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• Aardia
  Aardia
  Aardia is an atmospheric dark ambient music project. The music brings influences from the medieval age, fantasy, horror films and classical orchestra music...
  
  
• Abruptum
  Abruptum
  Abruptum was a black metal and dark ambient band from Sweden formed in 1989 by IT , All , and Ext. IT had already planned to create the band in 1987, but it wasn't until 1990 that he found the right members to do it. The same year, they recorded their first two demos. After the release of the...
  
  
• Agalloch
  Agalloch
  Agalloch is an American metal band formed in 1995 in Portland, Oregon. The band is led by vocalist and guitarist John Haughm and so far have released four limited EPs, four full-length albums, two demos, one split album, one compilation album and one live DVD....
  
  
• Aghiatrias
  Aghiatrias
  Aghiatrias is a Czech "integrated music" ensemble from Prague. The band consisted of composer Vladimír Hirsch and sound engineer Tom Saivon and was started in 1999 as an offshoot of their sympho-industrial band Skrol. Their music is based on an integration of contemporary classical music, dark...
  
  
• Akira Yamaoka
  Akira Yamaoka
  is a video game composer, sound designer, sound director, and video game producer who worked for Konami since 1993 until his resignation in 2009. He is best known for creating the music in the Silent Hill series; he also worked as a sound director and producer on the series as well as serving as a...
  
  
• Amber Asylum
  Amber Asylum
  Amber Asylum is a highly-variable San Francisco-based music group that serves as a platform for composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Kris Force...
  
  
• Peter Andersson
  Peter Andersson (composer)
  Peter Andersson is a music composer within the ambient, noise, industrial, electronic and experimental genre....
  
  
• Antimatter
  Antimatter (band)
  Antimatter, a UK Melancholic Rock band, is currently the project of long time member Mick Moss. The project was formed in 1997 by Duncan Patterson and Moss. The pair released three albums together - Saviour, Lights Out and Planetary Confinement. Shortly after the completion of Planetary...
  
  
• Aphex Twin
  Aphex Twin
  Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...
  
  
• Arcana
  Arcana (band)
  Arcana is Swedish neoclassical band formed in 1994 and was originally signed to the Cold Meat Industry label.-History:The original band consisted of founder Peter Bjärgö and vocalist Ida Bengtsson...
  
  
• Atrium Carceri
  Atrium Carceri
  Atrium Carceri is a Swedish musical project by Simon Heath, released by industrial record label Cold Meat Industry. Six full-length albums have been released so far.- Description :...
  
  
• Austere
  Austere (band)
  Austere is an anonymous, obscurantist electronic music 'band' that has covered a wide variety of styles in their releases: psybient, psychedelic ambient, ambient, dark ambient, drone, glitch-ambient, downtempo-style drum and bass and Classical Minimalism music...
  
  
• Autopsia
  Autopsia
  Autopsia is an art project dealing with music and visual production. Autopsia gathers authors of different professions in realization of multimedia projects. Its art practice began in London in the late 1970s, continued during the 80s in the art centers of former Yugoslavia. Since 1990, Autopsia...
  
  
• Sara Ayers
  Sara Ayers
  Sara Ayers is an ambient music artist who uses her voice as a sound source. The Chemical Brothers used samples of Ayers' "Everyday We Die a Little" on their song "Come Inside" from their album Push the Button. VH1 used samples of "Angel #3" for the soundtrack of Behind the Music: Britney Spears....
  
  

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• Bass Communion
  Bass Communion
  Bass Communion is a side project of Steven Wilson, best known for his lead role in the rock band Porcupine Tree. Records released under the name "Bass Communion" are in an ambient or electronic vein - lengthy drone-heavy compositions...
  
  
• Beherit
  Beherit (band)
  Beherit is a black metal band from Finland. The band was formed in 1989 by Nuclear Holocausto , Black Jesus and Sodomatic Slaughter , with the purpose of performing "the most primitive, savage, hell-obsessed black metal imaginable." "Beherit" is the Syriac word for Satan...
  
