Tag Ambient
This is the work of one V-Khaoz, known to me primarily through the truly excellent Druaden Forest which is why I leapt on it in the review basket. It is, however not his usual black metal meets dungeon synth or… Continue Reading →
I’m going to be a bit lazy and go straight to the artist’s own description: “Pigments is a mix of ambient, electronic and industrial soundscapes. Pigments uses a dark colour palette to create haunting, serene, strange sound art”. I first… Continue Reading →
With this album, Californians Cailleach Calling (along with Ukrainian drummer Yurii Kononov) “fuse trancelike Emperial bludgeon with dreamlike melodic ambience, countering vocals of tether-end savagery with emotive, ethereal intimations of deep space”, we’re told. The ambiance is distinctly black metal…. Continue Reading →
This album is the work of Slovenian instrumentalists Shadow Universe, whose promised offer is of a contrast between simmering ambient soundscapes and heavy anxious darkness. There’s certainly plenty of the latter going round in the world at the moment. It… Continue Reading →
I’ve most likely touched on it many times before but music for sleep is very important to me. I love putting on Post-Rock, Ambient and even Noise to sleep to, it soothes my soul and means that I can get… Continue Reading →
It’s time to pop down a doomy, dark-jazz rabbit-hole courtesy of German expressionists Taumel. This is the second part of their Traum series and follows on, in pretty much every sense from first part ‘There Is No Time To Run… Continue Reading →
Having previously plucked bass for French sludge outfit Overmars throughout the noughties, Marion Leclercq brings us the sophomore full-length from her solo project, a full five years after the well-received debut. Opener “The Descent” is driven mostly by oppressive doomy… Continue Reading →
Now here’s a thing: a post-rock, ambient doom work which is experimental. Its creators Fere are from Portugal and this is their second album release. The opener “Atlas” doesn’t tear up trees but I’d suggest is all the better for… Continue Reading →
Every time I review or give radio airplay to a project by Shane Embury I make some cliched comment about him being the busiest and most prolific artist in heavy music. The problem with cliches is that they care created by truths a lot of… Continue Reading →
Back into the shadows we go with the work of K.M. the mysterious half Polish, half Greek denizen of the underworld. We have charted these seas before covering his debut EP and the following 2 albums. We are informed that… Continue Reading →
Described as a cosmic free jazz orchestra, Zaäar are clearly not short of ideas as they embark upon this 90-minute journey. With the sounds of a saxophone, trumpet, synths, flutes, drums and electric bass, this always had the makings of… Continue Reading →
My first reaction on receiving this was to check out if there is a volume 1 to 3. I am pleased to tell you that there is, the artists involved in these collections of splits from Sombre Soniks being Embers… Continue Reading →