In the annals of dark ambient, there is a certain prescence within the lower levels of darkness. It’s oftentimes overlooked, which is quite a shame. I’m talking about the Tribal/Ritual artists. Though there are quite a few (Akoustik Timbre Frekuency, Druhá Smrt, Emma Ya, Desiderii Marginis, Ouroboros, Viginti Tres Saecula, The Temple of Algolagnia, Alchemist, […]

Indo‘s ‘Rupa Loka’ brings us back in 2011, actually it was recorded in 2009 so I guess this makes the record already pretty ancient in the context of our current times, when daily you are given access to countless records, either old or new. However, in your daily routine I hardly advise you to find your […]

Spiritual growth is a continuous process of metamorphosis from one form to the next higher state of being. It is a process of constant death and rebirth. (How fitting that this review concludes on the date of Walpurgisnacht). One must embrace the destruction of each living manifestation to look towards any hope of evolution. Any […]

There are two things that Theologian Prime and Andrew Grant might be secretly waiting for: the first is a nice paycheck for creating a formidable second soundtrack for Lars von Trier‘s controversial and highly misunderstood film-work, “Antichrist“. The second, an injunction to stop this disc from being distributed. Not being tied to any omnipotent major […]

“Time doesn’t exit, clocks exist” is an all too relevant adage to attach to Triangular Ascension’s new opus. For his second full-length album, Venezuela’s Federico Álvarez has experimented with the concept of the unreality of time, its effect on the human race and the illusion of a temporal universe. This is hardly a new concept […]

I should have called it ages ago. Miasmah Records are quickly becoming one of the most interesting labels in the small world of dark ambient. And while the genre is slowly edging its way into the foreground of mainstream internet attention through the channels of The Haxan Cloak and Raime, Miasmah are supporting a world, […]

TREHA SEKTORI : VESTIGIAL : DESIDERII MARGINIS ARCANA : HAVAN : SOPHIA There is something about Paris that makes it the perfect place for dark ambient. Maybe Cyclic Law knew this all along. The tall buildings, the grimy streets, the dark alleyways all give the city a sense of threat and uneasiness. There is an […]

There are so many neoclassically-influenced dark ambient artists in this world.  Hell, I’m one of them.  It doesn’t mean we’re all good.  In most cases, the results of this hyper-used genre title are muddy disasters at best, no more than long-held keys and repetitive, boring drones with shady, indiscernable titles and more conjecture and theater […]

Electronic fluctuations, an asperous guitar and cheap Casio-tones create what might best be called outsider alien synthscapes. Well, that’s not the only thing these ten tracks could be called. One might want to tag this cassette as discount minimalism, or file it under one-man with a four-track drone. However, I keep returning to the term […]

If I was tasked with identifying some of the hardest workers in Industrial music, I would probably end up making a separate classification under just “Italian”. This land of tradition and impeccable classical art seems to be a particularly prolific in noise-art, and there are probably as many reasons this amassment of artists and sound […]