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The following is a list of notable artists who compose, or have composed, dark ambient music at some point in their careers.


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Abruptum Abruptum is a Swedish black metal and dark ambient solo side-project band. It is run by Evil (Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson) of Marduk, but the band was formed in 1989 by IT (a.k.a. Tony Särkkä). All (a.k.a. Jim Berger), Ext and Evil joined th ...
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Abu Lahab Abu or ABU may refer to: Places * Abu (volcano), a volcano on the island of Honshū in Japan * Abu, Yamaguchi, a town in Japan * Ahmadu Bello University, a university located in Zaria, Nigeria * Atlantic Baptist University, a Christian university ...
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Adonxs Adam Pavlovčin (; born ), known professionally as ADONXS (; stylized in all caps), is a Slovak singer-songwriter, model, dancer, and former lead singer of the alternative band PACE, based in London. He is the 2021 winner of ''SuperStar''. He is ...
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Agalloch Agalloch () was an American extreme metal band from Portland, Oregon. Formed in 1995 by frontman John Haughm, they released five full-length albums, four EPs, two singles, one split single, two demos, four compilation albums and one live video ...
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Alio Die Alio Die, the stage name of Stefano Musso, is an Italian ambient-music composer and producer. Stefano Musso studied art and electronics in Milan, Italy, and began performing music in 1989. Overview His music is a fusion of acoustical elements ...
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Altar of Plagues Altar of Plagues were an Irish black metal band, founded in Cork by James Kelly. After gaining attention in the metal community with a series of self recorded demos and EPs, the band released their first studio album, '' White Tomb'', in April ...
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Ambeon Arjen Anthony Lucassen (born 3 April 1960) is a Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. Lucassen started his career in 1980 as the ...
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Amber Asylum Amber Asylum is a highly variable San Francisco-based music group that serves as a platform for composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Kris Force. The current lineup of Amber Asylum includes, in addition to Kris Force, Fern Lee Alberts (Death ...
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Aphex Twin Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), best known as Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born British musician, composer and DJ. He is known for his idiosyncratic work in electronic music, electronic styles such as techno, ambient music, ambient, and jun ...
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Arditi Arditi (from the Italian verb ''ardire'', lit. "to dare", and translates as "The Daring nes) was the name adopted by a Royal Italian Army elite special force of World War I. They and the opposing German '' Stormtroopers'' were the first modern ...
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Ascension of the Watchers Ascension of the Watchers is an American gothic rock band from Pennsylvania. It was originally formed by Burton C. Bell (Fear Factory, G/Z/R) and John Bechdel ( Ministry, Fear Factory, Killing Joke, Prong, Murder, Inc.). Career In October 2 ...
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Ataraxia ''Ataraxia'' (Greek: ἀταραξία, from ("a-", negation) and ''tarachē'' "disturbance, trouble"; hence, "unperturbedness", generally translated as "imperturbability", "equanimity", or "tranquility") is a Greek term first used in Ancient Gre ...
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Atrax Morgue Marco Corbelli (3 April 1970 – 6 May 2007), better known professionally as Atrax Morgue, was an Italian noise musician. Many of Atrax Morgue's early material was released on cassette, as part of the industrial/noise 'cassette underground' of t ...
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Atrium Carceri Atrium Carceri is a Swedish musical project by Simon Heath, initially released by industrial record label Cold Meat Industry. Fourteen full-length albums have been released so far, as well as fourteen collaboration albums together with other art ...
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Attrition Attrition may refer to *Attrition warfare, the military strategy of wearing down the enemy by continual losses in personnel and material **War of Attrition, fought between Egypt and Israel from 1968 to 1970 **War of attrition (game), a model of agg ...
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Aube Aube () is a French department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. As with sixty departments in France, this department is named after a river: the Aube. With 310,242 inhabitants (2019),Austere *
Autopsia Autopsia is a European art project dealing with music and visual production. Autopsia gathers authors of different professions in the realization of multimedia projects. Its art practice began in London in the late 1970s and continued during ...
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The Axis of Perdition The Axis of Perdition is an English industrial black metal band from Middlesbrough, England. They are signed to Code666 Records. The band rose from the ashes of Minethorn and consisted of Tetsuo Unit BRJ (a.k.a. Brooke Johnson, vocals, guitar ...


