Electronic / Dungeon Synth

Heimat der Katastrophe is pleased to present - for the first time on physical media - the soundtrack of the cult Polish videogame called "Doman: Grzechy Ardana" for Commodore Amiga, produced in 1994 by Mirage Software. A must-have for all the heroic-…

Few albums like this one have made us jump out of our seats and giggle: "OH YES!". Graham Simpson, the author of the beautiful "Electrical Storm at the Micro-Station" published by HDK in 2024, returns with an epic, powerful, and terribly evocative co…

Klaus Morlock returns with Fireside Spells, an album blending eerie folk, vintage synth, and psychedelic soundscapes into a world of supernatural encounters, Cold War conspiracies, and time slipping away. Inspired by 70s horror soundtracks, lost tran…

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 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…

Finally, HDK has a J.S. Bach cover album in its catalog! 🎉​

" ℑ𝔫 𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔡𝔬𝔪, 𝔞 𝔡𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔯'𝔰 𝔠𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔡𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔱𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱. 𝔄 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔨 𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔰𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡, 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤�…

*2025 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Angst Sessions make slow dark repetitive melancholic avant garde music. During sessions with modular instruments from Buchla & Serge finding interesting textures, timbres in spatial time and space. Recording o…

First came Undergangen, a trilogy consisting of the eponymous Undergangen (The Downfall), Den Sorte Død (The Black Death) and Depressiv Magi (Depressive Magic). Three albums dedicated to decaying worlds and fraying minds. And to the all-consuming gri…

Renowned composer and sound artist Francis Heery, under his alias The Cube of Unknowing, announces the release of his latest sonic expedition, 'Bog Summoner', via Library of the Occult. This immersive electronic album blends kosmische, motorik rhythm…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The enigmatic psych rock duo The Psychic Circle return with their third album, 'Wizards of the Watchtower', arriving March 7th via Library of the Occult Records. Comprised of Tom McDowell (Dream Division, Library of the Occult Records) and Jack Harri…

Ivy Chalice release their highly anticipated follow up to last years ‘Nachtmahr’, with Noctifer, on Library of the Occult Records. Drawing inspiration from classic cinema and the evocative sounds of the 1960s and 70s, Noctifer blends acoustic texture…

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 …

Celebrated Canadian filmmaker and composer Chris Alexander joins Library of the Occult records with his album 'Body Double'

*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…

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…

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 …

A 70's odyssey of moog infused cosmic krautrock and psychedelic baroque on this debut record from 'The Psychic Circle'

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…

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…

"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.…

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔣𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔰.𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢 𝔪𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔡𝔶 𝔟𝔢𝔤𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔢 𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔴𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔰.𝔒𝔫𝔢 𝔟𝔶 𝔬𝔫𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔬𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔥𝔞𝔡 𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔳𝔢…

A 70's odyssey of moog infused cosmic krautrock and psychedelic baroque on this debut record from 'The Psychic Circle'

The first three Basic Dungeon albums re-released on a single 42-track CD with a 20-page booklet! The "Tunnels & Treasures" saga collected on a single CD

*Much needed repress* Dream Division presents an album of reptilian synthesiser psych 'Legend of Lizard Lake' takes the listener on a journey with its fantasy inspired soundscapes with brooding electronics and psychedelic guitars building on an immer…

For some time now, a strange music has been resonating in HDK's headquarters; a music where dungeon-synth, house and techno rave meet in a blasphemous yet juicy cocktail... The caves of the Trollpietra are a sordid and unhealthy place, inhabited by c…

An ancient relic of chthonic music. Meditative ds, for a spiritual journey into the dungeon of your soul. "One of the manifestations of the absolute is that in sound form. Audible sounds are divided into three levels: in the first you can hear the so…

"Lost in the desert! The only hope for survival lies in a ruined city rising out of the sands. Food, water and wealth await heroic adventurers inside an ancient pyramid ruled by a strange race of masked beings...". Gnoll is back! As kids obsessed wit…

“You are the last survivor of a tribe of fierce barbarians. The evil Death Viper has slaughtered your people with deception and his thugs. You are the only survivor: now you are the last of the barbarians in your lineage and thirst for revenge!” "Sil…

*2023 stock* One day all will blacken and burn. Just as the two-headed basilisks predicted. Lies, Truth, Denial and Envy embodied. Their riddling yet oddly accurate prophecies were put in ink by Anuk Schleger the monk, in the scrolls that now hold ma…

Born when the blood of Medusa outpouring,Showed where the weapon of Perseus had riven,Steed of Bellerophon, heavenward soaring,Carried on wings by the gods’ favor given,When thy bold rider, -the dragon defeated,-Claimed as hi meed with immortals to d…

Crowning is adapted from John Dowland’s Midnight. Accordion by Erin Schneider. Recorded 2020 by SAZA. Mastered by Will Kreppel

"Ten adventurers searched for the Temple of Crystalline Joy, which exists somewhere in the perpetually snow-covered Valley of the Eternal Dream. None of them found it, but in their quest, they performed brave deeds that become legends. They are... th…

“Il teschio brilla nella notte” was an Italian board game for children aged 6 to 10 set in a haunted house. The winner of the game was the player who was the first to reach the end of the course after passing the four rooms of the house. A gimmick of…

Make way for the Golden Knight! The sword of Sir Richard of Warwick is always ready to defend the good guys from the bad ones... or just to fight as a pastime! His costume is flamboyant, his soul noble (or so he likes to believe), the world in which …