The cold of the north and snow landscapes have always fascinated me. They are one of the places where beauty, peace and death lie incredibly close together. That combined with mountains and glaciers provide a whole world full of stories to tell. The release announcement of “Icewind Dale and the Rime of the Frost Maiden” was the spark that brought Isverden to life. Translated into “Ice World” from Norwegian, the initial idea was to create a winter world that shows the darker, more relentless side of it. Creating Isverden took a full year of work. The first concept plan was to have a mountain valley with a forest as the main feature and a glacier at the end as the finale. While getting inspired on Artstation I stumbled over many great images that inspired me to include more features like glacier crevasses, snow caves and a buried dungeon, going darker with the music style than initially anticipated. That’s why it starts with peaceful and calm music and ends with dark ambient. I am concerned that it’s too inconsistent with the mood altering over time, but it was a conscious creative decision in order to have the story told. I will see if I optimize future concepts to be more consistent again. Creating the world with Unreal Engine 4 was really fun this time. I dug a bit deeper with material shaders to make what I was looking for and I’m glad I managed to succeed with the snow shader. Overall I’m happy with how it turned out visually. So, get a cup of tea (...and warm clothes), lean back and enjoy the journey of Isverden. I hope you like it! Thanks for passing by 😃 Cheers Erik (ASKII)
Any chances for the ambience version to be included on Bandcamp, like with the Hegelburg albums? On that note, thank you for your creations - Tamriel Rebuilt, the Hegelburg series and Isverden are great albums.
UGH! I LOVE the alpine... I wish I can live out there. A nice cottage or cabin. But sadly I'm a city boy. Stuck here in the suburbs. But I digress... Have a good night, and may Odin give you strength and protection.
Thank you! :) While living in a remote cabin may not be so easy to achieve, nature still offers places of solitude and peace away from the noise of civilization if you look at the right places at the right time. I hope you'll be able to find them! :)
Has to be one of the most gorgeous things on youtube... I'm writing a fantasy novel that mostly takes place in a wintery kingdom, this helps so much with writing it! Even the visuals!
me halfway through the video: this has been really pleasant, i feel very calm vibes me when we encounter a bunch of frozen people impaled on ice stakes: ok that's concerning
Extremely well made, the visuals and music just blend perfectly together. I don't know if you ever played Skyrim, ASKII, but a quest from the Dawnguard DLC ''Forgotten Vale'' instantly comes to mind here, with the intermittent ice caves and open mountain areas. Very transportative, immersive and beautiful. Congratulations!
So beautiful, you have such a wonderful way of composing music, always calms me down and takes me to a better place, thank you once again for another masterpiece
I live in Juneau, Alaska, and visited an ice cave of our Mendenhall Glacier in 2017. This animation is very realistic inside the ice cave with its brilliant blue ice. Well done. I've subscribed.
I have been waiting for this since a long time: a new immersive music video of ASKII. Thank you so much my friend for producing these masterpieces. I bought the album on Bandcamp without any hesitation because you deserve it so much! Now let me grab a book and enjoy the athmosphere you created.
Man I really love these kinda vids. They remind me of the Elder Scrols music & ambience vids, but with original content. I'd love to hire someone to create a video background like this or Hegelbug for me & sync it up to a compilation.
@@askiimusic If I had to pick just 1 thing I'd say blonde elf girls in shiny purple armor. They make up a special kind of paladins in my world, and they'd probably fit better than kitsune, tengu, etc.
Got to listen in full on Spotify while at work finally. This was amazingly well done! Also really likes how it transitions into darker ambient songs later on, really helps tell the story behind it. Very nicely done!
Mich haben schon die ersten paar Sekunden gefesselt 🖤 Und Deine Arbeit ist eine absolut großartige Inspiration! Wahnsinns Auswahl an Atmosphären und organischen Instrumenten... Fein abgestimmt alles und absolut zum träumen, dahinschweben und versinken. Ich liebe Deine neue Musik 🖤
Vielen Dank, Sandro! Bedeutet mir sehr viel! Dieses Album wurde zum Teil übrigens auch durch deine Musik inspiriert, das Thema Schnee und Berge findet sich ja in einigen deiner Titel wieder. Ich habe versucht, die Bilder und die Atmosphäre, die sie erzeugt haben, wiederzugeben. Freut mich, dass es mir scheinbar gelungen ist.
