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“Valley of Knives” is the name of both this EP and the first track. As it begins, a few drum hits play in repetition, which leads to manic female vocal samples with reverb and delay on them accompanied by an instrument being played backwards…
Tag: dark ambient
Enearth – Daze
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Enearth’s Daze begins with “Intro: Time Zero”, which starts with quickly delayed beats which have a secondary delay effect on them for rhythmic effect. Over this, murky synth pads start accompanied by a repeating minor-key synth string an…
Ceylan – Le long murmure des siècles
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The first track of this EP, “L'existence est un songe”, starts out with a noisy drone that has a low-pass filter that progressively opens up more of the sound-spectrum as time goes on.
The next track, “Le jeu des faux-semblant” begin…
Cult Of White Noise – Utopia Deferred
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A loud, low, distorted synth starts out Utopia Deferred in “Chthonic Attack”, which is soon accompanied by low rumblings. Then a subtle flanger is put on the synthesizer. A tone comes in and plays a drone accompanied by the synth, and is so…
Lavatone – The Blue Boar
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The album starts with "Monolith", which begins with a very distorted bass note that thunders in with a low two note choir melody, and this is repeated four times until a metallic sounding drone comes in over the top. After four more repetitions…
Ars Sonor and The Implicit Order – The Prison of Souls
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The Prison of Souls starts its first track "Level 01 - Inception" with a sad sounding ambience that comes fading in, accompanied by what sound like things that could have been voices at one time at the edge of the mix. Then, an instrument vague…