WINTER MMXXV

Demos for Winter Solstice MMXXV. 

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Full permission to download and share. 

Next drop will be for Spring Equinox MMXXVI. 

Contact if interested in contributing. 

-Lily

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Meadowlurker - A Dark Fog

dark dungeon, old school dungeon synth, outsider

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Track List 

A Dark Fog

Ashes Remain

Still Awake

Prey

Dusk

In the Cistern

LOTV.VII
Music, Mastering, & Tape Design: The Shadow Dwellers

To the aggressors: you will be destroyed. Our way of life is everlasting. We never rest. We will find you. Do not beg. You are powerless. Remember that you brought this upon yourselves.

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Ghost Lake - Lacustrine Laments

lo-fi, progressive electronic, dungeon synth

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Track List 

Salton Sea (Hubris)
Aral Sea (Greed)
Great Salt Lake (When Will We Learn?)
Kivu (What Have We Learned?)

LOTV.VIII
Music: The Endorheic Phantom
Tape Design & Mastering: Hypgnomsis

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Salton Sea (Hubris)

"The new Riviera," a fallen Eden,
Raised to fall, ruined from the start.
Toxic shores fester.

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Aral Sea (Greed)

Jewel of the steppes, the pride of great Khans, consumed by cotton, slain by ambition.
Stolen rivers, murdered glaciers, the dustbowl of Asia.

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Great Salt Lake (When Will we Learn?)

A false paradise, desert Zion built on man's arrogance, ungodly overcrowding of stolen native land.
Exploitation, dessication, irrevocable desolation.

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Kivu (What Have we Learned?)

Nature's vengeance waits below. 
Innocents dead from ancient fury.
Limnic time-bomb beneath our feet.
Can we be saved?

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The Upper Room - Oh Love Divine

spectral noise, sound collage, devotional 

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Track List 

Oh Love Divine
How Sweet Thou Art!
When Shall I Find My Longing Heart...
All Taken Up By Thee?

LOTV.IX
Recording: The Upper Room
Tape Design: Hypgnomsis

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Night Wanderer - Thee Lunar Spells

dark dungeon, lo-fi, romantic music

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Track List 

Spell I
Spell II
Spell III
Spell IV
Spell V
Spell VI

LOTV.X
Music & Mastering: Ἐνδυμίων
Tape Design: Hypgnomsis

Selene shining deity, I'm calling thee to the depths, do not scorn my call
Radiant goddess of the darksome sky, look down on me from thy starry heavens
Lovely Selene full with grey flames, send forth thine everwakeful fires
Selene in your heavenly chariot, shine overhead in thy full brightness, make the long tracks plain and guide me through my journey
Stainless queen of night, see that I am safe 'til the end
Selene night-wanderer, I honor thee for thine protection, mayst thou fare on with undimmed horns

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Icy Chambers of the Heart -  Icy Chambers of the Heart

dark dungeon, winter synth, dream music 

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Track List 

1 Atria
2 Ventricula
3 Arteriae Coronariae
4 Fibrosis
5 Valva Mitralis
6 Valva Tricuspidalis
7 Fractio Ejectionis

LOTV.XI
Music: The Speleologist 
Tape Design & Mastering: Hypgnomsis 

Cave cor congelatum

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Né Rimedio Né Veleno - Destino

dark dungeon, romantic music, instrumental black

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Track List 

Contemplando il destino inevitabile
Forza nel dolore
Valchirie gridate il mio nome
Nessuna bevanda cancellerà l'amaro dalla mia bocca
Né rimedio né veleno
Questa è la mia strada
La percorrerò fino in fondo


LOTV.XII

Music & Tape Design: Farmaco
Mastering: Hypgnomsis

Il farmaco non è né rimedio né veleno, né il bene né il male, né il dentro né il fuori, né la parola né la scrittura... (J. Derrida)

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Dismal Gate - Realm of Frost 

winter synth, dark dungeon music, dark ambient

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Track List 

Towers of the North
Frozen Tears
Thy Shattered Blade
Realm of Frost

LOTV.XIII

Music & Mastering: Dismal Gate 
Tape Design: Hypgnomsis

w r e a t h s   o f   i c e   c r o w n
c o r o n a t i o n s   f o r   o u r   
r e a l m s   o f   f r o s t 

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Slumbering Shard - DEMO MMXXV

outsider, fantasy ambient, lofi

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Track List 

Fallow Fields’ Languor (Winter Malaise)
Unseasonable Vegetables
Beyond the Midden Wall

Woodland Walk (Intermezzo)

Far in The Firemountains’ Land
On a Quest (Long Away in a Dungeon)

Never to Return?..

LOTV.XIV

Music: Echo of the Spark
Mastering: Hypgnomsis

Many thanks to Lily, Cave Bird Records, Tree Gardener, and the Oneiric Dreamer


Fallow Fields’ Languor

The corns are all becut and throstels a-flown, as snows betide the land. 
Crush of dead leaves ‘neath the feet
To tavern again I gan…


Unseasonable Vegetables

Pop ye medlars ‘pon the trees and glean ye gourds afield. Find ye foode where’e’er ye can, for winter shan't soon come to yield.

Beyond the Midden Wall

“Heap ye shells and heap ‘em well, rake ye rubbish o’er. Strew it ‘pon ye field in spring, come fall ye corns to growe.”

