Redgauntlet's dungeon synth: black metal's stepbrother won't stay quiet anymore

Redgauntlet

Mad Wizard's Keep

Often relegated to the back of the line, frequently told to remember that he has no first-born privileges, in black metal dungeon synth has been called upon countless times, many times as a groomsman, plenty of times as an usher. Never the groom. In black metal dungeon synth has been employed as introductions, contracted out as interludes and temporarily hired as outros, to lay out the road to be traversed, to welcome visitors to the castle. But told to remain outside. Such pieces often are not actually black metal or even rock, for that matter.

Redgauntlet is not black metal, but rather an all-out dungeon synth project. Have you ever listened to the beginning of a black metal album with an introduction? Does it sound ominous, gothic or atmospheric? Alright, well, this recording is that, but now as an entirely separate concept, taking the idea all the way to its logical conclusion. Redgauntlet is dungeon synth finding its own path and refusing to only be a greeter to the festivities. There is a kingdom that Redgauntlet is already building!

Warning: Just in case that it is not clear, there is no rock music whatsoever here. Rather, you will encounter a landscape of sounds for the battles ahead, of the worlds of the goblins, orcs, mountain trolls, gremlins, and of the dragon, the stingy, vengeful dragon unwilling to part with a single ounce of his gold.

Somber and heavy, epic and frightful, contemplative and abstruse, perhaps you won't mosh or bench press 290 pounds to this music because it is not abrasive like black metal, but it is heavy in a different way. It is meant to take you on a journey, sometimes marching, oftentimes running, perhaps crawling, maybe looking for cover or searching out the roads, ravines, old bridges and crevices where the day and the night run up against the beckoning horizon. The time of Redgauntlet is here, making dungeon synth great again by giving you what you don't know you want.