“The Passing of Time” is the long-awaited second album of Northern English ambient industrial act Grimbergen, following the 2007 Steinklang Industries release, “A Lonely Place”. A soundtrack to seven years of frustration and disappointment, isolation and rejection, misery and despair, this is a beautifully despondent hour of bass guitar drones, ritualistic percussion and atmospheric synths. Mastered by Swedish dark ambient expert Peter Andersson, of Raison d’Etre fame and ending with a powerful remix by German experimentalists Mandelbrot, this is certainly deserving of a wider audience. A lot of time has passed since work began on this album but it may well have been worth the wait. Grimbergen is not dead!