who the hell is down with dungeon synth

reliably great, growing w/every release

Piano intro sets this up as the Mellon Collie of Chaucerian Myth. Which I know may sound like cursing to JCLC but actually this album is entirely amazing.

The new new one sounds even better! Such melodies!

If you need an epic dsynth fix, Old Sorcery aka Warmoon Lord's Strange and Eternal is your ticket. Comes with a noticeable 70s/prog electro aura.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9sfnTGm5a8

Music to accompany an AD&D module that came with the record.

full album

it's not quite dungeon synth proper but i wrote a blog post this week about yuzo koshiro and motohiro kawashima's 1996 soundtrack to the playstation/saturn port of zork i

https://weirdthingsonbetamax.blogspot.com/2020/05/unsung-video-game-soundtracks-zork.html

fans of dungeon synth should definitely check it the hell out

New Daryl Groetsch dungeon synth side project:

https://endlessfog.bandcamp.com/releases

Was listening to that earlier. Very on point titlewise.

I haven't gone through the entire thread and listened to everything, but looking for music that splits the difference between dungeon synth and say Pink Floyd's More or Obscured by Clouds (i.e. psychedelic dungeon synth).

aka "acid dragon"

Digging this mushroom-themed dungeon synth album, great autumnal forest vibes:

https://mycologia.bandcamp.com/album/assorted-mushrooms-of-new-england

Alias of Adam Matlock, who has played with Anthony Braxton and seems to have many other dungeon synth aliases that I haven't explored yet.

loving this (aindulmedir), winter music for bibliophiles and hermits:

https://aindulmedir.bandcamp.com/album/the-winter-scriptures

just the jams i'm needing today, thx

NTS put out this compilation recently:
https://n-t-s.bandcamp.com/album/ascend
It serves as a primer to the genre as well as a deep dive into its 90s origins.

anybody have any comfy synth faves?

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/58365/1/the-inside-story-of-comfy-synth-the-internets-snuggliest-microgenre?amp=1

A friend picked up a cache of this stuff secondhand - quite taken with Tiny Mouse's Little Ones Journey.

xxp i quite liked boomkat's review of that comp

Manna for BM fiends, D&D players and RPG questers; the next NTS compilation surveys the fetid bedroom-scape of dungeon synth music with a dozen gems plucked from obscure early ‘90s records.

‘Ascend’ holds a torch to black metal’s most atmospheric urges with exquisite, cherry-picked cuts compiled by Sam Strang with Bruno Halper (Emotional Rescue, NTS) and Will Dickson. Leading on from their expert surveys of private press folk, amapiano, and singeli, they turn sharply, bitterly inward with an icy grip of hard-to-find aces that can be hailed as the roots of what is now known as dungeon synth music.

The sound is surely familiar to dimples of black metal’s 2nd wave, and the sort of scene-setting, Midi-eval intros favoured by likes of Mortiis or dodgy cunt Burzum - particularly their inspiration from Tangerine Dream’s Conrad Schnitzler and Klaus Schulze that also leaches into ‘90s RPG computer games such as Diablo or indeed Skyrim in the modern day. Sniff your pits; you’ll know if that’s you: and if so, this set is another good excuse not to leave the house for as long as possible.

The fantasy begins with a stately invitation to join the kingdom of darkness extended by Evol (the Norwegian one), and proceeds from the enchanted pads of Corvus Neblus to the pulsating form of Asmorod, thru toens evoking flashbacks to kids TV gameshow ‘Nightmare’ in ‘Vindalv’s ’Swærfl Stimma’, taking in immersive durational wonders by Apeiron, Lunar Womb and Neptune Towers, beside the lustrous strings of Secret Stairways, and the wheeze of Kadotus609 primed to soundtrack alchemical experiments with Gatorade and Oreos or turn your next garage raid for rizlas and bacon into a gauntlet of suburban zombie NPCs and local hell-hounds.

ACE!!!

i am an indiscriminate lover of dungeon synth. i will listen to most of it. my fave comfy synth might be grandma's cottage though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtBjuWw1Xvw

I love the idea of dungeon synth / comfy synth etc, but I'm often let down by the execution. I assume this is meant more as background music for DnD sessions or something but it's very repetitive and there's very little change or dynamics in each piece. I'd just like it if there were a little more variety or change-ups

Also, is anyone else having difficulty reading that Dazed piece? On my laptop screen half the text is obscured by a menu box