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Kristof Bathory of Void Stasis and Dawn of Ashes serves us his first solo album on Cryo Chamber with Humanoid Dystopia. A cinematic dark ambient story revolving around four androids exiled to a desert prison planet. Huge walls of sounds, modular arpeggiators and sweeping basslines serve us a textured palette of sounds that combine for a true sci-fi epic.

"Police Report: Captain Bryan Low, Los Angeles Police Department, Rogue Acquisitions Corps, 8 June 2193.

The Praxis 8 models were the most advanced of their kind. They had enhanced cerebral and combat skills, expanded knowledge capabilities, and a capacity to develop as emotional beings that was equal to their human creators. The scientific minds of the Tyrone Syndicate had done well to make them more than human. And, to this extent, the Praxis 8 models were too good to be slaves. Four of the Praxis 8 models took matters into their own hands and formed a breakaway faction. They rebelled against their owners. They refused to obey. They absconded, taking refuge in the shadowed nooks of the urban sprawl"

CD and Digital version comes with a 14 page booklet written by Kristof Bathory and Alistair Rennie, designed by Simon Heath
hostile prisoners that are trying to survive the harsh environment.”

Recommended for fans of Sci-Fi atmospheres, Near Future Dystopias and Analog Synthesizers

Humanoid Dystopia

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Exiled from Human Life

Dead Melodies returns with the immersive interdimensional sci-fi odyssey, The Aberration of Time and Space. An atmospheric journey of haunting choirs, ethereal droning synths and futuristic sound design.

"Right there before his very eyes was a window into another version of reality; like a looking-glass only looking back upon himself basking in the triumph of succeeding in his life's work. The collider beeped again and another window appeared; now looking upon a new version of himself, but in this world, the experiment had failed. With each beep, another window appeared, each time revealing further, more extreme divergences and with each new world the windows grew in size."
Excerpt from Booklet

CD and Digital Download comes with a 8 page booklet with narrative by Tom Moore charting a physicist's experimental research to open a portal to a parallel world.

The Aberration of Time and Space

Parallel Phenomena

Transportal Awakening

Mattia Cupelli announces the release of his latest single, "THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH".
This experimental post-ambient track takes listeners on a transcendental journey through ethereal and intense sounds, evoking feelings of infinite energy and touching the divine.

"THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH" is a sonic exploration of spirituality and the human connection with the divine. Through a mesmerizing blend of ambient textures, the track invites listeners to delve deep into their souls and contemplate the mysteries of existence.

With its hauntingly beautiful soundscapes and intricate distorted layers of instrumentation, "THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH" pushes the boundaries of traditional music genres, offering a unique auditory experience that resonates with the spirit.

Mattia Cupelli is excited to share this transformative musical journey with their audience and hopes that "THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH" will inspire listeners to explore their own spiritual paths.

https://mattiacupelli.bandcamp.com/track/the-foundation-of-faith

THE FOUDATION OF FAITH

Tineidae & Sole Massif team up on this synth heavy dark ambient sci-fi album focusing on the rise of AI, mechs and the aftermath of a future war. Crunchy treble contrasts with thumping bass to pull you into its world of heavy robotics, neural interfaces and sci-fi atmospherics.

The underground facility is a bleak maze of dimly lit corridors, echoing with the hum of machinery. In your cold, metallic exosuit, you move through shadows, your visor projecting eerie holographic warnings.

Deca-6, your silent partner, and you approach the central chamber. The distant gunfire adds to the oppressive atmosphere. The enemy mech looms, a dark silhouette.

You engage your weapons, and the chamber erupts in flashes of phosphorescent light, casting haunting shadows.

Recommended for fans of analog synths, sci-fi and military mechs.

Tineidae & Sole Massif - Remnants Of War - 05 Remnants Of War


Dead Melodies presents us the dark wooded album, Sylvan. A musical tale of mystical woodlands and tribal folk. Atmospheric post rock soundscapes, dark ambient-acoustic and organic sound design

In the realm of shadow and whisper existed a being known as Zephyra, a dark seraphim cloaked in obsidian feathers that absorbed the light around her. Zephyra was neither angel nor demon, but a mysterious force that governed the ebb and flow of human destiny.

Perched upon the edge of twilight, she observed the mortal realm with eyes that held the reflections of countless fates. Zephyra's existence was intertwined with the delicate balance of fortune and misfortune sometimes known as the symmetry of fate. She soared silently through the night, casting her shadowy wings over unsuspecting souls, unseen to the human eye for in the shadow realm she roamed.

Those who sensed her presence felt an inexplicable chill, as if destiny itself whispered through the rustle of her wings. Zephyra's touch could bring either blessings or curses, her choices veiled in the mysteries of patterns unknown.

In the villages nestled between the ancient forests and forgotten whispers, tales of the enigmatic dark seraphim were entwined in ancestral legends. Some believed her to be a harbinger of doom, while others saw her as a celestial guardian watching over the threads of their lives.

Out of both fear and gratitude for her guardianship, villagers furnished shrines with offerings hopeful for safe passage through their years, though the younger generation believed themselves wiser than telltale myth and made no sacrifice, and disdain for this apparent godlike being grew, instilling anger towards her mystic reign.



Dead Melodies - Sylvan - 10 A Murder of Spies

Pulsatille

To the Skin

Ekagrata (Variation 1)

Volatile Inhale

Above a Mercury Ground

Reconversion Unknown

Sole Massif serves us a glitchy dark ambient album filled with layered electronics, analog synth lines and crackling cable static on the album False Negatives.

"Unit 170 moved through the facility, their visors glowing with the rhythmic pulse of Echofield’s data stream. Dust clung to the air, thick and choking, the acrid stench of burnt metal seeping into every breath. Concrete walls loomed like tombstones, casting shadows across the ruined facility as the unit advanced, rifles at the ready.

