Ghoëst - In Eternal Sleep (full demo, 2024)

For this week’s Dungeon Synth Sunday, I am turning over the full session to a showcase of the darkest dungeon doom. To round off the month of January, and usher in a little lightening of the seasons, I will extend the dark with five albums from the sub(sub) genre that dabbles in the most grimly funeral procession of hallucinatory drone. For my first feature, it is only right that we begin with the progenitor of the form; a project borne from the artist’s black metal, winter synth and dungeon ambient incarnations, until the ultimate entity of Ghoëst was born. Unveiled in October 2021 with Demo I (The Sad Spirit), every Ghoëst release since has perfectly captured the essence of supernatural ambience echoing through the crumbling halls of decaying castles; of mystic whispers in an eerie mist, and the shadowy cold dread hand of doom looming over all antiquity. It is a sound that is at once comforting and unsettling, and so fiendishly addictive that few are unable to resist its spel