Dark Ambient
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Dark Ambient
Surprised there isn't a thread for this yet. Or did I miss it? I used the search to check. Anyhow, Teeth Engraved With the Names of the Dead are back after having ended it and done some other projects. Here's their latest:
https://rusteater.bandcamp.com/album/ko ... mpty-space
EDIT:
This morning, I got an email from them about ANOTHER release. Here it is:
https://rusteater.bandcamp.com/album/st ... res-part-i
Oh boy, here we go again...
Y'know, coming back to this album for the first time in a bunch of years I expected to have a LOT of negative things to say about it, but honestly it's better than I remember it being... Just a monolithic slab of creeped out ugly harshness that was equal parts noise-wall, drone, black metal, and power electronics.
Knowing now what we wish we knew back then I think we probably would have shortened a couple of the tracks, but we were both fresh off being in a doom band that routinely wrote 25+ minute long songs so I guess that's just kind of the headspace we were in back then.
That said, I do still really like "Shredded Sky" and "Broken From Inside" and I've always thought "When Storms Come" is one of our coolest tracks 'cos that shit sounds like Vomir or The Rita with what may or may not be a song buried underneath... It was definitely an exhausting listen, but that was kind of the point.
At any rate, that's all the old stuff uploaded, anything that happens from here on is the future...
Thanks to Family, Friends, and The Voodoo Queen.
https://rusteater.bandcamp.com/album/ko ... mpty-space
EDIT:
This morning, I got an email from them about ANOTHER release. Here it is:
https://rusteater.bandcamp.com/album/st ... res-part-i
Oh boy, here we go again...
Y'know, coming back to this album for the first time in a bunch of years I expected to have a LOT of negative things to say about it, but honestly it's better than I remember it being... Just a monolithic slab of creeped out ugly harshness that was equal parts noise-wall, drone, black metal, and power electronics.
Knowing now what we wish we knew back then I think we probably would have shortened a couple of the tracks, but we were both fresh off being in a doom band that routinely wrote 25+ minute long songs so I guess that's just kind of the headspace we were in back then.
That said, I do still really like "Shredded Sky" and "Broken From Inside" and I've always thought "When Storms Come" is one of our coolest tracks 'cos that shit sounds like Vomir or The Rita with what may or may not be a song buried underneath... It was definitely an exhausting listen, but that was kind of the point.
At any rate, that's all the old stuff uploaded, anything that happens from here on is the future...
Thanks to Family, Friends, and The Voodoo Queen.
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Re: Dark Ambient
I’m not as well versed in this realm as I’d like to be - I’d say I know a few classics like Sleep Research Facility. “Nostromo” is great and sets the bar really, really high. Off the top of my head here are a few I really like.
RYN “Comic Death”
Zoat-Aon - Star Autopsy
Envenomist - Abyssal Siege
Nordvargr - Helvete
Luasa Raelon - The Poison City & others
Tenhornedbeast - Titan Death & others
The Stargazer's Assistant – The Other Side Of The Island
RYN “Comic Death”
Zoat-Aon - Star Autopsy
Envenomist - Abyssal Siege
Nordvargr - Helvete
Luasa Raelon - The Poison City & others
Tenhornedbeast - Titan Death & others
The Stargazer's Assistant – The Other Side Of The Island
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LUSTMORD - The Place Where the Black Stars Hang
https://lustmord.bandcamp.com/album/the ... stars-hang
https://lustmord.bandcamp.com/album/the ... stars-hang
And this was a pleasant surprise. Still have a couple in stock for the curious.
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Re: Dark Ambient
Thank you for the recommendations!!!
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Re: Dark Ambient
hard second, this and "Deep Frieze" are both great.holy ghost wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:39 pm Sleep Research Facility. “Nostromo” is great and sets the bar really, really high.
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In the dark ambient realm you can't go wrong with gruntsplatter and Scott's other project, the Corvidae Cabal:
https://crionicmind.bandcamp.com/
https://crionicmind.bandcamp.com/
Re: Dark Ambient
raison d'être – The Empty Hollow Unfolds (Cold Meat Industry, 2000)
Since the day it first came out, to me the synonym of Dark Ambient itself.
Since the day it first came out, to me the synonym of Dark Ambient itself.
Re: Dark Ambient
used to listen to this a bit, but the line between noise and dark ambient can be fairly thin; they're both industrial music.
lustmord is definitely an interesting one, an.artist I kept returning to but never really got into. Nocturnal Emissions are hilarious. used to love bad sector, who make a lot more sense filtered through a "noise" perspective imvho
https://bad-sector.bandcamp.com/album/ampos
lustmord is definitely an interesting one, an.artist I kept returning to but never really got into. Nocturnal Emissions are hilarious. used to love bad sector, who make a lot more sense filtered through a "noise" perspective imvho
https://bad-sector.bandcamp.com/album/ampos
turn it up!
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Re: Dark Ambient
I would put a monument to him for the track "Metastatic Resonance".
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A local bartender introduced herself to me as a mutual friend of someone and said that they told her to say to me that she's a fan of raison d'être. That person told her that as a joke, but she took it seriously. Which is both funny and awesome. Anyhow, we talked for awhile and it turned out she's FAR MORE knowledgeable of dark ambient than me and I'm a pretty big nerd with this stuff. I did tell her about one or two projects she was unaware of, though (like Demdike Stare, who had that synth pop phase). She's also a fan of neo-folk, power electronics, and harsh noise.
