★Heimat Der Katastrophe
Confessions of a Satan's Priestess
A murderer wanders the shabby streets of the city, between gloomy concrete buildings, under the pale autumn sky... in the background a delusional legend about a witch burned at the stake, strange sadistic rites and the consume of bad drugs. Here is the soundtrack of a mysterious slasher film never shot. A story of satanism, sex and suspence, set in a gray and anonymous city of the former Soviet Union. The music is reminiscent of the Italian horror-thrillers of the 70s-80s (Dario Argento, Lucio F…
Autopsia Edström
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 most popular italian pulp magazines was the horror series "I Racconti di Dracula" (Tales of Dracula) published by Baron Cantarella: each issue of "I Racconti di Dracula" contained a grim and disturbing story, inspired by Italian gothic and giallo cine…
Electric star
In Italy, the Berlin School style of Electronic Music has found poor diffusion in the '70s; few were the musicians who have followed the German cosmic way: surely the most important among them was Baffo Banfi, keyboardist of the prog-band "Biglietto per l'Inferno" and author of beautiful albums with funny titles such as "Galaxy my dear" (1978) and "Ma, Dolce Vita" (1979), that we recommend everyone to listen to. It’s a pleasure to meet today in Italy new disciples of the cosmic couriers such as …
The Tower of Doom
HDK proudly announce this incredible album by a well-known artist from the Dungeon Synth scene. Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the new FVRFVR (aka Lord Cervos) album!
Hog Maiden
The stagnant waters of the Glunkken mire are inhabited by mysterious creatures. They hide stories whose roots go back to ancient and forgotten times. A heroine drags herself along the swamp, armed only with her sword. She holds a bag, which contains a precious relic from the past. She is headed for the black fortress, where she will meet a strange and cruel deity. And she will discover something moving and unpredictable. HDK team is very proud to introduce you this little gem, a condensation of …
A smashing adventure
Welcome to an enchanted land where everything is strange and mysterious. The songs on this cassette are ancient incantations that make us travel back in time to our childhood, when music was a daydream and everyday life a strange adventure. There's something arcane and primal in the tinkling of notes here: in the lo-fi ohms of tracks like "Holy Smoke" and "Field," in the twilight pace of "Bell Tower" or in the epic broomstick space ride of "A castle at the heart of an asteroid field."
The music …
Utflykter I Den Svenska Skogen
*Edition of 100 copies* The eight bucolic tracks on this album entitled "Excursions in the Swedish forest" were composed by an anonymous musician in an unspecified year, probably for a promotional documentary from the Swedish Ministry of Tourism. Anyway, you don't need to have too much information to enjoy this sweet album: we recommend that you let yourself be guided by the music in an imaginary excursion among fir and birch trees, crystal clear waterways and pleasant landscapes, to discover th…
Perils In The Slums Scenario One: The Orcs Commune
The Slums: the place where the strongest prevails and gangs of humanoid fight for dominance ... but also an excellent place for adventure and gain! C'mon folks ... let's start the quest! Hey folks, welcome to a new Basic Dungeon saga! In this episode, our heroes will have to deal with a tribe of orcs holed up in the suburban sewers, with a giant millipede really hungry and with the usual pitfalls of which all the dungeons are full; furthermore, they will discover the entrance to an ancient under…
HDK Dungeon-Synth Magazine N° 5 / Winter 2021
Hello dungeoncrawlers! With this fifth chapter of HDK Dungeon Synth Magazine we cut the ribbon and enter the second year of life! A year of extraordinary adventures, of intrepid descents into the dungeons of our imagination, facing our most hidden fears and the most frightening monsters. But also by conquering lots of treasures, magical weapons and earning a ton of experience points! We want to thank all the artists who have finished their quest in these first five episodes and those who are sti…
The Legend Of The Wicked Pirates
A kidnapping of a duke's young daughter, an unknown island from which no one has ever returned alive, a gang of mysterious pirates and their legendary treasure... what does it all mean? Obvious: the beginning of another adventure!
