eskhaton is the end
A dark industrial descent, following a fallen arch into ominous soundscapes. Martial industrial techno, otherworldly dark ambient, and menacing dark electro. It is an alignment of nocturnal forces, at their most powerful when the darkness sets in for the winter solstice.
Featuring more than 30 dark ambient, dark industrial, and ritual noise tracks, selected from 15 featured releases.
Featured Releases
The Oblivion of Time
by Nigh/T\mare on kontralamakina
An absolutely pitch-black sonic ritual, Nigh/T\mare‘s recent debut on kontralamakina is a relentless dark industrial inversion. Ominous, martial drumming charges across desolate, immersive soundscapes. Booming, kinetic percussion echos all around as you descend through cavernous dark industrial and into sinister dark ambient. Heavy and haunted. A great release, very powerful and very dark, genuinely foreboding.
Featured tracks:
- Track 1, “Tongues of Fire” is huge. Ritual dark industrial techno. Big, slow, and sinister, an excellent track.
- Track 3, Slow and cinematic, “Butterfly Effect” is pensive dark industrial techno.
- Track 5, Thundering martial percussion, spooky soundscapes, and sharp, conjuring synths.
- Track 6, “The Oblivion of Time” opens as an eerie soundscape, set upon by swirling drone, and veiled dark ambient voices.
The Hedonic Treadmill
by Hedon on Vumantra
Ritual, dark industrial techno. Environmental soundscapes and dark ambience that feels ancient. Infused with guttural chanting, distant drumming, and ancestral percussion. Available from Vumantra as a Name Your Price release.
Featured tracks:
- Track 4, “God is in the Neurons” – Clandestine choral chanting that conjures up an urgent, pulsating tempo in this dark ceremony.
- Track 2, Ominous, darkening and atmospheric, “Anhedonia” is dark, ritual noise that creeps in like a sinister fog.
- Track 1, Dark and diffuse, “The Omnipresent” is a march across a distant soundscape, with guttural vocals drifting from the abyss.
Kiriha EP
by Inglawt on Persephonic Sirens
Featured tracks:
- Track 5, Sinister, stalking dark electro EBM tears through the night on “Dunkle Materie”
- Track 6, “Enma” is on ominous and unforgiving dark industrial soundscape.
- Track 1, “Bjarkan” is hostile and austere noise.
So long,farewell
by Kimisma on Brutal Forms
Lots of spooky stuff, dark industrial techno and rhythmic noise, some of it is pretty heavy.
Featured tracks:
- Track 2, is washed out, gritty, mechanical noise. “Message To A Beloved One” churns, and feels reverent.
- Track 1, super spooky, dark electro industrial. “The Devil Inside” is sinister, smoke machine industrial EBM.
emergency landing
by Anatoly Grinberg & Andreas Davids on ant-zen
emergency landing is a follow-up to the industrial idm & rhythmic noise release inspired by a tragedy, and features remixes by Room Of Wires, Autoclav1.1, Flint Glass, Loss, Empusae, Ah Cama-Sotz, and Spherical Disrupted.
This playlist features a few dark industrial and rhythmic noise picks, and features a couple from foundational ritual industrial acts Empusae & Ah Cama-Sotz.
Featured tracks:
- Track 5, “voices from the future (remix by Empusae)” is a twisting and listing cinematic score, eerie and creeping ritual noise.
- Track 6, “the silence between two seconds (remix by Ah Cama-Sotz)” is lurching, wicked, and rolling.
- Track 7, an anxious and surreal sonic space, “the end (of function by Spherical Disrupted remix)” resonates with tension has a bit of an avant-garde sci-fi energy.
The Last Wish
by § (section) on Depth Request
Section dropped this industrial techno EP back in September, and it features some shadowy permutations turned up by Violent and 2+2=5.
