A curious question.
Are you a practicing asatruers/norse heathen/Norse pagan?

I need your opinion! Drop me them in the comments!! ❤

5 months ago I discovered an exciting path and new 'technique' to writing music. I have been sitting on 5 extremely experimental songs. The goal with these were to take a deep dive into retelling Old Norse stories, but through all kinds of modern styles of music. These will never be released under the name 'Aethyrien', but I am really leaning on calling this unique journey Aethyrien X, as the X in the name stands for 'Experimental'. I'd rather not screw up any sort of algorithms concerning the original Aethyrien name and sound, but this music is still Aethyrien to its core.

TECHNIQUE: A major part of what makes these tracks possible is the use of AI. I have developed a new technique where I write lyrics and generate an insane amount of tracks in the style I hear in my head. I then split the tracks into individual STEMS (also using AI) and rebuild the song the way I want it in Reaper while recording my own music and weave it into this extremely unique style. None of these tracks were completely produced by AI and each track has taken weeks to actually pull off. In fact, these tracks typically take 3x as much time producing compared to writing music without AI like I do with Aethyrien, especially due to the heavy storytelling aspect.

SIDE NOTE: A lot of the tracks will also have old norse lyrics, something I have not been able to do myself until now.
What are your thoughts?

Aethyrien X or something entirely different? Additionally, what are your thoughts on AI in music these days? I don't see it ever going anywhere at this point.

Heilung Red Rocks 2024.

Playing with fire, Beltane 2023.