Ulver

Ulver
Oslo, Norway
Black metal, folk metal (early) / experimental, dark ambient (later)

Vargnatt (1993) Demo, 2009 Rem.
split with Mysticum (1994)
Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler (1995)
Kveldssanger (1996)
Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden (1997)
Themes from William Blakes the Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1998)
Metamorphosis (1999) EP
Perdition City (2000)
Silence Teaches You How to Sing (2001) EP
Silencing the Singing (2001) EP
Lyckantropen Themes (2002)
A Quick Fix of Melancholy (2003) EP
Svidd Neger (2003)
Blood Inside (2005)
Shadows of the Sun (2007)
Wars of the Roses (2011)
Childhood's End (2012) Covers
Oddities and Rarities #1 (2012)
Roadburn (2012) EP
Live at Roadburn (2013)
Messe I​.​X​-​VI​.​X (2013) with Tromsø Chamber Orchestra
The Norwegian National Opera (2013) Live 2010
Terrestrials (2014) with Sun O)))
Nattens Madrigal 4 Track Rehearsal Summer 1995 (2014)
ATGCLVLSSCAP (2016)
Riverhead (2016) OST
The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2017)
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (2017) EP
Drone Activity (2019) Live

Antimatter

Antimatter
Liverpool, England
Gothic rock, gothic metal, dark ambient, trip hop (early)

Antimatter, a UK melancholic rock band, is the project of longtime member Mick Moss. The project was formed in 1997 by Duncan Patterson (former bassist/songwriter of Anathema) and Moss. The pair released three albums together - Saviour, Lights Out and Planetary Confinement. Shortly after the completion of Planetary Confinement, Patterson left to start another band called Íon. Moss continued and released the project’s fourth album, Leaving Eden...

Saviour (2001)
A Dream for the Blind (2002) EP
Lights Out (2003)
Live @ K13 (2003)
Unreleased 1998-2003 (2004)
Planetary Confinement (2005)
Leaving Eden (2007)
Live @ An Club (2009)
Alternative Matter (2010) Del.Ed.
Fear of a Unique Identity (2012) Ltd.Ed.
The Judas Table (2015) Del.Ed.
Welcome to the Machine / Too Late (2016) EP
Live Between the Earth & Clouds (2017)
Black Market Enlightenment (2018)

Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Industrial rock, alternative rock, industrial metal, dark ambient, synthpop

Down in it (1989) Single
Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
Head Like a Hole (1990) Single
Sin (1990) Single
Broken (1992) EP
Fixed (1992) EP
Closer to God (1994) Single
March of the Pigs (1994) Single
The Downward Spiral (1994)
Further Down the Spiral (1995) Remix
The Perfect Drug (1997) Single
The Day the World Went Away (1999) Single
The Fragile (1999)
We're in This Together (1999) Single
Things Falling Apart (2000) Remix
And All That Could Have Been (2002) Live
Only (2005) Single
The Hand That Feeds (2005) Single
With Teeth (2005)
Every Day is Exactly the Same (2006) Single
Survivalism (2007) Single
Year Zero (2007)
Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D (2007) Remix
Ghosts I-IV (2008)
The Slip (2008)
Hesitation Marks (2013)
Live 2013 EP (2013)
Recoiled (2014)
Seed Eight (2014) EP
Not the Actual Events (2016) EP
Add Violence (2017) EP
Bad Witch (2018) EP

Summoning

Summoning
Vienna, Austria
Atmospheric black metal, symphonic black metal, dark ambient

Lugburz (1995)
Minas Morgul (1995)
Dol Guldur (1997)
Nightshade Forests (1997) EP
Stronghold (1999)
Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame (2001)
Lost Tales (2003) EP
Oath Bound (2006)
The Demon Tapes (2012) Demo '93/'94
Of Pale White Mornsand Darkened Eves (2013) Single
Old Mornings Dawn (2013)
With Doom We Come (2018)

Nortt

Nortt
Odense, Denmark
Black-doom, funeral doom, dark ambient

Nattetale (1997) Demo
Døden... (1998) Demo
Gudsforladt (2003)
Mournful Monuments 1998-2002 (2003)
split with Xasthur (2004)
Ligfærd (2005)
Galgenfrist (2007)
Endeligt (2017)

Leviathan

Leviathan
San Francisco, California
Ambient black metal, dark ambient

Three (1998) Demo
Time End (1998) Demo
MisanthropicNecroBlasphemy (2000) Demo
Seven & Slaveship (2000) Demo
Shadow of No Light (2000) Demo
V (2000) Demo
Video Brolo (2000) Demo
Howl Mockery at the Cross (2001) Demo
Intolerance (2001) Demo
Nine (Inclement Derision) (2001) Demo
Ten (2001) Demo
The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide (2002) Demo
White Devil, Black Metal (2002) Demo
XV (2002) Demo
Verräter (2002) Comp.
The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide (2003)
split with Xasthur (2004)
split with Crebain (2004)
'Black Metal Against the World' (2004) Split with Funeral Winds, Ad Hominem and Eternity
Tentacles of Whorror (2004)
A Silhouette in Splinters (2005)
The Speed of Darkness (2006) EP
The Blind Wound (2006) EP
Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (2008)
'Sic Luceat Lux' (2009) Split with Acherontas
True Traitor, True Whore (2011)
split with Krieg (2014)
Scar Sighted (2015)
The First Blade (2016) EP
The First Sublevel of Suicide (2017) 2002 Demo