@@askiimusic Das hört man doch gern 😊 Ja...Schnee, Eis und Berge sind ein tolles musikalisches Thema 🖤 Mag das auch sehr! Die Atmosphäre ist Dir definitiv mehr als gelungen 👌
Bro, how good does this mix look. I can't wait to get to work on my next piece and listen to this mix in the background to see what it transmits to me, so far from what little I've been able to listen to, it seems to be beautiful. Thank you very much Erik.
I'm subscribe in your channel, I love your music, masterpiece, espiritual,genius..... And its beautiful to look at it.... Thank you for this beauty!!!!
This is magnificent!! So very beautiful, thank you for your tireless work and effort in creating this :) It is a joy to listen to such creative musical wonder, and the landscape matched the music perfectly.
I've subscribed to you. I'd listen to this kind of music all day, and I am looking forward to your future works. - This one reminded me of Skyrim, especially the Eternal Ice, reminded me of the Falmer and Dwemer ruins, Winterhold and those kind of places.
This is beautiful! It looks just like Rexharia, which is a Nordic country I created. It was named after singer Bebe Rexha, if you have heard of her. ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!
Genial, después de oscura creo que es la segunda obra maestra de vosotros, eso sí: verlo en un televisor o transformar el video en vr resulta más conveniente, se aprecia mejor, así fue como vi oscura, la luz apagada vajo el silencio de la noche, recomendable al 100.
Am I wrong or there is a strong influence from Skyrim in your work ? Jeremy Soule's music and Skyrim's scenarios If not, well, I can say you are reaching there, which for me is amazing, because since Jeremy left the franchise I was kind of sad I wouldn't listen to his work anymore, but yours sounds alike from time to time and I love it 🙂 💖💖
You are correct! I’ve played The Elder Scrolls games for hundreds of hours, that certainly left a mark. I also love the music of the franchise and found that there isn’t too much else going into that direction. Thank you for your comment! :)
@@askiimusic Sadly since that mean and dirty betrayal to Jeremy, Bethesda (which now is under Microsoft) decided to "let him go" so we won't enjoy his music anymore 😞 I don't know how will be ESOS6 but...well....music won't be the same Thanks for answering
Thank you! :) There will be one or two addon videos to Isverden. Next is probably something into the direction of meadows, woodlands and mountains. Still trying to figure out the right concept.
The whole picture as a whole resembles the journey of an obsessed Seeker, who unraveled in ancient myths and legends the location of a paradise country where mythical demigods lived, and perhaps the ancestors of mankind. And the journey, which promised to bring glory and honor to its discoverer, suddenly turns out to be not at all what he expected to see... Perhaps the author of this masterpiece read the ancient Greek legend about the Riphean mountains, beyond which the Hyperboreans lived, and the entrance to their country was protected by griffins...
ISVERDEN → IŚIVERDEN → IŚIVERODŹEŃ → IŚIVERODŹ(IV)EŃ → ŚIVAYATR•OŚIVEROŚ(IV)EŃ - Born from Light of ŚIVA in ŚIVA. Millions of years ago on Earth there was a Civilization (ŚIVIRODŹATIOŃ) of ŚIVA...!
i love the feeling of winter and snow. vast and endless looking fields of snow with barren trees scattered across the land, the ethereal beauty of a pure-white blanket thrown other the earth trudging through the snow in thick and heavy boots, with your legs aching more and more with each step, rasped breathing with a cold and dry throat you can feel cracking as cold air fills your lungs everything about winter is so beautiful, majestic, ethereal. even the animals are majestic. you could be dying in the snow, but the frosty ambience would relax you as it soaks up your blood, the infinitely-falling snowflakes giving you a chilly burial. i would want nothing more but to spend my last moments dying on a bed of snow. truly a winter expanse this playlist just makes it better, the high-pitched and clean tones of each song, even in some the dark and low aspects that make you feel the underbelly and dark aspects of "winter." i love it so much
The cold of the north and snow landscapes have always fascinated me. They are one of the places where beauty, peace and death lie incredibly close together. That combined with mountains and glaciers provide a whole world full of stories to tell.
The release announcement of “Icewind Dale and the Rime of the Frost Maiden” was the spark that brought Isverden to life. Translated into “Ice World” from Norwegian, the initial idea was to create a winter world that shows the darker, more relentless side of it.
