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I Morti Possono Aspettare
*120 copies limited edition* 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 I…
HDK Dungeon-Synth Magazine #7
*200 copies limited edition* With this seventh chapter of your favorite dungeonsynth magazine on tape, we intensify the pace of the releases. In fact, this is the second spring issue of this 2022: your contributions are many and we thank you from our heart for all the commitment and affection you show! We also remind you that, in addition to music, we are very pleased to receive proposals from writers to help us conceive the stories. On the other hand, the peculiarity of this magazine is indeed …
Warpland
*120 copies limited edition* "A war, the only war ever fought, devastated the world. The wise and advanced Eloi used their technology to try to defeat the furious Morlocks army. This confrontation devastated the world until it was unrecognizable. Until powerful crystals were shattered and their power began to stain all that existed. Until an disturbing maelstrom engulfed the sky. Reality changed profoundly, in the very essence of things. Neither side dared to claim victory; the former were tortu…
Perils In The Slums Scenario Three: The Maze Of Death
*100 coipes limited edition* Welcome to the third and final episode of the Perils in the slums saga! In the previous episode ("The corrupt magicians") our heroes found a key with a strange symbol, the same one they saw on the closed hatch in the orcs' basement (see Perils in the slums 1: the orcs commune). They then decide to return to the city sewers, re-cross the orcs' hideout and try if, as they think, the key opens the mysterious trapdoor. Obviously it works! They will get access in a new le…
The Grim Abbot
Upsetting mysteries lurk in the basement of the church in Stenfeld, a peaceful hilltop village. Bold and confident, you traveled there to find out if the legendary treasure of the Grim Abbot really exists or is just a silly legend. But in Stenfeld fate will hold you a chilling surprise ... By pressing "play" on your cassette player you will be shrouded in mist, autumn melancholia and wet cold; you will learn about ancient and morbid stories of nercofilia and black magic, you will be led into a b…
Cro-man
Thousand and thousand years ago, when the planet Earth lay savage, ruled by mighty monsters and arcane spells, human tribes lived scattered over its surface like stars in a nightly sky. In that dark age, the name of the bravest warrior of all was... Cro-man! He was chosen by the elders to go on the quest for iron, a mysterious substance which the old Gods had left behind after the defeat of the Giants, and the creation of the world from their flesh. Drag yourself back to the bronze age and taste…
Continuous Forms
... Cyclic sequences, shapes that change and return to themselves in an endless loop, flashing lights that envelop the perpetual motion of machines in a soft embrace, cascades of notes that change color without our senses knowing, the eternal beating of artificial hearts in metal chests ... Kubusschnitt, born in 1999, is a real electronic-music band in the Berlin School style which, over time, has involved several musicians from the UK, Belgium, Germany and Holland. A Kosmische-musik all-stars b…
Hunt On The Nazi-necromancer
The year is 1943. Deep in the forests of the Balkans, a lone company of Yugoslav partisans received a radio message: "Based on intelligence, we suspect that a special detachment led by Count Klaus Krämer, better known as the Nazi Necromancer, arrived in the capital by train three days ago. We also know that the convoy, which we assume is under the Count's command, left Belgrade yesterday and that he set out through the Morava valley to the south. We do not know the further intentions or the dest…
Zargo's Lords
In the beginning, it was only the knights who dominated the world of Zargo. Over the course of centuries, thanks to their strength, they had built castles on the four continents, subjugating all humans, in agreement with the Wizards, custodians of the art of Visions and Knowledge... But then, from strange and distant worlds, came other peoples, with different and terrible powers, who gradually snatched from the Knights not only lands to be exploited and on which to build their cities, but also m…
Perils In The Slums Scenario Two: The Corrupt Magicians
Heimat Der Katastrophe is pleased to present the second chapter of the "Perils in slums" saga by Basic Dungeon. In this episode, our heroes investigate the guild of corrupt wizards and discover unspeakable secrets that have to deal with necrophilia, smuggling, tax evasion and ancient evil cults.
