Category Archives: Ambient

Terry Riley – In C (1968)

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

Terry Riley’s groundbreaking work of minimalism is a backwards trek through musical consciousness, illustrative of how something resembling music can arise from the most fundamental constituents of the sound phenomenon. Music after all is nothing more than a collection of … Continue reading →

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Death metal interludes playlist

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

The classically-tinged interlude is a proud death metal tradition, giving lie to the popular assumption that this is a brute’s music. It is that, without question, and unabashedly so, but as can be sensed from these pieces on an instinctual … Continue reading →

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Magnum Itiner Interius – Interspaceframe (2018)

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

Magnum Itiner Interius – Interspaceframe Interspaceframe is The Chasm frontman Daniel Corchado’s first real exploration of a non-metal medium. The textures found on this recording share much in common with Vangelis, Brian Eno‘s Apollo recordings, Carbon Based Lifeforms, and 80s … Continue reading →

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Summoning – With Doom We Come (2018)

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

Like certain multilayered pieces from Kansas‘ best work from the 70s, With Doom We Come is an album of many voices; as with all polyphonic music, the real test lies in isolating and evaluating the effectiveness of the individual voices, … Continue reading →

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Was Bölzer’s Hero inspired by Vangelis?

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

  Vangelis‘ third studio album Heaven And Hell greatly contributed to popular and, as it turns out, underground consciousness; ‘Movement 3‘ is the immortal theme to Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, while the liturgical ‘12 O’ Clock‘ is the introduction used by … Continue reading →

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Urfaust – Empty Space Meditation (2016)

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

Empty Space Meditation is an album for the winter months. Each song here is a demonstration of a unique and not-always metal-related style of music. Equally at home among dark ambient, black metal, funeral doom’s homophonic dirge, gothic rock, and neoclassical … Continue reading →

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Old Mornings Dawn

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

Dew on shivering leaves. A cold dawn draped in mist. Horses nuzzling in a wind-hurried drizzle of rain. Life teems anew, in rock and reed. In the lowly puddle of water dispensing its centripetal dialogue. The smell of wet soil. A … Continue reading →

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Dark Ages – Rabble, Whores, Usurers (2013)

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

Dark ambient from the man behind Drudkh, Rabble, Whores, Usurers is what all bands like Drudkh, purporting to be black metal but more at home with a milder form of expression, should realign their lines of sight towards. Perhaps, it is … Continue reading →

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