About Michal
"Exploring the unknown through atmosphere, ritual, and story."
Origins
I was born in Handlová, a small city in Slovakia, in 1993. From early on I felt drawn to moods and atmospheres that were difficult to put into words.
After finishing secondary school I took time to travel across Europe, and spending period in England. During these years the need to express myself grew stronger, and I searched for ways to capture emotions and visions that did not fit into ordinary language.
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Nature has always been a source of inspiration for me, as has the thrill of exploring abandoned places and wandering through mysterious landscapes at night. What some might find unsettling, I have always experienced as deeply compelling. Moments that stirred both my imagination and my sense of inner exploration.
Žiar n. Hronom, Slovakia, 2014
Dark Ambient Beginnings
Around 2013 I discovered dark ambient music and realized it was the medium I had been looking for. I began teaching myself production and composition, eventually creating my first project, Morvranh, which led to the release of the debut album Mysterium.
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More albums followed as my skills developed, each one reaching deeper into ominous, difficult-to-define soundscapes. This period was my first true step into creating immersive worlds of atmosphere and dread.
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Archaeology and Ritual Expression
My path continued at Trnava University, where I studied classical archaeology. I was especially drawn to the sacred aspects of ancient life: ritual practices, cults, and burial rites. My thesis, Fantastic Animals in the Funerary Iconography of Archaic and Classical Greece, reflected my fascination with the symbolic language of death and transformation.
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During this time I also created my second project, Asath Reon. More than music, it was conceived as narrative ritual soundwork, combining instruments such as gong and kangling, padded with drones and field recordings. What I loved the most about the process were infinite possibilities of digital sound editing and composing.
The debut album, Buried Visions, received strong recognition within the ritual ambient community and was followed by Underworld Narrations. These works became known for their immersive, meditative atmosphere, naturally balancing organic and digital sounds.
Ivanka pri Dunaji, Slovakia, 2017
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Return and Transition
After completing my studies I returned to Handlová for a time, reconnecting with familiar streets and the rhythm of my hometown. Yet the sense of pause was temporary. Restlessness grew, and I felt the pull to move further, to find a landscape that could challenge me in new ways. That search eventually brought me to Sørarnøy, a small island in the far north of Norway.
The landscape of sea, stone, and shifting light left a profound impression. Nights under the aurora borealis were especially indescribable. Isolation, harsh beauty, and the immensity of this environment began to shape me in ways I had not expected.
The island stripped away distraction, leaving only raw experience. It gave me the distance to reflect on my earlier creative paths, but also the clarity to sense that something new was forming. I realized that I no longer wanted only to compose atmospheres of sound. I wanted to give voice to the images, memories, and questions that had been building within me for years.
Høgfjellknubben, Norway, 2023
Nairobi, Kenya, 2024
From Sound to Story
On the island I felt the same pull I once had with music, but this time the medium shifted. I began to write. The inspiration came not only from the environment but also from life itself. In this period I found love with "Linnet", a woman from the Sabaot people of Kenya. Together we spent long stretches in Nairobi, exploring the city and its contrasts. Moving between the deep north and the equator was a strange and transformative experience. From winter silence and polar night to heat, rhythm, and equatorial light. What was disorienting at first became grounding, as we found one another and built a shared sense of belonging. Linnet became a profound source of inspiration, a reminder that human connection is as mysterious and powerful as the landscapes that shape us.
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Together with the raw environment of Sørarnøy, this became the foundation for my first novel, Krelløy. A work of cosmic and psychological horror rooted in both lived experience and the unknowable.
Vision
Today I work as an independent author, building on years of creative exploration in sound and spiritual depths. My aim is to create stories that move beyond fear for its own sake, to explore the mystery that lies within it.
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I want my work to unsettle, not through shock, but through recognition: the feeling that something vast and ancient might be quietly observing us from the edge of understanding. My stories blur the line between the familiar and the alien, the human and the inhuman, the seen and the felt.
Each piece I write is a continuation of the same search that once led me through music: a search for beauty hidden within decay, for transcendence in the unsettling, and for the rare moments when awe and unease become one and the same.
I also want my books to carry value beyond atmosphere. To hold ideas, fragments of history, and echoes of real knowledge. My background in archaeology, history, and mythology continues to shape the worlds I create. Beneath the surface of each story, I want readers to discover traces of what we’ve inherited from the past: the forgotten, the symbolic, and the deeply human patterns that repeat across time.
Through fiction, I try not only to evoke emotion but to share understanding. To teach, through the experience of wonder and unease.
Sør-Arnøy, Norway, 2025