★Heimat Der Katastrophe
Plenilunio Di Morte
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 cinem…
Dungeon of the Algebra Dragons
You have been locked in the infamous Dungeon of the Algebra Dragons. To make your way to freedom, you must search through the dungeon for the Magic Keys... but beware the Algebra Dragons: if they find you, you must use your algebra skills to outwit them or your escape may be foiled.You start your journey with 1.000 gold pieces. When a dragon finds you, give you an algebra problem to solve. He will add to your gold reserves if you are correct, or take some of your gold if you are wrong. When your…
Sicilian dragon
A policeman whose sanity is compromised seeks a sadistic revenge and challenges his prey to a game of computer chess. An old chess champion could tell you this story better than anyone, but unfortunately, he is afflicted with dementia.Meanwhile, a band of lopsided musicians isolate themselves In a country house for an entire winter played chess and recorded a bunch of tracks influenced by necrophiliac lust: in their songs, there are paranoiac sounds of the Moog and the fretless bass, mind travel…
The occult summoner
An isolated village on the northern cliffs, where an icy wind from the ocean always blows, is plagued with a curse: the men of the village disappear into the night without a trace. The villagers attribute these disappearances to a vengeful spirit: the mermaid Caoimhe, daughter of the God of Waves and a Wicca priestess, killed in the archaic era by a bandit from the village. Legend has it that sooner or later the mermaid's spirit would return for revenge... and perhaps that time has come.
There a…
The Land Where Nothing Is As It Seems
You are in an unknown land. It looks similar to the one you've lived in so far, but everything is weird, out of place, subtly disturbing. How did you get here? You don't remember. You suspect it is a dream, but if it is, your sleep is really heavy, so much so that you cannot wake up. You just have to set out and find the road that leads out of this nightmare. Welcome to the land where nothing is as it seems.
The musical team behind the first episode of Dunjon Magik is back to transport you to a …
Mesopotamian Death Cult
* Deluxe LP edition with Obi + Extensive Booklet + RPG module w/map! * The legend of the god Pazuzu cult is quite common along the banks of the Eufri river... In the taverns of the city of Mesopoli, you can hear about enormous treasures hidden inside its ancient temple excavated in the depths of the mountain. Pazuzu was a great evil god worshiped by an empire buried in the folds of the centuries.
Your name is Yamade and you are a warrior-priestess of the Sun-God Lamaztu’s cult. But all those rul…
Abisso Maledetto
HDK, in its series called "Morbid tales", proposes (in episodes) the "I Racconti di Dracula" soundtracks by Teeth of Glass, attaching to the cassette a booklet with the complete scripts. Here is the fourth episode, "Abisso Maledetto" ("Cursed Abyss"): A wealthy man with a history of drug addiction and depression lives on a remote Irish island where inexplicable and bloody events happen. Is the horror around him or... inside him?
Between the '60s and the '80s the production of pulp magazines in I…
Exploring The Cave
Arcane and evocative, elegiac and eerie at the same time: when we first listened to this album we all agreed that it was an authentic spell, the work of a high-level wizard. We later discovered that "Exploring the Cave" is the only record testimony of a Californian singing teacher named Joy Willow, released in 1992. We wrote to Joy some time ago and she was kind and helpful enough to answer us (with the availability that we didn't expect from a high-level wizard!).Joy's passion - today, as in th…
Мрію про Чорнобиль
The authenticity of the sound stuff herein is a controversial issue. Unsupported by reliable sources, we admit that we have no certainty that this 30 minutes of music is really a fragment of the so-called RNLT experiment, but we like to think so, so we invite even the most skeptical among you to do the same.The self-styled "Metapsychical Lodge" gathers researchers from various disciplines of neuroscience. Affiliates of the lodge study so-called PSI phenomena (i.e., phenomena commonly referred to…
The Syndicate At Sovad
A darkness has been spreading throughout the land. Members of a criminal society known only as the Black Sphinx Syndicate have been convening annually in the remote township of Sovad for some nefarious purpose. Up until now, the nature of these meetings has been cloaked in secrecy.Head officials working for the Crown’s high command have assembled an elite taskforce to travel to Sovad and try to retrieve intel on the details of these yearly gatherings. Now you and your fellow adventurers await a …
Eleventh Hour
Steven Grace's music is composed with intelligence, well focused on the emotions it wants to convey, careful in the choice of sounds: “I've been making electronic music since 1990. My first two albums were privately distributed as homemade cassettes to friends, but since then I've released nine albums via the internet. My main project has been Logic Gate, for music in the “Berlin School” style, but I've also released instrumental electronic music of various styles under my own name, plus one alb…
Arid
Doom Catacomb never ceases to surprise: after having accompanied us to the desolate polar regions, where the ice is eternal and every spark of life is extinguished by the cold, the grim bard annihilates us with a... thermal shock!"Arid" speaks in fact about the hottest and most inhospitable deserts on earth: the temperature changes, but the result is always... the absence of life. Doom Catacomb has decided to tell about those places where nature is cruel, where the signs of humanity are erased w…
Shinderg's Tomb
*Limited edition of 120 copies* We had met the mysterious DS composer called 13th Scale on the occasion of the HDK Dungeon-synth magazine n. 2; we were bewitched by the spell of his music, so much so that we proposed that he make an entire album for us. So XIII has extricated himself in the crazy heroic-fantasy world told in "Shinderg's Tomb" and composed seventeen tracks full of sense of wonder.
