Echoes from the Dungeon Fest II

Echoes II Guide

Echoes from the Dungeon on Echobox Radio – Amsterdam

A 1-hour radio show devoted to Dungeon Synth. Unless a “special” program, the format is a curated selection of new/recent releases, including reissues and remasters. Every 4 weeks, live on Thursday’s at 14:00 CEST.

Listen: www.echobox.radio/shows/echoes-from-the-dungeon

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  1. Show #12 – Dec. 11th 2025: Year-End Review with Special Guest John Lordswood
  2. Show #11 – Dec. 3rd 2025: Dungeon Synthmas Special
  3. Show #10 – Nov. 13th 2025
  4. Show #9 – Oct. 16th 2025
  5. Show #8 – Sep. 18th 2025: DDFIII Special
  6. Show #7 – Aug. 21st 2025: with guest Fragmented Memories
  7. Show #6 – Jul. 24th 2025
  8. Show #5 – Jun. 26th 2025
  9. Show #4 – May 29th 2025
  10. Show #3 – May 1st 2025
  11. Show #2 – Feb. 28th 2025
  12. Show #1 – Jan. 30th 2025: Echoes from the Dungeon Fest Special

Below is a list of songs played on each broadcast, with links to the corresponding albums on Bandcamp.

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Show #12 – Dec. 11th 2025: Year-End Review with Special Guest John Lordswood

We chat with John Lordswood (co-founder of Dungeon Synth Archives Youtube channel, Ancient King Records label owner, and musician behind Weress, Balrog, Skhemty and others) about some of the album highlights of the past year.

  1. Anglachel – ‘The Battle at Cirith Thoronath’ (Of the Sea-Longing and the Journey to the West)
  2. Atlantean Sword – ‘The Anvil Beneath The Mountain’ (Ironmaster)
  3. Aura Merlin – ‘Shapeshiftin’’ (Moon Gates)
  4. Batogar – ‘Where Nature’s Realm Still Shines’ (Thy Old Kingdom)
  5. Candle Void – ‘Crimson Spirit’ (Candle Void)
  6. Descort – ‘Griffon, Prisonnier du Donjon d’Amblève’ (Ysope† 3e) 
  7. Faydark – ‘Myth Drannar’ (Lost Empires) 
  8. Fragmented Memories – ‘returning the past’ (among all ghosts ever returning) 
  9. Gelure – ‘Tales of Wizardry and Earthbound Lore’ (Inner Sanctum) 
  10. Ghöest – ‘The Majestic End (Part III)’ (The Majestic End) 
  11. Hellébore – ‘Old ruins and rusty swords’ (Demo I) 
  12. Heritage – ‘Broken Bells of a Forgotten Shrine’ (Verdant Kingdom) 
  13. Hoarfrost – ‘Close To Golden Warmth Under The Cold Sky’ (The Sun Set Behind Mount Blue Job) 
  14. Loitsu – ‘Tähtien Kruunaama’ (…Kauan Sitten) 
  15. Mythräen – ‘A Dragon’s Lament’ (Wings Beneath Krynn’s Moonlight) 
  16. Old Sorcery – ‘Drink Deep The Poetry Of Dreamscapes’ (The Escapist) 
  17. Orcus – ‘Ocean of Sand’ (Return to Necropolis) 
  18. Solanum – ‘In silence’ (Worlds)
  19. Svampprinsen – ‘Jag lyfte blicken och tittade på vinterstjärnan’ (Mörkret Viskar Mitt Namn) 
  20. Tales Under The Oak – ‘Full Autumn Moon Festival’ (The Toad Folk II) 
  21. Vanishing Amulet – ‘Moonlit Cryer’ (Moonlit Cryer) 
  22. Varvitos – ‘Shadows Waltzing in the Great Hall’ (A Jester’s Ode To The Dead) 
  23. Villein – ‘Mercury – Queen and Chariot’ (Book of Trismosin) 
  24. What Was Said in the Woods – ‘Within a Mossy Glade, Under the Stars’ (Memories & Memorials of the Deepwood) 
  25. Zireaal – ‘Through Space and Time’ (Upon Her Blade…) 

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Show #11 – Dec. 3rd 2025: Dungeon Synthmas Special

Echoes from the Dungeon presents ‘Dungeon Synthmas’: an hour of comfy Winter Solstice & Yuletide synth for the season.

