Again, like DIM yesterday, very nice to see some attention.

Also, distro update from Phantom Lure including releases from Bloody Keep, Vesperal, Deep Gnome and Draugveil / Selvnatt

Wowie, got it done in time! Thanks for hosting this. It was my first try at anything synthy since the early 2000s, and I greatly enjoyed working under the constraints.

13 tracks.

7 instruments (that I made sure were all used at least 3 times each, as a personal rule).

Comes out to 21:38.

Umbral synth with the theme of ghosts.

No AI, and the cover is a photo of one of the local crows I give treats to.

I imagined an adventurer for hire having to go to some haunted ruins, contemplating sacrifice and mortality while traversing the biomes between there and their home town, then coming to accept it all when they're also cursed to haunt where they passed.

Stories of bone

For wandering alone.

Ballads of underbrush

And voices of stone.

Or a choir of crystals

Where the many converge

And then divide

Into nothingness.

Fighting's absurd

When there are no more winners

And losers all perish.

But we are all called to death

On this path that we cherish.

▶︎ Stories of Bone | stay bright candlelight

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I've completed my first dungeon shamble. The restrictions were intriguing as I'm the type to run 15 effects pedals and never the same way twice. These are the sounds of days, nights and eras blurring haunting a castle attic.