Shibalba – SamsaraLabel: Malignant Records – TumorCD91Format: CD, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 22 Dec 2015Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental Active since 2009, Shibalba bring their first full ritual expression to the halls of Malignant. Samsara summons five chthonic explorations using all the hallmark instrumentation of the genre to great effect; liturgical chants and spectral vocal incantations, minor keyboard orchestrations, resonant chimes and prayer bowls, ceremonial percussion, and atmospheric drift ensconced in sepulchral reverb. It’s a tapestry of richly detailed and layered sounds that emanate from candlelit chambers and underground passages, and an intoxicating and majestic homage to the darkest of arts. Previous work must be noted and recognized, but it is with Samsara…
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Ionophore – Sinter Pools
Ionophore – Sinter PoolsLabel: Malignant Antibody – Treatment06Format: CD, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 14 Mar 2016Style: Ambient, Drone, ExperimentalIonophore – Sinter Pools Ionophore is the project of the SF Bay Area/London-based multi-instrumentalists Leila Abdul-Rauf, Jan Hendrich, and Ryan Honaker. The trio weaves dark electronics and neoclassical soundscapes with heavy drones, seamlessly melding the orchestral strings of Honaker, the horns and voice of Abdul-Rauf, and electronic manipulations of Hendrich. Working closely with mastering magician Myles Boisen (known for his work with Angelo Badalamenti, John Zorn, Fred Frith), the result is an entrancing original sound, combining cinematic tones with beat-driven, ethereal ambience. A genre-bending and highly creative album that embodies the more adventurous and…
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Aderlating – Hell Follows
Aderlating – Hell FollowsLabel: Black Plagve – Infect16Format: CD, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 10 Dec 2015Style: Dark Ambient, Power Electronics Hell Follows takes a somewhat altered approach as it moves away from the ritualistic horror and smothering claustrophobia of past releases, and into a more spacious realm, with more distinguished sounds and clearer instrumentation. That’s not to say that Hell Follows isn’t steeped in atmosphere and dark energy. The 9 tracks are unpredictable, wildly hallucinatory and beguiling…odes to nightmares and flickering visions of torment and anguish, an alchemy of blackened kosmiche keyboard textures, raspy, foreboding voices, and passages of corrosive rumblings, hellish drift, and sinister percussive clangor. Mories has stated that Hell…
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Agalloch – The Mantle
Agalloch – The MantleLabel: Grau – Grau 001 CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: 2011Style: Black Metal, Experimental, Neofolk “The Mantle” is a grand multi-dimensional opus of 70 minutes featuring their dark melancholic metal with post rock and neo-folk elements. References range from Pink Floyd, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sol Invictus, Ulver, Dissection, Fields Of The Nephilim and a lot more
