dark ambient

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EMERGED 1985 · WHAT IT GREW OUT OF AMBIENT, POST-INDUSTRIAL, DRONE MUSIC, NOISE · 1 TRACKS TO START WITH, 3 SOURCES

Dark ambient took shape in Europe in the mid-1980s out of industrial music, with Lustmord among the first to make it consistently. The name Cold Meat Industry, a label founded in 1987 by Roger Karmanik, later became shorthand for avant-garde acts influenced by industrial and dark ambient. Lustmord's 1990 album Heresy, on Soleilmoon, was built from recordings made in crypts, caverns, mines and catacombs.

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