Mercyful Fate – “Nightmare Be Thy Name,” “Witches’ Dance”
Amorphis – Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Black Heart Procession – 3
Mayhem – “Psychic Horns”
Axis of Advance – Strike
Circle – “Lokki”
Afghan Whigs – Do to the Beast
Wagner:
Cynic – Focus
Pavor – Furioso
Abigor – Totschlager: A Saintslayer’s Songbook
Voivod – RRROOOAAARRR
Voivod – “Overreaction” & “Voivod” live 2018
Armored Saint – March of the Saint
Hammers of Misfortune – The Locust Years
Al Di Meola – Land of the Midnight Sun
Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage parts I-III
Anekdoten – Until All the Ghosts are Gone
Mats/Morgan Band – Live
Bjork – Fossora
ZZ Top – “Manic Mechanic”
Monster Magnet – Superjudge
Die Kreuzen – Gone Away 12” EP
Nova – Vimana
Carbonized – “Hypnotic Aim”
Portal – Vexovoid
Chrome – Blood on the Moon
FM – Black Noise
Ginn:
Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
Sacramentum – Far Away from the Sun
Magma – Kohntarkosz
Entombed – Left Hand Path
Root – The Temple in the Underworld
Sugar – Beaster EP
Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness
Boards of Canada – “Chromakey Dreamcoat”
Gnidrolog – In Spite of Harry’s Toenail
Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses (superior version)
Paraxism – “Fear”
Ulver – A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP
My Bloody Valentine – “Soon”
King Crimson – “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (Parts 1 & 2),” “In the Wake of Poseidon,” “Neal and Jack and Me,” “Heartbeat”
Incantation – Mortal Throne of Nazarene
Wagner:
New Trolls – Ut
Nova – Vimana
Portal – Vexovoid
Opeth – Ghost Reveries
Virus – Memento Collider
Bauhaus – Burning from the Inside
Everything Everything – Raw Data Feel
Melvins – Bad Mood Rising
Goatlord – Goatlord
Krokus – s/t 1976
Bruford – Feels Good to Me
Ved Buens Ende – Those Who Caress the Pale 1994 demo
Voivod – Dimension Hatross demos 1987
Voivod – No Speed Limit Weekend Oct. 1986
Ginn:
Nifelheim – Servants of Darkness
Gnidrolog – “Ship,” “Lady Lake”
Mercyful Fate – “Doomed by the Living Dead,” “A Corpse Without Soul”
Sepultura – Schizophrenia
Hades – “Ecstasy of an Astral Journey”
Rainbow – Down to Earth
Gorgoroth – Incipit Satan
Agent Steel – Skeptics Apocalypse (side 1)
Impaled Nazarene – “Sadogoat”
Cathedral – “Alchemist of Sorrows,” “Ultra Earth”
Pungent Stench – Club Mondo Bizarre (side 1)
Crimson Glory – Crimson Glory
Therion – Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas (side 2)
Comus – “Song to Comus,” “The Bite,” “The Prisoner”
In the Woods… – “Epitaph,” “Karmakosmik”
Deep Purple – Come Taste the Band
Possessed – The Eyes of Horror
Blood Duster – Yeest
Warrior Soul – “I See the Ruins,” “We Cry Out,” “The Losers”
Soundgarden – “Applebite,” “Boot Camp”
Gong – “Fohat Digs Holes in Space”
Yngwie Malmsteen – Trilogy
Discipline – Unfolded Like Staircase
Alchemist – “Chinese Whispers,” “Spiritechnology”
Wagner:
Mats/Morgan Band – Live
Armored Saint live in Charlotte 11/28! Killed!!!
Abigor – Leytmotif Luzifer
Akercocke – Choronzon
Kansas – “Death of Mother Nature Suite”
Tygers of Pan Tang – Wild Cat
Slayer – “Antichrist,” “Fight Till Death” 12/83 Tom’s garage
Megadeth – Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?
Bjork – Fossora
Deathspell Omega – The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Emperor – 1993 EP
Fates Warning – “Epitaph” 1985 demo
Pink Floyd – “Paintbox”
A Perfect Circle – Mer de Noms
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – The Roaring Silence
+
Danny Fonorow’s Incredible Kiss Tidal Playlist Driving Back From Armored Saint Show: “Young and Wasted,” “King of the Mountain,” “Nowhere to Run,” “It’s My Life,” “Dirty Livin’,” “Almost Human,” “Baby Driver,” “Take Me,” “Larger than Life,” “Rocket Ride,” “She’s So European,” “The Oath,” “Exciter”
Ginn:
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Slint EP
Metal Church – “Beyond the Black”
Pink Floyd – Live at Pompeii
Beyond Dawn – Up Through the Linear Shades
Cry of Love – “Empty Castle,” “Georgia Pine”
Opeth – Still Life
Lycia – Bleak/Vane
Deftones – “Needles and Pins”
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Guns N’ Roses – Lies EP
Last Crack – “Her,” “Why,” “Deeper Digging”
Jesus Lizard – Liar (esp. “Zachariah”)
Pearl Jam – Ten (side 2)
Curve – “Crystal”
Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction (minus “Sweating Bullets”)
Badlands – “Healer,” “Sun Red Sun,” “Tribal Moon”
Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break the Oath
Black Crowes – “Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye,” “Sometimes Salvation”
Peccatum – “Murder”
Realm – Endless War
Ministry – The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Wagner:
SBB – Pamiec
SBB – Nowy Horyzont
Sigh – Heir to Despair
Hammers of Misfortune – Overtaker
Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon
Order from Chaos – Stillbirth Machine
Bauhaus – Burning from the Inside
Blut Aus Nord – 777: The Desanctification
Kansas – various songs, various eras, especially “Windows”!!!
Ulver – Sic Transit Gloria Mundi EP
Holocaust – “The Nightcomers” (song)
Trevor Rabin – s/t 1978
Sore Throat – “Only the Dead See the End of the War”
Ginn:
Morte Macabre – Symphonic Holocaust
Burzum – “Erblicket die Tochter des Fermaments”
Lush – “Light from a Dead Star,” “Desire Lines”
Eleven – Eleven
Sindrome – “Against Infinity,” “Exit Screaming”
Faith No More – “Crack Hitler”
Peter Gabriel – IV: Security
King Diamond – “Dressed in White”
Lion’s Share – Fall from Grace
Missing Persons – Spring Session M
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
Manowar – “Mountains,” “Guyana (Cult of the Damned)”
Even Johansen – “Nothing Hurts”
Die Kreuzen – “Among the Ruins,” “Gone Away”
Opeth – “Reverie/Harlequin Forest,” “Beneath the Mire,” “Hessian Peel”
Edge of Sanity – “Twilight”
Talisman – “3233 + Colour My XTC,” “Seasons”
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness (LP1)
Mercury Rev – “Chasing a Bee,” “Syringe Mouth”
Camel – Moonmadness
Wagner:
Holy Terror – both albums & various live
Omen – Battle Cry
Hammers of Misfortune – Overtaker
Opeth – “Moonlapse Vertigo”
Bent Knee – “Insides In”
Trevor Rabin – self-titled 1978
Voivod – The Outer Limits
Bulldozer – first two albums & live in Raleigh three nights ago!
Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age
King Crimson – Audio Diary 2014-2018
Formula 3 – Sognando e Risognando
Ian Carr – Belladonna (early Holdsworth!)
