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Post by chaucerianmyth on Mar 11, 2020 2:44:25 GMT -5
Hello, all. I've always been interested in music that creates a genuinely unsettling, creepy, or disturbing atmosphere from the music alone, without the benefit of "creepy" lyrics, which artists often make cringey or edgy in trying to achieve a creepy vibe. Anyway, Dungeon Synth is a perfect avenue for this, seemingly, and I've definitely heard some DS that fits the bill. I'd be interested in seeing any DS you've found that is genuinely unsettling, creepy, or disturbing. I'm talking about the real scary stuff, not just weird or bizarre (although I like that stuff, too). I'll start with one of my favorite DS releases of all time that is criminally underrated: subterraneanprison.bandcamp.com/releasesThis album's atmosphere is so unnerving to me. I love it. Extremely immersive, imo. What are some of your favorites?
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Post by andrewwerdna on Mar 11, 2020 10:03:56 GMT -5
Skimming through this Subterrenean Prison album, seems promising, distantly off-putting without being abrasive to listen to, going to have to give this a thorough listen. The immediate ones that come to mind are Abandoned Places, Dark Ages, and Xynfonica. A less obvious one would be The Embers of Tara - Realms of Sleep. It's spooky as it is, but that warbling pitch really sends it over into the realm of the diseased and haunted, but yet there's something still so compelling and fascinating about it that continues to draw one forward, deeper down into that dark place. I imagine some people might say LLN stuff is the darkest and most unsettling, but for me that stuff has mostly just been annoying. It sounds more like teenagers goofing around with tape recorders rather than a genuine expression of horror/anguish through music.
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Post by chaucerianmyth on Mar 11, 2020 10:16:34 GMT -5
Skimming through this Subterrenean Prison album, seems promising, distantly off-putting without being abrasive to listen to, going to have to give this a thorough listen. The immediate ones that come to mind are Abandoned Places, Dark Ages, and Xynfonica. A less obvious one would be The Embers of Tara - Realms of Sleep. It's spooky as it is, but that warbling pitch really sends it over into the realm of the diseased and haunted, but yet there's something still so compelling and fascinating about it that continues to draw one forward, deeper down into that dark place. I imagine some people might say LLN stuff is the darkest and most unsettling, but for me that stuff has mostly just been annoying. It sounds more like teenagers goofing around with tape recorders rather than a genuine expression of horror/anguish through music. Yeah, Embers of Tara definitely fits the bill, imo. Idk if I'm very familiar with the LLN stuff, but from what you've said, it sounds exactly like the kinda thing I'm not interested in.
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Post by element0s on Mar 11, 2020 10:33:53 GMT -5
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Post by chaucerianmyth on Mar 11, 2020 11:49:29 GMT -5
Yeah, Alder Deep is always excellent. At time, it's honestly overwhelming. Very powerful music.
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Post by stormcrow on Mar 11, 2020 12:20:51 GMT -5
Dark Ages. Not exactly disturbing, but they're VERY dark and credible as a medieval plague/inquisition themed soundtrack. He perfectly hits the spot in almost all his albums, the weakest of which is probably the first one (perhaps due to less experience with synth and ambient stuff). Listening to that Embers of Tara you mention, which is also a good project, I wonder if their disturbing power would have been the same without that detuning filter that I hear throughout. Lamentum did a similar thing on the first track of his first demo (if I remember correctly) but in a more provoking and suggestive way: he made a progressive detuning on the delay's coda...which brings serious hauting and horror vibes to me!
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Post by crystallogic13 on Mar 11, 2020 14:26:45 GMT -5
Hmmm.. I do not listen (not enjoy) disturbing, or similar music.. Probably because music is like a mean to relax,escape,get enjoyment for me personally so it's inevitably out of my taste.
I wanted to note though that as for Embers of Tara, *that* effect you discuss (I'm not a musician) more leaves like an "enchanted" effect, maybe unsettling , but that's it, not disturbing really.. And as for Abandoned Places, they are dark sometimes but also I find not in the disturbing area I imagine stuff like the rest here sounds (I'm not planning on listening to them really)..
If I may though, ChaucerianMyth I think your own music in Book of Margery Kemp succeeded in getting this "disturbing" in the not bad but desperate way, I say it in a good sense .. I appreciate for example that album but the other day I was listening to the stuff I liked from it immediately felt this minimum unease again..
