Logically, it makes no sense to fuse ambient music and industrial music. One is the softest, most minimalist form of electronic music; the other is the loudest and harshest. Yet the marriage of the two can create satisfying and interesting results. Swedish artists seem particularly good at it. We’ve featured Azure Skies in the past (which also featured members of Mental Destruction and Sanctum). Parca Pace is also known in the fusion style, and of course, our featured artist Haus Am Rand.
It should be no surprise then that Jan Carleklev is involved in all three of these projects, not to mention EBM act November Commandment, gothic-industrial hybrid Sanctum, and a handful of other acts. Like Parca Pace, Haus Am Rand appears to be a solo project, whereas Carleklev’s other projects are collaborative. Still, it is unclear the differences between some of his various projects. But rather than complain about this, this writer will simply rejoice that we have so much creative music to enjoy!
“The Light of Other Days” comes from Haus Am Rand’s one and only album Meel, released in 2016 on mainstream industrial label Ant-Zen. Unlike many of our featured songs here, the track comes with an official video, a frightening dystopian collage set to equally chilling music.
