My Top 15 Favourite Dungeon Synth Albums (2024)
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15. Castlesiege - The Council of Trees
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14. DragonKeep - Where Dragons Fly Forever Free
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13. Osmord - Forest of sempiternal dreams
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12. L A N D S R A A D - Fate: The Inevitability Thereof
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11. Aindulmedir - The Lunar Lexicon
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10. Umbria - The Sleeping Wizard
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9. Holedweller - With Dreams of the Hereafter
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8. Fogweaver - Magelight
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7. Quest Master - The Twelve Temples
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6. Fief - II
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5. Tales Under the Oak - The Toad Folk
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4. Arath - Arath
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3. Bellkeeper - The First Flame of Lordran
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2. Aura Merlin - Illuminations
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1. Dim - Compendium Reliquiae
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Album playing in the beginning was my cassette copy of Ortnit's Self-Titled:
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My Dungeon Synth projects:
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Peasant's Respite: peasantsrespit...
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Forgotten Phantasm: forgottenphant...
Dubstep and Dance Music: bxkrug.bandcam...
Superb video! It's great to know what you liked in each of these albums!
Thanks for putting this together. Loved your WIzards of Aldur stuff and it's great to have an intro to Dungeon Synth that explains what each album is going for.
No worries! I'm so glad I can share the love amongst those that inspired my work!
This is a really cool video ! I discover dungeon/fantasy synth very recently and it's my new favorite genres of music now ! Thank to this video i will have a lot of good musics to listen !
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I hope this music brings you much joy!
Great list dude! All epic albums
Thankyou friend!
Council of Trees was the first album I ever listened to for Dungeon Synth starting last year. I've been a huge fan of the genre since. Most of these land in my top albums and I have great recommendations to listen to!
Love these albums, great selection. I would also add Fort Exile by Swords of Midi. Great fantasy album that has vibes similar to Castlesiege, DIM, Fief.
Glad to see your videos on youtube welland 😃
The Council of Trees is a great album, in my top 10 without question.
My favourite album overall would be Darkrune - Book of the Black Rose, a true masterpiece. Mountain Realm - Grayshadow Ruins is a close second
Bespin Moons is another one in my top 10, along Wizards of Aldur - Queen of Sorcery, the reason I found this channel :)
Thankyou so much!
Thanks for this! I've been listening to Black Metal which introduced me to Dungeon Synth, and a few standalone Dungeon Synth albums for years now but just recently decided to deep dive further into Dungeon Synth in recent weeks. Will check all of these projects out!
Genres like Black Metal, Dungeon Synth, Dark Ambient etc bring such an amazingly beautiful atmosphere that I just can't get enough of! I value atmosphere in music more than anything else.
I've already known Dragon Keep and Castle Seige for a while and I love them.
Great choices. Some I was familiar with, but some I need to add to the listening list. Personal favorite dungeon synth album: The Totem Wilds Call Thy Name by Fen Walker.
That is an awesome album for sure!
fief - ii
burzum - dauði baldrs
old tower - rise of the specter
mortiis - født til a herske
quest master - the twelve castles
hole dweller - flies the coop i
bespin moons - a binding force
secret stairways - enchantment of the ring
depressive silence - ii
longsword - ii
The final track of sleeping wizard sounds to me like the ending of a faery tale where the protagonist marries the princess with the help of a magical being, or an old sad hermit that founds happyness in the friendship of a gnome or goblin. Sorry for the bad english, is not my first language. Im from LATAM
Tales under the oak should have been the Amphibia soundtrack in a perfect world.
Thank you for this list.
Some buried treasures hidden here with a nice range of styles and ambience. Well done adventurer for completing your musical quest.
@@sargonixofur1234 you're welcome! Hoping on doing a specific hidden gem list soon
Recently discovered this genre of synth while looking for some good music for a D&D campaign I am running. Wish I had found it sooner.
Albums I find myself coming back to are Last March of the Goblin Troop by Goblintropp, and Realmwalker by Atlantean Sword.
Realmwalker is an awesome album. I'll have to check out that other one.
Fantastic, great list of artists here!
ChatGPT cited this video having asked it for recommendations of Dungeon/Fantasy Synth similar to Tales Under The Oak. You've listed some of my favourites and a couple that were the what got me into DS in the first place - the classic TH-cam frontpage video with a cover to interesting to skip, Aindulmedir most specifically. I've now got half a dozen bandcamp tabs open to keep me busy in the dark evenings ahead.
@@Myrkskog thankyou friend! That's unbelievable. Who knew I could reach the cyber-mind itself!? I want to make more like this soon. It's a weird and wonderful rabbit hole. I found some albums when I was 17 and now all these years later I've collected a dozen cassettes and half a dozen shirts. It truly is my favourite genre.
@@WellandJoyceArtist It's basically all I listen to nowadays! I look forward to the next one.
