Dark. Descent.

14/09/2025

13/09/2025

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Embrionyc & Cubic Nomad - Sensation of the Mind (Deluxe Edition)

https://elasticstage.com/room23music/releases/sensation-of-the-mind-singleep

"We felt 'Sensation of the Mind' deserved a special vinyl treatment. Thanks to elasticStage, this unique opportunity has become reality in the form of a limited lathe cut edition. Unlike traditional vinyl pressings, these editions are created in very small numbers, making each record an exclusive collector’s piece."

On the B-side you’ll find Aural Waves featuring Emma Susanne. The release also comes with brand new artwork and a full-colour inner sleeve.

Don’t miss this rare chance to add a true collector’s item to your collection — available now!

— Cubic Nomad & Embrionyc

01/09/2025

AUTUMN DUSK SALE 🌑🍂
The summer light fades… shadows grow longer… a darker season begins.

All through September, enter AUTUMNDUSK to get 25% OFF everything in the Room 23 Music Bandcamp shop — merchandise, CDs, digital releases, and more.

Step into the dusk. Let the sound carry you.
👉 room23music.bandcamp.com

01/08/2025

OUT NOW!

DD14149
Cubic Nomad - Planet X

A silent wanderer drifts through the void—unseen, yet inevitable. Its gravity reaches across the abyss, shifting tides, unravelling the fragile order of Earth. The sky darkens, the ground fractures, and fire erupts from within. Oceans rise to swallow cities; winds reshape continents in mere hours.

As the celestial intruder moves on, the scars remain—ash blankets the land, the air grows thin, and time itself bends to a new rhythm. The world will never be the same. The ancients warned us. The cycle begins again.

This ominous vision sets the tone for Planet X, Cubic Nomad’s fourth full-length album in his darker, rhythm-driven discography. Across 14 tracks, he sculpts a sonic landscape shaped by the darkest variants of hardcore and exploratory electronics — always delivered with compositional discipline, emotional weight, and conceptual clarity. Planet X is a full commitment to his signature strain of structured chaos.

Several tracks build on the foundation laid by the Unearthly Stranger EP, carrying forward its hypnotic sci-fi tribalism, while new material expands the scope: punishing kicks, contorted beats, eerie atmospheres, and melodies that emerge like traces of light in a collapsing orbit.

Key collaborations inject further vitality: Genetic Prophecy, with Dep Affect, pushes percussive programming to a breaking point — a twitching mass of sound and tension. In The Void Of Space, with synapscape, matches slow-motion propulsion with Tim Kniep’s unmistakable vocal performance. Darkening Clouds sees Emma Susanne return, her treated vocals woven into a slower, gritty pulse — both unsettling and magnetic. Sensation of the Mind transforms the anthemic trance-hybrid of the original Embrionyc collaboration into something more restrained, more aligned with the bleak cohesion of the album’s arc. And finally, Captain Walker — the latest and arguably most powerful instalment in the long-running Walker series — fuses Cubic Nomad with his own alter ego The Relic, crafting a self-collaboration of brutal precision and imaginative twists. A culmination, and a personal milestone.

For all its stylistic variety, Planet X stands out for its coherence: each track feeds into the next with gravitational pull — from crushing beats to atmospheric collapses, from self-referential space drama to the slow creep of existential dread.

Planet X is not a place, but a presence — one that alters everything in its wake.

14 track album

24/07/2025

DDSP001
B.U.N.K.E.R. Kicks Vol. I
by The Relic

The first official sample pack on Dark. Descent. — built for the underground, made for the bunkers.

B.U.N.K.E.R. Kicks Vol. I delivers 400+ punishing industrial kick drums, forged by The Relic using a brutal mix of analog hardware and digital processing.
Filterbanks. Distortion circuits. Analog mixer clipping. Sculpted with precision, abused with intent.

Inside you’ll find:

- Kicks with distortion, crunch, overdrive, and noise
- Hollow, heavy, and broken-sounding low-end artillery
- Raw one-shots ready for use, and perfect for layering

Each kick comes as a 24-bit WAV, cleanly trimmed and organized for instant use in any DAW or sampler. The sounds are grouped into thematic folders, inspired by 10 unique bunker types — each reflecting a different kind of sonic impact and character.

Whether you're building industrial, dark techno, doomcore, or pure machine-driven chaos — these kicks hit where it hurts.

