“The Black Hours is deeply storied and gloriously doomy…a mix of beauty and heaviness, ancient and new. Eerie psych-rock jigs, haunted cello laments and sludge smothered distortion, echolocating a monolithic weight buried in the ages. It is most potent on ‘The Pit / Dissolved in Ashes’, where ghostly guitar blur bends into a righteous stoner metal riff before, around 9 minutes in, Southern drops a chilling, other-worldly vocal performance which sounds like it’s trying to raise the dead.”

DARYL WORTHINGTON, THE QUIETUS full review

“I have been quietly admiring the grandiose church-goth moves of Dead Space Chamber Music for a while. DSCM conjures a wyrd and wyrmy atmosphere, over seven tracks of greatly varying structuredness drawn from a wide pool of sources. Cello and psaltery wrestle unconventionally, Tom Bush’s guitar sits at the doomiest end of electric folk and Ellen Southern’s vocal is a stalactite through the ribs. There are extended bouts of improvisation, sometimes leaning towards avant classical and sometimes bordering on rock.”

NOEL GARDNER, THE QUIETUS full review

"Unfortunately I discovered the magical world of Dead Space Chamber Music when I had already sent my choices for the 2021 to the editorial office, otherwise the top album would certainly have been The Black Hours. The album escapes any classification, even temporary. The moment you think you've managed to figure it out, it runs away like sand in your hands, going in a direction as unexpected as it is surprising...like a disturbed existence that does not find peace. 

Escapes any classification...It is as dark and loud as it is lyrical and musical. We can call it baroque, chamber, ritual, medieval as we see fit. But what doesn't change is the quality of a record that wipes out everything else. 9/10"

MARCO VALENTI (TOTEN SCHWAN LABEL, ITALY) GRIND ON THE ROAD full review

"Arrangements explode into glorious heaviness and eerie intensity...Feverishly recommended." 

ARTMUSE LONDON full review

"Intimate and intense - a favourite release of the year."

THE PROGRESSIVE ASPECT full review

“Exciting, stirring, and extremely moving…transporting the listener hundreds of years back. Aurally there are many unsettling sounds to hear which dig deep and touch many a sensitive nerve, however there remains a bold humanity at the core of what they have achieved. Dramatic is another adjective that deserves to be thrown at this release. Seven interlinked songs are the thread, each connected by the tolling of a bell making the hours. The authenticity of the musicianship and what has been achieved here cannot be brought into question. It deserves the attention of every Dead Can Dance fan." 

THE SLEEPING SHAMAN full review

“Dead Space Chamber Music, for me as I believe for many, have practically come out of nowhere. The Black Hours is a crucible of research. A bridge between our days and the early Renaissance, built to perfection. The music takes on ritualistic connotations, a profound experience made of hints, impromptu understandings and improvisations”

ARISTOCRAZIA (IT) full review

"Dead Space Chamber Music aren’t so much a band as they are a musical force of nature. Stunning: 9.5 / 10”

THE CORONERS REPORT (NZ) full review

“A unique and intense experience. Truly unexpected and above all beautiful. 8 / 10”

WORLD OF METAL (PT) full review