This album is my favorite out of the collaborations. Has some really creepy bass and is generally dark and filled with nightmares throughout. Loving it. 

amazing piece as always, this ones special though

Very beautiful. Although it gives out a creepy vibe, it's relaxing and fun to imagine what is probably going on when music like this plays. 

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age". / H.P. Lovecraft 

Arguably the largest Dark Ambient project to date, the Cthulhu album is a collaboration between 12 artists who all worked together to pay tribute not only to Lovecraft, but to what lurks beyond our colorful illusion. 

Running time: 79:42 

(we still have not recieved our Cthulhu CDs yet, they are not sold out just not in stock. We are awaiting them any day now!)
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released 30 September 2014 

All sounds created by: 
Alt3r3d Stat3 
Alphaxone 
Aseptic Void 
Atrium Carceri 
Cryobiosis 
halgrath 
Neizvestija 
Ugasanie 
Mystified 
Asbaar 
Dark Matter 
Sjellos 
Sabled Sun 

Mastering - Simon Heath 
Artwork - Simon Heath & Nicolas Crombez

Full Album

Cthulhu - A Cryo Chamber Collaboration

3 veteran producers in the genre, Apocryphos, Kammarheit & Atrium Carceri, collaborate on this behemoth of an album. Each utilizing each others strengths to bring forth a dark and emotional ride through distant memories. 

Onyx is a soundscape journey related to the reflection of dispirited memories and obscure sorrows felt by mankind. With the multitude of techniques used by each artist, it also reflects the rich history of the dark ambient genre and how it has progressed through the decades. 

The signature analogue darkness of gargantuan caves of Kammarheit is combined with the sacral and emotional layering of Apocryphos and the rhytmical bass throbbing and isolated pianos of Atrium Carceri. 

This album was created by cross linking 3 studios in Oregon (US), Pennsylvania (US) and Umeå(Sweden). It took over 3800 lines of studio notes to finalize the album. 

Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri - Immemorial

In 2014 Cryo Chamber got some of the most prominent dark ambient artists together to synchronize their studios during a year of collaboration creating the album Cthulhu in tribute to H.P. Lovecraft. With Azathoth Cryo Chamber double the effort with a 2 CD release follow up. No less than 20 artists has been working for the last year to synchronize and co-create Azathoth. Azathoth is a collaboration NOT a compilation. 

Azathoth is an Outer God in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors. 

Azathoth's precise appearance is only hinted at throughout the Mythos, and indeed may be unknowable by mortal beings. It is described as occupying a position outside of the universe, where it is attended by a cohort of alien servants

Produced, Written, Collaborated by: 
ATRIUM CARCERI 
KAMMARHEIT 
FOUNDATION HOPE 
TAPHEPHOBIA 
ALPHAXONE 
ALT3R3D STAT3 
APOCRYPHOS 
ASEPTIC VOID 
CRYOBIOSIS 
DARK MATTER 
DARKRAD 
DRONNY DARKO 
HALGRATH 
MYSTIFIED 
WORDCLOCK 
SABLED SUN 
NEIZVESTIJA 
RANDAL COLLIER-FORD 
SJELLOS 
SVARTSINN 
TERRADAEMON 
UGASANIE 


Cryo Chamber Collaboration - Azathoth 1

Pedro Pimentel returns to Cryo Chamber with his second album on the label, Self Destruction Themes. This time with help from Amund Ulvestads beautiful cello performances, Simon Heaths textural piano work and Apocryphos atmospheric distortion layers. 

This is a massive album of cold but inviting atmospheres, filtered noise, acoustic layering and sweeping textural layers. The sad theme throughout the album paints images of a world depopulated and of overgrown and dilapidated cityscapes.

Wordclock - Here We'll Be Gone

A 2 hour dark soundscape album recorded by 20 ambient artists to pay tribute to H.P. Lovecraft. 

Field recordings from foggy towns to desolate mountains. Deep space drone and crackling amplifiers combine into a black sky devoid of stars. 

Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity and Outer God of the Cthulhu Mythos and the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. Born of the Nameless Mist, he is the progenitor of Cthulhu, Hastur the Unspeakable and the ancestor of the Voormi. 

Yog-Sothoth is omniscient, and is locked outside the universe, meaning he knows and can see all of space-time all at once, that there is no secret hidden from Yog-Sothoth. 