  
• Birchville Cat Motel
  Birchville Cat Motel
  Birchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music project formed by Campbell Kneale from Wellington, New Zealand. Although largely unknown in his home country, Kneale has toured throughout Japan, America, Europe, and Australia. His first vinyl release was Jewelled Wings on the Freedom From label...
  
  
• Black Dice
  Black Dice
  Black Dice is an experimental electronic music group currently based in Brooklyn, New York, USA.-Early years:Black Dice formed in spring 1997 soon after guitarist Bjorn Copeland met drummer Hisham Bharoocha and bassist Sebastian Blanck when they were students at the Rhode Island School of Design...
  
  
• Black Funeral
  Black Funeral
  Black Funeral is a black metal band formed by industrial musician and occult/chaos magic author Michael W. Ford in 1993. They played a few live shows after being signed to their record label, Behemoth Productions...
  
  
• Black Tape for a Blue Girl
  Black tape for a blue girl
  Black Tape for a Blue Girl is an American Dark Wave band formed in 1986 by Projekt Records' founder Sam Rosenthal. Their music takes on elements of dark cabaret, Dark Wave, ethereal, ambient and neoclassical music. Director David Lynch...
  
  
• Boards of Canada
  Boards of Canada
  Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...
  
  
• Bohren & der Club of Gore
  Bohren & der Club of Gore
  Bohren & der Club of Gore is a German ambient/jazz band from Nordrhein-Westfalen.-History:The band was founded in 1992 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany by Thorsten Benning, Morten Gass, Robin Rodenberg and Reiner Henseleit. Originally, group members started out playing in various hardcore bands such...
  
  
• Brighter Death Now
  Brighter Death Now
  Brighter Death Now is the artist name under which Roger Karmanik , the founder of the Swedish record label Cold Meat Industry, releases death industrial, power electronics and dark ambient music....
  
  
• Eric Brosius
  Eric Brosius
  Eric Brosius is a musician and video game developer, and a former employee of Looking Glass Studios. He is a former member of the band Tribe, and is married to Terri Brosius, also a former Looking Glass employee and Tribe member....
  
  
• Buckethead
  Buckethead
  Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...
  
  
• Burzum
  Burzum
  Burzum is a musical project by Varg Vikernes . It began during 1991 in Bergen, Norway and quickly became prominent within the early Norwegian black metal scene...
  
  

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• Kim Cascone
  Kim Cascone
  Kim Cascone is an American composer of electronic music who is best known for his releases in the ambient, industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record company, Silent Records...
  
  
• Cisfinitum
  Cisfinitum
  Cisfinitum is a post-industrial noise project from Moscow, Russia. It was started in the late 1990s by composer and musician Eugene Voronovsky and has drawn significant attention as one of the most uncommon and distinctive on the national experimental scene...
  
  
• Claustrum
  Claustrum
  The claustrum, which is suspected to be present in all mammals, is a fairly thin vertical curved sheet of subcortical gray matter...
  
  
• Coil
  Coil (band)
  Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...
  
  
• Continuum
  Continuum (music project)
  Continuum is a collaborative ambient and drone music project between Bass Communion and Dirk Serries...
  
  
• Controlled Bleeding
  Controlled Bleeding
  Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group's only consistent member...
  
  
• Coph Nia
  Coph Nia
  Coph Nia is the name given to the dark ambient/ambient industrial act formed by Aldenon Sartorial. Coph Nia is currently signed to the Swedish label Cold Meat Industry. Its first release was the album That Which Remains, which was released in 2000...
  
  
• Current 93
  Current 93
  Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet .-Background:Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on...
  
  

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• Dargaard
  Dargaard
  Dargaard is a neoclassical/ambient band from Austria formed in 1997. Typically in dark and somber moods, the music of Dargaard presents medieval and folk-like melodies, often orchestrated through the use of various instrument patches from a keyboard. The band is still active and has four releases...
  
  
• Darkspace
  Darkspace (band)
  Darkspace is a black metal band from Bern, Switzerland.In contrast to most misconceptions about black metal productions, the focus of their music is not satanic or misanthropic, but on an "atmospheric" cold and bleak description of space...
  
