Hauntological Music

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Something Scraping Against the Idea of a Door (And the Fever That Learned to Use the Vessel)

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.

Hemwick

Somehow I feel I'm not supposed to leave this place...

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 Sleeper of Oknö

The Häxa Curse

This project and album is inspired by a woman who slept for 32 years, Karolina Olsson. The circumstances surrounding her three decades of slumber are mysterious and strange. Nobody knows exactly what happened. Fourteen year old Karolina was out in cold weather, playing alone, when she suffered a head wound. Four days later she had a terrible toothache. Her family attributed all this to the curse of a witch. She was sent to bed. She then slept for 32 years. During this time she was fed two glasses of milk every day while sleeping. She seemed to be decades younger than she really was. Nobody knows what really happened to Karolina Olsson when she was out playing alone. These tracks are composed in a way that means they go on forever. It's as if they were short excerpts of much larger, longer pieces. They are the strange offspring of HNW and death industrial and musique concrète. -The Sleeper of Oknö

UgUrGkuliktavikt

Variations for a Coldgate Nightmare

A delirious descent into the minty labyrinth of Vincent Gallo’s subconscious — where toothpaste burns the soul and where dental hygiene becomes theology. This album exhumes a single, ridiculous, divine image: the adolescent Gallo, trembling before a tube of Colgate, convinced it was evil. From this absurd seed grows a hallucinatory monument to fear, narcissism, and synthetic cleanliness — a sound-collage ritual exorcising the nightmare of freshness itself. The process was an autopsy: the infamous post-Brown Bunny interview — Gallo’s incoherent confession of defeat, madness, and toothpaste-phobia — was sampled, splintered, eviscerated. Every vowel, every nervous breath was fed through distortion, reversal, corrosion. His voice now mutters in fragments of ghostly ad jingles and commercial choirs — 1950s and 1980s Colgate spots, sterilized smiles, mint euphorias, all warped into infernal hymns. The jingles rot in reverb, melt into feedback, become demonic lullabies for the cavity of the mind. Between these ruins: a keyboard trembling in pale delirium, a few murmurs and deranged laughs, and the blunt percussion of skull-on-cardboard — a rhythmic self-flagellation to punctuate the delirium of modern hygiene. No melody. No message. Only the phantom taste of mint — corrosive, holy, erotic, a toothpaste apocalypse whispered through industrial feedback. Variations for a Coldgate Nightmare is pure shit and it's also a hauntological-surrealist masterpiece. A sonic exorcism of commercial fear, a dadaist ritual for the cracked mirror of fame and childhood trauma, a meditation on purity as horror and mint as damnation. This is UgUrGkuliktavikt lost inside Gallo’s head — a chorus of decaying smiles, screaming cavities, and fluorescent angels brushing their teeth in hell.

izprijenostь, UgUrGkuliktavikt, unknown artist, artist unknown

defiled & left to wither

Four blades coming down upon the spine of the real, the fertile decomposition leaking / breeding / dribbling from the wounds, world-spiders forcing their way through the twitching meat, fauna screaming its own expiration swarming noises sullen noises wet noises electriiiiiiiiiiiIIIICkkkSSSS noiseS. four plagues four slugs four plague-slugs softly softly softly flooding over your carcasses The raw / rabid / hypnagogic / larval Black Ambient of izprijenostь The diseased bruitist anti-music of Sir Kuliktavikt and ThEsE 2 OthHhHERR vaguely-sonic entities (that will remain unknown forevermore) whose very existence remains a matter of the foulest superstition. no songs here perhaps no sound perhaps only the wet machinery beneath things only the cavity left when reality has finished eating itself COME tear the bark from the dead worlds peel peel peel peel until there is no underneath and drink straight from the ruptured eye of the treetops. DRINK UNTIL THE SKY IS HOLLOW. -Sir Kuliktavikt