  1. Wyrd Gnome – ‘It’s Christmas Morn’!’ (Gather ‘Round the Hearth, It’s Christmas)
  2. Grimdor – ‘Yuledays’ (Yuledays [single])
  3. Grandma’s Cottage – ‘precious moments’ (Precious Moments) 
  4. Warm Smial – ‘Winter’s Moonlight Glistening’ (Carols for the Hearth in Winter)
  5. Hole Dweller – ‘a fireside reflection of snow and fir’ (the first of yule [demo])
  6. Mushroom Grandpa – ‘Life Under Snow’ (Life Under Snow)
  7. Mr. Hare – ‘First Snow’ (Christmas Cottage)
  8. Guild Of Lore – ‘The Wintry Sounds of Christmas’ [excerpt] (The Wintry Sounds of Christmas)
  9. Darksol – ‘Gods Rest Ye, Weary Traveller’ (Nights of Yule)
  10. Mons – ‘Two Foxes (Ode To You In Snow)’ (Julzeit [EP])
  11. Cherry Cordial – ‘Christmas at the Abbey’ (Christmas at the Abbey)
  12. Læraðr – ‘Pan Greets The Winter Cold’ (Yule [EP])
  13. Kertasníkir Töframaður ‘V – The Greatest Gift of All’ – (Stolen Tallow) 
  14. Chaucerian Myth – ‘Good King Winceslas’ (The Dark Noel Project – The Bleak Midwinter)
  15. Frostgard – ‘Someone sings from the Cliff House’ (The Last Letter of Winter) 
  16. Nahadoth – ‘No Masters but Mystery (O Magnum Mysterium / Masters in this Hall)’ (The Dark Noel Project – The Bleak Midwinter)
  17. Båvingr – ‘Gaudete’ (Gaudete [single])
  18. Elyvilon – ‘Pat-a-pan’ (Full Moon Over Yuletide Eve)
  19. Krampusnacht – ‘Branle de l’Official’ (Krampusnacht)
  20. DARKEST DUNGEONS – ‘Carol of the Bells’ (CATHEDRALS OF SILENCE – An Exploration of Yuletide Hauntology)

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Show #10 – Nov. 13th 2025

In this post-Halloween edition of Echoes from the Dungeon, we journey through spectral soundscapes, drum-laden dark synths, and new releases that celebrate eerie, epic, and ever-expanding realms.

  1. Hoarfrost – ‘London Dungeon (Synth)’ (Dungeon Business)
  2. An Old Witch’s Hat – ‘A Portal to the Seventh Malign Dimension’ (Primeval Whispers From the Womb of the Void Mother)
  3. Caerdroia – ‘Village of Hollows’ (Village of Hollows)
  4. Moth Tower – ‘Void Summoning II: The Flooding’ (The Sanity Link)
  5. Lored Legend – ‘Fairycraft’ (Realm)
  6. Gate Scroll – ’Level 3’ (Orc Cave)
  7. Gilgareth – ‘Schwarze Lande (Reprise)’ (Schwarze Lande EP)
  8. Rainbow Dungeon & Lord Bakartia – ‘Prayers of the most darkened heart’ (Holy Love Empire)
  9. Phantom Lantern – ‘BLOODMOON’ (The Lantern Tapes)
  10. Altar Of Moss – ‘The Wolfmoon Rises’ (Lleuad Blaidd)
  11. Warlock Corpse – ‘Ghost Theme’ (Melodies for Ghosts)
  12. Hjartans – ‘Friendships are renewed and old foes rise again’ (Gifts of Magic and Steel)
  13. Mythstone – ‘Horns Boast of His Approach’ (Splitrock Battle Hymns)

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Show #9 – Oct. 16th 2025

In this episode, we journey through a blazing season of new Dungeon Synth releases as the scene surges!