Mayhem – “Everlasting Dying Flame”
Thought Industry – “Smirk the Godblender”
Metallica – “The God That Failed”
Transit Express – Opus Progressif
Wigwam – “Bless Your Lucky Stars,” “Do or Die”, “Pig Storm”
Hatfield and the North – Afters
Melvins – Stag
Melvins – The Maggot
Melvins – The Bulls & the Bees
Portal – Ion
Crematory – “Enshrouded (In the River of Eternity)“
Afflicted – “Tidings From the Blue Sphere”
Joe Farrell – Moon Germs
Be Bop Deluxe – Drastic Plastic
Martire – Martire 1991 EP
Xysma – First & Magical (+ pre-production demos)
H-Bomb:
Die Kreuzen – Gone Away EP
Die Kreuzen – October File
Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times
Cathedral – Statik Magick EP
Voorhees – Spilling Blood Without Reason
Hate Forest – Hour of the Centaur
Scorpions – In Trance
Laughing Hyenas – You Can’t Pray a Lie
Laughing Hyenas – various live bootlegs from 1989-1991
Bal-Sagoth – A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
Wishbone Ash – There’s the Rub
Firewater – Get off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire
Immortal – Battles in the North
Black Sabbath – Vol 4
Superchunk – Foolish
Superchunk – No Pocky for Kitty
Cop Shoot Cop – “Surprise Surprise”
V/A – Corporate Death
Solace – Further
Master – Master
Dwarves – Sugarfix
Melvins – “Night Goat” (AmRep 7″ version)
Melvins – Bullhead
Melvins – Joe Preston
Melvins – Lysol
Bathory – Blood Fire Death
Ramones – “I Wanna Live”
V/A – Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets Vols. 1 – 7
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Orange
Nektar – A Tab in the Ocean
Earth – Methadrine 7″
Chavez – Gone Glimmering
Chavez – Pentagram Ring 7″
The Obsessed – The Obsessed
The Obsessed – Lunar Womb
The Obsessed – Altamont Nation 7″
Darkthrone – Panzerfaust
Bloodrock – “Breach of Lease”
Samael – Blood Ritual
Goatsnake – IV 7″
Furbowl – “Cold World”
Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
Captain Beyond – Captain Beyond
Soundgarden – “All Your Lies,” “Beyond the Wheel”
JW:
Gentle Giant – The Power and the Glory
Xysma – Swarming of the Maggots
Xysma – Fata Morgana 7”
Xysma – Yeah
Xysma – First and Magical
Secret Oyster – Straight to the Krankenhaus
Pearl Jam – Ljubljana, Slovenia, 6/19/00
Cynic – Ascension Codes
In the Woods – Strange in Stereo
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny 2020
Yes – Fly from Here
Akercocke – Renaissance in Extremis
Portal – Ion
Nachtmystium – Instinct: Decay
Obliveon – From This Day Forward
Old – The Musical Dimensions of Sleastak
Old – Formula
Kraan – Let it Out
Thomas Dolby – The Golden Age of Wireless
Utopia – Ooops Wrong Planet
Bent Knee – Frosting
Sigh – Scorn Defeat
Lost Horizon – “The Kingdom of My Will”
HG:
Talisman – Life
V/A – Grindcrusher
Faith No More – The Real Thing
Marduk – Those of the Unlight
Randy Holden – Population II
Midnight Eez – Midnight Eez
Out Cold – Lost Cause EP
Pyogenesis – Ignis Creatio
Samael – Passage
Helmet – Aftertaste
Supersister – Present From Nancy
Dark Tranquillity – Skydancer
Jag Panzer – Thane to the Throne
Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss
Floor – Madonna 7″
Nevermore – Dreaming Neon Black
Missing Persons – Spring Session M
Solstice – New Dark Age
Coil – The Voice of Silver
Genesis – Wind & Wuthering
Ulver – Bergtatt
The Mars Volta – “Cygnus…Vismund Cygnus”
Wagner (Ginn MIA, gallivanting around the south to parts unknown…)
Cynic – Ascension Codes
Frantic Bleep – Fluctuadmission 2002 demo
Voivod – “Planet Eaters”
Yes – Yesshows esp. “Ritual”
While Heaven Wept – various 1994-2002
Ain Soph – A Story of Mysterious Forest
Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean
Seven Impale – City of the Sun
Archgoat – Worship the Eternal Darkness
Black Sabbath – “Falling Off the Edge of the World”
Crimson Glory – Crimson Glory
Fates Warning – No Exit
Destruction – Infernal Overkill
Jethro Tull – The Broadsword and the Beast, “Down at the End of Your Road”
Wagner:
Frank Zappa – Them or Us
Bent Knee – Frosting
Helios Creed – Kiss to the Brain
The Residents – Hell!
Destruction – Sentence of Death
Fates Warning – The Spectre Within
Armored Saint – Raising Fear
Gentle Giant – In a Glass House
Jethro Tull – Stormwatch + alternates, b sides, unreleased and live from the era
Jethro Tull – Heavy Horses
Premiata Forneria Marconi – Photos of Ghosts
Mekong Delta – The Principle of Doubt
Num Skull – Ritually Abused
Archgoat – Worship the Eternal Darkness
Saint Vitus – 12/20/1984, London, Ontario
Steven Wilson – “The Holy Drinker”
Ginn:
Opeth – Orchid
Opeth – Morningrise
Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante
Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre
Sindrome – “Cathedral of Ice”
Brian Eno – Discreet Music
Drudkh – Autumn Aurora
Glassjaw – Coloring Book EP
Front Line Assembly – Neural Tactical Implant
King Crimson – live 2016 compilation
Ulver – Shadows of the Sun
Fontanelle – Vitamin F
Septic Flesh – Esoptron
Tim Bowness – Abandoned Dancehall Dreams
Idlewild – “Readers Have Writers”
Idlewild – all The Remote Part b-sides
Herbie Hancock – Sextant
Forbidden – demos 1991 – 1993
Spirit Caravan – Jug Fulla Sun
Arcturus – Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Abigor – Channeling the Quintessence of Satan
Wagner:
Egoist – Ultra-Selfish Revolution
Saint Vitus – V
Kayo Dot – Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Bent Knee – Frosting
Premiata Forneria Marconi – Storia di un Minuto
Triumvirat – Illusions on a Double Dimple
Yes – Tormato
Ain Soph – A Story of Mysterious Forest
Duran Duran – Future Past
3 – “The Last Day”
Kiss – “Rock Bottom”
Anthrax – Fistful of Metal
Venom – Die Hard/Acid Queen 7”
Voivod – Target Earth
Cynic – Ascension Codes
Frank Zappa – Them or Us
Ginn:
Bjork – Vespertine
Genesis – And Then There Were Three
Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
David Sylvian – Gone to Earth
David Sylvian – Secrets of the Beehive
Samael – Ceremony of Opposites
The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta – Octahedron
Dodheimsgard – Satanic Art
Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss
Osanna – Palepoli
Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses
Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break the Oath
A Perfect Circle – Mer de Noms
Melvins – “The Bit”
Morbid Angel – Blessed Are the Sick
Danzig – IV
Strawbs – Ghosts
Bathory – The Return
Wagner:
Kayo Dot – Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Kayo Dot – Blasphemy
Helios Creed – Lactating Purple
Diskord – Degenerations
At Death’s Door – 1990 RC/Roadrunner comp
Portal – Avow
Carcass – 88/90 Peel Sessions
Carcass – Torn Arteries
Xysma – “Honest Love”
Black Crucifixion – Faustian Dream
Radiohead – Kid Amnesiae (extras disc)
Kraan – Andy Nogger
Genesis – The Lamb side 4
Tantra – Holocausto
Fates Warning – Night on Brocken
Rush – “La Villa Strangiato”, “Cygnus X-1”
Steve Wilson – “Luminol”
Def Leppard – High n Dry
Revenge – Triumph Genocide Antichrist
Order From Chaos – An Ending in Fire
Gentle Giant – Octopus
Duran Duran – Future Past
Ginn:
Amorphis – Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Mare – Mare
Agalloch – The Mantle
Old – Lo Flux Tube
De De Lind – Io Non So Da Dove Vengo…
Mew – Frengers
Beastmilk – Use Your Deluge EP
Deftones – Around the Fur
Type O Negative – October Rust
Darkthrone – Total Death
Glassjaw – Everything You Wanted to Know About Silence
Emperor – IX Equilibrium
Cave In – Jupiter
Seventh Wave – Psi-Fi
[Wagner]
Arcturus – The Sham Mirrors
Diskord – Degenerations
Kraan – Andy Nogger
Godley & Creme – Birds of Prey, various non-album tracks
Pink Floyd – “Echoes” (Pompeii ‘72)
Missing Persons – Spring Session M
Duran Duran – Medazzaland
Duran Duran – Future Past
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning
Unleashed – 1990 7 inches
Samael – Ceremony of Opposites
Order From Chaos – An Ending in Fire
Portal – Seepia
Amorphis – The Karelian Isthmus
Black Crucifixion – Faustian Dream, “Flowing Downwards” live 1993
Steve Hillage – “Hurdy Gurdy Glissando”
Yes – Going for the One
Triumvirat- Mediterranean Tales
Van Der Graaf Generator – The Aerosol Grey Machine
UFO – Too Hot to Handle / Electric Phase 7”
Angel – “Under Suspicion”
Pearl Jam – 5/26/00 San Sebastian, Spain
[Ginn]
5uu’s – Hunger’s Teeth
Peste Noire – La Sanie des Siecles – Panegyrique de la Degenerescence
Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus
Deftones – Around the Fur
Fugazi – In on the Killtaker
Seventh Wave – Psi-Fi
Burzum – Hvis Lysett Tar Oss
A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
Cave In – Lost in the Air/Lift Off 7″
Amesoeurs – s/t
Alcest – Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde
Themselves – Them
Ozzy Osbourne – The Ultimate Sin
Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon
Deicide – Deicide
Veronica Lipgloss – Witch’s Dagger
Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
Glassjaw – Our Color Green
Glassjaw – Coloring Book
Laughing Hyenas – You Can’t Pray a Lie
Wagner:
King Crimson – Thrak (2015 CD issue)
Arcturus – La Masquerade Infernale
Arcturus – Disguised Masters
Saint Vitus – Mournful Cries
Ulver – “Nowhere (Sweet Sixteen)”
Radiohead – “Little by Little”
Sugarcubes – “Water”
Missing Persons – Missing Persons EP
Judas Priest – “Alone”
Nuclear Death – For Our Dead
Nuclear Death – All Creatures Great and Eaten
Caravan – Blind Dog at St. Dunstans
Argent – Nexus
Powermad – Absolute Power
Stargazer – A Merging to the Boundless
Godley & Creme – Ismism
Godley & Creme – The History Mix Volume 1
Utopia – “Zen Machine”, “More Light”
Conqueror – Antichrist Superiority demo 1996
Mayhem – Grand Declaration of War
Ginn:
Tiamat – The Astral Sleep
Band of Susans – Love Agenda
Testament – The New Order
Acid Bath – Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Bathory – The Return
3 – “Sugar Life”
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
Conqueror – War Cult Supremacy
Scott Walker – Climate of Hunter
Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Tar – Jackson
Slayer – “War Ensemble”
Godflesh – Pure
V/A – 20 Years of Dischord (Disc 1)
Napalm Death – Diatribes
Peter Hammill – PH7
Van Der Graaf Generator – The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
Dodheimsgard – A Umbra Omega
Swallow – Blow
Damn the Machine – “One with the Dream”
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
Hypocrisy – The 4th Dimension
Radiohead – “If You Say the Word”
Confessor – Condemned
Sonic Youth – NYC Ghosts & Flowers
early autumn:
Wagner:
Split Enz – Time and Tide
Carcass – Torn Arteries
Carcass – Symphonies of Sickness
Order From Chaos – An Ending in Fire
Arcturus – Constellation and first two albums
Ansur – first two albums
Megadeth – Youthanasia
The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
Mythopoeic Mind – Hatchling
Be Bop Deluxe – Modern Music
Tantra – Holocausto
Conqueror / Black Witchery split, other early B.W.
