Drone artists on Bandcamp

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Surrender to the slow dissolve: Willebrant weaves dreamy nostalgia through piccolo bass ostinatos and mellow fretless lines, while Arcane Synthetic confronts psychological collapse with industrial abrasion and dark ambient landscapes. The Abstract Observer charts infinite paths with Feynman-inspired ambient electronics, and Subtlemanor layers tape and synth into unguarded emotional presence. Mike Zellers stretches time itself with out-of-phase chimes for Drone Day 2026.

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    Arcane Synthetic

    Arcane Synthetic is a conceptual multimedia project from Auckland, New Zealand — avant-garde transmissions from a time- travelling entity diss...

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    Stewart Keller

    (From stewartkeller.com): Stewart Keller (1997) is a professional composer born and raised in the Midwestern United States. His style is recog...

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    Reality Scruncher

    Reality Scruncher is a dark ambient music project created by Casey Douglass. With it, he hopes to create music that unsettles, relaxes, and ca...

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    Aetherfall

    Sound sculpting dirty electronics.

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    missing scenes

    For over two decades, R. Hunter has been creating music under a variety of monikers and in various projects, like Conversations About the Ligh...

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    Mouth of Life

    Ambient and drone sounds with a focus on murky atmospheres and unsettling vibes.

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    The Shining Tongues

    The Shining Tongues is the songwriting vehicle of Daniel Knowler (previously of The Infinite Three). The Shining Tongues' music explores the p...

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    97 Sound Signal

    97 Sound Signal crafts sonic landscapes where time slows and space expands. Rooted in ambient traditions but reaching into uncharted territory...

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    The Mountain King

    noise /// graphics /// vandalism material

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    ElectronicDeathBlackDogs

    ElectronicDeathBlackDogs is a dark ambient project based in the Scottish Borders. Relying on field recordings, modular synthesis and a heavy d...

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    Ken Wohlrob

    Ken Wohlrob is a noisemaker based in Mohegan Lake, NY. He is known for his work as guitarist for New York City hardcore-punk band End of Hope,...

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    Spite Cathedral

    The works of Spite Cathedral has been described as foreboding, overwhelmingly beautiful and at times very terrifying. Unnerving in a Hammer Ho...

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    Leslie Keffer

    Leslie Keffer began in the early 2000s, making layered noise music with mostly radios and vocals, without initially knowing of a surrounding s...

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    The Black Cube

    The Black Cube is a sister project of ElectronicDeathBlackDogs. Focusing on using hardware (modular synths, pedals and samplers and recorded ...

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    John Reidar Holmes

    Guitarist and composer John Reidar Holmes creates moody and dream-like ambient music. His particular sound is shaped using modular synthesizer...

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    ERNEST STRAUHAL

    Ernest Strauhal 許志仁 (b. 2000, San Francisco) works in sound, video, and printmedia. Drawing references from environments both real and imagin...

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    Fixed Expression

    Fixed Expression synth, drone, instrumental from Argentina

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    orchid mantis

    found sounds, tape collages, and pop songs about forgetting.

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    Von Helfenstein

    The Baron occasionally emerges from his residence atop the five valleys of Geislingen to share his thoughts and musings.

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    A KIND OF LIKENESS

    Experimental artist based in Bristol, UK

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    Various Artists (Owlripper)

    Owlripper aims to bring together artists and sounds that fit together with a common goal of 'doing something a bit different' across a variety...

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    Oderous Bait

    Influenced by Man With Pitchfork and 40's dance bands.

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    julien demoulin

    Introspective soundscapes and drones, ethereal ambient, sometimes sleepy, sometimes psychedelic, sometimes uneasy...often slow, always dreamy.

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    Max Kutner

    Max Kutner is a guitarist/composer currently based in Brookyln, NY. Max has previously performed and/or recorded with the Magic Band (Captain...

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    R&D

    R&D are Silent Bards from a Northern Land. Improvised in the lab of live performance. Electronic synth improvisational duo

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    Grotte de Cristal

    Droney Winter Synth to be enjoyed on a quiet freezing morning.

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    Moss Grotto

    Experimental musicians. Ambient, noise, post-rock, drone. @mossgrotto_music on IG.

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    Walter Campbell

    Bay Area-based Walter Campbell (NVS, book on VHS, Dickie Snakedick) began more deliberately expressing his love for both experimental and elec...

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    Richard P John

    Richard P John is a pianist and composer specialising in experimental and ambient music.

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    DASK

    DASK is an audio electronic engineer from the UK. His musical style ranges from Cinematic to Neoclassical with Berlin School roots. Major infl...

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    Erorrist

    ERORRIST is an electronic project that is experimenting in drone noise and heavy sounds that celebrate the beauty of the grotesque

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    the microphone is 3 electric guitars

    This is 100%ROEMER. I make music for fish ❮*;𒅋 "the microphone is 3 electric guitars" is a piano from the year 1901 recorded using 3 electric...

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    NebulaCaro

    My name is Carolina. Growing up in nature, I've always loved its sounds. Inspired by serene forests and ocean waves, I create music that trans...

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    Atavus Infectum

    Tenebrous tales of old gods and encircling darkness.

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    Noise For No One

    Noise For No One uses handmade instruments, synthesizers, found sounds, and intricate textures to create textural landscapes.

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    Burnt Seed Records (Various Artists)

    A cross section of artists on the Burst Seed label (plus some special guests) spanning a variety of genres and styles.

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    Rocket Silence

    Rocking silence with the rocket sound, unapologetically unstoppable experimental / post rock unit from NYC.

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    OVRSCN

    OVRSCN is the ambient side project of Marcus Miller, an experimental artist and mastering engineer based in Sydney, Australia

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    Various Artists

    Boutique 'record' label, specialising in short-run, research-orientated, art-objects. Focussed on all manner of experimental, challenging com...

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    Kathodos

    Deeply disturbing, unsettling, psychedelic, hypnotic, and highly original. For fans of Nurse with Wound / Coil / Current 93 / Dead Can Dance /...