IMG	MP3
	Black Wailing - Through Eternal Winters Release date: December 1994 Genre: Dungeon synth, black ambient Notes: One of my first dungeon synth recordings and still a standard I refer to. The thrift-store Halloween tape production value honestly adds so much to it; this isn't posers in a studio with professional recording equipment, these are strangers standing around you in a circle in the woods and you don't know what's gonna happen next but it isn't good. So beautifully cold. That cover is also the pinnacle of dungeon synth to me; enigmatic, anonymous, ancient and unknowable, xeroxed almost beyond recognition. Remember, tape rots just like bones do and you can hear it, drifting into it's own forever night.
	Aetherius - Aetherius 1. Release date: 2022 Genre: Dungeon synth Notes: Etherial ambient and modern classical. Probably only really dungeon synth by association.
	LORD XATHRISTIS & PENTAGRAM - SPLIT Release date: 2022 Genre: Black metal, dungeon synth Notes: Who the hell uploads an entire album in a single 32 minute MP3 like seriously man
	Pleasant Owl - Gentle Satan Release date: August 21st, 2020 Genre: Comfy synth, ambient noise wall Notes: Lovely pastoral comfy synth for wandering around old groves at twilight. The ambient noise wall closer is comfy too (hence it's name.)
	Emit - Unknown Presences Whisper Release date: 2002 Genre: Black metal, black ambient, noise Notes: "A Lunatic Hermit Dies in his Woodland Home" is the perfect encapsulation of this project. Between Emit, Ahulabrum, and Les Légions Noires, there's this secret subbasement under a trapdoor in the cellar beneath the normal black metal underground. Surreal, cursed, zero-budget, tape-recorded, delirious, and honestly just genuinely fucked. Normal people don't do things like this. People that do things like this don't live in the same universe you or I do.
	Angel Arch - Glowing Release date: 2022 Genre: Dungeon synth, ambient Notes: An odd, ambient realm. Sounds like a will-o-the-wisp, trying to lure you into the briar oh so sweetly. Soundtrack for a movie scene of a character following a prancing group of moonlit fairies off a marked path, never to be seen again. (At least the first track is, the rest has a different, but still pleasantly off-kilter vibe.)
	Twilight Stronghold - Promo Nov. 1412 Release date: November 27th, 2021 Genre: Black metal Notes: I like to make a distinction, at least in my own head, between lo-fi and raw. This is pure lo-fi.
	wooden casket - disemtombed! Release date: 2022 Genre: Dungeon synth, chiptune Notes: While probably not the greatest combination of the genres out there, it's worth a listen for the concept and nostalgic sound alone. Pretty neat.
	Blóðsúthelling - fórn til herra okkar Óðins (demo 4) Release date: 2022 Genre: Black metal Notes: Raw black metal promo from a label that was created, released a bunch, and got itself nuked over a Sonnenrad profile picture all in the span of like two months. (Average bandcamp black metal experience)
	Ahulabrum - Magonia Release date: 2005 Genre: Avant-garde black metal, black ambient Notes: One of my favorite black metal weirdos. Ahulabrum knows they're out there, he knows the truth, but he doesn't know if he's gonna find them or if they'll find him first. Esoteric, paranoniac, unidenfied, still missing.
	Gammal Sed - Blót Release date: 2010 Genre: Black metal, black noise Notes: How far can you take black metal into realms of low fidelity before it begins to fall apart at the seams like DNA under heavy radiation? Gammal Sed wants to find out.
	Vzaéurvbtre - Urvdrem Uatre Uetre Release date: 1996 Genre: Dark ambient Notes: Tape of unsettling violin scratching, from the same black metal circle that brought you a tape of staged torture (on the album titled Torture (by the artist Torture)), whatever this is, and may or may not have actually lived in an ancient castle. I mean, I believe it.
	Judaswiege - Denken in der ewigkeit Release date: December 1st, 2010 Genre: DSBM Notes: I'm gonna steal necro666's RYM review because it says it better than I can; "Cheap demo mp3s recorded in a filthy bedroom are sometimes more thought provoking and mind opening than a proper release and a 500$ corpsepaint. This Costarican one-man project takes Ildjarn primitive energy further, deconstructs it until he gets free folk black improv without any drums, just a guy playing poorly some minor chords and screaming the fuck out of his lungs [...] I know, I know, you can't call this metal, or even black metal, but I somehow feel this shit is more sincere than anything I have listened to in last 2 years."
	Anti_Boof_Association - předávkování kokainem Release date: 2022 Genre: Grindcore Notes: Black-metal influenced grindcore, with vaguelly conspiratorial samples.
	HEXENSPEED 666 - DRUG SYNTH MADNESS Release date: 2022 Genre: Tanzelcore3 Notes: Drug-fueled lo-fi techno dungeon synth, but still with a pounding black metal spirit.
	CATHEDRAL ASHES - DEMO 2022 Release date: 2022 Genre: Black metal, dungeon synth Notes: Lo-fi black metal alternative with beautiful dungeon synth pieces.
	Völkisches Blut productions - Anti_Boof-Blóðsúthelling Split "Towards a new beginning" Release date: 2022 Genre: Raw black metal, grindcore Notes: I think the cover is the Buffalo shooting livestream? It was released around the time. In usual Völkisches Blut form, it's absurdly raw black metal, with random forays into goofy hardcore electronic.
	Völkisches Blut productions - Blóðsúthelling-Jake Movez Split "Enlightened Autospy" Release date: 2022 Genre: Black metal Notes: 3 tracks of black metal, one noise loop, and three completely out-of-place electronic hip-hop tracks. Truly kvlt.
	Blóðsúthelling - Keisaraleg blóðsúthelling (demo 1) Release date: 2022 Genre: Raw black metal Notes: Occasional sad synths. Lo-fi black metal ranging from slow and trudging to rapid and pummelling.
	Plants! - My Mobile Little Greenhouse Release date: April 16th, 2020 Genre: Comfy synth Notes: Botanical comfy synth, verging on ambient and easy listening. Very pleasant.
	Split Lip Loser - talking to myself Release date: January 2021 Genre: DSBM Notes: Immensely raw depressive riffs and vocals that are like... do you know what kittencore is to emo? This is like that, for DSBM.
	Corrupted - Collection 1995-2002 Release date: 2023 Genre: Sludge Metal, Drone Metal, Doom Metal, Dark Ambient Notes: Bootleg of rare works from the classic Japanese sludge/drone/doom group.
	Cist - Murder Music Release date: 2020 Genre: Metal Notes: Not black metal, just regular metal. I'm bad at IDing this kind of genre, sorry. I believe this is a bootleg of a Myspace-era grind, compiled by Octa Möbius Sheffner and featuring their cover art.
	Furmaster - Fur Metal Attack Release date: September 27th, 2023 Genre: War Metal Notes: No hostages.