The dreadful fourth installment in your favorite series
10/1/24
The dreadful fourth installment in your favorite series
10/1/24
My name is Max, and I'm the ears, hands, and brains behind Coltrin Compositions! I make music, soundscapes, and sceneries that take you away to another place, and another time. Some listen while they play DnD. Some while they read. And others while descending slowly into insanity. The choice is yours!
After getting into Warhammer 40k, I knew I needed to make an album that represented different aspects of the game, while making it suitable to play in the background while you game. This album also marked a new way to make music.
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For this album, I wanted to create dungeon music based on specific dungeon ideas that myself and patrons came up with. The result ended up being some pretty thematic yet ambient dungeon tracks! Definitely one of my more interesting albums (in my humblest of opinions).
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FSoH II is an album that was in my backlog for... too long. Some of the songs were created several months before others, and I was ecstatic to finally have enough tracks to release this album!
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"Istir" was a personal project. I created a theme song for each of the PCs at the DnD table I play at, including the main villain as a gift to the DM! Much more "thematic" pieces, and less suitable for the background (but you do you)!
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This is an album I wrote during a heavy case of the winter blues. I had intended for this album to represent the polarity of winter; the coziness of being curled up in front of the fireplace with a good book, but also the terrible fear of being lost in a tundra wasteland in the middle of the night.
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The sequel to my best selling album, FtE II is chock full of even more terrifying sounds. This album followed a bit of a story, which was released in a series of short stories with each song on my Patreon. It was with this album that I decided I'd like to release a new version each Halloween season.
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Illeria was created on commission for a client's dark fantasy homebrew DnD world. In a land where days and nights last weeks at a time, the denizens are strange beings where even the daytime is dangerous. At night, however, those who drink the mysterious moon water will find themselves becoming terrible creatures of the night.
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Fear the Eldritch is an album inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. As a man who frequently goes insane in his spare time, I wanted to create an album focused on the horrors of our inner thoughts, and the terrors of the outer cosmos. In short: this album was meant to make you spiral into insanity (plus a hint of dark jazz, to relax).
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Just Beeps had been planned since I finished Future Sounds of Horror (named after the song in that album). I had a LOT of fun with this album, getting to write things like alien robot dialogue, foreign creature sounds, and of course, plenty of beeps. While almost strictly sceneries, you'll find a couple tunes playing in the background!
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This sequel came out 3 years (and 2 albums) after the release of its predecessor. Containing much of the same darkness as the first album, I intended to make Dungeons & Ambience Vol II a little brighter and slightly more musical than the original. Songs that remind you of home, tracks that drag you into mysterious forests, and Barry the bard got a hold of a microphone at some point, so there's a track on there of him drunkenly performing his sorrows. It was too late to remove it by the time we noticed. Sorry about that.
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Sometimes, music just gets in the way. This album of sceneries places you inside the scene, as if you were there. It's far easier to express the tranquility of the forest with the sounds of streams and birds; easier to express the freezing tundra with sounds of ghostly, unforgiving wind; and far easier to express the intimacy of the campfire with sounds of crackling flame.
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After finishing up my first DnD campaign, I decided to GM some Starfinder! Every track in this album I made for very specific encounters, people, and locations in my sessions. I had created an entire universe, and this album directly reflects the vision I had for my game. A fitting album for any sci-fi setting, I hope it provides the same mystery and excitement that was contained within my own universe.
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The album that started it all! Back in 2017, me and some friends started our very first DnD game. My friend, the DM (and the artist for 2 of my albums), grew tired of film and video game soundtracks later in our campaign. So, he asked me to make a couple songs. Lo and behold, an entire album was born! To make it easy for us to access, I decided to throw it on streaming sites with no further plans.
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