Besides black metal, there is one genre of underground that I love to listen to in the last couple of years, namely dungeon synth and dark ambient. Tales Under The Oak from Berlin, Germany has a new opus out with Dark Age Productions. This is in fact eight epic songs plus four narrated short stories. The music on this opus is dungeon synth, epic and fantasy melodies go throughout the album as a whole, but there is also a healthy mixture of medieval dark ambient describing the concept of swamp kingdom and its denizens. Stories such as Brogg The Builder are interesting, like reading a great written dark heroic fantasy novel. Dreamy epic synth ambient songs like The One Who Carved It All, Bogg The Berry-Belly or The Water Lily Boat are sure to win you over and along with stories take you to other fantasy world in which you can stay for a while, because it is beautiful although a little bit scary. Great chapter in the tale of honor, life and woe.

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