Dark ambient
Dark ambient is a genre. Defining acts include Nine Inch Nails, Varg Vikernes, Burzum, Buckethead and Adonxs, and their records are the quickest way into the sound. Dark ambient grew out of Ambient, post-industrial music, Ambient industrial, black ambient and Death industrial. It sits close to industrial drum and bass and ambient pop, scenes that trade players, venues and ideas with it. Its influence carried into black ambient, ambient black metal and doomcore, which took the template somewhere else. The chart currently maps 12 connections around Dark ambient. Open any neighbouring band or genre to trace where Dark ambient came from and where it led.
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Dark ambient connections
Dark ambient grew out of Ambient, post-industrial music, Ambient industrial and black ambient, shares an orbit with industrial drum and bass and ambient pop, went on to shape black ambient, ambient black metal and doomcore. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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