Dark Ambient

Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music. Like many other ambient subgenres, the name of dark ambient is very self-explanatory. Dark ambient takes the ambient genre and gives it a darker twist. It takes a lot of influence from industrial and post-industrial music as its first pioneers were artists that were largely associated with the industrial scene. Like ambient, dark ambient attempts to lure the listener into it's atmosphere but, unlike ambient, said atmosphere is much gloomier than the relaxing one found in classic ambient.