Music — Monsters, Madness and Magic

Locate the Firestone in the New Dead Melodies Album, "Fabled Machines of Old"

The story alone commands your attention, and this is certainly the type of high-concept dark ambient that I crave and Dead Melodies has certainly delivered!

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldJune 17, 2021Dead Melodies, review, monsters, madness, magic, cryo chamber, Cryo ChamberComment

Cities Last Broadcast Presents The Umbra Report - Seance, Exorcism, or Depression? You Decide

“…somewhere between a David Lynch and James Wan film, this album rests upon its textured nuances, ready to enthrall its listeners.”

Sphäre Sechs Paint the Cosmos with an Improvised Ode to an Exoplanet

It is an exercise in improvisational brilliance, as well as a keen ear for texture and timbre - building a model of unfolding, cosmic development…

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldMay 18, 2021Sphare Sechs, Cryo Chamber, ambient, dark ambient, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Alphaxone and ProtoU return to the Cosmic Void with Another Collaboration

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldMay 5, 2021Alphaxone, ProtoU, Cryoc Chamber, cryochamber, dark ambient, ambient, Back to Beyond, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

God Body Disconnect Explores the Ephemeral Nexus Between Living and Death in "The Wanderer's Dream"

…God Body Disconnect chooses a placid, seemingly insouciant approach to the intricacies of that incalculable time between the final breath and the step into the next phase of existence.

SiJ and Texere Oris are Back with Reflections at the Sea On Cryo Chamber

The premise of this album is simply stated: a man, alone in a big city, yearning to see the ocean, and then a bank of fog rolls in… the use of that singular little plot hook predicating the ambience gives a powerful premonitory entrance to the soundscapes.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldApril 20, 2021Cryo Chamber, cryo, cryo chamber, ambient, dark ambient, Texere, SiJ, monsters, madness, magic, reviewComment

Ruptured World Explores Northern, Eldritch Rituals in the Newest Album

Ruptured World’s previous three albums have been of the “-planetary” series, a narrative of deep space exploration and horror, and has now decided to take a more terrestrial approach to an album theme - a collection of esoteric exploration into ritualistic sea worship, of offerings to unknowable creatures and Mysteries fantastic and macabre.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldMarch 23, 2021Ruptured World, Shore Rituals, ambient, eldtirch, monsters, madness, magic, reviewComment

NATHR is a Purposeful Dolorum of Ancient Black Metal and Dark Ambience

It is with a slow, methodical march to which this album propels - a purposeful dolorum of chilling winds and ambience carried on the back of the gargantuan doom metal beast…

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldMarch 23, 2021NATHR, black metal, signalrex, black meta, dark ambientComment

Dronny Darko and Ajna Immerse Us In A Radioactive Sound Design

This is an immersive sound escape, a soft, introspective mental caress of spatial sound design… this is simply an exploration into an environment abandoned by any human purpose, and consigned to the inexorable crawl and consummation of nature

Music, Museum of Macabre MediaDaniel EdenfieldMarch 23, 2021Dronny Dark, Ajna, Cryo Chamber, review, dark ambient, ambientComment

Mare Cognitum Returns with a Brilliant, Terrestrial Epic

The music is somber, introspective, still evocative of a “Great Beyond” from previous Mare Cognitum albums, yet there is an urgency to these compositions, a moribund tether that continues to guide the listener forward.

Hilyard Continues the Furthermore Story with "Division Cycle"

Division Cycle is a tapestry of methodical sound design and minimal movements.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldFebruary 21, 2021Hilyard, Division Cycle, Cryochamber, review, ambient, dark ambient, monsters, madness, magicComment

Ordo Cultem Serpentis Debut "Derej Najash", a Cavernous Exposition of Death Doom Inspiration

Signal Rex presents a debut album from Ordo Cultem Serpentis titled, Derej Najash, a tenebrous, slow, methodical journey through blasted plains of a dying land, into the labyrinthine caverns of ancient temples, faced with the gnawing dread of fathomless, unknown celestial gods whose existential realizations would drive one mad.

Museum of Macabre MediaDaniel EdenfieldFebruary 16, 2021DereJj Najash, Signal Rex, Ordo Cultem Serpentis, death metal, doom metal, m, meta, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Beyond the Ghost Begins a New Dystopian, Thematic Journey with "The Last Resort"

It is remarkable how certain artistic flourishes are an aural fingerprint to an artist, how certain moods, with the mere use of one particular sound, are the calling card for a particular music project. In this instance, I am referring to the new Beyond the Ghost album, The Last Resort, the latest soundscape journey from Cryo Chamber.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldJanuary 26, 2021Beyond the Ghost, Cryo Chamber, review, ambient, monsters, madness, magicComment

Sabled Sun Releases 2149, the 5th Year of Dark Futurism and Exploration from Cryo Chamber

The soundscapes that unfold before us are a delicate mixture of synths, drones, and field recording, as is Heath’s penchant for his dark ambient tales…

Music, Museum of Macabre MediaDaniel EdenfieldJanuary 13, 2021Sabled Sun, 2149, Cryo Chamber, dark ambient, ambient, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Cryo Chamber Bestows its Newest Mythos Collaboration - Yig

The conferral of this collaborative work contains elements of myriad styles, each conjoined and entwined by its contributor; breathy, organic horns, tapestries of synths and sound design, even rhythmic drums, the cadenced marching of martial industrial but of a forbidden, forgotten age.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldDecember 30, 2020Cryo Chamber, Cryo chamber, Yig, yig, lovecraft, Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, mythos, ambientComment

Flowers for Bodysnatchers' 'Infernal Beyond' is an Album of Inspired, Dread Narrative

From the first strike of the decaying pad, you will know that this is an album of inspired, dread narrative. The sliding of the strings, the lilting choirs, and thin veneer of dissonance give Infernal Beyond an ever-present impression of imposing doom.

Music, Museum of Macabre MediaDaniel EdenfieldDecember 14, 2020Cryo Chamber, Flowers for Bodysnatchers, Infernal Beyond, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Randal Collier-Ford Bestows A Story of Abomination and Dread Wonder in His Latest Album

“…a high concept of darkened science fiction and dread apocalyptic resonance - a confection containing the imprinting influences of Lovecraft, Bloch, and Derleth… this is a soundtrack of alien divinity and oblation.”

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldNovember 16, 2020Randal Collier-Ford, Cryo Chamber, Advent, dark ambient, ambient, reviewComment

A Killer Stalks the Streets of London in Crier's Bane

I would like to open this review with a candid missive, if you would indulge me: this album is brilliant. The timbre of such a tale, one exploring such a time period as Victorian London, as well as the potential for steampunk and dark fantasy inflection within my mind was immediately compelling.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldNovember 4, 2020Crier's Bane, Cryo Chamber, review, dark ambiet, Dead Melodies, Beyond the GhostComment

Ugasanie Unfolds A Delicate Miasma of Winter Ambience

It is truly the soundtrack to a relaxing Winter, of the kiss of a fire, tinged with the chill of a frozen mountain air upon a resting upon a blanket of snow.

Obey the Orchestra of the Night in 'The Sanguine Lament' by Vampyrean Tomb

To put it plainly, The Sanguine Lament’ by the Vampyrean Tomb is just what Dr. Acula ordered for the Spooky Season. Released October 2nd and recorded by the light of the moon, this ode to the bloodsucker hit shelves with 25 beautiful black cassettes, all which, unfortunately, already sold out