BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE Dull Routine Of Existence (2006) CD

The title is not ironic. Dull Routine Of Existence takes the grey weight of daily life and turns it into something genuinely unsettling, which is exactly what dark ambient and industrial music does when it's working properly.

Beyond Sensory Experience are Swedish, which tells you something. Sweden has a long history of experimental and industrial artists who treat sound design as a kind of psychological excavation, and Henrik Rylander's project fits that lineage alongside the strangest corners of Cold Meat Industry and Malignant Records. This 2006 release is textural, oppressive, and patient in the way that the best dark ambient is, not background music, but music that changes the atmosphere of a room. If you own Nordvargr records or have spent time with Inade and Vestigial, this belongs in your collection.

CD format. Swedish dark ambient, experimental and industrial. 2006 release. Fans of: Gustaf Hildebrand, Vestigial, Nordvargr, Inade.