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This node covers the atmospheric, largely un-distorted pole of Devin Townsend's solo catalog: Ocean Machine: Biomech (1997, "a mix of hard rock, ambient, and progressive rock"), the pure-ambient/experimental Devlab and The Hummer, and Ghost (2011) — a deliberately quiet, New Age-inflected release Townsend paired with the heavy Deconstruction as two halves of one project.

Senmuth is the solo project of Russian multi-instrumentalist Valery Androsov (b. 1973, Moscow), extraordinarily prolific with well over a hundred releases combining ambient, industrial/industrial metal, EBM, and 'ethno metal' built from guitars, programming, and ethnic instruments (sitar, dutar, domra, tarka, duduk, oud). Albums are conceptually organized around ancient civilizations — especially Egyptian, Mesoamerican, and Asian themes — with the project's style shifting from guitar-driven doom/industrial metal in its early years toward increasingly sample-based, ethnically-fused, ambient composition over time.

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. are a Japanese psychedelic collective founded in 1995 by guitarist Kawabata Makoto as an outlet for a rotating cast of players, releasing their self-titled debut on PSF Records in 1997. Extraordinarily prolific, with well over 100 albums, they fuse acid-rock jams, krautrock motorik, raga drones and harsh noise into cosmic long-form freak-outs. The touring lineup has long centered on Kawabata with Higashi Hiroshi, Tsuyama Atsushi and, at points, guitarist Mitsuru Tabata.

Mamiffer is an American experimental band based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2007 by Faith Coloccia out of ideas from her former group Everlovely Lightningheart. It began as her solo project and grew into a duo with Aaron Turner (of Isis and Sumac), who became her creative partner and later husband; the two also co-founded SIGE Records. The music intertwines ambient, drone, and post-rock composition with piano and ethereal vocals, and the band is known for collaborative albums and rotating guest musicians.

KUNTARI is a Bandung duo, multi-instrumentalist Tesla Manaf and percussionist Rio Abror, who coined their own genre tag 'primal-core' for a sound built from roto toms, sarons, percussive guitar, field recordings and voice. It threads ancestral Indonesian ceremonial rhythms and gamelan tonality through sludge metal, dark ambient and minimalist sound-art, most fully on 2025's industrial-tinged Mutu Beton.

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Casualties of Cool is a duo project by Devin Townsend and vocalist Ché Aimee Dorval, releasing a self-titled debut in 2014 after a crowdfunded campaign. Townsend described it as sounding like "haunted Johnny Cash songs — late night music, completely isolated," pairing alternative country, ambient and blues-rock textures with Dorval singing most of the leads; guests include saxophonist Jørgen Munkeby (Shining) and drummer Morgan Ågren (Zappa/Kaipa circle).

Earth is an American band formed in 1989 in Olympia, Washington, led by guitarist Dylan Carlson, who is regarded as a father of drone. Their 1993 album Earth 2 is recognized as a pioneering work of drone metal, built from heavily distorted, minimalist, slow-moving guitar. After a late-1990s hiatus, the band re-emerged in the 2000s with a cleaner, twangy desert-rock minimalism on albums like Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) and The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (2008), with Carlson and drummer Adrienne Davies as its core duo.

Aaen Anima is a Prague, Czechia avant-garde/doom-metal project founded April 25, 2002 as, in the band's own words, "originally playing acoustic avant-garde." Its 2003 album "Aniline Harp" pairs guitars and bass with cedar drum, bell, didgeridoo, darbuka and harmonium (all played by founder Aaen), plus flute (Ismia) and keyboards/djembe (Jari Velaochaga) — an eclectic, ritual-tinged folk-instrumentation palette rare even for avant-garde metal. No activity is documented past 2008.

Formed in Helsinki in 2016 and describing themselves as a "conjuration from the Northern Wilderness," Babes in the Abyss build a dark, primitive avant-garde sound around harmonium and organ rather than guitar, with bass and drums filling out the low end. Their 2022 debut Physis is organ-driven, cinematic and ritualistic, closer to a doom-adjacent drone ensemble than to riff-based metal, with haunting shared vocals over sustained keyboard tones.

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Nàda were a Lucerne, Switzerland outfit (active 1992-1997) fusing sludge/doom heaviness with industrial clang and tribal/neofolk percussion, earning Terrorizer coverage in 1994 and comparisons to Neurosis, Swans and Einstürzende Neubauten. Their two albums, 'Celmètra' (1994, Licht & Blindheit/Common Cause) and 'Ùr' (1997, Licht & Blindheit), are murky, ritualistic slabs built on layered percussion and detuned riffing rather than conventional song structure. A largely forgotten act of 90s European experimental sludge, tangential to any scene rather than embedded in one.

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