★Heimat Der Katastrophe
HDK Adventurers Magazine 5
Dungeon-crawling aficionados and devotees of gloomy synth-music, HDK Adventurers Magazine is for you! Each issue features a bunch of expert dungeon synth musicians who score the soundtracks for four "one-page dungeons", short adventure modules for fa…
Limolith
𝕷𝖎𝖒𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖕𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖚𝖑 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝕾𝖑𝖊𝖊𝖕𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝕽𝖆𝖉𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖈𝖍. 𝖀𝖘𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖘 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖇𝖊 𝖒𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖞 𝖆𝖘 𝖆 𝖌𝖔𝖉. 𝕹…
A Tribute To Wendy Carlos (...and Of Course Bach)
Finally, HDK has a J.S. Bach cover album in its catalog! 🎉
Chronicles Of The Dreadful Moonlight Curse
" ℑ𝔫 𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔡𝔬𝔪, 𝔞 𝔡𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔯'𝔰 𝔠𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔡𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔱𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱. 𝔄 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔨 𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔰𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡, 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤�…
Abyss
It's pitch black, freezing cold and the water pressure is unbearable: we are in the depths of the sea, where sunlight no longer penetrates. The deep ocean remain full of mysteries for man: dark places where only partially known creatures live.
The se…
The Dark Seal
A recurring dream, macabre visions in which a symbol appears, a seal of a mysterious shape that you have never seen before. The dream becomes an obsession, acquiring details as the nights pass. Details that lead to an ancient dungeon dug into the mou…
Berserker
Orcus is a fantasy synth champion who made us dream first with the track entitled "The Pyramid" included in HDK Dungeon-synth Magazine n.3 and then with the incredible album "Heroes of the Last Glare", a crystalline masterpiece of epic-synth music. F…
La Strega di Salamanca
Between the '60s and the '80s the production of pulp magazines in Italy was flourishing and incredibly varied: every month hundreds of paperbacks containing strange, adventurous or more often terrifying stories came out on the newsstands. Among the m…
The Empire Of The Necromancers
Gosh!! A smelling, rotting ooze invaded the HDK offices!A bleak and morbid tape spins in our ghettoblasters: it's "The Empire of the Necromancers" by the necrophilist musician Doom Catacomb, a hymn to the dark recesses of humid dungeons...
Inspired b…
The Short And Foolish Quest Of Sylovar And Hrud
NEVER APPROACH THE GODS OF THE IMMATERIAL PLANS WITHOUT POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND A CLEAR MIND! Heimat der Katastrophe is very happy to present the album by Silencio Permanente, a dungeon synth champion from Argentina! The album, based on an original scre…
Tales Of The Dying Earth
A bizarre musical creature called Scrying Glass appeared a few years ago on the radar of the weird music fans, leaving us speechless: in Scrying Glass' music, there is the whole history of the most oblique and (today) neglected pop-rock music: a bit …
Dungeon Weed
*80 copies limited edition* "Dungeon Weed" is a minimalist fantasy-synth/new age album, but also a 28-pages comic-book which you will find inside the cassette case. Behind the name The Story Of Khelise lies a French artist who, in the dual role of ca…
Nightmare Realm
In a forgotten age, on a vanished continent, the Nightmare Realm cruelly thrived. Warlords shared power over barren and arid lands, massive armies of heavily armed soldiers guaranteed a fragile peace under the sky. Everything in this unfortunate worl…
Le Segrete Del Castello Nero
In the ancient forests of Central Italy, at the time of the late Roman Empire, bloody pagan rites took place, leaving the land imbued with dark omens; in the dark centuries that followed, sorcerers explored that past and built their knowledge on the …
Electrical Storm At The Micro Station
We are immensely pleased to welcome into the HDK catalog Mr. Graham Simpson, a champion of electronic music who was hidden in his little house up there in the north east of England. It is reductive to place Graham's music under a specific tag because…
Faer The Wanderer
Here we go again: Gnoll is back! The brutal dungeon-synth ensemble was this time involved in a collaboration of epic proportions called… Faer the WandererFaer is a Conan-esque character specifically invented for HDK by the English writer John Reppion…
Last Guard Of Honour
Concept focused on courage and defeat, as grandiloquent as it is introspective, "Last Guard of Honour" collects all the material produced by Sir Sagremor between 2021 and 2023: epic and romantic dungeon-synth that acts as a soundtrack to bloody battl…
Beneath The Violet Kingdom
"All throughout the realm of Farûm's Corners, hushed whispers of an emerging plague called The Violet Decay are spoken by it’s citizens. Four adventurers leave the safe walls of Oldminster and travel to the eastern kingdom of Sothiril to investigate.…
Iter Per Tenebras
ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔣𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔰.𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢 𝔪𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔡𝔶 𝔟𝔢𝔤𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔢 𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔴𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔰.𝔒𝔫𝔢 𝔟𝔶 𝔬𝔫𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔬𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔥𝔞𝔡 𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔳𝔢…
Starlight
Tip!!! We already met Steven Grace with his crepuscular electronic soft-rock album entitled "Eleventh Hour" (HDK 119), now let's get to know him in his most traditionally “kosmische” guise called LOGIC GATE.
Wandering through the desolate lands of th…