Ambient

Full Album Stream: Septaria –Astar

November 11, 2024

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

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

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

Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial has one final holiday present for you before we close the book on 2023.

Video Premiere: Nuclear Dudes – “Lasers in the Jungle” (ft. Dave Verellen of Botch)

July 18, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interstellar death metal heroes Blood Incantation reconfigure the Stargate with a daring, almost exclusively synth-driven departure.

Track Premiere: Sataray – “Hexennacht”

January 20, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stream a new track from End Christian, featuring members of Brutal Truth, Hex Inverter and more.

Video Premiere: 1476 – ‘Winter of Winds’

March 10, 2017

Salem’s 1476 have continued to grow their sound and image, reflected in the video for “Winter of Winds.”

Worm Ouroboros

December 5, 2016

What Graceless Dawn
You had me at “rowan, ash, willow, oak”
dB rating: 8/10