Withered Citadel (Dark Ambient Hour)

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Ghost Failure:
Death on Cassette:

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Short film featuring my music:

Check out my friend Forgotten Dawn's channel:

G.M. Danielson's Dark Ambient project, AstroCrypt Atmospheres:

Somngreu's Dark Ambient Folk:
An instagram of his art:

Also check out BeatFinit's dark ambient music:

Recommended Authors:
Thomas Ligotti
H P Lovecraft
Mark Samuels
Stefan Grabiński
Edgar Allen Poe
Donald Wandrei
William Hope Hodgson
Brian Evenson
Georg Trakl (Poet)
Junji Ito (Manga)
M.R. James (Fan Recommended)

Readings & narrations with my music::
G M Danielson:
Scott Hurr:
Monsters Among Us Podcast:
Papa Scare:
Creepy Face:
Sound Fiction:
Dark Echoes:

Zbigniew Oporski, whose art has been featured on my channel:

Games featuring my music:
No More Light
The Overlap:
The Abyss:
Half-Life Delta Mod:
Ravenheim Studio:
Exalted Seracthon

Some writers who have used my music for inspiration:
Vaz Anzai:
Dallas Spires:

Heat Signature Films, which uses my music extensively:

[Slickpic]

If I could only bathe in the richness of these ambients and sleep forever, then might I finally know peace.

[MylbStrife]

I hear the Withered Citadel budget cuts have been pretty severe. It's more withered than ever.

[Jorge_Jones]

Mate have I ever thanked you for having no ads on your channel? I don't think I have, how rude of me!
Thank you for producing awesome soundscapes, accompanied with great imagery, and last but not least, no fkn ads! 😁
Awesome work, thanks man, stay safe 🤘

[Valtheronvalkhar]

I love what this generates in me, I am filled with darkness and serenity and I go to another dimension.

[eddievhfan]

That Citadel makes me think of the Emerald City, if it had been left to decay.

[MiaGoth]

dark as hell, i really like those heavy gongs

[Midzonne]

Maybe some people thinks I'm exaggerating, but Youtube is a better place thanks to this channel.

Thank for some many awesome music, creators and atmospheres.

[ivanlangley]

Inevitable doom and nowhere to run and escape from the tolling of the bell. Brings to mind the days of the Black Death. Brilliantly wrought piece on the anvil of the master smith of the darker side of soundscaping. Thanks again!

[darkmatter]

Thank you. That's exactly what I needed.

[danielschaeffer]

To whom, etc. I just noticed that the Dan O’Bannon classic, “Dark Star, ” has shown up in YouTube free movies. A must-see.

[BryanAlexander]

Beautiful mood-setting music.
Love the whistle from 29:30.

[Endymion]

She could leave at any time. The many spired ruined citadel was not want for corridors and portals allowing passage out. But then she would be giving herself to the endless dusty wastes surrounding the structure for as far as could be seen. It had only been a few days prior her companion tried leaving and she watched as he left, noticing that the further he progressed from their crumbling shelter that he slowed his steps, as if coming under some increasing weight, and then finally collapsing. She watched as his body turned to bones over the next few days and then those bones become part of the dust, leaving no trace he ever existed. Whatever decaying properties of the outside were mostly, but not completely reduced, inside the strange castle they had come to find themselves in. There was food to eat; strange bitter fruits growing on stranger vines clinging to the walls. Pools of gray silty water offered drink, and also reflection. She could see herself aging unnaturally quickly in those reflections. A day was like a month. Every few weeks, a year. Her hair was already graying, no longer young as she remembered. Lines appearing on her skin, wrinkles, even her bones began to feel all too brittle and gentle, and had her walking carefully as to not fall and risk a break. She was dying, dying to natural causes, much faster than what should be, but all too slow at the same time. All she could do is wait, dreading her reflection in the pool she drank from every time she bent over to sip from it. She wanted to run out into the dust to join her friend in death but stopped at the threshold every attempt, some burning and yearning desire to just live still pulling her back inside that crooked construction of spires and walls. Craving both youth as she once was, and death, simultaneously, her mind finally went before her body. Laying down the final time, the thin frail frame of what had been human, doomed to wreckage and longing forever.

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Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse, the channel I pray to late at night 🌙.







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[wanderingtragicprincevampi]

Dysthanasia in the withered Citadel... for my Cathédrales de Brume" ! always listening ICA as my Muse...

[jimmydean]

Fantastic! Straight into the D&D campaign. Thank you!

[Ilgrandecigo]

An absolute masterpiece. For now its my favourite one! The track and the image fits perfectly. It gives me sone Scorn vibes (its a videogame, full of the sense of desolation like this track)

[michaelkelly]

I like a lot of your stuff, but this is particularly good.

[ironfelixfromkuban]

For some reason it reminded me of "The Spire" from Myst IV. Also - "Tormentum".

[sonofeyeabovealleffoff]

Hmm. Photo reminds me of Bruce Pennington's Eschatus.

[FellowHuman]

I would make I would make this music if I had the skill and capabilities to do so Brighton