Godley & Creme – second and third albums
Voivod – “Jack Luminous”
Leprous – Aphelion
Klaatu – first two albums
Virus – Oblivion Clock
Portal – Seepia, Avow
Amon – 87 & 89 demos
Bathory – “A Fine Day to Die”
Abigor – Time is the Sulphur in the Veins of the Saint
Ginn:
Grotesque – In the Embrace of Evil
Van Der Graaf Generator – H to He Who Am the Only One
Fugazi – Steady Diet of Nothing
Malokarpatan – Stridzie Dni
Carcass – Torn Arteries
Devo – New Traditionalists
Kreator – Coma of Souls
5UU’s – Hunger’s Teeth
Scorn – Evanescence
National Health – Of Queues and Cures
Morgoth – Cursed
The Cure – The Head on the Door
Black Flag – My War
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing…
G.I.S.M. – Detestation
ZZ Top – Rio Grande Mud
Saccharine Trust – Paganicons
mid-September 2021:
Wagner:
Portal – Avow
Cynic – Ascension Codes
Leprous – Aphelion
Monumentum – In Absentia Christi
Malokarpatan – Stridzie Dni
Frank Zappa – Tinsel Town Rebellion
Tantra – Holocausto
Black Rose – “Nightmare”
Def Leppard – On Through the Night
Wishbone Ash – “Like a Child”
Gentle Giant – Three Friends
Gary Numan – I, Assassin
Exodus – Pleasures of the Flesh
Fates Warning – Night on Brocken
Master’s Hammer – Mantras
Dismember – Like an Everflowing Stream
Rush – prime moments from Signals and Grace Under Pressure
Virus – The Agent That Shapes the Desert
Ginn:
A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant
Morbid Angel – Abominations of Desolation
Morbid Angel – Blessed Are the Sick
Snares of Sixes – MoonBladder
Deftones – “Ceremony”
Protector – Misanthropy
Smog – The Doctor Came at Dawn
Gang Gang Dance – Kasuashita
Albino Slug – Albino Slug
Dark Angel – Leave Scars
Glassjaw – Material Control
Glassjaw – Coloring Book
St. Vincent – “Mass Seduction”
Hypocrisy – The Fourth Dimension
Vangelis – Bladerunner OST
Samael – Rebellion EP
Radiohead – “If You Say the Word”
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Third Eye Foundation – Semtex
Mekong Delta – Visions Fugitives
King Crimson – Islands
Lantlos – “Lake Fantasy”
Will Haven – WHVN
Pentagram (Chile) – The Demos
early September 2021:
Wagner:
Malokarpatan – Stridzie Dni
Virus – The Agent That Shapes the Desert
Faust – IV
Helios Creed – Boxing the Clown
Brian Wilson – Smile
Caravan – In the Land of Grey and Pink
Cardiacs – The Seaside
Xysma – Girl on the Beach
Godley & Creme – “Wet Rubber Soup” + “Cry”
Godley & Creme – singles & b sides 1979-1983
Dead Can Dance – Spleen and Ideal
Blasphemy – Blood Upon the Altar demo
Blasphemy – Fallen Angel of Doom
Carcass – Reek of Putrefaction
Trouble – Trouble (1990)
The Obsessed – The Obsessed
Carbonized – Disharmonization
King Crimson – Discipline
Ginn:
Trouble – Trouble (1990)
Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Only Living Witness – Innocents
Samael – Rebellion
Chum – Dead to the World
Arcwelder – Pull
Ghostface Killa – Supreme Clientele
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Morbid Angel – Dominate
Pearl Jam – Ten
Sound Barrier – Speed of Light
At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
Riot – Inishmore
A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
Gamma Ray – Insanity & Genius
Paul Chain – Ash
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Soundgarden – “She Likes Surprises,” “Kyle Petty, Son of Richard”
Immortal – Battles in the North
Mind Over Four – The Goddess
Wild Dogs – Reign of Terror
Don Caballero – Singles Going Steady
Prince Paul – Prince of Thieves
Rush – Vapor Trails
Velocity Girl – “Crazy Town,” “Audrey’s Eyes”
Root – Hell Symphony
Enslaved – “Procreation (of the Wicked)”
Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog
Jeru the Damaja – The Sun Rises in the East
Devastation – Idolatry
Impetigo – Faceless
[Wagner]
Kayo Dot – Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Toby Driver -“ Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)”
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Stillborn – Necrospirituals
Godley & Creme – The History Mix Volume 1
10cc – Bloody Tourists
XTC – Mummer (incl. b sides)
Puscifer – Conditions of My Parole
Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
Supuration – The Creeping Unknown 7”, Isolated 7”
Beyond Dawn – Up Through the Linear Shades 7”
Camel – “The Sleeper”
Gary Numan – I, Assassin
Ozzy Osbourne – Speak of the Devil
Angel – Helluva Band
[Ginn]
Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs
Himinbjorg – Haunted Shores
El-P – I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
Alice In Chains – Facelift
Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
Barkmarket – L Ron
Old – Lo Flux Tube
Black Flag – My War
Helmet – Aftertaste
Handsome – Handsome
Pink Floyd – Animals
Turbonegro – Apocalypse Dudes
Jacula – In Cauda Semper Stat Venerum
Descendents – Everything Sucks
Einsturzende Neubauten – “Armenia”
[Wagner]
Monumentum – In Absentia Christi
Triana – Hijos Del Agobio
Kayo Dot – Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Ulver – the William Blake album
Godley + Creme – Ismism
Godley + Creme – L
Godley + Creme – Birds of Prey
10cc – various material 1976-83
Believer – “Nonpoint”
Green Carnation – “Lullaby in Winter”
Angel Witch – “Gorgon”
Uriah Heep – “Sunrise”
Yes – Fragile
Supersister – “She Was Naked” / “Spiral Staircase” 7”
Ramases – Space Hymns
Malokarpatan – Krupinske Ohne
Stillborn – Yesterday’s Blood / Son of Sodom 7” (80s Stillborn rules)
XTC – Mummer b-sides
[Ginn]
Mercyless – Abject Offerings
Happy Family – Happy Family
Fennesz – Venice
David Sylvian – Brilliant Trees
Helios Creed – The Last Laugh
Goblin – Buio Omega
Henry Cow – Leg End
V/A – 20 Years of Dischord
Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
Miles Davis – Miles at the Fillmore
Leatherwolf – Leatherwolf
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp – I Advance Masked
DAF – Alles Ist Gut
Seefeel – Succour
Colossamite – All Lingo’s Clamor
Robert Fripp/David Sylvian – The First Day
[Wagner]
Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II: A Dialogue With the Stars
Possessed – Seven Churches
Possessed – The Eyes of Horror
Pink Floyd – Live at Pompeii
Master’s Hammer – Mantras
Master’s Hammer – Formulae
Master’s Hammer – Jilemnicky Okultista demo 1992
Hammers of Misfortune – 17th Street
Fifth Angel – Fifth Angel
Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
10cc – The Original Soundtrack
10cc – Deceptive Bends
Godley & Creme – Music From Consequences
Superdrag – “Do the Vampire”
Saint Vitus – Born Too Late
Saint Vitus – Thirsty and Miserable EP
Malokarpatan – Krupinske Ohne
Sadistik Exekution – We Are Death Fukk You
[Ginn]
Hades – The Dawn of the Dying Sun
Wolf Eyes – Human Animal
Wolf Eyes – Burned Mind
Pharaoh – Powers that Be
Believer – “Dimentia”
Master’s Hammer – The Mass demo 1989
Master’s Hammer – Jilemnicky Okultista demo 1992
Glassjaw – Worship & Tribute
Muslimgauze – Zul’m
U.K. – U.K.
