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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Without really trying to, Cameron Spies is leading a quiet revolution within the Portland pop music community. It’s a position the multitalented artist was well prepared for. Spies has built an ...

You can’t hold back the water, and there’s perhaps no greater testament to the unstoppable nature of time than to learn that Phaedra, the 1974 album by Tangerine Dream that broke the mould for music, ...