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ritual ambient

Last updated: Tue Oct 21 2025 06:35:44 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Ritual ambient blends ceremonial atmospheres with dark, meditative soundscapes, evoking sacred and often primordial spaces through drone textures, chanting, and acoustic elements. Drawing from folk mysticism, occult traditions, and spiritual practices across cultures, it creates immersive sonic environments that feel both ancient and timeless. The music emphasizes transformation and transcendence, functioning as a contemplative or ceremonial experience rather than conventional entertainment.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
1		1977	Various Artists	Extravaganza!	ritual ambient
94		1984	Current 93	Nature Unveiled	ritual ambient ritual industrial	ritual industrial # 1
58		1984-01	Current 93	LAShTAL	ritual ambient
79		1984-09	Zero Kama	The Secret Eye Of L.A.Y.L.A.H.	ritual ambient dark ambient
43		1985	Current 93	In Menstrual Night	industrial dark ambient
53		1986	LAShTAL	Thoum Aesh Neith	ritual ambient
61		1986	Ain Soph	Ars Regia	dark ambient ritual ambient
73		1986	SPK	Zamia Lehmanni - Songs of Byzantine Flowers	ambient dark ambient ritual ambient
28		1987	Current 93	Dawn	industrial ritual ambient	ritual industrial # 70
64		1988	Ain Soph	Kshatriya	dark ambient ritual ambient
97		1992	Coil	How to Destroy Angels	ritual ambient
71		1993	The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud	The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud	apocalyptic folk ritual ambient industrial neofolk	apocalyptic folk # 45
8		1993	Deutsch Nepal	Benevolence	industrial dark ambient
24		1994	The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud	Amara Tanta Tyri	neofolk	ritual industrial # 31
72		1994	Beherit	H418ov21.C	dark ambient ritual ambient
62		1995	Voice of Eye	Transmigration	ritual ambient	tribal ambient # 11
42		1995	MZ.412	In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi	industrial ritual ambient
83		1995	Ulf Söderberg	Nattljus	ritual ambient
60		1996	Deutsch Nepal & The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud	A Night in Fear	ritual ambient ritual industrial tribal industrial	ritual industrial # 7 tribal industrial # 88
41		1996	Deutsch Nepal	¡Comprendido!... Time Stop! ...and World Ending	industrial ritual ambient
32		1997	The Nazgûl	The Nazgûl	dark ambient drone ritual ambient
33		1997	Archon Satani	The Righteous Way To Completion	industrial ritual ambient
29		1997-02	Deutsch Nepal	Comprendido!... Time stop! ... And World Ending	industrial ritual ambient
36		1998	Ulf Söderberg	Tidvatten	dark ambient tribal ambient	tribal ambient # 94
13		1998-06	Svasti-ayanam	Sanklesa	dark ambient ritual ambient	tribal ambient # 26 tribal industrial # 41
14		1999	Asmorod	Derelict	dark ambient industrial ritual ambient
59		1999	Jon Hassell	Fascinoma	dark ambient ritual ambient
95		1999-09-02	Jocelyn Pook	Flood	ritual ambient
50		2001	Zero Kama	The Goatherd And The Beast	ritual ambient dark ambient tribal industrial	ritual industrial # 46 tribal industrial # 62
34		2001	Herbst9	Eta Carinae	dark ambient industrial ritual ambient
70		2001	:Of the Wand & the Moon:	:Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness:	neofolk ritual ambient
45		2001-07-20	Coph Nia	Holy War	dark ambient martial industrial ritual ambient	ritual industrial # 22
