★Heimat Der Katastrophe
Abyss
It's pitch black, freezing cold and the water pressure is unbearable: we are in the depths of the sea, where sunlight no longer penetrates. The deep ocean remain full of mysteries for man: dark places where only partially known creatures live.
The series that Doom Catacomb has dedicated to the most inhospitable places on planet Earth continues: after the perennial ice of "Polar" and the boiling deserts of "Arid" it is now the turn of the ocean depths. "Abyss" is an inexorable and exciting descen…
The Dark Seal
A recurring dream, macabre visions in which a symbol appears, a seal of a mysterious shape that you have never seen before. The dream becomes an obsession, acquiring details as the nights pass. Details that lead to an ancient dungeon dug into the mountain north of the city. It is not the treasures that can be found there that drive you to search, but the mystery of the Dark Seal. You gather a group of adventurers and rogue like you to face the expedition into the caves: each of you is driven by …
Berserker
Orcus is a fantasy synth champion who made us dream first with the track entitled "The Pyramid" included in HDK Dungeon-synth Magazine n.3 and then with the incredible album "Heroes of the Last Glare", a crystalline masterpiece of epic-synth music. Finally Orcus returns, with a thundering Sword & Sorcery-themed album, dedicated to the heroine created by the writer Bludgeon: Lorelei the Berserker. The album is the soundtrack to the hard-boiled adventures of the bloodthirsty half-naked barbarian t…
La Strega di Salamanca
Between the '60s and the '80s the production of pulp magazines in Italy was flourishing and incredibly varied: every month hundreds of paperbacks containing strange, adventurous or more often terrifying stories came out on the newsstands. Among the most popular italian pulp magazines was the horror series "I Racconti di Dracula" (Tales of Dracula) published by Baron Cantarella: each issue of "I Racconti di Dracula" contained a grim and disturbing story, inspired by Italian gothic and giallo cine…
The Empire Of The Necromancers
Gosh!! A smelling, rotting ooze invaded the HDK offices!A bleak and morbid tape spins in our ghettoblasters: it's "The Empire of the Necromancers" by the necrophilist musician Doom Catacomb, a hymn to the dark recesses of humid dungeons...
Inspired by the omonymous novel of the divine Clark Ashton Smith (1893 – 1961) "Empire of the Necromancers" is a little, intense album of classic dungeon-synth music, devoted to the pioneers from the glorious 90s.
The Short And Foolish Quest Of Sylovar And Hrud
NEVER APPROACH THE GODS OF THE IMMATERIAL PLANS WITHOUT POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND A CLEAR MIND! Heimat der Katastrophe is very happy to present the album by Silencio Permanente, a dungeon synth champion from Argentina! The album, based on an original screenplay by the underground heroic-fantasy writer Gian Spazz, is a little, vintage ambient jewel, halfway between the golden era of New Age music and the 80's horror movies soundtracks. In this album the dungeon-synth meets the great names of the ambie…
Tales Of The Dying Earth
A bizarre musical creature called Scrying Glass appeared a few years ago on the radar of the weird music fans, leaving us speechless: in Scrying Glass' music, there is the whole history of the most oblique and (today) neglected pop-rock music: a bit of classic progressive sound by Yes, Gentle Giant and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, a bit of the 70s sci-fi aesthetics so dear to Tangerine Dream, Eloy and Hawkwind and a bit of jazz-fusion easy listening to give an unfashionable elegance touch. All are …
Dungeon Weed
*80 copies limited edition* "Dungeon Weed" is a minimalist fantasy-synth/new age album, but also a 28-pages comic-book which you will find inside the cassette case. Behind the name The Story Of Khelise lies a French artist who, in the dual role of cartoonist and musician, created this fantasy album/comic for HDK. The Story Of Khelise's enchanting music will transport you to a world of soft colors and dazzling lights: free your mind and prepare to travel on the wings of imagination. For lovers of…
Nightmare Realm
In a forgotten age, on a vanished continent, the Nightmare Realm cruelly thrived. Warlords shared power over barren and arid lands, massive armies of heavily armed soldiers guaranteed a fragile peace under the sky. Everything in this unfortunate world had a sinister aura, fear was the dominant feeling in the heart of every creature.
