Unearthed #16
Dronny Darko’s new album, Dark Shadows Across a Disordered Mind, was released on February 10. Full of drifting drones and isolationist soundscapes, it is my first recommendation among recent releases.
ARCHIPENOM.II by Alphaxone is one thirty-minute-long track, featuring “fractured atmospheres, slow-moving tension, and submerged emotional weight,” as the release page states.
Ancestral Rites is a compilation album released by Ominous Sounds. It features great artists such as [ówt krì], Gydja, TeHÔM, Ugasanie, HANDALIEN, Insectarium, and Kloob.
White Haze by Ugasanie paints nine beautiful pictures of the sea with its tracks. Some of them are melancholic, some are a bit somber – sinister even – but all of them are beautiful.
Ashtoreth and Grey Malkin released A Crown of Silver Antlers, an album that sits between dark ambient and folk music. This was the biggest surprise to me in the latest releases, highly recommended.
Insectarium’s new release, Initiation, is a 57-minute-long electroacoustic ritual ambient soundscape, recorded using gongs, bamboo flutes, Tibetan bowls, and other instruments. A magical piece, worthy of your attention.
How to Start a Cult (Part I: The Forest) by Through the Gloom is a strange and captivating album. Melancholic, experimental, and refreshing – just what my awesome readers want in music.
This is what the author himself wrote about the release:
How to Start a Cult (Part I: The Forest) is the opening chapter of a four-part concept unfolding across 2026. The Forest introduces the setting: a place of grief, isolation, and quiet gathering, where something slowly begins to form. Mournful piano melodies sit against oppressive drones, ritual drums, tape hiss and bursts of static, giving the impression of a damaged transmission or field recording from an unknown ceremony.
The project continues with Part II: The Flock, arriving on 21 June, the summer solstice, followed later in the year by The Ritual and The Ruin. Together the four releases trace the emergence, escalation, and eventual collapse of the cult.
Definitely looking forward to the summer solstice this year.
A new track from Handalien: Deep Orbit (No Escape). Eleven minutes of fine cinematic deep ambient music.
Lucusfauni released Larth Purthne - Laukume, Dictator, Dvx, a haunting piece of ritual ambient music. It’s disturbing in the best possible sense of the word; give it a listen if you’re in the mood for some funeral litany.