Immortal, from Bergen, built an entire imagined realm, the frostbitten kingdom of Blashyrkh, rather than any political program. The work is winter, cold, and fantasy taken to operatic extremes, one of the genre's most self-contained mythologies.

Catalogued across Music and the romantic-sublime lineage of frozen landscape. The image is Caspar David Friedrich's The Sea of Ice (1824), the same northern sublime the music renders in sound. Reference entry, not a release. Reference.