Locrian’s Dark Soundscapes Creep Toward a “New Catastrophism” (Review)
After seven years, the heavy, experimental project returns with a journey through a challenging soundscape uncomfortably anchored in reality's bleakness. Read our full review.
ambient
Iskandr Charts a Contemplative Course on New Single “Glas” (Track Premiere)
The Dutch black metal project offers something unusual today - a 15-minute acoustic exploration developed from materials from the "Vergezicht" recording sessions. Stream it here.
Abhorrent Expanse, Sunless, and Bruce Lamont Practice Avant-Garde Excellence @ Cobra Lounge 4/7/2022 (Live Report + Photos)
Progressive death metal, experimental death metal, and experimental ambient music collided this Thursday - see pics and make sure you catch the rest of Sunless' tour.
Plague Psalm’s “Shivers of Transmigration” Explores the Progressive End of Ambiance
Experimental/progressive ambient band Plague Psalm shows ambiance is more than just a tabletop laptop experience.
“III” Is a Fragment of Somnolent’s Hellish Dream (Early Track Stream)
Stream a portion of the Philadelphia black/death/industrial duo's new album here: utterly chaotic extreme metal melded with lurking ambient horrorscapes.
There Is No Entry or Exit to “The Eerie and Radiant Doorless Rooms of Pain” (Split Premiere)
Pseudodoxia (Feed them Death, LaColpa) and The Sun and the Mirror collaborate on an experimental doom-drone/ambient split exploring unique and specific forms of human tragedy.
A Soundtrack to Fear: The Inviting Dread of Mother of Sighs
From the husband-wife duo of Terence Hannum (Locrian, Axebreaker, The Holy Circle) and Erica Burgner-Hannum (The Holy Circle), the horror-movie-esque soundtrack debut EP of Mother of Sighs takes inspiration from trauma and suffering. Read an interview with the band.
In Death, Carry OSI and the Jupiter Home (Early Track Stream)
Traditional neofolk meets Scotch-Appalachian tradition in a brief new neofolk single, which is streaming ahead of release.
Meridiane “Walk[s] Behind The Sun” On “Deerstalking” (Early Track Stream)
Members of Vaura, Clan of Xymox, and His Name Is Alive take a subtler route towards gothic ambient on a new single with new project Meridiane.
Leila Abdul-Rauf’s “Phantasiai” Summons Ethereal Spirits (Full Album Stream)
The Vastum mastermind ventures deep into ambient space with a phantasmagoric new solo album which is now streaming in full.