Bad Religion – Generator
Heldon – Interface
Dredg – Catch Without Arms
Dredg – “Of the Room”
Benediction – Transcend the Rubicon
Deceased – The Blueprints for Madness
[Wagner]
10cc – How Dare You
10cc – In Concert (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
10cc – “Honeymoon with B Troop,” “Feel the Benefit”
Hotlegs – Thinks: School Stinks
The Police – Ghost in the Machine
David Bowie – Scary Monsters
David Bowie – No Plan EP
Leprous – Aphelion
Edge of Sanity – The Spectral Sorrows
Sadistik Exekution – The Magus
Sadistik Exekution – We Are Death Fukk You
Master’s Hammer – Finished (1988 demo)
Master’s Hammer – The Mass (1989 demo)
Lubricant – Swallow This: Years 1991-1993
Nuclear Death – Carrion for Worm
Diskord – Doomscapes
Gnidrolog – “Long Live Man Dead”
Canvas Solaris – Chromosphere
[Ginn]
Entombed – To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth
Heathen – Victims of Deception
Katatonia – “My Twin (Opium Dub)”
Dawnbringer – In the Lair of the Sun God
Cynic – Focus
Deftones – “Sex Tape”
Blind Illusion – The Sane Asylum
Incantation – Mortal Throne of Nazarene
Hellacopters – “Killing Allan” and “(Gotta Get Some Action) Now!”
Realm – Endless War
Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum
Kreator – Renewal
Tad – Inhaler
Dead Can Dance – “Xavier”
Professor Black – LVPVS
Deathrow – Deception Ignored
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
Chelsea Wolfe – “16 Psyche”
Unholy – The Second Ring of Power
Death – “Sacred Serenity”
The Cult – Beyond Good and Evil
[Wagner]
Canvas Solaris – Chromosphere
Leprous – Aphelion
Fleurety – Inquietum
Axis of Advance – Strike
Death Worship – End Times
Lubricant – Nookleptia
Diskord – Oscillations
Diskord – HDFH 7”
Jethro Tull – A Passion Play
Steven Wilson – Insurgentes
Cynic – Humanoid 10”
Cheap Trick – “She’s Tight”
Kiss – MTV Unplugged
Gorgoroth – Incipit Satan
Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction
[Ginn]
Sinister – Cross the Styx
Hoelderlin – Strange Birds
Sculptured – “The Ordeal of Undecidability”
Hawkwind – Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
Shudder to Think – Pony Express Record
Shudder to Think – Get Your Goat
Amorphis – The Karelian Isthmus
Jeff Buckley – Songs for my Sweetheart the Drunk
Type O Negative – Dead Again
The Fall – Hex Education Hour
Solefald – Pills Against the Ageless Ills
Ramones – “I Wanna Live,” “Pet Sematery”
S.O.D. – Speak English or Die
Xmal Deutschland – Tocsin
Testament – The Legacy
Digable Planets – Blowout Comb
Univers Zero – Uzed
[Wagner]
Blut Aus Nord – Hallucinogen
Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times
Malokarpatan – Krupinske Ohne
Captain Beyond – Sufficiently Breathless
Captain Beyond – “Sweet Dreams,” “Oblivion”
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
Julian Priester – Love, Love
Cardiacs – Heaven Born and Ever Bright
Masters Hammer – Formulae
Albino Slug – Albino Slug
Dun – Eros
Ben Levin Group – “The User”
Helios Creed – The Last Laugh
Gorgoroth – Twilight of the Idols
Exodus – Bonded by Blood
Dark Heresy – Abstract Principles Taken to Their Logical Extremes
Pink Floyd – Obscured by Clouds
Gentle Giant – Acquiring the Taste
[Ginn]
Strapping Young Lad – City
Helmet – Aftertaste
Anathema – Pentecost III
Anathema – “Lovelorn Rhapsody”
Minus the Bear – Highly Refined Pirates
Leatherface – Mush
Warrant – The Enforcer
Rival Schools – “Everything Has Its Point”
Scanner – Hypertrace
Einsturzende Neubauten – Halber Mensch
Starbreaker – Love’s Dying Wish
Mythological Cold Towers – Spheres of Nebaddon
Wipers – Is This Real?
Flying Saucer Attack – Further
Cranes – Wings of Joy
[Wagner]
Dark Heresy – Abstract Principles Taken to Their Logical Extremes
Porcupine Tree – Signify
Gentle Giant – Gentle Giant
Exciter – Long Live the Loud
Manilla Road – Dreams of Eschaton
Area – Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano
Premiata Forneria Marconi – The World Became the World
Masters Hammer – Fascinator
Mayhem – Live in Leipzig
Split Enz – various awesomeness 1979-84
Cardiacs – Heaven Born and Ever Bright
Beardfish – The Sane Day
Fates Warning – Perfect Symmetry
Manes – Be All End All
Sentenced – “The Glow of 1000 Suns”, “Amok Run”
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Xysma – Yeah
Jethro Tull – Living in the Past
Megadeth – Rust in Peace
Nuclear Death – Bride of Insect
TNT – Intuition
Dark Angel – Time Does Not Heal
Opeth – In Cauda Venenum
Blue Oyster Cult – Agents of Fortune
Angel – Helluva Band
Cardiacs – On Land and in the Sea
[Ginn]
Cop Shoot Cop – White Noise
Cop Shoot Cop – “Surprise Surprise”
Dimmu Borgir – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Magma – “De Futura”
DJ Muggs – Dies Occidendum
Morbid Angel – Blessed Are the Sick
Morbid Angel – Covenant
Love Battery – Dayglo
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro
Voivod – “Forgotten in Space”
Bolt Thrower – Warmaster
Immolation – “Those Left Behind”
Arachnoid – Arachnoid
[Wagner]
Judas Priest – Rocka Rolla
Conqueror – War Cult Supremacy
Helios Creed – Superior Catholic Finger
Cardiacs – On Land and in the Sea
Old – Lo Flux Tube
Deceased – “Planet Graveyard”
Ihsahn – Arktis
Voivod – “Golem”
Cremation – demos 1993-95
Disillusion – Gloria
Abigor – Leytmotif Luzifer
Sindrome – “Astral Projection”
Sadus – Illusions
Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers
David Bowie – Images 1966-67
Utumno- Across the Horizon
Phobia – Feverish Convulsions demo
[Ginn]
Into Another – Seemless
Enslaved – Isa
Therion – Beyond Sanctorum
Seaweed – Four
Mercyful Fate – “Gypsy”
Deicide – Legion
Godflesh – Streetcleaner
Lush – Split
Voivod – “Forgotten in Space”
Love Battery – Dayglo
Marduk – Opus Nocturne
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
[Wagner]
Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties
Blue Oyster Cult – On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
Utumno – Across the Horizon
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions, “The Molecular Scythe”
Proclamation – Advent of the Black Omen
Primus – Frizzle Fry
Cardiacs – Heaven Born and Ever Bright
Porcupine Tree – The Incident
Area – Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano
Conqueror – War Cult Supremacy
Therion – “The Way”, “Tyrants of the Damned”
Type O Negative – “Hey Pete”
Disillusion – Gloria
Captain Beyond – Captain Beyond
Beardfish – Fran En Plats Du Ej Kan See
[Ginn]
Viper – Theatre of Fate
Tool – Opiate
Hemlock – Lust for Fire
Lingua Ignota – “Wicked Game”
Hittman – Hittman
Dead Horse – Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers
Epitaph – Echoes Entombed: The Demo Anthology
Dinosaur Jr. – Bug
Testament – Souls of Black
Mark Lanegan – Scraps at Midnight
Helmet – Meantime
Queensryche – Operation: Mindcrime
Slowdive – Slowdive
Wagner:
Fates Warning – No Exit
Fates Warning – Theories of Flight
A Forest of Stars – The Corpse of Rebirth
Kataklysm – The Mystical Gate of Reincarnation
Stargazer – various material
Rush – various stuff 1981-84
Saint Vitus – s/t 1984
Anathema – A Natural Disaster
Die Kreuzen – Gone Away 7”
Judas Priest – “Desert Plains” & “Solar Angels”
Area – Gli Dei Se Na Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano
The Tubes – Now
Circus – Movin’ On
TNT – Tell No Tales
Disillusion- Back to Times of Splendor
Disillusion – Three Neuron Kings
Bathory – Bathory
Xysma – Above the Mind of Morbidity
Proclamation – Advent of the Black Omen
Ginn:
Fear Factory – Soul of a New Machine
Cynic – 1990 demo
Cynic – 1991 demo (“Roadrunner demo”)
Helmet – Meantime
OLD – Lo Flux Tube
