One time, when I was about 3-4 years old, I snuck out and walked into the woods behind my house. I ended up getting lost for several hour, before being found by my parents. I was completely alone and just wandering for the entire time. I did not panic, nor was I scared. I was one with the wilderness. I still have dreams about it, to this day. This album cover, instantly brought that memory back, even before the song started playing. Before this song, all I had were the memories of that day. After hearing this album, I can now feel the feelings I felt that day (if that makes sense).
Thank you so much for sharing this story. I think that feeling of connection with the mother nature is a rare topic, hence I am glad for any mention. I had similar feeling when listening to Foglord - Stillness: ua-cam.com/video/UsKAxhoLmFc/v-deo.html And by the way, I've read somewhere, that (only?) psychopaths tend to not feel connection with nature. ^^
Enchanting and evocating album, foggy and at the same time bucolic .. this album is just as good to listen in winter than in the beginning of spring .. ! It helps you imagine a beautiful scenery across vast lands and green forests, filled with little fairies !
The cover invokes a series of dreams that I haven't had yet. I don't know if that makes sense, but I can't make sense of my feelings right now. I'd like to thank you, sir. I'm an aspiring writer who needs ambiance while I work, and this album is a godsend.
PHOSPHENIC MIXING APPLIED TO EDUCATION Developing memory and intelligence by combining thoughts with phosphenes For learning a mathematics lesson, the student thinks about the formula he is studying during the phosphene‘s presence.
I’m listening to this in the car at work during this covid-19 pandemic here in New Jersey. It’s 17-3-2020. It’s raining, and there’s barely any movement outside. Really desolate and eerie feeling for sure. Hope everyone is safe out there
Agreed. I have been listening in a daily basis for some time. Also, if anyone knows more dungeon synth acts/projects with such use of traditional synthesizer sounds, please tell me!
"For a long time, you think... ‘no one has ever suffered the way I’ve suffered’... And then you realize... that your suffering does not isolate you... that your suffering is your bridge." -James Baldwin
@@jhonviel7381 Many things... but I also suffer from pains that seem rather to isolate me than to build any bridges. Not gonna go further into that but that's my experience.
This one blew my mind when i discovered it. I was born in South Germany in 95 and moved to North Germany 5 years ago. The atmosphere and feelings i got from hills, trees and landscapes here is something i never thought would or could be captured by music and graphic art in such a beautiful and poetic way. And the soft and silent approach to it is what impresses me even more. Truly an important cultural artifact for me. Sending out much love to the whole dungeon Synth and Ambient community.
@@pikpik42 You're welcome. I'm an Art History student, and 'Huldra Forsvant' is one of my favourite paintings, so I'm very happy to have been able to share that with you. 😊
I totally agree and think that's what makes ambient music so special, and dungeon synth and its subgenres (winter/forest synth) in particular. There are certain groves, valleys, hillsides, etc. with distinctive landmarks that must have taken on a kind of spiritual significance in pagan times, and somehow it feels like some of that could be passed on genetically so that we can feel it when we visit such places. Other music that does this for me when it comes to magical European landscapes would be Forlorn Kingdom - Walking the Paths of Old, Til Det Bergens Skyggene - Vandringen I, Narghaash - Durch Wälder depressiver Stille (German, so right up your alley), Foglord - New Realms and Forgotten Lands, and Foglord - Celestial. Side note: North Germany shares a border with Denmark, and the further north you go, the closer you get to sacred ancient peat bogs and swamps, until you get to places like Zealand, where human sacrifices were made to water spirits, and where Beowulf takes place.
My name name is German. It’s not on here obviously but, yeah, anyhow my grandpa on my dad’s side was 100% German. I miss it yet I’ve never been there. That makes me very sad. Same with Norway, as he married a Norwegian woman. They have both passed and I have cousins that live there to this today but I’ve always been too poor to go.
This sounds like very 90's video gamey to me. Pretty much right between SNES and PS1, right when 3D games were just in their infancy. Kinda like those old 2.5D point and click or adventure PC games back in the day.
@@levitatingoctahedron922 call me ignorant, but I can't see much connection to this genre with black metal. Seems more like atmospheric/video gamey style to me. Like, I know there is a connection, but my ears/brain can't hear it.
