Psyclopean - The King In Yellow atmospheric/dark ambient/cinematic/experimental/drone/dungeon synth
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Psyclopean is a new dark ambient/atmospheric/dungeon synth music project fronted by Matt Schmitz (Sleestak, Altrusian Grace Media). The first full album, The King In Yellow, is inspired by the book of the same name written in 1895 by Robert W. Chambers and later absorbed into the Lovecraft mythos. The music is a cinematic and maddening descent into isolation, occultism, fear, and cosmic otherworldly horror. Like being suspended along the veiled rim between beauty and cruelty, awaiting the next bellowing tectonic displacement of dimensions, The King In Yellow makes no excuses and leaves no living mortal coherent enough to tell the tale. If you like film soundtracks, experimental soundscapes, and suspenseful music, then you've just found gold.
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Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
releases December 12, 2017
Composed and recorded by Matt Schmitz.
Mastered by Matt Schmitz
Cover art by Steve Somers - stevesomersart.blogspot.com
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I played this track, and as my cat sat on my lap, she understood the faint whispers coming from the speakers. She stared in horror as the words began to unwind her mind and reveal the true face of the cosmos. Lifetimes passed, stars birthed and died, and she saw her place within the infinite void. What appeared as minutes to me were eons to her, and now she was cursed with the knowledge of ancient beings who trod upon sunless shores.
And then she bit me.
10/10 amazing ambience
Eldritch kitteh is the best kitteh.
what's the cat's name
@@samiral-hayed1656 Probably Neo or other regular cat name not short for anything, like Has, Thu or Yog.
The cats of Ulthar. Listen. Learn.
@@samiral-hayed1656 Cathulhu of course
Night fell, and the hours dragged on, but still we murmured to each other of the King and the Pallid Mask, and midnight sounded from the misty spires in the fog-wrapped city. We spoke of Hastur and of Cassilda, while outside the fog rolled against the blank window-panes as the cloud waves roll and break on the shores of Hali.
Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified) No mask? No mask!
Some of the best dialogue ever
I haven't read the book yet, but that's some incredibly poetic prose, even better with the music.
monkaS
@@my88110, I've read it, it's fantastic, if not what you might expect. It was written in 1895. There are several short stories in the book. Modern readers might think it gets off to a very slow start. There are no jump scares, heads being ripped off, or any of that corny stuff. But the idea that there is a play that will drive you mad if you even glance at the second act is scary, and the hints and descriptions of The King in Yellow are terrifying. I think this is one of the best:
The house was very silent now, and not a sound came up from the misty streets. Tessie lay among the cushions, her face a grey blot in the gloom, but her hands were clasped in mine, and I knew that she knew and read my thoughts as I read hers, for we had understood the mystery of the Hyades and the Phantom of Truth was laid. Then as we answered each other, swiftly, silently, thought on thought, the shadows stirred in the gloom about us, and far in the distant streets we heard a sound. Nearer and nearer it came, the dull crunching of wheels, nearer and yet nearer, and now, outside before the door it ceased, and I dragged myself to the window and saw a black-plumed hearse. The gate below opened and shut, and I crept shaking to my door and bolted it, but I knew no bolts, no locks, could keep that creature out who was coming for the Yellow Sign. And now I heard him moving very softly along the hall. Now he was at the door, and the bolts rotted at his touch. Now he had entered. With eyes starting from my head I peered into the darkness, but when he came into the room I did not see him. It was only when I felt him envelope me in his cold soft grasp that I cried out and struggled with deadly fury, but my hands were useless and he tore the onyx clasp from my coat and struck me full in the face. Then, as I fell, I heard Tessie's soft cry and her spirit fled: and even while falling I longed to follow her, for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.
@Dean D it's from the book "The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers, written in 1895.
How can anyone read this book and NOT become obsessed with it?
Fuck. I am writing an apocalyptic novel to feature a take on the king in yellow. Dark ambient music really gives me my drive. THIS - this is a real gem of a find.
Nice! I wish you the best of luck with the writing! Feel free to share a link here when it's done!
Black stars are rising. You’re in Carcosa now. ....time is a flat circle...
It's all Jeremy Bearimy.