Radakka – 1991 demo
Meshuggah – “Do Not Look Down”
Primus – Frizzle Fry
Koenjihyakkei – Nivraym
Kazjurol – Toothcombing Reality’s Surroundings EP
Prong – “Irrelevant Thoughts”
Non-Fiction – In the Know
Living Color – Stain
Emperor – “Decrystallizing Reason”, “An Elegy of Icaros”
Void – Side B (w/ The Faith)
Skinny Puppy – “Worlock”, “Riverz End”
Pyogenesis – Love Nation Sugarhead EP
Napalm Death – Fear Emptiness Despair
Melvins – Joe Preston
Atheist – Unquestionable Presence
Type O Negative – “Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity”, “Xero Tolerance”
Supuration – 1991 Promo
Apartment 213 – Mutilation EP
Creepmine – Chiaroscuro
Slint – 2-song EP
Talisman – Genesis
Cro-Mags – Before the Quarrel
Dark Angel – Leave Scars
Bolt Thrower – Realm of Chaos
Obliveon – From This Day Forward
Beyond Dawn – Bygones
Watching:
Brutal Truth, Ruthie’s Inn, San Francisco, 1994
Kataklysm, Wetlands, NYC, 1993
ravenous… Wagner:
Disillusion – Back to Times of Splendor
Disillusion – Gloria
Disillusion – “Alea”
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
DBC – Universe
Plasmatics – Maggots: The Record minus corny narratives
Cardiacs – Sing to God (CD 2)
Cardiacs – A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
A Forest of Stars – The Corpse of Rebirth
Black Sabbath – 12/5/97 Birmingham UK
XTC – Apple Venus Vol. 1
XTC – The Big Express
Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick
Melvins/Tool – “Divorced”
Kiss – “Creatures of the Night,” “War Machine,” “I Still Love You”
Rush – various recordings 1978-81
Megadeth – the good stuff on Cryptic Writings
Nuclear Assault – Out of Order
Atheist – Elements
Old – “Last Look”
Curved Air – Air Cut
Wagner: Speed Kills – various artists 1985
Curved Air – Air Cut
Curved Air – Phantasmagoria
Flea – Topi O Uomini
Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
Cardiacs – Sing to God (CD 1)
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Stargazer – A Merging to the Boundless
Asphyx – Asphyx
Sadus – D.T.P. demo
Megadeth – So Far, So Good, So What minus cover song
WASP – s/t esp. Blackie’s vocals
Pretty Maids – s/t EP
Breaker – Get Tough
Rush – Counterparts
XTC – English Settlement
Jean-Luc Ponty – Enigmatic Ocean
Queen – Brian May’s work on the otherwise mostly junky The Miracle, “Chinese Torture”
Ginn:
Blasphemy – Fallen Angel of Doom
Melvins – Stoner Witch
Rippikoulu – Musta Seremonia
Death Side – Wasted Dream
Medicine – The Buried Life
Bestial Warlust – Vengeance War til Death
Out Cold – Lost Cause
Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity
Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime
Floor – Madonna 7″
Joy Division – Closer
G.I.S.M. – Detestation
Wagner:
Crack the Sky – Crack the Sky
Van Halen – II
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Stargazer – The Scream That Tore the Sky
Misery’s Omen – Hope Dies
Misery’s Omen – To Worship Stone Gods 7”
Jean-Luc Ponty – Enigmatic Ocean
Curved Air – Air Cut
Deep Purple – Come Taste the Band
Genesis – “In the Glow of the Night”, “Fading Lights”
XTC – Black Sea, “The Somnambulist”
Voivod – Nothingface
My Dying Bride – The Angel and the Dark River
Ginn:
Helloween – Walls of Jericho
Poison Idea – Feel the Darkness
Revelation – “Eternal Search”
Abigor – Orkblut: The Retaliation
Clouddead – Ten
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Khorada – Salt
Bosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows
Target – Master Project Genesis
St. Vincent – “Masseduction”
Themselves – The No Music
Sear Bliss – Phantoms
Wagner:
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Anathema – Alternative 4
Anathema – A Fine Day to Exit
Cardiacs – Sing to God
Capability Brown – Voice
Curved Air – Phantasmagoria
Beyond Dawn – Heaven’s Dark Reflection demo ‘91
Messiah – Hymn to Abramelin
Alchemist – Promo 94, demo ‘91
Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Black Sabbath – Headless Cross
Persian Risk – Ridin’ High / Hurt You 7”
Misery’s Omen – To Worship Stone Gods 7”
Bathory – “Under the Runes”
Ginn:
Grave – Into the Grave
Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein
The Danse Society – Heaven Is Waiting
Paradox – Heresy
The 3rd and the Mortal – “Lengsel”
Gentle Giant – In a Glass House
Sculptured – Embodiment
Sculptured – Apollo Ends
Disgrace – “The Chasm”
Themselves – Them
Zyklon-B – Blood Must Be Shed
Crimson Glory – “Burning Bridges”
My Bloody Valentine – M B V
Orphaned Land – Sahara
Cardiacs – Sing to God
Bolt Thrower – Warmaster
Deep Puddle Dynamics – “I Am Hip Hop”
Amesoeurs – “Amesoeurs” (song)
Deftones – Ohms
Deftones – “Digital Bath” (DJ Shadow Remix)
Secrecy – Art in Motion
Wagner:
Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner-Mounting Flame
Eddie Jobson/Zinc – The Green Album
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Away – Cities
Alchemist – various 1990-99
Mekong Delta – Visions Fugitives
Nuclear Assault – Handle With Care
Rottrevore – Copulation of the Virtuous and Vicious 7”
TNT – Knights of the New Thunder
Black Sabbath – Dehumanizer
XTC – The Big Express
Cardiacs – A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
Ginn:
In Flames – Subterranean
Emperor – “Of Blindness and Subsequent Seers”
Rival Schools – Pedals
Glassjaw – Material Control
Cardiacs – Sing to God
Will Haven – WHVN
Bloodbath – Unblessing the Purity
Codeine – Frigid Stars
Scanner – Hypertrace
Refused – Freedom
Secrecy – Art In Motion
Necromantia – Crossing the Fiery Path
Fawning – Illusions of Control
Hypocrisy – The Fourth Dimension
Fleurety – every fucking thing
Bruford – “Beezelbub”
Wagner:
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Fair to Midland – Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True
Fair to Midland – Arrows & Anchors
Everything Everything – Get to Heaven
David Bowie – Outside
Modern English – Mesh and Lace
Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium
Renaissance – Tired Blood/Vaudeville 7”
Suffocation – Human Waste
Sadus – Illusions
Sadus – Swallowed in Black
Plasmatics – Coup d’Etat
Devo – New Traditionalists
U.K. – U.K.
Steven Wilson – The Future Bites
Black Sabbath – Tyr
Rush – “Red Sector A”
Ginn:
Deathspell Omega – Drought
Deathspell Omega – Kenose
In the Woods… – “Generally More Worried than Married”
Gang Gang Dance – Kasuashita
Gang Gang Dance – God’s Money
Enslaved – Yggdrasill 1992 demo
Enslaved – “Fusion of Sense and Earth”
Failure – The Heart Is a Monster
Coil – The Ape of Naples
Thou Art Lord – Eosforos
Einsturzende Neubauten – Silence Is Sexy
Hum – Inlets
Bark Psychosis – Codename: Dustsucker
Wagner:
Cardiacs – Sing to God
Cardiacs – A Man and a House and the Whole World Window
Dodheimsgard – Supervillain Outcast
Beyond Dawn – Frysh
Everything Everything – Re-animator
Gordian Knot – Gordian Knot
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Genesis – “Mama” / “It’s Gonna Get Better” 12”
Genesis – Invisible Touch
Kayak – “They Get to Know Me”
Cervello – Melos
Split Enz – “Hello Sandy Allen”
Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes
Deep Purple – “Stormbringer,” “The Gypsy,” “Soldier of Fortune”
Rainbow – “Sixteenth Century Greensleeves”
Europe – Wings of Tomorrow
W.A.S.P. – W.A.S.P.
Megadeth – Peace Sells But Who’s Buying?
King Diamond – Them
Enslaved – “Larger Than Time, Heavier Than Night”
Ginn:
Bat for Lashes – The Bride
Bat for Lashes – Haunted Man
Ved Buens Ende – Written in Waters
Queens of the Stone Age – “I Sat by the Ocean”
Subtle – A New White
Vaura – “Incomplete Burning”
Einsturzende Neubauten – Zeichnungen des Patientent O.T.
