Good evening,

I am currently sitting in a small apartment, dusting off my Microkorg synthesizer amidst many memories. Much has brought me to this insignificant moment, as I recollect the many elements of the years which have driven me exactly to where I am sitting right now.

I have spent a good portion of time this evening thinking of what has influenced and driven the music of Old Forgotten Lands to where it is today. Being that I have long abandoned using a sole MIDI-based system for composit...

Élan O'Neal, the musician behind the one man ambient project, Old Forgotten Lands has recorded and released a full-length concept album entitled "Subterranean Cartography" under a different project name. The album has been made available for free streaming and download on Hypnotic Dirge Records, as well as released as a limited edition physical edition through Swaptkult Productions.

Regarding the motivation and inspirati...

An eagle calls, and I awaken to a chill. 

The winter nears, it seems, as the coarse, unwashed hairs on my arms indicate by their standing on end.

My vision has become clear as my senses have declared my domestication senseless.

I arise from my bed upon the threshing floo...

 "Thousands of years after the creation of the earth, humanity is hopelessly lost. In a sea of synthetic fabrications and ways of life that are impenetrable, one cannot even hope to find fulfillment without stressors to hinder it.

However, the earth still cycles as it always has, and the rains and snow have destroyed as much as it has created. In true chaos, nature has an order. In this order, one can come to a haunting conc...

I have uploaded a new Old Forgotten Lands song onto the myspace player:

Old Forgotten Land - Hour of the Wolf

Please have a listen to this new track from Old Forgotten Lands, as it shows the new direction of the project, from synth-based ambient music, to a more organic sound using a variety of different ethnic instruments, vocals and acoutic guitars.

Feat. Special Guest - Bjorn Tunsberg

Elan O'Neal - (of OFL) is working on a new full-length album with the working title 'Primal' which will be rel...

One of them being mister 'forwardslash' from Njiqahhda, one being Ascaris of NTRLWRM/Nagasaki Grotesque/Suncarcass, and one being Jon from Footpaths/Bergtagen. My wife even got in on it.

I must say, friends, that this, along with my collaborations with Bjørn of Requiem Nocturne, is shaping up to be one extremely exciting co...