Creating Isverden took a full year of work. The first concept plan was to have a mountain valley with a forest as the main feature and a glacier at the end as the finale. While getting inspired on Artstation I stumbled over many great images that inspired me to include more features like glacier crevasses, snow caves and a buried dungeon, going darker with the music style than initially anticipated.
That’s why it starts with peaceful and calm music and ends with dark ambient. I am concerned that it’s too inconsistent with the mood altering over time, but it was a conscious creative decision in order to have the story told. I will see if I optimize future concepts to be more consistent again.
Creating the world with Unreal Engine 4 was really fun this time. I dug a bit deeper with material shaders to make what I was looking for and I’m glad I managed to succeed with the snow shader. Overall I’m happy with how it turned out visually.
So, get a cup of tea (...and warm clothes), lean back and enjoy the journey of Isverden. I hope you like it! Thanks for passing by 😃
Cheers
Erik (ASKII)
thank YOU sir
Any chances for the ambience version to be included on Bandcamp, like with the Hegelburg albums? On that note, thank you for your creations - Tamriel Rebuilt, the Hegelburg series and Isverden are great albums.
Only 18.845 views so far? This videos need more exposure.
Godlike content! 💪👑
I may sound stupid but is this CGI or a real video? I am leaning towards CGI but it looks extremely realistic
@@malwiniuscyranoolframfromy4820 I can't, the license agreement of some of the samples I used doesn't allow it. Sorry! Glad you like the music :)
I love how each track matches its title. This album is a masterpiece!
Thanks a lot, Michael! Always glad to get positive feedback from fellow composers :)
UGH! I LOVE the alpine... I wish I can live out there. A nice cottage or cabin. But sadly I'm a city boy. Stuck here in the suburbs. But I digress... Have a good night, and may Odin give you strength and protection.
Thank you! :) While living in a remote cabin may not be so easy to achieve, nature still offers places of solitude and peace away from the noise of civilization if you look at the right places at the right time. I hope you'll be able to find them! :)
It's beyond amazing! Congratulations for this masterpiece!
Thank you very much, Michael! So glad to read that from you!
Has to be one of the most gorgeous things on youtube... I'm writing a fantasy novel that mostly takes place in a wintery kingdom, this helps so much with writing it! Even the visuals!
Glad to read it inspires you! Good luck with your novel 🙂
This reminds me of Skyrim so much. I keep expecting a frost troll to jump out from behind a rock haha. Great job!
Thank you very much! :) Skyrim was an inspiration for sure!
me halfway through the video: this has been really pleasant, i feel very calm vibes
me when we encounter a bunch of frozen people impaled on ice stakes: ok that's concerning
Extremely well made, the visuals and music just blend perfectly together.
I don't know if you ever played Skyrim, ASKII, but a quest from the Dawnguard DLC ''Forgotten Vale'' instantly comes to mind here, with the intermittent ice caves and open mountain areas.
Very transportative, immersive and beautiful. Congratulations!
Thank you so much! Ohh, I remember this quest, I think it was among my favourites in Skyrim. I think it subconciously inspired parts of this video.
the music is incredible but so is the visual aspect as well. this is all so well done!
Thank you very much!
*Squeaks in happy Swede*
the voice coming in when we first see the ruins! perfect. perfect!
Thank you very much!
So beautiful, you have such a wonderful way of composing music, always calms me down and takes me to a better place, thank you once again for another masterpiece
Thank you!! :)
That was certainly eerie! Beautiful job, as usual! I've been dying for more like Obscura, so I'm thrilled to get to see this.
Thank you very much! 🙂
I’ve been reading Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson while this plays in the background. Perfect ambience! ❤
That's awesome, thanks for the comment!! :)
Spellbinding.🌜🌞🌍 Dankeschund Kameraddun.
I live in Juneau, Alaska, and visited an ice cave of our Mendenhall Glacier in 2017. This animation is very realistic inside the ice cave with its brilliant blue ice. Well done. I've subscribed.
Glad to read that, thank you very much! :-)
I have been waiting for this since a long time: a new immersive music video of ASKII. Thank you so much my friend for producing these masterpieces. I bought the album on Bandcamp without any hesitation because you deserve it so much!
