The Grey Forest Band

The Gray Forest is a Neofolk band from Santiago, Chile. The Gray Forest is inspired by the interaction of man with nature and its essence.

They seek to interpret the sensation that makes them feel the smell of humid earth, the rays of sunlight that seep through the leaves and the complexity of the roots that form intricate figures.

MEMBERS:

Juan Manuel - Composer, Lead Guitar and Voice

Juan Ignacio - Drums

Gabriela - Voice and Chorus / Anaís - Cello

The Grey Forest - The Grey Forest

Nøkken + The Grim

Nøkken + The Grim is the call of ancient spirits for humankind to remember the forgotten song of nature, the animality, the beauty, the  brutality. It is music for the wild and untamed. Nøkken, the Norse spirit of horses and water, is joined by Ajatar, the Finnish dragoness, and Peryton, once the Magyar white stag, now black with soot.

The band has been featured on Brutal Resonance and has performed on Austin’s  Pagan Pride festival, Me Mer Mo Mondays sponsored by Self-Sabotage Records, and has recorded for several film scores under Brian  Satterwhite.  Nøkken (Justin Scheibel) is a soloist in the forthcoming horror film Sour Bear under composer Brian Satterwhite, host of KMFA 89.5's "Film Score Focus." Peryton (Stephen Ian Savage) is film composer and electronic artist who's score to the short-film "Where You Used to Be" recently premiered in Columbus, Ohio.

Nøkken + The Grim was formed in Austin, Texas in 2015. Their soundscapes evoke a time in which the human embodied its primal, animal nature. These wild spirits channel many styles of music and folkloric traditions into surreal and intense staging with costumes and animal masks, evocative of older shamanistic pathways and drawing heavily from Nøkken's Magyar and Germanic heritage.

Nøkken, in Norwegian folklore, is a water horse spirit and shapeshifter. In bygone times, the creature would lure trespassing humans to drown in rivers and lakes with seductive fiddling pulled from the heart of nature. Nøkken is joined by Peryton, The Black Stag on electronics and winds. Formerly the White Stag of Hungarian legend, his fur and feathers have turned black with the soot of modern industry. Now he seethes with the electronic pulse of technology. Ajatar, the Finnish witch of the woods, is the misunderstood mother of woodland spirits, thought to be a bringer of pestilence. Her form is that of a serpentine dragon, and she performs on viola. These shapeshifters of Norse and Magyar folklore have emerged from the forests and streams to perform animalistic, heathen music for human civilization at the brink of the ongoing war between our Mother Earth and human greed.

MEMBERS:

Nøkken - Justin Scheibel - Lead Violin, Manager, Producer

Peryton, The Black Stag - Stephen Ian Savage - Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer, Electronics

Ajatar - Karli Leal - Violist

Nøkken + The Grim - Discography

Trickster God (2018)

Treason to Our Nature (2018)

Overhead Freeway (2018)

Argonath

Dungeon synth music based upon celtic mythology of Ireland.

This project is now under the name Sreng.

"Argonath settles for a survey on a variety of topics which becomes a tableau of ancient memories and dreams"

"the music is organic and as you listen it dawns on you that the music is Irish rather than beating you over the head..."

MEMBER:

Daithí Ó Mathúna

Argonath - Discography

Lugnasad (2018)

The Cattle Raid of Cooley (2017)

Journey to the Otherworld (2017)

The Great Hunger (2017)

Dark Stories of the Sidhe (2017)

Foreign Fantasy (Isegrimm Split) (2017)

Melodies of the Past (2017)

Kilcrea Keep (Demo) (2016)

Tower of Glass (2018)

Gaol (2017)

Evilnox

Evilnox is a russian musical project, performing a musical style known as medieval dark  ambient.

The project was founded in January 12th, 2012, in the city of Mineralnye Vody (Russian for Mineral Waters).

