Style: Dungeon synth, dark ambient, noise
Primary Emotions/Themes: Kind of a disjointed mess of a split
Thoughts: I've been on a bit of a dungeon synth spree lately. I've been adding a lot of albums to my collection in the style and most of them have been fantastic... not all though.
The Oracle and Nightmare Spirit split is one of the not so great ones. There are two distinct styles on this record and neither are very good, or enjoyable... at least to my ears. I don't even remember who plays what style, but one is more of a dark ambient soundscape take on dungeon synth and the other is more of a old school dungeon synth style.
On the surface these sound fine, but the way that they are made here makes this a grating listen. The music is sloppy, and not in a good way. It's produced harshly, and again not in a good way. I have plenty of records that are both harsh and sloppily played, yet I still enjoy them. This isn't even that... this is just bad.
A few times I've bought a record and thought better of it afterwards, unfortunately this split is going to have to go into that pile. I don't see myself owning this much longer.
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