As a longtime fan and player of tabletop games of every sort I’ve always found it helpful to have music selected for writing material for games, whatever the setting, especially those that are bleak or horror oriented, in which case, Undead Magic User’s “Master of Dungeons” has satisfied my profane desires.
The subtle charms of this album cannot be overstated, as it eschews the bombast and pomp of many dungeon synth releases in favor of ominous minimalism and droning effects used masterfully to craft an atmosphere of windswept charnal ruins and desolate wilderness mortified by calamities untold.
Throughout its solemn resonance listeners encounter the rattling of chains, the crackling of dying bonfires, the sound of deep, cold winds bellowing deep within chasms in the cracked and blistered earth. The images that Master of Dungeons conjures are limited only by listeners’ imaginations. One envisions legions of undead conscripts marching to an endless bloody war or the depths of an immense oubliette where stars taunt feeble inhabitants from unreachable lofty heights, or something perhaps more sinister still.
If you enjoy horror, tabletop gaming, dungeon synth, dark ambient, and noise, give Master of Dungeons by Undead Magic User a shot.
Listen to this mystifying hybrid of dark ambient and noise (“dungeon noise”) below:
Master of Dungeons by Undead Magic User
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