Dead Space Chamber Music / Futures We Lost / Slow Knife

Dead Space Chamber Music (DSCM) are a gothic / experimental / doom band from Bristol, UK. They reinterpret historical material, taking forms and melodies that are hundreds of years old and shape-shifting them into new and varied contemporary works. Drawing on many musical approaches including improvisation and use of 'found sounds', and with vocals spanning medieval Middle English, Latin and Welsh, they incorporate elements of dark ambient, post-industrial, avant-classical, sacred chant and dark-folk in their powerful and atmospheric music.

DSCM evolved through founding the award winning independent live event series Dark Alchemy in Bristol, playing and hosting other artists in crypts and churches since 2017. They are earning increasing acclaim for their impactful and ceremonial live shows having to date shared bills with The Danse Society, Cold in Berlin, Nero Kane (IT), Maud the Moth, Hawthonn, Kariti (IT/RUS), Khost, Deep Cross (USA), Some Became Hollow Tubes (members of thisquietarmy & Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Kate Arnold, Bonnacons of Doom, Nocturnal Emissions and Rose McDowell amongst others. They have toured the UK with internationally acclaimed composer and virtuoso cellist Jo Quail, and with hackedepicciotto (Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten & Danielle de Picciotto of Crime and the City Solution). They have also collaborated creatively with several of these artists. 

In 2024 DSCM played their first festival set at Ritual Union Festival, Bristol, and began playing DJ sets for Dark Alchemy’s new experimental / industrial / dark ambient club night, THROB.

Personnel for this concert: Ellen Southern voice / Tom Bush guitar / Ekaterina Samarkina drums.

Futures We Lost is the dark post-industrial, cinematic techno soundscape of electronic artist and producer Doug Gordon. Rising from the ashes of 2020’s grief and inspired by the artist’s ancestral roots under the crumbling mills and industrial scars of the northern English landscape; this self-titled upcoming debut album explores these post-industrial graveyards and dystopian future visions through the lens of our present day neo technological horrors. Sometimes a brutalist techno monolith to this mechanised slavery nightmare, sometimes a dark ambient soundtrack to the distortion and living death of our dreams. A sonic memorial to all those futures we lost… 

Futures We Lost sound is formed from live hardware synthesiser performances, alongside programmed drum machines and samplers. 

With support from Slow Knife (Manchester) - "Exactly what's needed to reinvigorate the lust for something sonically ferocious and lyrically frenzied. Gorgeous. Bizarre" - Lydia Lunch