Tyrannus
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Post by Tyrannus on Jul 10, 2018 21:33:41 GMT -5
I was aware of Burzum and Mortiis (and Danzig's Black Aria, which I actually bought) in the 90's but never really got into it. Then things were much more cliquish, music wasn't just available to check out. You had to make a real commitment (which i think has some positive aspects that are lost today). So I was more into industrial, neofolk and the like, but this meant I was not into metal (I mean BM) they rarely crossed in those years. Only maybe when the book Lords of Chaos came out but that came too late. I mean your friends and such were also defined by the music you listened to, it went that deep. Maybe it was the times or maybe because we were all young and stupid. There was again this heightened, exhilarating commitment but also this idiotic cliquishness and dismissal of things simply because they were in the wrong scene. Yet you couldn't have one without the other. So 2-3 years ago I was randomly listening around Youtube and discovered Til Det Bergens Skyggene, then wondered in my life how i had missed such amazing music, and it motivated me really to research the whole genre and catch up on all the 90's stuff. Today most of my listening is in three scenes: DS, early new age and what I'd like to call "80's bedroom synth" (Enno Velthuys, Aart Zwaans, Colin Potter, Matt Young, Kevin O'Neill, early Ian Boddy, Paul Nagle, Lauri Paisley etc. -- one could also consider Jim Kirkwood in this sense), and fourth-world minimalism (mostly Italian and Japanese artsits). somehow the mix of ALL these informs what I'm trying to do musically and which I have no idea how to categorize, but that's another story. Kevin O'Neill is great, I love that sort of bedroom synth as you call it |
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Post by wyverngarden on Jul 11, 2018 20:35:52 GMT -5
Kevin O'Neill is great, I love that sort of bedroom synth as you call it Thanks for posting that in the proto-DS thread BTW. O'Neill's one of the rare ones who got better into the late 80's and I think Omega is his best work. I'll try to intro/compile some of the other artists soon for the misc. section. George Garside -- The Jester (1985) has a lot of the ethos of DS, though the mood doesn't quite fit. |
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Post by crawfordglissadevil on Jul 13, 2018 15:42:55 GMT -5
Discovered on Progressive Ears site. They had a tread on Dungeon Synth. I especially like the Horror angle similar to the Italian band Goblin.
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Post by plaguejaeger on Feb 18, 2019 14:10:09 GMT -5
The seed was planted back in the early 2000's when I was just getting into Black Metal, & Industrial / Ambient. My initiation was Burzum & his prison albums, Mortiis, & Summoning. After that I'd search out Black Metal bands that incorporated lots of ambient pieces like Fimbul (Norway), & Gnome (Japan).
It wasn't until about 2015 - 2016 that a friend of mine told me to look into "Dungeon Synth" which they described as Black Metal in Ambient form. My investigation lead me to Asmodian Coven, and not long after that was when I stumbled upon the Facebook groups.
Since then I've been addicted to finding more bands in the style, or adjacent genres like "Black Ambient", & "Winter Synth"
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Post by pelkiebum on Mar 11, 2019 12:57:34 GMT -5
My first taste was Burzum when I got into metal back in the early 2000s, Tomhet in particular being one of my favorite individual tracks. I've been a semi-fan for a long time but am only just now taking a deep dive into the genre and getting acquainted with the scene on Bandcamp. Some great stuff out there being made right now.