  
• Dark Ages
  Dark Ages (band)
  Dark Ages is a minimalist dark ambient band from Ukraine formed in 2004 by the main member of Drudkh, Blood of Kingu and Hate Forest. They draw their lyrical themes from European medieval history...
  
  
• Dead Voices on Air
  Dead Voices on Air
  Dead Voices on Air is Mark Spybey's Experimental and Industrial project formed after his departure from Zoviet France. Many people classify a large portion of his works as Ambient, but Spybey insists his music is not ambient music of any sort and calls it "music for the eyes"...
  
  
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• Death In June
  Death in June
  Death in June are a neofolk group led by English folk musician Douglas Pearce, better known as Douglas P. The band was originally formed in Britain in 1981 as a trio, but after the other members left in 1984 and 1985 to work on other projects, the group became the work of Douglas P. and various...
  
  
• Decoryah
  Decoryah
  Decoryah was an underground Finnish dark ambient / doom metal band formed in 1989 and dismissed in 1997. The band came to worldwide attention with their first album Wisdom Floats which is the first example, in the contemporary Doom Metal scene, of use of male clean voices and female voices...
  
  
• Deleyaman
  Deleyaman
  Deleyaman is a multi-nationality, multi-cultural dark wave, alternative band formed on the northern coast of France in 2000.The members of the band are American, Swedish, French and Armenian.-History:...
  
  
• Desiderii Marginis
  Desiderii Marginis
  - History :Desiderii Marginis was formed by Johan Levin in 1993 in Mjölby, Sweden as a solo project.The first three tapes 'Consecrare', 'Via Peregrinus' and 'Triptych' were originally released in very limited editions, however...
  
  
• Die Verbannten Kinder Evas
  Die Verbannten Kinder Evas
  Die Verbannten Kinder Evas is an Austrian music project signed to Napalm Records, which was founded in 1993 by Richard Lederer and Michael Gregor.- Biography :...
  
  
• Delerium
  Delerium
  Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...
  
  
• Deutsch Nepal
  Deutsch Nepal
  Deutsch Nepal is the solo industrial/dark ambient project of Swede Lina Der Baby Doll General .- Works :Under the name Deutsch Nepal, Lina has issued eight studio albums and a 7" as well as contributing to various compilations including a split CD with In Slaughter Nativesand another with The Moon...
  
  
• dreamSTATE
  DreamSTATE
  DreamSTATE is a Canadian ambient music project known for their soundscape installations and early live ambient performances in the Toronto, Ontario area...
  
  

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• The Hafler Trio
• Halo Manash
  Halo Manash
  Halo Manash is a project of Anti Ittna Haapapuro originating from Finland. It is dark ambient / experimental combining electronics, percussions, e-bowed guitars, bone flute and various other sounds...
  
  
• Kurt Harland
  Kurt Harland
  Kurt Harland is a singer, composer, and video game developer/audio engineer. He is best known as the lead singer of Information Society and composer of the soundtracks for the Legacy of Kain video game series.-Biography:...
  
  
• Heimkveld Kunst
  Heimkveld Kunst
  Heimkveld Kunst is an Ambient music band, founded in the late of 2005 by C.-04- Group development :At the beginning, Heimkveld Kunst starts Dark Ambient and Experimental music, influenced by Black Metal, Dark Ambient and Symphonic Metal bands. Born in 2005, it's only in 2006 that first songs are...
  
  
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Vladimír Hirsch
  Vladimír Hirsch
  Vladimír Hirsch is a Czech avantgarde composer, integrating industrial and dark ambient music with modern classical composition. Besides creating solo works, he is the founding member and leader of Skrol, Aghiatrias and various other projects...
  
  
• Hwyl Nofio
  Hwyl Nofio
  Hwyl Nofio is an experimental music group whose only permanent member is Steve Parry. Steve Parry was Hwyl Nofio (from Welsh meaning ‘emotional swimmers’) is an experimental music group whose only permanent member is Steve Parry. Steve Parry was Hwyl Nofio (from Welsh meaning ‘emotional swimmers’)...
  
