Atrium Carceri

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Atrium Carceri
Origin Sweden
Genres Dark ambient, experimental, industrial
Labels Cold Meat Industry, Cryo Chamber
Members Simon Heath
Website cryochamberlabel.com

Atrium Carceri is a Swedish musical project by Simon Heath, initially released by industrial record label Cold Meat Industry. [1] Fourteen full-length albums have been released so far, as well as fourteen collaboration albums together with other artists of the genre. In 2011 Atrium Carceri left Cold Meat Industry and started the Dark Ambient label Cryo Chamber. [2] Simon Heath also released eleven albums under the name of his side project Sabled Sun. [3]

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Style and themes

Atrium Carceri is typically described as dark ambient, black ambient and ambient industrial music. Similar to projects like Lull and Lustmord, Atrium Carceri uses synthesizers, sound effects, samples from films and anime, piano and other instrumentation to create slow rhythms, bitter melodies and complex textures generally based on themes of desolation, loneliness (solitary confinement) and environmental decay. Atrium Carceri has been praised by music critics and embraced by a cult audience for its depth of atmosphere. [4] [5] According to Heath himself, each of Atrium Carceri's solo releases are centered around specific 'story arcs' within a 'grand story,' [6] and following the releases of Reliquiae and Void in 2012, has made a flowchart detailing the story progression up to that point. [7] The exact nature of the concept behind this 'grand story' has been intentionally left ambiguous by Heath, who's said it's "up to the listener and his/her interpretation" to piece together this story. [6] The most popular video on Cryochamber is Songs for an empty world with over 3 million views. [8] The Channel is mostly notable for its Winter Ambient Videos. [9]

Discography

Studio albums (as Atrium Carceri)
Collaborations with other artists
As Sabled Sun

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "A History of Cellblock, A Conversation with Simon Heath". Cryo Chamber Label. 2017-03-09. Archived from the original on 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  2. ↑ "Cryo Chamber Label". Cryo Chamber Label.
  3. ↑ "2146, by Sabled Sun". Cryo Chamber. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  4. ↑ "Album Review ATRIUM CARCERI-Cellblock :: Maelstrom :: Issue No 16". www.maelstrom.nu. Archived from the original on 5 September 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  5. ↑ "CoC : Atrium Carceri - Kapnobatai : Review". www.chroniclesofchaos.com.
  6. 1 2 Vogric, Tomaz (May 19, 2015). "Atrium Carceri - Interview". Terra Relicta. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Timeline – Atrium Carceri".
  8. ↑ "Songs for an empty world". YouTube . 11 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "Winter Ambient Music". YouTube . 6 January 2018.
  10. ↑ Carceri, Atrium. "Atrium Carceri – Metropolis released – Atrium Carceri". Archived from the original on 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
  11. ↑ Carceri, Atrium. "Atrium Carceri – Archives I–II released – Atrium Carceri". Archived from the original on 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
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