@@chuvarova6052 this genre originated from black metal, but has since largely been taken over by video game music influence. all of the very first dungeon synth artists were also black metal artists or connected to the black metal community. I'm not saying that later stuff "isn't real dungeon synth!!1!" the way some people do, just giving a little history lesson. personally I think the genre has improved with the influence game music has had on it.
Same artist, actually. This is Theodor Kittelsen's "The Fairy that Disappeared". Filosofem's album cover is a piece called "Up in the Hills a Clarion Call Rings Out".
Incredible melancholic, yet accessible album. Minimal layers and perfectly programmed synths providing the listener with an intimate connection with the natural world and the imaginary. Quite beautiful, really.
This album is simply outstanding. Beautiful melancholic melodies, dense low-mid synths, touching high synths, solid instruments. All i expect from brilliant dungeon synth. Beautiful.
I couldn't discern any melodies at all, possibly a repetitive chord pattern but nothing distinct. I'd expect dungeon synth to be more definitive and not just background music for meditation.
I was making a school work about the disapear people in totalitarism, and I feel a lot with this music. And I write a poem at same time. Thanx by this very well master piece where I surround the feelings. And sorry by the bad english...
I was making a instant noodles at home, a little high, and i just sat at my chair and for some reason i said to myself: " this part of internet is weird, but i'm so fucking happy to have found it" And i just let my noodles burn...
The picture is from a Norwegian painter, called (Theodor Kittelsen) who was famous for painting norwegian folktales like trolls and witches. You guys should check out his paintings, it's very mysthical.
Create a dark fantasy world, drawing characters and writing its history, becomes something quite unique and special while listening to this. I didn't know I needed this genre in my life... thank you.
Re-reading The Hobbit for the first time in years while listening to this. Have also had on some Kirkwood and Balrog, of course, and even Caladon Brood's album (which may have been a little raucous but was fitting enough).
Glad to have found this channel. I have listened to some Dungeon Synth before but now I have a bunch of albums to look through. Also glad the bandcamps are linked in every description, beautiful channel.
The picture caught my attention, looks much like moss covered lava flows of the eastern lowveld region, between northan drakensberg and lebombo mountains,! boarder region...(..edge of kruger national park ) southafrica /mozambique!
Phosphenism! PHOSPHENIC MIXING APPLIED TO EDUCATION Developing memory and intelligence by combining thoughts with phosphenes For learning a mathematics lesson, the student thinks about the formula he is studying during the phosphene‘s presence.
Not really; the girl from the Filosofem cover is a human girl (it's based on a historical event that took place in the 1600s, she blows the horn to alert her fellow Norwegians that Scottish mercenaries are making their way up the valley), while the "girl" that has disappeared in the fog is a huldr, a female mythical creature. This piece is titled "Huldra forsvant", or "The Huldr Disappeared".
Aindulmedir has to be one of the best DS project ever. His new release (Star Lore) is like the continuation of The Lunar Lexicon; give it a listen if you haven't done so yet!
One time, when I was about 3-4 years old, I snuck out and walked into the woods behind my house. I ended up getting lost for several hour, before being found by my parents. I was completely alone and just wandering for the entire time. I did not panic, nor was I scared. I was one with the wilderness. I still have dreams about it, to this day.
This album cover, instantly brought that memory back, even before the song started playing. Before this song, all I had were the memories of that day. After hearing this album, I can now feel the feelings I felt that day (if that makes sense).
Thank you so much for sharing this story. I think that feeling of connection with the mother nature is a rare topic, hence I am glad for any mention. I had similar feeling when listening to Foglord - Stillness: ua-cam.com/video/UsKAxhoLmFc/v-deo.html And by the way, I've read somewhere, that (only?) psychopaths tend to not feel connection with nature. ^^
This is the power that music holds, friend.
I'm glad you didn't encounter a sasquatch
Very interesting to hear. The art featured is Huldra forsvant (The Hulder that Disappeared) by Theodor Kittelsen.
Enchanting and evocating album, foggy and at the same time bucolic .. this album is just as good to listen in winter than in the beginning of spring .. ! It helps you imagine a beautiful scenery across vast lands and green forests, filled with little fairies !
The cover invokes a series of dreams that I haven't had yet. I don't know if that makes sense, but I can't make sense of my feelings right now.
