Review: Caldon Glover – ‘Death Mycelium’ (dark ambient)

Dark ambient/drone fans prepare yourselves for a journey both sonically and emotionally subterranean as US-based artist Caldon Glover takes us through his new album, Death Mycelium. Caldon gives us five tracks within length of eight minutes, thirty seconds to fourteen minutes, thirty seconds. Now…I used the word “subterranean” before I even read the description for...

Devin Sarno – “Evocation” Album Review (ambient/electronic)

Evocation, an appropriate title for the new 7-track release by Los Angeles ambient/sound artist Devin Sarno.  We feel inclined to include the “sound artist” moniker as he steps a little to the left of what is a traditional ambient artist.  There’s a little more to Evocation than ambient sound planes driving in different directions at...

Cadlag – “+” Album Review (experimental/noise)

CADLAG is a noise/drone projectbrought together by members of PureH, Dodecahedragraph, TGWFYTD, Extreme Smoke 57 and Earslaughter.  In December of 2017, they created one of the most stunning noise/drone releases which they had recorded live in a cathedral.  You can check that out HERE: "Cadlag project. — A space born in sound and a sound...

NERATERRÆ – “Scenes From The Sublime” Album Review (dark ambient)

NERATERRÆ is one of the indisputable underground masters of curating dark ambient tapestries that command the listener's mindfulness of depth and perception.  Here Cyclic Law presents the highly anticipated 10 track follow-up to NERATERRÆ's previous release, The Substance Of Perception; each one of these new tracks being inspired by a different painting. "Scenes From the...

∆ø∆ -“Lost Souls Of The River” EP Review (dark ambient/drone)

It's not often we get an opportunity to travel the subterranean levels of Budapest, Hungary.  But today is an exception.  Today we visit ∆ø∆'s recent 4-track EP, Lost Souls Of The River.  The EP runs about 17 minutes.  I think the mark of a good dark ambient release is when the artist is clearly mindful...