"Ah, the good old days. When prog rock band experimented with early synthesizers and created marvels of art and imagination. A time long gone!" Year : 2022 "Oh..."

@danielrowan4716

Жыл бұрын

Are you a King Crimson, Rush and/or Yes fan?

@jesseoreilly1792

Жыл бұрын

😄

@jesseoreilly1792

Жыл бұрын

Well, then it's good to see people still keeping that fantastical prog rock alive!

@danielrowan4716

Жыл бұрын

@@jesseoreilly1792 I’ve been a die hard Yes (Close to the Edge and Fragile are my favorites) fan for about 35yrs. I’m also a fan of Rush.

@AGS363

Жыл бұрын

@@danielrowan4716 I am getting more "Tangerine Dream" vibes.

This is literally the perfect track for ambience in the dnd session I'm running today.

@Baalur

Жыл бұрын

A sign from the gods. Have fun!

@thedruidzmademe666

Жыл бұрын

Ive always kinda felt the goal of the genre was to make music to accompany various dnd campaigns. Ive actually played a few times while bumping Secret Stairways lol

@vaxrvaxr

Жыл бұрын

@@thedruidzmademe666 It fell only slightly short of the goal, settling on accompanying the prep session for dnd campaigns.

@oncearoundtheparkpls

Жыл бұрын

LiTeRaLLy

@Peertjoh

Жыл бұрын

If you're looking for more music like this, check out the OST of the game Warlords 3: Darklords Rising. I just got flashbacks to playing that game listening to this album.

this is an immense old school runescape influence its insane

@levitatingoctahedron922

Жыл бұрын

osrs has been an immense influence on the entire genre.

@dyinnmih

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering why this sounded so familiar. That droning horn (?) and the plucked strings in track one really set the tone. I love it.

@kenneth3192

Жыл бұрын

RuneScape has the best vibes!!!!

@johncoppinger2241

10 ай бұрын

I was thinking it would be right at home in the doom-clone Heretic. But OSRS would be perfect as well.

The rare occasion when I clicked because of the title and artwork and was totally not disappointed with the sounds. Well done my friend(s)!

Forbidden Obelisk absolutely did not have to go so hard

This sounds so reminiscent of Age of Empires 2 soundtrack. This took me back to being a kid and playing AO2 for hours during the summer. Tales from Southern Realms is an absolute banger.

@Sain240

Жыл бұрын

WOLOLOLOLOL WOOLOLOLOLLO WOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

Really beautiful dungeon synth over here. It straight away evokes vibes from 90s to early 2000s video games. Superb!

A really interesting and harsh desert soundtrack without using arabian tunes. A gem for sure.

@briggy4359

Жыл бұрын

It's using microtones and adjusted Locrian/Diminished scales. Those are euro-arabian. I truly do not think we can make art that doesn't refer to the real world in some sort of practical way.

@Isnogood12

Жыл бұрын

@@briggy4359 I have no idea what you just said, but it isn't _outright obnoxiously_ arabian. It's only natural that all music has something from other music, I just meant that this isn't generic and as such is a welcome change of pace!

@m0-m0597

Жыл бұрын

@@Isnogood12 it means that is uses the same fundamentals as your mentioned arabian tunes

@gordcooper7849

Жыл бұрын

@@briggy4359 Sure, but I think what he's trying to say is that it's not just sitars and a woman singing praises over morning prayer bells like 90% of 'arabian' ambience does. Yes, it uses the scales, but that's a defining characteristic of the style. I think he means the accoutrements, rather than the style.

@cheersbro7347

Жыл бұрын

If you like desert ambient without much arabic influence I would highly suggest dopesmoker by sleep. Also you can find some cool ambient for the dnd “dark sun” setting which is basically dnd and mad max mixed. I havent seen dune but I guess that might be cool too. Ac origins desert ambient. There are a bunch of desert music without the “arabic” flavour.

I love the cover, reminiscent of 70’s 80’s book magazine album covers that dreamy world.

@oz_jones

11 ай бұрын

Could be a cover for a Dark Sun supplement too. Or a Conan story.

Goodness me...as soon as those first notes hit I instantly was mesmerized and had chills all over, the atmosphere is absolutely captivating, dreamlike and I am so happy I was recommended this cause this is fantastic! ❤

Just getting into dungeonsynth and this is my favorite album

So pleasant! Dreamy, old-time videogames vibe.