  1. Erang – ‘Spoken Bones’ (TOME ZERO)
  2. Aura Merlin – ‘The Moondial’ (ft. Frostgard) (Moon Gates)
  3. CASTLEROCK – ‘turning of the spirit’ (THE WORLD IN THE VALLEY OF THE WIND)
  4. SPECTRAL FIRS – ‘MOONLIGHT OVER YAAK’ (THE MIST-CLOAKED KINGDOM OF THE NORTH)
  5. Old Sorcery – ‘Dethrone Reason, Crown My Heart’ (The Escapist)
  6. Descort – ‘La Berceuse de la Dame des Branches’ (Ysopet 3e) 
  7. Forge of Nova – ‘I Am Arwerenn’ (Arwerenn)
  8. Tales Under The Oak – ‘Dragonfly Kites in the Evening Sky’ (The Toad Folk II)
  9. hermit knight – ‘some battles cannot be won’ (pseudanthium)
  10. Weress – ‘Royaume de la Nuit ‘ (Arthuros, Foglord, Weress – Triune of Stars)
  11. Old Forsaken Realm – ‘Through A Sea Of Crimson Mist Beneath A Towering Crystal Keep’ (Eerie Apparitions Upon A Path Long Forgotten)

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Show #8 – Sep. 18th 2025: DDFIII Special

Denis Halleux, one of the organisers of the first dungeon synth festival in Europe, the mighty Dark Dungeon Festival, joined us to play music by some of the artists performing at the Oct. 2025 3rd edition at a medieval castle in Anthisnes, Belgium. We were joined by The Wanderer, Svampprinsen, Skhemty, Silencio Permanente, Anglachel and O.T. Orzel from A Spell Enraged.

  1. Wraith Knight – ‘With The Great Ancestral Sword’ (Deep in the Dungeons of the Dragonlord) 
  2. The Wanderer – ‘Mushroom Grove’ (Journeys In The New North)
  3. Svampprinsen – ‘Skuggornas sång’ (Mörkret viskar mitt namn)
  4. Arcana Liturgia – ‘The Rise of the Arcanum’ (Follow the Old Path)
  5. Skhemty – ‘In Dark Hallways of the Pyramid’ (Hidden Treasures of Egypt)
  6. Silencio Permanente – ‘Adiós Rita’ (Sombre Macabrum) 
  7. Anglachel – ‘Over the Sea, Beyond the Circles of the World’ (Of the Sea-Longing and the Journey to the West)
  8. A Spell Enraged – ‘Blood Is Life Eternal’ (Demonized)

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Show #7 – Aug. 21st 2025: with guest Fragmented Memories

We traverse ancient Egypt, frostbitten realms, spectral soundtracks, and present our first exclusive premiere: Fragmented Memories joins us on the show with a song from her forthcoming album, ‘among all ghosts ever returning’.

  1. Atlantean Sword – “The Ritual Of Steel” (Ironmaster)
  2. Fragmented Memories – “the calling” (among all ghosts ever returning)
  3. Frith – “Pit of Unknowns” (Bunny Borg Official Soundtrack)
  4. Candle Void – “Earthbound” (Candle Void) 
  5. The Ashen Codex – “II. To Mourn a Paladin (Armoured in Sepia)” (Sepia Realms)
  6. Skhemty – “Moon Over Cleopatra” (Goddess of the Nighttime Sky)
  7. Syrvante – “Vive le Régicide” (Malaventure II)
  8. Torchlight – “The Ancient Gate of the Nameless Realm” (The Kingdom Of Crimson Leaves – split with Wizards Of Aldur and Altar Of Moss)
  9. SnöeSpell – “Frostseer” (Runefrost)
  10. GAIVS – “Bread and Circuses” (Metamorphosis)
  11. Warlock Corpse – “Eternal Prisoner” feat. Spiritual Slum (Eternal Prisoner)
  12. Mystic Towers – “Beneath the Fortress” (Chapter One: Inner Kingdom)

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Show #6 – Jul. 24th 2025

A journey through dark forests, enchanted realms, and spectral dreamscapes.

