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Step into a dank green world where the moss has taken over. Ghostly memories are encased in damp and darkness. Ominous trees with gnarled branches loom in the shadows. Sprawling and crooked roots jut out of the earth like claws reaching forth. The streams that once fed the root system are now stagnant pools of dark green matter. This is The Green Decay.
The petrified, ghostly landscape is burned out and barren. Relics of bygone industry scatter the horizon. However the vast array of smouldering factory chimneys would suggest the city is not entirely dead… The mechanical grinding ebb and flow of industry haunts the air, and a deep droning pulse can be heard emanating from deep within the smog… and what are those strange foghorns???
Second instalment in our Ghost Stories series where artists are invited to choose or imagine an eldritch tale to realise in music.
Revamped edition of a forgotten dark-guitar soundscape masterpiece.
All tracks mixed & created by Humanfobia: sound programming & mixer: Sábila Orbe. vocals, model on the cover: Mist Spectra. *track 11 remix of original track: "Phantom of Subway" by "ƔI▲†∆†▲IƔ"
released first under filmy ghost moniker at cian orbe in 2020.- re-released later as humanfobia project: https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/album/a-vaporwitch-tribute-to-poltergeist-2020
released 13th October full version at: https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/album/horrorlake
A dark ambient album created in collaboration between artists from Brazil, America, and Ireland, touching on the absurdity of being human on this ridiculous spheroid planet of ours.
5 track album
V/A Compilation inspired on the black lodge (Twin Peaks series) // Humanfobia / Filmy Ghost collaborations and remixes with various experimental artists.-
6 track album
▲ HUMANFOBIA 2023 EP ▲ Inspired in the horror movie classic: "THE BROOD" (1979) directed by David Cronenberg. visit: https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/ for full humanfobia discography.-
†▲ 2021 HUMANFOBIA ALBUM †▲ //
The seeds of this have been slowly growing for years, ever since I first read about long-term nuclear waste warning messages and the work of the Human Interference Task Force. I struggle to plan for next week, so it blows my mind that some people can be looking thousands of years into the future and thinking about how to keep our descendants safe from the problems we've created for ourselves. It gives me just a little hope that *someone* out there might be thinking about humanity's distant future.
7 track album
Composition '23 Shades Of Unrelated' created specifically for Dark Ambient Compilation (Vol. 23), released by Sombre Soniks (UK) // SomSon175
UgUrGkuliktavikt & HELLBERG reunite once again for a new collaboration, doubling as the nightmarish soundtrack to a short surrealist horror story you may read below, at your full displeasure. Something is scraping. Something has a fever. Neither appears to understand the idea of a door. Enjoy. And Love. And Rot.
Silent Hill. Its dying streets misplaced beneath a poisonous fog. Derelict buildings breathing through broken windows. Empty rooms that somehow remember who suffered inside them. Rust. Dampness. Fluorescent lights trembling themselves toward extinction. Something dragging itself behind a wall. And beneath all of it: the unbearable suspicion that the town knows you. That it has been waiting. A purgatory built not from bricks but from trauma, guilt, repression, depression, unspeakable fears—the soft internal catastrophes we bury deep enough to pretend they have stopped moving. A kind of Lovecraftian Solaris, perhaps, reshaping itself around the wounds of whoever wanders too far inside. Its post-human abominations crawl from this psychic architecture like Francis Bacon figures somehow taught to breathe. With Somehow I feel I'm not supposed to leave this place..., Hemwick does not merely pay tribute to this universe. He extends it. Another condemned corridor has appeared where there wasn't one before. The album is magnificently desolate: feverish, frozen, deconstructed, deeply wrong. Antiquated dark ambient wanders through carbonized death-industrial machinery; grief-stricken drones dissolve into spectral lo-fi electronics; distant metallic convulsions, diseased frequencies and glacial sound-effects emerge and disappear like things glimpsed through fog that perhaps should not be approached. Everything feels abandoned. Everything feels inhabited. A deliciously hideous work of sonic macabre—music for wandering through places that construct themselves from memories you were never supposed to recover. And somewhere, impossibly far behind you, a door has closed. You don't remember opening it. -Sir Kuliktavikt
The Air We Breathe is a collaboration between Australian sound artists Saliatahn (Sergei Tumanov) and Midnight (Eileen Francisco), originally created for Dark Ambient Compilation (Vol. 28) by UK label Sombre Soniks. Emerging now as an independent release, the piece unfolds as a meditation on atmosphere, breath, and presence. Layers of drones, subtle electronics, and shifting textures create a dense yet fragile sound field - hovering between ambient calm and quiet tension. It invites deep listening: headphones on, lights low, attention open. The Air We Breathe gestures toward what we rarely perceive - the air itself, the vibration between silence and sound. For both artists, this collaboration stands as an exploration of subtlety, atmosphere, and the interstitial space between noise and stillness. It resonates within the broader lineage of dark ambient and experimental electronics, yet maintains a distinct voice: intimate, slow-burning, and immersive. Take a breath. Listen closely. The air is never silent.
4 track album
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