Name: Lustmord, "Element" by selftitledmag in Deep in the Out
Duration: 6 min 49 s
Description: Read our rare Lustmord interview here: http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2011/03/28/the-self-titled-interview-lustmord/

Deep in the Out

https://ajna1.bandcamp.com/ My new EP "Underway" is out now on Bandcamp. Thank you for your support!

Bluish Murmurs (New EP out now on Bandcamp)

Read our rare Lustmord interview here: http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2011/03/28/the-self-titled-interview-lustmord/

Lustmord, "Element"

sonic exploration of a failed civilization part 1

Initial Investigation Planet C, Sol, Orion Arm, Milky Way, Laniakea Supercluster

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure. Relax, chillout and enjoy.

DARK AMBIENT - COLLECTOR OF SECRETS

Mesh

Track 1: Trunk, 02:19 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8)
Track 2: Leaves, 04:14 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8, Soma Pipe)
Track 3: Rings, 04:49 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8)
Track 4: Vines, 06:43 (Tree Hum, Soma Lyra 8, Soma Enner, Whistling)
Track 5: Roots, 02:15 (Tree Hum, Soma Pipe)


Dates:
17-Nov-2025 (inception), 19-Nov-2025 (finalised), 19-Nov-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/album/mesh

Description:

A twisted tale of synthesiser dreams, aspirations and dreams meet reality. I have been intrigued by hardware synthesiser the Soma Lyra 8 for some time now, dating back some 3 years or so. Back in December 2024, inspired by the design concept of the Lyra 8 with it's two stage hierarchy tuning system and importantly before I purchased a Lyra 8 late 2025, I wrote down some sketches of my own synthesiser concept, which later became to be known as Tree Hum. This album celebrates the meeting point of the Tree Hum and the Soma Lyra 8.

The description here is a shortened version, see my FaceBook page (Norman Freund) or my BandCamp site for the full description.

Having a back ground in structural vibration analysis, makes one aware of coupled resonances, how the structure, stiffness and mass all interact to bring about the final vibration response. On the other side of my creative brain, I let my imagination drift to a tuning system inspired by trees, a four stage hierarchy tuning system, starting from the trunk, to branches, smaller branches and finally to the leaves -- the voice of the synthesiser. The tuning system is based on frequency ratios, starting at the tree trunk, the master, then as each level is passed through it adds it's own frequency ratio to the frequency ratio inherited from it's predecessor. Do real trees behave like this? No, but let's not let reality get in the way of creativity. Nature, engineering, mathematics and human imagination inspire synthesiser and music composition.

The tuning system used here was inspired by the work of Neil Thornock Ref. [1]. For the full details of what Thornock's tuning system was changed to, see https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/album/mesh and https://www.facebook.com/norman.freund.545/.


References:
[1]	Neil Thornock, 13 Nov 2025, FaceBook Group "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory", Icicle, JI tuning based on harmonics 24 to 48, Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14T7Tyhcky3/


Vines

Dark Ambient

Ager Sonus is back with his second Egyptian themed album on Cryo Chamber, the first being Book of the Black Earth. 

You open your eyes. Darkness. Silence. Oppressing silence. Your breath feels shallow, the air too thin to breathe. The space you are in feels narrow, the ceiling so close you can almost touch it. Your heart starts pounding as the feeling of panic brings you to your senses. You seem to be.. Underground, buried! 

How did you get here? Fragments of your memories hover in front of you in the darkness like thin layers of fog, guiding you. Sand.. A desert.. Symbols.. Hieroglyphs… A faint voice calling you.. 

Ager Sonus brings us an ambient album set against the backdrop of lost civilization. Explore occult secrets buried in ancient tombs.

Necropolis

Bandcamp

Ager Sonus - Of Ashes and Dust

Phelios - Inside the Blue Vortex

"Inside the Blue Vortex" is an ambient mix by Phelios without any drums or rhythmic structures. All tracks taken from the official releases, (c) by Eternal Soul Records, Malignant Records, Phelios 2005 - 2012   


1. Photon (from Dimension Zero)
2. Mountains of Madness pt. 1 (from Passage)
3. Origin (from Astral Unity)
4. Zurückhaltend (from Klang ist Ewig)
5. Cluster (from Dimension Zero)
6. Timetunnel (from Dimension Zero)
7. Subharmonic Distortion (from Passage)
8. Deadspace (from Astral Unity)
9. Astral Visions - Celestial Temple Remix (from Astral Unity Digital Release)

Inside the Blue Vortex (Ambient Mix)

An extract from the forthcoming Lustmord album "The Word As Power". 
Featuring the voice of Aina Skinnes Olsen.