I rarely click on a random album that is outside of the genres I normally listen to and come away satisfied. With this, I was completely blown away. Absolutely amazing work.

Assassin in the courtyard is so good 🤩

@primordialhumandwarf

3 ай бұрын

a dune reference to the killing of muah'dib? or the killing of ceaser in Shakespear, et tu brute?

Forbidden Obelisk is giving big Metroid Prime 2 vibes, specifically temple grounds. Love it!

Very cool like a brisk midnight wind over a desert scene.

I had never heard of Dungeon Synth before today. I don't know how. It is superb!

@Lenny.262

Жыл бұрын

I have a similar regret. I saw this in my recommended months ago but because I get so much junk recommended, I turned my back on it. What a blind fool I am. This is sublime, ethereal, supernal, astral, it's pure auricular magick.

This is such an incredible album. One of the best Dungeon Synth albums I have heard so far. Just banger after banger.

Reminiscent of Age of Empires II. Good stuff!

@martinkraegel7965

Жыл бұрын

Huh. Good point.

@rudyj8948

Жыл бұрын

Didn't even think about this, but you're right

@Myrkskog

Жыл бұрын

wolollo

This is genuinely the best dungeon synth album out there. No exaggeration, this is so freaking good.

Enchanting. Really feel transported to some far away place.

This tickles my brain in just the right ways!

This album is absolutely fantastic

Just had to replay the initial 20 seconds, holy, what an absolute banger

Chased by an Efreet sounds like something straight out of Age of Empires, i love it

@RussellTeapot

Жыл бұрын

On point! WOLOLO

@RussellTeapot

Жыл бұрын

On point! WOLOLO

Why is this channel so perfect! I will be forever grateful for the day I discovered it! Brilliant album!

Dune reading music? Yes.

Beautiful music and beautiful artwork!!

The umlauts are out of control!

this is top shelf dungeon synth

"Chased by an Efreet" is fantastic.

This mesmerized my 6 month old daughter and I. Very fun music.

