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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.

[ALBUM REVIEW]: The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain

If an album’s title can be interpreted as a statement of artistic intent, then the confidence Watain have in this one is completely undeniable. The band themselves are setting this album up to be compared to the already ridiculously high watermark set by the trinity of Casus Luciferi, Sworn to the Dark and Lawless Darkness. I’m here to tell you that said confidence wasn’t even remotely unwarranted.

Metatron Omega Initiates the Aeon of Armageddon

The easel of Metatron Omega is the canvas of eternity, and each song is a gentle wave of sound that caresses the consciousness further along the ebb of Time.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldApril 18, 2022Metatron Omega, ambient, cryo chamber, dark ambient, dark wave, monsters, madness, magi, reviewComment

The Sun Sets on Our War Torn Planet in Sundown, by Beyond the Ghost

Composer Pierre LaPlace has delivered a bleak, immersive world not only of despair and violence, but also the intrepid and indomitable human spirit… Opening with speculative vocals pads, and tremulous string drones that foretell the audio diorama unfolding before your eyes, the movie of your mind begins to coalesce into establishing camera shots of vistas of warfare below, the crumbling ruins of near-future Rome below your field of view, embroiled in war.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldApril 6, 2022Beyond the Ghost, cryo chamber, dark ambient, Cryo Chamber, reviewComment

Take a Trip into a Dream with Dead Melodies

This newest album takes us on a sojourn into the fantastical realm of dreams; into worlds and folds reality touched by faint memory, yet shaped by the subconscious, much the same way the music of Dead Melodies is presented.

Activate the Prime Memory with ProtoU

ProtoU’s layered sound design approach carries us along the currents of subconscious languor, with narrative hints of computer-aided artificial enhancement, maybe even consciousness storage, but just as the doldrum science fiction precis implies, the hypnotic droning from ProtoU lulls us into a quiet sense of submission, and we merely waft with the eddies of the textured pads.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldFebruary 28, 2022ProtoU, Dark Ambient, Cryo Chamber, album review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Immolation Brings Forth Fire and Brimstone in ACTS OF GOD

After five years the ring of salt around Yonkers, New York has been broken and the flames of hell are seeping back into a changed world. 2017 was the last time death metal four-piece Immolation cast their blistering curse on mortal ears.

Vloggers Check In But They Don't Check Out in SUPERHOST: A Review and Interview with Star Osric Chau

Halloween is long over, and the new year has just begun, but sometimes our greatest fears found are in the little things we take for granted. We spoke with Osric Chau, star of the newly released Superhost, about making a film that combines the conventions of horror with a fresh scenario that speaks to the digital culture and physical isolation of the 2020s.

Movies and Televsion, Museum of Macabre MediaMina CarterFebruary 2, 2022thriller, horror review, Osric Chau, osric Chau, interview, Superhost, ShudderComment

Dare to Step onto the Mothership with Tinediae

The listener will be guided through the cascades of imaginative synthscapes at a seemingly capricious gait, but Storonskyi is always in control… the exuberance of Klaus Schulze, but tampered with precision to the purpose of the atmosphere.

Museum of Macabre Media, MusicDaniel EdenfieldJanuary 30, 2022Tineidae, Mothership, cryochamber, Cryo Chamber, dark ambient, ambient, review, monsters, madness, mComment

An Invitation to an Exquisite Meal: A Review and Interview with Director Robert Bruce Carter

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Dec 7, 2021 — A sharply satirical genre-bending journey through one absurdly terrifying dinner party in modern America, AN EXQUISITE MEAL is a darkly playful Buñuelian nightmare that’s full of punchlines and twists.

DarkThrone Displays An Ancient Sound with Eternal Extravaganse

Everyone’s favorite Norwegian politician/postal service employee, Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, and his ever-silent, ever-watchful supplier of friendship and dark money, Ted “Nocturno Culto” Skjellum, have managed to find time out of their busy schedules of campaigning, letter sorting and fundraising to grace our ears with another album from their little-known side project, DarkThrone.

Screentone Nightmares: God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand

God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand, translated from the Japanese Kami no Hidari-te Akuma no Migi-te, is an anthology of five interconnected stories all centered around Sou Yamanobe, a young school boy plagued by nightmares. And what nightmares they are.

Museum of Macabre Media, ComicsGuest UserJune 26, 2021God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand, Kazuo Umezu, manga, horror, review, monsters, madness, magicComment

Anthology Archaeology: Deadtime Stories

Anthology Archeology is a new series here at M3 where I, your humble horror host, will guide you, the reader, through a smorgasbord of my personal favorite schlock. Not just any common cheese, mind you. I prefer a specific species - the short and sinister variety. The sort that slithered and seeped their way on to the bottom rack of the local video store and traversed their way into tape players by way of badass box-art and some eerie elbow grease

Screentone Nightmares: PTSD Radio

Welcome back to Screentone Nightmares. Halloween is two days away and at this point I should be around 50 movies deep in my annual horror marathon. However, let’s carve out a bit of time for the printed page and take a look at another piece of Japanese terror.