Darkspace - all of itPaysage D'Hiver - start with Kristall und Isa, then WinterkalteVelvet Cacoon - start with GenevieveStriborg - all of it
― Soukesian, Sunday, 22 November 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm used to listening to more brutal kinds of stuff
same here
― sarahel, Sunday, 22 November 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
But, if I was to pick just one . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCtXINRuNU
― Soukesian, Sunday, 22 November 2009 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgaAnztAq0o
― Soukesian, Sunday, 22 November 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
That's nice, I like that. And thanks for your recommendations. xpost
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Sunday, 22 November 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
The Striborg DVD is intense - mostly B/W footage of trees, but you get this sensation that your brain is running out of your ears after a few minutes.
― Soukesian, Sunday, 22 November 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
bloody panda isn't really ambient but are slept-on doom drone you should check out
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Sunday, 22 November 2009 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
check out lurker of chalice - ambient thing from leviathan. plus early leviathan (tenth sub-level of suicide etc) has some of the vibe of xasthur circa nocturnal poisoning - ie really damn cool
― contenderizer, Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks man, I've actually been listening to a lot of Leviathan today (catching up on an old recommendation). Will look up Lurker of Challice though, too. Thanks!
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
welcome. also nortt - haven't heard everything but he did an excellent split w xasthur a while back - hybrid of funereal doom and depressive bm. recent galgenfrist is especially minimal/ambient
― contenderizer, Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
The new Worm Ouroboros album is beautiful, beautiful stuff.http://www.myspace.com/wormouroboros
Can't go wrong with Amber Asylum for that matter, either.
And does Bohren & der Club of Gore qualify? They're always great.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 22 November 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, and that one Lurker of Chalice album is better than any Leviathan record.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 22 November 2009 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome, I'm excited to check that out.
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Sunday, 22 November 2009 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Loving Striborg and Lurker of Chalice fwiw.
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Sunday, 22 November 2009 07:57 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZCTxFW68j8
― wilter, Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, and I should have said Abruptum is one of my favorite bands ever.
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:07 (fourteen years ago) link
btw thanks for this thread, going to listen to all this
― wilter, Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/01/peter-frohmander-5-lps.html
This is maybe not quite the same thing becos the guy is coming out of Krautrock but Musik aus dem Schattenreich, which is the only one on here I know at the moment, has some really intense proto-Black Metal ambience going on and definitely is worth listening to I think.
― Herman G. Neuname is the first European president (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2009 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
'bloody panda' = lol band name
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 November 2009 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
home from party and listening to lurker and it is awesome except i also think my house is haunted
― contenderizer, Sunday, 22 November 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
You won't exactly be lolling when you hear it...they're an incredibly imposing band on record.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 22 November 2009 10:40 (fourteen years ago) link
:o
― wilter, Sunday, 22 November 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
you might be loling around on the ground in pain.
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Sunday, 22 November 2009 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
It's always sounded like a British comedy sketch show catchphrase to me
Can't quite get behind this cos I do love me some Massive Conspioracy Against All Life but it is good - there are some bits that sound like Stars of The Lid so yeah.
Do Gnaw Their Tongues qualify for this?
― 19349 things paedophiles like to complain about (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 22 November 2009 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
you might be loling around on the ground in pain
will test this
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 November 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
in addition to a bunch of stuff mentioned already, these two albums are classic go-tos for me when i'm in the mood for this type of stuff
James Plotkin & Mick Harris - CollapseJames Plotkin & Mark Spybey - A Peripheral Blur (less 'dark' than Collapse is)
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Sunday, 22 November 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Pyramids with Nadja: http://hydraheadlines.blogspot.com/2009/08/pyramids-with-nadja-full-length.html
― paul_in_dc, Sunday, 22 November 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the limited amount of this kind of stuff i've heard (xasthur was my introduction to it, i guess). downloaded lurker of chalice and a velvet cacoon album (northsuite) becz of this thread, looking forward to listening to them. (also, velvet cacoon is funny to read about. pranksters.)
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 November 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
All the provocations Velvet Cacoon have indulged in over the years tend to distract from their music, which is just incredible. Enormous, hypnotic textures. It is true ambient music, though, and you need to give it time to penetrate - recommend listening in the dark, or while reading.
