“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 fell upon my ear the holiest sound I have ever heard,” recalled Huston Smith, describing the first time he experienced Tibetan overtone chants. Before 1967, the Western world was unaware of the practice, and to a large extent still are. Huston Smith, a US religious scholar on a visit to a Himalayan monastery in […]

The last time we interviewed Cyclic Law was back in the Summer of 2006, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. Heathen Harvest closed, reopened and we’ve come across hundreds of ambient albums from all over the world since. Meanwhile Frederic Arbour’s label has gone from strength to strength. In […]

I’m turning into some kind of ‘cohesion’ junkie. Every dark ambient album that doesn’t have a linear or abstract theme, that doesn’t have a discernible thread, that doesn’t in some way present itself as a self-tied package plumped with consideration and significant import seems to fall below the line for me. Promoting such an opinion […]

The Rotting Christ ideas factory has been somewhat low on stock in recent years, at least insofar as musical expression is concerned. Κατά Τον Δαίμονα Εαυτού ‎[very roughly translated at “Do What Thou Wilt”] is the latest effort from the Greek ambassadors of black and Gothic grit and though it does little musically but recycle […]

Canada-based label Cyclic Law turned ten years old last year. As part of our service to the ambient underground, Heathen Harvest presents a two-part diptych honouring the work and achievements of this fantastic institution. In this first part we review their ten year compilation album and present it in full for our readers to stream. […]

It was with the release of 2011′s “Grimoire” that Kreng stamped an important mark on the dark ambient genre. Based almost entirely on the convincing sampling of classical string music, the album renotched the ambient bar one level higher, seeing the strengthening of a growing movement to create dark ambient purely out of classical sounds, […]

Ever since Heathen Harvest reported on Halgrath’s Liquid Mind album eighteen months ago, I’ve been avid in following her every aural move. Halgrath, otherwise known by her second alias Agratha Mirrait, is a female dark ambient artist whose outpourings of work seem to know no bounds, with every other week a new track sprouting up […]