I mean. That track. That track right there. The album is good overall, but my mind can't put it into words because there is this one track that absolutely eclipses it all. That suppression of emotion is intense.
My impressions of this album: Beautiful, decaying sounds slowly losing touch with reality. Voices still registering as human, but only barely, and incomprehensible. Not dead yet, but beyond point of no return.
It's a convincing debut album. Soundscapes are diverse within single tracks and throughout album, meaning there's enough going on to make each track an individual journey without undermining the integrity of the album. Industrial elements are used in moderation; they are not an earsore. Ruined World strikes a good balance between drones and more traditional musical elements. Well recommended.
A well constructed album in its own right with melancholic piano scores and percussion fitting dark ambient. But oh my gosh that Broken Waltz. That track is beyond words, pure distilled genius.
Astounding album I heartily recommend. The throbbing and pulsating rhythms and dark aeon-spanning sound textures are hypnotic, and yet there is progression in each track so that the music becomes a travel in the mind's eye. Sounds achieve a kind of "dark harmony" where they seem to connect to each other in ways that border on a specific kind of mysticism so dear to me. Easily one of my top dark ambient albums.
What a find! After listening dark ambient for so long, it's rare to stumble upon an entirely new sensation within the genre. To me this album feels like exploring a haunted psyche, with each track a different fragment of the splintered whole.
Both are solid tracks, but Rain On Your Dreams really has that _something_ in it that drew me to dark ambient in the first place. It has atmoshpere of "brooding, menacing unknown flickering at the edge of consciousness."
Excellent track.
So happy to find Artefactum's unique sound on Bandcamp. Album description actually does justice to this piece of art. Audible whispering and sporadic melodies gives a sense of drifting between dream and wake.
Contemplatron in general is a slightly different take on dark ambient, and brilliantly so. Especially The Six Realms is darkly hypnotic, trance-inducing deep dive to confront or perhaps just to behold the presence of jungian shadows.
Ritual ambient par excellence. Hits my preference for this kind of atmosphere perfectly. I certainly hope to see more Halo Manash on bandcamp, as the act appears to have quite a few albums released.
Varied and interesting album starting off with a couple sub-consciously oppressive tracks and continuing to a monotonous - or should I say lethargic - calm that starts to break down eerily until shattering into noise in the last track. Good dark ambient album, recommended.
Unique and interesting concept gets you only so far - but here, also the execution is without comparison. Album unlike any other I've listened to. I dislike unharmonious noise elements in dark ambient, but here my mind was blown how tastefully everything is paced and arranged. Phase 5 is a rare, dark treat for your psyche.
I have a strange aversion to artist names that break some particular rules of writing. So I was lucky I joined Noctivagant listening party and heard this gem. Sound profile on this album is rich and varied, dark and brooding. Definitely worthy dark ambient act.