Granite Skull, bard of the Aberdonians, takes you on an adventure to the market of coop. A quest for bynes as ordered by sir lambert of butler.

For more Granite Skull:

𝚂𝙾𝙻𝙸𝚃𝚄𝙳𝙴. 𝚂𝙾 𝙸𝚃 𝙸𝚂.

'Dark medieval times'



Let tales of the castles and creatures of old soothe the soul.



Old-school dungeon synth styled fantasy-inspired minimalism.

Final demo for this project...



VIII - Into the Abyss

everything by Aris Hab

MENZOBERRANZAN is a 44 minute track with no breaks, but for your listening convenience it has been split up into 4 parts. The full seamless album in it's full 44 minute grandeur is available to listen to as well.



Part 1 - Dweomer

Part 2 - Yochlol

Part 3 - Zin-Carla

Part 4 - Piwafwi



Menzoberranzan - Situated in the Upper Northdark, Menzoberranzan was a major city of the Drow on the continent of Faerûn founded by Menzoberra the Kinless, a Cleric of Lolth in -3917 DR. Led out of Golothaer, one of the Southern Drow settlments, Menzoberra and seven Drow houses sought to escape the constant warring of factions between those whom venerated the heretic gods of the Dark Seldarine and those who worshipped the Spider Queen, Lolth. Upon entering the great cavern Araurilcaurak the clans encountered a resident Beholder whom was slain and Menzoberranzan was founded within. In a few short decades the seven houses fell to attacking each other much to the joy of the chaos loving Lolth and in -3864 DR a great battle ensued causing the death of Menzoberra. House Baenre rose to first House of the city and House Nasadra was banished from the enclave and established the lesser Drow city of Ched Nasad. The 13th and 14th centuries brought similar turmoil when House Do'Urden ascended to the Ninth House by destroying House DeVir. Shortly after, House Do'Urden lost favor with Lolth due to the rebellion of Drizzt Do'Urden resulting in House Baenre utterly destroying them in the year of the Weeping Moon 1339 DR. Following the great battle with the Dwarves of Mithril Hall, Menzoberranzan suffered many hardships in the following years with Matron Triel Baenre in power over a divided and warring city. Lolth ceased answering the prayers of her Clerics under a self imposed time of peace until the Year of Wild Magic in 1372 DR when the Silence of Lolth was lifted and the city once again prepared for War.



Recorded in Fall and Winter of 2025 with classic 1990's Roland JV hardware (near exclusively) to preserve the classic early 90s Dungeon Synth sound.



Produced by: Faydark

Mastered by: Tristan Fiella

Logo by: Tree

Cover art by: Branden Elliot



Tape release coming soon on Dungeons Deep Records.

𝒯𝒽𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝒞𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓎 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓉...



The king calls the warrior nobility to arms because a people of crude barbarians threatens the borders. “Fear not, king! Our allied armies will wipe out that horde of yokels as if they were crumbs of stale bread!” the clan leaders snorted. Instead, endless years of bloody battles await them. The Lord of the Woods is a brave warrior, devoted to the kingdom and to his beloved, the Mute Princess. He would do anything for her, except betray the king. So, reluctantly, he is ready to leave her alone and set out for the borders of his kingdom. Whoever knows the Lord of the Woods well, however, knows that behind the appearance of a faithful vassal and noble swordsman, he hides a shady and sick character; he knows that he, tormented by mysterious feelings of guilt and by fits of jealousy, has a real obsession for the Mute Princess. On leaving for the front he segregates her in a watchtower in the forest to which only a few faithful servants have access. On guard he leaves ten of the most valiant and devoted of his knights.



But what was supposed to be a lightning battle lasts ten very long years in which the kingdom is marred by poverty and disease. A plague devastates the population. In the Wood everyone perishes: villains, servants, knights. The only one to survive is the Mute Princess, but she is imprisoned in the tower. From above, she watched death spread across the region. Her devoted knights brought her food as long as they could. Then death took them suddenly, dragging even the key that opens the lock of the tower door into oblivion. So the Princess spent weeks in agony, without food or water, knocking on the door and calling for help.

Upon returning from the war, the Lord of the Wood finds the region devastated and his beloved dead in that stone coffin he unwittingly prepared for her ten years earlier. Her segregation preserved her from the plague, but ... it killed her anyway. Devoured by guilt and loneliness, the Lord of the Woods hangs himself in the forest.



Since then his restless spirit has wandered the region, whose land is polluted with resentment and pain. A death spell hangs over this remote land ...



...𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓌:



On the borders of the Khanate, in what was once the heart of a prosperous kingdom and today is a poor region plagued by political instability, wars have been fought between the local lords since time immemorial, good only for those like you who practice the profession of mercenary soldier. You were in the ranks of the regular army when your superior preferred to change sides, selling himself to a bloodthirsty local lord. Fighting alongside cutthroats for the interests of a sinister murderer? Return to an army decimated by hunger and weakened by corruption? That’s enough. You have decided to desert. But it is not easy to be deserters for two armies at the same time, in an unknown land, hunted by your fellow soldiers sold and by those who are not yet. You have to escape as far as possible. But where? You thought that was the right direction ...



