AMPWALL
Winter Wanderland
Artwork image

A Mug of Spruce Ale Wouldn't Go Amiss Right Now...

from Winter Wanderland

December 19th, 2025
7 tracks
28:29
Winter Wanderland
Winter Wanderland
A Mug of Spruce Ale Wouldn't Go Amiss Right Now...
0:00
5:25
5
A Mug of Spruce Ale Wouldn't Go Amiss Right Now...
Wanderhall
“Oh to be sure the Thrivinwood’s dark and the Valewall mountains are cold, but I’d not give up my home near The Spear for a cartload of bribery gold. For ‘tis here that you see, grows that auld magic tree, the Northern Westmeri Spruce. Tips of the needles for teas, tonics and ales, other spices all pale, when compared to thee. Collect in summer’s light and brew warm and bright, and all winter you’ll drink the nectar of life.” -Erbsto Bedherwyc, spontaneously composing poetry aloud over one ale-pot too many
4:55

When a gnome goes for a walk in the snow...

Old Erbsto Bedherwyc returns, like that one sweater in the back of your closet, with a septet of snowy stories concerning what happens when you sit in the snow for too long and end up with "rosey cheeks." (his words, not mine) Find yourself a mug of spruce ale or your favorite tea and sit by the fire a while if you will. Erbsto likes telling a good story and isn't known to embellish (much).

Album story in the "lyrics"

Credits

All tracks written and recorded in the Thrivinwood by Thee Wandering Gnome on a Korg MiniLogue, Fender Stratocaster, and some dusty old VSTs.
Art and logo by Thee Scrivener of Fenmoss
Art assets from Pixabay
Public domain painting "Glædelig Jul," Artist Unknown, 1885
Many thanks to Hjartans, Hypgnomsis, and Wooden Vessels for sage art advice and putting up with my demos and shenanigans.


Dedicated to the memory of Warren B. (DOTS).
Underground Metal Forever

DocsMissionContent policyPrivacy policyTerms of useContact