  1. Jenn Taiga – “Lamentations of a Shattered Spirit” (Sanguine Descent)
  2. Talvi – “Nietosmieli” (single)
  3. Forest Spectre – “March of The Timberline Empires” (Demo III)
  4. Segadeath – “A Quest’s End” (The Questing Jester: The Fool & the Mage)
  5. Eternal Druid – “Enter the Woods of Sequania” (Forest of Illusions) 
  6. Hole Dweller – “Hole In One” (single)
  7. Syrvante – “Tresche Au Diable” (Malaventure)
  8. Sylfvr – “A Forest” (The Tower)
  9. Vale Minstrel – “As the Leaves Fall Slowly” (Through The Forest Vale) 
  10. Anglachel – “Where the Golden Flower Fell” (Of the Sea-Longing and the Journey to the West)
  11. Sokol Keep – “I. In the midst of darkness, light persists” (Fear not the dark, but shadows – EP)
  12. Grimdor – “Shadowfax” (single)

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Show #5 – Jun. 26th 2025

Descending into shadowed ruins and twilight realms, guided by melancholic melodies and medieval atmospheres.

  1. Valen – “In War and Triumph” (Viarum)
  2. Svampprinsen – “Omfamna skymningen” [Single]
  3. Pauldron – “Magma lights our way” (Swampkeep Triumvirat)
  4. Heritage – “Yew, an Altarwood” (Verdant Kingdom)
  5. Vanishing Amulet – “Crumbled Estate” (Moonlit Cryer)
  6. Erang – “Years In The Mirror” (Casting the Ancient Spell Again)
  7. Altar Of Moss – “Seekers of Hidden Lore Pt.2” (Seekers of Hidden Lore)
  8. Qupqugiaq – “Beasts with Blood Like Ice” (The Glint of Jagged Teeth Amidst the Snowstorm)
  9. Umbral Regency – “The Shattering of Starlit Silence” (The Black Winds)
  10. Arcana Liturgia – “The tower, the ghost and the solitude” (Tales of an Ancient World – 2025 Remaster)
  11. Villein – “Moon – Sceptre and Apple” (Book of Trismosin)
  12. Ghoëst – “The Majestic End (Part I)” (The Majestic End)

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Show #4 – May 29th 2025

Journeying through fantasy-inspired soundscapes, kosmische-musik infused synth odysseys, and heartfelt tributes.

  1. Fata Morgana – ‘A Forest Path’ (Fata Morgana)
  2. Segadeath – ‘The boiling sea awaits’ (The Questing Jester, The Fool & The Sword)
  3. Bardic Whispers – ‘They Dwell Among the Crypts’ (Depths of Eternity)
  4. Candle Oath – ‘Light The Beacons’ (II)
  5. Mythráen – ‘Est Solarus Oth Mithas’ (Wings Beneath Krynn’s Moonlight)
  6. Amn – ‘The Broken Sphere’ (The Known Spheres)
  7. Règne – ‘A Glimmer of Hope’ (feat. Frostgard) (A Little Cat In A Big World)
  8. Unsheathed Glory – ‘In the Heart of Lumenthoria The Glowing City’ (Beneath Sun & Soil)
  9. Gilgareth – ‘Tyrfing’ (Zwei Schwerter)
  10. Mr. Hare – ‘Mist, Antlers and Deers’ (A New Forest Adventure With My Psychedelic Boots)
  11. Cauldron 80 – ‘Relics’ (Altered Leo – Demo)
  12. Kvothe – ‘Les Ombres se Lèvent’ (La Mélopée du Printemps)
  13. Boreal Specter – ‘Beneath the Northern Sky’ (Boreal Specter II)
  14. Sokol Keep – ‘II. Sokol Keep Looms Before Me’ by The Ashen Codex (The Phoenix Must Burn to Emerge – music from & inspired by Sokol Keep)

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Show #3 – May 1st 2025

Exploring epic lo-fi fantasy journeys, melancholic soundscapes, raw live takes, and reissued midwinter sagas.