HELLBERG & UgUrGkuliktavikt

Was die Erde nicht verdauen konnte

"What the Earth Could Not Digest" The second collaboration between profane experimental necrosmiths HELLBERG (Germany) and UgUrGkuliktavikt (Canada) is a spectral split offering two long-form compositions vomited straight from the soil's subconscious. Opening the ritual, HELLBERG's “Kreuz 78” is a slow, grave drift through the empty corridors of drone, doom and ambient. A crawling procession of shadow and rust, calm yet insistent, like a dying cathedral dreaming itself into mud. Its slow burn lulls the listener into a catatonic, trance-like fog — one both comforting and cursed. On the flip side, UgUrGkuliktavikt’s “Rite stochastique pour fantombes & cloches tubulaires concassées” unleashes a delirious phantasmagoria: collapsing harmoniums, mutilated bells, field recordings fractured beyond recognition, ghost-voices moaning through a wall of infernal ambient noise. The piece is an abstracted liturgy, a stochastically collapsing funeral rite for things no longer dead. Was die Erde nicht verdauen konnte (What the Earth Could Not Digest) is not an album — it’s a metaphysical rejection, a regurgitation of memory and matter. A split for those who dream in compost, and hear voices in the roots. hellberg1.bandcamp.com ugurgkuliktavikt.bandcamp.com

EL ZOMBIE ESPACIAL

Corre por tu vida

The Space Zombie arrives. Not from the stars. From the place the stars abandoned. Its soot-covered caravan crawls across the last desert, leaving behind a trail of dissonant guitars that drift through the air like grieving ghosts searching for bodies they have long forgotten. Morbid keyboard incantations seep from unseen horizons. Voices wander, emptied of their owners. A bassline burns with the slow radiance of a dying constellation, while the earth itself exhales the stale breath of a civilization that never truly learned how to die. Run for your life. Or don't. Across a single twenty-six-minute odyssey, EL ZOMBIE ESPACIAL conjures an extraordinary hallucination somewhere between drone, dark ambient, psychedelic desert rock, and post-apocalyptic cinema. Every sound feels coated in dust, rust, and irradiated twilight. Discreet orchestral flourishes emerge like distant memories before dissolving once more beneath an immense horizon where nothing remains except heat, static, and impossible silence. Then the bells begin. Not to warn. To announce. To celebrate the arrival of an abstract, noise-soaked salvation. Magnificent. Strange. -Sir Kuliktavikt

Russell's Teapot & UgUrGkuliktavikt

I think this song is haunted

I think this song is haunted do you? do you? do you? do you? do...

Totenbaum Träger

Hertzian Presence of the Holy Ghost

An Easter that refuses chronology, that blooms sideways into infinities: Hertzian Presence of the Holy Ghost arrives like a cathedral dreaming itself back into matter, each stone humming, each echo self-aware. Totenbaum Träger conducts a ceremony of impossible amplitudes. Half a million blue azures detonate softly in suspended nights, cascading into unreal chasms where light forgets its source and becomes substance. Tears drift there. Saints too. Their residues, their sacred dust, orbiting in fields of raw illumination, neither blessed nor profane, simply… radiant. This is music as elevation unmoored. Transfiguration without doctrine. A lone figure, or the idea of one, reaches toward an inaccessible beauty and, for a flicker, touches it. Not with hands, but with collapse. With surrender. The sound itself becomes the gesture. Reels unwind in a submerged church, flooded with memory and voltage. The ghosts of Catholic liturgy dissolve into mantra, into breath, into frequency. They pass through you, not as symbols but as currents. They reorganize the interior architecture. Knees bend in rooms that no longer exist. Voices chant in languages that have shed their alphabets. Night is rebuilt here, piece by trembling piece. Abundant. Luminous. Beautiful, yes, but a beauty that fractures as it shines, a brilliance threaded with unknowable depths. Darkness gleams. Coruscates. It sings. What Totenbaum Träger offers is not a composition but a state: a jubilant matter of sound, a celebration without center, a radiant collapse into listening. -Sir Kuliktavikt

Stagn(ant)

Queen Edifice

Queen Edifice leaks upward. A carnival corpse, bloodless, patient, threading its way through wet soil and softer things. It cracks the floor politely. It enters the head without knocking. Stagn(ant) stretches a single 55-minute organism until it forgets it was ever music. Drone as architecture. Plundered ghosts stitched into a breathing wall. A hotel misremembered into a fairground. Specters blink in and out of permission. A padded room: bed, nails, no explanation. A corridor coughing rust. An abandoned station where echoes rot before arriving. Sometimes, a dead radio hit resurfaces, smiling wrong, then collapses into noise like a face sinking in tar. This does not haunt. It installs. It seeps into the folds, lays something small and irreversible, not a seed, not even a thought, more like a question that dissolved mid-formation. Queen Edifice does not end. It remains slightly inside you. -Sir Kuliktavikt

