As the Haxan Cloak, producer and multi-instrumentalist Bobby Krlic explores existential dread, mortality, and the afterlife with a deeply unsettling mix of drone and electronics. On the Haxan Cloak's 2010 self-titled debut album, Krlic made eerie strings, percussion, and bass sound as heavy -- and ominous -- as anything by Sunn O))) or Earth. Later, his emphasis on electronics on 2013's Excavation took Krlic's music to terrifying new heights, foreshadowing his work under his own name as a go-to producer for textured, detailed and, above all, intense sounds.
Born and raised i...