So is this a compilation? 
No, this is a collaboration and huge undertaking. 20 artists linked studios and sound for over a year so that they could work with each other. This led to a deep exploration of the Mythos and Yog-Sothoth 

2 CD album comes in a Deluxe 16 page DigiBook inspired by Joseph Curwen's tomes.

Created by: 
ProtoU 
Sjellos 
Alphaxone 
Gydja 
Kristoffer Oustad 
Aegri Somnia 
Kammarheit 
Darkrad 
Atrium Carceri 
Randal Collier-Ford 
Neizvestija 
Council of Nine 
Dronny Darko 
Flowers for Bodysnatchers 
God Body Disconnect 
Keosz 
Kolhoosi 13 
Northumbria 
Sij 
Ugasanie

Yog-Sothoth

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Yog-Sothoth 1

A 2 hour dark soundscape album recorded by 20 ambient artists to pay tribute to H.P. Lovecraft. 

Dark sounds from dreamy dimensions to never ending cursed forests. Join us in the ritual of lust for the Black Goat of the Woods. 

Shub-Niggurath is an Outer God (or Outer Goddess) in the pantheon. She is a perverse fertility deity. 

An enormous mass which extrudes black tentacles, slime-dripping mouths, and short, writhing goat legs. Small creatures are continually spat forth by the monstrosity, which are either consumed into the miasmatic form or escape to some monstrous life elsewhere. 

Of all the mythos deities, Shub-Niggurath is probably the most extensively worshipped. Her worshippers include the Hyperboreans, the Muvians, T'yog of K'naa, and the people of Sarnath, as well as any number of druidic and barbaric cults. She is also worshipped by the non-human species of the mythos, such as the "Fungi from Yuggoth" (the Mi-Go) and the Nug-Soth of Yaddith. With the proper occult paraphernalia, Shub-Niggurath can be summoned to any woodlands at the time of the new moon. 

So is this a compilation? 
No, this is a collaboration and huge undertaking. 20 artists linked studios and sound for over a year so that they could work with each other. This led to a deep exploration of the Mythos and Shub-Niggurath 

2 CD album comes in a Deluxe 16 page Hard cover DigiBook. Artwork is served on Matte Laminated pages that makes the artwork stand out. A journal with entries by the seeker of the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, as interpreted by writers Donald Persson & Alistair Rennie 

Lovecraft Discography: 
Cthulhu [2014] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/cthulhu 
Azathoth [2015] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/azathoth 
Nyarlathotep [2016] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/nyarlathotep
Yog-Sothoth [2017] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/yog-sothoth 
Shub-Niggurath [2018] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/shub-niggurath 

Lovecraft 10 CD Bundle is available here: cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/shub-niggurath  

Written, Produced, Performed 
Atrium Carceri 
God Body Disconnect 
Dronny Darko 
ProtoU 
Kolhoosi 13 
Neizvestija 
Northumbria 
Apocryphos 
Randal Collier-Ford 
Dead Melodies 
Flowers for Bodysnatchers 
Ager Sonus 
Council of Nine 
Kammarheit 
Gydja 
Creation VI 
Darkrad 
Aegri Somnia 
Ugasanie 
SiJ 
Alphaxone 
Keosz

Shub-Niggurath

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Shub-Niggurath 1

Taken from the upcoming album 'Departed'.

Departed

The Silence Of A Thousand Years

A 2 hour dark soundscape album recorded by over 20 ambient artists to pay tribute to H.P. Lovecraft.

Dark sounds from hidden courts, ancient temples and dilapidated and forgotten civilizations.

"Some name him Hastur - others Assatur, Hali or Kaiwan. The last can, to the erudite mind, whisper something of where the supernal alliances may lie. The men of Leng are purported to know more, but that is no place for wholesome minds. Better then to seek out a Shantak. It will doubtless whisper of onyx and a frigid wind, urging you ever northward and upward. Were ye to follow, ye may glean the answers ye seek. But they would do you little good, once the unrelenting drums have hold on thee. It is better, sometimes, not to know whom ye serve." - Excerpt from Digibook

So is this a compilation?
No, this is a collaboration and huge undertaking. Over 20 artists linked studios and sound for over a year so that they could work with each other. This led to a deep collaborative exploration of the Mythos and Hastur

2 CD album comes in a Deluxe 20 page Hard cover DigiBook. Artwork is served on Matte Laminated pages that makes the colors deep and preserved. Journal written by Donald Persson ( Codex, Shub-Niggurath ).

