https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_synth
hahaha that page is TEETERING on the brink of oblivion. like marty mcfly's family photo. schrodinger's wiki.
I literally can't figure out if the phrase "skeletal instrumentation" means bone-like or, like, stripped down (as in "skeleton crew")
I feel like dungeon synth can't have BOTH been born in the mid-80s and have been influenced by black metal.
at first glance the whole affair seems like: guys grew up playing 8/16-bit (or early windows) videogame RPGs, they like the feel of that music but want to make it more culturally legit somehow, so the best solution is to make an analog soundtrack to be to tabletop gaming what SNES soundtracks were to those games. but this only makes sense if tabletop dungeon (core?) is NOT already a genre, which I guess it already is, UNLESS the charming stuff I saw on the first page was only successful retcon of modern music to pretend that it's from olden times.
what is real...