r/DarkAmbient • u/Upbeat-Age-8193 • 3h ago
r/DarkAmbient • u/hudson4351 • Nov 04 '24
Suggestions for album of the month? (read description first)
We've been running the "album of the month" thread for a few years now and I'd like to collect some suggestions for future albums to feature. I see these threads as a way for newcomers to the genre to quickly sample a variety of artists.
Generally speaking we've been using the following criteria to select albums:
At least a few years old (but older is better; are there any really good older albums that don't get mentioned much on here)?
Primarily dark ambient, i.e. avoid albums that have high elements of rhythm and/or harsh noise.
Notable in some way (this is obviously very subjective, but including comments with your submission explaining why you recommend the album are helpful, as they can be included when the album is featured as the "album of the month").
Having said that, please review the list of past "albums of the month" below and only include your submission if it hasn't already been featured.
Yen Pox - New Dark Age
Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Stalker
Gustaf Hildebrand - Starscape
Atrium Carceri - Kapnobatai
Sleep Research Facility - Nostromo
False Mirror - Derelict World
Invercauld - Tiamhaidh
Desiderii Marginis - Hypnosis
Northaunt - Horizons
Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze
Kammarheit - The Starwheel
Svartsinn - Mørkets Variabler
Raison D'être - Enthralled By The Wind Of Loneliness
Metatron Omega - Illuminatio
Psychomanteum - Oneironaut
Cities Last Broadcast - The Cancelled Earth
Kolhoosi 13 - Monuments of Power
Lustmord - Carbon/Core
Mulm - The End of Greatness
Kammarheit - Asleep and Well Hidden
Northaunt - Istid I-II
Dahlia's Tear - Across the Shifting Abyss
Cities Last Broadcast - The Umbra Report
Tertium Organum - Alud
Troum and Yen Pox - Mnemonic Induction
Lustmord - The Word as Power
Sleep Research Facility - Stealth
ProtoU and Hilyard - Alpine Respire
Apocryphos - Stone Speak
Mount Shrine - Winter Restlessness
Ugasanie - Border of Worlds
Sphäre Sechs - Particle Void
Northumbria - Markland
Kammarheit - Kollektionen
Dronny Darko and ProtoU - Metta
Metatron Omega - Sanctum
Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri - Onyx
Yen Pox - Between the Horizon and the Abyss
Atrium Carceri and Cities Last Broadcast - Black Corner Den
Mount Shrine - Ghosts on Broken Pavement
Albums of the month since this thread was created:
Waveform Transmission - V 1.0-1.9
MNZKRT - MNZKRT
Hoedh - Hymnvs
R|A|A|N - The Nacrasti
Raison D'être - The Empty Hollow Unfolds
Llyn Y Cwn - Du Y Moroedd
Hilyard - Division Cycle
Lustmord - The Dark Places of the Earth
Desiderii Marginis - Songs Over Ruins
Kave - Ominousium
Atrium Carceri - Seishinbyouin
Northaunt and Svartsinn - The Borrowed World
Thomas Köner - Permafrost
Beyond Sensory Experience - No Lights In Our Eyes
Northumbria - Isolering
Lull - Moments
The Caretaker - Take Care, It's a Desert Out There...
Sonologyst - Shortwave Spectrum
Torus Dome - Distant Past Spirituality
Monasterium Imperi - The Lost World
r/DarkAmbient • u/hudson4351 • 20d ago
Album of the Month r/DarkAmbient's album of the month October 2026: Atrium Carceri and Cities Last Broadcast - Black Stage of Night
Greetings thinkers, contemplators, and meditators,
Welcome to October's album of the month listening thread. For this month we chose Atrium Carceri and Cities Last Broadcast's Black Stage of Night.
Listen to it and share your thoughts and experiences. What do you think about when listening? If you have heard it before, when was that and how did you discover this album? Do you find the album artwork evocative?
Artist: Atrium Carceri and Cities Last Broadcast
Album: Black Stage of Night
Year: 2019
r/DarkAmbient • u/Embarrassed_Sky_1732 • 4h ago
An Endless Curse by Cum Gutter
r/DarkAmbient • u/hudson4351 • 1d ago
raison d'être - Requiem for Abandoned Souls
r/DarkAmbient • u/themightyfoxtwo • 14h ago
Fires of Industry
That's the name of an obscure music project. They released a CD titled Journey to Desolation. I lost the CD during a move about ten years ago but I had ripped my collection to drive before then.
Track list:
- Mine
- Dark Drone
- Distant Call
- Endless Winter
- Beneath the Earth
- Isolation
- Forces of Time
- Lands
- The Age or Iron
- Far From Home
- 1947
I wish I had copied the album art. Anyway, I don't remember if I got the CD as a label sample or freebie or if I found it in a bargain bin. Unfortunately, metadata and ID3 were dead ends. The EAC log is long gone. Picard came up empty too. The Discogs entry is mine so no need to reference that.
Do any of you have this album or at least know of it? Or did I somehow pull this from an alternate dimension?
r/DarkAmbient • u/Treeoanmusic • 20h ago
sound of sedation (found VHS music video) - Tree of Alchemical Notability: from a concept album combining cosmic horror cosmology depicted in short stories with accompanying music and edited vhs footage.