  

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• Ice Ages
  Ice Ages (band)
  Ice Ages is an Austrian dark electro / industrial band signed to Napalm Records. The band is a one-man band consisting of Richard Lederer from Summoning and Die Verbannten Kinder Evas.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ildjarn
  Ildjarn
  Ildjarn was a black metal project from Norway that formed in 1991. Ildjarn recorded music until 1997 but did not officially end until 2005. The man behind Ildjarn was Vidar Vaaer, although some releases were collaborations with a musician known as Nidhogg...
  
  
• In Slaughter Natives
  In Slaughter Natives
  In Slaughter Natives is a Swedish industrial, dark ambient act formed by Jouni Havukainen in 1985. They have releases on the Cold Meat Industry label.- Discography :# In Slaughter Natives # Enter Now the World...
  
  
• Instant Pyrolysis
• Iszoloscope
  Iszoloscope
  Iszoloscope is an industrial band from Aylmer, Quebec, currently based in Montreal. Iszoloscope's music ranges from harsh, rhythmic noise to ambient soundscapes...
  
  

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• Kammarheit
  Kammarheit
  Kammarheit is a dark ambient music project of Pär Boström from Umeå, Sweden. His music has been described as "lush soundscapes that are both ominous, beautiful, and breathtaking".- Unofficial Albums :* Shockwork * Among The Ruins...
  
  
• Kanon Wakeshima
  Kanon Wakeshima
  is a Japanese singer and cellist. Produced by Mana, Wakeshima debuted under the DefStar Records label on May 28, 2008 with the single "Still Doll", the ending theme for the anime adaptation of the manga series Vampire Knight. She also provided the voice for a maid that appears in the eighth episode...
  
  
• Andrey Kiritchenko
  Andrey Kiritchenko
  Andrey Kiritchenko is a person known among experimental music fans as author and contributor of various critically acclaimed projects, founder of Nexsound records, producer who has contributed his significant share into the development of electronic music scene in Ukraine and already considered as...
  
  
• Fredrik Klingwall
  Fredrik Klingwall
  Fredrik Klingwall is a Swedish composer, musician and producer.-Biography:In 1995 Fredrik started writing instrumental music which became the foundation for Rising Shadows, a Neoclassical project that was started by Fredrik in 1996. With no real focus the project was put to rest and Fredrik...
  
  
• Knurl
  Knurl (band)
  Knurl is the noise music project of Alan Bloor, Canadian experimental composer and sculptor. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Bloor has been performing and recording Knurl material since 1994, when his seminal harsh noise releases "Nervescrap" and "Initial Shock" were recorded and released...
  
  
• Köner, Thomas
  Thomas Köner
  Thomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies...
  
  
• KTL
  KTL
  KTL is a musical duo consisting of Stephen O'Malley ))) and Peter Rehberg , originally formed to create the music for a theatre production titled Kindertotenlieder by Gisèle Vienne and Dennis Cooper...
  
  

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• Lab Report
  Lab Report
  Lab Report was an improvisational, dark ambient, band created by Matthew Schultz, Eric Pounder and Chris Blazen in 1989. The experimental project gained notoriety as one of the earliest dark ambient musical projects stemming from the Industrial music genre....
  
  
• LAShTAL
  LAShTAL
  LAShTAL is the second release by Current 93, the first Mi-Mort was a split-album. The album features musicians Fritz Häaman and John Balance in addition to the primary Current 93 member David Tibet...
  
  
• Leviathan
  Leviathan (band)
  Leviathan is an American black metal band formed in 1998 by Wrest . In Leviathan, Wrest records and plays all instruments including vocals entirely on his own. Additionally, Wrest has collaborated with the band Sunn O))), and is an active member of the U.S. black metal supergroup Twilight...
  
  
• Lifelover
  Lifelover
  Lifelover was a Swedish black metal band, formed in 2005 by B and . The band split up in September 2011 due to the death of lead composer, B.-Biography:...
  
  
• Life Toward Twilight
  Life Toward Twilight
  Life Toward Twilight is a dark ambient, post-industrial project from Detroit, Michigan. Life Toward Twilight's sound explores genres such as martial industrial and neoclassical, with a heavy presence of ambience and drone.-Members / History:...
  