  1. Örnatorpet – ‘Bäckens Serenad’ (Midvintersagor)
  2. EARTHEN SHIELD – ‘a wretched feast’ (endless melancholia)
  3. Magic Hilt – ‘Weathering the Snowflake Mountains’ (Saga of the Glinting Steel)
  4. Ruin Dweller ‘Drawing Down the Somber Light’ (Somber Light Spellcraft – EP)  
  5. Hoarfrost – ‘The Sun Set Behind Mount Blue Job’ (The Sun Set Behind Mount Blue Job)
  6. Grimdor – ‘The Dark Valar’ (The Fortress of Utumno, split with Frostgard)
  7. Ring of Tamyrlin – ‘The Black Fever IV’ (The Black Fever)
  8. Flickers from the Fen – ‘Silly Beast’ (Live at Echoes from the Dungeon Fest)
  9. Ancient Kingdom – ‘Mana Pool’ (Mystic Water Streams)
  10. Wandesborow – ‘Joyeuse Entrée’ (Coûte que coûte)
  11. Orcus – ‘Wizened Mages Hut’ (Return to Necropolis)
  12. Actias Luna – ‘Tornarem a les estrelles’ (L’illa dels Somnis)

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Show #2 – Feb. 28th 2025

Aired 28-Feb 2025 – Exploring icy soundscapes, medieval ambience and immersive storytelling.

  1. Draaiih – ‘Winter Nocturne’ (The Hawklord)
  2. Wizards of Aldur – ‘The Rivan Queen’ (Castle of Wizardry)
  3. Fragmented Memories – ‘into the tombs of mystery’ (the dark side of lightness)
  4. Cave Spellcaster – ‘Fortress of Eternal Cold’ (Fortress of Eternal Cold)
  5. Jim Kirkwood – ‘Epitaph For A Dying City Pt1’ (Master of Dragons – Remaster)
  6. Solar Knight – ‘North Cosmic Winds’ (Divine Solitude, 2024)
  7. Dungeontroll – ‘Passage Through the Hinterland of Gorgaltier’ (A Fervent Call from Atop Gorgaltier Mountain)
  8. Howling Fjord – ‘The Masons of Stormwind’ (Utgarde Keep)
  9. Skeleton Mage – ‘An Overgrown Chapel’ (Of Mossy Ruins and Forest Paths)
  10. Règne – ‘A Last chance Failed’ (A Great Squeleton In The Castle Streets)
  11. Meadow Grove – ‘A Steady Stream of Workers Arrive’ (The Rebirth of Laernmoth Keep)
  12. Snowmoon – ‘Snowmoon V’ (Snowmoon)
  13. Squire – ‘Venerated Remains of the Grail Knight’ (Ancient Dawn Over Lapland)

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Show #1 – Jan. 30th 2025: Echoes from the Dungeon Fest Special

Songs by the incredible artists featured on the Echoes from the Dungeon Fest I lineup, the first and only Fantasy & Dungeon Synth festival in The Netherlands.

  1. Depressive Silence – ‘Dreams’ (Mourning, 1996 – remastered demo)
  2. Paths Of The Eternal – ’The Holy Pendulum’ (Esoteric Rights)
  3. Tales Under The Oak – ‘And Yet Another Journey Begins’ (And Yet Another Journey Begins)
  4. Atlantean Sword – ‘The Hammers of Loneiron’ (All Is Dust)
  5. Nest – ‘By The Healing Waters’ (Woodsmoke)
  6. Svampprinsen – ‘Promenader Och Upptäckt’ (Höstens Vattenfall)
  7. Fragmented Memories – ‘Where Shadows Dance’ (Collecting Memories For The Future)
  8. Frostgard – ‘Enderi’ (Coranar)
  9. Pauldron – ‘Endless Wandering’ (Brogvar and Wyrgan’s Quest for the Basilisk Horn)
  10. Arcana Liturgia – ‘The Streets of Dalanh’ (The Grey Wanderer)
  11. Flickers From The Fen – ‘Gielinor Hardcore’ (Stoned in Gielinor II)
  12. Jääportit – ‘Kauan koskematon (Aeons Untouched)’ (Kauan Koskematon)
  13. Weress – ‘Dans la Lune’ (Aux Temps Anciens et Mystiques)
  14. Wydraddear – ‘The Guardians’ (Rise Of The Guardians)