The title track imagines a figure, likely Sheogorath, who surrenders to the imaginary voices and cryptic visions that plague him. Sheogorath's 2021 release, Lunacy Gone Astray, contains a few Oblivion-inspired songs. While the bucolic splendor of rural Cyrodiil doesn’t exactly conjure the imagery of war, death, and decay so prevalent in the genre, the fiery hellscapes that are the Planes of Oblivion sure do. Sheogorath (opens in new tab), a “video games metal band” from Vienna, Austria makes this list for being one of the few Elder Scrolls-inspired bands that focuses more on Oblivion than it does Skyrim, right down to being named after the Daedric Prince of Madness himself. Complaints aside, I could imagine myself getting eviscerated by an unrelenting swarm of dwarven spiders to the tune of “ Built by Dwemer (opens in new tab).” It’s also worth mentioning that this 2012 release is the earliest piece of Elder-Scrolls-inspired metal I could find, so it deserves props for anticipating a minor movement. “ Skewered by Arrows, Pinned by Oak (opens in new tab)” imagines a Dark Brotherhood assassin’s thwarted assassination attempt in Solitude, while “ The Eyes of the Falmer (opens in new tab)” revels in the grisly details of the Falmer’s enslavement at the hands of the Dwemer.Īs for the instrumentals, Tamriel’s deathcore-influenced brand of death metal certainly feels inspired, but the overly mechanical chug of the rhythm section and the digitally compressed guitar leads lend themselves more to dystopian science fiction than high fantasy. Lyrically, Tamriel’s (opens in new tab) Blood and Ebony EP does an exceptional job of placing the listener within, well… Tamriel. Subgenre: Deathcore, technical death metal
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