Mountain Caller Release Third Single From Upcoming Album

The music illustrates The Protagonist’s encounter with a being known as a Göll - a mysterious failsafe guarding the power she seeks following her studies in Dead Language. This darker, heavier track sees them engage in battle.

She hears it before she sees it: a slow, unrelenting lumbering through the trees around her, represented through the opening riff. The changes in dynamics and timbre, clean melodies between the main riff, see them circling each other and battle - time seeming to shift, halt and rush around them. The Göll is made of black, swirling smoke, and human faces contorted in agony form and dissipate across its surface.

The Protagonist reaches out into its mind as the more angular riff comes in, hoping to gain the advantage, but her own mind is flooded with the Göll’s feelings - fear, guilt, loneliness, a heavy and suffocating sadness. They both stop dead, staring at each other through their new understanding. The Göll is all of her dark burdens made manifest. She reaches out to touch it in comfort and its black smoke form unravels into wisps on the wind until it’s gone.

We wanted to create a new enemy for The Protagonist, but we’re determined to ensure it was an enemy that wasn’t simply “evil”. We were also interested in the idea of emotions manifesting as a creature, and in the idea of being able to physically do battle with them. Once we realised the concept of the Göll, we knew we wanted The Protagonist to be kind to it and to herself - the result needed to be dialogue and empathy.