67		2002	Peter Phippen	Night Song	ambient ritual ambient soundscape	soundscape # 74
85		2002-04	Hexentanz	The Sabbat Comes Softly	ritual ambient
96		2003	:Of the Wand & the Moon:	Lucifer	apocalyptic folk neofolk ritual ambient	neofolk # 63 apocalyptic folk # 100
49		2003	Halo Manash	Se Its En	ritual ambient
21		2004-02	Halo Manash	PAR-ANTRA I: VIR	ritual ambient
86		2004-06	Hexentanz	Nekrocrafte	dark ambient ritual ambient
27		2004-07	Aeoga	COAV	dark ambient ritual ambient
56		2004-07	Halo Manash	SYoMA	ritual ambient
90		2004-12	Arcana	Le Serpent Rouge	dark ambient	dark ambient # 60
37		2005-02	Zoät-Aon	Star Autopsy	dark ambient drone ambient noise noise rock ritual ambient	drone ambient # 60
16		2005-10	Aeoga	Triangle of Nebula-Devourers	ritual ambient
18		2005-10	Aeoga	Zenith Beyond the Helix-Locus	ritual ambient
9		2005-11-01	Terroritmo	Premonitions	ritual ambient
75		2006-06-21	Arktau Eos	Mirrorion	ritual ambient
68		2006-06	Arktau Eos	Scorpion Milk	ritual ambient
35		2006-10	Kaniba	The Serpent, or the Omega and the Completion of the First Circle
19		2007	Halo Manash	rAsHnka-RA	ritual ambient
81		2007	Halo Manash	r.A.S.H.n.k.a-RA	ritual ambient
15		2007-05-25	Coph Nia	The Dark Illuminati: A Celestial Tragedy In Two Acts	martial industrial	martial industrial # 42
39		2007-05-25	Herbst9 Vs Z'ev	Through Bleak Landscapes	ambient dark ambient industrial ritual ambient
5		2008	Dead Reptile Shrine	Isth Narai Ja	ambient black ambient dark ambient finnish finnish black metal noise post-industrial ritual ambient	finnish black metal # 6 black ambient # 76
69		2008-02	Halo Manash	Language Of Red Goats	ritual ambient
44		2008-10	Halo Manash	Am Kha Astrie	drone ritual ambient
76		2009	Wooden Veil	Wooden Veil	avant-folk industrial ritual ambient tribal industrial	avant-folk # 28 tribal industrial # 93
26		2009	Halo Manash	Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus	ritual ambient
52		2009-01-27	Natural Snow Buildings	Daughter of Darkness	drone noise	avant-folk # 11 tribal ambient # 47
10		2009-05-24	Count Greglache	Crypto-Phantom	8-bit chiptune dark ambient dark jazz drone electronica glitch ritual ambient	dark jazz # 6 ambient noise # 57
65		2009-05	Inade	The Incarnation of the Solar Architects	dark ambient ritual ambient
55		2009-06-01	Desiderii Marginis	Years Lend a Golden Charm	illbient new age ritual ambient	illbient # 73
54		2009-08	Arktau Eos	Ai Ma Ra	ritual ambient
87		2009-09	Treha Sektori	Sorieh	dark ambient ritual ambient
22		2009-10-31	Black Mountain Transmitter	Black Goat of the Woods	ritual ambient
17		2009-11-16	Halo Manash	Taiwaskivi	ritual ambient
6		2010-02-15	Lamia Vox	...introductio	dark ambient ritual ambient
88		2010-03	Phurpa	Trowo phurnag ceremony	ritual ambient
3		2010-07-24	Halgrath	Liquid Mind	ambient ritual ambient
12		2010-07-29	Trepaneringsritualen	Roi Perdu	ritual ambient ritual industrial	ritual industrial # 16
25		2010-09-08	Tzolk'in	tonatiuh
30		2011-03-23	Draugurinn	Myrkraverk	ritual ambient
51		2011-05-20	Deutsch Nepal	Amygdala	industrial martial industrial ritual ambient ritual industrial tribal industrial	ritual industrial # 11 tribal industrial # 83
38		2011-12-17	Herbst9	Ušumgal Kalamma	dark ambient drone ambient martial industrial ritual ambient	drone ambient # 61
47		2012-04-24	Empusae	Symbiosis	dark folk martial industrial neoclassical ritual ambient trip-hop