Music For Dungeons
Sharpen your sword and light the torches, Gnoll is back! The dungeon music masters hidden behind the monicker of Gnoll have created a bleak, sepulchral, eerie album... the soundtrack of a true underground exploration. Designed as a soundtrack of the solitary role-playing game titled "Dungeons" edited by Dungeoneer Games & Simulations, the second chapter of Gnoll is ideal for those who love dark vibrations and sense of wonder. With its analogic synthtizers and its thundering percussions will tran…
The Quest For The Chalice Of Life
Elytheria lies in ruins! Cities are being deserted as people flee in panic from the undead force that rose in the southern kingdom. For generations, the prophecy has been thought nothing more than a tale to fright children. Yet still, a fortnight ago, it proved to be true.It was said that if a king's firstborn son were to die on a full moon, the Lichs would return and lay siege over the rule of the kingdom. And indeed, under their mighty spells the dead have been rising from their graves to wrea…
Kowloon Neon-City (Episode Two)
HDK is proud to introduce you the second episode of "Kowloon Neon City", the immaginary distopic and retro-futuristic anime released in 199X. In this second part, the story moves from the rejected city of Kowloon to its double Olympus. We will discover a world permeated by technology that brings many aspects of our reality forward, to the extreme consequences. Mei and Cheng, once again the protagonists of this story, have to fight for their lives against the global sistem of surveillance. And we…
Новая Земля
October 30, 1961 at 11:30 a.m. (Moscow time) is unleashed in Mitjusicha Bay, island of Novaya Zemlya, the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever built. The Tzar-Bomb had a detonation power of more than 3000 times the power of the bomb thrown on Hiroshima. Its radius of destruction was 35 km. and the fire reached a height of 64 km. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_BombaAfter that test, the world wondered whether to continue the research in nuclear devices. It would have been a dead end lane leading to self d…
Vanexa
Vanexa fights in the 99th year of the Holistic Era in the League of Chrononauts, who protect the good future from the bad one. Vanexa has the power to steal people's shadows, and tonight she wants to steal the shadow of Xiao Xiao, the illegitimate son of the Supreme Manager of the Asian Totalitarian Exchange visiting Moscow-5: she wants to ask for a millionaire ransom and thus finance the hacker-guerilla of the Digital Liberation Front.However, a sniper kills Xiao Xiao before she can carry out h…
A Dungeon In The Tundra
Why have you gone so far, into this desolate and inhospitable land? What can be buried under this frozen earth? The legends of the nomadic peoples, some rumors of the miners, a strange dream, so vivid... the last outpost was a ruined tower dating back to a war no one remembers anymore. Useful for sheltering from the thin wolves, with the eyes full of blood, that mysteriously live in this cursed land. In the dream's vision the access into the earth was like you are seeing it now. The map scrawled…
The Cave of the Lost Talisman
* Deluxe LP edition with Obi + 20 pages RPG module w/map! * Kobold is a new catacombal composer specialized in dungeon-wave at 8-16 bit. "The Cave of the Lost Talisman" is a D&D adventure module for basic set with players level 1-3. Get down to the dungeon's darkness and be ready to an experience full of moisture and danger. There's a lot of umanoids armed with spiked clubs who hide in the tunnels of an abandoned mine... Retrogamers RPG lovers and old-school dungeons-synth fans should not miss …
Hdk Dungeon-synth Magazine # 4
* Limited to 200 copies Pro-dubbed solid yellow cassette + 28 pages booklet * Happy Halloween! With the fourth chapter of this project we experience the classic formula of “scary tales” like in many horror movies of the 80s! Short and terrifying stories, in the best tradition of exploitation. How do you “scare” with music? There are many different approaches: you can work on the timbre of sounds, creating disturbing and alien sound waves that send shivers down your spine. Or weave dark and sinis…
The Fortress Of Kruglach
* Limited Edition to 200 copies This is the soundtrack of the omonymous adventure published in “Proteus” Magazine (U.K.) in year 1986. * In the elder days, beyond the ancient forest of Regnad, the evil Sorcerer Kruglach built for himself a mighty fortress of stone. He retreated into this, to experiment with dark and terrible enchantments, and a fear fell upon the land. The people were afflicted with plague and pestilence; animals and children vanished from their homes at dead of night; and th…
Beyond The Silvered Pane
Your host for this dungeon is that cheerful mercantile dwarf, Marcelanius the Fair. And fair he is, if you are fair with him. Those who try to cheat him find he swings a mean war hammer. After purchasing an old mirror (which proved to be the entrance to many separate planes of existence), he saw a chance to make some money off current dungeon-delving craze and developed his Looking Glass Dungeon (no cracks about Alice in Wonderland)". Thus in 1978 the adventure "Beyond the silvered pane", a mod…