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Aidan Baker Aidan Baker (born 1974/75) is a musician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and as part of various side projects, including Nadja, ARC, Caudal and Mnemosyne. He has also written several books ...
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Blixa Bargeld Blixa Bargeld (born Christian Emmerich, 12 January 1959) is a German musician who has been the lead singer of the band Einstürzende Neubauten since its formation in 1980. Bargeld was also a founding member of the Australian rock band Nick Cave a ...
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Bark Psychosis Bark Psychosis are an English post-rock band/musical project from east London formed in 1986. They were one of the bands that Simon Reynolds cited when coining "post-rock" as a musical style in 1994, and are thus considered one of the key ban ...
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William Basinski William Basinski (born June 25, 1958) is an American avant-garde composer Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic c ...
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Bass Communion ''Bass Communion'' is a solo project of English musician Steven Wilson, best known for his lead role in the rock band Porcupine Tree. Records released under the name "Bass Communion" are in an ambient or electronic vein - lengthy drone-heavy ...
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Beatsystem Beatsystem is the name of British electronic musician Derek Pierce. Two of his singles charted on the UK Singles Chart in the early 1990s; a cover of Lou Reed's " Walk on the Wild Side" which peaked at No. 63 in March 1990 and "To a Brighter Day ...
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Beherit Beherit is a black metal band from Finland. The band was formed in 1989 by Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance (Marko Laiho), Black Jesus (Arjo Wennström) and Sodomatic Slaughter (Jari Pirinen), with the purpose of performing "the most primitive, sava ...
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Belong Belong may refer to: Music * Belong (band), an American experimental music duo Albums * ''Belong'' (Kevin Walker album) or the title song, 2013 * ''Belong'' (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart album) or the title song, 2011 * ''Belong'', by Sa ...
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Billain Billain (born ''Adis Kutkut'') is a Bosnian drum and bass producer, DJ and sound designer from Sarajevo. He is mostly known for his distinctive style within the neurofunk genre and his collaborations with Frenkie and Edo Maajka. Career Bill ...
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Biosphere The biosphere (from Greek βίος ''bíos'' "life" and σφαῖρα ''sphaira'' "sphere"), also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος ''oîkos'' "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be ...
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Birchville Cat Motel Birchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music project formed by Campbell Kneale from Wellington, New Zealand. Although largely unrecognised by the mainstream press and public in his home country, Kneale has toured throughout Japan, Am ...
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Richie Birkenhead Richie Birkenhead (born Richard James Birkenhead; August 23, 1965) is an American rock musician and creative director. He was a singer, songwriter and guitarist of late '80s New York hardcore bands Underdog and Youth of Today, and went on in th ...
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Raoul Björkenheim Raoul Melvin Björkenheim (born February 11, 1956) is an American jazz guitarist from Los Angeles. His mother is Finnish-American actress Taina Elg.''Finlands ridderskaps och adels kalender 1992'', pp. 92–93. Esbo 1991. In his teens he moved ...
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Black Dice Black Dice is an American experimental noise music band based in Brooklyn, New York and consisting of brothers Bjorn and Eric Copeland along with Aaron Warren. Formed in 1997, the group was initially inspired by hardcore and noise rock, but subse ...
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Blackhouse A blackhouse ( ga, teach dubh ; gd, t(a)igh-dubh ) is a traditional type of house which used to be common in Ireland, the Hebrides, and the Scottish Highlands. Origin of the name The origin of the name blackhouse is of some debate. On the Is ...
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Black Tape for a Blue Girl Black Tape for a Blue Girl (often stylized as black tape for a blue girl) is an American dark wave band formed in 1986 by keyboardist/songwriter Sam Rosenthal, the founder of Projekt Records. Their music takes on elements of dark wave, ether ...
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Blam Honey Blam Honey was an industrial rock band, formed in 1995 with two members: Tatsuya and Ryonai.Blood Axis Blood Axis are an American band, made up of journalist and author Michael Moynihan (journalist), Michael Moynihan, music producer Robert Ferbrache, and musician and author Annabel Lee.Liner notes of the ''Ultimacy'' compilation Overview Early B ...
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Blood Incantation Blood Incantation is an American death metal band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2011. The band consists of guitarist and vocalist Paul Riedl, drummer Isaac Faulk, guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky and bassist Jeff Barrett. Their debut album, ''Sta ...
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Blut Aus Nord Blut Aus Nord (, ) is a French black metal band from Mondeville, Calvados, that has incorporated avant-garde elements in its music. History Vindsval began a solo project, under the name "Vlad", in 1993. He released two demos before changing ...
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Der Blutharsch Der Blutharsch was an Austrian martial industrial, neofolk and psychedelic rock project created in 1996 by Albin Julius. Group leader Albin Julius died on 4 May 2022. History Originally a side project to The Moon lay hidden beneath a Clou ...
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The Body Lovers / The Body Haters The Body Lovers and The Body Haters were experimental music projects led by composer Michael Gira between 1998 and 1999 following the breakup of Swans in 1997. Both projects served as an outlet for Gira's loop experimentation within the drone a ...
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Ben Lukas Boysen Ben Lukas Boysen, also known by his stage name Hecq, is an electronic music composer based in Berlin. Biography Boysen studied classical guitar and piano as a child. He moved to Berlin in the early 2000s, setting up a studio called Hecq Audio, an ...
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Brighter Death Now Brighter Death Now is the artist name under which Roger Karmanik (b. 1965 as Roger Karlsson), the founder of the Swedish record label Cold Meat Industry, releases death industrial, power electronics Power electronics is the application of ...
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Eric Brosius Eric Brosius is a musician and video game developer, and a former employee of Looking Glass Studios. He is a former member of the band Tribe and is married to Terri Brosius. He is currently a member of the bands Eddie Japan and Dark Wheels. Bro ...
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Bull of Heaven In ancient Mesopotamian mythology, the Bull of Heaven is a mythical beast fought by the hero Gilgamesh. The story of the Bull of Heaven has two different versions: one recorded in an earlier Sumerian poem and a later version in the standard A ...
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Carter Burwell Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer. He has consistently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored most of their films. Burwell has also scored three of Todd Haynes's films, three of Spike Jonz ...
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Burzum Burzum (; ) was a Norwegian music project founded by Varg Vikernes in 1991. Although Burzum never played live performances, it became a part of the early Norwegian black metal scene and is considered one of the most influential acts in black m ...


