Transmissions from the Dark

YT channel devoted to all permutations of blackened esoteric artistry from the extensive underground of black metal, dungeon synth, and bm-adjacent musics. #BlackMetal #DungeonSynth

new from the @realmandritual.bsky.social Demo Series. Self-titled debut EP from Copenhagen-based solo ambient black metal project, Afsked. Four tracks of anguish incarnate, reverb-bathed lamentations, influenced by bands like Ærekær, Solbrud, and Koldovstvo www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqE...

Here’s the debut demo EP from new Hungarian one-man band Frostbitten, which holds three tracks of mournfully smouldering depressive atmospheric black metal. It has a good icy bite and frigid pulse coursing through it. A promising beginning. youtu.be/lvGQ-scvbSw

Ooof, this is absolutely blistering. Like a combo of Lightning Bolt, Deaf Kids and Gnod…and Swans, given they feature Thor Harris. If any one of those names means anything to you, check this out waterdamage12xu.bandcamp.com/album/repair

first feature for dungeon synth sunday today, the epic, immersive, cinematic fantasy world-building of Idylls of the Last King. youtu.be/SBDpEVM60b8

This week I received the final piece to complete my Lamp of Murmuur cassette (and flexi disc) collection. Incredibly satisfying. The only release I don’t have is the Remnants compilation, because I don’t really like compilations. Always intrigued with where he will go next. Hails M ⚔️

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today is the day for some solid new Cascadian black metal it seems. new album from Liaztraht has that very distinctive sound, which they make gnashier and aggressive, but still with those soaring synth lines that give it that arboreal lift liaztraht.bandcamp.com/album/barren

Debut full length album of uniquely deviant thrashing garagey black metal punk from Bokkerijders. Free spirited feral metal for the wild of mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghA4...

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My friend has launched a kickstarter campaign to complete his commentay of every Pulp song and publish them as a book See his page and introductory video (ft. a very brief glimpse of 20 year old me)

She looks all peaceful until I try to type anything, then she goes for the hands Not making as much progress as I’d like

another dispatch notice to get hyped about. Any guesses on what this one is going to be?!

Yeahh, can't wait for this! 1 kvlt point if you can guess what it is

oh nooo, Metal Archives is down. Probably a sign to get in with the day job.

new batch of Poisonous Sorcery releases are great, but this one is hitting the spot especially hard. Exhumed from the crates of 2020, still sounding as putrid as the day it was cast. poisonoussorcery.bandcamp.com/album/blood-...

I'm afraid my daughter is disparaging the Fortress line-up

I could not be more hyped for a release. A distant star returns to our orbit

Going to start using Bonnet Nonce Black Metal as the collective term to refer to all these British bands like Felling of an Ancient Oak, Runeboy, Odious Hiss, Cunning Folk, Occulted Death Stance….etc etc

Today I bring you another split of seismic proportions. An alliance between Finland’s Primordial Gate (Bronze Hall and Houre) and the US-based Vihurienkeli (behind the Hidden Dawn collective) Triumphant hypnotic blackened metal splendour youtu.be/0s8AkZ_o7YU

Doing new YouGov poll. Uh oh Only more than 10?

Thanks for putting this out @fiadh.bsky.social This is just marvellous. Mysterious ambient ephemera and sound collage thenorthernlighthouseboard.bandcamp.com/album/lost-w...

Monday. Let’s seize this week. 💪🏽 Except I am really ill. But other than that….lets get it

Also, this new Deafheaven EP is solid. Been enjoy it a lot today. open.spotify.com/album/7tIVbL...

Revisiting a classic of personal nostalgia. One of the best bands I ever put on. And unsurprisingly, the only band I ever put on with 4 drummers.

Here we go! Honoured to present a new release from Gudsforladt - a split with Molocchio, titled The Sword and the Scepter Sensational blackened atmospheric medieval metal youtu.be/RnXOAhzaISo?...

got an upload coming to the channel this afternoon you're going to want to stick around for 👀

seems @zackpolanski.bsky.social Facebook page is down, again? Same as the days before the Gorton & Denton election You taking a break Zack, or are some shenanigans going down? www.facebook.com/zackpolanski

there's a new gym opening in my town, and this is the vibe they're going for. 😬 membership is also £200 a month (that's $266 freedom credits for my USian friends), so it's a non-starter anyway. Compounded by whatever the fuck this is

A conspiracy written in blood between Bloedmaan and Crypts of Dusk, bringing you oldskool black metal where vampyre, necromancers and wizards reign free. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq1f...

A few good things out this week

this new Trhä album is something else. Wild how the ideas keep flowing from his, and this one has so many subtly intricate forms shifting around with such seemingly effortlessly psychedlic abandon. trha.bandcamp.com/album/din-c-...

what a reassuring pop-up in my own facebook page. uh oh

the WLVS film is finally out on blueray....but from Switzerland, with shipping makes it £50 - fifty - pounds i am not sure i can go to that. hopefully it gets a UK distro thetruewlvs.bandcamp.com/merch/mediab...

wtf is this? why won't google maps show me any directions around south korea?

honoured to feature Tristan Elyvilon's new project on the channel today. The superbly named Lichenthrope. Dark and eerie, old school dungeon synth, mutated into fungal mycosynth youtu.be/6XIyB_EAjm8

These bot responses can fuck all the way off

something a little different or you. I have been waiting on this dropping, and am not dissapointed. Some cool coldwave postpunk electro from Strasbourg band Ductape. ductape.bandcamp.com/album/faded-...

The real stuff Nachtwache - Im Tal der toten Träume Nasty sepulchral blackened dungeon synth www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3c...

I love that the four draft video texts I saved yesterday just aren’t saved anymore. Not a trace of them. My computer does this occasionally, and it really does make me feel like I’m losing my mind. But I DEFINITELY did them yesterday and saved them. Bcz I’m going away for 4 days and needed to :/

Picking up pretty much where he left off with last year’s Witchy Forest Dance Contest, here is a new single ahead of forthcoming self-titled album from the recalcitrant knave, Witchyre. Blackened eurodance dungeon punk, for wont of a snappier description. youtu.be/lv7Ix6_Sa80

just realised that Mão da Glória yt channel got taken down. that's quite a bummer

Helcaraxë - Anar ar Isil The new project from Gravfrost. Tolkien-themed dark medieval dungeon synth, that carries some of the abyssal doom vibrations of his main project, but transports it to majestic and mystic new places. youtu.be/HyuFNfBkPwg

Storm and Urge - Liber III: Black Flame Odyssey Melodic dungeon synth, performed on a single arp odyssey synthesiser youtu.be/1SbS54AiojY

A new masterpiece of medievalism, from Welsh artist Unholy Grail - The Next Kingdom The third chapter in his ongoing saga, wrought in the arcane sound of dungeon synth www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfY...