Ambient
Full Album Stream: Septaria –Astar
November 11, 2024 Adem Tepedelen
French post-metal dynamists, Septaria, say the quiet part (and loud part) out loud on debut Astar.
Q&A: Leila Abdul-Rauf on Her New Solo Album: “I Was Making Order Out Of Chaos”
November 8, 2024 Justin Norton
Vastum axewoman Leila Abdul-Rauf on her fifth solo album, Calls From A Seething Edge, and the non-linear process of writing experimental music as opposed to death metal.
Exhumed Frontman Matt Harvey Discusses New Ambient Album, Toward the Cold Light
March 7, 2024 Emily Bellino
Exhumed frontman Matt Harvey discusses the inspirations and recording process behind his new ambient album, Toward the Cold Light.
Album Premiere: Dark Sky Burial – ‘Tantum Religio Potuit Suadere Malorum’
December 31, 2023 Albert Mudrian
Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial has one final holiday present for you before we close the book on 2023.
Full Album Stream: The Sun’s Journey Through the Night – ‘Wordless’
July 27, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the blistering new full-length, Wordless, from UK black metal fiends The Sun’s Journey Through The Night
Video Premiere: Nuclear Dudes – “Lasers in the Jungle” (ft. Dave Verellen of Botch)
July 18, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Watch Nuclear Dudes — featuring exactly one dude, Jon Weisnewski, guitarist/vocalist of Seattle bruisers Sandrider — team up with Botch’s Dave Verellen in an insane new video.
Hear Shane Embury’s Dark Sky Burial Project Lighten Up on “Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus”
July 14, 2023 Albert Mudrian
Napalm Death’s Shane Embury’s solo venture of electric music and deep textures, Dark Sky Burial, returns with its seventh full-length in just three years. And it rules.
LISTEN: Shane Embury Returns With DARK SKY BURIAL’s ‘Nascentes Morimur Morientes Nascimur’
April 7, 2023 Albert Mudrian
Napalm Death’s Shane Embury’s solo venture of dark ambient soundscapes and textures, Dark Sky Burial, returns with its sixth full-length in just three years.
Track Premiere: Witnesses – “Cloistered in Purfleet”
July 6, 2022 Sean Frasier
New York heavy ambient project Witnesses are seduced by gothic doom on their vampiric new single, “Cloistered in Purfleet.”
Track Premiere: Satanath – “Lethal Exekution”
May 4, 2022 Sean Frasier
Dark ambient project Satanath deconstructs post-metal in the ten-year anniversary reissue of their album Metallized Arena.
Hear Shane Embury Return With Dark Sky Burial’s “Constellation of Archetypes”
April 1, 2022 Albert Mudrian
The ever-prolific Dark Sky Burial project of Napalm Death’s Shane Embury returns with a new single just in time for Bandcamp Friday.
Full Album Premiere: An Evening Redness – ‘An Evening Redness’
February 24, 2022 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear An Evening Redness conjure up a desert-dwelling American soundscape that fuses the best elements of drone into a soaring masterpiece.
Album Review: Blood Incantation – ‘Timewave Zero’
February 23, 2022 Dutch Pearce
Interstellar death metal heroes Blood Incantation reconfigure the Stargate with a daring, almost exclusively synth-driven departure.
Track Premiere: Sataray – “Hexennacht”
January 20, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear ambient dark wave solo artist Sataray’s ritualistic soundscape celebrating “witches night.”
Track Premiere: Dark Sky Burial – “Decay is the Matrix of Fertility”
December 31, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial has one last holiday present for you before we close the book on 2021.
Hear Shane Embury Return With Dark Sky Burial’s ‘Omnis Cum in Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret’
December 21, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury completes the first quadrilogy of his instrumental/ambient/electronic solo venture Dark Sky Burial. Hear it now.
Track Premiere: Insect Ark – “Anopsian Volta”
September 9, 2021 Brad Sanders
Hear an ambient, experimental new track from Dana Schechter’s acclaimed Insect Ark.
Full Album Stream: Dark Sky Burial – ‘Vincit qui Se Vincit’
August 6, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Shane Embury’s solo venture of dark ambient soundscapes and unsettling industrial noise textures, Dark Sky Burial, returns with its third full-length release since March 2020.
Full Album Stream: Dark Sky Burial – ‘Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit’
February 5, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Napalm Death’s Shane Embury delivers a second full length LP of dark, restless ambient sounds via the rapidly evolving Dark Sky Burial.
Video Premiere: Geist & the Sacred Ensemble – “Closed Eye”
July 16, 2020 Sean Frasier
Pacific Northwest doom-folk collective Geist & the Sacred Ensemble share the meditative, ominous video of “Closed Eye” from their upcoming LP, Waning Hymns.
Napalm Death’s Shane Embury Debuts Ambient Project Dark Sky Burial
April 7, 2020 Albert Mudrian
The ambient sounds of Dark Sky Burial are the latest essential musical works from the restless creative mind of Napalm Death’s Shane Embury.
Video Premiere: Lindy-Fay Hella “Two Suns”
February 27, 2020 Chris Dick
Norway-based songstress Lindy-Fay Hella shines light on her new video for “Two Songs” off her Ván Records debut, Seafarer.
Prurient’s New Album is Too Long
November 6, 2017 Joseph Schafer
Prurient will release Rainbow Mirror, a 3-hour long record. That record is too long.
Spooky Synths: A Neill Jameson Halloween Playlist
October 31, 2017 Neill Jameson
Krieg’s Neill Jameson curates a special, dungeon synth-focused holiday playlist for the 2017 Halloween/winter season.
Mortiis: From Black Metal to Dungeon Synth and Beyond
October 16, 2017 Neill Jameson
In perhaps his most in-depth interview ever, Mortiis dives deep into his past as the unwitting progenitor of dungeon synth.
Track Premiere: End Christian – ‘Delivered In Shame’
July 26, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream a new track from End Christian, featuring members of Brutal Truth, Hex Inverter and more.
Track Premiere: BardSpec – ‘Fire Tongue’
April 10, 2017 Emily Bellino
Bardspec explore soundscapes on “Fire Tongue.”
Video Premiere: 1476 – ‘Winter of Winds’
March 10, 2017 Emily Bellino
Salem’s 1476 have continued to grow their sound and image, reflected in the video for “Winter of Winds.”
Worm Ouroboros
December 5, 2016 Daniel Lake
What Graceless Dawn
You had me at “rowan, ash, willow, oak”
dB rating: 8/10