The Great Old Ones are a solo project from Italy that plays a mixture of dark ambient, drone and ritual and this is a review of his 2025 album "Lands Of Azathoth" which was released by Eight Tower Records.
Dark soundscapes and drones start off the album while most of the tracks are also very long and epic in length. Programmed beats are also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording along with the synths also adding in elements of dark ambient and at times the music goes into a very ritualistic direction.
All of the songs also sound very different from each other while also being very apocalyptic sounding at the same time. A lot of the album also brings in the atmosphere of a horror movie soundtrack along with most of the tracks also sticking to an instrumental direction as well as some noise orientated soundscapes also being added into certain sections of the recording, tribal style percussion can also be heard briefly.
The Great Old Ones plays a musical style that takes dark ambient, drone, ritual and noise and mixes them together to create a sound of his own. The production sounds very dark and lo-fi while the song themes cover cosmic horror and the writings of H.P Lovecraft.
In my opinion The Great Old Ones are a very great sounding mixture of dark ambient, drone, ritual and noise and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Altar Of Unreality" and "At The Centre Of Ultimate Entropy". 8 out of 10.
https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lands-of-azathoth
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