"The corrupt magicians" is an interactive album in which you can choose how to face the adventure by choosing from four lines of investigation: you can choose to look for news about the corrupt magician…
Exkursion In Das Hügelgrablabyrinth
*100 copies limited edition* Do you remember the sensations we had when we were kids and we explored abandoned places and caves in the woods behind our house, places that had nothing special but that we imagined to be infested with monsters and ghosts? Well, those are the same feelings that made your Dungeons & Dragons sessions exciting! As you are in front of the dungeon entrance, those joyful childhood sensations come to mind, when life was an adventure every day. This album is the celebration…
Milano: Difesa Anti-atomica
*60 copies limited edition* A few months ago the tranquility of Heimat Der Katastrophe headquarters was broken by an astonishing find: poking through the garbage, we came across a tape of dark recordings dating back to a period between the 80s and 90s. After some research, we discovered that it was unpublished soundtracks recorded for broadcasts of a local TV of our city called Docuvideo TV, which went bankrupt in the early 90s. Between the late 70s and the late 90s, a lot of private TV stations…
Dungeon Myths
Heimat der Katastrophe proudly presents a (well known but incognito acting) poet of the sepulchral obscurities and darker recesses of the mind: Kormorg.Are you willing to get lost in the complex sound architecture of this miraculous and mighty album? Primordial rhythms coming from an arcane past, weirdly twisted human sounds and galactic waves of inhuman synthesizers, the echo of both human and monstrous populations who might have inhabited our planet when history had not yet begun.... press pla…
Confessions of a Satan's Priestess
A murderer wanders the shabby streets of the city, between gloomy concrete buildings, under the pale autumn sky... in the background a delusional legend about a witch burned at the stake, strange sadistic rites and the consume of bad drugs. Here is the soundtrack of a mysterious slasher film never shot. A story of satanism, sex and suspence, set in a gray and anonymous city of the former Soviet Union. The music is reminiscent of the Italian horror-thrillers of the 70s-80s (Dario Argento, Lucio F…
Autopsia Edström
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…
Electric star
In Italy, the Berlin School style of Electronic Music has found poor diffusion in the '70s; few were the musicians who have followed the German cosmic way: surely the most important among them was Baffo Banfi, keyboardist of the prog-band "Biglietto per l'Inferno" and author of beautiful albums with funny titles such as "Galaxy my dear" (1978) and "Ma, Dolce Vita" (1979), that we recommend everyone to listen to. It’s a pleasure to meet today in Italy new disciples of the cosmic couriers such as …
The Tower of Doom
HDK proudly announce this incredible album by a well-known artist from the Dungeon Synth scene. Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the new FVRFVR (aka Lord Cervos) album!
Hog Maiden
The stagnant waters of the Glunkken mire are inhabited by mysterious creatures. They hide stories whose roots go back to ancient and forgotten times. A heroine drags herself along the swamp, armed only with her sword. She holds a bag, which contains a precious relic from the past. She is headed for the black fortress, where she will meet a strange and cruel deity. And she will discover something moving and unpredictable. HDK team is very proud to introduce you this little gem, a condensation of …
A smashing adventure
Welcome to an enchanted land where everything is strange and mysterious. The songs on this cassette are ancient incantations that make us travel back in time to our childhood, when music was a daydream and everyday life a strange adventure. There's something arcane and primal in the tinkling of notes here: in the lo-fi ohms of tracks like "Holy Smoke" and "Field," in the twilight pace of "Bell Tower" or in the epic broomstick space ride of "A castle at the heart of an asteroid field."
The music …
Utflykter I Den Svenska Skogen
*Edition of 100 copies* The eight bucolic tracks on this album entitled "Excursions in the Swedish forest" were composed by an anonymous musician in an unspecified year, probably for a promotional documentary from the Swedish Ministry of Tourism. Anyway, you don't need to have too much information to enjoy this sweet album: we recommend that you let yourself be guided by the music in an imaginary excursion among fir and birch trees, crystal clear waterways and pleasant landscapes, to discover th…