music for funerals

Theme music for your next nightmare, Monodia is 49 minutes of dark ambient music. The perfect soundtrack for a stormy night.

Samples & Reviews can be found here.

The limited edition of approx. 65 copies is completely sold out. No more copies will be made, ever.

Reviews:

• >>>  " Monodia is terrific! This is classic dark ambience; black & hollow sounding, very dramatic, kinda like if Oophoi went Goth. That second track (Throe) in particular - I don't know how they got this effect, but it has an incredible sense of infinite space, as though you were standing before The Great Void. Awesome! This music is jammed full of cemetary trees, frosty iron gates, abandoned cathedrals, and cold gray skys.

Anyone who appreciates Oophoi, Lustmord, Northaunt, Kammarheit, Svartsinn, etc. is gonna love this stuff! (Actually it's better than most of the stuff I mentioned.) Wait til the kids are in bed, light the candles, put on the headphones, and hold on. "

• >>>  " ... quite a bit different than Convergence... it's more of an active listening experience; there are shifts in texture and movements, waves of sound, as opposed to a more static drone... The drones are almost gothic in tone, with textures that change as the disc moves from one movement to the next... Depending on the volume at which it is played and your capacity for concentration (or fondness for drone), this disc could work equally well as background or foreground music. "

• >>>  " ... takes its cues from the dark ambient works of artists like Lustmord and Lull, with a thick, bass-heavy sound, plenty of metallic rumblings and slowly shifting, mystery-invoking pseudo-melodies. "

• >>>  " ''Music for Funerals'' is an apt description of Austere's offerings. Deep rumblings turn to light sweeps which phase in and out to create a visual picture of deep space... "

• >>>  " VERY Lustmord. "

• >>>  " Dark, distressing, consistently dark and bereft of melody but sometimes just what I need to hear. Not TOO often, though. "

• >>>  " While Monodia gets a lot of comparisons by listeners and reviewers to Robert Rich/Lustmord's ''Stalker'', this is by far a much darker ambient album. Subtitled ''Music for Funerals'', it is bereft of even the slightest hint of lightness and is relentlessly black and even at times oppressive. One of the best ''dark ambient'' CDs I've heard, in fact given the theme of the CD based on the titles, I'd go so far as to say it deserves its own genre: ''death ambient''. "