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Carbon Based Lifeforms Carbon Based Lifeforms is a Swedish electronic music duo formed in Gothenburg in 1996 by Johannes Hedberg and Daniel Vadestrid (''né'' Ringström). History Formation and early period Hedberg and Ringström (both born in 1976) first met in 1991, ...
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The Caretaker ''The Caretaker'' is a play in three acts by Harold Pinter. Although it was the sixth of his major works for stage and television, this psychological study of the confluence of power, allegiance, innocence, and corruption among two brothers an ...
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John Carpenter John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor, and composer. Although he worked in various film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. He ...
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Kim Cascone Kim Cascone (December 21, 1955) is an Italian American composer of electronic music who is known for his releases in the ambient, drone, industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record label, Silent Records. Biography In 1989 Casco ...
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Richard Chartier Richard Chartier (born March 29, 1971) is a sound/installation artist and graphic designer from the United States. He works in reductionist microsound electronic music, a form of extreme minimalism characterised by quiet and sparse sound. Early ...
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Cindytalk Cindytalk is an experimental music project, founded in 1982. Cindytalk operated as a group for many years, but more recently has been a solo project by Cinder (musician), Cinder (previously known as Gordon Sharp), a Scottish performer and the o ...
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Climax Golden Twins ''Climax Golden Twins'' is an American experimental music band, formed in 1993 in Seattle, Washington bRobert Millisand Jeffery Taylor, who remain the primary song-writers and producers. The group notably performed the soundtrack to the 2001 cult h ...
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Faith Coloccia Faith Coloccia is an American artist and musician. She is most known as being the founding member and primary songwriter for the post-rock band Mamiffer. Coloccia has also been a member of Everlovely Lightningheart, Pyramids, House of Low Cultu ...
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Continuum Continuum may refer to: * Continuum (measurement), theories or models that explain gradual transitions from one condition to another without abrupt changes Mathematics * Continuum (set theory), the real line or the corresponding cardinal number ...
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Controlled Bleeding Controlled Bleeding was an experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York, United States. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group's only consistent member. Most of Controlled Bleeding's released recordings feature two main collabor ...
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Coph Nia Coph Nia is the name given to the dark ambient act formed by Aldenon Satorial (Mikael Aldén). Its first release was the album ''That Which Remains'', which was released in 2000 at Cold Meat Industry. The original members were Mikael Aldén (com ...
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Council of Nine __NOTOC__ Council of Nine can refer to: In Greek mythology In Greek mythology, when Prometheus gave Fire to mankind, he infuriated Zeus, so to punish Prometheus, Zeus had him chained to a rock and every day an eagle came down and ate his liver. Be ...
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Cousin Silas Cousin Silas is the stage name of English electronic music artist David Hughes. The name comes from a character in King Crimson's song, "Happy Family". He has released over eighty albums on various netlabels. Between 1990 and 2000 he wrote sev ...
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Current 93 Current 93 are an English experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet, who has been Current 93's only constant member. Background Tibet has been the only const ...


