For the Innermost

Artist: Kryoscope Album: Deadly White Label: Self-released Release date: April 2025 Among the myriad subgenres of dark ambient, polar dark ambient is one of the most fascinating and simultaneously one of the most difficult to pull off. Like the endless, white, frigid landscapes that it depicts, it involves a certain level of barrenness and minimalism even for dark ambient standards. It's in this somewhat forgotten niche that the (presumably?) young new artist Kryoscope has de

Artist: Inade & Troum Album: To Pan Eon Label: Drone Records Release date: March 2026 Here comes a release that definitely wasn't on my bingo card for 2026. It's exciting enough when Troum releases anything, sure; it's perhaps even more exciting to see Inade with (as far as I know) their first new studio material since 2018. But to see these two absolute titans of the German drone/ambient scene team up out of the blue, and not even for a split release, but a full-blown colla