This is a tune I made in November just before my mental health seriously deteriorated before hitting a dangerous low in January 2020, and only recently found again. 
I'm still recovering as of March 2021, and doing well! Onward!

Lyrics:
If I left
From the grey times
Winter's grip
Prairies unkind
(Grasp)
If I lift
From the grey times
From Winter's grip
From Prairies unkind

Real Cardinal - The Prairie Of Everwinter's Grasp

How Cold is the Sun presents a journey to the deepest black, a highly unsettling album from German Ann Jachec. Her nightmarish soundscapes easily seep into the psyche of the listener. Drone like bottoms, scraping highs and an atmospheric balanced resonance in the mids creates not only a very well mixed voyage, but a touching one. This is dark ambient that constantly morphs and surprises the listener, both disturbing and beautiful. 

Available in 24 bit Flac.
credits
released 09 July 2013 
Written, Produced - Ann Jachec 
Mastered by - Gulnar ( Illness ) 
Artwork - Peterius

Dark Matter - Be Yourself for Me

As the title of his book — Drink? — suggests, world-renowned professor of neuropsychopharmacology David Nutt thinks the cost/benefit analysis around consuming alcohol is an open question. He’s not anti-alcohol — he regularly drinks himself — but he also thinks most people (more than 2/3 of folks around the world have had a drink in the past year) need to understand a lot more about drinking than they typically do in order to make an informed choice as to whether, and how much, to partake.

To that end, today on the show Dr. Nutt shares the ins and outs of something he calls both a fantastic, and a horrible, drug. We discuss how people acquire a taste for something that initially registers as a toxic poison and how alcohol affects the body and mind. We then delve into alcohol’s long-term health consequences, including its link to cancer, the fact that it kills more people via stroke than by cirrhosis, the way it has a feminizing effect on men, and what it does to your sleep. We discuss what influences someone’s chances of becoming alcoholic, and signs that you’ve got a drinking problem. David also argues that drinking has some benefits, and offers suggestions on how to imbibe alcohol in a way that helps manage its risks. We end our conversation with why more people are curbing their drinking, and the synthetic alcohol David is developing that mimics the relaxing effects of alcohol, without its negative downsides.

#759: To Drink or Not to Drink

In a period of only about 100 years, Athens went from relative obscurity, to becoming an influential empire, to collapsing into ruin.

My guest today will guide us through the dramatic arc of this city-state and the larger-than-life characters that contributed to it. His name is David Stuttard, and he’s a classicist and the author of Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens, and Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens.

We begin our conversation with the rise of Athens and why its aristocratic families decided to institute a radically democratic form of government. David then walks us through how the Persian invasion catapulted Athens to power in Greece. Along the way, David explains how a father and son named Miltiades and Cimon led Athens to power. We then shift our attention to the fall of Athens and how it was precipitated by the Peloppensian War with their one-time ally, Sparta. David introduces us to the made-for-Hollywood character that would play a pivotal role in Athens’ fall — the handsome and charismatic aristocrat and serial traitor, Alcibiades. We end our conversation with the lessons we moderns can take from the rise and fall of Athens.

Resources Related to the Podcast
AoM Podcast #461: The Spartan Regime
AoM Podcast #710: The Spartans at Thermopylae
Miltiades
Battle of Marathon
Cimon
Alcibiades
Connect With David Studdard
David’s Website

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Gaze of the Moon Beast

Gaze Of The Moon Beast

https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/alpine-respire

ProtoU (Ukraine) and Hilyard (Maine, US) group up in this field recording heavy collaboration. 

Alpine Respire immerses you in field recordings from two continents. Warm drone contrasts raindrops and the call of animals in the wild. This damp album invites you to explore the unreachable corners of the Earth. From the harshest mountains to the darkest forests. 

Recommended for fans of Field Recording and slowly progressing drone.

Alpine Respire

Buy at Bandcamp

ProtoU & Hilyard - Elwha Snowfinger

Beyond the malignant jail cells and narrow asylum walls, our hidden tormentors laugh at us from a world of smoke and mirrors. Kapnobatai, the third installment from Atrium Carceri, ventures further still into the wretched world beyond the place we so resignedly inhabit, and into the sublimely unkown. Shattered yet enlightened we are thrust forcefully through the illusion of our making, to the ancient sprawling city that is the one true testament to human achievment. The visions of the Kapnobatai (those who walk in smoke) are seen, heard and felt in this genderbending and exquisitely detailed black ambient album from philosopher/visionaire/composer/artist Simon Heath. 

This is a place of ancient machines, rusty walls and whispered sighs. With lavish attention to detail this profound composition of the mind wrests the listener away from the mundane, perchance never to return. 

Comes with an 8 page booklet 

Atrium Carceri - Impaled Butterfly

Davidian is Council of Nine's second album focusing on the dark side of mass followings and cults, the first being Exit Earth.

"On the outskirts of texas a worn down man sick to death of the lies and deceit of this world stumbled into a ground breaking discovery. This man who was suddenly gifted with an ancient knowledge and armed with a direct link to god, convinced his followers to lead a simple path, a path of goodness, a path of true faith regardless of the judgement of man, because they knew that no man could judge a single one of them, the only judgement would come long after we shed our mortal coil.

As long as his followers remained true and faithful to the information being given to them. This information was indeed coming from god and this god was not a kind one, he told us that those who wish to destroy evrything we have built would soon come for us, that they would take us all in a battle of heaven and hell. Riding in on their chariots armed with the lies and hatred of man, our father told us to take the sword And 1000 swords we took"

Davidian

Bandcamp

Dahlia's Tear is back with his second album on Cryo Chamber.

This album takes you on a mysterious journey from the abyss to the portal of the stars. Come drown in ancient knowledge and technology at the end of humanity's beginning.

"In 1901 AD an extraordinary mechanism was recovered by divers at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera. It astonished the whole international community of experts on the ancient world. Was it an astrolabe? Was it an orrery or an astronomical clock that calculated the position of the moon and planets, times of eclipses and the cycles of the Solar System? Or something else entirely?"


Recommended for fans of deep underwater soundscapes and lush dark ambient.

Across the Shifting Abyss

Beneath the Depths

Evolution Devastator Deathmatch Demo - It's Time For War

Alphaxone, ProtoU and Onasander join forces on Shadows of Forgotten Legends. Ancient behemoths lurk in black waters on this sub-ambient album.

According to Nordic legends, the Kraken was a mythological creature that was terrorizing sailors from Greenland to Norway. By emerging from deep sea, the giant beast was shattering vessels with huge tentacles and devouring entire crews.

"Shadows of forgotten legends" draws a new sonic path to invoke this ancient Scourge of the Seas, awakening it from deep sleep.

"Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson"

Layered drone and aquatic textures combine for a deep journey into the depths.

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The Art of Manliness

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