Underground Ambience (Patreon)

At the heart of most of my dungeon tracks is a carefully crafted bed of synths, spacey strings, and filtered noise. Sometimes my method of writing a track like "Nakkas Khath" involves first way oversaturating the piece with crunchy ambient pads, before carving out an actual tune from the cacophony. That was certainly the case here... not exactly the most efficient way to write a track, but it  meant there was a rich bed of options when slicing out an ambient variant.

"Nakkas Khath (Ambient)" is ideal for dungeon crawls that are quieter, sparser, and leave more to the players. Dropping your party in a dangerous situation and just saying "figure it out!" can be one of the best ways to facilitate dread and excitement at the same time. I'd love to say specifically which sorts of dungeons this works best for, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a dungeon that this doesn't work for. Caves, mines, hellish labyrinths, deep-sea tunnels, steampunk forges... you name it!

As always, looping versions of the variant and the original are also provided below.