A Life In Music
Ten years after my cousin gave me my first Sepultura album as a wee pre-
teen this is what my life has become. |
1 | | Venom Welcome To Hell |
2 | | VNV Nation Empires |
3 | | Hellhammer Satanic Rites |
4 | | Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36
The work that got me into "classical" music. |
5 | | Slayer Show No Mercy |
6 | | Slayer Hell Awaits |
7 | | Slayer Reign In Blood |
8 | | Sodom In The Sign Of Evil |
9 | | Sol Invictus The Death Of The West |
10 | | Current 93 Thunder Perfect Mind |
11 | | Bathory Bathory |
12 | | Bedrich Smetana Má Vlast |
13 | | Sepultura Beneath The Remains
My older cousin (a die-hard Sarcofago fan) gifted me this when I was very young in
the hopes of getting me away from the Blink-182 videos on television. Though for a
while they both occupied my mind to an equal degree, after about a year metal had
completely engulfed my existence. |
14 | | Sepultura Arise |
15 | | Hellhammer Apocalyptic Raids |
16 | | Hildegard Von Bingen Antiphons |
17 | | Celtic Frost Morbid Tales |
18 | | Cluster Sowiesoso |
19 | | Graveland Immortal Pride |
20 | | Graveland Memory and Destiny |
21 | | Bulldozer The Day of Wrath |
22 | | Burzum Sol Austan, Mani Vestan |
23 | | At The Gates The Red In The Sky Is Ours |
24 | | Windir Arntor |
25 | | Burzum Filosofem |
26 | | Bathory The Return...... |
27 | | Benjamin Britten Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes', Op. 33a |
28 | | Sodom Obsessed By Cruelty |
29 | | Swans White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity |
30 | | Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
31 | | Depeche Mode Violator |
32 | | Mayhem Deathcrush |
33 | | Modest Mussorgsky A Night On The Bare Mountain |
34 | | Sarcofago INRI |
35 | | Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto numero 3 |
36 | | Bathory Under The Sign of the Black Mark |
37 | | Biosphere Substrata |
38 | | Burzum Det Som Engang var |
39 | | Strid Strid |
40 | | Forgotten Woods As The Wolves Gather |
41 | | Bathory Blood Fire Death |
42 | | Blank & Jones Nightclubbing
Though I am far too young to have been around for rave's original coming, I was
lucky enough to have a club in my town dedicated to recreating that scene. Though
after a few tries I decided I hated E, I still went quite often just to hear the tunes
and talk to the DJs. The music remains special to me. |
43 | | Carcass Symphonies of Sickness |
44 | | Demilich Nespithe |
45 | | Tormentor Anno Domini |
46 | | Vali Forlatt |
47 | | Mournful Congregation An Epic Dream of Desire |
48 | | Worship Last CD Before Doomsday |
49 | | Anathema The Silent Enigma |
50 | | My Dying Bride Turn Loose The Swans |
51 | | Scald Will of the Gods Is Great Power |
52 | | Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium |
53 | | Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
54 | | Thergothon Stream From The Heavens |
55 | | Skepticism Stormcrowfleet
This album plays in my dreams. Favorite album ever by far, established its position
a few years ago. |
56 | | Endura Black Eden |
57 | | Ain Soph Ars Regia |
58 | | Blasphemy Fallen Angel Of Doom |
59 | | Blue Planet Corporation Blue Planet |
60 | | Gontyna Kry Welowie |
61 | | Paysage D'hiver Paysage D'Hiver |
62 | | Vinterriket Winterschatten |
63 | | Beherit Dawn of Satan's Millenium |
64 | | The Bulgarian Voices Angelite Fly, Fly My Sadness |
65 | | Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia |
66 | | Master's Hammer Ritual |
67 | | Mathias Grassow Namakar |
68 | | Mutiilation Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul |
69 | | Mutiilation Vampires of Black Imperial Blood |
70 | | Samael Worship Him |
71 | | Samuel Barber Adagio For Strings |
72 | | Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
73 | | Mayhem Live in Leipzig |
74 | | Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition [Ravel Orch] |
75 | | Graveland Thousand Swords |
76 | | Von Satanic Blood |
77 | | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626
By far my favorite composer of what can be properly called classical music. |
78 | | Burzum Burzum |
79 | | Camille Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 |
80 | | Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
81 | | Darkthrone A Blaze In The Northern Sky |
82 | | Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg |
83 | | Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
84 | | Dead Can Dance Within The Realm of A Dying Sun |
85 | | Beherit Drawing Down The Moon |
86 | | Enslaved Hordanes Land |
87 | | Enemite Wuyuan |
88 | | Emperor In The Nightside Eclipse |
89 | | Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
90 | | Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place |
91 | | Immortal Pure Holocaust |
92 | | Graveland The Celtic Winter
My town has a pretty big extreme metal scene, not really concerning bands (sadly
enough), but definitely so with shops and collectors of a very high quality. I started
hanging around those places at around age 13 and got to know many very
interesting people who had been into extreme metal since its very inception. It is
through those friendships that recently I was gifted an original pressing of this
album on vinyl, hand-numbered by Mr. Darken himself, number 443 out of 666. |
93 | | Gregorio Allegri Miserere; Messe; Motets |
94 | | Graveland Following The Voice of Blood |
95 | | Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 |
96 | | Fanisk Noontide
I will insist on this forever, this is the best black metal to come out of the new
millenium. If they had different political beliefs, or rather, none at all, they would
be absolutely huge. But I wouldn't trade that swastika on my album sleeve for the
world ;) |
97 | | Enslaved Frost |
98 | | Infester To The Depths, In Degradation |
99 | | Klaus Schulze Moondawn
Save the best |
100 | | Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
for last. |
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