Shape of Despair

Shape of Despair
formed as: Raven *
Finland
Atmospheric/Funeral Doom Metal

Rehearsal I * (1995)
Promo * (1998) Demo
Shades of... (2000)
Angels of Distress (2001)
Illusion's Play (2004)
Shape of Despair (2005) Comp.
Written in My Scars (2010) EP
Monotony Fields (2015)
Alone in the Mist (2016) 1998 Demo

Trees of Eternity

Trees of Eternity
Jyväskylä, Vaasa, Finland / Avesta, Sweden
Doom metal, dark ambient

Trees of Eternity is a musical collaboration between Finnish guitarist Juha Raivio (Swallow the Sun) and Sweden-based, South African-born singer Aleah Stanbridge. Their music is often described as down-tempo, doom/death-inspired melancholia with ghostly female vocals.

Black Ocean (2013) Demo
Hour of the Nightingale (2016)

Mortiis

Mortiis
Notodden, Telemark, Norway
Industrial rock, dark ambient, black metal

Song of a Long Forgotten Ghost (1993) Demo
Født til å herske (1994)
Ånden som gjorde opprør (1995)
Keiser av en dimension ukjent (1995)
Blood and Thunder (1996) Single
Crypt of the Wizard (1996) Comp.
The Stargate (1999)
The Smell of Rain (2001) Reis.
The Grudge (2004)
Decadent and Desperate (2005) Single
Some Kind of Heroin (2007) Remix
Perfectly Defect (2010) Ltd.Ed.
Vardøger (2012) Single
The Great Deceiver (2016)

Tamerlan

Tamerlan
Serbia
Dark ambient, modern classical, gothic rock, neofolk

The Antiexistence (2009)
Black Winter Day (2011) Single
Ain (2014)

Burzum

Burzum
Bergen, Norway
Black metal, dark ambient, neo-medieval music

Demo (1991)
Demo II (1991)
Burzum (1992) Demo
Burzum (1992)
Aske (1993) EP
Det Som Engang Var (1993)
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss (1994)
Filosofem (1996)
Dauði Baldrs (1997)
Hliðskjálf (1999)
Belus (2010)
Fallen (2011)
From the Depths of Darkness (2011) re-rec.
Umskiptar (2012)
Sôl Austan, Mâni Vestan (2013)
The Ways of Yore (2014)

Xasthur

Xasthur
Alhambra, California, United States
Black metal, dark ambient (1995-2010), Acoustic, neofolk (2015-present)

Rehearsal '97 (1997) Demo
split with Orosius (1999)
A Darkened Winter (2001) EP
A Gate Throuogh Bloodstained Mirrors (2001) Demo, 2008 Reis.
Nocturnal Poisoning (2002)
Rehearsal (2002) Demo
Suicide in Dark Serenity (2003) EP, 2004 Reis.
The Funeral of Being (2003)
split with Acid Enema (2003)
A Sermon in the Name of Death (2004) Demo
split with Nortt (2004)
split with Nachtmystium (2004)
Telepathic with the Deceased (2004)
To Violate the Oblivious (2004)
split with Angra Mainyu (2004)
split with Leviathan (2004)
Xasthur (2006) EP
Subliminal Genocide (2006)
split with Cryostasium (2007)
Defective Epitaph (2007)
split with Striborg (2007)
All Reflections Drained (2009)
2005 Demo (2010)
Portal of Sorrow (2010)
Nightmares at Dawn (2012) Comp.

Abruptum

Abruptum
Finspång, Sweden
Black metal, Dark ambient, Noise music

Orchestra of Dark (1991) Demo
Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me (1993)
In Umbra Malitiae Ambulabo, in Aeternum in Triumpho Tenebrarum (1994)
Evil Genius (1995) Comp.
Vi Sonus Veris Nigrae Malitiaes (1997)
De Profundis Mors Vas Cousumet (2000) EP
Casus Luciferi (2004)
Potestates Apocalypsis (2011)

Lifelover

Lifelover
Stockholm, Sweden
Depressive rock, black metal, post-punk, dark ambient

Promo 2005 (2005) Demo
Pulver (2006)
Erotik (2007)
Konkurs (2008)
Dekadens (2009) EP
Sjukdom (2011)

Black Funeral

Black Funeral
Houston, Texas, United States
Black metal, dark ambient

Journey's into Horizons Lost (1994) Demo
Of Spells of Darkness and Death (1995) Demo
Vampyr - Throne of the Beast (1995)
Empire of Blood (1997)
Moon of Characith (1998)
Belial Arisen (2003)
Az-i-Dahak (2004)
Ordog (2005)
Waters of Weeping (2007)
Vukolak (2010)

Dark Sanctuary

Dark Sanctuary
Paris, France
Dark atmospheric, goth opera

Bruises (1996) Demo
Funeral Cry (1998) Single
Royaume mélancolique (1999)
De lumière et d'obscurité (2000)
Vie ephémère (2002) Single
L'être las - l'envers du miroir (2003)
Les mémoires blessées (2004)
Exaudi Vocem Meam (Part I) (2005)
Exaudi Vocem Meam (Part II) (2006)
Dark Sanctuary (2009)