Brooddark – Deliro (Digital/CD Album – Winter-Light)
Yaroslav Gavrilyuk, aka Brooddark, is an artist from Belarus about whom little background information is available. In 2025, he released the impressive album “Overvoltage” plus a collaborative album with Tsarewitch; both releases appeared on Cryo Chamber. With this newest opus, released by Winter-Light, the artist returns with ten brand-new tracks.
This album is a quintessentially Cinematic work infused with some extra Dark-Ambient influences. Personally, I would have liked some of the tracks to be longer, given the richness of the soundscapes and the atmosphere Yaroslav Gavrilyuk creates within his compositions. Deep, powerful tones erupt amidst dark waves of sound, vibrating through your entire body and seemingly reaching right up to your throat. Some sounds are truly monstrous, creating an ominous atmosphere that, combined with various background noise elements, completely overwhelms the listener with a sense of dread. It evokes a deeply unsettling feeling, leaving you with a profound sense of desolation. The album consists of a succession of powerful compositions, with the artist setting the bar remarkably high.
The album may lack a definitive climax, but otherwise, “Deliro” comes close to absolute perfection. It is a release that absolutely deserves to be discovered—and Brooddark is certainly an artist to keep a close eye on. (Rating:8½).
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About Brooddark
Brooddark is the dark ambient project of Yaroslav Gavrilyuk, who works from Belarus. The project first appeared through self-released titles on its own Bandcamp page, among them “Darkness of the Brood”, “Tremor”, “Dreadnought”, “Begotten” and “From the graves”.
Label releases started in 2025 with the album “Overvoltage” on Cryo Chamber. The same year Cryo Chamber issued “Supra Memoriam”, a collaborative album credited to Tsarewitch & Brooddark.
“Deliro” is the first Brooddark release for Winter-Light and appeared on March 27, 2026. Gavrilyuk wrote, produced, performed and mastered the ten tracks himself, with cover artwork by Patricia Schoonenberg. Winter-Light released the album as a digital download and as a glass-mastered CD in a six-panel digifile, limited to 200 copies.
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