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| | TheSpirit's 2018 WK4 - listens,thoughts, and thots | | 1 |  | Dwalin
The Fall of Gondolin
Dwalin does justice to the fabled grandeur of the great Elven Kingdom of Gondolin, realm of Turgon, Lord of Nevrast, King of Gondolin, Lord of the House of the King, High King of the Noldor.
3.3-3.5/5 | | 2 |  | Sanguine Moon
What Shadows Once Hid...
What Shadows Once Hid... feels legitimately frightening. It's build-up of distorted ambiance rumbling below mysterious chants and foreboding euphoria creates an uncomfortable yet oddly enjoyable tension.
3.3/5 | | 3 |  | Basic Dungeon
HDK 06 † Tunnels & Treasures
Fitting squarely into video game soundtrack dungeon synth, the aim of Tunnels & Treasures is nostalgia, but it falls just short of the mark.
2.5-2.7/5 | | 4 |  | Castillo
Castillo
A quaint hybrid of dungeon synth and 8-bit that is fine, but doesn't really create much of an atmosphere to invest in.
2.1-2.3/5 | | 5 |  | A Letter for Carmilla
Coffin
I'm not completely sure how I feel about this album. It's frantic, hurried, and carries a decidedly gothic tone than most dungeon synth. There's something very unsettling and foreboding about Coffin, like the hair-raising sensation one might get walking down a dark, candlelight hallway with the feeling of something or someone trailing just behind.
3.7-4/5 | | 6 |  | Whispering Oak
Feast of the Warlords
Beautifully ethereal dungeon synth that reminds of green pastures and great rolling fields more than dank, wet chambers resting below castles.
3.5/5 | | 7 |  | Esgaroth
Hail Darkness
Instrumental melodic black metal with flourishes of symphonic pomp. It's actually pretty well balanced, and though the music is fairly conventional for the genre, it's still catchy with that touch of rough around the edges.
3-3.2/5 | | 8 |  | Tiny Moving Parts
Swell
Their best album in my opinion. Captures the energy of their earlier albums and builds into the more mature song structures of their past two.
4.1-4.5/5 | | 9 |  | Aksumite
Vinegar Perimeter
https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/75971/Aksumite-Vinegar-Perimeter/
tl;dr version - 2.5 (2.7)/5 | |
TheSpirit
01.29.18 | Copy and pasted sound-offs because why write about the same thing twice? Gimme some recs please. | Dinosaur
01.29.18 | Nice DS on here. I've only heard Sanguine Moon. New Old Tower in Feb. Spectral Kingdom III dropped this month. New Ulvesang tracks. I'll be checking some of these. | hansoloshotfirst
01.29.18 | yeah, 9 is pretty meh , will check 5 .
recs:
Nahadoth-Child of Star (Dungeon synth)
Entheogen Without Veil, Nor Self (bm from the end of last year)
Evil Warriors- Fall from Reality | TheSpirit
01.29.18 | Thanks dudes! Can't wait for the new Old Tower. I've never listened to Spectral Kingdom or Ulvesang before, so I'll check them out.
solo, you should like 5, it's pretty chilling. Thanks for the recs, too! | ScuroFantasma
01.29.18 | Nice list as usual Spirit | TheSpirit
01.30.18 | thanks scuro :* |
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