SCALD’s latest release Asphyxia earns every descriptor thrown at it: darkly beautiful, elegant, hyper-explosive—punctuated by sudden, punishing noise blasts that feel less like ornament and more like structural necessity.
Tag: Dark Ambient
Yulyseus :: Nothing Under Heaven (n5MD)
The nostalgia embedded within Nothing Under Heaven is particularly striking. It is not tied to any singular past, nor does it lean on sentimentality. Instead, it manifests as a kind of emotional afterimage. A sense of having felt something deeply without being able to fully recall its shape. This gives the music a haunting familiarity, as though it is reflecting something the listener already carries but has not yet named.
Weldroid :: The Peripheral (2026) (Self Released) — [concise]
Inspired by William Gibson’s 2014 novel The Periphery, Weldroid (aka Tamas Zsiros) settles into shadowed corridors of industrial IDM on The Peripheral (2026), where soundtrack fragments hum with minimal light, yet rhythms grind, shift, scrape, and collide.
A-Sun Amissa & Lauren Mason :: Water Scores (Gizeh)
Once voiced by Mason, water becomes both storyteller and observer—flowing through calm, chaos, evaporation, and return. Around this, A-Sun Amissa builds a rich soundscape using drone, classical instruments, processed guitars, synthesizers, and subtle samples.
Andrew Anderson :: Thresholds (Elevator Bath)
Thresholds is an album that stays with you. It subtly alters the way you listen. It opens a door into a liminal space where sound becomes memory, and memory becomes atmosphere. In doing so, Andrew Anderson has created a work that is both deeply personal and universally evocative, a rare and rewarding listening experience.
BlackHazr :: BlackHazr (Mahorka)
This new project follows a stylistic inclination inspired by primordial resonances and natural manifestations from peripheral zones deserted by humanity.
V/A :: Tomoroh Morning – A Tribute to Tomoroh Hidari (bruitversum)
Taken together, Tomoroh Morning – A Tribute to Tomoroh Hidari stands as a vivid document—one that reflects each contributor’s voice while honoring an artist who cultivated wide connections yet kept creative paths distinct. As noted in accompanying liner notes: “There will always be a tomorrow morning.”
Up to 23 :: An Apple A Day You Die Anyway (13/Silentes)
Released by 13/Silentes in a double limited vinyl edition, An Apple a Day You Die Anyway confirms the quality of a catalog that continues to intercept the most sensitive areas of Italian ambient and electronic research. And it confirms that Up To 23, now a trio, possesses a recognizable voice, capable of holding together vision and rigor, emotion and structure, darkness and momentum.
Brotherhood of Sleep :: Enter the Nuummite Cosmos (Zazen Sounds)
If you are seeking background music to accompany a descent into a post-apocalyptic, neo-mythological literary universe—something akin to the worlds of Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, or Abraham Merritt—Enter the Nuummite Cosmos is particularly well suited.
Xurba :: Zelun Somniates (Electric Studios)
Drifting deeper into ambient sound fields, UK-based Will Brazier-Smith, recording as Xurba, traces hauntological contours across Zelun Somniates, a sequence of ten pieces shaped from slow-moving undercurrents
2View — 400 Lonely Things :: Creature Comforts / Why I Went To The Woods (Cold Spring)
Across Creature Comforts and Why I Went To The Woods, 400 Lonely Things turns grief, memory, and quiet hope into two deeply human soundworlds that linger long after the final note fades.

















