The Elder Ballads
A book of old ballads opened after midnight—17th-century folklore, velvet bard vocals, haunted strings, house pulse, and dubstep drops made ancient, sensual, and dangerous.
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5 songs
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5:08
6:55
Dark southern Italian folk ballad fused with chamber dubstep at 78 BPM / 156 halftime, minor key, ancient and intimate, Close breathy female vocal with mournful folk phrasing, stacked chorus harmonies, nylon guitar, mandolin, bowed strings, viola da gamba, low frame drum, distant church bell, soft hand percussion, eerie lullaby motifs, deep sub, slow wub bass, reversed strings, chopped vocal fragments, sparse impacts
5:51
Ancient Russian folk lament fused with dark ritual dubstep at 72 bpm, in a minor key, Low female Slavic lead with mournful ornamentation, layered women’s choir, gusli and balalaika over bowed strings, cello drone, frame drum, war drum, church bells, icy forest ambience, and massive ceremonial drops with deep sub, restrained wub bass, chopped choir, reversed strings, and iron percussion
6:09
154 BPM goth heavy metal in a dark minor key with downtuned, growling guitars, reese bass plus gritty growly bass, and abyssal tom toms under huge room reverb, Haunting bell motif, wailing feedback, viola motif, sparse suspended arrangement, ghostly ethereal female lead vocals with strong power vocals and a raspy edge, tense frozen pauses