Dungeon Synth Thread - It's like folk metal, but not.

I like it as interludes/intro/outro stuff, like what Varg was (mostly) doing pre-prison. As a full blown genre I can't sit through an album of it, especially with the nowadays stuff. Most of it is Bandcamp/Instagram tier stuff that's as shallow as the attempts to pass by the trannies that flood the genre.
 
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Nice, I love this obscure little genre, it's one of the few good things to happen to music in the past two decades.

Interestingly, I found this video on the history of the genre a couple of weeks ago:

Also, I appreciate the inclusion of DinoSynth in the OP, it's the kind on niche within a niche that I love. Here is some Neanderthal Synth for those who want to go even further into subgenre ridiculousness:
 
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Just got into the genre. Good fucking stuff. Let's get some more suggestions going boys...
 
Well I'm glad I checked if there was a Dungeon Synth thread here before posting one. Don't mind me, just going to revive the thread.
ChilChakSack said:
Nice, I love this obscure little genre, it's one of the few good things to happen to music in the past two decades.

Interestingly, I found this video on the history of the genre a couple of weeks ago:

Also, I appreciate the inclusion of DinoSynth in the OP, it's the kind on niche within a niche that I love. Here is some Neanderthal Synth for those who want to go even further into subgenre ridiculousness:
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I was going to add the "Introduction to Dungeon Synth" video myself, I see that's already been done. However it would be utterly sinful of me if I did not include the work of the one man that the video specifically mentioned (who the narrator did say had too large of a body of work to get into in an introduction video, and rightfully so).


Jim Kirkwood. This guy, from what I'm able to understand, is a god damn legend with his contributions to the scene. Some of my favorites from his stuff are all linked above, but my most favorite track has to be "On the Edge of Reason". I'm convinced that music was exactly what was playing in an LSD-addled Moorcock's brain when he was writing Elric stories. And I LOVE it. The droning beat underlying the track, the wind-like chorus sounds, the beginning that slides in from the prior track "Sighing Desert", the mellowing out by the end, this 8 minute piece of shit changed my life when I first listened to it and it somehow manages to give me the same sense of mysterious melancholy mixed in with curiosity every time I listen to it.

However let me stop sperging and get back to the point. Kirkwood's association with the Berlin School of Dungeon Synth and the genre's general non-profit and anonymous background
means that much of his work is ready for download, completely free, on his Bandcamp page: do yourself a god damn favor and check out both of his Master of Dragons albums here.
 
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Jimmy Hopkins said:
Just got into the genre. Good fucking stuff. Let's get some more suggestions going boys...
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The best source to dig is the The Dungeon Synth Archives YouTube channel.
The In The Woods YouTube channel has also lots of Dungeon Synth besides other music (Post Rock, NeoFolk, Ambient).

But I'm going to add some labels and their channels:

- Ancient Meadow USA label shop
- Dungeon Deep Records USA youtube / bandcamp
- Forsaken Relics DENMARK label shop
- Heimat der Katastrophe ITALY bandcamp
- Out of Season USA label shop
- Were Gnome Records USA youtube / bandcamp
- Sweet8Bitterness GERMANY bandcamp

S8B usually releases stuff that sounds more like Game Boy/NES games soundtracks but in Dungeon Synth.

ERANG does a lot of Dungeon Synth and other Synth stuff: youtube / bandcamp

Just released a new album today:
 
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Pretty much all of Summoning's instrumental stuff is good (though I'm a big fan of the rest of their discography as well). Example:
 
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