Loomed over me, and above all the houses and walls of this mighty city, was an even grander structure. The Ziggurat. These are the southern realms. I have traversed far to reach this destination. To see a world wonder. The purpose of my journey was purely wanderlust. But now that I am here, what can this Ziggurat tell me? What mysteries does it hold? I asked the towns people, locals who for centuries have been ruled under God-kings. These monarchs are odd, for they aren’t true monarchs. They are autocrats, their bloodlines matter not. Whenever one grows too powerful, chaos ensues in the streets and a year later the dust settles. Life resumes, but under a new God-king. Yet what of the Ziggurat? It is immense, unchanging, and certainly unmovable. The towns people tell me that a shadow council exists, and without a doubt their presence looms even higher and wider than the Ziggurat before me in the horizon. This isn’t my first night in the Southern Realms. In fact, for many moons, I have spent my life amongst a traveling caravan. They are the ones who guided me across the many changing environments, and it is I who guarded their goods. Once dawn has set in, I notice that they are packing up. What’s more, I notice that I was in a trance for multiple days. What has felt like a single night in this capital of the Southern Realm has actually been a full week. The caravan, my brethren, are now preparing to leave. They sold mundane goods from my side and bought the exotic products of this side. I don’t want to leave. Not yet. Before the caravan left, as the gates of the city were opening their passage, the wise cleric of the caravan passed me a scroll. They personally translated a guide about everything I needed to know about this city into my language. I cannot read the alien scriptures carved into the tablets, walls, papers, or fabrics that the people of the Southern realm utilize. But at least I can read my own scripture. Yet is that enough? I feel a fool. The caravan has long left, and now there is no room for regret. Near the eternal wells of the Ziggurat, are pillars of wisdom. The cleric has pointed it out to me in this scroll, I assume they once studied in this city that is why they are so familiar with its layout. Perhaps, I can follow their footsteps? I leave the hostel, the structure which I slept on top of its roof so I could stare at the sky above. I never thought that I would be brave enough to venture closer to the Ziggurat. Each step I take is a step towards a mountain, not a man-made structure. The pillars of wisdom are indeed pillars. Some vertical, tall like titans. And some are horizontal, slouching flat like decedent kings of the past. But one catches my eyes amongst all others. Unlike the marble-white pillars around it, the obsidian colored obelisk glistens in my sights. I approach it. Neither cleric, scholar, nor priest bothers with it. They ignore its presence, preferring to study the scriptures of their own language than… the symbols which are too foreign and alien to even their own histories. A woman approaches me, at first I thought she was a veiled witch. The obelisk might reflect the sunlight, but the aura is dark. However, she does not wear any veil except that of her long and worn-out greasy hair covering her head. She asks me if I wish to know more about this obelisk. I nod. Before this day, the day when the caravan left me and I stood alone as a unprepared foreigner in the capital of the Southern Realms, I had never known of the “Mystical Age”. Was it an aged undreamed of? The witch-like lady denied this, instead she claimed it was an age forcibly cast out. It can be dreamed but that’s all what it can ever be. Unless someone had the courage to cast aside their well-being, make enemy to every child who has had read the folk stories about a creature called Efreet, and unleash disposed knowledge back into the world. Hah, I would like to meet the person who could do all that, I told to the witch. Would you? She asked me once again. Her persistence and unknown nature began to terrify me, especially as I noticed the clerics, scholars, and priests around us disappear. The day had not ended, so why did their research? It’s because the grand vizier arrived. The governor of this section of this mighty city. I glanced all around me, shadow characters closed us in. Before me was the grand vizier, next to me the greasy haired witch, and behind me the obsidian obelisk. Foreigner, get away from this wanted suspect. The grand vizier demanded. No reason to deny his authority. Yet, curiosity stuck my feat into the ground. My mind wished to retreat, but my heart grew heavier. This Witch speaks of a creature called Efreet, showing courage, and unleashing disposed knowledge back into the world, do you know what this is about? The grand vizier’s face drastically changed. He repeated his demands, but having spent a good while in foreign lands, the body language of the shadow guards and the grand vizier said otherwise. A few seconds later, I was about to let go of this foolish curiosity, but the witch asked me a third time. Can I gamble my courage, make enemy of each child who has heard about Efreet, and unleash disposed knowledge back into the world? Why was I the target of this all? How about you, witch, can you promise you can do the same? She said yes. As she did, the shadow characters crept closer in. They were obviously assassins. I had worked long enough as a mercenary to tell I was against a tough match. Perhaps because I thought it was a dream, an unreal scenario I found myself beneath the gaze of the Ziggurat and against forbidden secrets… that I had decided to risk it all. My life was forfeit, yet courage remained. This was enough to accept the witch’s proposal. With that, the Grand Vizier commanded his subordinates to leap at us. I carried no weapon, and my muscles grew decedent like the pillars of wisdom. But I picked my poison and chose to believe in it. The witch grabbed me and off into the obsidian obelisk. I was no longer in the mortal plains… but inside a crystal-like construction. Like a bird, I felt or saw the obsidian obelisk glow in a dark red and then into a bright orange light. Flames erupted around it, and the shadow guards were attempting to chip away at us. The Grand Vizier ran off, to fulfill whatever duty he had in mind. My body felt ethereal at that point. I was not sure whether I was still in a trance or not, did the caravan leave yet or not? All I knew was that I shared my being with another being, was it the witch? Or was it Efreet? Were they the same, or did we become the same? I might have made the most foolish decision in my wander lusting life on that day when I amateurishly decided to try my bid at becoming a scholar in the Southern Realms. Or the whole process was worth it. A glorious turn of events. Because, despite dusk setting itself in the Southern Realms, the sky in the capital remained bright. A golden Ziggurat appeared. All I could remember was the golden Ziggurat. And with a blink of an eye, I woke up either underground or inside a covered grove. At the village of the mushroom people, with an amulet in my hand. A shrunken forbidden obelisk, turned into a tiny crystal-like token. A proof of Efreet and that witch.

@acolyte1951

Жыл бұрын

@@Trusty_Stranger thank you, but sadly not. It was meant just as a spur of the moment embrace of the sounds offered in this album. Each song in the album influenced the direction of the story, and since I finished listening to the album so did the story.

@Ziggurath

5 ай бұрын

Great effort, love it!

@acolyte1951

5 ай бұрын

@@Ziggurath wow thank you, good luck !

@ULTIMATEMONGSTATION

2 ай бұрын

I remember meeting the greasy worn out witch under several ziggurats

This was amazing. Thank you for making this Ziggurath!

God this takes me right back to the days of 90s PC games. Thank you!