The music itself is a mixture of medieval melodies, dark ambient, and black metal, combined with a melancholic and dismal atmosphere

Rux Minn - all music; guitar noises, bass, keys, samples, drum programming, art

MEMBERS:

Rux - all music; guitar noises, bass, keys, samples, drum programming

Evilnox - Discography

Faint Glimmer Of Cursed Moon Over The Dark Woods (2018)

The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn (Remastered) (2018)

Twilight At The Woods (EP) (2018)

Songs Of Silver Midnight (Reissue) (2018)

Honey Moon And Blackened Stars (2018)

The Return To Ancient Lands (Reissue) (2017)

Dark Passages Of Winter (2017)

Dark Times Of War And Witchcraft (2017)

When Darkness Falls (Compilation) (2017)

Forgotten Scrolls (Compilation) (2016)

Into The Misty Forest (EP) (2016)

Songs From Twilight Kingdom (2016)

Beyond The Black River (EP) (2016)

The Nights Of Deadful Silence (EP) (2016)

In Crystal Mirrors Of Winter (EP) (2015)

Nighttime Birds Awoke The Dead (2013)

Voices From The Dark (2013)

Age Of Blood And Fire (2013)

The Land Of The Lost Souls (Demo) (2012)

Balrog Band

BALROG is a french project inspired by the universe of Tolkien, mixing the Dungeon Synth and Fantasy Ambient with some epic, medieval and folk influences.

t's an artist who began to make known with an album named "Khazad Dum" in 2014, he has subsequently released many demos to evolve in his style, released on various labels like Out of Season, Olog Productions, Depressive Illusions Records, etc.

His second album "The Shadow and the Flame" was released in 2017, an album produced on his label Onodrim Production with the participation of Obscure Dungeon Records in 2018. He also worked with artists same Uruk-Hai in 2015 for the split "The Ashes of Battle" and The Inquisitor in 2018 for the split "Barad - Dûr". He also participated in an interview on the book "Mortiis - Secrets Of My Kingdom: Return To Dimensions Unknown" by Cult Never Dies.

MEMBERS:

John Gølfimbúk

Balrog - Discography

The Dark Tower (Coming soon to be released in 2019)

Barad-Dûr (2018) Split with The Inquisitor

Night Settles on the Mountains (2018)

The Shadow and the Flame (2017)

Beowulf & Dragon (2016)

A Red Sun Rises (2015)

The Ashes of Battle (2015) Split with Uruk-Hai

Ancalagon the Black (2014)

The Ringwraiths (2014)

Minas Morgul (2014)

Khazad Dum (2014)

Anubis Band

Anubis is a collaborative project Thomas (ElixiR) and Pierre (Balrog).

A new concept of the Dungeon Synth that draws inspiration from ancient egypt : Egyptian Synth.

MEMBERS:

Thomas

Pierre

Anubis - Cradle Of Civilization

Arathgoth

Arathgoth is a Band "Atmospheric Black Metal, Celtic, Pagan, Dungeon Synth & Dark Ambiant" from the Forgotten Lands

MEMBERS:

Arathgoth

Arathgoth - Discography

Dreams of the Sylvan Elves (2018)

Guardians of the Fall (2016)

Return to the Old Castle (2016)

Memories of Torment (2015)

Rise of the Three Moons (2015)

Book of the Night​-​Legends (2014)

Dark like Space (2014)

Between Demons and Witches (2014)

Brutal winter (2013)

Man with no fate (2013)

Interplanetary Travel (2013)

The Season Of Ashes (2012)

Forgotten Kingdoms

Let the deep and dark music of Forgotten Kingdoms paint you a vision... The vision of Forgotten Kingdoms.

This is the very introduction to the tale of the world without end. Join the pilgrimage towards the stars and supreme monarchy.

A travel to the times when Dark Dungeon Music was crafted, be unleashed by this medieval dungeon synth music monument."

