The sound structures of this cd are inspired by “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”. On their debut album Contemplatron offers us a deep ambient sound which is far from shallow.

Flesh:On:Steel is a French project creating ambient music, released by the new label Archetyp. Their music resides somewhere between dark-ambient and death-industrial.

:Golgotha: first came to my attention with the ambient cd-r “Waste Land’. On this Icarus e.p. the German project shows to be interested in a wider musical spectrum with some neofolk songs.

This release is a must have for fans of dark ambient in general and of Predominance and the Loki label in particular. The digipack of “Dark stars unfolding” contains two discs: one with rare material like outtakes and compilation tracks, the other with live material from two German festivals in 2000 and 2001.

The third and final part of the trilogy “The walls are whispering…” has recently been released by the Belgian label EE Tapes. This compilation series is devoted to ambient, drones and other experimental sounds.

Drone Records keeps on producing limited singles with interesting drone / dark ambient sounds. One of their latest protagonists is the obscure German one-man project Tho-so-aa, which has assembled two soundscapes that are rightfully described as “just dark…”.

‘Transmit’ is a collaboration project between Werner Hasler and Sunao Inami. Making this collaboration rather interesting is the fact that the two live in different continents- one in Bern, Switzerland, the other in Kobe, Japan.

Atrium Carceri already impressed me with some intense and very dark ambient music. Therefore this new album was a release I was looking forward to.