Today (fortunately!) even the memory of this distant and gloomy world has disappeared. In fact, there are few historical testimonies that have come down to us from t…
Le Segrete Del Castello Nero
In the ancient forests of Central Italy, at the time of the late Roman Empire, bloody pagan rites took place, leaving the land imbued with dark omens; in the dark centuries that followed, sorcerers explored that past and built their knowledge on the most sinister legends, entrusting it to forbidden books banned by the Christian Church.
In 15th century Italy, in an era known as the Renaissance, lovers of esoteric knowledge studied those cursed volumes and disseminated their contents among scholar…
Electrical Storm At The Micro Station
We are immensely pleased to welcome into the HDK catalog Mr. Graham Simpson, a champion of electronic music who was hidden in his little house up there in the north east of England. It is reductive to place Graham's music under a specific tag because he is able to release amazing albums in any genre or subgenre that can in some way be traced back to the definition of electronic music. Albums like this “Electrical Storm at the Micro Station”, which will surely make rejoice the lovers of old recor…
Faer The Wanderer
Here we go again: Gnoll is back! The brutal dungeon-synth ensemble was this time involved in a collaboration of epic proportions called… Faer the WandererFaer is a Conan-esque character specifically invented for HDK by the English writer John Reppion (co-author with his wife Leah Moore of masterpiece comics such as Albion and Wild Girl, fresh from collaboration with... Iron Maiden!): Faer the Wanderer is a tribute to the glorious heroic-fantasy paperbacks of the 70s, but with typical vibes of th…
Last Guard Of Honour
Concept focused on courage and defeat, as grandiloquent as it is introspective, "Last Guard of Honour" collects all the material produced by Sir Sagremor between 2021 and 2023: epic and romantic dungeon-synth that acts as a soundtrack to bloody battles and heroic exploits.
Beneath The Violet Kingdom
"All throughout the realm of Farûm's Corners, hushed whispers of an emerging plague called The Violet Decay are spoken by it’s citizens. Four adventurers leave the safe walls of Oldminster and travel to the eastern kingdom of Sothiril to investigate..."
A brand new Dungeon-synth artist bursts onto the scene, his name is Hex Crawl! His epic fantasy music full of twists and turns will enchant you, dragging you into an adventure with the classic flavor of 80s D&D adventures. Dramatic melodies screa…
Iter Per Tenebras
ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔣𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔰.𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢 𝔪𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔡𝔶 𝔟𝔢𝔤𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔢 𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔴𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔰.𝔒𝔫𝔢 𝔟𝔶 𝔬𝔫𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔬𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔥𝔞𝔡 𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔡𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔡𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔣𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔦𝔯𝔢 ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯.𝔖𝔪𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔠 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔨 𝔢𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔢𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔥𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔩𝔶 …
Starlight
Tip!!! We already met Steven Grace with his crepuscular electronic soft-rock album entitled "Eleventh Hour" (HDK 119), now let's get to know him in his most traditionally “kosmische” guise called LOGIC GATE.
Wandering through the desolate lands of the net, under the label of "electronic music", we casually came across Steven's music thanks to the his Logic Gate albums. Our first reaction was: how is it possible that such sweet music is relegated to such a dark and invisible corner of the world w…
Mörk Borg
2024 Repress. ONE DAY ALL WILL BLACKEN AND BURN. Just as the two-headed basilisks predicted. Lies, Truth, Denial and Envy embodied. Their riddling yet oddly accurate prophecies were put in ink by Anuk Schleger the monk, in the scrolls that now hold many names - The Nameless Scriptures, The Unwritten, The Dirt Pages. And so far, every promise therein has been realized, hence why both kings and beggars now cry and wail. Everything will blacken and burn. The stormy, Endless Sea will boil and flood.…
The Curse Of The Ancient Abbey
Edition of 300. * Deluxe LP edition with Obi + Extensive Booklet + RPG module w/map! * A few months after the success of "The Cave of the Lost Talisman" the chaotic little humanoid called Kobold had already composed a second album. We've all wondered: will it live up to the previous one? Will it be a killer album? Well... it was! The formula had remained unchanged: the love of early 80s role-playing games, the sounds inspired by 8 and 16-bit video games from when we were kids, a solid and compel…
Tunnels & Treasures
The first three Basic Dungeon albums re-released on a single 42-track CD with a 20-page booklet! The "Tunnels & Treasures" saga collected on a single CD
Disarmo o Sterminio?
Tip! From the dusty archives of a TV station, a handful of instrumental pieces, originally recorded as musical commentary for a series of historical documentaries. The topic is the Cold War: the areas of influence, the balance of power, the threat of the Third World War, the dream of a future of peace and unity.