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Dark Sanctuary Dark Sanctuary is a French neoclassical darkwave, gothic metal band that was formed in Paris in 1996. History The band's first official release was a 20-minute single-track music CD, ''Funeral Cry'', released in 1997. At that time, the band c ...
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Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance are an Australian music duo first established in Melbourne. Currently composed of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, the group formed in 1981. They relocated to London the following year. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane des ...
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Dead Voices on Air Dead Voices on Air is Mark Spybey's experimental and industrial project formed after his departure from Zoviet France.Lengel, Kerry (December 2, 1999). "Dead Voices' Music Comes Alive", ''The Arizona Republic'', p. 47. Dead Voices on Air has col ...
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Death Cube K Buckethead is an American guitarist and singer. The Buckethead discography currently includes 47 studio albums , 1 live album, 4 special releases, 388 extended plays as Bucketheadland , 5 demo tapes, 3 solo DVD video releases, 2 DVD video release ...
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Death in June Death in June are a neofolk group led by English musician Douglas P. (Douglas Pearce). The band was originally formed in the United Kingdom in 1981 as a trio, but after the other members left in 1984 and 1985 to work on other projects, the gro ...
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Deathprod Deathprod is the musical pseudonym used by Norwegian artist Helge Sten for his ambient music project. He is married to Norwegian singer Susanna Wallumrød. Biography Sten began creating music under this name starting in 1991, culminating with a ...
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Delerium Delerium is a Canadian new-age ambient electronic musical duo that formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act Front Line Assembly. Throughout the band’s history, their musical style has encompassed a ...
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Desiderii Marginis Desiderii Marginis is a dark ambient music project from Sweden. History ''Desiderii Marginis'' was formed by Johan Levin in 1993 in Mjölby, Sweden as a solo project. The first three tapes ''Consecrare'', ''Via Peregrinus'' and ''Triptych'' w ...
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Deutsch Nepal Deutsch Nepal is an industrial and dark ambient project created in 1991 by Swedish musician Peter Andersson. History Under the name Deutsch Nepal, Andersson has issued eight studio albums, a couple of singles, the originally tape-only Sile ...
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Djam Karet Djam Karet is an instrumental progressive rock band based in Topanga, California. The band was founded in 1984 by guitarists Gayle Ellett and Mike Henderson, bassist Henry J. Osborne, and drummer Chuck Oken, Jr. The band's name is an old spe ...
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Dolorian Dolorian is a doom metal band from Oulu, Finland. Their early recordings are viewed as prime examples of blackened doom metal. Later recordings mixed dark ambient music with the traditional doom metal style. The band was founded in mid-1997 a ...
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Einstürzende Neubauten (, 'Collapsing New Buildings') is a German experimental music group, formed in West Berlin in 1980. The group is currently composed of founding members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals; guitar; keyboard) and N.U. Unruh (custom-made instruments; perc ...
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Elend Elend may refer to: * Elend, Saxony-Anhalt Elend is a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz District, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies in the Bode valley in the High Harz in central Germany, at a height of . This part of the ...
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Lawrence English Lawrence English (born 1975/76) is an Australian composer, artist, and curator from Brisbane. His work is broadly concerned with the politics of perception, specifically he is interested in the nature of listening, and sounds' capability to occ ...
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Brian Eno Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is a British musician, composer, record producer and visual artist best known for his contributions to ambient music and work in rock, pop an ...
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Tommie Eriksson Tommie Eriksson (also known as Tommy Eriksson) is a Swedish musician. He founded doom band Saturnalia Temple in 2006. Background Eriksson founded the metal band Nocturnal Rites together with Fredrik Mannberg in 1990, though then belonging to the ...
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Yamantaka Eye (born , 13 February 1964) is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist, best known as a member of Boredoms and Naked City. He has changed his stage name three times, from Yamatsuka Eye, to Yamantaka Eye, to Yamataka Eye, and sometimes calls himse ...


