dungeon synth
Tales of Loryndas
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Elison
release date 2026-06-19
Tales of Loryndas gathers a series of events surrounding the elusive wizard Loryndas. Whether loryndas was one figure, many, or none at all remains unresolved. Believe what you wish, for all that remains are the tales.
After the Dance is Over
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Ghastly Fifer
release date 2026-10-30
Visions of the end of all things, recorded for the MMXXVI October Dungeon Shamble. Thanks to Aveline for organising the Shambles and to Cave Bird Records for hosting the tunes of the Ghastly Fifer. MOVEMENT 1 1. As the Merry Dance ends (0:00) 2. Darkness prevails (0:46) 3. Souls are marched into the underworld (1:38) 4. The world is empty (2:56) 5. The stars are weeping (3:43) MOVEMENT 2 6. Dust covers Earth (0:00) 7. Reign of rats (2:40) 8. All is dead, all is Death (3:31) 9. Who shall mourn upon such desolation? (5:45) MOVEMENT 3 10. The final victory (0:00) 11. Death crowned (1:15) 12. All hail the Queen (2:14) 13. The Dance never ends (4:31) Dungeon Shamble requirements: - 7 (virtual) instruments (two percussions, several instances of a woodwind patch with more or less distortion, analog subtractive synth, bowed strings, pizzicato strings, synth bells) - 13 songs in 3 movements - total album length: 20-26 minutes - style: the first two movements are the Fifer's interpretation of umbral synth. The third starts umbral, but then evolves into its own thing - theme: a ghost witnesses the aftermath of the Dance Macabre - special: utilize volume & velocity to create a dynamic range of loud and quiet throughout the album (the minimal DIY production was engineered with this challenge in mind) - failed quest: put distortion on everything. I only managed the woodwinds and one of the percussions
Ghaashombûrz
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Ghashbûrz
release date 2026-10-28
Ghaashombûrz is the sonic chronicle of that forgotten empire beneath the stone. Conceived in the very heart of the earth's deepest cavities, this album intertwines field recordings extracted from ancestral crypts with analog soundscapes and sepulchral synthesizers. Each note is a monolith; each silence, a condemnation. You will find no melodies of hope beneath these ceilings of ancient rock. This is the lament of the eternal stone, the roar of the wind trapped within the pits of shadow, and the consecration of an everlasting confinement. Listen to the echo of the underworld and accept your destiny in the darkness. Those who support this chronicle of stone and descend completely into the abyss will unearth a hidden secret. By purchasing the digital album, you will permanently unlock an exclusive 6th bonus track: "Bûrzgothal" (The Throne of Everlasting Darkness). [Attention Game Masters / RPG Campaign Use]: Are your players brave enough to face the utter dark? Ghaashombûrz has been meticulously designed and sonically optimized to serve as the ultimate soundtrack for your tabletop role-playing sessions. These cavernous soundscapes, cold synthesizer drones, and real subterranean echoes will instantly transform any map into a perilous, claustrophobic death trap. Perfect for dark fantasy, horror, and retro systems (Mörk Borg, Old-School Essentials, D&D, Call of Cthulhu, Torchbearer). Let the music roll, dim the lights, and submerge your table into the pits of shadow. The age of light has ended... The abyss claims its crown...
Gloamrot
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CavernWitch
release date 2026-10-22
On the jagged cliffs of Mount Daeri, Gloamrot Castle waits. Legend tells of an artifact entombed within its rotting walls. A relic promised to grant unfathomable, power to anyone who finds it. Many have ventured to the Castle, yet none have returned. No one truly knows what lurks within Gloamrot’s walls.
Necromantic Kingdoms
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Ka'Bael
release date 2026-10-23
Dead realms where a pale moon shines a spectral glow. - Ka'Bael --- The castle awaits. The castle is waiting for you. It has been waiting for millennia. Perched atop this flayed and barren hill, birthed by the volcanic contractions of the underworld, that place they call the Styx. By day, the hill lies naked. The place remains strange. The birds do not sing here. The vegetation, sullen and deranged, appears to be slowly rotting away... as though its very presence upon these black rocks were some unspeakable aberration. Giant black spiders, weaving their milky webs, are the only animal species inhabiting the surrounding wasteland, save for a handful of albino lizards. By day, the place is unsettling, filling the human soul with profound and inexplicable unease. Logic comes to an end in these lands of perdition. Compasses cease to function. Minds that linger here for too long become contaminated, polluted by moribund reveries and death-dealing desires. But this is nothing compared to the nocturnal atmosphere of the hill-excrescence. At night, the castle appears. Suddenly. One moment it isn't there, and the next it drowns your entire field of vision. Its vast, empty vestibule awaits you... A lamenting wind seeps inside, stirring the dust of the anti-centuries. The thousand and one chambers and antechambers, forever recomposing themselves into new and impossible configurations; the library of forbidden volumes; the supernaturalist keep, strewn with rusted instruments of torture and scattered bones; the damp, festering dungeon; the phantom ballroom... All of it awaits you. Yes, you. The new necromancer-lord of this place. You have been summoned to reign over an empty, lifeless world, over subjects who have been rotting since before the first dawn of our world. Welcome to a very ancient realm; a realm of soot, ashes, blackened lichen, and self-annihilation. -Sir Kuliktavikt
Brewing Illegal Potions In Dwarf Toilets
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Various artists
release date 2026-07-15
