As said no election of the best Debut Album this year, but the albums deserve a little extra attention for sturen. Here’s the first one by Mythbegotten.

Hailing from the hills and woodlands of Central New York and New England, Mythbegotten combines a love of legends old and new with a folk-inflected fusion of metal genres to arrive at a uniquely epic and melancholic melodic concoction.

The result is an eight-track journey that reaches Tolkien-esque levels of grandeur. The band offers an in-depth look at the inspiration behind Tales from the Unseelie Court.

“The key inspiration for the individual songs includes the Dullahan (an evil fey from Irish Mythology) which inspired the song “The Heedless Horseman”, Sawney Bean (a legendary Scottish Cannibal and inspiration for “The Hills Have Eyes”) which inspired the song “The Terror of Lothian”, H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Rats in The Walls” which inspired the song “Beneath Exham Priory”, The Welsh Legend of the Wild Hunt which inspired the song “Mallt-y-Nos”, the Arthurian legend of Merlin and the Dragons which inspired the song “Omen of Embers”, The melancholy book 4 of Milton’s “Paradise Lost” which inspired the song “The Fall”, and the climactic Battle of the Pelennor Fields from Tolkien’s “The Return of The King” which inspired the song “Of Wrath and Ruin”. This is all rounded out by an arrangement of the classic Scots ballad “Twa Corbies” which brings together the old traditions of British Isles balladry with this modern sonic storytelling which MYTHBEGOTTEN bases its songwriting upon.”

Over the last several months, MYTHBEGOTTEN has released a series of two-song “chapters” from Tales from the Unseelie Court. Stream “The Road to Unseelie Court” series at  mythbegotten.bandcamp.com.

Tracklist

1. The Heedless Horseman
2. Omen of Embers
3. Mallt-y-Nos
4. Beneath Exham Priory
5. The Fall
6. The Terror of Lothian
7. Twa Corbies
8. Of Wrath and Ruin