Einsturzende Neubauten – Halber Mensch
Gorgoroth – Destroyer
St. Vincent – St. Vincent
Pentagram – Relentless
Shudder to Think – Pony Express Record
Shudder to Think – Get Your Goat
Chelsea Wolfe – “Tracks (Tall Bodies)”
Entombed – Crawl EP
Entombed – Stranger Aeons EP
Wagner:
Pan-Thy-Monium – Khaooohs & Kon-fus-ion
Anathema – Eternity
Blitzkrieg – 1980 demo
Bolt Thrower – War Master
Old Funeral – “Forced to be Lost”
Alphataurus – Alphataurus
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning
Seventh Wave – Things to Come
Cardiacs – The Special Garage Concerts
King Crimson – Three of a Perfect Pair
Fates Warning – No Exit
Fates Warning – “The Destination Onward”
Candlemass – King of the Grey Islands
Black Sabbath – Seventh Star
Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith
Testament – The Legacy
Ulver – Themes From William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Coroner – No More Color
Kreator – “Some Pain Will Last”
Ginn:
Laughing Hyenas – Life of Crime
Maxophone – Maxophone
Godflesh – Post-Self
Interpol – “Public Pervert”
Master’s Hammer – Jilemnicky Okultista demo
Sadus – A Vision of Misery
Husker Du – Land Speed Record
Dodheimsgard – Monumental Possession
Chelsea Wolfe – “Deranged by Rock and Roll”
Merciless – The Awakening
Arizmenda – Stillbirth in the Temple of Venus
Queens of the Stone Age – “I Appear Missing”
V/A – Swedish Death Metal (esp. disc 3)
Bad Religion – Against the Grain
Wagner:
Gordian Knot – Emergent
XTC – Mummer
Everything Everything – Re-Animator
Helios Creed – Boxing the Clown
Helios Creed – The Last Laugh
Queensryche – “I Dream in Infrared”
Carcass – “Embryonic Necropsy and Devourment”
Mortician – tracks from Corporate Death comp
Gorguts – “Condemned to Obscurity”
Deeds of Flesh – “Catacombs of the Monolith”
Gaahls Wyrd – “The Speech and the Self”
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning
Cardiacs – The Special Garage Concerts
Birds and Buildings – Bantam to Behemoth
Second Hand – Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Voivod – Lost Machine Live
Thin Lizzy – Renegade
Ginn:
Gordian Knot – Emergent
Thought Industry – Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God’s Flesh
Unleashed – Shadows in the Deep
Stille Oppror – S.o.2
Einsturzende Neubauten – Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
Paradox – Heresy
Hawkwind – P.X.R.5
Bjork – Volta
Morgoth – Cursed
The Gathering – Mandylion
Drop Dead – Drop Dead
Meshuggah – Koloss
2020 – The End of the Beginning:
Wagner:
Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium “from this maelstrom free are you”
Cardiacs – The Special Garage Concerts
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
Second Hand – Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Seventh Wave – Things to Come
Seventh Wave – Psi-Fi
Wobbler – Dwellers of the Deep
Plasmatics – Metal Priestess
Sacrifice – Forward to Termination
Sarcofago – The Laws of Scourge
Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
Blues Creation – Demon & Eleven Children (minus second song)
Fields of the Nephilim – “Sumerland (Dreamed Version)” 12”
Fields of the Nephilim – The Nephilim
Ginn:
Algaion – General Enmity
Sacred Rite – Sacred Rite
3 – “Sugar Life,” “You Are the Alien”
Rope Sect – The Great Flood
Cemetary – An Evil Shade of Grey
Beach House – Depression Cherry
Faith No More – “Matador”
Svrm – Zanepad
Svrm – Discography: 2015-2018
Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium
Ladytron – “Destroy Everything You Touch,” “International Dateline”
Rage – Perfect Man
Wagner:
Leprous – Bilateral
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning
Everything Everything – Re-Animator (my #1 album of 2020)
Megadeth – Killing is My Business…and Business is Good
Megadeth – Last Rites demo 1984
Nuclear Assault – Survive
Kayo Dot – Gamma Knife
Blues Creation – Demon & Eleven Children
Seventh Wave – Psi-Fi
3 – “Only Child”
Ginn:
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
Deathspell Omega – Drought
Deathspell Omega – “Chaining the Katechon”
Alice in Chains – Facelift
Furze – Trident Autocrat
Beyond Dawn – Frysh
Suffocation – Effigy of the Forgotten
Monumentum – In Absentia Christi
Disharmonic Orchestra – “I Hyperact”
Abigor – Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)
Paul Chain – various
Vomitory – Through Sepulchral Shadows demo
Type O Negative – Dead Again
Wagner:
Osanna – Palepoli
Seventh Wave – Psi-Fi
Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
Tool – Fear Inoculum
Yes – Tormato
Voivod – Lost Machine Live
Canvas Solaris – Chromosphere
Jethro Tull – Benefit
Alphataurus – Alphataurus
Flamingods – Levitation
Pest – Ara
Kiss – Animalize
Kiss – “Journey of 1000 Years”
Sigmund Snopek III – Roy Rogers Meets Albert Einstein
Ginn:
Thule – Natt
Dodheimsgard – Monumental Possession
Dodheimsgard – Supervillain Outcast
Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses
Glenmore – Materialized
Manes – Svarte Skoger
And Also the Trees – Virus Meadow
Heretic – Breaking Point
Ludicra – Fex Urbis Lex Orbis
Arachnoid – Arachnoid
Mekong Delta – Mekong Delta
Wagner:
Stanley Clarke – 1974 s/t
Captain Beyond – Captain Beyond
Oxiplegatz – Fairytales
Carcass – Despicable
Pest – Ara
Vaura – The Missing
Genesis – January 1970, BBC
Genesis – Three Sides Live
Wobbler – Dwellers of the Deep
Wobbler – Afterglow
Fates Warning – “The Destination Onward”
Sigmund Snopek III – “Ride in the Dark”
Flamingods – “Peaches”
Old – “Peri Cynthion”
Ginn:
Manes – Svarte Skoger
And Also the Trees… – Virus Meadows
Kristin Hersh – Hips and Makers*
Sepultura – Schizophrenia
Ulver – “The Future Sound of Music”
Arachnoid – Arachnoid
Pestilence – Malleus Malleficarum
Red House Painters – Shock Me EP*
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy*
Pale Saints – The Comforts of Madness*
The Breeders – Last Splash*
Abigor – Supreme Immortal Art
*A brisk re-reading of Martin Aston’s excellent story of 4AD Records, Facing the Other Way, prompted the asterisked selections. My favorite label, the ultimate mesh of sound and design that, at least in part, inspires the RR mission? Maybe. Probably.
Wagner:
Sigmund Snopek III – Roy Rogers Meets Albert Einstein
Seventh Wave – Psi-Fi
Carcass – “The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue”
Entombed – Crawl EP
Borknagar – The Archaic Course
Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
Ethos – Open Up
Herbie Hancock – Man-Child
Voivod – “Vortex,” “Erosion,” “Drift,” “Ion”
Kayo Dot – “Rings of Earth”
Everything Everything – Re-Animator
Thom Yorke – Anima
Albert Bouchard – Re Imaginos
Ginn:
Dodheimsgard – A Umbra Omega
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs
Hum – Inlet
Maxophone – Maxophone
Vicious Rumors – Soldiers of the Night
Desolation Triumphalis – Forever Bound to Nothingness
Metallica – Kill ’em All
Blue Oyster Cult – “Don’t Turn Your Back”
Aesop Rock – Labor Days
The March Violets – Natural History
Broadcast – Haha Sound
Fleurety – Inquietum
Afflicted – Wanderland 7″
Big Country – Steeltown
Mayhem – Chimera
Wagner:
Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here
Queens of the Stone Age – “Mosquito Song”
Black Sabbath – The Eternal Idol Ray Gillen demos
Aunt Mary – Janus
Albert Bouchard – Re Imaginos
A Forest of Stars – A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
Stanley Clarke – 1974 s/t
Citizen Band – “The Ladder Song”
Duran Duran – “Late Bar”
Deftones- Ohms
Wobbler – Dwellers of the Deep
Primordial – “Gods to the Godless”
Ginn:
Bethlehem – S.U.I.Z.I.D.
Whiplash – Ticket to Mayhem
Gas – Konigsforst
The Damned – Phantasmagoria
Faith No More – “The Real Thing” (song)
Root – Temple in the Underworld
Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
O Yuki Conjugate – Into Dark Waters
Monumentum – In Absentia Christi
Red Temple Spirits – “Dark Spirits”
Cranes – Wings of Joy
Marduk – Those of the Unlight
Il Balletto di Bronzo – Ys
Skinny Puppy – “Smothered Hope,” “Far Too Frail”
Mayhem – Daemon
Welcome to Hell…who gives a shit?
