Is there anything new or interesting here, for someone (me) with several Lustmord albums already? I need only so many recordings of deep ominous drones. The Word as Power added something to his offerings... voices of humans... and I am wondering/hoping that this too is unmistakably Lustmord, but that it has something about it that makes it unique among his many albums. I've read about the NASA stuff, and I have listened through the set of CDs that NASA released many years ago (Symphonies of the Planets), but whatever the source material may be, however literally otherworldly, an ominous deep drone is but an ominous deep drone, and I have many hours of it already in my collection. What makes this worth adding? I'm seriously asking... not insulting the artist, or dark ambient, not trying to be a smart ass... I'm hoping that someone who likes this album will say something about what makes it interesting to him/her, and maybe help me decide whether or not to buy another Lustmord album. Thank you.

I'm not putting his work down, and this may be a valid response to a point, but your examples seem a bit silly to me. Besides, this is a subjective bias on my part... for me deep drone recordings with dark spacey or hellish embellishments begin to sound too much the same, to derivative of other works, or simply not evolving as an artist, whereas buying a new albums utilizing the instruments you mention may be just as derivative, or maybe not. A lot of different sounds, styles, somewhat unique approaches to music have come from many different artists using those instruments. It's isn't as locked down and formulaic by default, such that anything different is remarked upon because unexpected. I've written this is a rush, as I have to run five minutes ago, but hope I haven't made a mess of the point I'm trying to make. At any rate, I am speaking for myself, not for all, or for you.

the same could be said for any album in any artist's canon: why would anyone want to add another album with guitar, bass,and drums? Why would anyone want to get another pair of sneakers? Etc...

If you want something more dark and deep, check works by Lull or Yen Pox.

Thanks for the advices ;)Gonna take a look to those . . .Be fine ;)

I know the Haxon Cloak records, but not Psychomanteum. I don't listen to much these days that could easily be called this or that kind of music. For rather straight-on DARK ambient, I'd say, along with Lustmord, Raison d’être is a must. I haven't even begun to listen to all he's recorded, but what I've heard was done very well, truly a sonic journey into the dark. I don't think I'd classify this as "dark ambient," and I'm sure Steven Stapleton wouldn't classify anything as anything, or at least anything he'd want to listen to (except perhaps his thing for lady rappers), but I've been diving into his four LP version of Sililoquies for Lilith. I was sceptical at first, thinking, really? more? That fourth disc is a beauty, as is the whole project, and of all his works, this one is as pure as it gets... no surrealistic humor or pornographic cringe cutting in, no easy listening "exotica" or old comedians... its just the drone of his amp as its pitch/note changes with the energy of movement, and it isn't horror show dark, but it is dark, the title itself with a double meaning... firstly the name of a daughter, but the 12" scquare insert with the image of the ancient Babylonian (?) sculpture said by many to represent Lilith, or Lilitu, that other Eve who flew away from the Adam and the garden to live in a cave birthing thousands of demons, and was thought to be the arch-witch for centuries. All that aside, it is my current favorite drone/ambient/somewhat dark set of recordings, as much a contribution to contemporary Western "classical" music as many of the academic composers/experimenters of the post-war 20th century. While I'm, as ever, walking through the old school, there is also Coil's Time Machines album. I've listened to it exactly once, with headphones, from beginning to end, and the next day cycled into the deepest and longest lasting (more than six months of panic attacks and crying like a child in pain) agony of Major Depression I'd ever experienced. I've been afraid to listen to it again, though I suspect that what I went through had more to do with the sudden simultaneous stop and withdrawal from opiates and amphetamine. Talk about getting ones "reward circuits" in the brain totally screwed. I'm sad that Time Machines is tied up in my head with that experience. I'm sad that I wasted little time into getting myself into the same dead-end habits... but this isn't that sort of forum, so I'll leave it there. Also, still in the old school, Current 93's Nature Unveiled and Faust are certainly very dark, and something akin to ambient, but noisy and repetitive long pieces, not smooth sailing through the cosmos. Take good care.

No problem ' ;)Now that we are talking... first time that i've heard about this NASA Symphonies Of The Planets...I need to check out this. Can't understand how i missed it ;).Discogs says that the date release was in 1993, pretty old stuff !(god bless internet!) LOL.If you know about some interesting "dark ambient" or just some kind of "ambient music", please, let me know. I love to discover new music.And now that i'm here, i wanna left this 2 names of "dark ambient" albums that comes in to my mind right now and that are pretty awesome too. Could like you too.Psychomanteum - OneironautThe Haxan Cloak - ExcavationBYE '

Thank you. I did buy it, and I agree with everything you say here. I am glad to have it, and enjoy it. As with The Word As Power, this one too is a bit different from the others, as you say, not so much "dark ambient" as space drone with enough variation to keep it interesting, as if the source material alone doesn't make it already interesting! I bought all those old Nasa "Symphonies of the Planets" CDs, and still listen to them on occasion. Lustmord is, at least among the pool of the artist I know of, my limited knowledge of the "genre," the reigning king of dark ambient, and in this case, quite literally, space ambient/drone. Like his other recordings, I won't listen to it every day, or every week, but will most always hear exactly what I want to hear within this niche of the sonic-sphere, perfectly executed. What Lustmord does is, superficially or on the surface, rather limited and repetitive... deep rumbling somehow sinister drone often present... but each title, once one gets deeper and really listens, has its own unique qualities. I often ask myself... how many Lustmord albums does one need? How many William Basinski albums does one need? How many Keiji Haino albums does one need? The answer I typically come to is, as many as one can find.Thanks again, and best to you,James

I take your point.I have listened a lot of stuff of this kind. From Lustmord, and from many others artist too and i also know that this things could sound pretty similar between each others...I think is very soon, at least for my, to say "this is a bad or a good album". This kind of stuff could be pretty challenging, and in generally, the final judgement of if it is a good or a bad thing, comes after a time...At he beginning, i don't like The Word As Power, but i still find it interesting in some way, so i just give it his due time and now after almost 3 years from his release, i can say that i really like it... has an amazing atmosphere and i can find it interesting even today.So, that's it man.This music can like or not. You probably know this if you are already in to those types of music since time ago.All that can say already now about this release is that the sound is great. I percive it as a more "drone" ambient record than "dark ambient" (and i'm trying to not sound very subjetively about this).If you aren't decide yet to buy the album, then just give some listenings in internet. That's what i do: First i listen the record and, if i really like it, then i buy it gladly. I can't buy something that i don't know if it gonna like me. So, i listen first, then decide.