This music is great for coming up with sinister plots and evil schemes for stories or RPGs.
That's exactly what I was thinking, S. M. Henderson
Or cooking Top Ramen.
@SELCOUTH BEATS gyuy4 free q3. Know 8
For real life* FTFY
Everyone's like 'What a mysterious and creepy masterpiece' and I'm sitting in my cozy cloak going 'Ahhhh, my perfect chillout mix'
Beautifully haunting .. Goes excellently with my reading "the king in yellow" for the first time...
Fate is waiting. She can heal. She is unpredictable but not unkind.
If I was rich, I would build a big castle in a very cold and desolate place, where I would study, read, meditate, and work on electronics experimentation without having crowds of people or loud noises to bother me lol.
Who wouldn't want to go full Joseph Curwen? We would have to get Borellus' secret to revive from the Salts though, because one human lifespan is not nearly enough for all knowledge there is to be absorbed.
Agreed. If I were rich I would buy solitude.
i think you'd spend most of the time trying to get warm. Look up Jung, Bollingen Tower
There is more wisdom and knowledge carved in the stone cube from Bollingen Tower than most of the people would even suspect, let alone understand. I have a poster framed in my room with the Telesphoros inscription and mandala - it reminds me of many truths that are easy to forget.
and I would come over for coffee!!!😜🤗🤣
This is by far the most impressive piece of ambient music I have ever heard. If this music came out of your head . . . you have been to another world. Great work, I will buy this and hope for more.
Thank you for the extremely kind words and hope you enjoy my other content as well!
Scott Brown yes!!!
Happy Birthday Mr. Lovecraft.....thank you for everything you've inspired.
...but for The King in Yellow it's more like Chambers that inspired Lovecraft.
The king in yellow is thoroughly enjoyable. Both the book and the iterations revolving around people reading the book, falling to madness, and meeting the king
Absolutely terrific soundtrack.
I am rich and there is nothing more valuable than someone to enjoy it with
"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God."
Ahh, this definitely fits for background noise of Hastur. Way to go on this work.
I have been am doing the Nanowrimo challenge this year. Just heard of it and was invited by a friend. It's a supernatural scifi horror that take place on another world. It's the first time I am ever writing with ambient background and it is fantastic to keep me focused. This is one of the best mixes I have encountered. Shout out to Cryo Chamber and Iron Cthulu Apocalypse.
You know there's something out there. The echoing's of some reclusive memory locked away not within your mind, something else, something truer to your actual being. Something that knows these sounds as a language. There, in that darkly lit dimensional rift lies the reality that we cannot see with our eyes, what we cannot perceive with our minds, but very faintly remember in some odd way, that this universe isn't what we as a species know it to be.
"Archetypes" - C.G.Jung read about it, it may interests u
"darkly lit"
Is that a nonsensical contradiction or literary genius?
Have you seen the sign my brothers?
yes, it,s down the street by the Walmart!
I seen the place where the sky is black and the stars are bright.
I have seen it where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.
@@gone41214 "TAKE ME HOOOOME!"
aye, and I dream of Carcosa and her blackened skies ruptured by the twin suns...
Thank you for your help spreading the king's teachings with your beautiful music, soon we are all dead voices!
Thank you
I am currently running a homebrew DnD game with a horror setting, this is absolutely perfect for the general uneasiness I am trying to set in my players. Thank you so much!
I'm doing the same thing! Been using this and cryo chamber dark ambient. I feel like it has made a huge impact for our dnd sessions, there is less table talk, everyone seems to just naturally focus in on the game and the setting. I'm loving it a little atmosphere to set the mood goes a long way. Can't recommend atmospheric music enough for any DMs out there!
Lol. Same.
I'm a writer, and I'm listening to this while writing a horror novel about the mysterious cave town in Algeria: Sifar ✒️💀
Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la nôtre…. Voilà toute la differénce.
Do not mock the insane; their madness lasts longer than ours… that is the only difference.
"Cassilda's Song" from "The King in Yellow" Act 1, Scene 2
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
Headphones on 2am and i find this gem. Fantastic ambient atmosphere.
right on, hope you find some more of my sounds appealing...
Perfect for writing horror. Thank you.