- Created through hybrid analog/digital workflows
- Processed for character, grit, and destruction

https://darkdescent.bandcamp.com/album/b-u-n-k-e-r-kicks-vol-i

14/07/2025

DD00148C
Mute. – The Ever Present Absence: Third Verse

“The Ever Present Absence” tells of how a life — shaped over years — can be irrevocably altered in just days. A brief moment defined by raw human emotion, reshaping all that came before and all that follows. What remains is the quiet violence of knowing that something is lost forever — and always will be.

In solace we found what denial had sought.

“The Solace” is where the narrative breathes again. Not recovery, but
recognition — the point where the shock has passed, and the pain remains, transformed, finding a kind of comfort in sorrow and distress, not the undoing of what happened, but the ability to carry it with tenderness.

Sonically, the textures return with warmth and breadth: The voices — still distant, but now integral — blend into lush synth layers and low, grounding rhythms. The atmosphere is forgiving, not because the burden has vanished, but because it is no longer resisted.

“The Solace” reveals what the entire cycle has been circling: The omnipresent awareness of something lost forever — and the fragile grace of continuing, changed but intact.

1 track album

05/07/2025

Incredible “Chaos Out Of Order” Tattoo!

30/06/2025

DD00148B
Mute. – The Ever Present Absence: Second Verse

“The Ever Present Absence” tells of how a life — shaped over years — can be irrevocably altered in just days. A brief moment defined by raw human emotion, reshaping all that came before and all that follows. What remains is the quiet violence of knowing that something is lost forever — and always will be.

In sorrow we fought…

“The Burden” descends with weight and urgency, it speaks to the unbearable emotional gravity that follows denial: A source of great worry and stress — something too painful to carry, yet impossible to set down.

Here, the sound shifts — from fragile ambience to relentless impact. The rhythms hit harder, no longer holding back. Haunting melodic elements twist into harsh motifs; vocals break through, distressed, distorted, uncomfortably close. This is the moment of rupture, of emotional exposure without protection. The intensity is the reflection of a time that redefines everything that came before and everything that will follow.

In The Burden, there is no escape — only confrontation.

1 track album

29/06/2025

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20/06/2025

PRE-ORDER CD

Cubic Nomad - Planet X
https://darkdescent.bandcamp.com/album/planet-x

20/06/2025

PRE-ORDER!
Digital & CD

DD14149
Cubic Nomad - Planet X

A silent wanderer drifts through the void—unseen, yet inevitable. Its gravity reaches across the abyss, shifting tides, unravelling the fragile order of Earth. The sky darkens, the ground fractures, and fire erupts from within. Oceans rise to swallow cities; winds reshape continents in mere hours.

As the celestial intruder moves on, the scars remain—ash blankets the land, the air grows thin, and time itself bends to a new rhythm. The world will never be the same. The ancients warned us. The cycle begins again.

This ominous vision sets the tone for Planet X, Cubic Nomad’s fourth full-length album in his darker, rhythm-driven discography. Across 14 tracks, he sculpts a sonic landscape shaped by the darkest variants of hardcore and exploratory electronics — always delivered with compositional discipline, emotional weight, and conceptual clarity. Planet X is a full commitment to his signature strain of structured chaos.

Several tracks build on the foundation laid by the Unearthly Stranger EP, carrying forward its hypnotic sci-fi tribalism, while new material expands the scope: punishing kicks, contorted beats, eerie atmospheres, and melodies that emerge like traces of light in a collapsing orbit.

Key collaborations inject further vitality: Genetic Prophecy, with Dep Affect, pushes percussive programming to a breaking point — a twitching mass of sound and tension. In The Void Of Space, with synapscape, matches slow-motion propulsion with Tim Kniep’s unmistakable vocal performance. Darkening Clouds sees Emma Susanne return, her treated vocals woven into a slower, gritty pulse — both unsettling and magnetic. Sensation of the Mind transforms the anthemic trance-hybrid of the original Embryonic collaboration into something more restrained, more aligned with the bleak cohesion of the album’s arc. And finally, Captain Walker — the latest and arguably most powerful instalment in the long-running Walker series — fuses Cubic Nomad with his own alter ego The Relic, crafting a self-collaboration of brutal precision and imaginative twists. A culmination, and a personal milestone.

For all its stylistic variety, Planet X stands out for its coherence: each track feeds into the next with gravitational pull — from crushing beats to atmospheric collapses, from self-referential space drama to the slow creep of existential dread.

Planet X is not a place, but a presence — one that alters everything in its wake.

14 track album