Had them on the iPod while walking through a rainstorm today, which was just perfect.
― Soukesian, Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
always get bottled down for this but velvet cacoon is super boring even genevieve - wonderful sound, totally luxurious, boring
― contenderizer, Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, it's the sort of thing that's never going to work for everyone!
― Soukesian, Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
so far i like velvet cacoon. going to give them the full headphone treatment later. i find i really enjoy this kind of stuff when i'm tense or stressed out, it sort of just literally and figuratively drowns out everything else. you can sink into it. (true of lots of kinds of music, obviously, but the only other thing that works as well for me in those mindstates is various kinds of free jazz or skronk.)
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
. . but it sounds like it's working for you!
As for boring, all I can say is that I've been listening Velvet Cacoon on a regular basis for a couple of years or more, without ever tiring of what they do. It is an ambient sound - it doesn't occupy the centre of your attention and tell you a story. The experience is nearer to watching the sea.
― Soukesian, Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah. that's why i think i find it relaxing. it's a little like those new-age sounds-of-nature cds -- "a summer meadow in a rainstorm" -- except for people who like LOUD things.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
omg booming thread
but yeah DARKSPACE, especially Darkspace III, that album is definitive
― welcome new ilxors (acoleuthic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
never listened to darkspace despite years of big ups from many - rectification time
― contenderizer, Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Recently loving:
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Neige et Noirceur - Philosophie des Arts Occultes
Listening at this very moment to:
Feigur - I, Pestilence
Highly recommend the top two, and enjoying the third a lot. (Though I don't know if they qualify as ambient black metal, for the purposes of this conversation. If I'm mislabeling any of these acts, I apologize.)
― Sonic Bum, Monday, 23 November 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3V7umWh374
― luol deng (am0n), Monday, 23 November 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
The best thing I've bought this year was this CD by Sorc'henn:
http://www.discogs.com/Sorchenn-Faro-Death-Of-The-Island-Sheeps/release/1516895
I don't know if this counts - I think it probably does? - but I'd love to hear about anything else that sounds like this.
― toby, Monday, 23 November 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Y'all are awesome btw. I am listening to all this ambient shitz
― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Friday, 27 November 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
O my brothers and sisters, you must behold the majesty that men call Les Legions Noire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmFsPZQuEwQ
See also Moevot and Aakon Keetreh
― Soukesian, Friday, 27 November 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Utech Records S/D
Ding ding ding
― We call them "meat hemorrhoids" (Alex in SF), Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
borarp!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
on the ambient kick, I'd appreciate feedback from anyone who cares to give this a listen:
http://www.last.fm/music/Automating/_/Transubservience
― Cosmic Ugg (S-), Saturday, 28 November 2009 07:40 (fourteen years ago) link
This Nihil records are my jam
― when you're sliding into third and you hear a gucci burrr (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 November 2009 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
And this band Culted is gross and rad too
― when you're sliding into third and you hear a gucci burrr (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 November 2009 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
My fall listening has been heavily tilted towards the dark and drony. Some of this may be more "noise" than "dark ambient," but whatever, I think it all fits the mood pretty well:
Emeralds, What Happened (No Fun)Black To Comm, Alphabet 1968 (Type)Demdike Stare, Symbiosis (Modern Love)Ethernet, 144 Pulsations of Light (Kranky)Elm, Nemcatacoa (Digitalis)Ben Frost, By the Throat (Bedroom Industries)Pixel, The Drive (Raster Noton)
and the winner of them all is probably Kevin Drumm's Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions), which comes the closest of any record I can think of to Folke Rabe's phenomenal What?? from, I believe, 1967, reissued a few years back on Drag City...
― pshrbrn, Saturday, 28 November 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
dark ages - a chronicle of the plaguedark ages - twilight of europe
same guy from drudkh, excellent stuff
also halo manash - am kha astrie
― zorn wears orange camo pants ffs (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 September 2010 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
the 3 disc thomas koner reissue that came out this year is so sick. coming from more of an industrial/techno background than much of the stuff in this thread, but it's about as dark and heavy as music gets
http://www.discogs.com/Thomas-Köner-Nunatak-Teimo-Permafrost/release/2403270
― lao gan ma (r1o natsume), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure what happened to the link there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoWe2kQuYR8
― lao gan ma (r1o natsume), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
can anyone give me a "recommended if you like halo manash"?