It is 2058 AD, though you could be forgiven for forgetting that, as mid-21st century Earth looks so …
I Verdi Occhi Della Dea Vampira
*Limited edition with booklet* HDK, in its series called "Morbid tales", proposes (in episodes) the "I Racconti di Dracula" soundtracks by Teeth of Glass, attaching to the cassette a booklet with the complete scripts. Here is the third episode, "I Verdi Occhi Della Dea Vampira" ("The green eyes of the vampyre goddess"): in a gloomy and sooty London, an important archaeological discovery awakens the thirst for revenge of an ancient Middle Eastern divinity and the followers of her blasphemous cult…
Νεκροαστικα
*Limited Edition of 120 copies* A hallucinated vampire woman wanders in an ill-famed square in the city, in a basement, a mad shaman tries to revive a man with macabre botany experiments, gangs of chaos-worshiping thugs challenge each other with machetes in the city center, a teenage party turns into a bloody orgy, a clandestine radio station transmits sound frequencies that drive people crazy ... these and many other oddities you will find in the mysterious cult-movie entitled "Nekroastika", sh…
Les Spectres du Crépuscule
A dusty tape full of creaks, hisses and squeaks swooped down at HDK headquarters a while ago. Its author, one who calls himself "the Prince of Darkness" (sic), remains a mystery. On the tape minimal sounds, limping scores, silences full of anguished expectation, short instrumental excerpts that have the flavor of foggy and humid winter evenings, of the soil of ancient cemeteries, of loneliness, of putrefaction and decay.HDK has delighted and entertained you with orchestral soundtracks, accompani…
At The Borders Of Orion
It’s a great pleasure for us to introduce an Italian cosmic courier named Robert Kaylos. Robert lives in Verona, northern Italy, but his true home is deep space: certainly the intergalactic space that hides the mysteries of life and death, but also the infinite and equally mysterious space of human interiority (Ballard's “Inner space”).Tangerine Dream wrote in the liner notes of their album "Alpha Centaury" (1971): "Dedicated to all people who feel obliged to space". We are sure that Robert feel…
Vostok 1
*Limited edition of 120 copies* After the success of "Starcity" (HDK 91), Andy Bloyce returns to the HDK catalog with a new monumental collection of songs entitled "Vostok-1". In the background, as always, the utopian dimension and the crude reality of the Soviet Space Program; the dreams, the anguish and the exploits of men launched towards the unknown, towards the mysteries of deep space and those of human existence.If you have loved the sidereal rides contained in "Starcity", you will go craz…
Байконур
In 1955, the Soviet Union completed the first spacecraft launch site in history: the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Still active today, the cosmodrome is located in Kazakhstan, about thirty kilometers from the city with the same name (until 1995 called Leninsk). The cosmodrome was the scene of grandiose events in Soviet history, such as the launch of the first sputnik (1957), but also of dramatic events such as the Nedelin catastrophe (1960), in which 78 people died due to an explosion.Baikonur was the co…
Max Roguish: Lightbite
Following a nuclear catastrophe, the Earth has become an immense desert. Day time is short, and sunlight has red and purple glares. Living beings went through mutations due to the radiations, social order has come apart and humans live in what is left of a huge megalopolis, where neon palely lightens the never-ending nights. People have organized small anarchic-capitalist communities and they survive by selling stuff, spare parts and food. There is no official law but only the rules that each gr…