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Phobos festival 2025
Phobos Festival has been around for quite a while, but somehow I’d never managed to attend it until now. This year, my wife and I decided to change that. We packed up the car in Budapest and set off on a long road trip to Wuppertal for the event. Our first stop was Prague, where I couldn’t resist leaving a little trace of my presence in the form of a sticker.
The Young Gods live at Budapest
Happy to share with everyone near Budapest that another great show is coming up: The Young Gods. One of the most iconic acts in the industrial scene will be performing at A38 on March 11, 2026. See you there!
Hradby Samoty festival in Bratislava
From their website: “Hradby Samoty (Walls of Solitude) is a festival which focuses on audiovisual projects from genres such as dark ambient, dark folk, drone, industrial and noise.”
The festival will take place in Bratislava on November 14–15. Lineup:
Friday
- Trepaneringsritualen
- Zero Kama
- Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
- Inade
- Blind Ruler Cursed Land
Saturday
- Xiu Xiu
- Troum
- African Imperial Wizard
- Frett
- Paregorik & Violet de Valor
Unearthed #8
Mixtape
Nacht Radio Show 2025. 10. 02. – The usual weekly mix from Mark O’Shea including Pavor Nocturnus, Ugasanie, Tineidae & Sole Massif, Onasander and others.
The Kult of O dark ambient – Oneirich brings you an hour-long mix of Inade, Atrium Carceri & Herbst9, Umbrarum Tenebrae and more this week.
Albums
Apocryphos' 2016 album, Stone Speak, explores the cultic spaces of death. It mixes recordings made in cemeteries and ghost towns with slow, deep drones and ambient elements.
Brooddark's first solo album, Overvoltage, is out now. It features futuristic, industrial drones and a dark, soundtrack-like, powerful sci-fi sound.
For those who like a more melancholic, dreamy sound, I recommend the album Night Moss by Teahouse Radio and Skeldos (Pär Boström and Vytenis Eitminavičius).
A similar style is Ronny Engmann and Karina Dorin's album Never Sleep Again, a dark/deep ambient based on vocals and experimental soundscapes.
Finally, I want to recommend an album that sits a little outside the usual Hypogeum territory. Still, with Pär Boström’s name attached, readers can be sure the music — sometimes edging into winter or dungeon synth — will resonate here. I’ll wrap up this week’s recommendation with Star Lore (2023), from Boström’s project Aindulmedir.
Hypogeum mixtape #3
Along with the cool and rainy autumn days comes the third Hypogeum mixtape, featuring music that fits the gloomy mood from The Haxan Cloak, ProtoU, Raison d'Être and many others.
Unearthed #7
Astoreth & Forestaal deliver a nearly forty-minute improvisation, a musical ritual built from drones and vocals.
Stepping outside the usual genre boundaries, this week I’m also highlighting a Swedish neoclassical-darkwave band, Arcana. Their 2012 album “As Bright As A Thousand Suns”, originally released on Cyclic Law, is now available again on CD and vinyl.
Kloob and Onasander’s previous collaboration was already featured in an earlier recommendation, and now they return with a new joint project: Ethnea Nekrōn. Their release Exo-Metempsychosis explores the theme of cosmic rebirth through dark and space ambient textures.
From Helsinki comes Ruusuriimu (Csipkebogyó), offering transcendental apocalyptic folk with a touch of Hungarian connection. Their new album, “Tánc a rothadásért”, features Hungarian vocalists Vály Tekla and Csiszér Réka. Tekla also contributes lyrics and the cover photograph.
Unearthed #6
First up is the debut album from Kristof Bathory (Dawn of Ashes) and his new dark ambient side project, Bleak Haven. Oblivion dives into dark space ambient territory with subtle hints of horror.
Insectarium sets a similarly moody tone with their latest release, Replicant. This one leans toward sci-fi, featuring colder soundscapes and layered drones.
The same artist also released another album back in August, but due to the summer break, Witness This Strange World Unfold is only coming to light now.
Finally, there’s a new Kult of O mixtape, featuring Void Gazer, Steve Roach, and many more artists.
Unearthed #5
In the first Unearthed after the summer break, we’re tuning in to the collaboration between Kloob and Onasander on their album Goês. Its slow, pulsing drones conjure the spirit of the dead in the final chapter of the Witchcraft trilogy.
Sonologyst’s album Planetarium is a musical disovery of the Solar System using recordings from NASA. It’s cosmic ambient in the truest sense of the word.
Finally, we have another space/dark ambient release from Joel Gilardini, who makes experimental sound textures from guitar recordings to create slow, immersive tracks.
Grey Frequency live at Ambient Électronique 3, Nottingham
Unearthed #4
Two weeks’ worth of recommendations are coming out together this time — I’ve slowed down a bit; it’s summer, it’s hot, that’s how it is. In return, I tried to gather enough so that you’ll have something to listen to for an entire vacation.
To start, here’s Oneirich’s new mixtape — less ambient, more pulsing, travel-like rhythmic tracks:
Let’s not forget the usual Nacht either — the July 27 mixtape:
I already recommended Ajna last time, now here’s a new release from them (under another name, as Segment.fault).
Caldon Glover’s Eternal Night Radio album also came out recently — I unfairly forgot about it, but I’m making up for that now.
Also a new release: a compilation inspired by the film Eraserhead, featuring tracks by Grey Frequency and Sonologyst, among others.
And since I mentioned Sonologyst, here’s one of his older albums from 2015 — Ancient Death Cults and Beliefs.
Something special from 2020: a recording of a performance without an audience, a collaboration between Inade and Circular — The Saturnine Broadcasting.
And let’s close with Oneirich again, who recently put together an industrial mixtape as well.
That’s all for this round of recommendations, I wish everyone a great summer holiday! I’ve added all I could. Since I’ll be going on vacation soon too, expect new posts in the last week of August.