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Florian-Ayala Fauna Florian-Ayala Fauna is an American artist, musician, poet, and music producer. Fauna is the main member of the post-industrial music project uncertain. Personal life Florian-Ayala Fauna was born in Norfolk, Virginia. At age 5, Fauna moved to ...
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Dominick Fernow Ian Dominick Fernow is an American experimental music, experimental musician, poet and multimedia artist. He is best known for extreme music released under the stage name Prurient, as well as numerous other aliases including Vatican Shadow and R ...
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Fever Ray Karin Elisabeth Dreijer (born 7 April 1975) is a Swedish singer-songwriter and record producer. Dreijer was one half of the electronic music duo the Knife, formed with their brother Olof Dreijer. Dreijer released their debut solo album under ...
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Fluxion A fluxion is the instantaneous rate of change, or gradient, of a fluent (a time-varying quantity, or function) at a given point. Fluxions were introduced by Isaac Newton to describe his form of a time derivative (a derivative with respect to ti ...
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Peter Frohmader Peter Frohmader (9 May 1958 – 2 May 2022) was a German electronic composer, musician and visual artist. He was also known by the pseudonym Nekropolis, a name under which he released several early works. Taking cues from Carl Orff, Magma, Gl ...
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Ben Frost Ben Frost (born 1980) is an Australian-Icelandic musician, composer, record producer, sound designer, and director. Life Born in Melbourne, Australia, and based in Reykjavík, Iceland, since 2005, Frost composes minimalist, instrumental, a ...


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The Gerogerigegege () is a Japanese experimental music project, founded in 1985 by . Though they are often categorized with Japanese harsh noise acts such as Merzbow and Masonna, The Gerogerigegege has also released albums of more straightforward punk rock (' ...
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Gnaw Their Tongues Gnaw Their Tongues is an experimental music, experimental musical project started by Dutch multi-instrumentalist and composer Maurice de Jong, otherwise known as Mories. It was founded in 2004 and produced a debut album in 2006 titled ''Spit at ...
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sometimes abbreviated to GY!BE or Godspeed) is a Canadian post-rock band which originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994. The group releases recordings through Constellation, an independent record label also located i ...
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Mathias Grassow Mathias Grassow is a German ambient musician whose recordings can also be classified in the genres of dark ambient and drone ambient. His music often has a meditative and emotional and spiritual context, which induces deep feelings of introspe ...
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Martin Grech Martin Grech (born 14 November 1982) is an English singer, songwriter and musician from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Career Grech released his debut album ''Open Heart Zoo'', produced by Andy Ross, in June 2002. He achieved critical acclaim f ...
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Jeff Greinke Jeff Greinke is an American ambient music and jazz artist and composer currently based in Tucson, Arizona. He is known as one of the pioneers of dark ambient music, with his earlier solo albums often compared to works by Robert Rich, Brian Eno ...
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Hildur Guðnadóttir Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm, and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and h ...