  
• Lilith
  Lilith (group)
  Lilith is a pioneer American Dark ambient music group formed by Scott Gibbons in 1986.Early self-released albums contained little or no text to suggest authorship or titles, and were rooted in homemade audio devices and modified consumer electronics...
  
  
• Loscil
  Loscil
  Loscil is the electronic/ambient music project of Scott Morgan, from Vancouver, BC. The name Loscil is taken from the "looping oscillator" function in Csound...
  
  
• Lull
• Lustmord
  Lustmord
  Brian Williams is a British electronic musician often credited for creating the dark ambient genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord.- History :Williams started recording as Lustmord in 1980 before joining SPK in 1982...
  
  

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• Maeror Tri
  Maeror Tri
  Maeror Tri was an ambient noise and drone music band from Germany founded in the 1980s which consisted of Stefan "Baraka H" Knappe, Martin "GLIT[s]CH" Git and Helge Siehl....
  
  
• Mariae Nascenti
  Mariae Nascenti
  Mariae Nascenti is a one-man industrial music project from Milan, Italy.The creation of Ango Visone, Maria Nascenti has been described as 'dark ambient', 'harsh electronics' and 'ambient industrial'. Songs consist of soundscapes, sometimes employing "found sound", and are frequently accompanied by...
  
  
• Mark Morgan
  Mark Morgan
  Mark Morgan is an American score composer for video games, television and films. He is well-known for his work in Fallout, Fallout 2 and Planescape: Torment.-Video games:* Zork Nemesis * Dark Seed II...
  
  
• Daniel Menche
  Daniel Menche
  Daniel Menche is a musician from Portland, Oregon. He has released music on labels such as Soleilmoon, Trente Oiseaux, Or Records, Alien8, Antifrost, Tesco Organisation, Blossoming Noise, f e r n s recordings Beta-lactam Ring Records, and Editions Mego...
  
  
• Merzbow
  Merzbow
  is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...
  
  
• Midnight Syndicate
  Midnight Syndicate
  Midnight Syndicate is an American musical group that has been working mainly in the genre of gothic music since 1997 and is based out of Chardon, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland...
  
  
• Mindspawn
  Mindspawn
  Mindspawn is the name given to the soundscape, dark ambient, ambient industrial act formed and fronted by Gene Williams. The first "official" Mindspawn release was the album Null Infinite, which was released in 2001, although two CDR releases Darkness Weaves and Conversing With Zardoz were released...
  
  
• Mingo
  Mingo (musician)
  Mingo is an ambient musician and composer based out of Colorado, USA. With a discography of over twenty years, he has explored a vast array of electronic music from techno to new age.- Early Years :...
  
  
• The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud
  The Moon lay hidden beneath a Cloud
  The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud was an Austrian musical duo composed of Albin Julius and Alzbeth...
  
  
• Mortiis
  Mortiis
  Mortiis is a band from Notodden, Norway fronted by Håvard Ellefsen, who is also known as the namesake of the band. The name is a misspelling of the word 'mortis', which is the pronunciation used by the band. However, Mortiis started as the solo project of Ellefsen as a means to convey a story...
  
  
• MOZ
  MOZ
  MOZ is the dark ambient, power electronics project of American musician/composer JC Brand .-Origins:Founded in Houston Texas in 1997, transplanted to Anchorage, Alaska in 2000, and dubbed Post Power Electronics by Gary of Bed Molt/a sonic deterrent...
  
  
• Muslimgauze
  Muslimgauze
  Muslimgauze was a music project of Bryn Jones , a prolific British ethnic electronica and experimental musician, influenced by conflicts in the Muslim world with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
  
  

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• NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
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• Necrophorus
  Necrophorus
  Necrophorus is a project by Peter Andersson, master of dark ambient music -History:...
  
  
• Neptune Towers
  Neptune Towers
  Neptune Towers is a dark ambient side-project formed in 1993 by Fenriz of Darkthrone.-Background:Neptune Towers' stated goal is "To enable the listeners to keep both feet off the ground." Fenriz credits Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream as a big inspiration...
  