Ye call of farmers rings behind, ye village sounds all fade. Wand’ring far thou art, ‘yond auld familiar glades…

Far in The Firemountains’ Land

For years they say these peaks have blazed, since the age before the spark

Those who go shall ne’er return, consumed by fire within their hearts.

On a Quest

To here, to far, and beyond you'll go,

Before you'll reach an end.

In name of wealth you'll test your strength

Burn bridges, and lose every friend.

Never to Return?..

Will it be worth it, should you survive?

Will you return the same.

Will your old village endure in mind

Will you remember its name

AUTUMN MMXXV

Demos for Autumn Equinox MMXXV. 

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Streaming for each album below text. 

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Next drop will be for Winter Solstice MMXXV. 

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I bastioni delle chimere - Sogni sbiaditi all'alba

dark dungeon music, old school dungeon synth, lofi

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Track List 

Sentieri verso le terre dei sogni

Semi antichi celati nel profondo

Radici nella terra, foglie nell'incanto

Armonie evanescenti

Segreti sussurrati dal vento 

Sciagura

Rifugio tra le rovine

Nell'abbraccio del grande buio

L'alba porta con sé l'oblio

Tornerò alla terra 

Il ciclo si rompe

LOTV.I
Music by: Chimere
Tape Design & Mastering by: Hypgnomsis 

Chimeras are mythological creatures whose body is composed of parts from different animals. They are also strange and impossible dreams, the most fragile, those who vanish when dawn comes. Nevertheless, there is hope that the endless cycle of oblivion will eventually break.

 

 

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Spellsword - Spellsword

noise, weird ambient, fantasy drone 

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Track List 

1. Part One: Providence
2. Part Two: Old Nyx 
3. Part Three: Tlelan
4. Part Four: The Gravelands

LOTV.II
Music By: The Navigator 
Tape Design & Mastering for Part One and Three by: Hypgnomsis 
Mastering for Part Two and Four: Eric Rhodes
Art by: Lord Nodwick

 

 Dedicated to the brave travelers of time . May the light guide you in your strange journeys and the lighthouses always shine bright for your way home.

 

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Funeral Of Graves - Demo I

dark dungeon music, neoclassical darkwave, dark ambient

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Track List 

1. Under the Shadow of the Waning Moon
2. A Step Beyond Death's Door
3. Wear the Sign of Darkness
4. By Candlelight
5. The Eternal Tomb

LOTV.III
Music and Tape Design by: Death's Apprentice

Under darkened skies we drape ourselves in tattered cloth. The overgrown path almost invisible. We reach the door to the abyss. It only opens for those who bear the mark of Death. Inward we venture...

 

 

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Dismal Gate - Demo MMXXV

dark dungeon music, old school dungeon synth, lofi, crypt music

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Track List 

Through The Dismal Gate
Crumbling Spires
Empire of Rot I & II
Tunnels Beneath the Mountain 
Empire of Rot III
Birthed From Abyssic Depths

LOTV.IV
Music By: Forlorn Sentry
Tape Design by: Hypgnomsis 

Through the Dismal Gate / Stoic Figures of Eternity / Across aeons of time / march the exiles in space. In celestial crypts / of dead gods and kings / we slumber / solitude in silence / our final kingdom. Reborn in abyssic depths / we wander. 

 

 

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Maljinn - Thirst

black metal, dark dungeon music, old school dungeon synth 

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Track List 

Thirst
Devil-Blood Rise
Kanta
Born of Scorn and Death
Scorched Insides
Eaters of Ghurkul

LOTV.V
“Music by”: Conceived and arranged by Maljinn who cannot be named
Tape Design by: Hypgnomsis 
Mastering by: Eric Rhodes

‘And is vengeance all you think of, every minute of every day, your only desire?’
‘Yes.’
‘Hurting them? Killing them? Ending them?’
‘Yes!’
‘You want nothing for yourself?’
She paused. ‘What?’
‘For yourself. What do you want?’
She stared at the old man suspiciously, but no reply came to her.

 

 

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Chalk Stains - Summoning Sickness 

outsider synth, fantasy ambient, lofi

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Track List 

Candleflame in Castle Halls
Driftwallow
Cairn Wisps
Playing Profane Pranks Upon the Phalse Prophet
Frolicking in the Wizard Wood (‘Neath a Bleeding Moon)
G.E.I.O.

LOTV.VI

All music and wizardry concocted by Lord Nodwick
Dream Mastered to Decrepit Cassette by Hypgnomsis

Special Thanks to: Spellsword, I bastione delle chimere, Maljinn, Funeral of Graves, Dismal Gate, The Oneiric Dreamer, J.A. Carson, Willow, Meadowlurker, Dreamlake Mists, and Every Magyckal Flowere Forceth to Growe in Polluted Soils.

The world burns as the lords of hate and cinder hags rejoice from atop corpse-wagons, collecting the fallen. Ashen servitors of the cults of malice renounce their own faces and names as they seek to scrub the land clean of all knowledge and extinguish the light of truth forevermore. Plagues have come of the earth, but this new kind of sickness can only have been summoned from the darkest follies of man. In these times we have but one option, to cast spells of whimsical rebellion within our moonlit glades and firelit halls. This old wizard is tired of weaving cures. Maybe it’s time for a fun curse or two?..