witchcandle's "Sunset at the Gates of Night" is 1:50 of dungeon synth for a crawl through a dead dragon

witchcandle's Thornhollow came out on 16 October 2026: thirteen tracks, 30:32 in total, digital, $2.50 or more on Bandcamp. 1 Start with the first track, "Sunset at the Gates of Night", which runs 1:50. 2

Dungeon synth is electronic music derived from black metal and dark ambient, and its usual setting is a medieval European or fantasy world. 3 Musicians make it instrumentally, on synthesizers, keyboards, DAW software and MIDI. 3 The style surfaced in the early 1990s, largely among members of the early Norwegian black metal scene. 3

Thornhollow is tagged electronic, atmospheric, dungeon synth, industrial, noise and synth. 2 The project's previous record was billed on its own page as "a soundtrack for a horror movie that doesn't exist". 4 Thornhollow puts the same horror inside a dungeon.

witchcandle gives Erie, Pennsylvania as its home and no name behind the music. 1 The page sets a scene in place of a biography: "From the dark depths of deep space the void sings, and in its song a dungeon rises from the abyss." 5

The page also makes one claim about how the record was made. "Everything, the art, the music, is 100% human made and designed. No Ai at all." 5

The catalogue begins on 1 September 2026 with Rustbelt Gothic, seven tracks and eighteen minutes. 6 Sad Skeleton Love Song followed on 23 September, two tracks in five minutes. 7 Then came Houses Catch Fire All the Time on 29 September, six tracks and fourteen minutes for $3.50. 4

Thornhollow is the fourth release and the longest, at 30:32 against the eighteen minutes of the first. 1

The record arrived in the middle of the Dungeon Shamble, a month-long open writing challenge the scene runs every May and October. 8

Halloween is ten days off, and this is a record you walk through. The album's note names Thornhollow as the corpse of a wyrm, "turned into a massive labyrinth of hardened intestines and organs". Its heart calcified into a crimson jewel that calls to adventurers. 1

The track list carries the route. Thirteen pieces stand for thirteen rooms and creatures, among them "The Bone Maiden", "The Maggots Come for You" and "Run from the Ravens Drunk on Dragon Blood". 1

Most pieces run between two and three minutes, so the crawl moves in short scenes. 1 The album opens at sunset and ends at "Sunrise at the Gates of Dawn", also 1:50. 1

"Sunset at the Gates of Night" runs 1:50, and its own note explains the hour:

If the first track holds you, "The Maggots Come for You" (2:46) and "The Abyssal Heart" (2:20) sit in the middle of the crawl. 1

The album streams in full on Bandcamp, and the download is $2.50 or more in 16-bit/48kHz files. 1 The album page lists no cassette, record or CD alongside it. 1

For Halloween itself, Houses Catch Fire All the Time is the shorter companion: fourteen minutes, same project, same horror. 4