  
• Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
  
  
• Nocturnal Emissions
  Nocturnal Emissions
  Nocturnal Emissions is a sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrète, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music....
  
  
• Nocturno Culto
  Nocturno Culto
  Nocturno Culto is a Norwegian musician, best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and partial bassist of the influential black metal band Darkthrone. He has been with the band since 1988. He currently works in Norway as a school teacher, and has a son and a daughter...
  
  
• Noisegate
  Noisegate
  Noisegate was a group of artists dedicated to the exploration of sound as an artistic medium, based in Oakland, CA. Constantly recording, touring, and collaborating with other experimental artists and filmmakers, they became a staple of the Bay Area experimental music and sound-art scenes between...
  
  
• Nortt
  Nortt
  Nortt is a Danish one-man black funeral doom metal band formed in 1995. The band's sole member, who similarly goes by the name 'Nortt' , describes his music as "Pure Depressive Black Funeral Doom Metal"...
  
  
• Not Your Average Hippy
  Not Your Average Hippy
  Not Your Average Hippy is the name used by Scott Turner, an American ambient recording artist, for his solo ambient releases. Not Your Average Hippy is a deep exploration into tonality, lush soundscapes, and dark environmental sonic canvas....
  
  
• Nox Arcana
  Nox Arcana
  Nox Arcana is an American dark ambient musical group, formed in 2003 by Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski. Nox Arcana specializes in concept albums based on gothic fiction and classic horror literature. Such literary references include: H. P. Lovecraft, The Brothers Grimm, Ray Bradbury, and Edgar...
  
  
• Nurse With Wound
  Nurse with Wound
  Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak...
  
  

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• Objekt4
  Objekt4
  Objekt4 is the industrial, dark ambient band created by Anders Peterson in 2003 with the aim of expanding cinematic sound design into music. Peterson's goal is to "create music ambience rather than ambient music". He has released five full-length CDs, in addition to several limited-edition CD-Rs...
  
  
• Vidna Obmana
  Vidna Obmana
  Vidna Obmana is a pseudonym used by Belgian composer and ambient musician Dirk Serries. The name Vidna Obmana, a phrase in Serbian, literally translates to "optical illusion" and was chosen by Serries because he felt it accurately described the music...
  
  
• Ombient
  Ombient
  Ombient is the moniker under which Mike Hunter performs his completely improvised ambient/drone music.Ombient's ambient/drone music, being of a live and improvisational nature, is representative of the feeling of the moment in which it is performed and of the subtle feedback between the audience...
  
  
• Oöphoi
  Oöphoi
  Oöphoi is a pseudonym used by Italian ambient musician Gianluigi Gasparetti. He is perhaps best known for his role as the editor of "Deep Listenings", an Italian magazine dedicated to ambient and deep atmospheric music, where he has featured interviews with many famous ambient artists including...
  
  
• Ordo equitum solis
  Ordo equitum solis
  Ordo Equitum Solis are an alternative music band consisting of Leithana, pseudonym of Nathalie Herrera, French and Deraclamo, pseudonym of Paolo De Marco, Italian . The duo formed in 1988, released albums between 1990 and 2000 and made many tours. In 2001 the band suddenly broke up...
  
  
• Ordo Funebris
• Organum
  David Jackman
  David Jackman is a British musician and visual artist with an extensive catalogue of drone works, mostly as the principal — and often sole — member of Organum....
  
  
• William Orbit
  William Orbit
  William Orbit is an English musician, composer and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album Ray of Light. He has also co-produced several unreleased Madonna songs originally recorded for other albums...
  
  

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• Painkiller
  Painkiller (band)
  Painkiller is a band originally formed in 1991. Their style can be described as a mix of avant-garde jazz and grindcore; later albums also incorporated elements of ambient and dub....
  
  
• Pantha du Prince
  Pantha du Prince
  Hendrik Weber, better known as Pantha du Prince, Panthel and Glühen 4 is a German electronic music producer and DJ affiliated with Hamburg's Dial music label and British label Rough Trade.-Career:...
  
