A A wave of blowing cave clubs erupted in the air, a crowd of euphoria, which is swinging with fun while watching a convincing dinosaur looking at one of the mixture. The masked musician, DipLodocus, has transformed this crowded bar in southern London Mandi into a mystical running world, and one time at one time.
This is Albion Dungeon Fest, Sellout, the weekend, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. Emerging in the nineties of the last century as a branch of black metal, Illuminated category Replace the guitar with keyboards to make them less fragile, and more magic. Her Sufi voice has aesthetics to suit the atmosphere of JRR Tolkien’s books, Rigning Game Dungeons & Dragons and to re -imagine an era in the Middle Ages.
The magician beard is very similar to the story of a long and intertwined fortified constellation, and in an attempt to reveal it, the author Jordan Whitman investigated this type. It resulted in Dark cell music: The story of the unlikely Blue BlueWhich was published earlier this year, which is promoted in the festival. He says: “This species began in people’s bedrooms with a keyboard and a tape surface, and that, during the first ten years, what it was – was not intended to become anything more,” he says.
This margin has great origins, rooted in the black metal scene in Norway. Mortiis, a real name Håvard ellefsenWho gave a question and answer in his autobiography at the festival, is generally a pioneer. After leaving his Emperor band in the early 1990s, the collection of Black Metal, the artificial limbs inspired by heavy metal rock and images of fictional novels to build his own individual project, described him as “dark dungeon music.”
The second number attributed to the concept of synths is the controversial music Varg VICERNES. VIKERNES, the new Nazi who was convicted in 1994, killed a former team colleague from other crimes, created two ocean albums while behind bars under the title of Burzum (meaning darkness in the Lord of the Rings’ Clebe Black Language). He was released in 2009 and since he was sentenced to incitement to racist hatred.
Yumman says Nazi and “hateful ideologies” are still a noticeable part of the Black Metal. He says: “I am grateful because fans of the consumable constellations are largely hostile to an ideology that crawls into music,” noting that such opinions reject one of the “basic principles” of fortified music, as it “breaks the function of the entire fugitives of music.”
Although her popularity did not completely explode, Whiteman says he noticed the events of the fortified constellations that emerge frequently in his native home, as the fans were clearly pulled into their fictional plays. At the festival, which was held in New Cross in the south of London, the German duo Silence of depression – The style is worn from the scene of the dungeon in the 1990s – wearing dark gowns, while the burners of mineral incense are greatly swinging to the massive betting of drums. Others do not wear a thorny chains or leather shield, and you are already familiar with dinosaur.
UK -based law Saif Atlant – Whoever does not give his real name – performs in the festival in his usual uniform: a threat skull helme in addition to a huge sword. He says, “In its essence, Synth is still the surrounding music, and therefore the play makes it more attractive to the audience,” adding that music aims to put the listener in the “hero’s journey”, and to provide them with the imagination escape. He says: “I am trying to capture the feelings of nostalgia related to high fictional films, books, video games and fiction art, and integrate those feelings into music.” The golden ax as sources of inspiration.
Atlantan is a relatively new sword on the scene-he released his first album in late 2023-but he even saw the popularity of this type “double an increase”, describing the sale of the festival as a “mental bombing” and the festival mentioned on radio 1 as “wild”. But he emphasizes that the main element is “mystery and mystery. SYNTH fortified, in its real form, underground music. I am not sure of what will happen if the music is pulled out very far from the dungeon and the light of the cruel day.”
From my position in the crowd, the atmosphere feels very unique so that it cannot become the prevailing. I may be surrounded by scary -looking metals, but they behave well; Listen with interest, a polite reaction. One man, who moves to swelling synthesis, extends enthusiastically, with his fingers wandering and wandering his hand tightly in a fist, as if he was wandering in the sound waves tightly.
Attached to one of the Supervan, Cecil, who imagines while speaking. “Although society is controlled by males and can look somewhat frightening, it is, really, really sweet,” he says. “If there is anything, you will find a crowd of immunized constellations to be a little shy. We are people with alternative music and do not always feel comfortable in the prevailing culture.”
Meanwhile, for Cysel, the association with the type with VIKERNES is something that should remain familiar with it. “I had no bad interactions in person. The people I have always met welcomed and excited to share their music and their knowledge. But if you care about the tattoos and spots that some people enjoy, it is clear that these interactions are possible – especially if you are like me, you are a clearly strange person.”
However, for the vast majority, Synth Dungeon is a form of editing-as Cecil is acting, “common fictional space” where strange balls and error can find a consolation of the main non-magical current. “It may be a little, but we all embrace this atmosphere of Sufism, possibility and nostalgia for the past,” he says. “It is the music that can take you to the depths of a cursed forest or make you feel like you are your own hero.” Cecil, who puts something from the statement of the dungeon, is advancing, as it lies in the heart of this type. This, in the face of a strange modern world, all that remains, as he says, is “the refusal of society, escaping to the fortified constellations!”