91		2012-05-28	Desiderii Marginis	Procession	dark ambient	dark ambient # 66
63		2012-09-27	Tropic of Cancer	I Feel Nothing	minimal wave ritual ambient	minimal wave # 38
93		2012-10-31	Treha Sektori	Endessiah	ambient industrial dark ambient ritual ambient	ambient industrial # 99
31		2012-11-16	Arktau Eos	Ioh-Maera	ritual ambient tribal industrial	tribal industrial # 75
89		2013-07-08	Lustmord	The Word As Power	dark ambient drone ambient	dark ambient # 64 drone ambient # 99
2		2013-10-05	Seidr	Ginnungagap	atmospheric doom metal ritual ambient	atmospheric doom metal # 56
11		2014-05-20	Treha Sektori	Severh Sehenh	ambient dark ambient ritual ambient
20		2014-08-14	Lamia Vox	Inlumaeh	apocalyptic folk industrial neoclassical neofolk ritual ambient
82		2015-10	Aïsha Devi	Of Matter And Spirit	ritual ambient
99		2016-07-07	Urfaust	Voodoo Dust	ritual ambient
80		2016-09-12	Moaan Exis	INVOK	ebm industrial hardcore industrial techno power noise rhythmic noise ritual ambient tribal ambient tribal industrial	industrial techno # 53 rhythmic noise # 84 power noise # 86 tribal ambient # 89 industrial hardcore # 93 tribal industrial # 98
98		2016-10-28	Urfaust	Empty Space Meditation	ritual ambient
23		2017-01-04	Trepaneringsritualen	Deathward, To The Womb		ritual industrial # 14 death industrial # 48
46		2017-03-03	Paleowolf	Prehistoric Meditations	dark ambient ritual ambient
100		2017-03-30	Xiu Xiu	Girl with Basket of Fruit	post-industrial ritual ambient death industrial	post-industrial # 95 electroacoustic # 97 death industrial # 99
77		2017-09-30	Trepaneringsritualen	Kainskult	black ambient black noise death industrial power electronics power noise rhythmic noise ritual ambient ritual industrial	ritual industrial # 3 power electronics # 33 rhythmic noise # 77 power noise # 82 death industrial # 82 black noise # 92 black ambient # 95
48		2018-03-31	Nordvargr	Metempsychosis	ritual ambient
74		2018-05-11	Aïsha Devi	DNA Feelings	grime industrial techno post-industrial ritual ambient trance	post-industrial # 17 industrial techno # 39
40		2018-05-18	Hekate	Totentanz	apocalyptic folk martial industrial neoclassical darkwave neofolk ritual ambient	neoclassical darkwave # 28
78		2018-09-19	Ancient Methods	The Jericho Records	dark ambient ebm industrial techno martial industrial power noise rhythmic noise ritual ambient techno tribal ambient tribal industrial	industrial techno # 46 martial industrial # 47 rhythmic noise # 78 power noise # 83 tribal ambient # 86 tribal industrial # 95
66		2018-12-03	Zanias	Into the All	ambient coldwave dark ambient dark techno darkwave ebm electronic ethereal wave industrial techno minimal synth minimal wave new age ritual ambient synthpop tribal ambient	minimal synth # 18 ethereal wave # 20 industrial techno # 30 minimal wave # 41 dark techno # 82 tribal ambient # 84
84		2018-12-21	Swallow the Sun	Lumina Aurea	doom metal ritual ambient
92		2019-01-25	Rúnfell	Vangheimr	neofolk ritual ambient
7		2024	Vazio	Necrocosmos	atmospheric black metal black metal brazilian ritual ambient
57			NSB Archive	The Dance of the Moon and the Sun	ambient avant-folk drone post-rock psychedelic folk ritual ambient	avant-folk # 12
4			Апорєа	На рєкахъ вавл҃нскыхъ	ritual ambient

Related genres

• dark ambient
• ambient
• industrial
• drone
• noise
• ritual industrial
• tribal ambient
• tribal industrial
• post-industrial
• neoclassical