  
• Paysage D'Hiver
  Paysage D'Hiver
  Paysage d'Hiver is an ambient black metal band from Berne, Switzerland, formed in 1997. Sole member is Tobias Möckl a.k.a. "Wintherr", also of Darkspace. Paysage d'Hiver is french and translates to "Landscape of Winter", winter being the lyrical theme for most of Paysage d'Hiver's songs...
  
  
• Sandro Perri
  Sandro Perri
  Sandro Perri is a musician and producer from Toronto, Canada. His music has been called post-rock, electronic, experimental, ambient, folk among others....
  
  
• Pimentola
  Pimentola
  Pimentola an electronic orchestral/industrial project from Finland. Originally formed in 1996 by Lempo and Turja, it has since become the solo project of Lempo. Early dark/black metal influences have been dropped and experiemental, industrial, neoclassical, orchestral, ethnic and tribal sounds...
  
  
• Premature Ejaculation
  Premature Ejaculation (band)
  Premature Ejaculation was an experimental music group from Pomona, California in the United States. It briefly existed in 1981, and was reformed in 1987 by Rozz Williams of Christian Death fame and Chuck Collison.-History:...
  
  
• PureH
  PureH
  PureH is a slovenian electronic music group formed in 1993, when their first clips “Inertia” appeared. Before that they were gathering experiences as musicians in several bands The group initially consisted of a producer and video artist. After performing at the festival Break21, the group was...
  
  

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• Raison d'être
  Raison d'être (band)
  Raison d'être is a Swedish industrial ambient music project formed by Peter Andersson.The name of the band was taken from a sentence in a book by Carl Gustav Jung: "the individuation is the raison d’être of the self"....
  
  
• Rapoon
  Rapoon
  Rapoon is a musical project of Robin Storey, a former member of Zoviet France, who has released material on notable independent labels such as Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Manifold, Beta-Lactam Ring, and Lens Records.- Selected discography :...
  
  
• The Resonance Association
  The Resonance Association
  The Resonance Association, formed in 2006, brought together the pairing of Daniel Vincent and Dominic Hemy to create music that combines emotive guitar solos, dense atmospherics and blistering industrial rhythms...
  
  
• Robert Rich
  Robert Rich (musician)
  Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States. With a discography spanning over 30 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, New Age, and even IDM music.-Early life:At an early age he thought he disliked music...
  
  
• Steve Roach
• Roto Visage
  Roto Visage
  Roto Visage produces dark, ambient, electronic music that can be minimalist, deep, and often both at the same time. Roto Visage originally distributed his music through various net labels, where it could be downloaded for free but has since expanded into releasing on various forms of media.-...
  
  

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• Karl Sanders
  Karl Sanders
  Karl Sanders is an American musician, most widely known as the founding member of the American Egyptian-themed death metal band Nile. He was born in California, and lives in Greenville, South Carolina. Karl is endorsed by Dean Guitars, and has two signature models by KxK Guitars...
  
  
• Paul Schütze
  Paul Schütze
  Paul Schütze is an Australian artist resident in London. Over thirty years his work has spanned composition, performance, installation, video, printmaking and photography....
  
  
• Scorn
  Scorn (band)
  Scorn was an English electronic music project. The group was formed in the early 1990s as a side project of former Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nic Bullen...
  
  
• SleepResearch Facility
  SleepResearch Facility
  SleepResearch_Facility is a dark ambient artist from Glasgow, Scotland, specializing in sleep-conducive beatless ambient music which is both artistic as well as functional.-Overview:...
  
  
• Sophia
  Sophia (indie band)
  Sophia is an indie rock band consisting of Robin Proper-Sheppard, former member of The God Machine, and the Sophia collective, a group of musicians who collaborate with Sophia...
  
  
• SPK
  SPK (band)
  SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. One member, Graeme Revell, would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer.-History:...
  
  
• Stars of the Lid
  Stars of the Lid
  Stars of the Lid is a duo specializing in drone-based ambient music. They list among their influences minimalist and electronic composers such as Arvo Pärt, Zbigniew Preisner, Gavin Bryars, and Henryk Górecki, as well as Talk Talk , post-rock artists Labradford, and ambient innovator Brian...
  
