#dinosynth

Just treated myself to Of Valleys and Mountains, by Pull Down The Sun, and the entire Diplodocus back catalogue.

Of Valleys and Mountains is great slice of Aotearoan metal from way back in 2020, though I only discovered Pull Down the Sun in 2021 and listened to the album in 2022. The band probably sits somewhere in the realms of post-metal, and the album is delightfully heavy, and has a real groove to it. Definitely one of my new favourites :)

Diplodocus, on the other hand, was much more of an impulse buy, in fact I only heard them for the first time yesterday. It's dungeon synth, by way of dinosaurs. So, dino synth. :D

Our second announced artist, Diplodocus, hails from the Jurassic Period, and released "Tales of an Ancient Past" digitally in August of 2020. This latest offering was released on vinyl by @chimneyrocksrecords .

Diplodocus emerged from its Mesozoic slumber in August of 2019 with the release of Slow and Heavy. Slow horns, beautiful melodies, and sound clips depict a pre-historic soundscape of an ancient time when lumbering behemoths walked the land until a faint burning glimmer in the sky brings the album to it's tragic conclusion. If one cleans the fossil of this celebrated giant they will find that its bones give away a direct relation to other classic giants of the Dungeon Synth genre.

Diplodocus walked amongst men twice in November in 2019, revealing its gigantic might to all that witnessed the events. One sighting was made in Ohio followed by one in Seattle, Washington at Dungeon Siege West. After a few years the earth quakes as the monster approaches once more.