I went to my first live dungeon synth show last night. I naively thought I would be walking into a room full of gamers. I spoke with the organizer. He was surprised to learn that games have dungeon synth soundtracks. I’m curious what everyone else thinks about this. What’s your experience?
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Do you mean tabletop games? Because dungeon synth owes a lot to old computer games like Diablo
I’ve never been to a dungeon synth show, other than years ago (late nineties / early noughties) before it was called dungeon synth. But at that time the music was often specifically written to be the background for RPG games. Or at least it was in my case
Also, the Albion festival in London had an event mini, so you are not alone in your thinking.
An obvious gaming reference here: The Forest of Doom | Trollmann av Ildtoppberg
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Video games or tabletop games. Weren’t there mail order ads in the back of old Dragon magazines for cassettes? I assumed Dungeon Synth began with that sort of thing. I guess I should do some Internet homework.
Not sure, I didn’t buy Dragon very often, more of a White Dwarf reader.
Before the internet we used to call that sort of music “ambient black metal” locally because of the intros/outros on old BM albums.
I don’t listen to much dungeon synth, but there are so many that refer to D&D that the link is hard to miss. Eg. Gnoll
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Det som engang var by Burzum has D&D cover art and two (???) ambient tracks. That’s from the early nineties, that is what I think of when people say dungeon synth. Varg and Mortiis