROM MY TOP-SHELF COLLECTION:

AETHER REALM (REDNECK MELOPROG) ALCEST (BLACKGAZE) AVATAR (MELODEATH) CARACH ANGREN (SYMPHONIC HORROR) INFERI (TECH DEATH) NEKROGOBLIKON (PENIS MUSIC GOBLIN METAL) NE OBLIVISCARIS (SYMPHONIC PROG) WILDERUN (SYMPHONIC FOLK)

ALSO THE NEW A7X ALBUM SLAYS ABSOLUTE PENIS AND YOU SHOULD LISTEN THAT AS WELL

[austinswhitewolf]

One of the Last Morrigan Pt. 7

Every time I watch them arrive at Pykon, I laugh when Wil talks about following a creepy little kid. XD

When mountains came into view, you all stopped for a short rest. Crispin was looking through his telescope towards the mountains, talking about Safehold. Wil and you were standing next to each other against a tree. “Am I the only one who thinks staying the course is a bad idea?” “I think it is also. We need to figure something else out.” You speak softly, eyes glancing between Amberle and Crispin as they looked over at the two of you. 

“What do you mean?” Amberle asked with genuine confusion. “That Demon at the fort? It knew we were coming.” Wil stood taller as he spoke. “That’s impossible, ” Crispin responded in disbelief. 

“Allanon said the Dagda Mor had a spy at Arborlon.” When Wil spoke those words, your eyes shot to him.

“A changeling.” “We saw it die.” The two other women spoke, glancing at each other. You were glad you had missed that, you never wanted to come upon one ever. They were nasty Demons. “There could be another.” Wil stated softly. 

“He’s right. We need to find another way to the Wilderun.” Amberle stated with a nod. 

Crispin said there was no other way. That the mountains were impassable. At the next set of words your blood turned to ice. “There’s always Pykon.” Cephelo said, glancing at everyone. “It offers passage through the Rock Spur and into the Wilderun beyond.” Amberle asked about it, confused. “A fairy tale, Princess.” Crispin stated. 

“Pykon’s no fairy tale. My parents died in the dungeons of that stinking Elvin fortress.” Cephelo revealed. Crispin brought up the storm that was growing ever closer to you all. Cephelo responded about how you wanted to spend days walking around the mountain, but he wouldn’t. When he started to walk off, Amberle stopped him, telling him to take everyone there. And that if he tried anything Crispin would finish what he had started. 

When everyone moved to follow the rover, you slowly pushed off the tree. When Wil pushed off the tree, you smelled a coppery scent and your eyes saw the red mark he had left. “Wil, you’re bleeding.” You spoke up, grabbing his wrist gently, turning his hand over, seeing the cut on his palm was bleeding again. You tore off a piece of the cloak and wrapped it around his hand a bit tightly. He thanked you and slid his arm around the small of your back while guiding you forwards after the others. 

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The wind and snow had picked up as you all moved up the mountain. The path got thinner and thinner until it was just a small ledge against a sheer cliff face. Cephelo was leading the way. Wil was second while he helped you along right behind him. Crispin was behind you, ready to help if needed to you or Amberle who was right behind him. Eretria was following them with the scout taking up the rear. 

When Wil’s foot slipped for a moment, your heart dropped. He caught his footing and began to move forwards over the icy spot. Once over it, he reached back to help you over. When Cephelo stops and starts to argue with Crispin, you and Wil continue past him a few steps. He pulled the dagger from his boot and brought it up to a thickly snow covered part of the rock. Scraping the snow away, he sees some ruins carved into the rock. You both look up and see a huge statue. “Guys.” Wil calls out, they all look over and then up. Everyone started forwards again, coming around a corner and a large frozen stone fortress emerged through the blowing snow in the distance. 

“Nice-looking fairy tail, isn’t it?” Cephelo calls out to Crispin with a grin on his face then laughs shortly. 

Wil helps you along as everyone hurries to get to the fortress, wanting out of the cold blowing wind. The large doors open and once everyone is inside, they are pushed back closed.

Crispin lights two torches, handing one to Wil and keeping the other as they start to look around the entryway. 

“Looks abandoned.” Wil’s voice bounced off the walls. “Looks can be deceiving.” Crispin says as you all continue to turn and look around. 

