Modern music

British The Haxan Cloak's album 'Excavation' [2013] is very gothic and eerie, an excellent example of how great ambient music can be--here's a great music review of this album, the music makes you think you might actually somehow be in either Silent Hill or the afterlife [... and you were not a good person before it].

A more beat focused and faster paced gothic ambient is the excellent album 'Black Goat of the Woods' by Black Mountain Transmitter and their LP 'Playing with dead things'. An even more upbeat, ambient piece is Montrealer [Chris] d'Eon's 'Al-Qiyamah' or his album with famous Montreal composer Grimes, the 'Darkbloom' EP.

The Quebeçois [French] group Sombres Forêts' [Dark forests] 2013 album 'La mort du soleil' has a ambient and nature-based opening with a metal focus and endpoint. Dante Augustus Scarlatti's 'Black Mass XXXIII' is great as well.

American Balam Acab's album 'Wander wonder' is quite open and hopeful, partially a MYST game soundtrack and giving off a Björk 'Vespertine' vibe as well [except in the ocean caves instead of in the snow].

Montreal's Tim Hecker's album 'Haunt me do it again' is very old school 'pure' ambient.

American Sun Araw's album 'On patrol' is more grunge/punk style ambient.