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Post by chaucerianmyth on Mar 11, 2020 23:08:36 GMT -5
Hmmm.. I do not listen (not enjoy) disturbing, or similar music.. Probably because music is like a mean to relax,escape,get enjoyment for me personally so it's inevitably out of my taste. I wanted to note though that as for Embers of Tara, *that* effect you discuss (I'm not a musician) more leaves like an "enchanted" effect, maybe unsettling , but that's it, not disturbing really.. And as for Abandoned Places, they are dark sometimes but also I find not in the disturbing area I imagine stuff like the rest here sounds (I'm not planning on listening to them really).. If I may though, ChaucerianMyth I think your own music in Book of Margery Kemp succeeded in getting this "disturbing" in the not bad but desperate way, I say it in a good sense .. I appreciate for example that album but the other day I was listening to the stuff I liked from it immediately felt this minimum unease again.. I appreciate you saying so. That's definitely something I was going for on some of the tracks on that album. I'm glad there are some people who think I succeeded.
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Post by anfortas on Mar 13, 2020 5:34:22 GMT -5
While it is true, that most of the LLN stuff is worthless, there are some gems hidden. I would recommend the Abgzvoryathre demo, especially the third and fourth songs. I have never heard anything like them.
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Post by chaucerianmyth on Mar 13, 2020 5:47:37 GMT -5
While it is true, that most of the LLN stuff is worthless, there are some gems hidden. I would recommend the Abgzvoryathre demo, especially the third and fourth songs. I have never heard anything like them.
I'm checking it out now. I'm a big fan of Dungeon Synth with Black Metal vocals, so I enjoyed that third track. The fourth track is definitely strange. I'm gonna listen to the rest of the um later. I'm a little confused as to what LLN is in regards to Dungeon Synth. It's not related to the LLN black metal movement, is it? I didn't think so, but I just saw that this artist is from France, so now I'm not sure lol
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Post by stormcrow on Mar 13, 2020 5:52:15 GMT -5
I think some LLN titles definitely worth despite the low quality of the music itself. They're worth listening just to understand WHAT the LLN scene was, their imagery, their attitude and "philosophy", which all were much more Black Metal than many high rated 90s Black Metal. However, albums like "Vampires of black imperial blood" or "War funeral march" also show some good old school riff (and also lot of "first wave" influence), also the Vlad Tepes / Belketre split is quita a LLN iconic album. Disturbing or not? It's up to you. If you decide to approach LLN the same way you approach Dream Theater (which I also like, just to be clear), they will be obviously same quality as a collection of (badly) recorded farts
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Post by stormcrow on Mar 13, 2020 5:55:16 GMT -5
I'm a little confused as to what LLN is in regards to Dungeon Synth. It's not related to the LLN black metal movement, is it? I didn't think so, but I just saw that this artist is from France, so now I'm not sure lol LLN never had dungeon synth projects. Some dark ambient at best, but no DS at all (maybe they did something like that in recent times?).
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Post by chaucerianmyth on Mar 13, 2020 6:10:10 GMT -5
I'm a little confused as to what LLN is in regards to Dungeon Synth. It's not related to the LLN black metal movement, is it? I didn't think so, but I just saw that this artist is from France, so now I'm not sure lol LLN never had dungeon synth projects. Some dark ambient at best, but no DS at all (maybe they did something like that in recent times?). The album I'm listening to now could very easily be classified as Dungeon Synth with vocals (at least on a lot of the tracks). Bandcamp description says it was released in 1993, but I have no idea if that's true bc I'm not familiar with the artist at all. Also, it's well worth mentioning that the vocals on the 6th track on this album sounds like the ghost from that one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog where he's like "return the slab, or suffer my curse." Pretty epic.
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Post by element0s on Mar 13, 2020 11:18:12 GMT -5
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Post by anfortas on Mar 16, 2020 2:44:14 GMT -5
LLN never had dungeon synth projects. Some dark ambient at best, but no DS at all (maybe they did something like that in recent times?). The album I'm listening to now could very easily be classified as Dungeon Synth with vocals (at least on a lot of the tracks). Bandcamp description says it was released in 1993, but I have no idea if that's true bc I'm not familiar with the artist at all. Also, it's well worth mentioning that the vocals on the 6th track on this album sounds like the ghost from that one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog where he's like "return the slab, or suffer my curse." Pretty epic. The original LLN was active between 1992 (or so) - 1997, although some artists are still active with other projects or have released new releases with their LLN projects in recent years.
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