― hoos wears orange camo pants ffs (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe not totally what thread's about but Amber Asylum, esp the one from last year (?) on Profound Lore, has been doing it for me lately
― sweet asbo (CharlieS), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
The last WOLD album is some seriously underrated shit.
thanks for the Dark Ages recommendation, zorn, I'm a big Drudkh / Hate Forest fan but hadn't heard about this...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
lustre - a glimpse of glory
― gman59, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
man i saw amber asylum @ a fest in SF a couple months ago, and they were not so good
― hoos wears orange camo pants ffs (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
actually they were really bad. kind of a lot of vocals to be considered "dark ambient" i'd say!
― hoos wears orange camo pants ffs (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a Sydney band called Nazxul who are on this tip, I like them. Theyre kind of almost a black metal Cocteau Twins, in a sense (musically obv, not vocally, haw)
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
...mind you, Liz Fraser hollering over some Burzum would make my day.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i like nazxul, and i saw them this summer. they were great
― hoos wears orange camo pants ffs (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a Sydney band called Nazxul who are on this tip, I like them.
Black Seed is so great. Love these dudes. Well, not the new one as much.
― short-haired valium crazies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link
someone recommended bands called amethystium and gargula valzer to me on this tipturns out gargula valzer is fuckin goth rock and amethystium is the corniest of new age featuring reverb-y timbales, etcdo not want and you are not my friend anymore!
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― sarahel, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
:-)
― markers, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
it is lollably exhausting that being into this kind of music means you have to put up with stuff like this:
"Halo Manash is an entity drawing its life-force from beyond all limitations. It is a means through which we communicate, a vehicle for bridging the worlds of being and non-being, for journeying to the depths and heights. It is a call – a symbol ever-present and thus not bound by limits of time and space."
it makes me laugh.
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that was the reason for the "lol" - like i've seen/heard so many bands that describe themselves as being in these genres that are just horrible, i approach just about everything that describes itself thus with a lot of skepticism
― sarahel, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
thats like the steve roach reviews on amg
Steve Roach -- the endlessly meditative thread
― am0n, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
It's kind of amazing that several people who would be willing to say stuff like that all managed to find each other though, right? Hooray internet.
xxp
― In "Bob" There Is No East or West (WmC), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i realize that's part of it and part of the "mood" and part of what i like about it, but it's hard not to roll your eyes when someone describes their own album as a tripartite celestial crown\
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
ps listen to steve roach
― am0n, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
today, working my way through all the recommendations on this thread. seriously y'all look up dark ages (especially) and halo manash though. i'd be interested to hear what you think of them
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm glad that people are out there that can present that super-over-serious front, because it's so far from something i could ever do.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i have no problem with "super-over-serious" - when it is in reference to music that is actually complex and interesting and good
― sarahel, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
right.
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCavkcOfhxo
― am0n, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
well, i agree except for "complex"
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i also accept a bit more of this kind of thing from people with english as their second, third or fourth language who still insist on writing their descriptions in english. "maybe in finnish this sounds cooler"
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vmRCLcEYEw
― (♥_♥) (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
bookmarked
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 21 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
lol roxy sorry bout Amber Asylum talk, sometimes I'm goth and can't help it.
more on topic: the sometimes ambient Les Legion Noir stuff, YES. Some brief talk of it + youtubes here: http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=56813
feeeling Gnaw Their Tongues lately, if they count. Abruptum are alltime, of course. Nortt's "Ligfaerd" is pretty good
― CharlieS, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
did this whole thread really happen without a single LULL recommendation? best dark ambient (lol) drone-stuffs that ive heard pretty much ever. start w/ dreamt abt dreaming or cold summer
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
amber asylum are great! but i guess they can go on
2011 Rolling Doom/Stoner/Sludge/Drone/Psych/Space Metal Thread
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to some raison d'etre (the empty hollow unfolds) with my doors open and the gusts of wind from the cold front blowing through and the crows outside are really working with it.
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Monday, 26 October 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
I'm also enjoying getting angry at the guy outside with a leaf blower for messing up my enjoyment of the random industrial noises issuing forth from my speakers
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Monday, 26 October 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
I literally cannot believe no one has mentioned New Risen Throne on this thread. for shame.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link