"The essence of the human soul lives within waves. Like an obsidian tide crashing on the shores of the mind in the galactic black shroud of dusk; these waves permeate ashen sands. They dance between ever-changing frequencies, flowing in and around us like a stream of life. Ever-free, the soul breathes around the body, free from its confines, capable of vanishing like a ship in the night under cover of the crashing waves to once again join in the endless sea.
The body dissolves and the soul becomes as music; becoming part of the life stream itself. Boundary-free, the soul travels where it detects the waters of life; a voice, vibrations, the very breath issuing the final dirge to send the body off forever. The soul persists, ethereal nomad, becoming life itself and no longer the catalytic instrument that once expressed it."
r/DarkAmbient • u/Complex-Savings-1930 • 1d ago
Consummatum Est, by Ioannis Kleftogiannis
r/DarkAmbient • u/gloommachine • 1d ago
The Sounds of Dread
My latest space/dark ambient release.
On bandcamp. Only two of the albums 3 tracks are up on bandcamp, as track no. 2 is 40min long and bandcamp won’t let me upload large files unless I upgrade.
The full release with be up on music streaming services in a couple of days.
I may put the 40min track up on youtube.
Thank you for listening
r/DarkAmbient • u/Inevitable_Bad8303 • 1d ago
Old Germanen Zither for cinematic and ambient stuff
r/DarkAmbient • u/WranglerNew982 • 1d ago
Kewin World - ALONE (Cinematic Space / Dark Ambient)
Hey everyone! Here is my original cinematic space track "ALONE" — produced in FL Studio with heavy dark ambient and sci-fi score influences. Hope you enjoy the atmosphere!
YouTube link: ALONE – Epic Interstellar Space Music (Cinematic Theme) - YouTube
r/DarkAmbient • u/Willing-Original-853 • 1d ago
Dark ambient for planning your next move
r/DarkAmbient • u/zeelemy • 1d ago
The Empty House (Dark Cinematic Music for Halloween)
r/DarkAmbient • u/Rostone_Hermann • 1d ago
The megastructure - Hohenheim
this is inspired by the manga Blame! this universe feat really well with dark ambient in general, it's a very contemplative style of manga. I thought this music could be seen as dark ambient as well.
r/DarkAmbient • u/Flimsy_Adeptness_617 • 1d ago
Listening to the "Virgin Suicides" OST by AIR be like (without having seen the film-)
gotta get some traction somehow
r/DarkAmbient • u/mntngoat9997 • 2d ago
Inky's Sleep OST | Bandcamp Download Codes (Ambient/Soundtrack/Horror)
galleryr/DarkAmbient • u/hudson4351 • 2d ago
Aetherium Nebula - Ephemeral Port [FULL ALBUM]
r/DarkAmbient • u/Adorable-Damage4876 • 3d ago
Dark Spirit of the Tower - An Entrance Beyond the Crypt Gate (Dungeon Synth / Dark Ambient)
Hail traveler,
I just released my debut 4-track dungeon synth / dark ambient EP, An Entrance Beyond the Crypt Gate.
The project was composed as an immersive, atmospheric journey through ancient stone corridors, forgotten crypts, and dark entity rituals. It’s set to Name Your Price ($0+) on Bandcamp if you’d like to grab the high-resolution audio files.
Tracklist:
- An Entrance Beyond the Crypt Gate
- Watching the Ancient Cemetery from the Stone Windows
- Dust of the Ancient Spire
- Midnight Ritual of the Dark Entity
I would love to hear your thoughts on the atmosphere and mix. Thank you for taking the time to listen!
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https://darkspiritofthetower.bandcamp.com/album/an-entrance-beyond-the-crypt-gate
r/DarkAmbient • u/furiousmother • 3d ago
Abrasive ambient/drone performance
I don’t normally work with drone but have been loving the textures and timbres of the Soma Lyra-8 so I put this track together. Thoughts and feedback are more than welcome 🙏
r/DarkAmbient • u/humanhoodrec • 3d ago
BAD RASTER, by MATER OBSURA
r/DarkAmbient • u/_Draugadrottinn_ • 4d ago
raison d’être-Descending Into Abyss Approaching Inferno
Upcoming triple disc live albums!
r/DarkAmbient • u/Evangelion-BR • 4d ago
Adrian Carpenter - Silent Hill 1 - Homage music
Hello again everyone :)
So, funny story, i had wanted to originally make something for the movie The Thing or Alien/Alien isolation, but after making the music, I felt like the music was...not bad, but did not fit the vibe when I tried to match the music to either the images or footage.
In any case, after thinking some more, I thought of Silent Hill 1, and, well, I think it fit much better.
Recorded live in one take, using both the ASM Hydrasynth deluxe to provide the moving bassline (an inspiration from The Thing's main theme) and opening high notes, as well as the Prophet Rev 2, using both the filter cutoff, resonance, and audio mod among other things to alter the pitch in real time while playing. I had more of a difficult trying time to match something interesting visually to the music.
Anyways, thank you to anyone who decides to listen :)
r/DarkAmbient • u/humanhoodrec • 4d ago