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Яркаятьма - In The Bright Darkness
Creutzfeldt Jakobs is a strange instrumental pop band from Malmo, Sweden; their music is "inspired by old BBC-soundtracks and early 80´s balkan-synth scene, composed and recorded using old synths, tape decks and other forms of obsolete technology"; their songs talk about the history of the Soviet Union, with particular interest for the Perestroika-era. Well, something bizarre enough to make us fall in love immediately! "In the bright darkness" is a romantic concept album about the illusions, dr…
The Valley Of The Forgotten Secrets
Small repress available Kobold triumphantly returns with the third chapter of the the Black Priest's Saga, so...prepare your bag and sharpen your sword, we're starting back for adventure! In this last quest the adventurers will have to face a long and dangerous journey along a forgotten valley to definitively solve the mystery of the lost talisman. As always inspired by the soundtracks of the 8 and 16-bit CRPGs of the eighties and nineties, in this third album KOBOLD's music reaches peaks of sty…
The Curse Of The Ancient Abbey
A few months after the success of "The cave of the lost talisman", here's “The curse of the ancient abbey”, the second chapter of a trilogy by this little, treacherous dungeon-synther humanoid with dog's face. As usual, dungeon-pop music with a lot of analogue synths and 16-bit flavor!
The Downfall of Sondalis (Tape)
In a fantastic and primitive land, the kingdom of men is falling. Other, more evolved races control the destinies of the world. The realm of Dalis is the last bastion of humanity, located at the edge of the world on the shores of the Endless Ocean. Weak and divided, men have become prey to powerful neighboring kingdoms. Their greed led them to betray each others. Furrowed by centuries of wars and injustices, the territories of the once prosperous kingdom of men have been largely conquered. The …
Lone Wolf Ep.1: Flight from the Dark
Small repress available "Lone Wolf: Flight from the Dark" is the soundtrack of the homonymous gamebook written by Joe Dever and illustrated by Gary Chalk published in 1984 in the UK and US. The album was composed and recorded by the Gnoll ensemble between 2019 and 2020.
You are Lone Wolf, the sole survivor of the Kai Monastery massacre by the Darklords, who brought war to Summerlund. Your mission now is to reach Holmgard, the capital, and inform the king of the fatal threat that looms. To do thi…
Husk The Mountains (Tape)
Under a slip of a moon that hung in the air like a clipped fingernail, Pontiff Erasmus honoured the heavens by donning a capirote that forever pointed upward to the grand abyss. It was by the Order of the Osiris Triad that the people of Maypyre were to be put to death, and the Pontiff honoured this request. He opened the Shadesbourne and read from the rotten pages therein.
From incantation to action his words became as mists which formed the creature that would devour Maypyre, its people, its li…
Hdk Dungeon-synth Magazine # 3
* Limited to 200 copies Pro-dubbed solid yellow cassette + 28 pages booklet * We have happily reached the third episode of this bizarre adventure! We are receiving great feedbacks from the dungeon synth scene and we thank you for your endless passion and support: as long as there is this enthusiasm we will not stop clogging the ether with weird music and unpredictable projects! Since HDK DS Magazine was born, we have been very impressed by one thing: many of the musicians of the dungeon synth sc…
Starcity
Welcome to this first release of HDK's "Kosmische music" series, dedicated to our favorite artists playing classic E.M. in '70s Berlin-school tradition. It's a real pleasure to introduce Andy Bloyce from London, U.K., aka "The Soviet Space Dog Project". Andy proves to have perfectly understood the recipe that made the records of the masters of this musical genre great; meditative music that at the same time prods the listener to bring his imagination to unknown and disquieting places; places wh…
Thunder Over City Hall
Welcome to this second release in HDK's "Kosmische musik" series, dedicated to our favorite artists playing E.M. in Berlin-school tradition. It is a real pleasure to introduce Grant Middleton and Colin Anderson, aka Under The Dome from Scotland. Under The Dome 's music sounds crystal clear like the air after a storm, and dreamy like a staring off among the sky in a summer night; "Thunder over city hall" is a wonderfully retro-futuristic collection of songs that you will never tire of listening!…
Monofuture
Evanescent lights in the night. Dirty cities. Cruel concrete buildings soaring in an ashen sky. On the paths of our imagination, dreams and fears intersect, generating accidents and strange mythologies of a near future. Cavern plays with the anguished fantasies of retro-futuristic sci-fi to compose deep and pulsating music that conveys a sense of agonizing wait. Here in the HDK headquarters we immediately fell in love with Cavern's music and decided to publish a cassette anthology entitled "Mon…