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The Hafler Trio The Hafler Trio is an English conceptual, performance and sound art collaborative between Andrew M. McKenzie, the only permanent member, and guest sound artists, performers, and/or musicians. The project has seen the release of numerous albu ...
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Halo Manash Halo Manash is a project of Anti Ittna Haapapuro originating from Finland. It is dark ambient / experimental music, experimental combining electronic music, electronics, percussions, EBow, e-bowed guitars, bone flute and various other sounds. The ...
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James Hannigan James Hannigan (born 23 July 1971) is a British composer with credits in the ''Harry Potter'', ''The Lord of the Rings'', ''Command and Conquer'' (including Red Alert 3's well-known Soviet March), ''Dead Space'', ''Warhammer'', ''Cloudy With ...
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Kurt Harland Kurt Harland is an American singer, songwriter, and audio engineer and is the lead singer of Information Society. He also works on video game scores, including two of the soundtracks for the ''Legacy of Kain'' video game series ('' Legacy of K ...
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Mick Harris Michael John Harris (born 4 October 1967) is an English musician from Birmingham. He was the drummer for Napalm Death between 1985 and 1991, and is credited for coining the term "grindcore". After Napalm Death, Harris joined Painkiller with Joh ...
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Hate Forest Hate Forest is a Ukrainian black metal band formed by Roman Saenko, the leading member of Drudkh, Dark Ages, and Blood of Kingu. Thurios joined the band in 1998 after the recording of ''Scythia''. The music is mostly very fast, but occasionall ...
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Andrea Haugen Andrea Haugen (born Andréa Meyer; July 6, 1969 – October 13, 2021), also known under her artist names of Aghast, Hagalaz' Runedance, Andréa Nebel, Nebel and Nebelhexë, was a German musician and author. Modelling Haugen worked as a model in ...
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Have a Nice Life Have a Nice Life is an American post-punk band founded in Connecticut in 2000 by Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga. History Have a Nice Life was formed in 2000 by Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga of Connecticut. They have mentioned the likes of My Bloody ...
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The Haxan Cloak Bobby Krlic (born 20 December 1985), known by his stage name The Haxan Cloak, is a British composer, artist, music producer and musician. The Haxan Cloak has released two full-length albums (2011's ''The Haxan Cloak'' and 2013's ''Excavation'' ...
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Tim Hecker Tim Hecker is a Canadian electronic musician, producer, composer, and sound artist. His work, spanning atmospheric ambient albums such as ''Harmony in Ultraviolet'' (2006), ''Ravedeath, 1972'' (2011) and ''Virgins'' (2013), has been widely cr ...
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Sven Helbig Sven Helbig (born in 1968) is a German composer and director. He composes orchestral, chamber and choral music. Beside this, he is active in the field of electronic music ( dark ambient, noise, field recordings). Helbig's versatility has made him ...
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Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Bosch (, ; born Jheronimus van Aken ;  – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch/Netherlandish painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, generally oil on oa ...
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Hwyl Nofio Hwyl Nofio (from Welsh meaning 'swimming fun') is a Welsh experimental music group formed by Steve Parry. History Formed in 1997, Hwyl Nofios' approach touches on various diverse styles and genres, including, industrial music, drone, am ...


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Ildjarn Ildjarn was a Norwegian cult black metal project that formed in 1991. Ildjarn recorded music until 1997 but did not officially end until 2005. The man behind Ildjarn was Vidar Vaaer, although some releases were collaborations with a musician kno ...
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Tetsu Inoue Tetsu (written: 哲, 徹, 鉄 or テツ in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese musician *, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan ...
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In Slaughter Natives In Slaughter Natives is an industrial and dark ambient project created in 1985 by Swedish musician Jouni Havukainen. Discography Albums *''In Slaughter Natives'' (1988) * ''Enter Now the World'' (1992) * ''Sacrosancts Bleed'' (1992) * ''M ...
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JK Flesh JK Flesh is a moniker of English musician Justin Broadrick employed for his solo work within electronic music. Broadrick's usage of the title spans back to his work in the 1990s with Kevin Martin in Techno Animal, but he first released a solo s ...
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Job Karma Job Karma is a post- industrial- ambient band from Wrocław. It was created in 1998 by Maciej Frett (born 1973) and Aureliusz Pisarzewski (born 1974). In the first period (before 1999) Jacek Groszek (born 1973) was also a member of the band. P ...
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Jóhann Jóhannsson Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson (; 19 September 1969 – 9 February 2018) was an Icelandic composer who wrote music for a wide array of media including theatre, dance, television, and film. His work is stylised by its blending of traditional orchest ...
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Juno Reactor Juno Reactor is a multi-national musical and performing group, primarily based in Brighton, UK. Known for their cinematic fusion of electronic, global influences, and orchestral symphonic approach, collaborating with composer Don Davis and compo ...


