arcig
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Post by arcig on Dec 5, 2022 2:31:44 GMT -5
One day when I was like 11 I got really sick and while I was laying in bed half-dead I decided to listen to Filosofem for the first time. It felt like the most immersive and spiritual experience little kid me had felt, so I went seeking out stuff that could maybe replicate it
I ended up also finding some similarities to video game soundtracks and horror synth within DS, so that made me even more enthusiastic to explore it
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Post by talvisynth on Dec 9, 2022 6:27:57 GMT -5
Back in '97 when I discovered black metal, I soon came across all those distinctive synth sounds from various names within the genre that I guess we all know; Mortiis, Wongraven, Burzum, and one particular song worth mentioning, I en svart kiste by Satyricon. Those together were the catalyst for me to start exploring minimalistic, home-made, DIY, lo-fi synthscapes. Ofc, I would have wanted to create black metal, but in the end of 90's all I had was a Sound Blaster card, a 4MB MIDI soundfont and a cheap Casio with MIDI connections. I composed my first songs between the later half of '97 and early '98 (which then ended up as parts I-III on Talvi - Ikirouta demo '01, the last 2 parts were from '99-'00). I think I called my own music "Nordic folklore darkwave", due to lack of better knowledge. I didn't have any contacts, the circles were small and there was no social media as there is now, so my project remained unknown, and also, I never got to know if anyone else does this kind of thing at all. I did work on the 2nd demo as well, but my motivation was driven down partly because of feeling quite alone with this stuff.
Years passed and I pretty much forgot about it all. Just some 2-3 years ago I had a random chat with an old friend of mine and he recommended checking out the old works of Jim Kirkwood. First then it even got to my knowledge that there is a genre called "dungeon synth", and I was completely blown away with how many artists there actually are these days! And there I was, back in the past having created something similar while being completely oblivious of committed circles evolving and existing around the subject. I still find it quite overwhelming and challenging to get a proper grip of everything, but slowly and steadily getting there. Meanwhile, my old project runs active again, so hopefully along that I could finally hop on board with those possessing similar interests for this type of music.
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Post by mahrgdidj on Dec 10, 2022 9:14:35 GMT -5
Itβs so cool that artists that took part in that first wave are still discovering the wider genre today. Digging your first demo right now.
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Post by skreter on Dec 12, 2022 7:40:33 GMT -5
Black Metal. I used to enjoy keyboard intro's very often even more then actual songs with guitars + of course Burzum.
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Post by lewisthemagician on Dec 20, 2022 17:36:02 GMT -5
I was reading a thread on Twitter that was talking about the "Pre-Jackson Era Middle Earth Aesthetics," AKA, how people imagined Middle-Earth before the movies. Within that thread I read about the existence of genre called "dungeon synth," and was introduced to Jim Kirkwood. I found a playlist of the same name on Spotify and was fascinated.
I am here because I wanted to know more about the artist DIM, and when I put in a google search it brought me to a post on this forum from 2017 talking about his first projects.
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Post by cryptmaiden on Dec 27, 2022 13:46:35 GMT -5
Have been really into death and black metal for a long while. Got into Dungeon Synth because an ex put on Enchantment of the Ring while our group of friends played Settlers of Catan one night four years ago. It was like literal magic. Although I was never allowed to play video games/do not have the nostalgia factor that a lot of people here have, I've been into medieval fantasy books and movies (WoT/LOTR etc) since childhood so the genre really appealed to me.
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Post by zuomak on May 18, 2023 2:23:44 GMT -5
Meme. It was picture with gandalf with caption "turn me on dungeon synth". I was interested what dungeon synth is so I looked this on youtube. I liked it so now I'm dungeon synth listener.