Wagner:
Wobbler – Dwellers of the Deep
Genesis – BBC Jan. 9, 1970
Mingo Lewis – Live at the Record Plant, 11/9/74
Holy Moses – The New Machine of Liechtenstein
Atrocity – Hallucinations
Atrocity – Longing for Death
Destruction – Sentence of Death
Carcass – Despicable
Vaura – The Missing
Leprous – Pitfalls
Ulver – Messe I.X – VI.X
Herbie Hancock – Man-Child
Deep Purple – “Sail Away”, “You Fool No One”, “A 200”
Ginn:
Sacramentum – Far Away from the Sun
V/A – Isolationism
cLOUDDEAD – s/t
David Sylvian – Gone to Earth (disc 2)
Corrosion of Conformity – Blind
Jesu – Jesu
Death – Human
Disembowelment – Transcendence Into the Peripheral
Fennesz – Venice
Anthrax – Among the Living
Broadcast – Haha Sound
Aesop Rock – Labor Days
Colin Newman – A-Z
Ulver – Wars of the Roses
birdsong in reverse:
Wagner: Everything Everything – Re-animator Everything Everything – A Fever Dream Joywave – How Do You Feel Now? Ulver – “Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers,” “Nostalgia” Genesis – second half of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, “Frustration” Roxy Music – Country Life Aunt Mary – Janus Samhain – Final Descent (Samhain Grim part) Blessed Death – Destined for Extinction Coroner – Punishment for Decadence Enslaved – Utgard Dredg – Orph (1997 demo)
Ginn:
The Fall – Dragnet
Coil – various tracks from Beginners and Finishers comps
Soundgarden – “Girl U Want,” “Show Me”
Blut Aus Nord – The Work Which Transforms God
Blut Aus Nord – Hallucinogen
Pere Ubu – New Picnic Time
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, “Can-Utility & the Coastliners”
Flying Saucer Attack – “My Dreaming Hill”
Swans – Love of Life
Wolf Eyes – Burned Mind
Wolf Eyes – Human Animal
Slowdive – “Catch the Breeze,” “Sugar for the Pill”
Einsturzende Neubauten – Halber Mensch
Mental Home – Black Art
Sonic Youth – Dirty
Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
Wagner:
Deftones – Ohms
Tim Bowness – Late Night Laments
Ulver – Flowers of Evil
The Shy Guys – “Black Lightening Light”
Wishbone Ash – Live at Rockpalast 1976
Blue Oyster Cult – The Symbol Remains (minus two)
Beardfish – Destined Solitaire
Holy Moses – The New Machine of Liechtenstein
Morgoth – Odium
Kiss – Lick it Up
TNT – Intuition
Ginn:
Virgin Prunes – If I Die, I Die
Franco Battiatto – Sulle Corde di Aries
Bauhaus – “Double Dare”
Sacramentum – Far Away from the Sun
Black Star – Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are…
Loveliescrushing – Xuvetan
The Birthday Party – “Release the Bats” track
The Fall – Hex Education Hour
Crypt of Kerberos – Cyclone of Insanity/Visions Beyond Darkness
Band of Susans – Hope Against Hope
Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence
Chelsea Wolfe – Apokalypsis
Hammers of Misfortune – Church of Broken Glass
Gryphon – Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Swallow – Blow
Helloween – Walls of Jericho
Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part 1
L’Uovo di Colombo – s/t
Swans – The Burning World
Swans – The Great Annihilator
Pale Saints – “Throwing Back the Apple”
Sonic Youth – Bad Moon Rising
Sonic Youth – Evol
Wagner:
Duran Duran – Paper Gods
Duran Duran – Pop Trash
Ulver – Flowers of Evil
Ulver – Live at Roadburn
V/A – Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares
Fates Warning – Awaken the Guardian Live
Yes – “Close to the Edge” (song)
Van Halen – “Atomic Punk,” “On Fire,” “Loss of Control,” “Light Up the Sky”
Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder
Maudlin of the Well – “Stones of October’s Sobbing”, “Banquet of Dis”
Fates Warning – “Damnation,” “Night on Brocken” live at Keep It True festival 2016
Black Sabbath – Mob Rules
Anathema – Eternity
XTC – Apple Venus Vol. 1
Kestrel – Kestrel
Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno – Per…Un Mondo di Cristallo
Ginn:
Tiamat – The Astral Sleep
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Cocteau Twins – Victorialand
Solefald – “Hyperhuman”
Love Battery – Dayglo
Paradise Lost – Draconian Times
Robert Fripp – Exposure
Alice in Chains – “Nutshell”
Jesus Lizard – Down
Root – Hell Symphony
Psychedelic Furs – “The Ghost in You”
Metamorfosi – Inferno
Sabbat – Embody
Volcano Suns – The Bright Orange Years
Dead Can Dance – Aion
Monster Magnet – “Spine of God” track
Drudkh – Autumn Aurora
Brian Eno & Harold Budd – The Pearl
Archers of Loaf – Icky Mettle
Samael – Blood Ritual
Richard Pinhas – IceLand
Hammers of Misfortune – 17th Street
Mork Gryning – Mork Gryning
Rodan – Rusty
Burzum – Filosofem
Magnum – Kingdom of Madness
Polvo – Cor-Crane Secret
Wagner:
Crimson Glory – Transcendence
Anathema – Eternity
Ulver – and lots of it
Chroma Key – Graveyard Mountain Home
Pentagram – “When the Screams Come”, “Burning Savior” (from Day of Reckoning)
Alice Cooper – Pretties for You
Ace Frehley 1978 solo album
The Tubes – Outside Inside
Kestrel – Kestrel
Eela Craig – Missa Universalis
Pyogenesis – various absurd heaviness ‘91/‘92
Carnivore – “Thermonuclear Warrior”
At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
Sacred Rite – Sacred Rite
Ginn:
Mekong Delta – The Principle of Doubt
Mekong Delta – Visions Fugitives
Paul Chain – Mirror
Bjork – Post
Varathron – “Fire Spell – Forbidden Hunt”
This Heat – Deceit
Queensryche – Operation: Mindcrime
Queensryche – Promised Land
Sacrilege – Behind the Realms of Madness
A Canorous Quintet – Silence of the World Beyond
Le Orme – Contrappunti
Cave In – “Joy Opposites”
Nevermore – Nevermore
Xmal Deutschland – Tocsin
Helloween – Walls of Jericho
Cannibal Ox – “Iron Galaxy”
Manes – Under ein Blodraud Maane
Autumn in the Air:
Wagner:
Kestrel – Kestrel (Esoteric 2CD reissue)
Supersister – Supersisterious
Rush – Counterparts
Mingo Lewis – Flight Never Ending
XTC – Apple Venus Volume 1
Mew – “Web”
Ulver – Flowers of Evil
Ihsahn – “Manhattan Skyline”
Leprous – “Moon”
My Dying Bride – “The Return of the Beautiful”
Cathedral – “Enter the Worms,” “Cosmic Funeral”
Nuclear Assault – Game Over
Nuclear Assault – The Plague
Plasmatics – Beyond the Valley of 1984
Ginn:
Egg – The Polite Force
My Dying Bride – Trinity
Bang on a Can Ensemble – Plays JG Thirlwell’s Anabiosis
Bang on a Can – Plays Brian Eno’s Music for Airports
Queensryche – Promised Land
Arcturus – Constellation
Brainiac – Electroshock for President
Rush – Hemispheres
Hades Almighty – The Pulse of Decay
Bohren & der Club of Gore – Geisterfaust
Lungfish – Rainbows from Atoms
Muslimgauze – Infidel
Robert Calvert – Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
Cop Shoot Cop – White Noise
Trial of the Bow – Ornamentation
Glenn Branca – Symphony 16: Orgasm
Wagner mid-September ’20:
XTC – Apple Venus Volume 1
Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
Fates Warning – No Exit
Ulver – Flowers of Evil
Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV
Pollen – Pollen
Eela Craig – Missa Universalis
Museo Rosenbach – Barbarica
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – The Good Earth
David Bowie – “Within You”
Holy Moses – Finished With the Dogs
Rage – Perfect Man
Bulldozer – Neurodeliri
Manilla Road – Mystification
Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
September 2020
Wagner: Osanna – Milano Calibro 9 Rainbow – Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll Deep Purple – Who Do We Think We Are Kraan – Tournee Jackson/Evans/Banton – The Long Hello Ethos – Ardour Genesis – Keep it Dark (3-song 12”) Genesis – “Dodo / Lurker / Submarine / Naminanu” XTC – Nonsuch Pearl Jam – Riot Act Jethro Tull – Stand Up Kiss – Lick it Up Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse Epitaph – 91/92 demos, 2020 remixes
Ginn:
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Coil – Musick to Play in the Dark, Volume 1
Melvins – Stoner Witch
Van Der Graaf Generator – “A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers”
Bathory – The Return
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part
Skin Yard – 1000 Smiling Knuckles
Queensryche – The Warning
Sonic Youth – EVOL
Uriah Heep – Demons and Wizards
Primal Scream – Evil Heat
Cathedral – Forest of Equilibrium
Helmet – Aftertaste
Il Rovescio Della Medaglia – Contaminazione
Paul Chain – Park of Reason
Emergency Playlist: Incorrigible (Wagner) Anthony Phillips – Wise After the Event Anathema – The Silent Enigma Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night Darryl Way’s Wolf – Night Music Black Sabbath – Never Say Die Colosseum II – “Dark Side of the Moog,” “Winds” Osanna – Milano Calibro 9 Pan.Thy.Monium – Dream II Fleurety – “It’s When You’re Cold” Akercocke – “Disappear” Epitaph – Echoes Entombed: The Demo Anthology Coroner – R.I.P Candlemass – Ancient Dreams Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather Cheap Trick – In Color Thomas Dolby – “Radio Silence” Pearl Jam – “Angel”/“Ramblings 2”, various oddities on other 7”s Mingo Lewis – Flight Never Ending Before A Word Is Said (Gowen, Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins) Ulver – “Vowels” Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse Kraan – Wiederhoren Ruphus – New Born Day
