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Transmissions from the Dark

@transmissionsftd.bsky.social

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Black metal, dungeon synth appreciation channel/page/person (Duncan. Hi) covering all forms of blackened artistry and expression. Will post personal stuff too, bcz I can't be bothered to have too many accounts. https://linktr.ee/transmissionsftd

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · Dec 11

YT channel devoted to all permutations of blackened esoteric artistry from the extensive underground of black metal, dungeon synth, and bm-adjacent musics.

#BlackMetal #DungeonSynth

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 5h

ANOTHER gird change, Instagram? another??

well ok, i don't hate it.

what this does highlight to me is the number of tape photos I need to share.

Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 5h

it is an extremely effective noise

Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I’m sure it does keep those people away. That cuts both ways tho

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 1d

i still do get botted! just realised, as well as the no-aggro comments i mentioed to Bariann, that i also haven;t had ay spam comments for a while either, which is nice. But do get a fair bit of bot traffic still. so that is reassuring :D

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 1d

actually one thing I have not had for a very long time are any aggressively hostile comments. my moderation queue remains blissfuly clear 99% of the time, instead of being a daily task.

Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 1d

I try not to dwell on it too much, as I like having an oblique name, but I can't help wondering, occasionally, how different the channel audience would be if i had called it something lame like 'the black metal and dungeon synth channel'

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 1d

It’s magnificent

Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 1d

Honoured to feature the immense new album from @terzijdehorde.bsky.social on the channel

A ferociously impassioned commentary of the oppressive erosion of culture, community and the spirit of the world

Tapes from @fiadh.bsky.social and Tartarus, cd & vinyl from Church Road

youtu.be/x_dmtkaQfos

Terzij de Horde - Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone (album, 2025) [post-black metal]

YouTube video by Transmissions from the Dark

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 1d

Blue ticks just gotta blue tick whatever the platform, eh?

Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 2d

Ah no, it was a person, because the comments have typos in them.

They say it is ‘a common garbage been with no significance’ (sic)

Which is clearly wrong just from looking at it. So I’ll do it again.

Did get one accept from this week tho! Two duplicates. Would help if they actually showed them!

Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, me too. I may do them again as entirely new submissions another time, and somehow not mention the schools. Just call them ‘community projects’

Not ideal, but I still doubt these made it to human review - two days over the weekend to make a decision? Seems suss

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 2d

Glad you like them!

Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 2d

Final album of my DS Sunday set.

I like to go out in a high, and you can’t get much higher than the ethereal transportive atmospherics of Aura Merlin.

Dungeon ambient fantasy synth with a nu age glow, cut with a perilous darkness for the melodies to overcome.

Magnificent

youtu.be/P71wINx4wEM

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 2d

Turning into the left field for an audience with Granite Skull, and an album of epic medieval dungeon synth, black and post metal, narrative sound effects, acid house, techno, kosmische, drum n bass, and more.

youtu.be/PV3Ci3LMg_4

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 2d

Now let’s kick it up several notches, in to the blackened medieval dungeon synth of Nachtwache - Diabolus Fecit ut id Facerem

youtu.be/mckc_Da3Mzs

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 3d

Shall we have something gentle for a Sunday morning?

Hermit Knight - The Translucent Obelisk

An elegiac adventure into melancholy dungeon synth from our good friend Nicholas the Gnome

Tapes on Kajdum’s Tower

youtu.be/CIkDzd0-nNI

Hermit Knight - The Translucent Obelisk (album, 2025) [melancholy dungeon synth]

YouTube video by Transmissions from the Dark

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 3d

I do love your emails, and I read them all and take notes

They are hugely appreciated, and the most professional emails I receive (at complete odds to the dilettante reviewer)

Looking forward to it

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 3d

I have a list of my overused words, wince every time I use them and yet somehow I don’t stop 😖

Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 3d

well ok. Ian Watkins has been killed in prison.

*eats cheese sandwich*

How sad

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 3d

Keeping us on our toes

Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 3d

a formatting for dummies instructional would be helpful,

There's only so many times I can read infographics and keep not understanding them

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 4d

It’s too small and makes me feel queasy. I should get over it. Push through.

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 4d

I will say though, I really don’t know how IG works that well. I should probably be doing more stories and a whole other load of stuff.

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 4d

I was doing 9:16 (1080x1920) for Reels, and 4:5 (1080x1350) for Posts

I can’t post Reel size through Meta because it says it’s the wrong aspect. 4:5 works, so that’s what I’m using for them all

via Meta fits nice (nlorgpipe), direct to IG, doesn’t fit (b/w one). But I chose same Post option 😐

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Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t use my mobile for any video stuff tho (much to my daughter’s disdain)

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