Wil’s body stops moving and tenses up for a moment, your eyes moving to where he is looking and you see a little girl with blonde hair standing in a hallway. 

Once she starts to turn, you notice her ears are pointed. She then starts down the hallway away from you all without saying anything. You are one of the last to move after her. Wil glanced back, seeing you not moving so he stepped back to your side. “You okay?” “Yeah, let’s follow the creepy little girl who showed up silently. Nothing bad will happen to us.” You murmur quietly so only he can hear. “Anyone else have a problem with this plan?” Eretria spoke up, she was between you and the others in the group. Wil used your words as he responded for the both of you, and you nodded your head agreeing with him. “Following a creepy kid through an abandoned fortress? Not at all.” 

When you all round a corner into a slightly larger room, an elf was starting a fire. Once it flared to life, he turned around to face you, the little girl next to him. 

He welcomed you all, glad to have company after a long while of none. Apparently the little girl, ‘Mag’ had seen you coming up the mountain. Well that made it even more creepy. You backed up a step, this man just looked evil to you. His grin was making you uneasy. 

“Oh god.” You whispered when Crispin introduced himself with his title. “Not good.” “We heard this place might offer passage beyond the mountains.” Wil spoke up. You reached out, grasping the back of his jacket lightly in unease. You would not speak a word, to have this man’s attention on you, the thought made you sick. He could not know what you were. “Shit.” You once again hissed when Amberle spoke up about their mission. 

Hearing how the passage had collapsed in an avalanche two winters ago made your heart sink and clench at the same time. The thought of spending any more time here was making you nauseous. 

When she accepted his offer of staying until the storm passed, you moved closer against Wil’s back and closed your eyes. When the man showed you and the other two women to a room that had bathing pools in, Amberle offered to help you clean up if you wanted. With a nod, you both stepped into the room. 

She helped you undress and down into the water. It was only moments before she was in the water with you, neither minding the other’s nakedness. Amberle helped wash out your hair, the tangles sliding away and the shine coming back to it. You could feel the dirt and knots in your muscles soak away. Once you were cleaned up, she helped you back out of the water. After drying off and helping you dress again, she put a few small braids in your hair. “Thank you.” You said, giving her a small hug. She smiled happily and nodded. “Anything you need, if I can help, let me know.” When you turned to leave, you heard her step back into the water. Once you stepped outside, you saw Eretria walking towards you. “They are out in the entrance hall.” She spoke before stepping into the bathing room. As you got closer you could see the flickering of the torches they still had. 

Wil was up at the doors while Cephelo and Crispin were whispering to each other. He turned and moved down to the two men. “You know, if we found this place, so can the Demons. Maybe we should worry about that and not some Elvin janitor.” 

“This fortress is impenetrable.”

“Is it? We walked right in the front door. I’d feel better if one of us kept watch.” You moved over to Wil as the man came to announce dinner. Cephelo and Crispin followed after the man while you stood next to Wil. “Sure, I’ll take first watch. I don’t need dinner or anything.” 

“I’m staying here with you. I don’t like this place at all. I don’t feel safe here. Something feels really off.” When Wil sits down, you slowly sit down next to him. The two of you sit there in silence for a while before he pulled a shell out of his pocket. Leaning your head on his shoulder you ask him about it. When you learned that it was his moms, you wrapped your arm around his shoulder and gave him a hug. You pull back when you hear steps approaching. Mag has two plates, handing one to each of you before sitting down on the stairs with the two of you. Wil thanked her, setting the shell down on the step. You keep quiet and smell the food, not sure what it was. Wil, being the sweet being he was, started to talk to the girl. While they talked, you took a tiny bite to taste it. When it didn’t taste bad, you took a few slow bites. You set your plate down when Wil does and then listens to him tell the little girl about the ocean. 

Around the time she asks ‘for keeps’ you are starting to feel tired. Your energy was draining at an alarming rate. Your hand shot out to Wil’s knee as you turned your head to look over at him. Before you could even open your mouth to say anything you felt the world tilt and the cold stone of the steps against your back. Wil passed out moments after you. 

[starkatstories]

peak was born today. reminder to listen to one of the best albums recorded of all time

why isnt this awarded best album ever. what the fuck