Reviews and other rambles about releases from Wordclock, Knocked Loose, BUMMER, Gonemage, Trophy Scars, GRIZZLOR, Knock Over City, Insomnium, and many more.
Category: Dark Ambient
#219 | Album Review | Cities Last Broadcast – The Umbra Report
Roving through the antumbra cast by Pär Boström’s second solo Cities Last Broadcast record on the Cryo Chamber label.
#213 | Interview | Patrik Jarlestam (Composer of the Valheim Videogame Soundtrack)
Delving into the mind behind the compositions of the hit Viking-themed survival game, Valheim.
#204 | Album Review | Kammarheit – Thronal
Wandering the Dreamer’s fields.
2020 Year-End Wrap-Up
Top 2020 album picks from the FCU conttibutors.
#194 | Album Review | Atrium Carceri – Mortal Shell Soundtrack
A podcast review of the Mortal Shell Soundtrack, Atrium Carceri’s latest record that fleshes out the Stygian bogs of Fallgrim.
#193 | Album Review | Tineidae – Exo
Exploring beautiful nebulas, exploding quasars, and distant galaxy swirls.
#168 | Album Review | Dark Sky Burial – De Omnibus Dubitandum Est
An album review podcast of the debut LP, De Omnibus Dubitandum Est, from Dark Sky Burial, the new project of Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury.
#164 | Album Review | Lesa Listvy – Unheard Of
An enrapturing dark ambient sojourn through polluted skies.
#161 | Album Reviews | Beneath the Massacre, Benighted, Black Curse, and DVT
Briefer album reviews of the latest albums from Beneath the Massacre (Fearmonger), Benighted (Obscene Repressed), Black Curse (Endless Wound), and DVT (To the Great Monolith II).
#153 | Album Review | Lemna – Retrocausality
An album review podcast of the hypnotizing electronic constructs contained within Lemna’s latest record, Retrocausality.
#146 | Album Review | Cryo Chamber – Hastur
“Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.”