Track By Tracks: Merfolk - Sundaland (2025)

Sundaland is eclectic, and goes between Therion and Cryptopsy-like ambiance.

 

The concept is about an Atlantis-like cataclysm that sinks the land, but the people then mistook it for a sea monster, whom they try to appease with offerings (The Plowing Sea), which was a bit late since they were notified in advance by witches (Krasue came warning)

 

Krasues are ghosts that are basically a hovering head with entrails dangling underneath, and that’s METAL !!!

 

Parts of the population move to mainland Asia, the Americas (The Ghost Fleet), and some stay and try to retrieve artifacts from their sunken homes (Castaways).

 

While doing so, they encounter another civilization that the cataclysm had revealed (most of the clip).

The title track is a short instrumental, and the last two are bonus tracks. Time Warp is about the Alt-Right moral panics (that mimic similar 40 years ago) while MOUSEHUNT !!! It is total cartoonish delirium.