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Re: Dark Ambient
I feel like this has been in my discogs want list for years and I never see it with stuff I can bundle for shipping…. (I know right what a hard life…..)housepig wrote: ↑Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:53 pmhard second, this and "Deep Frieze" are both great.holy ghost wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:39 pm Sleep Research Facility. “Nostromo” is great and sets the bar really, really high.
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I remember not being impressed enough with raison d'être to consider them the masters of the genre. fun fact: MB is the first "dark ambient" album listed on RYM.
turn it up!
Re: Dark Ambient
I haven't been checking out much dark ambient in the last 10 years even if I like the style. For some reason two albums have struck home:
Llyn y Cwn - Twll Du
I'd say this is what I expect from dark ambient and Llyn y Cwn delivers. Dark, kind of cinematic but not in a grand Hollywood scale. Just dark and home made.
Unmade - Ritual In Unlight
Organic dark ambient. This does not sound at all like it was made on a computer (I have no idea if it was or not) but more a analog kind of variety. Not "just" a dark hum but a more varied pallette of sounds.
Llyn y Cwn - Twll Du
I'd say this is what I expect from dark ambient and Llyn y Cwn delivers. Dark, kind of cinematic but not in a grand Hollywood scale. Just dark and home made.
Unmade - Ritual In Unlight
Organic dark ambient. This does not sound at all like it was made on a computer (I have no idea if it was or not) but more a analog kind of variety. Not "just" a dark hum but a more varied pallette of sounds.
Re: Dark Ambient
Gave Infinexhuma a listen after them being featured in the latest Noise Receptor journal, and damn that is some good material. Especially fond of the Unasan album.
The album I return to the most must be Schloss Tegal's Black static transmission. It is a 60+ minute journey of sheer bleakness.
Other favorites include
R|A|A|N – The Nacrasti (Malignant)
Schloss Tegal - The Grand Guignol (Artware)
Nordvargr - In Oceans Abandoned By Life I Drown... (Essence)
Morthond - This crying age (CMI)
The album I return to the most must be Schloss Tegal's Black static transmission. It is a 60+ minute journey of sheer bleakness.
Other favorites include
R|A|A|N – The Nacrasti (Malignant)
Schloss Tegal - The Grand Guignol (Artware)
Nordvargr - In Oceans Abandoned By Life I Drown... (Essence)
Morthond - This crying age (CMI)
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Re: Dark Ambient
Lycia has their entire discography up for sale in digital format for cheap on bandcamp.
https://lycia.bandcamp.com
https://lycia.bandcamp.com
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Ambient/Dark Ambient
Haven’t seen any topics covering ambient/dark ambient. What’s everyone’s favorites or lesser known projects? Favorite albums? Ambient albums from non exclusive ambient projects?
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Re: Ambient/Dark Ambient
One of my relatively recent faves was the Black Hole Diaries by one-off(?) wdo n friends collab project Alternative Particle Choir. Not strictly speaking ambient or dark ambient, but large sections of this epic are firmly in the vein.
Pretty much anything wdo touches spanks hard- check out Metal On Metal from '81 for the junk metal abuse cred!- much of it rather tibetan flavored a la his 90s project Life Garden (which spanks hard). The above(s) will I think link to all his 666 other projects (mostly digital only) but worth keeping tabs on cause this restless soul often deletes, updates, revises these recordings, in real time, online, as he kind of self plunders from electronic and acoustic recordings going back over thirty years, mixing it up with much more recent full-band-level recording sessions. I recall that BHD went through several publicly available online configurations before settling onto what finally made it onto vinyl.
I also quite like the Music From Another Earth series (among other not far distant series), another of them heavily tibetan flavored wdo forays, quoth Hard Tool,
And hey such inspirations can be inspiring, be you Eliane Radigue, Lustmord or (Cranioclast side proj) Core to name three bigguns with semi-faux-ish ritual dabblings to their credit.Bottomless canyons of deep and penetrating reverberation. Music for Tibetan rituals performed among dark caverns, spectral landscapes, desolate ruins. Where is this other Earth and how can I get there?
Another in the Radigue sphere of influence, nice bottom heavy oscillations of the endless persuasion- Calineczka. Chap's done shitloads, but this one's pretty decent, if you spank it to that shiiiit.
Re: Dark Ambient
It is a genre / style that I dip into now and again ...
I really like the dark ambient sounds of Inade and their releases on Loki Foundation.
https://loki-found.bandcamp.com
Chris Sigdell's BºTong project is also highly enjoyable.
https://btong.bandcamp.com
I really like the dark ambient sounds of Inade and their releases on Loki Foundation.
https://loki-found.bandcamp.com
Chris Sigdell's BºTong project is also highly enjoyable.
https://btong.bandcamp.com
Re: Dark Ambient
Guess this was already a topic in a different thread that I didn’t see haha. My apologies on that. My recent listen to the “beside you in strength” comp released through chthonic really sparked my interested. So much great shit on that.
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Re: Dark Ambient
Really love Kanchenjunga, especially live. We used to play monthly event together, he played solo at the time and it was always rewarding to end the evening with him blasting louder than all the noise shows before. Now it is a duo where he plays bass and there is a singer, also really good but different from this.
https://kanchenjunga-official.bandcamp. ... this-world
https://kanchenjunga-official.bandcamp. ... this-world