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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

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

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

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