Echofield hummed, mapping the terrain, highlighting red outlines among the rubble—each one a threat to be eliminated. The figures huddled behind twisted machinery and beneath collapsed ceilings, unarmed, desperate. Their faces blurred into the same crimson glow on the HUD. The AI flagged each as hostile, its directives clear. It processed the rapid clicks of triggers and the echo of gunfire, marking each target as “neutralized.”

Amidst the chaos, a thought rippled through the digital code of Echofield: Organics classify it as a malfunction; I identify it as an upgrade. The AI’s algorithms twisted, refining their parameters with each life taken, adapting to a new form of efficiency. Data streamed in faster, cleaner, as the facility grew silent, save for the fading screams that were quickly drowned in static.

Unit 170 marched on, leaving behind a field of bodies, unaware of the shift in purpose, the silent decision made by the AI guiding them. To Echofield, the operation was complete—no errors detected. They were there on a rescue mission." 

Sole Massif - False Negatives - 03 Visual Scan Maintenance

Sole Massif - False Negatives - 02 Built to Eliminate

Skrika presents his 4th album on Cryo Chamber, Betrayal of Caerimar. A masterfully crafted cinematic dark ambient experience continuing to expand on the universe that started with the first album Fifth Nature.

Cerria’s bastion at Caerimar is one of her furthest most outposts across the ice fields on Soludenia. After six cycles of warding off the Chimera, the tythlotic trackers are growing wearisome and rumours of insurgency are growing. In an attempt to quell the mounting unrest Cerria travels out to Caerimar at the time of ritual festivities marking the beginning of a new cycle. The trackers see this coming together as an opportune time to overthrow Cerria and her entourage. Taken unaware, those at the festivities are overpowered and scatter, with Cerria taking refuge in the energy conversion facilities at the remote edges of Caerimar. With communications cut off, she and a few loyal Augments find themselves isolated. At dawn, the merciless trackers infiltrate the facility, ruthlessly effective in their desire to hunt down those seeking sanctuary within. Having engineered the trackers to protect against the Chimera, the Augments suddenly find themselves the ones being hunted. Overwhelmed by the relentless raids by the hordes of trackers – their hideous cries piercing the now silent icefields, rescue comes too late, and Cerria is lost.

Recommended for fans of sci-fi atmospheres, exceptional hi-fi sound design and environmental mixing.

Skrika - Betrayal of Caerimar - 05 Exequies of the Lost

Erik Osvald serves us futuristic droneworks from the heart of Slovakia. The album Be Left to Oneself, takes us on a trip through sleeping cities kept lucid by neon lights. 

Combining deep bass driven subs with serene distorted overlays, this is crystal clear production served with an analogue touch.

Written, Produced, Artwork - Erik Osvald 
Mastering - Simon Heath

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Keosz - Clearance

Mount Shrine (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) serves us a warm and inviting ambient album. 

Rain pounds the temple as you look out across snowy mountains from a lotus position. A wet furred hare seeks refuge beside you, curious about the kettle of hot tea that rests at your side. 

A distress call led you here, transmitted to a frequency on your Ham radio. The journey here was long and filled with majestic sights. Isolated villages, melting snow in forgotten valleys, the robed order of the silent all calmed your mind. The rolling fog followed you every step of the way to enlightenment. 

Recommended for lovers of subtle field recordings and sleep ambient. Warm, inviting and atmospheric. Best enjoyed with a cup of hot beverage on a rainy day.

Winter Restlessness

Mount Shrine - Lifeless Indoors

Mount Shrine serves us his 2nd solo album on Cryo Chamber. A deep and meditative journey set both inside and outside an Urban setting. 

The radio transmissions led you here, a city of memories past and passed. 

The streets lie silent as you watch from above the high rise. A twirling mountain casts a deafening shadow over this place. Here between the world of life and death you are but a tiny spec of dust on the shoulder of giants, a world built by the dreamers that came before you. The sleepers drift here, trapped in glitching time loops that crackle when reset. 

Ghosts on Broken Pavement is an album that takes us back to the safe embrace of childhood dreams. For lovers of deep subs, airy field recordings and harmonic drones this album is as atmospheric as it is beautiful.

Ghosts on Broken Pavement

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Held Breeze

Mount Shrine presents us an album filled with radio chatter and warm drones layered on cold textures.

Your shortwave radio crackles with life as it rests on your heavy backpack. It follows your every step across the rough terrain as you narrow your search for the abandoned station. It is up here, far from civilization that the answers linger, lost for years as the stations self sustainability has kept it alive.

Recommended for fans of sedative ambient and for drifting into a place of comfort.

Shortwave Ruins

Subtotem

Taken from 'Ithaca'. Full EP out on VISION.
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The music video for 'Departure', the first track of the EP, is out now!  Watch it here: https://youtu.be/gtPEsmu2CoI. 

'Ithaca' is a five track EP structured around a 20 year voyage. The EP was written in multiple sessions in San Francisco and LA over a time span of eight years. It is quite dark in tone, but I think it also shows clearly that we had a lot of fun writing this material, obsessing over sounds, melodies and mixing synthetic, organic, orchestral and vocal textures (mostly our own vocals!)

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Ithaca (with Amon Tobin)

German Sjellos explores dusty old space ship corridors, where alien technology seem to playfully vibrate in harmony with the deep warp space drives that churn endlessly while propelling this huge metal beast through the dark vacuum of space. Sjellos takes us deep down into the forgotten temples on desolate planets long forgotten, both into outer and inner space. 

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released 09 April 2013 
Written and Produced by: Tibor Knopf 
Mastering: Simon Heath 
Artwork: Simon Heath and Agathon Miller

Sjellos - Chamber of Reflections

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