I listen to this when i watch cable news with close caption. It is interesting, sometimes funny.
"Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa."
It was cataclysmic thought that languished within the third eye defunct and weary as the power of the shade drew close to its end. Nay remembrance as drafts of light teetered through the desolate lidless skies as the finality of our unanimity. Peering through the veil to gaze endlessly into the abyssal vacancy of lifeless echoes, somehow familiar in the desolate hollows of our reality. we come to our close, come to our understanding and in that our yearning to leave the minuet existence for the grander we have witnessed
Sean Carlin love the purple prose
This track is nothing short of brilliant!!! Can't get enough of it.
This is my favourite one so far. Really brings imagined landscapes to life.
I like this one. One of the best dark ambient i've found.
This is absolutely great!
The last 5 minutes of this music are out of this world. A true masterpiece! That eerie sound in the background and the final melody gave me chills
Am I the only one who actually thinks this is pretty relaxing
Amazing album , a wonderful cinematic mix of styles.
I purchased this not long ago. It's easily the best thing you have done that I have heard. It evoked a scene in my mind I may use in my novel at some point. Love following and hearing your work.
Thank you for the support and kind words
Based on this masterful piece, I've subscribed. Looking forward to hearing more.
thank you very much! hope you enjoy my other works!
I am deeply in love with these sounds.
An ad for skoda just before the King in Yellow takes over sure is confidence-inspiring.
Glad to get here. Cryo Chamber is a big door to another music, other worlds, other artists, other visions... and this album is perfect for my night studies, many times i've seen my self lost in thoughts an dreaming awake.
Thank you.
Glad to have you. I try to do a variety of things here to keep it interesting so feel free to explore!
Beautiful...
Gotta say, this is beyond awesome, can't stop listening!
Awesome, so glad you enjoyed it!
Pretty decent mix. One of the best I've heard recently.
This might be one of the most relaxing collections of ambient music I've ever heard. I love this. (Not entirely sure what it says about my psyche that something probably intended to induce cosmic dread makes me immediately chill, but...hey, I'll take it. Anxiety blows.) Beautiful.
My Great Old One, you've done them justice, thank you.
Thank you! I'm currently scouring the Lovecraftian literature for ideas for the next album so I welcome any suggestions.
Altrusian Grace Media
What about 'The Thing on the Doorstep'. I don't know how easy it would be to integrate the ravings of Edward about Shub-Niggurath, or his titular knock at the door but it would be ominous stuff.
I'm releasing "Nathicana" this weekend. I think if I did "the thing..." I would probably do dunwich first maybe but I do have some ideas. Thanks for the suggestion!
whisper: the mound...with xelia bishop...tsathaggoua...yig...red litten zones beneath the amazon...
Can't help but listening to it again and again at work. One of my favorites music for focusing or evading from the office noise surrounding.
So strange and eldritch.... I especially love the use of sounds like bells, crows screams and bug noises... The woman's voice is perfectly disturbing.
An impressive piece of art, thank you so much!
That's awesome. Thank you for listening...again and again!
This is brilliant- really amazing to listen to with my headphones on and a book propped up on my chest, curled up in bed with my dog. I spend most evenings like this- and your music is a very welcome addition. Thank you, friend- =][=
thanks a ton, I'm truly honored.
👌👌👌
Perfect music to play in the background at a Halloween party. Thanx for it!!!!👌
Thanks everyone for the thumbs up! You can purchase the hi def digital download with free ebook at sleestak.bandcamp.com/album/the-king-in-yellow
The next Psyclopean album is in the works and promises to be emotionally heavy. It's an interpretation of a Lovecraft poem....
I am sorry for this but where can I find the image used in this video? I'd like to have it as a desktop wallpaper
Sorry, it was commissioned by the artist only for the album cover and I don't have the permission to release it further.
To jest różnica między ludzmi wybimttbymi a durniami.
So when I think of psyclopean.
I think of the penal gland within the brain that produces chemicals that affects our state of motion and thought. Bean this, psyclopean sounds like telepathic organ that only cosmic great ones can uses this So speak languages that are hard to pronounce, even not met for vocals to pronounce. So maybe it could be a key to a great ones language. But does that mean all cosmic deities bears this organ while humans of the descent of slave aliens long ago and lost this forgotten organ? Or this what created sentient humans?
