For the Innermost

Artist: New Risen Throne Album: The Journey to Reach the Fathers Label: Cyclic Law Release date: December 2025 Whatever your favourite flavour of this genre, there's no denying that New Risen Throne releasing a new album ought to be one of the most important dark ambient events of the year in anyone's calendar. This relatively reclusive Italian artist, part of the Cyclic Law pantheon from the mid-2000s, is definitely not the most prolific out there, releasing merely four bona

Artist: Wolfskin Album: Ring of Spheres Label: Cyclic Law Release date: December 2025 For all the nicheness of dark ambient as a genre, I still to this day come across artists having been creating music for decades who I was blissfully unaware of (to my discredit). Such is the case with the Portuguese musician Johan Aernus, who has been releasing ritual ambient works under the name Wolfskin for no less than three decades now. It took Cyclic Law releasing his latest album Ring

Date: 29/11/2025 Place: Trondheim, Norway Since first releasing music under this name almost a decade ago, Nortfalke has managed to profile himself as one of the finest purveyors of dungeon synth out there. In fact, he's among the artists who got me hooked on the genre in the first place, owing to his reverence for atmosphere above all and his willingness to go beyond the habitual restrictions of the genre in the pursuit of true aural storytelling, with his impressive live p

Artist: Apocryphos & Penumbral Aethyr Album: The Erosion of Innocence Label: Cryo Chamber Release date: November 2025 2025 has blessed us with numerous collabs, but this latest one was exceptionally promising from the very moment it was announced. Apocryphos (currently the main project of Robert C. Kozletsky, also of Psychomanteum fame) and Penumbral Aethyr (the recently kickstarted side project by Nicolas van Meirhaeghe of the long-running Empusae ) are both dark ambient sta

Artist: Ethnea Nekron Album: Exo-Metempsychosis Label: Winter-Light Release date: September 2025 Maurizio Landini of Onasander is no stranger to collaborations (in fact, most of his discography consists of them), but this time around he didn't merely team up Daniel Ferreira of Kloob for a joint release; rather, the duo decided that the fruit of their joint work deserves a separate entity in its own right. Thus was spawned Ethnea Nekron, whose cryptic Ancient Greek name, whi