Dead Heretic

If you're like me, you have this mental image of dungeon synth mixing dark ambience of Dracula's armpit with a seedy hobgoblin tavern in the bowels of a long forgotten, ruined city. Spaceseer have done away with that on their Feral Moon album.The band has brought some deep, warped out psychedelia to the dungeons and you can bet your bum Gary Gygax never saw this coming. Heavily sombre, dark, warped and out there, Feral Moon is perhaps the best intro to a wildly variant sub-genre as can be had.

What do you get for naming your price? A whole weight of sound that is illegal in 29 countries. (That is false news, by the way.) Ten tracks drag the inner parts of your mind through over seventy-five minutes of reality-fudging eddies and flows on the surface of the soul. Guitars lay down a chord-laden base which periodically ramps up with the energies of a giant wyvern, only to resettled into the groove. If 1930's jazz musicians dropped a kilo of blue meanies, this album is about where they would be when they dropped back into reality.

The album itself keeps its psychedelic claws well into the fantasy and sci-fi realms with some wildly grooved up story telling. In the midst of the vocals, the narrator's voice lends the dark, chilling and frigid visage of something not human and not us. Feral Moon is a full on concept album with the sage continuing to future releases, it seems.

It's almost getting cliched for me to say, “I need to pay more attention to this and that music style”, but Spaceseer have dragged dungeon synth onto the radar screen for me. Check these guys out and get into some really trippy uniqueness.