I'd like to thank you, sir. I'm an aspiring writer who needs ambiance while I work, and this album is a godsend.
PHOSPHENIC MIXING APPLIED TO EDUCATION Developing memory and intelligence by combining thoughts with phosphenes For learning a mathematics lesson, the student thinks about the formula he is studying during the phosphene‘s presence.
What does bucolic mean?
@@luvyou4865 according to the Cambridge Dictionary: relating to the countryside
But... the fairy has disappeared.
I literally just discovered Dungeon Synth music about half an hour ago, but it's exactly the sort of thing I've spent years looking for. :)
Joyous to see someone else find this wonderful channel. make sure to subscribe if you haven't already. They put out good stuff all the time
Felt the same when I discovered it.
same here man
I discovered Dungeon Synth some hours ago too. What is it? Looks like ambient music but intentionally on old RPG style
Me too 🖤
I’m listening to this in the car at work during this covid-19 pandemic here in New Jersey. It’s 17-3-2020. It’s raining, and there’s barely any movement outside. Really desolate and eerie feeling for sure. Hope everyone is safe out there
Stay safe buddy
Get a room
@Allodium spot on. At first it seemed real...then it all fell apart. There’s people that don’t see it when it was pretty damn obvious
i miss the stillness
Why did you write the date like us? Don't u guys write it wrong like, month/day/year?
The synth tone on the first track is possibly the best tone I have ever heard, I love this
I really think Moon Snatcher, the first track, is the best piece of music I will ever hear. It's absolutely incredible.
Agreed. I have been listening in a daily basis for some time.
Also, if anyone knows more dungeon synth acts/projects with such use of traditional synthesizer sounds, please tell me!
"For a long time, you think... ‘no one has ever suffered the way I’ve suffered’... And then you realize... that your suffering does not isolate you... that your suffering is your bridge." -James Baldwin
I dunno about that, man.
@@Vingul what dont you know?
@@jhonviel7381 Many things... but I also suffer from pains that seem rather to isolate me than to build any bridges. Not gonna go further into that but that's my experience.
@@Vingul i guess gods trying to tell you something...
@@jhonviel7381 what's with the snark, guy?
This one blew my mind when i discovered it. I was born in South Germany in 95 and moved to North Germany 5 years ago. The atmosphere and feelings i got from hills, trees and landscapes here is something i never thought would or could be captured by music and graphic art in such a beautiful and poetic way. And the soft and silent approach to it is what impresses me even more. Truly an important cultural artifact for me. Sending out much love to the whole dungeon Synth and Ambient community.
In case you weren't already aware, the cover art for the album is the painting 'Huldra Forsvant' by the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen.
@@90RavenBlack wonderful. Thank you very much.
@@pikpik42 You're welcome. I'm an Art History student, and 'Huldra Forsvant' is one of my favourite paintings, so I'm very happy to have been able to share that with you. 😊
I totally agree and think that's what makes ambient music so special, and dungeon synth and its subgenres (winter/forest synth) in particular. There are certain groves, valleys, hillsides, etc. with distinctive landmarks that must have taken on a kind of spiritual significance in pagan times, and somehow it feels like some of that could be passed on genetically so that we can feel it when we visit such places. Other music that does this for me when it comes to magical European landscapes would be Forlorn Kingdom - Walking the Paths of Old, Til Det Bergens Skyggene - Vandringen I, Narghaash - Durch Wälder depressiver Stille (German, so right up your alley), Foglord - New Realms and Forgotten Lands, and Foglord - Celestial. Side note: North Germany shares a border with Denmark, and the further north you go, the closer you get to sacred ancient peat bogs and swamps, until you get to places like Zealand, where human sacrifices were made to water spirits, and where Beowulf takes place.
My name name is German. It’s not on here obviously but, yeah, anyhow my grandpa on my dad’s side was 100% German. I miss it yet I’ve never been there. That makes me very sad. Same with Norway, as he married a Norwegian woman. They have both passed and I have cousins that live there to this today but I’ve always been too poor to go.
The fairy that dissappeared is absolutely magnificent!
Faries/? More like Ghosts, Or Grim Reapers
There's magic in the fog. This album opens a path to find it.
May we all pray to have some adventure in our life!!
