Ashburn, Virginia, USA (2002 – present)
Hexentanz is a ritual ambient group from Ashburn, Virginia, USA.Cain, the Devil in Flesh, stands horned and holding the Trident of Shaitan, summoning his children by the backwards dance of ecstasy. Primal drums and the howling of witches bring each to celebration, passion, and sexual copulation, as the secret gathering of the wise commences.
Hexentanz (literally “the witches dance”) is a collaborative conception between members of The Soil Bleeds Black and Psychonaut 75, venturing to recognize the traditional Witches Sabbath as a reality in the flesh.
http://www.last.fm/music/Aghast
Aghast was a dark ambient project by Nebelhexë aka Andréa Nebel and Nacht aka Tania Stene. They released one album in 1994 on Cold Meat Industry “Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis”. This obscure, ghostly and semi-Satanic album made quite an impact at the time. Aghast created haunting, howling and sinister sounds, that managed to freak out even experienced horror movie fans and even Hollywood actors, such as Megan Fox, who reported that the music made them turn on the light and look under the bed.
http://www.last.fm/music/Zero+Kama Human bone instruments
Vienna, Austria (1984 – 1987)
Zero Kama was a ritual industrial project from Vienna, Austria, formed in 1984 by Michael DeWitt (owner of Nekrophile Rekords). The album “The Secret Eye Of L.A.Y.L.A.H.” is one of the earliest and most influential ritual ambient releases. The music on this recording was exclusively played with homemade instruments made of human skulls and bones.Before Zero Kama, DeWitt was involved with the project Korpses Katatonik, playing old school industrial music.
http://www.last.fm/music/Arktau+Eos
Finland (2005 – present)
Arktau Eos is a ritual ambient duo from Finland, comprised of Anti Ittna Haapapuro (also of Aeoga, Arktau Aon, Aural Holograms, Dolorian, Halo Manash, I.Corax) and Antti Litmanen (also of Arktau Aon and Babylon Whores).From their pages: “Born out of the vision of its creators in early 2005, Arktau Eos has become a sentient frame capable of capturing fleeting moments of oneiric activity, where essential gnosis manifests itself in blazing hieroglyphs… It is a ghastly and wondrous parade of cryptic images and sounds, which a given recording is a reflection of, thus becoming a new gateway for the perceptive listener.
http://www.last.fm/music/Herbst9
Leipzig, Germany (1997 – present)
Herbst9 is a ritual ambient
project from Leipzig, Germany, founded in the Summer of 1997 by Henry
Emich and Frank Merten, who are also behind the industrial project Land:Fire.
“H9’s music is the darkness from the deep and hidden places of the world made substantial, the inhalations and exhalations of the very earth beneath our feet, and the steam and bile of nature’s eruptions;”.
“H9’s music is the darkness from the deep and hidden places of the world made substantial, the inhalations and exhalations of the very earth beneath our feet, and the steam and bile of nature’s eruptions;”.
Voice of Eye formed in 1991 out of the ashes of experimental bands
Esoterica Landscapes 7 and Cruor. Through Voice of Eye, members McNairn
and Wilson explore profound aspects of consciousness as the music is
shared as a tool for entering different states of being. “The motivation
behind forming Voice of Eye was for us to connect to a deeper truth we
first sensed within our music,” explains Wilson. “This unformed presence
first revealed itself to us through music and has continued to
manifest, taking shape throughout our life’s journeys and leading to
profound mystery.”
Trondheim, Norway (1999 – present)
Svartsinn (Jan Roger Pettersen) is an artist from Trondheim, Norway. He creates music of the dark ambient nature and has since 1999. Over the years Svartsinn has made five full albums. The debut was released via Eibon Records in Italy and then three following ones via Cyclic Law in Canada and a split release with Northaunt via Loki/PAS in 2014. His recordings also appear in several compilations, movies, documentaries, and theatre plays. In addition to recordings, Svartsinn has often performed live.Moscow, Russian Federation (2003 – present)
Phurpa is a Russian group that performs tibetan traditional music using instruments and regalia related to rituals of the ancient Bon religion, one of the predecessors of Buddhism.This voyage began in the middle of the 1990s in Moscow, Russia, when a group of artists and musicians led by Alexey Tegin and based at the legendary Fabrique of Cardinal Art commenced their studies of traditional ritual music, drifting away from the field of contemporary electroacoustic and industrial music with the intent to delve deeper into the ancient musical cultures of the ancient Egypt, Iran and Tibet.
