Lately, I’ve been really getting more and more into Doom Metal, especially Drone Doom and Funeral Doom. I’ve also been going apeshit on Dark Ambient, Experimental and Ambient Noise albums. It’s all great shit to zone to. Here’s some of the albums I’ve snagged off of eMusic this past month that I’m really digging:

Catacombs is a one-man Funeral Doom project. “In the Depths of R’lyeh” is the only album out there and it’s some really great shit. If you’re into Funeral Doom, you’ll appreciate this album. If you’ve never heard this kind of music before, but you like dark, ambient types of sound, it’s a good album to get you into the genre. It rumbles, moans, and plods with a malevolent and somber vibe with no jarring or screeching to jolt you out of your headspace. I really hope Catacombs releases more shit. This is the kind of album I can set to loop and listen to for hours.

Robert Rich and Lustmord are two ambient artists who’ve teamed up to make one seriously good Dark Ambient album. “Stalker” is deep, distant and cavernous. Waves of sound mix with dripping water, strangely human echoes and heavy rumblings A good ambient album paints a landscape (or soundscape) for the listener and “Stalker” is a prime example. Listening, I imagine some huge, water-filled cave; deep underground and whispering the traces of someone or something that used to live there. I really dig this album. You should too.

Another album by the above mentioned Robert Rich, called “Below Zero” is a super-spacey Ambient collection by a man who has been a major influence with experimental music over the past twenty years. Vast, indifferent and at times menacing, the album is filled with droning almost industrial roars, higher tones that come and go like a tide and strange, almost organic chiming noises that comes together to give an overall feeling of standing on a precipice, watching something immense and inscrutable unfold itself. This is a massive and beautiful album.

Robert Henke is a musician and producer who usually publishes under the name “Monolake“, who put out the album “Signal to Noise” under his real name. The album, comprised of three tracks for a total of over fifty minutes, reminds me of the CD collection I had in High School of recordings made by NASA’s Voyager Space Probe as it passed various celestial bodies (there’s sound in space, just no atmosphere to hear it, but the CDs were the electromagnetic recordings, processed to sound. They rule.). It’s the kind of album where if you were to listen to it while really high, you’ll either transcend a few planes or spend the next hour chewing the wallpaper off your bedroom. It’s long, seemingly random and flows really well with a strong electronic style overlaying organic roars and rumbles. I love this kind of shit.

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