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Post by nurunacht on May 20, 2023 7:34:07 GMT -5
I got into more extreme forms of metal when I was around 11/12 (black, death, especially doom) and quickly realised that what really spoke to me was the slower, more atmospheric stuff, especially if there was some synth involved. Discovered the Burzum prison albums, then became obsessed with A Silhouette in Splinters by Leviathan which got me into more generally dark ambient stuff, then basically discovered dungeon synth as a genre by looking in the related genres section of the dark ambient Wikipedia page. The idea that there was this whole microgenre and community that combined my loves of ambient music, extreme metal, fantasy and video game music was too much for my young brain to handle and I've been trying to make dungeon synth ever since
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Post by Daytol on May 20, 2023 14:34:12 GMT -5
^Hey, good luck with that! It was picture with gandalf with caption "turn me on dungeon synth". I was interested what dungeon synth is so I looked this on youtube. I liked it so now I'm dungeon synth listener. Funny story! But whatever works!
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tracher999
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Post by tracher999 on Jun 8, 2023 10:55:13 GMT -5
my intrest in everything dungeons startet with my intrest in vikings and middel age stuff i m a big black metal and death metal fan to i have a intrest in dungeons and dragon lore and things like that allways was a video game fan to and i love old buildings and everything rusty
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Post by codeN1nj4 on Jun 8, 2023 15:57:30 GMT -5
I found out about DS when I was getting feedback on one of my Synthwave songs and someone mentioned it. Started looking into the genre and quickly found out about Mortiis and Depressive Silence. Been on an amazing journey through forgotten castles ever since lol.
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Post by talvisynth on Jun 20, 2023 0:13:19 GMT -5
I found out about DS when I was getting feedback on one of my Synthwave songs and someone mentioned it. Started looking into the genre and quickly found out about Mortiis and Depressive Silence. Been on an amazing journey through forgotten castles ever since lol. As a huge fan of synthwave, I'd love to hear your creations!
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Post by hadstur on Jun 24, 2023 17:04:23 GMT -5
I discover the Dungeon Synth by a french youtuber who make video about the history of it (i'm from black metal and metal at first). I find it's all i like to play at guitar, etc... because there is no voice, minimalist, ambiant etc... so all i like.
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Post by filthbeast on Jul 2, 2023 12:53:23 GMT -5
I like to listen to instrumental music while drawing so a few years ago I was searching around Bandcamp for something new and came across Hole Dweller's Flies the Coop and loved it. I noticed it had a genre tag of 'dungeon synth', clicked on it, started exploring and I've been hooked since then!
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Post by amnor on Jan 22, 2024 21:50:59 GMT -5
It was early in 2017 I think. I created a Bandcamp account to listen to music a friend had recommended (of very different styles). There was the headline for that article they put out about DS, and immediately I thought: I know what that must be about! When I was a teenager in the 1990s I spent hours poring through 1st edition AD&D manuals my sister gave me, feasting my eyes on the ink drawings, listening to music that I thought was fantastical (I couldn't afford many tapes: Enya's The Celts and Queensryche's The Warning and Rush's Caress of Steel and A Farewell to Kings figured heavily), and daydreaming. For the past seven years or so before I found that article on Bandcamp I had been listening to a fair bit of medieval music: the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, the Cantigas de Santa Maria, the Manuscrit du Roi (the royal dances), and several recordings of vocal music of the period by the Hilliard Ensemble. Their collaboration Officium with Jan Garbarek was a mainstay for much of my early adult life. Arvo PΓ€rt was another. So I saw "Dungeon Synth" and I wanted to explore. I touched on it kind of lightly at first, because I was still getting more heavily into the medieval stuff and also a bit of doom metal. I wanted to perform live: I'd been writing down bits of tunes and slowly developing them - kind of in a post-new age style. I like a lot of different kinds of music, and when I'm listening to a particular genre I tend to want to play in it. Trying to find like-minded musicians to work with on my songs has been frustrating. I've played with a few projects but for the most part developed a solo set for Renaissance faires over the past couple of years, and figured out how to record some of the songs I'd been writing in a sort of post-new age style. And then I realized that I could use a lot of my ideas for Dungeon Synth, and I was able to get a used keyboard for an affordable price, and here I am.
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