Briana Landorf
Dark Music composer
About me ...
My name is Briana Landorf. As far as I can remember, music has always been a fundamental part of my life, since I was a child. My passion for music grew stronger every year, until I decided to try and compose my own music. At the beginning it was just a game, but then it became something I needed to do and a way to express myself. Even though my first efforts where in composing metal music, I then tried to write dark ambient music, inspired by the awesome atmospheres created by Lustmord, Nox Arcana, Dark Sanctuary and many other masters of this wondrous musical style: so, my first dark ambient song (Highland Ghost) was born, in 2016.
With time, I also developed an interest and a passion for electronic music: therefore, I then started to try and compose some dark electro music. In 2022 I've published on YouTube some dark electro songs and, eventually, I've composed an entire dark electro full length: The Conspiracy of Evil.
I have a passion for singing and I like playing guitar (even though I'm not very good at it): so, I've also composed a dark song for guitar and voice, entitled Today and that you can find on my YouTube channel.
Dark and gothic worlds hold a beauty that not everybody can understand ... if you are one of those people who stare in awe at a cemetery, a gothic cathedral or a dark place (whatever it is), please check my music on YouTube (link on the upper-right side of the Home Page) and let me know what your feelings are listening to my music; otherwise, you can find all of my songs in the "Music" page of this website for free listening and free download. Remember that I need your feedback to improve my musical skills! And remember that dark ambient music is made of the emotions of those who listen to it ... without you, my music is nothing.
I like to define myself a composer more than a musician: all the ambient and electro songs you listen to are composed using a virtual synth(Linux Multi Media Studio), without the use of keys.
When I play guitar, I play an Ibanez GSA60.
I am currently a member of the atmospheric black metal band Towers of Edom, as clean vocalist.
Latest videos
Ikuisuuden Raja - Epic Orchestral Music
Welcome back, you dark-music lovers! This time I wanted to create something different: since I love orchestra and strings, I decided to compose a piece of orchestral music. As usual, it is composed using LMMS, so it is not an actual string ensemble, but I hope you will enjoy the atmosphere anyway (I've tried to create this song as much accurate as possible, so you can hear cellos, violas and violins). The title is in Finnish and it means "The edge of eternity"; the picture I've taken myself, as usual, during a beautiful holiday in Oslo, Norway, and the seagulls and sounds of waves that you hear at the beginning and at the end of the song are ambience recording that I've taken during the same holiday.
Today (Guitar and Voice dark music) (lyric video)
Welcome back you dark music lovers! This one is a bit different from what I've always done before: it's a song for guitar and voice, so it's not instrumental (for the first time on my channel!) and you will hear me play my guitar (my lost Lenore) and sing. I've composed this song some years ago; now I've decided to record it and let it listen to everyone. This is pretty home-made, I must admit; no wonder, therefore, if you will hear some imperfections in the recording. I like it this way: instinctive, naive and a bit raw. I hope you will enjoy this mood.
Herr Mannelig - Dark Electro Version
Welcome back you dark music lovers! You seemed to really enjoy my dark electro version of Palästinalied, so I decided to make another medieval song cover in this modern style: here it is the well known "Herr Mannelig", a Swedish folk song that has been widely reinterpreted by many artists (such as In Extremo and Midnattsol, just to cite a few). Hope you'll dance and enjoy!
Alpine Reel - Dance of the Dolomites (Electro/Folk fusion music)
Hi everybody! Here I am back again with a new song. This one follows the leit motiv of electronic experiments I'm engaged with in the last months, but this time I wanted to fuse electronic music with another music genre that I really love, which is folk music. This song is written using the structure of a reel, adding electronic beats and synths. Hope you'll enjoy!
Palästinalied - Dark Electro Version
Welcome back you dark music lovers. After covering "In der Halle des Bergkönigs" by Edvard Grieg, I now come up with a medieval song, that maybe some of you already know: "Palästinalied", which is a crusader song written in the 13th century by Walther von der Vogelweide. This is my personal dark electro version, hope you'll dance and enjoy!
Thanatophobia - Dark ambient/electro music
Thanatophobia is a mental disorder belonging to the group of phobias and it consists in the intense fear of dying and/or being dead. It's different from a generic fear of death, because there's no trigger (such as an actual danger or hazard) that causes the onset of fear; simply, the abrupt thinking of something related to death causes panic. I suffered (and, partly, still suffer) from thanatophobia and this phobia, paradoxically, led me to who I am now, to my love for everything that is dark, gloomy, melancholic and related to death. I don't know why this phobia led me to this (maybe my mind found only this way to exorcise the phobia), but ... that's how the story is, so I decided to dedicate a song to my phobia. I chose an electro/techno music style to create this song, because I think it better suits the feeling of fear and panic related to a phobia. Hope you'll enjoy!
Cattedrale - Dark Ambient Music
Happy new year, you dark music lovers. This is my new song: Cattedrale. The title is the Italian word for "cathedral" and I've chosen this language because I particularly love how this word sounds in Italian ... somehow solemn. Imagine you are entering a gothic cathedral and you look around: you are surrounded by columns, statues, pinnacles, stained glasses and everything is clad in a peaceful shadow that hides from the dim light of flickering candles. Suddenly, the organ starts to play a melody and, then, it is joined by the voices of monks chanting the vespers.
When the Mountain Exploded: Pompeii - Dark Ambient Music
Hi everyone! Here I am with another original song. With this one I wanted to narrate the story of the very last hours of Pompeii, that in 79 AD has been completely destroyed by the eruption of mount Vesuvius. I imagined three moments: the beginning of a peaceful ordinary day; the earth that abruptly starts to quake and the volcano that destroys everything around with a rain of burning ashes and pumice; the desolation just after the eruption, made of gray fields of ash and dead bodies buried beneath them, there where just few hours before were houses, shops and human beings simply living their lives.
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