Atrium Carceri is a Swedish musical project by

Simon Heath Simon Heath (born 1977 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, ...

, initially released by industrial record label

Cold Meat Industry Cold Meat Industry was a Swedish independent record label established in 1987 by Roger Karmanik, which specialized in niche music genres such as dark ambient, death industrial, and neoclassical dark wave. History From its inception, Cold M ...

. 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

and started the Dark Ambient label Cryo Chamber. Simon Heath also released eleven albums under the name of his side project Sabled Sun.

Style and themes

Atrium Carceri is typically described as

dark ambient Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial musicReed, Alexander: ''Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music'', Oxford University Press, 2013, , p. 190 that features an ominous, ...

black ambient Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial musicReed, Alexander: ''Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music'', Oxford University Press, 2013, , p. 190 that features an ominous, ...

and

ambient industrial Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes Musical tone, tone and atmosphere over traditional Musical form, musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking Musical composition, composition, beat, and/or structured melod ...

music. Similar to projects like Lull and

Lustmord Brian Williams is a Welsh musician, sound designer and composer. He has released albums under the name Lustmord starting in the 1980s and through the present. Williams began as a recording artist within the industrial genre, working with Ch ...

, Atrium Carceri uses synthesizers, sound effects, samples from films and

anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...

, piano and other instrumentation to create slow rhythms, bitter melodies and complex textures generally based on themes of desolation, loneliness (

solitary confinement Solitary confinement (also shortened to solitary) is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single Prison cell, cell with little or no contact with other people. It is a punitive tool used within the prison system to ...

) and environmental decay. Atrium Carceri has been praised by music critics and embraced by a cult audience for its depth of atmosphere. According to Heath himself, each of Atrium Carceri's solo releases are centered around specific 'story arcs' within a 'grand story,' and following the releases of Reliquiae and Void in 2012, has made a flowchart detailing the story progression up to that point. 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. The most popular video on ''Cryochamber'' is ''Songs for an empty world'' with over 3 million views. The Channel is mostly notable for its Winter Ambient Videos.

Discography

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

References

External links

Official Site

Official Site at Cold Meat IndustriesOfficial Site of Cryo ChamberAtrium Carceri at MySpace
{{Authority control Swedish dark ambient music groups Swedish electronic music groups Swedish industrial music groups

Style and themes

Discography

See also

References

External links