This sounds like very 90's video gamey to me. Pretty much right between SNES and PS1, right when 3D games were just in their infancy. Kinda like those old 2.5D point and click or adventure PC games back in the day.
careful, you'll trigger the black metal fans that insist video game music has nothing to do with dungeon synth.
@@levitatingoctahedron922 call me ignorant, but I can't see much connection to this genre with black metal. Seems more like atmospheric/video gamey style to me. Like, I know there is a connection, but my ears/brain can't hear it.
@@chuvarova6052 this genre originated from black metal, but has since largely been taken over by video game music influence. all of the very first dungeon synth artists were also black metal artists or connected to the black metal community. I'm not saying that later stuff "isn't real dungeon synth!!1!" the way some people do, just giving a little history lesson. personally I think the genre has improved with the influence game music has had on it.
sort of reminds me of filosofem cover. good tunes
Same artist, actually. This is Theodor Kittelsen's "The Fairy that Disappeared". Filosofem's album cover is a piece called "Up in the Hills a Clarion Call Rings Out".
ah makes sense then. his art his fantastic
Incredible melancholic, yet accessible album. Minimal layers and perfectly programmed synths providing the listener with an intimate connection with the natural world and the imaginary. Quite beautiful, really.
Wie schön....
gotta thank the artist for producing one of the most lighthearted dungeon synth albums out there 🙇♂
This album is simply outstanding. Beautiful melancholic melodies, dense low-mid synths, touching high synths, solid instruments. All i expect from brilliant dungeon synth. Beautiful.
I couldn't discern any melodies at all, possibly a repetitive chord pattern but nothing distinct. I'd expect dungeon synth to be more definitive and not just background music for meditation.
This is the kind of thing that gets me in the mood to write. Excellent
Art calls art
what you write?
this channel is pure gold!.
a rare, settled, composed channel.
Thanks man :)
The second half of Fortress Of Imprisonment is probably the most beautiful dungeon synth composition I've ever heard.
bojler elado!
All the songs on this album are incredibly relaxing and almost unsettling.
I was making a school work about the disapear people in totalitarism, and I feel a lot with this music. And I write a poem at same time. Thanx by this very well master piece where I surround the feelings. And sorry by the bad english...
Can I read your poems? I'm intrigued
@@mattwlv7516 I would traduce them, it's in spanish. I'm south american
@@gnarledmusic688 I am learning spanish (but mexican dialect), I'm interested if you're willing to post them somewhere
Came across this a few days, brilliant synth love it.
I was making a instant noodles at home, a little high, and i just sat at my chair and for some reason i said to myself: " this part of internet is weird, but i'm so fucking happy to have found it"
And i just let my noodles burn...
The picture is from a Norwegian painter, called (Theodor Kittelsen) who was famous for painting norwegian folktales like trolls and witches. You guys should check out his paintings, it's very mysthical.
I just discover this genre yesterday and I feel I already knew this long time ago ! Thanks Dungeon Synth Archives :)
Greetings from France !
Albums like these feels like opening a door to a whole new part of life, beautiful work Vindkaldr.
Create a dark fantasy world, drawing characters and writing its history, becomes something quite unique and special while listening to this. I didn't know I needed this genre in my life... thank you.
Beautiful chill music!! :) :) :)
The adventure continues!! :) :) :)
Dungeon Synth is the song of magic worlds, transcedentale in the mind!
It makes me think of fantasy aesthetics from the 70s and earlier but with 90s fidelity.
Sipping Wild Turkey 101. Alone in the balcony at night. Life is good. This channel is ♥️
I really like this album.
I just discovered dungeon synth, and I love it. Reminds me of old 90's PC games like Ultima 7.
"Hibernation in Winter Castle" reminds me of Paysage D'hiver. Very cold and isolated. Nice.
What magic...
I’ve listened to this album 100 times and it’s still just as great as the first time. Absolutely stunning.
This is one of my fav albums ever. It's soo calming, beautiful...If it's avalible on CD, I'll probably buy this as my bday present soon
Theodor Kittelsen - Huldra Forsvant Da (The Fairy that Disappeared)
fairy music at its finest :) love it
I've listened through a couple albums on here, this has to be my favorite, I keep coming back to it.
Open it when the dawn comes. So satisfying..
From the first few notes, I am in love
Of everything I've listened to on your channel this is 100% my favorite. At least right now.