Babel (Extract)

Surreal, mysterious and poetic is how one could define the work of Danish musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski. His latest album “Without Blood The Sun Darkens” exudes feelings of the simplicity of being present, in the absence of absolute existence, pervaded by memories, moods and emotions, neither sad nor happy, fulfilled. It is about watching time, from faded memories of ones childhood to that feeling just before laying down between wanderings and stillness, looking at the darkening room just before you disperse and disappear completely into nothingness. Soothing and engulfing melodies that seems to repeat yet always evolving, a profound venture through melancholy.

Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel Digipak. 1 Track. Running Time 59:22

Without Blood The Sun Darkens

øjeRum "Without Blood The Sun Darkens" CD (135th Cycle)

From the forthcoming album "The Word As Power".

Featuring the voice of Soriah.

Grigori (Extract)

Another extract from he forthcoming album The Word As Power.
Andras Sodom features the voice of Jarboe.

Andras Sodom (Extract)

An extract from the forthcoming Lustmord album "The Word As Power".
Featuring the voice of Maynard James Keenan.

Abaddon (Extract)

Dead Melodies and Zenjungle join forces on this dark noir ambient album

Far beneath the lofty empire of steel and brick, a perpetual blanket of darkness reigns harbouring mankind's darkest sins. And amidst this grotesque illusion of grandeur, in which the elitist grip ever tightens, the forsaken's demons awake from their slumber wreaking havoc in the eternal shadow. Man's greatest creation and ruin rolled into one in an endless labyrinth of forgotten secrets, unsolved mysteries and stories that are yet to be told.

Step into the haze of the low lying smog and lose yourself in these noir tales from the darkest corners of the city, courtesy of Dead Melodies and Zenjungle.

Recommended for fans of Dark Ambient Noir Jazz

Anthropocene

The Lowering

Featuring acts from the Cyclic Law Label. http://www.cycliclaw.com

(00:00) New Risen Throne “What We Have Seen” - From the album “The Outside”
https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/the-outside

(10:52) New Risen Throne “Echoes From The Loss” (Visions remix) - From the album “The Outside”
https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/the-outside

(16:12) Ajna “The Unknown” - From the album “Oracular”
https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/oracular

(21:20) Common Eider, King Eider & Cover Or “As The Spirits Watch Over Us, We Reciprocate” - From the album “Palimpseste”
https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/palimpseste

(28:08) Sádon & Treha Sektori “Elimination” - From the album “Symphony Of Dying”
https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-of-dying

(33:20) Nordvargr “Invocation Of The Unseen” - From the album “Daath”
https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/daath

(37:12) Neraterrae “The Collapse of Matter and Time” - From the album “Scenes From The Sublime”
https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-from-the-sublime

(42:00) Desiderii Marginis “The Silence Of A Thousand Years” - From the album “Departed”
Unreleased

(48:14) Arcana “Innocent Child” - From the album “Inner Pale Sun”
https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/inner-pale-sun-3

Artwork by Dehn Sora http://www.dehnsora.com

Website: http://www.cycliclaw.com
Bandcamp: https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/cycliclaw
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cycliclaw
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cycliclaw/

Dark Ambient Mix for Times of Confinement

Beyond the Ghost returns with an album ripe with film-like ambience and sonic details from abandoned cityscapes.

You get trapped in the loop of time and you'll get spat out into a world molded by your own thoughts, purgatory. The skyscrapers cast shadows so deep that the flickering neon lights strobe your tired movements. You must have walked these streets a thousand times before, searching for someone, anyone. The cold wind hits your smooth face, it should have been bearded by now, but time is glitched out here. Everything is frozen, but you keep moving, chasing your own shadow.

Recommended for fans of foggy soundscapes, acoustic layering and Silent Hill atmospheres.

Eternal Drift

Surrender

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