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 ...

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 ...

Black metal and dark-industrial chameleon (or should we say elf?) Mortiis toured the U.S. earlier this year for the first time in years to a rapturous response. But he didn’t do it with his full band, ...

Samhain. The Celtic fire festival of yore that, in some form, evolved into the holiday we all now know and celebrate each year as Halloween. One of the oldest Pagan festivals known to man, it marks ...