Featured tracks:
- Track 5, storming distortion, “Pray For Monolit (Violent Rework)”
- Track 6, bleak and unsettling, “Things Aren’t Always What They Seem (2+2=5 Remix)”
Silliness
by Aitcher Clark on VEYL
Deep, layered, and expansive soundscapes. Heavy, sinister, and somber dark industrial ambient. A great album to sit and listen to.
Featured tracks:
- Track 4, ambient noise and grim industrial, “Berlin Unfulfilled” conjures up sinister sludge with booming kicks.
- Track 2, “Improperly Planned Experience” is bleak, washed out, and otherworldly. Ambient and dark industrial.
Black Sun
by Unknown Relikt on Vumantra
In alchemy’s first stage, the black sun represents the cleansing of a material into its essential form, and has been used as a metaphor to describe an individual’s confrontation with the dark fires of their subconscious. Unknown Relikt invokes the shadows with this stark and haunting dark ambient EP. Noisy, creeping, cinematic. Very on theme and an intense listening experience.
Featured tracks:
- Track 3, Haunting ambient/noise, churned up in “Mud” with flittering and looped vocal samples.
- Track 2, “Malie Tela” is sinister sludge, plodding through an abrasive noisescape.
I Carry A Wounded Deer
by She’s Hearing Voices on aufnahme + wiedergabe
Dark ambient recordings, industrial music. Ritual and abstract.
Featured tracks:
- Track 3, “Fingertips Of The Other” is pulsing, vacant, hypnotic and haunted.
- Track 5, dark ambient, “Craft Your Night Sky”
- Track 7, “Unwavering Faith In Darkness” an immersive, dark ambient soundscape.
Shortlisted
If You Do, Then When?
by Pierre Berge-Cia on Depth Request
Rolling, lurking, dark & broken beat.
Featured tracks:
- Track 2, “Breathwork” sounds like a looming and vacant cityscape.
- Track 1, sinister and lurking, “Common Fears Are What Bring Us So Close”
Midnight Tenants EP
by Ombrar on Askorn Records
Featured tracks:
- Track 4, broken beat dungeon ambience, “The 04AM Passenger (Catartsis Remix)”
- Track 2, “Rooted Bone” is thundering industrial techno, at the gates.
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by Makaton on Rodz-Konez
Great, a very interesting album. Raw, sonic collage, heavy industrial techno, breaks, and dub techno.
Featured tracks:
- Track 2, intense dark electro, “Revolution Kiss” is raw, dark aggro. Menacing industrial techno that phases out into eerie ambient.
Intenzioni Belliche
by Cranya on Brutal Forms
Featured tracks:
- Track 2, “Chi Ride Ultimo” threatening, dark industrial techno.
HOUND VOL. 4
V/A on HOUND
Dark industrial, dark electro, and techno body music.
Featured tracks:
- Track 2, “Endless Nothing – The State of Being”
Le Voile D’une Destinée Déchirée
by Chance on Modular Minds
Distorted, powerful, noisy, raw.
Featured tracks:
- Track 2, noise, dark, drone, “Dans Le Confort Tu Aurais Aimé Que L’amnésie Te Frappe”
- Track 1, noisy, ambient. ambient/noise. “La Surdité D’un Train Qui M’empresse”
- Track 3, “Je L’ai Oublié L’horizon” is raw, downbeat and possessed.
The Shortest of Days, The Darkest of Nights
Lunation 1274 –
This year’s edition of eskhaton aligns with of the arrival of the new moon on Friday, the 19th of December. At the end of the lunar cycle, these dark, moonless nights share their observance this weekend with the winter solstice on December 21st.
The shortest of days, the darkest of nights.
Sol and Mani are sister and brother. They ride through the sky on horse-drawn chariots, relentlessly pursued by the wolves Skoll and Hati.
One day there will come a Great Winter, which will continue for three years. The wolves, who have hunted the sun and the moon since the cosmos began, will at last catch their quarry. The sun will fail, plunging the earth into darkness and cold. The moon and the stars will disappear from the sky, leaving nothing but a black void.
this is the end.
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