Great Lakes Dungeon Synth is a collective of regional dungeon synth artists that coalesced after a show at Cole’s Bar in summer 2023. What’s now called “dungeon synth” emerged from the Norwegian black ...

Zak Kiernan is a fan of adventure game Mice and Mystics, which inspired the name of his comfy-synth project, Derbyshire. Credit: Photo by Wulfka Zak Kiernan, 37, moved to Chicago in 2012 and has ...

On the heels of the second successful iteration of the Florida Dungeon Fest and a command performance by Mortiis and Wraith ...

The genre of “dungeon synth” is having a comeback, and one of the guys that’s credited with creating it, Norway’s Mortiis (who played bass in Norwegian black metal band Emperor in 1991 and 1992 before ...

East Cork record label Nocturnal Augury and founder, David O’Mahony, are waving a banner for this celebration of old-school fantasy and of lo-fi electronica, writes Ed Power David O'Mahony founded ...

You know when you put on some horrendously violent metal album, and it starts with a bit of creepy ambient music before the ‘proper’ songs begin? If you record a whole album of those spooky intros, ...

As the 21st century dawned, Håvard Ellefsen was bored. Under his more familiar nom de synth of Mortiis, he had already helped shape the misanthropic sound of Norwegian black metal as bassist for ...

One of the most pivotal figures in what would come to be known worldwide as dungeon synth music, Mortiis aka Norwegian composer Håvard Ellefsen is returning to Aotearoa New Zealand this November.