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HDK proudly announce this incredible album by a well-known artist from the Dungeon Synth scene. Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the new FVRFVR (aka LORD CERVOS) album! The american artist overtake himself offering a gorgeous album of classic dungeon synth mixed with chiptune sounds: the high quality of the composition and the arrangements immediately rise this album to the best of its kind. "The Tower of Doom" is a epic & dramatic quest through a mysterious land devastated by war, where plagues and betrays are everywhere and where - in the end - our heroes will succeed in breaking the curse. Listen to the songs while reading the booklet inside the cassette for a more involving experience!

The Slums: the place where the strongest prevails and gangs of humanoid fight for dominance ... but also an excellent place for adventure and gain! C'mon folks ... let's start the quest!



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Hey folks, welcome to a new BASIC DUNGEON saga!

In this episode, our heroes will have to deal with a tribe of orcs holed up in the suburban sewers, with a giant millipede really hungry and with the usual pitfalls of which all the dungeons are full; furthermore, they will discover the entrance to an ancient underground that - obviously - conceals untold mysteries and they will ascertain that the guild of the city's magicians ... is corrupt! In short, in "Perils in the slums: scenario one" you will never be bored!



"Perils in the slums" is a fantasy RPG campaign divided into three parts, a musical invention conceived as a soundtrack of a real session of Dungeons & Dragons. Both the tape and the digital version of "Orcs commune" contain the playable module as quest adapted to any RPG rules system (possibly old-school, please).



Ah! Before leaving for the quest, don't forget a proper equipment and the spell book!!! You don't have it? No panic, we will provide it for you:

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Basic Dungeon takes us back to the heroic times when our fun was entrusted to a simple dice throwing or a cluster of pixels moving on a screen: endless D&D sessions spent with friends, sleepless nights exploring monochromatic dungeons in front of a screen with cathode-ray tube ... this was "escapism" in the days of the Cold War, when it was enough a pencil and a sheet (and a set of dices, of course) to make us live memorable adventures!

A barbaric hero of the Sword & Sorcery silver age relives in this new release of the Dungeonostalgie series by HDK! He's Thongor, the Conan-esque character created by Lin Carter in the late 60s and protagonist of a short comics series published by Marvel in 70s...



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"His doom in the eye of a skeletal king" is a jewel of barabaric dungeon-synth music inspired by the soundtracks of Basil Poledouris (Conan the Barbarian) and Carlo Maria Cordio (Ator, Endgame, L'ultimo Guerriero, Anno 2020: i Gladiatori del Futuro) with ancestral and bewitched atmospheres.



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"At the time of this tale, Thongor of Valkhart was still a young warrior of the black hawk tribe and lived on the shores of the great northern ocean called Zharanga Tethrabaal. This story tells about the young Thongor's first encounter with death, fear and doom, when he saw his destiny written in the hollow eye of an ancient Lemurian king who has been dead for thousands years. There Thongor saw a great and terrible doom at the same time: he could see himself projected into a future of glory and death"



Thanks to Lin Carter (1930-1988) and his powerful imagination.



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...KOBOLD IS BACK!

A few months after the success of "The cave of the lost talisman", here's “The curse of the ancient abbey”, the second chapter of a trilogy by this little, treacherous dungeon-synther humanoid with dog's face. As usual, dungeon-pop music with a lot of analogue synths and 16-bit flavor!



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This time, the party is busy between the walls of a ruined abbey, infested with evil monsters and diabolical undead creatures.



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"Curse of the ancient abbey" is an exciting album full of twists, thought as the soundtrack of OSR module, complete with map and descriptions. A massive dose of magic and mystery in the best tradition of the '80s role playing games.

The new release in the Dungeonostalgie series by HDK is a little, striking album of minimal dungeon-synth came out from a dark past. A past in which few white pixels on a black screen were enough to create marvelous and barbaric worlds.



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In the Cold War era, many of us spent sleepless nights in front of video-RPGs like Sword of Fargoal, Ultima I and Phantasie, dreaming of the enchanted and brave worlds of Dungeons and Dragons.

You can relive those glorious and heroic epoque with "Tunnels and Treasures" by Basic Dungeon, a lost early 80s video-RPG soundtrack. Find out how intriguing and intense the exploration of pixeled dungeons could be in the 8-bit era.



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"You are inside a dungeon wrapped in darkness and you have to explore his wet and cold tunnels. You have no other source of light than your torch. You will encounter threats of all kinds: monsters and traps can be around every corner. Good exploration..."

>>> DUNGEONOSTALGIE release # 02



Frosty winds blow into the Heimat der Katastrophe headquarters...

The mysterious tape of ᐊᐳᑦ, cold and enigmatic, plays in our boomboxes... coming from eternal snows at the edge of the world, ᐸᓇ (knife) is ecstatic winter-synth in the veins of the best Paysage D'Hiver and Vinterriket. It's the soundtrack of a journey without return, in ice dungeons and valleys swept by snow storms.

Enjoy this experience of cold and loneliness, enjoy the music of ᐊᐳᑦ.



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NECROMANCY

(Clark Ashton Smith,1934)



My heart is made a necromancer's glass,

Where homeless forms and exile phantoms teem,

Where faces of forgotten sorrows gleam

And dead despairs archaic peer and pass:

Grey longings of some weary heart that was

Possess me, and the multiple, supreme,

Unwildered hope and star-emblazoned dream

Of questing armies. . . Ancient queen and lass,

Risen vampire-like from out the wormy mould,

Deep in the magic mirror of my heart

Behold their perished beauty, and depart.

And now, from black aphelions far and cold,

Swimming in deathly light on charnel skies,

The enormous ghosts of bygone worlds arise.