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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…