The rise of the Gazunderlings
** Kрасный cassette + j-card + "Gazunderling Mine Workers Union" badge ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents The rise of the Gazunderlings by Red Gremlin. "In the darkest corner of the Sword Mountains, hidden in the shadow of the Icespire, lies the Kazunder Valley. Here, out of sight of prying eyes, the Faceless are overseeing the extraction of something far more precious than gold. No being in their right mind would ever set foot in these mines voluntarily and so the Faceless choose the cowardly c…
Icebound
** Superclear cassette + 5-panels j-card ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents Icebound by Varkana. "Eons ago in a land faraway covered with nothing but blinding white frost, Temple of Ice arose from nothingness and began to enlighten the hearts of those who sought the gift of infinite knowledge. For years and years pilgrimages were made by mystified souls to reach the great cosmic offering. Centuries later, the temple is long forgotten, buried under mountains of ice with only distant tales remain…
Polar
** Super-clear cassette + 28 pages booklet ** After the conclusion of the trilogy about Zotique's cycle by Clark Ashton Smith, Doom Catacomb, the bard of unspeakable horrors, is back with a... chilling album! "Polar" declines the decadent and nihilistic poetics expressed in the previous albums in a new and surprising direction. The landscapes of death and desolation that Doom Catacomb has accustomed us take on the appearance of endless icy expanses: the impenetrable polar regions, where every gl…
Dungeon-synth magazine # 2
Dear dungeoncrawlers, light your torches and sharpen your swords...once again! The success of the first volume of HDK DSM was... dazzling! And so here we are with this Second Issue and we hope you will enjoy it like the previous one (or maybe more!). The dungeon-synth is wonderful and unpredictable music made to give free rein to creativity and to the desire of telling weird and astonishing stories. The four musicians involved in this release will not disappoint your thirst of gloomy and evocati…
Kowloon Neon City Episode 2
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…
Avventura nel Castello
** DIY Super-Limited Tape + Three Pins! ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents Avventura nel Castello by 1Kbyte Dungeon. Driven by the thirst for adventure, you went down into the dungeons of the castle of the evil Baron Karloff and now you are lost. Behind its endless gates the most monstrous mysteries are hidden. Will you find the exit? Probably not. "Avventura nel castello" is a frightening time-machine able of transporting the listener into the disquieting era of monochrome Rogue-like CRPGs, tex…
Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun
** Fluo Cassette ** Andy Bones and John Dawson are back with the soundtrack of a cyberpunk RPG called "Dancing with bullets under a neon sun". The style of the italo-finnish duo is delightfully the same as the best-selling "Chip of Depression": retro-futuristic-pop and italo-disco with breathtaking melodies and pressing minimal rhythms. "Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun" is a weird cyberpunk RPG for fans of the OSR. "Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun" will provide a unique ambiance to y…
Altnyc88 OST
New York City, year 1988: you are part of one of the many gangs that operate in the slums of the city, hiding in the subway, dungeon under skyscreapers, squatted houses and, when necessary even, in the sewers system. Raids up to streets are dangerous and are always undertaken disguise or under cover of the night: gangs fight for territory and control, as the organized crime and corrupt cops rule with an iron fist. Yes, it's a violent world, baby; but also full of '80s clichés like post-nuke muta…
La Gabbia Umana
** Pro-dubbed black cassette + insert ** In 1979 the director Antonio Rasiera started filming a sci-fi tv-movie called “La Gabbia Umana” (The Human Cage), an alienating and dehumanizing post-apocalyptic parable in which the human body is described as an inexorably closed cage, “without key and without lock”.
A few days after the start of filming, director Rasiera (already prey to his serious disease) dies: today what remains of “The Human Cage” is its soundtrack, composed by the maestro Augusto …
Necromancy in Naat
** Pro-dubbed black cassette + 32 pag. booklet ** The bard of the unexplicable nightmares is back: Doom Catacomb gives us his masterpiece, the third and final chapter of a trilogy dedicated to the writer Clark Ashton Smith, started in 2018 with "Empire of the necromancers" and continued in 2019 with "The weaver in the vault". "Necromancy in Naat" takes the music of Doom Catacomb to even darker and more mysterious levels, it will accompany you on a hallucinating journey into pain and evil, but it…