ambient

This edition of Dungeon Synth Digest gets through all of the tapes and esoteric trinkets that came in the mail during the last few months.

Featuring members of Chicago’s heavy music scene (Morgue Supplier, Sons of Ra), the double bass and guitar duo chart the incomprehensible mysteries of space on their new album.

The Canadian “melogaze” artist digs deep into the vault and releases a previously-thought-lost demo from a decade passed, with preorders starting today – check out a track and read more about the release here.

The Dutch ambient experimental project’s newest album, created from recorded live sets, field recordings, and more, offers chilling and yet emotional textures. Stream it early here.

The Montreal-based heavy experimentalists follow up on 2021’s “Vital” with a new record that uses stirring extremes in volume and pacing to examine decay and unease.

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.

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.

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.

Experimental/progressive ambient band Plague Psalm shows ambiance is more than just a tabletop laptop experience.

Stream a portion of the Philadelphia black/death/industrial duo’s new album here: utterly chaotic extreme metal melded with lurking ambient horrorscapes.