Tag: Ambient
E.V.P. – Postmortem Canticles Of Necromancy Review
I’ll admit this up front: I’m fairly easily creeped out. Not easily grossed out, but easily creeped out. When I was a little kid, I remember playing this game with my cousins where all of …
Leviathan – A Silhouette In Splinters (Reissue) Review
Originally written by Keith Fox. (First a Note: I don’t pretend to know anything about ambient music. But as a sincere Leviathan fan I think my opinion on this ambient record should tell black metal fans like myself …
Kayo Dot – Blue Lambency Downward Review
Originally written by Michael Roberts. Although I was aware of this band’s connections with Maudlin of the Well, I had not previously heard Toby Driver’s Kayo Dot prior to wrapping my ears around Blue Lambency Downward. Needless to say, …
Vestigial – Aeon Review
Originally written by Ian Chainey I’ll split this one into two for easy readin‘/skippin‘. The “Just the Facts, Jack“ Review: Vestigial’s Aeon is a beautifully packaged dark ambient album that brings together mostly beatless industrial-tinged …
Desiderii Marginis – Seven Sorrows Review
The goal of Desiderii Marginis — fronted by sole brainchild, Johan Levin — has always been firmly rooted within the drifty, dark-ambient realm, but Levin has always added loads of strummed acoustics, crescendoing strings, and …
Earth – Hibernaculum Review
Long-running drone pioneers Earth capitalize on the critically lauded Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method as well as provide a supersize appetizer for their forthcoming album, The Bee Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull, with the CD/DVD combo Hibernaculum. The …
Jesu – Conqueror Review
Ian Chainey’s take: Metalgaze? So, that’s what we’re calling this now? Okay, sure, Justin Broadrick’s recent riffs are comparable to a slowed down “Only Shallow” being played through Type O Negative‘s amps. I get that. …
Raison D’être – Reflections From The Time Of Opening Review
Originally written by Patrick Dawson (ray-zohnn DET-ruh) A basic, essential purpose; a reason to exist. Despite my growing affection for the strange little corner of the musical world known as dark ambience I must admit …