You mentioned a few of my favourite records, but Fogweaver is the one, I keep getting lost myself in. I prefer this atmospheric/ambient approach to dungeon synth, and the sound of Fogweaver records is truly mesmerizing!
@@AetherFlowDungeonSynth I think you'd appreciate Aindulmedir too! Similar style. And Let's to Oneiria is another project by fogweaver you'd probably like too!
@@WellandJoyceArtist thanks for the recommendation, I didnt know that Fogweaver has different projects! Aindulmedr actually happens to be one the first DS albums I've ever heard in 2019, now I need to check it out from a fresh pov.
@AetherFlowDungeonSynth sounds good! Happy listening! Another recommendation I'd give us Tales Under the Oak! Similar to Fogweaver and a very nice guy IRL.
Thanks for sharing your passion!
You're welcome :)
Lunar Lexicon was one of my favorites from the first listen onwards
My personal favorites are
Quest Master
Childhood Memories
The Tower Of Doom
Vindkaldr
Voormithadreth
Gretel Howling Forests And Swamps Of Sadness
Kabal of the AshuvrahqtAild A Rasataalian Adventure
Umbría The Sleeping Wizard
DIM Compendium Reliquiae
Tales Under The oak
Lord Lovidicus Midsummer
Elyvilon Full Moon Over Yuletide Eve
I also recomend psyclopean, a prog rock band based on the works of clark ashton smith. The guy of the band is a real warlock who also make dungeon synth.
Some amazing artists there and some I need to look up and take a listen to! Thanks so much!
With dreams of the hereafter is a masterwork (Passenger might be the literal high point of the genre so far) I'm surprised Duskgreeter didn't make the list, what a fantastic first album. Or Under a Reptilian Moon from Pauldron.
Not necessarily my favorites, but here are some honorable mentions:
Spell of Unseeing - Weaving Light & Shadow
The Zeal of Fata - Birth of the Bizarre
死.rar - Visions Through The Water Mirror
Ilmentymätön - Himmeän Hehkun Maa
Paths of the Eternal - Quest For the Sacred Blade
Moth Tower - Sharpen Thy Knife, Curse The Sky
Slefnwald - The Conjurer's Cadence
Apéliote - Wind's Tradition
I'll give them all a listen!
hey! its the dude who emailed you a while back about a discord server. I have not forgotten! but life has been so hectic for me and busy so my time to work on projects are limited. just wanted to stop in and say that so many of your choices i agree with and amazing list! only thing missing that i would add would be earthencloak's 2019 album pipe smoke and faery magick
I do love that album might do a comfy synth list at some point.
Nice, a have more songs to listen, thank you
@@Foforo203 you're welcome!
Hey Welland, many thanks for your list! It helped me discover a couple of new great projects. And, just in case, Fief is pronounced as [FEEF].
I know I just don't like saying feef.
@@WellandJoyceArtist oh, I see. Sorry if I was rude, I didn't mean it
@@serhii.korinnyi no that's fine. Thankyou for the kind words :) it wasn't rude I just didn't have much time to type my reply
I'm not sure if it's a whole album, but Redhorn Gate - Carven Throne is one of the greatest of all time. So is the Lunar Lexicon, strong Winterhold vibes.
There is so much Dungeon Synth, i cant possibly listen to it all or even attempt to rank it. But this is a good list.
@@monkeibusiness thankyou!
I was so happy to see some albums here that it felt only I listen to! I must add some of my favorite albums too. Comment your opinion if you want!
Enchantment by Vindkalr
Tales From the Southern Realm by Ziggurath
Storm Haven by Guild of Lore
Fjällets Gyllene Slott by Örnatorpet
V - Fief
Those are some great albums. I do love Ornatorpet and Guild of Lore. I will do more recommendation videos in the future and might bring them up.
Hey,,,
Whats music at 0:01 ??
@@Gir-granat Ortnit Self Titled on cassette.
What is the first song we hear at the very beginning of your video (the one from your tape player) ? It is so beautiful, I would love to know its title please !
It's the ortnit self titled! Find here:
ortnit.bandcamp.com/album/ortnit-2
Do you have any recommendations of dungeon synth that sounds like old-school Runescape? The Sleeping Wizard by Umbria is the closest I've found :)
@@Oltohm from memory (some of) the songs in that style are by the following artists, Fief, Cursebitten, Castlesiege, Ithildin, Ulk, Alloch Nathir, Descort, Pathworn Pilgrim and Beneath Forgotten Ruins.
@@WellandJoyceArtist Are my YT comments working again?? I tried to reply in our last conversation but it wouldn't let me. Thanks for the recommendations! I just discovered Ulk before this comment and it's nearly spot on! You've got a great ear. I'll check the others out now :)
@@Oltohm pls email me! welland.joyce77@gmail.com
Now that you mention books, could you please make some recommendations of Dsynth tunes for reading kafkaesque sci fi??
I'll do some digging
@@WellandJoyceArtist nice, can't wait to put a soundtrack to my Kobo Abe journey.