  
• Stratvm Terror
• Striborg
  Striborg
  Striborg is a black metal artist from Tasmania. The musician 'Sin Nanna' began Striborg in 1994, and he has also recorded under the names Kathaaria and Veil of Darkness. Sin Nanna recorded and released demos on a yearly basis until 2004, when his first studio album was released. His lyrics reveal a...
  
  
• Sunn O)))
  Sunn O)))
  Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...
  
  
• Soap&Skin
  Soap&Skin
  Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg .- Life :Anja Plaschg grew up in a small village called Gnas in south east Styria, where her parents have a farm. She has played piano since she was six. At the age of 14 she began violin studies and developed an interest...
  
  

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• Tangerine Dream
  Tangerine Dream
  Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...
  
  
• Tetsu Inoue
  Tetsu Inoue
  Tetsu Inoue is a producer of electronic music. His style could be described as ambient with a heavy minimalist influence. He has lived in Japan, San Francisco, and New York, and has collaborated with musicians such as Pete Namlook, Bill Laswell, Andrew Deutsch, Jonah Sharp, and Taylor Deupree.His...
  
  
• Robert Scott Thompson
  Robert Scott Thompson
  Robert Scott Thompson is a composer of ambient, instrumental and electroacoustic music. He earned the B.Mus. degree from the University of Oregon and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at San Diego. His primary teachers include Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa and...
  
  
• Throbbing Gristle
  Throbbing Gristle
  Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...
  
  
• Toroidh
  Toroidh
  Toroidh is a martial music project by Swedish musician Henrik Nordvargr Björkk . Bjorkk has described it as a continuation of Folkstorm, his previous project.- Quote :...
  
  
• Devin Townsend
  Devin Townsend
  Devin Garret Townsend is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2007 and has had an extensive career as a solo artist....
  
  
• Triangular Ascension
  Federico Ágreda
  Federico Augusto Ágreda Álvarez, is a Venezuelan keyboardist, DJ, composer, producer and remixer known for his musical projects in genres such as drum and bass, dark ambient, black metal and minimal techno.-Biography:...
  
  
• Trist
  Trist
  Trist may refer to:*David Trist , a New Zealand cricketer*Eric Trist , a British scientist*Nicholas Trist , an American diplomat...
  
  
• Troum
  Troum
  Troum is a German project of drone music, ambient music, noise music, and experimental music. It was founded in the late 1990s by Stefan Knappe and Martin Gitschel . It is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project to Maeror Tri...
  
  
• Tenhi
  Tenhi
  Tenhi is a Finnish band formed in 1996, playing melancholic, neofolk music. The word tenhi is an old Finnish word meaning a village elder, wise old man or seer....
  
  

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• Ulver
  Ulver
  Ulver is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler , Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and...
  
  
• Velvet Cacoon
  Velvet Cacoon
  Velvet Cacoon was a black metal band from Portland, Oregon, USA. According to members, the band was formed in 1996, although no material was released publicly until 2002. Due to the lack of information being provided by its members, it has proved very difficult to discern what is truth and what is...
  
  
• Wardruna
  Wardruna
  Wardruna is a musical project based on Nordic spiritualism and the runes of the Elder Futhark . It was started by Einar "Kvitrafn" Selvik in 2003, along with Gaahl and Lindy Fay Hella....
  
  
• Xasthur
  Xasthur
  Xasthur was a Californian one-man black metal band formed in 1995 by Scott Conner, who goes by the pseudonym "Malefic". Although similar in terms of low-fi production and the wearing of corpse paint, musically and lyrically Xasthur's focus is usually not on paganism, Satanism or anti-Christian...
  
  
• Yōsei Teikoku
• Za Frûmi
  Za Frûmi
  Za Frûmi is a Swedish music group that was formed in 2000. The Group creates dark, fantasy inspired music.-History:Za Frûmi came about in 2000 and was formed by Simon Heath, Donald Persson, Simon Kölle; Donald Persson left in 2001. This kind of fantasy/dark waves/neo folk music, the Za Frûmi...
  
  
• Zoviet France
  Zoviet France
  Zoviet France is a prolific music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textures, their music also falls into the ambient music category...