Dear listeners, welcome to our third SoundJam album! First up was the liminal *The Endless Tea Rooms In Abstract Western*, followed by the chilling *Cozy Speakeasy Bars Beneath The Frostpunk Wasteland*, and now here’s the comedic *Brewing Illegal Potions In Dwarf Toilets*! ... As with the previous SoundJam music compilations I’ve organized, I posted an open call for submissions for this album on the “Experimental Music” Discord server. Unlike the previous ones, this time I decided to add a small twist: I asked participating musicians to try creating their tracks in genres such as weirdcore and comedy. Otherwise, the assignment remained the same—to interpret the theme “Brewing Illegal Potions In Dwarf Toilets” in an interlude and a track of their own design. A total of 19 musicians participated in the project—namely: Zeph!, HïdeѲut, Dark Sun Arts, Cera Krisanaa, Meteor Mirage, The Small Pearl-Bordered Fritillaries, Chuckleverted Infutz, Outside House, snailmusic, DJ Train Tamer, Dim Light Over Trees, The Papertaker, ii@., WCI, Petar Pečur, Bennythedrill, mailspamovy0@gmail.com, stanicamiru, Patricidal Jubilee, and me HïdeѲut. ... Each participant had exactly one and a half months to create two tracks. While working on the music, we also began developing the album’s visual design. This was handled by an artist known here as “ii@,” while the typography was handled by artist and fashion designer Haruhi_Tan. As always, we held a group vote on the cover art’s style and decided it would be inspired by 80s and 90s low-polygon video games. ... After all the tracks were completed, we held an online listening party where we approved the track order—which, for a change, I handled myself. Mastering was then handled by our amazing musician Patricidal Jubilee. The entire compilation was released here on Bandcamp on July 15, 2026, and its creation took just under 3 months. Thank you very much for listening and for reading this far. If you purchase the album, please—on behalf of all the brewers of illegal potions—leave us a comment here with your favorite track from the album; it means a lot to us! Take care, and we wish you all the best in the world of toilet breweries! ... Mastering = Patricidal Jubilee Sequencing = HïdeѲut Cover Art = ii@. Typography: Haruhi_Tan ... Big Thanks to owner of Experimental Music server Marvis our Rhubarb King! ...
Halls of Time
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Medievalist
release date 2023-05-17
Medieval ambient and atmospheric journey to the ancent times of knighthood, honor, simple peasant life, spiritual struggles, untouched nature, darkness and light. Inspired by old game soundtracks like the original Medieval Total War and Stronghold, Warlords, aside from other inspirations like the actual medieval and church music.
Live at Grace Center Summer MMXXVI
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Wooden Vessels
release date 2026-07-26
Audio captured from my cell phone in front of my amplifier. It is presented here raw & unedited. Xeroxed Castles originally appears on Bound By a Mouldering Husk will be featured on an upcoming album
LORN
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GLOAMWALKER
release date 2026-10-18
WAKE FROM DEATH LORN tells the tale of a warrior's journey through a desolate landscape as he attempts to escape the elder beings that hold his soul from the mortal coil. Recorded over the course of a single night at an AirBNB in Dayton OH with only an Arturia Minifreak and a Zoom Livetrak 8. Post Recording Production features; - Valhalla Vintage Verb & Supermassive - Impact Soundworks Gameverb - Various Ambiance and Foley all royalty free - Caelum Audio Cassette 2 - Apple Multiband Compressor - Izotope Ozone (For Imager, EQ, and Maximizing ONLY) Art work was assembled using purchased Fonts and Assets. Absolutely ZERO AI was used in the concept and creation of the production.
Amser Segur's Guide to Sigil
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Amser Segur
release date 2026-05-29
This album is my musical interpretation of Sigil, The City of Door. Sigil is the city at the center of the Multiverse in the D&D Great Wheel Cosmology and home base for the Planescape Campaign Setting. Each track represents a different ward within the city, the city itself, and the area below. This album is dedicated to The Tribe and the Yeongtong Adventurers Guild. Thank you for all the years of gaming and glory.
Gatecrashing the Raveyard: Six Seconds Under
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Amser Segur
release date 2026-10-18
This album was made as part of the October 2026 r/dungeonsynth Dungeon Shamble. Info about the shamble here This album is about a party of ghosts going to a rave. Each song of the album represents one of the different ghost. Following the Dungeon Dance Music theme of the shamble each song is a different style of dance music such as Hip Hop, Trip Hop, Gabber, Jungle, UK Garage, and House. All songs on the album were created with 6 different stock Logic instruments. Mellotron, Dark Lo-fi Piano, Oboe, Dark Soul Bass, Overstuffed 808, and King's Cross Strings. The drums for this album all come from the Amen Break. The Amen Break has been chopped, flipped and segmented on each song. Claps and Sub Kick added on select tracks.
Nightmare Afternoon
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The Eternal Returns
release date 2026-10-15
A self-contained subplot of the Nightmare series. Almost as danceable as WtHoD, more minimalistic than Nightmare Archetypes, rawer than reasonable. Other releases from the Nightmare series: (compilation of first 3 EPs) Stay tuned for BEYOND THE HOUSE OF DARKNESS at some point in the future. Made for October Dungeon Shamble 2026.
The Ultimate Adventure
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Treguard
release date 2026-07-09
"The Ultimate Adventure" is the debut album from Treguard, a dungeon synth project inspired by the late 80s / early 90s UK children's TV show Knightmare. These tracks build upon the Treguard Demo and delve further into the mysterious world of Knightmare. The ominous dungeon world exerts a mysterious power in return, dragging the recordings back into the world of late 20th century analogue, shrouded in cassette hiss. Enter stranger, if you dare, and embark on "The Ultimate Adventure"! Tapes available from Blaggard Records:
XI - A Most Vicious Haunting
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Mortlach
release date 2026-06-12
The eleventh canonical release from the old count... What's prowling the castle grounds? What are these strange noises...the howling we here at night...what does it all mean?