Dungeon Tomb

Additional discography: - "Grim Campfire Tales" Demo #1 2017 (private recording, never released to public) Dungeon Tomb came into existence in June 2017 with the creation of the first demo tape, Grim Campfire Tales. This recording was intended as a proposal for prospective band members, consisting of the entire Tyrants of a Desolate Realm full length in draft form. The material featured was two new songs, The Winds of Tragedy and Tyrants of a Desolate Realm, plus six older songs taken from an old instrumental solo project called theHauntedChapel (tHC), which was active from 2005-2008, and utilized a similar direct-to-tape recording method consisting of multiple overdubs. The original intent in 2015 was to write lyrics for some of the tHC tracks based on their titles, record vocals over the instrumentals and be done with it, but with the creation of the two new songs in late 2016, a decision was made to form a new band and re-record the tHC selection. With the material proposed and members on board, rehearsals followed soon after. Demo #2, the first recording as a band, was done in a single night on April 14, 2018. The band had just acquired a second tape deck as two were needed for recording purposes. The demo was made primarily for testing out the whole setup. This was never really promoted, merely being sent out randomly to this day. Recordings for Tyrants of a Desolate Realm began on August 26, 2018. Due to various circumstances, the sessions would drag on for over a year. It was also decided that the band would go into a professional studio to record the two new songs. The plan was to release that as a demo while the band was working on its full length, which was being done at home, direct-to-tape as intended. The band released its third demo (Lust “promo” CD-R) in January 2019, a compilation of four different live-recorded rehearsal sessions spanning a year. This was limited to 18 copies, once again, not really promoted, just randomly given out and disposed of rather quickly in the band’s hometown, Baguio City. This generated little to no interest as expected, merely serving as proof of existence and activity. The “studio demo” (Demo 2019) was recorded on July 6, 2019 at MCS Studio, located out of town in La Trinidad, Benguet. Tracks from a discontinued live rehearsal compilation were added to push the length so that it would be ideal for a c60 cassette release. Again, this did not see any real promotion as the band gained some momentum and finally completed the recordings for Tyrants of a Desolate Realm on August 28, 2019. Since the band had all these releases accumulated, these were all bundled together whenever anyone showed interest in the material. A year of inactivity followed in 2020, although parts of what would become new material were generated during this time. In 2021, Lifespan Records from Laguna got in touch with the intention to include the band in a three-way split. Each band was to contribute two originals and one cover song. The two studio-recorded songs featured on Demo 2019 were submitted since the band had no new material, and a cover of The Sword by Bathory was recorded in April, specifically for this release. The band also put together a CD-R compilation (Primeval Necromancy) around this time, featuring a reject vocal overdub session of the Bathory cover, the main part of Demo #2, and five instrumental tracks of new material taken from a private study tape. The Lifespan Records release was unfortunately discontinued, but the label did send out the band’s material to some people, which generated a good amount of interest. This was the first time the band was able to do any real distribution of its material.