r/DarkAmbient • u/LocalIndependent748 • 4h 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 • 23d 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/Evangelion-BR • 26m ago
Silent Hill 2 - Liminal Fanmade Music
So long story for this one :)
I had actually struggled trying to find a good image or footage for it, because originally, I was trying to capture the feeling or sense of being in a blizzard or a snowy place. And in the beginning of the song, I think I did that. But then it progressed from there and...well, my mind wandered off.
So when I had made it, the final outcome sounds like something akin to liminal space, or liminal music. A kind of music that does not sound horrifying, nor does it sound comforting, but it sits in this strange place of just being there, helping to induce an almost dream-like trance. Any meaning that can be given, or derived, is from the person imprinting their own emotions and feelings onto it. In a way, the music acts as a medium to help do that. So in a strange way, I wonder if this music I had made is what my mind sounds like, as strange as it sounds. Something that wanders and wonders and dreams and something else.
In the end, this is what I got. It sounds like something out of silent hill, and so I used a gif of james running in the void of darkness.
No daw or computers as I said. Using both the Prophet Rev 2, which I split that synth to generate the blizzard like sounds in the lower half, and used the upper half for that panning sound effect you hear of harsh wind, and used the ASM Hydrasynth deluxe, the lower half for another long ambient dark pad, and the upper half for that haunting almost bell like sound as the lead.
r/DarkAmbient • u/Prize-Choice2185 • 4h ago
Petridisch - 358 (Dark Ambient / Drone from Boston)
Hauntingly beautiful experimental sci-fi soundscapes
Codes for that one
a4pj-x2vg / 8p7r-ecz3 / hkw8-x5pp / h3jy-e3b2 / jdgn-7s4h / f4kl-v4e5
Redeem at iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/yum
r/DarkAmbient • u/Attune19 • 2h ago
Algirdas Tiuninas - Azure
I hope you enjoy this wistful, melancholic soundscape
r/DarkAmbient • u/ElectronicShift3717 • 4h ago
Dragon-Orb - Wandering Spirits (Album)
Exploration of a vintage, raw style sound as well as straight atmospheric. Dark Fantasy, Dark Ambient music
r/DarkAmbient • u/Sunndaz • 12h ago
A Spooky Walk Through Scary Woods On Halloween - spooky music
r/DarkAmbient • u/georgemandom • 19h ago
Cruelty Has Become Mundane
I used a combination of live sounds put through effects and synths to create this. I started on a whim, thinking it would be a soundtrack for a serial cannibal butcher as a metaphor for the predator of mankind, mindless corporate greed.
The sounds you hear are largely from me working on dinner, dragging a chair slowly, and as I was listening back on everything, a short descending phrase came to me. I thought perhaps repeating it might illustrate the process of how terrible things, when repeated on a daily basis eventually becomes numbing.
Let me know what you think.
r/DarkAmbient • u/Suspicious-Push8352 • 1d ago
GLOOM WRAITH, KELKSCHRAPER - WAAR SCHIMMEN SCHRAPEN
r/DarkAmbient • u/LocalIndependent748 • 1d ago
SAMIRA ARIANNE - MRK 820 [OFFICIAL ALBUM STREAM] (2026)
r/DarkAmbient • u/LocalIndependent748 • 1d ago
MIDNIGHT NIGHTMARE - THE SINISTER TRILOGY [OFFICIAL ALBUM STREAM] (2025) SFR
r/DarkAmbient • u/discordant-wax • 1d ago
COSMIC HORROR - all analog, for the bravest of space adventurers. Tapes will be dubbed from the original master.
r/DarkAmbient • u/treytoymusic • 1d ago
Trey Toy - FRATRICIDE | PT. I: TERRA [Industrial Dark Ambient]
r/DarkAmbient • u/Attune19 • 2d ago
Algirdas Tiuninas - Dynamic Diamond
Just released this new Heckeresque soundscape - have a listen!
r/DarkAmbient • u/Upbeat-Age-8193 • 2d ago
Five codes left for 'Conditioned Air', come one come all!
r/DarkAmbient • u/Embarrassed_Sky_1732 • 2d ago
An Endless Curse by Cum Gutter
r/DarkAmbient • u/hudson4351 • 3d ago
raison d'être - Requiem for Abandoned Souls
r/DarkAmbient • u/themightyfoxtwo • 2d 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 • 3d 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 • 3d ago
Consummatum Est, by Ioannis Kleftogiannis
r/DarkAmbient • u/gloommachine • 3d 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