Lovers of weird, atmospheric horror movies will love the latest release A Small Quagmire from my experimental ambient band Thrill Behind Barks, available on Human Geography Recordings.
Laced with a dense texture of dark blooms and bizarre twings and twangs, A Small Quagmire twitches its way through a delightfully random series of sonic spaces that will leave the listener feeling uneven, haunted, and in pretty bad need of a hug.
Also check out this cool review of our album on Fringes of Sound!
Got a brand new release from my abstract vaportek side project Timewitch! Available on Bandcamp now.
Happy Halloween 2023! 🎃
In 2018 I released Regera Dowdy’s Ghost at the Hotel Recherché in 1961, an ethereal dark ambient exploration into vintage horror. And the perfect soundtrack for your next séance.
Now you can play the whole EP in one mixed format video. Happy Halloween 2022! 🎃
Who wants a bucket of VHS cult horror blood?
I just made a bonkers music video for EXPOSED! The Truth About Time Cults, a song from the eponymous Timewitch debut album. Timewitch is my minimal occult synth side project.
Happy Halloween 2022! 🎃
My industrial / EBM band The Seven Whores of the Apocalypse has a track on the upcoming Girlfriend Records compilation A Very Synthwave Halloween, out October 14!
I just finished two dark ambient / experimental remixes for the FREE album Age of Distrust by ambient masterminds The Creeping Man and Black Pill Machine.
Age of Distrust is upsetting as it is innovative, somehow confrontational without ever really taking any kind of discernible shape. It shifts and tumbles out of the darkness like it wants something from you. Sharp, unexpected textures bubble up from long, low rumbles and melt into pitched-down vocal samples from another era.
I’m really excited to be part of this release! Check out their individual Bandcamp pages for more mind-bending experimental / dark ambient explorations (The Creeping Man / Black Pill Machine).
Enjoy this roundup of (mostly 80s) horror movie theme songs!
Enjoy a dark outing with The Wolf in the Tale, a collection of experimental / dark ambient / industrial noise offerings.
(This review contains spoilers.)
What Lies Beneath (2000) isn’t a great film. Heck, it isn’t even a particularly good film by most people’s standards, given the 47% Rotten Tomatoes score.
It is however one of my favorite films, and it’s not a guilty-pleasure thing or a so-bad-it’s-good thing; I love this film for what it could have been: a masterpiece.
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