Who knew music inspired by Warhammer 40,000’s grimdark vision could be so… beautiful?

Inspired by a classic ’80s manga, this is an album of dark, drone-y ambience par excellence.

The latest from Johan Levin’s long-running dark ambient project is a harrowing, exhilarating journey through desolate places.

Raison d’être’s dark ambience may begin in the shadows, but it’s never content to stay there.

Hypnosis is difficult material that takes the listener on a mental journey through surreal and haunting places.

Mise en Abyme is a fascinating, disturbing, enthralling, unsettling listen, and one of the most accomplished Raison d’être releases to date.

Proof that quieter and subtler can prove more impactful and haunting than any barrage of monstrous or terrifying sounds.

For those of you who have always found Massive Attack to be too poppy and upbeat, Kairos might be just the thing.

Melancholic dark ambience that is as good as anything I’ve purchased from the likes of Projekt, Cold Meat Industries, Manifold, Soleilmoon, etc.

As with all of Caul’s work, there can be beauty, reverence, and warmth, even in the darkest and most foreboding of places and sounds.

As the title implies, this is dark, dank, atmospheric stuff, hinting at all of the aforementioned imagery.

All of this comes together to create that most unique of sensations in the listener: awe.

Designed for Reading retains a consistent cinematic feel, full of dramatic drones, haunting vocal pieces, and dark slabs of ambience.

These are vast recordings, traveling from the deepest crypts to the furthest reaches of space.

There’s hardly a minute on the disc that isn’t awash with blackened waves of drone and drift, eerie scrapings and ringings, and whatnot.

Recent days have seen the release of a trio of Caul titles (one of which is a three disc collection itself), with more on the way.

This is a soundtrack for outer space, with all of its wonders and terrors.

Much of the music seems too thickly enshrouded by its sonic fog to hold your interest for very long.

Much of the music on here is pretty challenging, but fortunately for the listener, it almost always delivers.

Definitely a mood piece, one that evokes a sense of power and majesty amidst sorrow.