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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Common Eider, King Eider – Extinction
Common Eider, King Eider – ExtinctionLabel: Cold Spring – CSR219CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 11 Apr 2016Style: Drone, Dark Ambient, Doom Metal A new ritual from this long running doom/drone/ambient collective, offering up modern manifestations of ancient energies, channelled into smouldering swathes of ceremonial hypnosis and explosive gouts of blood-red radiance. Extinction is an extended ceremonial rite conducted below ground at the Wisp House (R.I.P.). A song suite of psychedelic devotionals assembled from reverb drenched industrial drones, billowing clouds of metallic throb, and churning, rhythmic bombast. Fields of ghostly incantations suspended in the ether, draped over metallic murmurs and moaning melancholia. The low end rumble of monk-like chants beneath the soft…
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Neznamo – Aiwyâstô
Neznamo – AiwyâstôLabel: Muzyka Voln – MV-IXFormat: CD, Album, Limited Edition, NumberedCountry: RussiaReleased: 22 Apr 2015Style: Dark Ambient, Dronef somebody still doesn’t know, behind the Neznamo project stands the Moscow-based musician Dmitry Shilov who stepped on the path of ritual ambient music in 1996 under the stage name of Unknown. After releasing five albums on the “Strely Peruna” (“Perun’s Arrows”) label, the project temporarily fell in a lethargic sleep but woke up again in 2006 with a renewed name and approach.As Neznamo Dmitriy has released several mini-albums on his own label Moonsun Productions, as well as a number of collaboration works with several other acts from the Russian drone underground:…
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Eonic – Secret Land
Eonic – Secret LandLabel: Zhelezobeton – ZHB-XXVIIFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: RussiaReleased: 05 Apr 2010Style: Downtempo, Ambient Secret land lost in an unknown dimension… Like ancient ruins this place hides the traces of stories, which are told in this new album by the St. Petersburg project Eonic. This is their 6th release (and 2nd “professional” CD) and it easily combines different stylistic approaches, making its own way to the listener’s heart. Ethno-gothic in vein of Dead Can Dance and Arcana is layered over tout electronic rhythms a la Delerium and Enigma and spiced by pleasant psychedelic arrangements. Musicians don’t hesitate to step on the territory of pop-ambient and even new-age,…