This reminds me so much of old turn based games from the 90s/00s that I'm having a montage play out in my head; of all the times the characters I've had were unable to hit an enemy not 2 feet away from them, despite having a 75% and upwards hit chance. *Shakes fist at the RNG*

6:00 in love

Wow. Incredible stuff. I'm gonna have to check out their other work.

This is 1) incredible 2) scary, that whistle had me check outside my widow

I hear some Tangerine Dream vibes. Very nice!

I have been waiting for desert synth for a long time

I really enjoyed this, I listened to it a few times. Thank you for making it.

1st listen: "That was good, but I'm probably not going to buy it." 4th listen: "So glad I bought it!"

I listen to this while writing tons of code at work - love it! Thanks for posting.

I feel like this would be more interesting to go on a trip to than actual psychedelic music.

This album its a truly piece of art. I traveled deep between soul, thoughts and imagination. Thanks for bring it to the world.

@chesterfieldthe3rd929

11 ай бұрын

I want to do that😢

Amazing. Thank you for this.

The album artwork reminds me so much of Gothic 3, the Varant region. Very nostalgic.

This is great! Please make more!

Art and music both great !!!

This is beautiful work, I really enjoyed it.

Ziggurath is great art.

WOOOOOOHOOOOO BABY !!!! FUCK YEAH ! FUCK YEAH ! LETS GOOOOOOOO

This makes me want to play Dark Sun or Caves of Qud

"Нужно построить зиккурат"

Very nice and atmospheric!

To me that first song evokes not a sandy dessert but a volcanic wasteland, with red and glowing cracks marring the surface of the blackened plains, the sky so clouded with ash and dust that time is frozen in a perpetual dusk, and a giant towering mountain in the centre spewing forth magma and pillars of smoke

I love it! Absolutely ingenius!

Great album! Love it!

Very good dessert synth 😁, even naming a song Pillars of Wisdom perhaps after Lawrence of Arabias book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom 🐪

Great album, great atmosphere!

This music is what I'm listening on bucle while studying to kill the last matter on my college degree! So good to study with! I'll investigate more this group when I finish that exam.

Great and unique track!

The Epic of Gilgamesh type beat

I never knew I needed this.

Here listenning to this while reading Dune.

KZread has gone a bit weird and now only recommends this to me. Not complaining.

1998’s Unreal PC game soundtrack basically, for those interested -- except Unreal adds so many layers of complexity over. Groundbreaking game with score to match.

Great stuff - but I recognize Midjourney cover art when I see it! ;)

this is fuckign good

Thanks, reminded me how Santana's Caravanserai is great.

traveling for unknow worlds....

Good It sounds like Warhammer 40k: Rites of War

Perfection!

Jesus Christ wtf is this and why does it hit so hard

Really good stuff!

FF IX vibes, so good!

This sounds like the ost of an early 2000's video game, love it 🤩

I love it Beautiful music

It feels like I`m playinbg firsta Age of Empires game xD Love it

A masterpiece!

PICK YOUR POISON my fav!! 🩸

Reminds me of music from old videogames.

My camel liked this.

Is this inspired by 90s CRPGs? I'm definitely getting that vibe.

Fantastic!

heck yeah another banger

16:52 is so fire it impregnated me

The only other thing that could ever be a Dune soundtrack

Excellent!

Amazing music!

Nice sound!

Amazing! Note: I was here...

This is so good!!!

@krootmen

Жыл бұрын

made me think of runescape and dungeon delving tbh

This sound is incredibile

Blood Meridian, that is what was constantly running through my mind while listening to this. Do yourself a favor and read Cormac McCarthy's novel _Blood Meridian._ It will change your life. "Opposition is true friendship." -William Blake And no, I'm not high. I've never been so sober and clearheaded than now.

@Myrkskog

Жыл бұрын

I never finished it. I'll add it back into my reading list. I'll make sure I've got this playing while reading it.

@Lenny.262

Жыл бұрын

@@Myrkskog They're finally adapting it into a film, have you heard? Not sure I'm happy about the choice for a director. It's John Hillcoat, he adapted Cormac McCarthy's other novel, The Road, and I didn't really like it. He left out a lot of the darker stuff.

@oz_jones

11 ай бұрын

Recquisat in pace

this is so good

I can see the dead dancing and really love it !

Yo I'm only a minute in and I can tell this is awesome

This album came on right when I started the chapters in my book where the main character is crusading in the holy land. AGHHHH!!!

@parsleyisthicc

Жыл бұрын

What book? I'm curious