That is some scary but awesome shit that humans are descent great ones long ago. Buy I do want to implement the idea of dead space markers and bretheren moons.
But who is hastur dearest CZcamsr?
Thank you for the inversion.
I love it. A great story too.
Great piece of music, this. You got a new subscriber :) Looking forward to more Mythos-themed pieces, but I'll sure be scouring your other works now too :D
Thank you! More music is on the way as well as meditations and guided visualizations. Your sub (and everyone else's) is immensely appreciated!
Nothing like listening to this and researching axe murders from 1911.
this is excellent stuff. feel like i'm in another world.
VERY DARK AND DEEP
Just amazing.... só relaxing!
Truly beautiful...
Thank you! I put in many hours in crafting this piece so I'm happy it's being appreciated!
Outstanding!
the shadows lengthen in Carcosa
This is the coolest channel ever
Awesome, Just what i need
Love it!
Thanks much!
This is just so good...
Cheers! Thank you!
I’m just finishing up The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers as I listen to this beautiful soundtrack. Your video is very timely.
Just for that, I owe you a huge thank you, Altrusian. I'm really hasty to hear your other materiau.
Thanks @Pierre , I'm just finishing up Psyclopean's 15th album at the moment so there's alot of material to hear! Please make sure to check out my Bandcamp at altrusiangrace.bandcamp.com/
Love the cover for this album. Noice!
Perfect music for this.
Fancy meeting you here! I was just listening to this again last night, looked for the comment I left a few years ago under my real name, and decided to read some other comments- and then ran across yours. Small world! (This guy’s really good, too-). Talk to you later- -Mark Brigandi
It's a good thing this video appeared in my recommendations. It's very soothing and satisfying. Great work my man! Subbed.
I'm glad it appeared there as well! Thanks for joining us here
Like this a lot, very nice work.
Thank you
they drifted to Kelinor, the Forbidden Planet, and there they made landfall, violating the Federation's edict. Unable to send a message home, they searched for food, water and a source of power to repair their craft. all they found were ruins not meant for human eyes, sacrilege, apostasy in the last vestiges of an abandoned city. if anything good had existed there, it was gone now. in its wake was desolation, despair. a terrible sense of oppression overwhelmed them. they knew they could never go back. this place was banned. now, they were outlaws. their footprints were in the dust, the dust was on their boots. even worse, Kelinor's stain was in them! they were anathema.
What is the source of this?
I made it up.
fine prose
@@maytaurus1961 awesome! you should write Sci-fie novels,
that is if you don't already. . .
Thank you for the compliment.
Good music to wind down to.
Awesome.
Excellent. The great work can continue…
The year is done, and just begun. It is time to unmask, friends.
No mask. NO MASK!
... And just begun...
Eerily relevant.
This isn't a mask 😎
Cool music! I enjoyed very much! thanks.
Thank you very much!
this one is really good
And then, it was written down by unknown, Marduk, the ancient one; the absolute ruler of those who'd stay alive, came down on Earth to conquer the unheavenly.
#CyroChamber brought me here,👽
Awesome, glad to have you
Altrusian Grace Media glad for your comment to, keep the good dark ambient, etc.
Cryo chamber tem muita música boa.
Yohaku este canal também está a ficar bom
I like CryoChamber but my actual reason for being here is that I cant listen darkambient.radio.net/ anymore. So I listen dark ambient on YT. God bless.
Great sound!!!
Subscribed! Excellent! Perfect for running a game of Call Of Cthulhu! Or just contemplating the mysteries of the Elder Dark.
thank you!
Epic 🙏
I'm going to use this while reading the king in yellow ^^
Have you seen it, have you felt it?
The yellow sign.
Cool music. 😉
Finally! Something that will keep me up at night aside from coffee
At first I red aside from my coffin...
Saw an awesome artwork, heard some awesome music, subscribed to a good channel.
Thanks a lot!
This is quite amazing. I am now a subscriber.
Awesome, thank you!
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
Just purchased on bandcamp. This, and Hastur in general, deserves its own place among the great Cryo Chamber 'Cthulhu Mythos' releases.
