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Post by umbralresonans on Feb 11, 2024 14:25:53 GMT -5
I guess Summoning would have been the first band I listened to that had something to do with the genre. As for DS itself, I remember finding the term in the earlier days of youtube and pissing myself laughing at what seemed like a ridiculous genre name (to me). But of course from there I went deeper and got hooked on both the sound AND aesthetic...
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Post by moreteeth on Feb 12, 2024 3:42:12 GMT -5
I'm a stupid zoomer, so it was through word of mouth and the internet, unfortunately. Long story short, upon discovering black metal, I was immediately enraptured by its aesthetics; I had finally found a subculture which was preoccupied in cultivating the unique feeling of eighties and nineties Dungeons and Dragons. I truly found out about dungeon synth soon after (I had only understood it in concept before), which obviously focuses much more on the high fantasy elements than its parent genre does. I have always been a fan of ambient and old video games, because the latter was the only thing that could run on my Mac back then and former seemed to trigger my chimp brain for some reason, so it feels like a match made in heaven, really. I decided to make some of my own just recently.
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Post by countsommrab on Apr 5, 2024 9:26:57 GMT -5
Burzum introduced me to it, which I'm not proud to admit, considering the track record of Count Grishnackh. I was looking for a soundtrack to a video essay based on Disney Channel's The Owl House and how it connected to Nordic mythology. I had heard of Dungeon Synth, but I wasn't sure where to start until I asked Reddit for recommendations. The one that really got me hooked was Depressive Silence, and I remember feeling as if I had achieved Nirvana while listening to Forest of Eternity. In fact, a part of why I've procrastinated for months was just going down the rabbit hole of dungeon synth.
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Post by sinew on Apr 28, 2024 21:33:25 GMT -5
For many years I've been going down the path of ambient, dark ambient, atmospheric black metal and then dungeon synth, all discovering one after another. I feel like Striborg was a big discovery point for me, but Paysage d'Hiver was likely my first proper exposure to ds and after that I was sucked right in. Vanishing Amulet was my first discovery after diving deeper into the genre and it it still probably my favourite project of all time ha ha. I found Striborg through a typo and it it was a snowball down the hill from there. I lucked out with that typo. I find most projects nowadays on bandcamp through tags and such.
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