Museum of Macabre Media — Music — Monsters, Madness and Magic

Keosz Delivers the Brilliant Soundtrack for Neven

[Keosz] soundtrack work in Neven is nothing short of inspired genius, and his style of subtle drones and intermittent piano motif as a focal point works immaculately with the movie…

Ruptured World Ends a Galactic Quest with Xenoplanetary

Ruptured World delivers a thoughtful and imaginative ambient adventure, similar in some regards to other offerings on the Cryo Chamber label, yet wholly unique and stylized that make Alistair Rennie one of the best visionaries of the genre.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldJanuary 14, 2023Ruprtured World, Xenoplanetary, review, cryo chamber, Cryo Chamber, monsters, madness, magicComment

Explore the Grandeur of the Terrible God Tsathoggua

The Lovecraft compilations have become… a showcase of individual talent from the various artists associated with the label, while also being exemplary pieces of collaboration, weaving the delicate nuance of each musical vision into one longform narrative.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldJanuary 2, 2023Tsathoggua, Cryo Chamber, cryo chamber, dark ambient, ambient, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Make Contact with the Dark Source of the North

…a collaboration between Dronny Darko and Ugasanie. Dronny Darko’s genius sound design is coupled with the ice cold proclivities of Ugasanie to deliver a frozen narrative of Lovecraftian and existential sci-fi adventure.

The Dark Mountain Looms over the Horizon in the New Album from Planet Supreme

…his use of analog synths coupled with his style of presentation help this album create a serene fresco of slow-moving ambience, painting vistas of stars and nebulae, of silent planets in distant star systems, orbiting in celestial solitude. Musically, this album has a very cinematic feel, but more as a background piece, reminiscent of a late 1970s to early 1980s sci-fi film.

Skrika Continues the Post-Earth Epic of Humanity in Soludenia

…six tracks of perfect narrative sound design and soundscapes - ultimately this album accomplishes exactly what was intended: a sci-fi epic that can only be realized through the imaginations of the listener and Soludenia has excelled in that.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldNovember 14, 2022Cryo Chamber, cryo chamber, Skrika, monsters, madness, magic, ambient, reviewComment

A DarkThrone Upon an Astral Fortress

All it really takes is firing up your music-playing program of choice to realize that DarkThrone have been on an absolute tear over the past few years. Old Star released in 2019, and it was only last year that I was reviewing Eternal Hails, which is why I was pleasantly surprised when I was given the opportunity to review their latest effort, Astral Fortress.

Noir Ambient Mastery from Dead Melodies

A true master of the atmospheric craft, Tom Moore has crafted subdued drones and pads, muted percussions and soft strings, muffled basses and field recordings… A perfect convergence of imaginative storytelling and purposeful atmospheric sound design, this is the soundtrack to a modern noir/thriller film in the listener’s imagination, and I cannot recommend this album enough.

Museum of Macabre MediaDaniel EdenfieldNovember 7, 2022Dead Melodies, dead melodies, review, dark ambiient, noir ambientComment

Witness the Genesis of Randal Collier-Ford with Thaumaturgy

Randal Collier-Ford is back with a collection of remastered ambience celebrating ten years in the cinematic soundscapes. These assembled tracks have been curated by the composer himself and presented in full ephemeral radiance, showcasing Ford’s artistry and the evolution of his style and thought processes.

Fractalyst Shows the Way to the Watchtower in his Cryo Chamber Debut

“The sounds and canvas used in this album are unique, and almost “feverish” would be a term I would use to describe them, the tremulous miasma of an almost fever dream state, with dynamic use of sounds and techniques, and the distinct nature of this palette of sounds make Watchtower stand out among its peers…”

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldOctober 10, 2022Fractalyst, Cryo Chamber, cryo chamber, dark ambient, reviewComment

Take a Journey of Soul Searching with God Body Disconnect

As Spiral of Grief opens, we are greeted by our narrator friend, the same way as the albums previous, and we then we are carried away by the sounds of the standard God Body Disconnect “wall of ambience” of which composer Bruce Moallem is known.

Music, Museum of Macabre MediaDaniel EdenfieldSeptember 22, 2022cryo chamber, Cryo Chamber, God Body Disconnect, review, ambient, dark ambient, monsters, madnessComment

Traverse the Void with Alphaxone

Longtime Cryo Chamber contributor and artist Alphaxone returns with The Infinite Void, a layered, languorous trip through the depths of space.

Gdanian Delivers Sci-Fi Brilliance with "Induction"

Induction is a tempered, well-crafted concept of mood and ephemera coalesced into an aural soundscape.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldAugust 25, 2022Gdanian, gdanian, cryo chamber, Cryo Chamber, ambient review, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Mount Shrine Guides the Way Home (Rest in Peace, Cesare Alexandre)

All Roads Lead Home is the final testament of Cesare, a final embrace of his stylized warmth that is seemingly inimitable… Soft textures of laconic drones caress your mind, with dreamy synth and pluck atmospheres interspersing among the drone patterns.

Sisyphean Introspections Converge in the New Apocryphos Album

…a multi-hued crawl of ambient textures, with constant beds of drones, meanwhile resonant pads of guitar pedal slowly ebb and meander in and among the cascading waves of the soundscapes.

Museum of Macabre MediaDaniel EdenfieldAugust 1, 2022Apocryphos, Phantoms Received, Cryo Chamber, review, Monsters, madness, magic, ambientComment

Journey to the Withering Rain with Dronny Darko and G M Slater

Industrial pulses that blend into an organic bed texture… with its kinetic analog pounding gives a martial feel to the ethereal pads, and each subsequent track helps to construct this environment in the listener’s mind; this subterranean refuge of machinery constantly thrumming in the background of these caverns and grottoes of the sanctuary.

Visit the Underground Labyrinth with Crypthios

Usually… we, the listeners, are treated to sinister drones and barely audible stabs and percussions… Crypthios refreshingly changes this paradigm with Vestigium, and rather than bestowing us with tenebrous wind and descanted, reverbed field recordings, we are treated with gentle, meandering pads and more introspective, organic notes.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldJune 8, 2022Crypthios, ambient, Cryo Chamber, dark ambient, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Take a Nostalgia Trip back to Cyrodiil with Culak

This is a chiptune dungeon synth romp which propels you through the environment, while the underlying layers of strings and synths keep you well-grounded in the dungeon synth atmosphere. The tracks consist of melodies and sounds that merge between aggressive and mysterious, to lighter-hearted fare of gentle and passive tones.

Museum of Macabre MediaDaniel EdenfieldJune 8, 2022Culak, Oblivion, dark ambient, dungeon synth, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Explore the Ruins of Extinction with Void Stasis

The industrial elements are nearly ever-present within the confines of the music, which is to be expected considering the persons involved, but the rhythms are subdued and carefully guided, never allowing the atmosphere to be broken. In all, this is an excellent, atmospheric sci-fi journey

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldMay 25, 2022Void Stasis, Cryo Chamber, ambient, dark ambient, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Delve into Ancient Sumerian Tombs and Myth with Cryo Chamber

Six demigods of old are represented in this collection, with some familiar names, and some unknown, but the names of the composers on this album should not be unfamiliar, and for those who may be new to the dark ambient scene, or who have not heard the artists involved in this collection, this is definitely an excellent starting point.