The Polish netlabel Kaos Ex Machina have several releases available including the compilation Where Are You Europe? and also host links to two compilations from the Polish label War Office Propaganda - Voice vol.1, and Promo Sampler 2006The three compilations total 53 tracks, which are all either 192 kbps CBR or ~192 kbps VBR mp3 files, and come ( Read more... )

The Russian band Cisfinitum has a couple of full albums - Landschaft and Malgyl - available on the Belgian netlabel EntityThere are a total of 12 tracks - all good quality ~192 kbps VBR mp3 files. Album artwork is available. Landschaft is mostly good drones and dark ambience, whereas Malgyl is even better and sounds more industrial in a similar ( Read more... )

The Swedish netlabel Two Left Hands On Two Right Arms has a compilation of nordic dark ambient music for free download, titled We Who With Music Beguile Your Pilgrimage To The UnknownThe eight tracks are mostly good quality 192 kbps mp3s, Creative Commons licensed, and available as individual downloads or as one zipped file with artwork. The music ( Read more... )

The Estonian band Sempervirens have a full album, Mainland Rain, available for download from the Benekkea netlabel, along with a couple of tracks from a newer album at their home site ( Read more... )

The Chilean ambient funeral doom band Voice Transmissions With The Deceased have a three track album and a two track EP available for download. There's also another individual track at the same site, and a further one available here. Note that these are all long tracks ( Read more... )

The French label Taâlem has released Sans Titre, 2001-2004, a free double album of tracks from first 22 artists released on the label ( Read more... )

The UK label Monkeyhouse Recordings has made a previously commercial split album by dark ambient bands Leviathan and Grimbergen freely available online on their Releases page.

The tracks are all high-quality 256 kbps files, in album zip files, and come with artwork. Well worth a listen if you're into quality dark ambient.

The # Neo-folk.it website has three compilations for free download on their Productions page. Despite the website's name, all three contain plenty of other styles such as dark ambient and various flavours of industrial as well as neofolk. There's also a good selection of bands - roughly half are Italian, but the others are from far and wide ( Read more... )

Caul is the project of American musician Brett Smith, and he has released a fair amount of his back catalogue for free at the Reliquary. There are over 50 tracks from five full albums, along with a few other individual tracks. All the tracks are at least 192kbps mp3s, so the quality is good, although I have found the track transitions in my ( Read more... )

Massimo Magrini, the man behind the excellent Italian band Bad Sector, has placed a large proportion of his back catalogue up at the Bad Sector Web Transmission. When I first posted about this band last year there were 'only' 66 tracks, but there are now a total of 75, including seven full albums. They are good quality 160kbps mp3s too, which is a ( Read more... )