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Post by toodarkpark on Mar 11, 2019 14:34:29 GMT -5
My first taste was Burzum when I got into metal back in the early 2000s, Tomhet in particular being one of my favorite individual tracks. I've been a semi-fan for a long time but am only just now taking a deep dive into the genre and getting acquainted with the scene on Bandcamp. Some great stuff out there being made right now. So true the current output of DS is pretty great.  |
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Post by decrepitwarrior on Apr 30, 2019 21:19:48 GMT -5
I first heard Dungeon Synth when the bassist of a band I was listening to at the time released a cassette under the name "Minor Conquest." I had no idea what it really was, it wasn't on a digital platform and there was only like a 4 minute preview of the whole album so I bought it on a whim. Little did I know what I was getting in to. It's still one of my favorite Dungeon Synth tapes to this day. Minor Conquest - Year of the Child |
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Post by Tyrannus on May 1, 2019 1:06:12 GMT -5
I first heard Dungeon Synth when the bassist of a band I was listening to at the time released a cassette under the name "Minor Conquest." I had no idea what it really was, it wasn't on a digital platform and there was only like a 4 minute preview of the whole album so I bought it on a whim. Little did I know what I was getting in to. It's still one of my favorite Dungeon Synth tapes to this day. Minor Conquest - Year of the ChildMinor Conquest rules |
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Post by thekeeper on May 9, 2019 12:53:55 GMT -5
I first heard Dungeon Synth when the bassist of a band I was listening to at the time released a cassette under the name "Minor Conquest." I had no idea what it really was, it wasn't on a digital platform and there was only like a 4 minute preview of the whole album so I bought it on a whim. Little did I know what I was getting in to. It's still one of my favorite Dungeon Synth tapes to this day. Minor Conquest - Year of the ChildMinor Conquest rules Was on my top tapes of the year when it came out. Just got onto BC recently. Still a powerhouse of an album. |
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Post by Metachasm on May 10, 2019 11:30:21 GMT -5
Someone on another forum I'm a member has an album out. My introduction was Trogool's Beyond the River Skai, which was just magical. Regal, orchestral, often beautiful, akin to film or videogame music. Since then I've been slowly climbing deeper into the rabbit hole - Mortiis, Depressive Silence, Thangorodim, Fief... there's just so much. It's a deep, deep rabbit hole.
(Also, hello. I'm new and this is my first post.)
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Post by Lord Gargoyle on Sept 29, 2019 2:24:10 GMT -5
I think I probably first found Dungeon Synth on Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge and, in my case, the source of much of my music recommendations. I listened to a little, and then just kinda forgot about it for a while. Eventually a year or so later, telaestheticist started a Discord server that I joined centred around "dark alternative" music, including dungeon synth. I'd been occasionally making and releasing music on Soundcloud over the years, and one thing led to another and he suggested I try creating Dungeon Synth, which I'd recently gotten more/back into. Now I have an EP out, chunks of a future album ready, and am working like a fiend (every couple days as my schedule allows  ) to try and get at least an EP ready by Hallowe'en |
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Post by skirmisher on Oct 6, 2019 8:18:25 GMT -5
By listening to Hvis Lyset Tar Oss and Filosofem back in 2000 or so. I found about "Dungeon Synth" being a thing some time in the last 10 years, I don't quite remember. I still don't know that much about what has happened after the 90's but I'm eager to look for more.
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Post by animalbones on Oct 31, 2019 11:02:18 GMT -5
New to the Board. Seems like a good place to start. I was intrigued by the Burzum prison albums years ago. Done a bit of dark ambient over the years but it never really stuck. Been on Bandcamp a lot lately as I mostly listened to BM and accidentally wondered in to DS territory. The whole aesthetic has struck a chord with me. Philosophically I am interested in authenticity and not living in bad faith. DS seems to tick all the right boxes for me artistically and philosophically. I am here to share and learn.
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Post by litha on Nov 19, 2019 14:27:24 GMT -5
Its some time around 1995 or 1996. My friend buys a CMI sampler '...even the wolves hid their teeth'. Intrigued by Mortiis and Ildfrost, we keep playing their tracks over and over, louder and louder. We bought all the Mortiis vinyls that Misanthropy Records stocked. We likened it to Vargs ambient stuff on Det Som and Hvis Lyset. We used to call it ''...sort of medieval ambient/lord of the rings soundtrack type stuff...'' and we made mixtapes of all the ambient tracks off all the old great BM albums mixed in with Mortiis. We fell asleep dreaming of dungeons and swords and winter, and eventually became those kinds of people who get stuck in the 90's |
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Post by castlezagyx on Nov 21, 2019 18:30:30 GMT -5
Its some time around 1995 or 1996. My friend buys a CMI sampler '...even the wolves hid their teeth'. Intrigued by Mortiis and Ildfrost, we keep playing their tracks over and over, louder and louder. We bought all the Mortiis vinyls that Misanthropy Records stocked. We likened it to Vargs ambient stuff on Det Som and Hvis Lyset. We used to call it ''...sort of medieval ambient/lord of the rings soundtrack type stuff...'' and we made mixtapes of all the ambient tracks off all the old great BM albums mixed in with Mortiis. We fell asleep dreaming of dungeons and swords and winter, and eventually became those kinds of people who get stuck in the 90's [Offtopic] CMI sampler? A Fairlight? Wow, I never knew anyone who owns this Australian beast. I use one CMI emulation (sampled directly from an original model), and I can say it's a superb synth/ROMpler for Dungeon Synth music. |
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