Now let me grab a book and enjoy the athmosphere you created.
Thank you very much for your comment and your support! :) That really means a lot.
Man I really love these kinda vids. They remind me of the Elder Scrols music & ambience vids, but with original content.
I'd love to hire someone to create a video background like this or Hegelbug for me & sync it up to a compilation.
Thank you very much! :) Is there something specific you are looking for? Maybe I can combine it with an upcoming project.
@@askiimusic If I had to pick just 1 thing I'd say blonde elf girls in shiny purple armor. They make up a special kind of paladins in my world, and they'd probably fit better than kitsune, tengu, etc.
Magnificent... To quote The Dark Crystal, "Another World... Another Time..." :D
Your works are beyond phenomenal, I'm hoping you get even greater recognition. Keep up the hard work :))
Fingers crossed :) Thank you!
Got to listen in full on Spotify while at work finally. This was amazingly well done!
Also really likes how it transitions into darker ambient songs later on, really helps tell the story behind it.
Very nicely done!
Thanks a ton! :-)
Your art is amazing
Thank you very much! :)
I love it! Perfect for writing my epic fantasy book!
Great to read it inspires you :) Cheers!
Mich haben schon die ersten paar Sekunden gefesselt 🖤 Und Deine Arbeit ist eine absolut großartige Inspiration! Wahnsinns Auswahl an Atmosphären und organischen Instrumenten... Fein abgestimmt alles und absolut zum träumen, dahinschweben und versinken.
Ich liebe Deine neue Musik 🖤
Vielen Dank, Sandro! Bedeutet mir sehr viel! Dieses Album wurde zum Teil übrigens auch durch deine Musik inspiriert, das Thema Schnee und Berge findet sich ja in einigen deiner Titel wieder. Ich habe versucht, die Bilder und die Atmosphäre, die sie erzeugt haben, wiederzugeben. Freut mich, dass es mir scheinbar gelungen ist.
@@askiimusic Das hört man doch gern 😊 Ja...Schnee, Eis und Berge sind ein tolles musikalisches Thema 🖤 Mag das auch sehr! Die Atmosphäre ist Dir definitiv mehr als gelungen 👌
wow. this is gorgeous, it inspires me to write my novel 🤍
That's awesome! :) Thank you
Thank you thank you thank youuu for creating this 🙏 not many things are able to calm my mind the way your videos/music has. It's just amazing👏
Wow, thank you! :)
Bro, how good does this mix look.
I can't wait to get to work on my next piece and listen to this mix in the background to see what it transmits to me, so far from what little I've been able to listen to, it seems to be beautiful.
Thank you very much Erik.
Thank you! :)
This is beautifully made with the soundtrack perfectly matching the visuals. Very Skyrim inspired! Very well done 👍
Thank you so much! :)
I haven't the words so I'll just say beautiful, so so beautiful. thank you :)
Glad you like it! :)
I'm subscribe in your channel, I love your music, masterpiece, espiritual,genius..... And its beautiful to look at it.... Thank you for this beauty!!!!
How come I had not subscribed yet ? God, I've listened to hours of your work. Thank you for what you bring, Askii.
Thank you for subscribing! 🙂
Awesome meditational video Great presentation. Thank you for sharing 🐱
When I watch this to me it feels like I am in chronicles of Narnia but nice relaxing background music👍
Fun fact, I was thinking of putting a Narnia lamp in the forest 😄
@ASKII that would be cool if you did
This is gorgeous
Thank you, glad you like it :)
Great for my tundra hex crawl 5E game 👍
Excellent work!
Thank you very much!
This is magnificent!! So very beautiful, thank you for your tireless work and effort in creating this :) It is a joy to listen to such creative musical wonder, and the landscape matched the music perfectly.
Thank you, Luke! :) Glad you enjoy it!
Just discovered you and just wanted to say that your work is awesome! Keep doing amazing tracks, you’re a great source of inspiration!
Thank you very much! :)
Serendipity at its finest!
Thank you!
Прекрасная музыка и отличный видеоряд! Продолжайте в том же духе! 👍
Большое спасибо!
I've subscribed to you. I'd listen to this kind of music all day, and I am looking forward to your future works. - This one reminded me of Skyrim, especially the Eternal Ice, reminded me of the Falmer and Dwemer ruins, Winterhold and those kind of places.
