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Posts Tagged Dark Ambient

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March 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Ben Frost: Black Marrow

Ben Frost Black Marrow Ben Frost Ben Frost does frightening and hypnotic and frighteningly hypnotic on Black Marrow, another album from the Australian-born, Iceland-based ambient/electronic producer/composer/performer. It’s been a busy few years for Frost, making dance music – as in, actually scoring music for rehearsed dance pieces, creating soundtracks and sound experiments – mostly focussing […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Ambient, Ben Frost, Black Marrow, Dark Ambient, Score, Soundtrack ·

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January 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Haxan Cloak: Excavation

The Haxan Cloak Excavation Tri Angle Records Imagine Lustmord and Mike Patton sharing horror-movie scoring tips and you have some idea of what to expect when going into this new album by The Haxan Cloak. The British dark ambient project is a low-frequency set of rumbles that has plenty to offer to fans of goth […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bobby Kric, Burial, Dark Ambient, Excavation, Lustmord, Mike Patton, The Haxan Cloak, Vessel ·

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August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Lustmord: The Word As Power

Lustmord The Word As Power Blackest Ever Black As Lustmord Brian Williams has created a strain of industrial and dark ambient music that creeps along like a horror soundtrack one minute, then slowly, surely, it opens itself up – unfolding – to reveal the beauty (and still the darkness) of sublime classical music, of minimalism, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brian Williams, Burial, Dark Ambient, Dead Can dance, Gorecki, Lustmord, Philip Glass, Scott Walker, Swans, The Word As Power, Tool ·

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