Lineup:

Azgorh

Forgotten Kingdoms - Discography

A Kingdom in Ruin (Coming soon to be released)

Crowned in Forlorn Darkness (2017)

Blue Moon Gate Between Worlds (2015)

Forgotten Kingdoms (demo I) (2015)

Carnifexian

From the shores of the Baltic Sea comes a mysterious stranger with an old axe on his back and an old book in his hands. A black hood conceals his many secrets, but fear not; he is here to tell you a story. A story told beneath the banner of old school dungeon synth, hearkening back to dark medieval times – when not every hero was good and not every tale told held a happy ending. Rest thy weary bones by the fire and behold the legend of Carnifexian.

Lineup:

Carnifexian

CARNIFEXIAN - Discography

Age Of Spiked Mace (2017)

Dark Ages of Valor, Magic, and Steel (single 2017)

Wolcensmen

WOLCENSMEN is the Epic Heathen Folk project of Dan Capp, England.

Wolcensmen began its journey in 2013 with the release of a 3-song demo CD. This edition of 30 hand-made CD-Rs was given to friends, as Wolcensmen was initially intended to be just a small creative outlet for the man behind the project, Dan Capp. Dan had played in a number of bands; of varying styles, all metal-related, but looked back to his teenage years when he had crafted short acoustic passages of music inspired by the likes of Ulver, Opeth, Empyrium and Wongraven. These long-lost cassette recordings had been praised by friends at the time, so Dan decided it was time to rekindle that old flame.

The demo songs were uploaded to bandcamp, and through a series of chance circumstances, Deivlforst Records of Germany took an interest, offering to re-release the demo on cassette with the addition of two bonus tracks (songs that had been recorded as one-offs for compilation albums). The growing popularity of the demo demanded a debut full-length, and with the encouragement of Deivlforst, work began on this in 2015 and culminated in the release of ‘Songs from the Fyrgen’ in November 2016. The reception to the debut album was phenomenal and despite no structured press campaign the initial CD pressing sold out in six months, with overwhelming praise from the underground press.

The inspiration for Wolcensmen was always, quite simply, those deeply atmospheric acoustic-guitar compositions which occasionally flowed from within the extreme metal scene of the 1990s. Wolcensmen’s purpose is to draw upon those folkloric moods and aesthetics and to explore the mystical Heathen culture of North-Western Europe.

In October 2017 the first live performance of Wolcensmen songs took place in England’s Lake District. Following this, work began on the writing and planning of a sophomore album and further live shows.

Lineup:

Dan Capp

Wolcensmen - Discography

Songs from the Fyrgen (2016)

Demo (2013)

Draugurinn

Draugurinn was born during the winter of 2008 and has since then released 3 ritualistic dark ambient albums as well as individual songs written for releases with Panphage (swe), Skogen (swe) and Nawaharjan (ger). When (and if) performing live, each performance become unique since every live act serve unique and different purposes. So far this has append twice..

The creations are usually results of ritual acts where shaman drums, bones, the sounds of nature and vocals acts as instruments. Draugurinn finds her inspiration in the wisdom of Nature, the old ones and among the shadows.

Draugurinn - Discography

Myrkraverk (2017)

Ísavetur (2015)

Dauðadá (2010)

Liholesie (Лихолесье)

Liholesie is an old Russian ethno-ambient act, with the first demo released in 2002. From 2004 to 2008 it released four albums and a split with metal bands. The music was changing from epic folk ambience to more ritual atmosphere. Liholesie became one of the most well-known Russian ambient bands.

Then there was a period of silence, which ended only in 2006 with the new album called «The Fog of Transition». It was now music of untouched nature, lucid dreams and shamanic trips inspired by a journey to the Altai Mountains. It was a start of a new chapter in the project's history with new sound and vision. As for now, the project is active, plays live and is working on new material.

MEMBERS:

Valentin Agapov

Liholesie - Discography 

Boundless Thirst For The Outside (2017)

The Fog of Transition (2016)

Беспредельная жажда иного (2008)

Видения (2007)

Родные просторы (2005)

Извечное коловращение (2004)