The many hours I spent in Skyrim have influenced me a lot, and I wanted to reflect that in this album, too. Thank you for the sub! :)
This is beautiful! It looks just like Rexharia, which is a Nordic country I created. It was named after singer Bebe Rexha, if you have heard of her. ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!
Thank you very much! :)
@@askiimusic you’re more than welcome :)
What a nice sensation. Thanks my friend, I like it i love it.
Thanks for listening!
Great job!
Thanks!
You make great ambience and music! Please keep up what you doing.
Thank you! I will make more :)
Perfect.
Thanks! :)
Omg i Love your Videos
Thank you! :)
Wunderschön, toll das Video. Danke
I love your work, thank you so much !
Thanks for passing by! :)
This is perfect
Thank you! :)
Genial, después de oscura creo que es la segunda obra maestra de vosotros, eso sí: verlo en un televisor o transformar el video en vr resulta más conveniente, se aprecia mejor, así fue como vi oscura, la luz apagada vajo el silencio de la noche, recomendable al 100.
¡Me alegra leer que te gusta! La trilogía de Isverden tiene mucho significado, también para mí personalmente. Es genial verlo apreciado así. ¡Gracias!
Am I wrong or there is a strong influence from Skyrim in your work ?
Jeremy Soule's music and Skyrim's scenarios
If not, well, I can say you are reaching there, which for me is amazing, because since Jeremy left the franchise I was kind of sad I wouldn't listen to his work anymore, but yours sounds alike from time to time and I love it 🙂 💖💖
You are correct! I’ve played The Elder Scrolls games for hundreds of hours, that certainly left a mark. I also love the music of the franchise and found that there isn’t too much else going into that direction. Thank you for your comment! :)
@@askiimusic Sadly since that mean and dirty betrayal to Jeremy, Bethesda (which now is under Microsoft) decided to "let him go" so we won't enjoy his music anymore 😞
I don't know how will be ESOS6 but...well....music won't be the same
Thanks for answering
very impressive and what is your next 1 HOUR OF AMBIENCE fantasy music ? :3
Thank you! :) There will be one or two addon videos to Isverden. Next is probably something into the direction of meadows, woodlands and mountains. Still trying to figure out the right concept.
It reminds me of skyrim. Ah...those were beautiful days
Indeed. I often think about all those great experiences in the game when composing.
The whole picture as a whole resembles the journey of an obsessed Seeker, who unraveled in ancient myths and legends the location of a paradise country where mythical demigods lived, and perhaps the ancestors of mankind. And the journey, which promised to bring glory and honor to its discoverer, suddenly turns out to be not at all what he expected to see...
Perhaps the author of this masterpiece read the ancient Greek legend about the Riphean mountains, beyond which the Hyperboreans lived, and the entrance to their country was protected by griffins...
Thank you for that story! :-)
😌
Can you please be part of the music creating process for TES:VI ?
That would be awesome! I mean, who knows what will happen one day? :D
🥳🥳🥳🥳💙💙💙
ISVERDEN → IŚIVERDEN → IŚIVERODŹEŃ → IŚIVERODŹ(IV)EŃ → ŚIVAYATR•OŚIVEROŚ(IV)EŃ - Born from Light of ŚIVA in ŚIVA. Millions of years ago on Earth there was a Civilization (ŚIVIRODŹATIOŃ) of ŚIVA...!
You don't have nearly enough followers.
It takes time I guess :-)
Exactly... I don't get it... It's just so good!
i love the feeling of winter and snow.
vast and endless looking fields of snow with barren trees scattered across the land, the ethereal beauty of a pure-white blanket thrown other the earth
trudging through the snow in thick and heavy boots, with your legs aching more and more with each step, rasped breathing with a cold and dry throat you can feel cracking as cold air fills your lungs
everything about winter is so beautiful, majestic, ethereal. even the animals are majestic. you could be dying in the snow, but the frosty ambience would relax you as it soaks up your blood, the infinitely-falling snowflakes giving you a chilly burial. i would want nothing more but to spend my last moments dying on a bed of snow.
truly a winter expanse
this playlist just makes it better, the high-pitched and clean tones of each song, even in some the dark and low aspects that make you feel the underbelly and dark aspects of "winter." i love it so much
I'm glad I could take you along the journey like this :) Thank you very much!