Nyarlathotep - Dark Music Part 1 / 3

Nyarlathotep of the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft in Dark Ambient.

A 190 minute dark soundscape album recorded by 25 ambient artists to pay tribute to H.P. Lovecraft.

Field recordings from the deepest dark corners of 4 continents. Dusty tapes out of forgotten archives. Strings through crackling amplifiers and distorted drone combine into a sea of pitch black.

Nyarlathotep is a manipulative being in the Lovecraftian Mythos. Unlike Cthulhu, or Azathoth, he delights in cruelty and deception. Causing madness is more important than destruction to him.
Smell the burning embers as you kneel outside the sunken temple before Nyarlathotep. Feel the raspy touch of the faceless pharaoh as he leads you to the ancient Pyramid. Hear his inhuman summoning call to gods beyond reality.

So is this a compilation?
No, this is a collaboration and huge undertaking. 25 artists linked studios and sound for over a year so that they could work with each other. This led to deeper exploration of the Mythos and Nyarlathotep.

Artists:
Kammarheit
God Body Disconnect
Dronny darko
Ugasanie
Kristoffer Oustad
Alphaxone
Svartsinn
SiJ
Gydja
Atrium Carceri
Darkrad
Flowers for Bodysnatchers
Aegri Somnia
Randal Collier-Ford
Neizvestija
Metatron Omega
Wordclock
ProtoU
Northumbria
Sjellos
Sabled Sun
Council of Nine
Cryobiosis
Apocryphos
Enmarta
Mystified

[AegisAuras]

“The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.”

- Patrick

[jeffwindsor]

And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.
~ H.P. Lovecraft

[cristaniancatembung]

Really beautiful. Perfect for sleeping and thinking about the outer and inner gods.

[GreekHandofThanatos]

“If I am mad, it is mercy.” - HP Lovecraft

[involuntaryanalysis]

"the most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all it's contents.
We live on a placid island of ignorance, in the midst of black seas of the infinity.
It was never meant that we voyage far."
H.P. Lovecraft

[amandamartin]

"And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmares."-H.P. Lovecraft. Hauntingly Beautiful music, quite suiting for the crawling chaos himself

[TheCrimsonElite]

"Who did you expect at the end of all of this? God? The Devil perhaps? No, it's just... me" - Nyarlathotep

[thomass]

I start my Eldritch Horror sessions with 1920's jazz, but it always gradually evolves into one of your long tracks to give us that feeling of approaching dread. Fantastic work and thank you!

[AnAmericanComposer]

I'm composing an orchestral work based on Nyarlathotep, and this is an amazing album to meditate on it to! Thank you so much for making this.

[thesinfultictac]

I really enjoy the inclusion of Middle Eastern Influences added in this it reminds me of Diablo II and III

[moonboy]

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Frank Herbert

[FrenzyWolf]

There he comes, swallowing the sun... the dirt... everything... he crawls into every inch of your soul. Slowly devouring it while it screams in silence....

[dradamov]

From the description I take that this project was HUGE. 25 artists found a common goal in creating these amazing sounds? How the hell you have only 98k views? I know this stuff is niche, but the quality is phenomenal. Each upload is a different journey and a true experience, a chisel that shapes taste, if you will.

Amazing stuff. Wish you all the best!

[AtmasOne]

I found this 2 months after the release (november 2016)...

i showed it to friends, they all thought i'm a weirdo and had to listen to this alone ever since in all those years. seeing that this mix achieved 1.2M views by now makes me immensely happy. i have yet to find any "ambient" mix (or any mix actually) that comes even close to the immersion of this.

i feel so captivated like i am watching an unknown entity slowly being born, fully knowing it will alter the world in one way or another, and probably not for the better, slowly building up a haunted but resigned mood. and to this day i have never read anything from lovecraft. the music tells it's own story no one can write anyway and i don't want to have it otherwise.

the layers are so well introduced aswell, it's hard to find words to describe that. but if you listened through the first 13 minutes getting the idea, the change of intensity starting at 13 min sends you off into the rabbit-hole. and this goes on and on through the whole mix.

big fan of this insanely underrated channel, found so much good music. i hope this channel lives forever.

