Trollslayer - The Pact [Full Album] (2024) (Dungeon Synth, Medieval Ambient, Epic Ambient)

Debut album by Trollslayer, inspired by the Temple of Elemental Evil. Bandcamp: trollslayer.bandcamp.com/albu...
0:00 Hommlet
3:10 The Pact
7:22 Waghalter's Wharf
10:32 The Temple
14:16 Our Enemies Grow
17:47 Martyr's March
20:59 Lost Archaisms
24:18 Frostbrand
28:16 Call To Arms
31:36 Winter's Cloak
35:00 The Battle of Eastguard
39:00 Blood
"The ruins of the Temple's outer works appear as dark and overgrown mounds of gray rubble and blackish weeds. Skulls and bones of humans and humanoids gleam white here and there amidst the weeds. A grove of some oddly stunted and unhealthy looking trees still grows along the northern end of the former Temple compound, and a stump of a tower juts up from the northeast corner of the shattered wall. The leprous gray Temple, however, stands intact, its arched buttresses somehow obscene with their growth of climbing vegetation. Everything surrounding the place is disgusting. The myriad leering faces and twisting, contorted forms writhing and posturing on every face of the Temple seem to jape at the obscenities they depict. The growth in the compound is rank and noisome. Thorns clutch, burrs stick, and crushed stems either emit foul stench or raise angry weals on exposed flesh. Worst of all, however, is the pervading fear which seems to hang over the whole area - a smothering, clinging, almost tangible cloud of vileness and horror. Sounds seem distorted, either muffled and shrill or unnaturally loud and grating. Your eyes play tricks. You see darting movements out of the corner of your eye, just at the edge of vision; but when you shift your gaze towards such, of course, there is nothing there at all. You cannot help but wonder who or what made the maze of narrow paths through the weedy courtyard. What sort of thing would wander here and there around the ghastly edifice of Evil without shrieking and gibbering and going completely mad? Yet the usual mundane sounds of your travel are accompanied only by the chorus of the winds, moaning through hundreds of Temple apertures built to sing like doomed souls given over to the tender mercies of demonkind, echoed by macabre croaks from the scattered flapping, hopping, leering ravens. There is no doubt; you have come to a place of ineffable Evil. Still, it is most certainly a place for high adventure and untold treasures. It is time to ready spells, draw weapons, check equipment, and set forth into the maze of peril that awaits you." - Gary Gygax, The Temple of Elemental Evil (1985)
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[@cademorris9]

Easily some of the best dungeon synth out there. Keep up the good work!

[@TheDukeofDeath666]

Im Soo proud of only listening to dungeon synth and heavy metal

[@ErnestoAngeles-mj1ef]

Perfect 💯

[@childhoodtimemachine8795]

Beautiful work, my friend. I'm glad the algorithm recommended this to me.

[@SuperHarshm]

Best one I've heard in a LONG while!

[@whitedude877]

Hello, what a fucking find. Thank you for creating this and sharing it.

[@cheekibreekibree1025]

Algorithm sure does wonders

[@lazercat7725]

the gods brought us here for a reason

[@Ancestral_Roots]

Well well, now we all are gathered...

[@AndreasLindblad-vs6pi]

Very good DS!

[@personious_k]

This is amazing, thank you for putting it on UA-cam for us! 💚💚💚

[@user-hz8ri4rs6x]

man, beautifull album thanks for sharing it, it was an experience in itself listening to it

[@Trollslayer-Music]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! What were your favorite tracks?

[@user-hz8ri4rs6x]

​@@Trollslayer-Music its a difficult question, but if i have to choose i would say: The Pact, The Temple, Our Enemies Grow, Frostbrand, Call to Arms (this one bring me a lot memories of Runescape, idk why but is a beautiful sensation), Winters Cloak and my favorite "Blood". Its not thar i didnt like the others, the full album experience is really good but, but listening to those ones without the rest of the songs i feel like can keep the essence of the album whithout any context*, thanks again!

[@KainYusanagi]

Linked to from Clamavi De Profundis. How fitting.

[@Lurid_Orb]

Phenominal album. Pure class 🔮

[@Simeon_Neese]

The gods have blessed us today!

[@Enshadowed]

This is exceptionally good

[@wrenn5734]

This is freaking sick!

[@Enshadowed]

Epic Synth

[@brunomarques5428]

Masterpiece 🤌🤌👌

[@joedain7320]

absolutely fantastic

[@wazoo41]

help the algorithm do it's magic

[@Hirfel]

Great album

[@Raumzeit_Cooperations]

Good job!

[@Vorlauf_]

⚔️🖤⚔️

[@junkers4561]

A very solid and interesting-sounding album. Was the soundtrack from the Phantasm film series the source of inspiration for the Temple composition?

[@Trollslayer-Music]

I'd actually never listened to the Phantasm soundtrack before, but it does have a similar motif! No, 'The Temple' was mainly inspired by Howard Shore's LotR soundtrack believe it or not. I was trying to capture the same feeling as when the Nazgûl rode out from Minas Morgul in Fellowship, though with an 80s Fantasy sound palette. Thanks for listening!

[@junkers4561]

@@Trollslayer-Music In any case, whatever the inspiration, you did well, keep it up👍

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

"The Pact" reminds me of the soundtrack of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

[@Trollslayer-Music]

It's an honor to be compared to the great Danny Elfman!

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

​@@Trollslayer-Music Yeah, you deserve it buddy.

[@stormedjustonce6626]

damn I miss Gotrek so much

[@brotendochill7053]

buena onda

[@andrewm8708]

Whoooo🫶🤘🤘🤘

[@bannor216]

i like you guys. do you guys know ghoest? can you please say hi to him for me? thanks yall

[@Trollslayer-Music]

I wish!

[@KevinMcMahan-ic3qk]

Who did the album art?

[@Trollslayer-Music]

Drew it myself :)

[@tojvatov]

@@Trollslayer-Music cool

[@ugly717]

Perfect album to play runescape with