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These songs exactly personify the feelings of purposeless wandering. Soaked in reverb, these benign chordings offer serenity, and at no point is there a feeling of any impetus in the progression of the tracks. This is the perfect soundtrack for one who has shirked their mortal bond, and now finds themselves standing in a ghostly, empty shell of this corporeal reality.
Read MoreThe concept of the album alone is enough to attract sci-fi music fans, but musically, this soundtrack feels akin to the likes of a darker, moodier Vangelis, and at times a languorous Mick Gordon, producing a grand soundscape that combines flesh and circuit.
Read MoreThere are subtleties to the languorous, tonal directions this album takes, each transition softly flowing into the next refrain, evoking the feeling of being lost in an empty world.
Read MoreInterdimensional continues this tradition of intricate sound design, delivering a slow, methodical fresco of subtle drones and gentle uses of harmonic textures - creating an aural blanket of gentle mesmerism, a unique quality to the “space” ambient feel of which Alphaxone is deft at crafting
Read MoreThe music creates a vivid sonic landscape that evokes the sci-fi atmosphere and the temporal distortions of the story, furthering the feeling of this being a soundtrack to a movie playing in the imagination, and this is among my personal favorite qualities of albums on Cryo Chamber.
Read MoreKnown for his ability to craft otherworldly atmospheres, Metatron Omega delves even deeper into the concepts of theological and interpersonal inference, mixed with the timbre of abyssal and cosmic aesthetics with Kataphasis.
Read MoreThese tracks are an amalgamation of ambient texture, orchestral prose at times, and even Berlin school stylings - reminiscent of Klaus Schulze - while at the same time maintaining its cinematic ambience and soundtrack feel.
Read MoreBeautiful choir pads and layers hover about, while field recordings keep the listener tethered to the ground; a desolate expanse, alien, and filled with life, and the entire album keeps the feeling of mystery present throughout
Read MoreThe music is somber, introspective, still evocative of a “Great Beyond” from previous Mare Cognitum albums, yet there is an urgency to these compositions, a moribund tether that continues to guide the listener forward.
Read MoreIt is truly the soundtrack to a relaxing Winter, of the kiss of a fire, tinged with the chill of a frozen mountain air upon a resting upon a blanket of snow.
Read MoreIf you happened to miss the inaugural incantation woven by the staff and steel of Erythrite Throne and Seregost, A Sacrilegious Ritual Upon Once Holy Ground, the diabolical duo have returned and arrived at the Gates of the Obsidian Kingdom
Read More…mysticism tinged with slight flourishes of melancholy and a macrocosmic introspection; a curiosity resides in the music that compels the listener along the journey of this great, and ultimately lost tale.
Read MoreEthereal yet moribund drones create a tension and aura resonating throughout the whole of the album, with field recordings and mechanical and electrical sound effects injected, giving the songs a digital inflection while remaining organic.
Read MoreCryo Chamber's newest release gives us a joining of two colossal figures in the dark ambient scene… The songs are a journey through the dreamscape, the psyche, and the traveler’s (listener’s) imagination sets the mood…
Read MoreThe textures of sound carry the narrative of this masterwork perfectly through an aural escort. This is the ambiance of cosmic horror, and dark, galactic wonder; of hard sci-fi and political intrigue over the backdrop of space.
Read More“What we can see is just a small part of reality... there's a whole invisible world existing along with our 'real' world, and there are places where the fine line between them becomes blurred until it dissolves.”
Read More“...dark and atonal atmospheric journey... by following the river that flows between two worlds, all the memories, the fragments of life melts away…”
Read MoreThere is no agenda with this piece, no exacting compulsion to hammer a point; rather, this is a relaxing, meditative hymn of inflection, allowing the listener to turn inward. A definite must-have for those seeking a relaxing musical escape.
Read MoreFinnish underground stalwarts, FÖRGJORD return to the fore with their latest exhortation into black metal miasma - Laulu Kuolemasta. A well-kept secret from Finland, the band is not quiet on their musical offerings, rather, delivering a high intensity, thoughtful evocation of raw, yet cogent black metal. Raw, bleeding, and with plenty of cadences to keep the rhythms moving forward, the production on Laulu Kuolemasta is laceratingly chilly, tinged with bitterness, and sung in native Finnish tongue.
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