C.O.M.A. was a short-lived new-wave-meets-avant-garde band from France. They emerged from the ashes of an equally short-lived punk band called Chaos, which did not put out any music during its lifetime but saw the release of a four-song 7″ in 2018 called White Punks On Slope comprised of tracks recorded four decades earlier in 1977. […]
Tag: 101 Dungeon Synth Albums You Must Hear… Before You Rot In A Dungeon
Jim Kirkwood, Part II
My original post on Jim Kirkwood is, as of when I’m writing this, the most viewed post on this incarnation of Life in the Vinyl Lane (you can also read about his Eternal Champion Trilogy of albums HERE). This probably shouldn’t be surprising. While dungeon synth (which I’ll be referring to as DS from here […]
Jim Kirkwood – “The Eternal Champion Trilogy” (1991 / 2025)
(For more on Jim Kirkwood you can read about his Middle Earth Trilogy HERE and his Sandman Trilogy HERE) Dungeon synth is going through growing pains right now. It reached a point where at least one Facebook group has 12,000+ members and #dungeonsynth has been used over 139,000 times on Instagram. Those are paltry numbers […]
Jim Kirkwood
(For more on Jim Kirkwood you can read about his Eternal Champion Trilogy HERE and his Sandman Trilogy HERE) Jim Kirkwood is a bit of a legend in the dungeon synth community, almost a myth for a while, really, before folks eventually tracked him down. In the 80s he was a guitar player into rock […]
Book Review – “101 Dungeon Synth Albums You Must Hear… Before You Rot In A Dungeon” (2024)
I was trying to remember when I first became aware of dungeon synth. The first time I blogged about it was back in May 2020 when I wrote about Fylgja’s cassette Aska Vors Lands, though that was more about how the surrealness of early COVID lockdown collided with how I heard the music. I remember […]