[MasterSnakeTamer]

"A sickened, sensitive shadow, writhing in hands that are not hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly midnight of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low. Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctified temples that rest on nameless rocks beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light and darkness. And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods--the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep."

—H.P. Lovecraft, “Nyarlathotep.”

[SkullKnightBeats]

So... I've listened to all three parts and came back to the first one most often. I fell asleep to this track for two weeks in a row, because it calms me down that much! And the atmosphere is simply amazing, this is masterpiece... all three parts are! But this one... This is art at it's finest!!!

[old-manparker]

Thank you Cryo Chamber. I just purchased the 3 cd box set of Nyarlathotep.
UP-DATE: My 3 disk set of Nyarlathotep arrived today! E-Gads, it's beautiful! The packaging is so awesome I don't have the heart to open it up... yet . So, for now I'm listening to my downloaded version and just gazing at the packaging's dark majestic beauty. 
Much thanks for all the extras that came with it as well!
Now a haunting memory...
I remember the year I discovered the literature of H.P. Lovecraft. 
I discovered astounding literature & fantastic music that summer. 
It was 1976. 
I was 15.
It was a momentous year living in the midwest.
Spring-time storms of biblically dark thunderheads stabbed the house across my street with lighting. 
My friends and I gasped & giggled in class about the frightening movie we saw called "Carrie".
At my buddy's house we listened to his new album "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell".
I bought a new heavy metal album called "Sad Wings of Destiny" by a new group named "Judas Priest".
Listening to it became an obsession.

I bought a collection of stories by an author other than Edgar Rice Burroughs named H.P. Lovecraft. 
I was so shocked & intrigued by the book I quickly went back and bought the one other Lovecraft collection the book store had.
Reading Lovecraft became an obsession.
Walking through vast fields of tall golden corn I wondered about Dunwich horrors and if I could run away from something I couldn't see. 
I drew a complex ink drawing of "The Whisperer in Darkness" in art class that fall semester.
I couldn't stop trying to visualize things that would drive you mad if you actually saw them. 
I couldn't stop thinking about the newly found dangerous dark cosmos I'd discovered in the literature of H.P. Lovecraft. 
I couldn't stop listening to Rob Halford singing about gothic creatures and a... "figure that floated beneath the willow trees". 
I couldn't stop looking at comic-book horrors that were illustrated in Warren magazines like Eerie & Creepy & Vamperella.
I couldn't stop reading Howard P. Lovecraft. 
I hunted through my local library.

These new ideas rose up from the sea of my young imagination swimming with primordial pre-adult-life and with rubbery claws they seized my tender teenaged DNA. 
They twisted.
They shaped.
They ripped open.
Pop-culture behemoths of literature & music pulled open my world. 
They revealed a vast strange eternal midnight universe that was ever rotating like a record ‘round an eons-old unknown alien-god-thing. 
Un-known that is, until then. 
Ever afterward, I could feel the great CTHULHU watching me. 
Gazing on my running form as I crossed through my teen-years into my adult-hood and into old-age.
I stepped more carefully through the golden corn.
I was afraid I'd trip and fall through an invisible door-way into an alien-dimension.  
Lost forever. 

My DNA mutated to be receptive to this strange new mythos. 
A Lovecraftian mystery-history that would keep revealing more of itself from HPL & his scribe followers for the rest of my life.

If 1969 was "The Summer Of Love". 
Then, at least for me, 1976 was "The Summer Of Love-CRAFT".

[mariouribe]

May whatever vile gods out there bless you for this music.

[staceyeskelin]

I love your work! I'm a novelist by profession. Listening to your dark, moody creations (thank you, BTW, for making them ad free) always puts me in the right headspace in order to create. You are the god of a musical nether-realm. .

[old-manparker]

"...And through this revolting graveyard of a universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods—the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep."
~ H.P. Lovecraft