/vr/ - Retro Games

I dunno if you guys ever heard of a genre of music called dungeon synth, but it has become my go-to Doom music for when I get tired of listening to the same MIDI over and over when grinding pistol-starts no-saves. Sometimes I'll listen to thrash metal like Metallica's first three albums, or death metal like Nile (Black Seeds of Vengeance is good Dooming music for Hell levels), or black metal like Darkthrone, but a lot of the time I find metal is too distracting. Filmmaker used to be my go-to Doom music, especially when grinding Nightmare demos
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9pk7bsfh58
but there's only so many times you can listen to the same discography over and over. Which brings me to dungeon synth, a genre I randomly discovered from youtube one day.

Here is what I'm listening to now
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDbJyRut2_0
Varg Vikernes recorded this while in prison and the only instrument he had access to was a synthesizer. I doubt he intentionally set out to create "dungeon synth," he was probably just making music with the only tools he had. I used to think this music was just ambient until I discovered this youtube channel. You can also find tons of dungeon synth on that channel.

I know virtually nothing about this kind of music but here's the first artist in this genre whose name I remembered because I thought his music was good
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHiQaPU9BWU