BOOK, Cult Never Dies, A4, 400 pages, 200,000 words, 500 images, hardcover, 2024.
400 large size pages, including large colour gallery, hardcovers. Definitive book on dungeon synth! Features Mortiis, Cernunnos Woods, Erang, Equitant, Depressive Silence, Essoupi, Frostgard and many more.
An exhaustive new hardback book on the dungeon synth genre, written by Jordan Whiteman, of celebrated dungeon synth record label Ancient Meadow Records. Edited and designed by Dayal Patterson (Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult/Cult Never Dies), exclusive cover illustration by David Thiérrée.
• 400 large (30x22 cm) pages including 32 page gloss/colour photo section!
• 200,000 words of content
• 500 images, many previously unpublished.
The book includes interviews with MORTIIS, CERNUNNOS WOODS, EQUITANT, ERANG, THE DARK FUNERAL, DEPRESSIVE SILENCE, GOTHMOG, MAELIFELL, OLD TOWER, FORGOTTEN PATHWAYS, ESSOUPI, THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK ETERNAL FEAR, NOCTURNAL FUNERAL, CASKET OF DREAMS, FLORAL OF FOREVER/THE MYSTICKAL EAST TAUR NU FUIN, LOTHLORIEN DREAMSCAPE, DAVID THIÉRRÉE, ONEIROS, GONDOLIN RECORDS, FROSTGARD, BLOOD TOWER, MOONWORSHIPPER RECORDS, GHOËST, OUT OF SEASON, ERYTHRITE THRONE, ELMINSTER/ITHILDIN TAPE PROD, AN OLD SAD GHOST, KYVON, CONIFEROUS MYST, PUMPKIN WITCH, NATE POBLETE (OLDENHELM, BRONZEN OATH, CATACOMBS ENSHADOWED), JOHN LORDSWOOD (WERESS, BALROG, OBSCURE DUNGEON RECORDS) LONE SENTINEL, LORD BILL (MOONWORSHIPPER RECORDS, BLOOD TOWER), VELKAARN (ASMODIAN COVEN), KEEGAN CRAWFORD (CAORANACH, CLOAK & DAGGER) as well as coverage of the likes of VALAR, URUK-HAI, DRUADAN FOREST, LAMENTATION, SEREGOST, COLD SANCTUM, GRABESMOND, DARK FOREST, SECRET STAIRWAYS, ONOSKELIS, SUMMONING, A LETTER FOR CARMILLA, ABANDONED PLACES, ELVEN WITCHCRAFT, NAN DUNGORTHEB, and many more.