Lovecraft Discography:
Cthulhu [2014] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/cthulhu
Azathoth [2015] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/azathoth
Nyarlathotep [2016] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/nyarlathotep
Yog-Sothoth [2017] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/yog-sothoth
Shub-Niggurath [2018] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/shub-niggurath
Hastur [2019] : cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/hastur

Lovecraft 12 CD Bundle available here: cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/hastur  
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released December 17, 2019

Written, Produced, Performed collaboratively:
Atrium Carceri
Mount Shrine
Dead Melodies
Flowers for Bodysnatchers
Ruptured World
Ager Sonus
Dronny Darko
ProtoU
Neizvestija
Dahlias Tear
Northumbria
God Body Disconnect
Council of Nine
Apocryphos
Wordclock
Gydja
Kolhoosi 13
Creation VI
Darkrad
Ugasanie
Alphaxone
SiJ
Sphäre Sechs

Text - Donald Persson
Artwork & Mastering - Simon Heath

Hastur

Hastur 2

Hastur 1

Randal Collier-Ford returns to Cryo Chamber with Advent, a worldbuilding heavy dark industrial sci-fi ambient album with a massive booklet.

"A world separated from natural law, emerged among the forests of South America. Research expeditions had shown the on-site flora and fauna to be mutated from local strains and species, with most, if not all fauna showing aggressive hostility towards expedition personnel. The atmosphere showed rich pockets of methane gases, in addition to unidentified gases composed of elements not yet discovered. This, in turn, has turn the soil black, moist with an acidic agent, yet soft as flesh under the feet.

The distance revealed multiple strange structure, many illuminated by climbing fires. Between these structures, beasts of unknown shapes shift between the oddly colored nature, barking horrible noises in their dark world. Beyond the structures, however, towering shadows stalk the skyline just outside of the light. Titans of absurd shapes, bellowing thunderous calls one could only describe as not of this world.

What sort of world has appeared so suddenly, without warning or cause? These hellish shapes define all understanding of natural order. Why are they here? And what lies among these structures, wherein beating drums shake the earth?"

Advent

The Second Wound

A 2 hour dark soundscape album recorded by over 20 ambient artists to pay tribute to H.P. Lovecraft.

Dream of snake cults and ancient temples as the venom takes hold. Follow the seers in hallucinogenic slumber and transcend significance.

"Lord Yig, spare us Your torments. Spare us Your venoms and Your blights. Spare us the wrath of Your twisted children. Spare us the impregnations of Your fangs, the planting of Your seeds in the wombs of our women folk. Spare us the abominations of Your spawn, the rigours of Your tyranny in the distorted adjuncts of Your suffering.
Give us the means by which to flee the strangulations of their warping bodies, the grip of their obliterating crush on the circulations of our life stuffs. Spare us from the transmutations of the hours of killing, when the bodies prosper in the fragrance of their downfall, within the pungencies of their rots.
Slithering forth, they populate the basements of our lonely abodes in the Southern deserts—here, where the yokes of the serpents blend a milieu of Your deepest forebodings. We are the food of Your element, made to contemplate the woes of Your poisons—arrested by Your boiling froths, brought to our mouths, of Your vengeful bestowal." - Excerpt from Digibook

So is this a compilation?
No, this is a collaboration and huge undertaking. Over 20 artists linked studios and sound for over a year so that they could work with each other. This led to a deep collaborative exploration of the Mythos and Yig

2 CD album comes in a Deluxe 20 page Hard cover DigiBook. Artwork is served on Matte Laminated pages that makes the colors deep and preserved. Journal written by Alistair Rennie, art by Simon Heath. Digital booklet included with download.

Written, Produced, Performed collaboratively:
Neizvestija
ProtoU
Dronny Darko
RNGMNN
In Quantum
Dead Melodies
Atrium Carceri
Keosz
Northumbria
Beyond the Ghost
Wordclock
God Body Disconnect
Randal Collier-Ford
Hilyard
Council of Nine
Dahlia's Tear
Lesa Listvy
Creation VI
Aegri Somnia
Ager Sonus
Ruptured World
Alphaxone

Yig 1

Cryo Chamber is a 24 Bit dark ambient label run by Atrium Carceri focusing on deep high quality dark ambient with a cinematic edge.

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