Thanks for the support , "King" was my first effort in dark ambient and I actually did submit to cryo chamber but alas did not make the cut
@@AltrusianGraceMedia It is now stapled into my Cthulhu Mythos playlist :) You did an incredible job capturing the feeling I get when I see Hastur in its human-like form.
Awesome. I went deep when working on it. Any little change I made I had to listen from the start to see how it affected the flow and the aesthetic of the entire piece
One of the best ambient tracks I've ever heard. This makes me guilty of infidelity with Cryo Chamber channel, where I find most of the ambient music I listen to :)
When I listen to this track, it's just like I were seeing the King in Yellow slowly walks in limbos. It's so haunting, dark and peaceful... Specially love the last parts, with the crows, the dark bells, and the flute-like sound thats ends the track. Easily the best album from Psyclopean, by far.
cool!
Very very very good job !! From France !
Thanks!! How's France doing this time of year?
Yes yes! I have found gold here!
Hi Matt. First, let me say that your work here... this soundtrack... is phenomenal. I love it.
Second, I've been a Lovecraft fan for as long as I can remember. And, in fact, I thought I was the only living person that had heard of, and read, The King In Yellow... until now!
Furthermore, I'm also a traveller of consciousness, having taken up yoga and meditation as a teenager. I taught both for over 20 years as well.
And lastly, after 45 years as an acoustic guitarist, I have recently discovered electricity and ambience!!! My rig is not yet complete, but it's getting there.
Thanks for doing what you do!
I subscribed.
Cheers,
Jack
That's really cool, and very appreciated! I've played in bands most of my life and its only been in the last year or so that I've really delved into creating more abstract and ambient stuff, branching off into a somewhat solo path. Glad to have you along for the ride!
Glad to be here, Matt.
Yeah, sometimes the solitary path is the best path. It's hard to get 3 or more guys to agree on much these days. Too many egos. Not enough work ethic. You name it. So yeah, I'm doing the solitary thing too. Your work is brilliant. I mean that. I'm not just blowing smoke. The entire production, from the music to the album cover and everything in between, it well above industry standards. Keep up the good work. I'm not going anywhere!!!
Great mood music to paint miniatures for diabolical games to
Reminds me of my time spent in Deadside ;)
Something new to draw to 👍🏻🙏🏻
I hope it proves fruitful for you!
Altrusian Grace Media thank you 🙏🏻
what are you drawing?
Sedna Floating Currently working on a 14x17" 'Dunwich Horror' piece for a radio theatre company. It's taking forever, but it's coming along.
@@DrChaunceyBlevins can I see it plz
We need tons more eerie, captivating, Cthulhu Mythos themed music in this world. You can never have enough, and by the Hounds of Tindalos, certainly never too much.
I second that notion!
I’ve seen the Yellow Sign!
"Let me tell you, of the great temple that even the great ancients, cannot destroy, but fear, for there are things that no one can understand. The pavilion of all that is all, the absolute and truest form of architecture, the Cyclopean wall that no one can see how far reaches in the sky, or know how deep plunges in the Abyss. The wall that no one can evade by going around it, and that no one can penetrate, for it is indestructible."
"The horrors of the void cannot compare to this... This, simple, yet, unavoidable obstacle. If you walk straight right or left, you will never see the end of it, never, not in a billion of eons. It is infinitly higher, infinitly deeper, and infinitly larger going from horizon to horizon."
"That wall my lord, is only a fraction of the building itself, a mere "rock" of the great gate, that is the entrance to the temple. The temple of Yog-Sothoth, but, do not make the mistake my lord, the temple may be beyond our imagination, and beyond our capacity in architecture, but, even if the temple is as large as the multiverse itself, no material object or construction can compare to the God for whom it was created."
"The temple of Yog-Sothoth may be the greatest monument in all universes, but, it cannot and never will be the house of the God himself, for the temple as large as we see it, can easily enter the belly button of Yog-Sothoth, and the multiverse is only a drop of water in his finger..."
"...For he is: all in one, and one in all, the most cyclopean in cyclopeans, the biggest God between God's. And that my lord, is the truest truth of all..."
-Yibb Tsisttil the knower of unknowing in a speech with the king in yellow-