The dark ambient is a musical genre, located at crossed Ambient, music bruitist and industrial Musique. Appeared with the experiments of the pioneers of the industrialist as of the end of the Years 1970, the kind was really popularized in the Années 1980.

History

It is somewhat complex to give the history of this musical genre insofar as it were only slowly released from its various composts to be identified as tel. the first work bruitists of Lustmord, in particular on thelow ones within the framework of SPK, and the experiments of Coil in the field of ambient, can undoubtedly be regarded as founders.

With the appearance with the wire of the time of projects evolving/moving mainly in the industrialist and the music bruitist, the term of dark ambient was used to indicate compositions ambient by their absence of happy, the recourse to tablecloths, organic sounds, but whose environments stress the anguish, it Malayan, the insulation, coldness… Calm or destructurée music, organic drones, echoes, cries, tinklings, sounds are used. This important recourse to the sampling of sounds of natural origin places to some extent the dark ambient in the continuity of the Concrete music, while its frequent recourse to the bruitism in fact a close relation to the noise music. One parentée frequently noted is that of the Black metal: many groups of this kind indeed exert their talents in parallel projects dark ambient, so much so that one started to speak about black ambient .

Among the most eminent projects which fall under this tendency, one can quote the uncontested Master Lustmord, but also Zoviet France, Megaptera, Nocturnal Emissions, Raison d'être, Aube, Caul or Inade… One can also quote the label Swedish Cold Meat Industry, which had a major influence in the formation of this scene.

Groups

• Archon Satani
• Paddle
• Amber
• Atrium carcery
• Bardoseneticcube
• Burzum
• Camanecrozscope
• Caul
• Coil
• Current 93
• Major Dissension
• Desiderii Marginis
• Deuterror
• Dusk off Hope
• Endvra
• Elend
• Gustaf Hildebrand

• Herbst9
• Inade
• Iszoloscope
• Kammarheit
• Lustmord
• Jewels of the Princess
• Conflict Paths
• Materia Aurora
• Megaptera
• Nocturnal Emissions
• Not
• Nordvargr
• Northaunt
• Children's nurse With Wound

• Predominance
• Raison d'être
• Rapoon
• Sator Absentia
• Shinjuku Thief
• SPK
• Svartsinn
• Tehôm
• Tho-so-aa
• Throbbing Gristle
• Tor Lundvall
• Troum
• Twilight Angelhood
• Emptied Obmana
• Westwind
• Zoviet France
• Plume, Jersey City

Labels

• Athanor

• Cold Meatus Industry
• Cold Spring
• Cyclic Law
• Dark Vinyl Records
• Divine Comedy Records
• Eibon Records
• Erebus Odora
• Fluttering Dragon
• Kaosthetik Konspiration
• the Left hand production
• Loki Foundation
• Malignant Records
• Old Europa Coffee
• Slaughter Productions
• Soleilmoon
• Steelwork Maschine

Medieval Dark

The medieval dark is a sub-genus of dark ambient that one developed certain musicians of Black metal, in their side-projects, during the years 1990. The great names are for example: Pazuzu, Die Verbannten Kinder Evas, Wongraven, Mortiis, Lord Wind, Perunwit…

The medieval dark is a kind which as its name indicates it, takes as a starting point the Middle Ages and also companies " barbares" : Celts, Germanic, Viking, Slavic, etc It is a kind synchretic where the references to Christianity (or rather exactly with its rejection) cotoient paganism, or the folk mixes with a pseudo-medieval music, most of the time played synthetically and with a certain direction of the emphase, not to say, sometimes, the pompeux one, and with the will to sound darkest, sad or " maléfique" possible.

The groups of this kind which compose in a style closer to the folk, like Polish of Perunwit, Lord Wind, Kraina Bez Wiatru, are sometimes described as " Evil folk "

Various bonds

• Brokendolls - Webzine dark-ambient French