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K.K. Null , known by his stage name KK Null, is a Japanese experimental multi-instrumentalist active since the early 1980s. He began as a guitarist but learned how to compose, sing, play drums, and create electronic music. He also studied Butoh dance at M ...
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Khlyst The Khlysts or Khlysty ( rus, Хлысты, p=xlɨˈstɨ, "whips") were an underground Spiritual Christian sect, which split from the Russian Orthodox Church and existed from the 1600s until the late 20th century. The New Israel sect that desc ...
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Romke Kleefstra Romke Kleefstra is a musician from the Netherlands. Currently he is a member of Transtilla, Piiptsjilling and The Alvaret Ensemble. Biography Romke Kleefstra was born on 28 July 1972 in Akkrum, Netherlands. From 1992 up to 2007 Kleefstra was ...
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Thomas Köner Thomas Köner (born 1965 in Bochum, West Germany) is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. The BBC, in a review of Köner's work in 1997, calls him a "media artist," one who works between instal ...
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Konstruktivits Konstruktivits is a British industrial band. Formed in 1982, they were mostly active in the 1980s, with recording activity continuing until today. The band was formed by Glenn Michael Wallis from his previous band Heute, a krautrock-influenced ...
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Bettina Köster Bettina Köster (born 15 June 1959 in Herford) is a German musician, saxophonist, composer, singer, songwriter and producer. Career Mania D: 1979–81 Fall 1978, Köster, student of the Berlin art school Hochschule der Künste, began playing Sa ...
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Lab Report Lab Report was an improvisational, dark ambient, band created by Matthew Schultz, Eric Pounder and Chris Blazen in 1989. The experimental project gained notoriety as one of the earliest dark ambient musical projects stemming from the Industrial ...
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Bill Laswell William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, w ...
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Leviathan Leviathan (; he, לִוְיָתָן, ) is a sea serpent noted in theology and mythology. It is referenced in several books of the Hebrew Bible, including Psalms, the Book of Job, the Book of Isaiah, the Book of Amos, and, according to some ...
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Lifelover Lifelover was a Swedish music group, formed in 2005 by Jonas Bergqvist and Kim Carlsson in Stockholm. Following six years of activity the group split up in September 2011 after the death of Bergqvist, as he was the lead composer and one of Lifel ...
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Lightwave LightWave 3D is a 3D computer graphics program developed by NewTek. It has been used in films, television, motion graphics, digital matte painting, visual effects, video game development, product design, architectural visualizations, virtu ...
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Andrew Liles Andrew Liles (born 11 March 1969) is a British sound artist and multi-instrumentalist. He has a vast output of recordings that he has released since the mid-1980s, covering a variety of styles as experimental music, dark ambient music, progr ...
*Scott Gibbons#Lilith, Lilith *Locrian (band), Locrian *Francisco López (musician), Francisco López *Lorn (musician), Lorn *Loscil *Lull (band), Lull *Tor Lundvall *Lustmord *Lycia (band), Lycia *David Lynch


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*Mathis Mootz#m2 (Squaremeter), m2 (Squaremeter) *Machinefabriek *Maeror Tri ''Discogs''. Retrieved 27 October 2022. *Main (band), Main *Sven Erik Kristiansen, Maniac *Drew McDowall *Daniel Menche *Merzbow *Cat System Corp., Mesektet *Midnight Syndicate *Militia Christi (band), Militia Christi *Knjaz Varggoth, Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra *The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, The Moon Lay Hidden beneath a Cloud *Mike Morasky *Mark Morgan (composer), Mark Morgan *Morgenstern (band), Morgenstern *B. J. Nilsen, Morthound *Mortiis *The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation *James Brand (musician), MOZ *Murcof *Muslimgauze *Nordvargr#Maschinenzimmer 412, Mz.412


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*Nadja (band), Nadja *Pete Namlook *Nattramn *Peter Andersson (musician), Necrophorus *Negură Bunget *Neptune Towers *Nest (band), Nest *Phill Niblock *Ivan Iusco#Music, Nightmare Lodge *B. J. Nilsen ''Discogs''. Retrieved 24 October 2022. *Nine Inch Nails *Nocturnal Emissions *Noisegate *Boyd Rice, NON *NordvargrMarking, Lasse (2006) "Sizzling Bacon", ''The Wire (magazine), The Wire'', Volumes 263–268 *Nortt *Not Your Average Hippy *Nox Arcana *Nurse with Wound