Beautiful music and cover
"My wife is still not at home. She still stands on that hill and blows her trumpet. I really want a sandwich..."
Ahah your idea takes shape if I imagine this cover next to that of Filosofem album, great!
LOL I wonder how many people got the reference
@@dailywarcraftreforged9816 Maybe that's because Filosofem is the most famous black metal album by the most famous black metal artist.
@@tratata8199 and both covers are works of same artist, Theodor Kittelsen
hahaha omg i catch it very quickly! as a black metal and dungeon-synth fan
Awesome artist and album a pure jewel !
This is excellent I want to live here!
Re-reading The Hobbit for the first time in years while listening to this.
Have also had on some Kirkwood and Balrog, of course, and even Caladon Brood's album (which may have been a little raucous but was fitting enough).
Reminds me of Daggerfall a bit.
Beautiful, good thinking music.
Glad to have found this channel. I have listened to some Dungeon Synth before but now I have a bunch of albums to look through. Also glad the bandcamps are linked in every description, beautiful channel.
I think I fell in love with this album. Too relaxing
Nice Kittelsen cover and I can hear some Ildjarn & Nidhogg influences from Hardengervidda period
Such a nice Channel. Thanks for all the nice music!
embers of burning light is my favorite track on this.
How amazing is this???? CRAZY AMAZING!
Reminds me of Twin Peaks strangely enough
I love this one so much honnestly.
Perfect study music for flight school. Thanks fam
Wow, that's what I needed, love your channel. Thanks!
very nice ambiance music
Beautiful
amo el dungeon synth, lo mejor combinación con el dark ambient folk o medieval con black
Amazing! Like Mortiis in "Fodt Til A Herske"...
The picture caught my attention, looks much like moss covered lava flows of the eastern lowveld region, between northan drakensberg and lebombo mountains,! boarder region...(..edge of kruger national park ) southafrica /mozambique!
Track four is reminding me of SotC and I'm loving every second.
Eerie and beautiful, just how dungeon synth should be.
Merci pour cette chaîne
Glorious stuff
this is a GEM
FILOSOFEM
Best of the best!
Im vibing
Llevo 6 meses enganchado con este genero de dioses, esta obra maestra ha contribuido a llevar mi existencia!
Banger!
Unreal
it s funny , for me, a type of music that i will ever have followed in old ost rpg game, i have found that is a genre
lol.
Muito bom
Feels like living in Faxanadu
if you didn't start your day to some viking synth wave you need to get back to bed and try again.
Reminds me of the ambient Varg's albums, but sounding more solid and better musically.
Am I incorrect in thinking that track 4 is the same melody as greensleeves?
5:00
man, this is such a chill kinda music. I could just imagine living in a forest somewhere and listening to this, baked out on some fire. 420 guys.
Where's Ambient II already? :P
Got a Burzum vibe from the cover
Theodor Kittelsen is the painter
Dungeon synth burzum filosofem
Hi from Turkey. your music is nice. I am writing and voicing a science fiction story.
This album and artwork remind me to H.P. Lovecraft opera!
this just sounds like Winterbeast
🤘💣🤘
Phosphenism! PHOSPHENIC MIXING APPLIED TO EDUCATION Developing memory and intelligence by combining thoughts with phosphenes For learning a mathematics lesson, the student thinks about the formula he is studying during the phosphene‘s presence.
cool music. painting by Theodor Severin Kittelsen?
👍👍👍
Corentin nice pic dude
çok güzel
Meursault walkin on the beach on my mind
Can somebody please tell me that what is that synth sound called which is used in "moon snatcher"?
Minecraft vibes
Is there anything like this with vocals?
RuneScape
he be looking for dat girl from burzum album, you know the one
Not really; the girl from the Filosofem cover is a human girl (it's based on a historical event that took place in the 1600s, she blows the horn to alert her fellow Norwegians that Scottish mercenaries are making their way up the valley), while the "girl" that has disappeared in the fog is a huldr, a female mythical creature. This piece is titled "Huldra forsvant", or "The Huldr Disappeared".
This is the only dungeon synth that can rival Aindulmedir, for me
Aindulmedir has to be one of the best DS project ever. His new release (Star Lore) is like the continuation of The Lunar Lexicon; give it a listen if you haven't done so yet!
@@rockerlalee I love Star Lore!!