[unknown artist] & UgUrGkuliktavikt

Death's invitation, a call for eternal bliss

Nothing is known Nothing will ever be known. It ends in a room where the mirror does not reflect, where the bed is made of bone and static, and someone (something) has been waiting under the floorboards of your dreams for so long you now call it you. Death's invitation, a call for eternal bliss

Cazvra

Houses I have lived & never lived

You find a cassette in the attic of the ruins of old country home. You play it & on the tape, some voice describes in detail a series of dreams they have had in which they return to the houses they once lived as if they had just remembered it still belongs to them. Forgotten, left in the dust & dark to be vacant. They explore to find there was nothing but forgotten discarded clutter sitting throughout these homes. They dig through the clutter to find everything they have ever lost or thrown away. The person goes on to describe floating in the air at night again & again , to arrive at beautiful homes in distant places that seem strange yet familiar. Exploring these structures the person realizes this is a home they have been living for a while now. In the house, they find anything they have ever wanted. Inexplicably, the voice begins to change subject only to describe finding hidden radio frequencies that broadcast directions to towns that you can't find on maps, places that people don't know about. You write down the frequency codes as the voice shares them. The tape ends abruptly. -Cazvra

izprijenostь & UgUrGkuliktavikt

visions of atrophy (split)

It descends, and you are carried into worlds older than memory, where rot welcomes you by name, where decay blooms inside your bones, and where nature has been mutilated beyond recognition. -Sir Kuliktavikt

Phibes Praetorius

Manitou

A journey back into an earlier, demented artefact from the vast and uncompromising discography of the Canadian sound sorcerer Phibes Praetorius. Here, the occult sonic alchemist turns his attention to the myth of the Wendigo: a malevolent spirit of Algonquian folklore, a skeletal giant with a heart of ice, embodiment of hunger, greed, and cannibalism. Associated with winter, famine, and the decay of the human soul, it possesses or transforms humans who have tasted human flesh, turning them into ravenous monsters. A warning woven into the marrow of morality, explored across literature and dark popular imagination. Through disoriented, labyrinthine tracks, Phibes Praetorius drags the listener across frozen landscapes corrupted by malevolent spirits, coaxing the human mind to indulge its basest instincts. Dark ambient pulses shiver like frostbitten veins; haunted plunderphonics unravel like spectral tape loops; ritualistic deliriums smolder hypnotically, corrosively; documentary fragments and cryptic film samples twist into fractured visions; concrete music splinters into schizophrenic false paths—all coalescing under the clawed hands of a masterful, ruthless sonic manipulator, always lurking where least expected. This is horror. This is ritual. This is exquisite, experimental sonic art. -Sir Kuliktavikt

Phibes Praetorius & UgUrGkuliktavikt

Arnold Schönberg's Streichquartett Nr. 4, Op.37 - Utterly Dismantled

A meticulous, fever-lit deconstruction of Arnold Schoenberg’s Fourth String Quartet, taken apart not bar by bar but nerve by nerve, until its twelve-tone architecture trembles like a scaffold abandoned mid-ritual. The quartet is approached as an organism, still warm, its rows fluttering like trapped moths inside lacquered wood. Phibes Praetorius handles the score as though it were a cryptogram unearthed from damp soil, extracting its ligaments of dissonance, isolating the spinal cord of its tone row, listening for the faint clicking of hidden permutations beneath the staff lines. UgUrGkuliktavikt answers with corrosion and inversion, stretching harmonics into thin, luminous threads, sanding phrases down to powder, allowing silence to pool where counterpoint once argued. Haunted strings unstrung, intervals pried open until they reveal their inner insect geometry. What once stood as modernist monument now flickers as a translucent exoskeleton of sound, vibrating softly for the distinguished insects gathered in the rafters of the listening mind. Here, Schoenberg’s cathedral is not demolished but dissolved, its stained glass melted into spectral dust, its pillars breathing faintly in the dark -Sir Kuliktavikt