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*Stephen O'Malley *Of the Wand & the Moon *Pauline Oliveros *Ombient *Oneiroid Psychosis *Oniric *oOoOO *Oöphoi *Oranssi Pazuzu *Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Ordo Equilibrio *Ordo Equitum Solis *David Jackman (musician), Organum *Cezary Ostrowski *Otto Dix (band), Otto Dix *O Yuki Conjugate


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*Painkiller (band), Painkiller *Charlemagne Palestine *Pantha du Prince *Paysage d'Hiver *Sandro Perri *Kim Cascone#As PGR, PGR *Pimentola *James Plotkin *Popol Vuh (band), Popol Vuh *Portal (band), Portal *Post Scriptvm *Premature Ejaculation (band), Premature Ejaculation *Gjøran Sæther, Proteque *Psychick Warriors ov Gaia *Puissance (band), Puissance *PureH *Fatima Al Qadiri


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*Éliane Radigue *Radio Werewolf *Raison d'être (band), Raison d'être *Rapoon *Redshift (group), Redshift *Reformed Faction *The Residents *The Resonance Association *Graeme Revell *Trent Reznor *Robert Rich (musician), Robert Rich *Tapani Rinne *Steve Roach (musician), Steve Roach *Yuval Ron *Sam Rosenthal *Rosetta (band), Rosetta *Atticus Ross *Anthony Rother *Rude 66 *Alistair Rennie, Ruptured World


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*Atrium Carceri, Sabled Sun *Sällskapet (band), Sällskapet *Karl Sanders *Robin Rimbaud, Scanner *Janek Schaefer *Zeena Schreck *Matthew Schultz *Klaus Schulze *Paul Schütze *Scorn (band), Scorn *Seefeel *Seirom *Angela Seo *Shackleton (musician), Shackleton *Eraldo Bernocchi#Sigillum S, Sigillum S *Sigur Rós *Antony Johnston#Other projects, Silencaeon *Richard Skelton *Skinny Puppy (briefly in 1984) *Sleep Chamber *SleepResearch_Facility *Mark Snow *Soap&Skin *Socionic *Soiled *Solar Fields *Soma (band), Soma *Sophia (British band), Sophia *SpaceGhostPurrp *Specimens (musician), Specimens *Spektr (band), Spektr *SPK (band), SPK *Stars of the Lid *Storm Corrosion *Peter Andersson (musician)#Stratvm Terror, Stratvm Terror *Striborg *Summoning (band), Summoning *Sunn O))) *Synæsthesia (Canadian band), Synæsthesia


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*Tangerine Dream *Mikko Tarmia *Tear Ceremony *Teargas & Plateglass *Techno Animal *Tenhi *Thighpaulsandra *Robert Scott Thompson *Throbbing Gristle *David Thrussell *Asmus Tietchens *TISM (briefly in the 1980s) *Toroidh *Devin Townsend *Jill Tracy *Trepaneringsritualen *Federico Ágreda#as Triangular Ascension, Triangular Ascension *Tribes of Neurot *Troum *Trust Obey


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*Uboa (band), Uboa *Ulver *Christina Vantzou *Velvet Cacoon *Die Verbannten Kinder Evas *Darrin Verhagen *Vidna Obmana *Violence (musician), Violence *Voice of Eye *Vromb


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*Kanon Wakeshima *Wapstan *Wardruna *Westwind (band), Westwind *Whitehouse (band), Whitehouse *Guy Whitmore *Klaus Wiese *Steven Wilson *A Winged Victory for the Sullen *Wolves in the Throne Room *Sigurd Wongraven, Wongraven *Wumpscut *Xasthur


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*Akira Yamaoka *Year of No Light *David Yow *Sounds of the Unborn, Luca Yupanqui *Z'EV *Za Frûmi *John Zewizz *Zoar (band), Zoar *Techno Animal#History, Zonal *Zoviet France ''Discogs''. Retrieved 24 October 2022.


References

{{reflist Lists of musicians by genre, Dark ambient Dark ambient musicians,