Listen Like its Your Final Listen…
Wagner:
King Crimson – Starless and Bible Black
Kansas – The Absence of Presence
Blocco Mentale – POA
Coroner – “Semtex Revolution”
Abstrakt Algebra II
Solstafir – demos 1997/98
Flowers – Icehouse
Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean
Alice In Chains – “Rotten Apple”, “Whale and Wasp”
Thin Lizzy – Black Rose
Fates Warning – “Face the Fear”
Alice Cooper – Pretties for You (esp. “Fields of Regret”)
Blow Out (Graf, Christensen, Hovensjo, Eberson)
Colosseum II – Strange New Flesh + 1975/76 demos
Nomeansno- Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie
Ginn:
Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Steve Hillage – Fish Rising
Virus – The Agent that Shapes the Desert
Mingo Lewis – Flight Never Ending
Borknagar – The Olden Domain
Hector Szobel – Szobel
Queensryche – Queensryche EP
Laughing Hyenas – Crawl
Horacee Arnold – Tales of an Exonerated Flea
Order From Chaos – Plateau of Invincibility
Cherry Five – Cherry Five
Helios Creed – Lactating Purple
The Deserts of Traun – Part III: The Lilac Moon
Swans – White Light from the Mouth of Infinity
Solar Fires of Unknown Origin…
Wagner: Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Solar Fire Voivod – The End of Dormancy 12” Voivod – Hypercube Session 8/9/20 Kraan – Kraan Pink Floyd – Meddle David Gilmour – 1978 s/t Bloque – El Hijos del Alba Herbie Hancock- Thrust Van Der Graaf Generator – The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse Solstafir – I Blodi Og Anda Powermad – “Nice Dreams”, “Plastic Town,” “Final Frontier” Obsession – Marshall Law Alice Cooper – Goes to Hell Blue Oyster Cult – Fire of Unknown Origin Soundgarden – Ultramega OK
Ginn: Blue Oyster Cult – Fire of Unknown Origin Glassjaw – Everything You Wanted to Know About Silence Fates Warning – Parallels Defleshed – Fast Forward Rival Schools – United by Fate Seaweed – Four Dif Juz – Extractions Team Sleep – Team Sleep Soundgarden – “4th of July” Beastmilk – Climax Sloan – Never Hear the End of It Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas Red Harvest – Cold Dark Matter Savatage – Hall of the Mountain King
Wagner: Mingo Lewis – Flight Never Ending Split Enz – Mental Notes (the 1975 original) Pollen – Pollen Curved Air – Live Hoelderlin – “Phasing” Chris Squire – “Silently Falling” Ruphus – New Born Day Ron Jarzombek- Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement Kiss – Kiss Alice Cooper – Easy Action Duran Duran – “The Wild Boys” Oranssi Pazuzu – Valonielu The Long Hello by Jackson / Evans / Banton & Friends Kansas – The Absence of Presence
Ginn: Godflesh – Streetcleaner Godflesh – Pure Godflesh – Songs of Love and Hate Vicious Rumors – Soldiers of the Night Vicious Rumors – Digital Dictator Final Conflict – Ashes to Ashes Gryphon – Red Queen to Gryphon Three The Black – Priest of Satan Carcass – Surgical Steel Forbidden – “Forbidden Evil” (track) United States of America – United States of America Bethlehem – Dark Metal Ulysses Siren – Above the Ashes Einstürzende Neubauten – Silence is Sexy Incantation – Mortal Throne of Nazarene The Mars Volta – Octahedron Disembowelment – Transcendence into the Peripheral Holy Terror – Terror and Submission Purtenance – Member of Immortal Damnation
GOODBYE JULY 2020:
Wagner:
Supersister – Supersisterious
Curved Air – Live
Osanna – Milano Calibro 9
Holy Terror – Guardians of the Netherworld: A Tribute to Keith Deen
Gorguts – The Erosion of Sanity
Japan – Quiet Life
Blow Out (Graf, Hovensjo, Eberson, Christensen)
Gowen/Miller/Sinclair/Tomkins – Before a Word is Said
Anthony Phillips – Wise After the Event
Kraan – Weiderhoren
Kraan – Tournee
Judas Priest – Rocka Rolla
Styx – Wooden Nickel era highlights
Bozzio Levin Stevens – Situation Dangerous
Julian Priester Pepe Mtoto – Love, Love
Herbie Hancock – Thrust
Edge of Sanity – “Velvet Dreams”
Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
The Cure – “Watching Me Fall”
Fates Warning – Awaken the Guardian (is The Absolute Best)
Supersister – To the Highest Bidder
Hoelderlin – the one with the clown on it
Rush – Presto, with a few reservations
Chris Squire – Fish Out of Water
Ginn:
Mystifier- Goetia
Fantasy – Paint a Picture
V/A – Desert Dances & Serpent Sermons
Melvins – Gluey Porch Treatments
No Man – “Soft Shoulders”
Suffocation – Pierced from Within
Aeternus – …And So the Night Became
Yes – “The Gates of Delirium”
Moondark – The Shadowpath
Forbidden – Disillusions 1992 demo
Tiamat – A Deeper Kind of Slumber
Neurosis – Enemy of the Sun
Anglagard – Hybris
Last 2 weeks in the hyper-cuboid Wagner hi-fi lab:
Novalis – Sommerabend
Alice Cooper – DaDa
Bestial Warlust – Blood & Valour
Dark Angel – Darkness Descends
Master – unreleased 1985 album
Sacrifice – Torment in Fire
Joywave – all 3 albums
Manes – “Young Skeleton” / “Mouth of the Volcano”
Solefald – Norron Livskunst
Judas Priest – Stained Class
Wishbone Ash – Live Dates
Tim Bowness – My Hotel Year
Genesis – Duke
Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse of Reason side 2
Steven Wilson – “How Big the Space”
Blue Oyster Cult – Spectres (minus one)
Kiss – Creatures of the Night
Kiss – (Music From) The Elder
Emanations from Savannah, Ginn Style:
Morgoth – Odium
Swallow – Blow
Bestial Warlust – Vengeance War til Death
Paradox – Heresy
Deceased – The Blueprints for Madness
Marconi Union – Under Wires and Searchlights
National Health – Of Queues and Cures
Into Another – Ignaurus
Coroner – Punishment for Decadence
Loveliescrushing – Xuvetyn
Hammock – “Blankets of Night”
Scanner – Hypertrace
Mystifier – Goetia
halfway through the most fucked up year in our lifetimes…at least we have these:
Wagner: Fates Warning – Inside Out & live 1994/95 Genesis – Abacab Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Jean-Luc Ponty – Cosmic Messenger (especially the utterly sick “Egocentric Molecules”) Tim Bowness – Late Night Laments Tim Bowness – Flowers at the Scene OSI – “No Celebrations” Nazareth – “The Ballad of Hollis Brown” Rush – Permanent Waves TNT – Intuition Manes – Young Skeleton 7″ Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse Iron Maiden – “Revelations”, “Where Eagles Dare”, “Innocent Exile” Bestial Warlust – Vengeance War ‘Till Death
Ginn: 5 of 7 of Borivoj Krgin’s 1993 year-end playlist: Talisman – Genesis Memento Mori – Rhymes of Lunacy Obliveon – Nemesis Death – Individual Thought Patterns Glenmore – Materialized + Swans – Various Failures Nazxul – Totem Aslan – 1986 demo Porcupine Tree – Stupid Dream Axis of Advance – The List Dimmu Borgir – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant Slayer – “Angel of Death” Bolt Thrower – Realm of Chaos Tool – Aenima Edan – Beauty and the Beat Comsat Angels – “Our Secret” Master’s Hammer – Jilemnicky Okultista demo Hum – Downward Is Heavenward Sentenced – Amok Nomeansno – “Everyday I Start to Ooze” Queensryche – Operation: Mindcrime Sugar – Beaster EP Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Wagner Synth Comp of Death Ulver – Themes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Dream Theater – Images and Words
Wagner: Joywave – Possession Deep Purple – Deep Purple Genesis – Duke Bestial Warlust – Storming Bestial Legions Live 1996 Order From Chaos – Dawn Bringer Beherit – Engram Oranssi Pazuzu – Muukalainen Puhuu Voivod – “Divine Sun” Anathema – “Angelica” Dismember – “Override of the Overture” Fates Warning – No Exit Pattern-Seeking Animals – Prehensile Tales Kiss – Kiss Split Enz – “Iris” Drawn – “Marygold” Abigor – Supreme Immortal Art Entombed – Left Hand Path
Ginn: Thought Industry – Songs for Insects DVC – Descendant Upheaval The Bronx – “History’s Stranglers” Leatherface – Mush Deathspell Omega – Kenose Band of Horses – Everything All the Time Conqueror – War Cult Supremacy Solstafir – Masterpiece of Bitterness Repulsion – Horrified Sodom – Expurse of Sodomy Red House Painters – Ocean Rain Eisenvater – Eisenvater New Pornographers – Together Cave In – Antenna Black Sabbath – “Hand of Doom” Nomeansno – “ Everyday I Start the Ooze” Voivod – Nothingface Coroner – Grin
Then Came the Last Day of May 2020: Wagner: Frank Zappa – Zappa in New York Frank Zappa – Zoot Allures Jean-Luc Ponty – Imaginary Voyage Rush – Exit…Stage Left No-Man – “You Grow More Beautiful” Anathema – The Crestfallen EP Joywave – Possession Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi Cathedral – Forest of Equilibrium Order From Chaos – Stillbirth Machine Morbus Chron – Sleepers in the Rift Sweven – The Eternal Resonance Candlemass – Nightfall Cirith Ungol – Forever Black, “Brutish Manchild” Kiss – Hotter Than Hell (+ various demos ’69-’95) Black Sabbath – Technical Ecstasy Pattern-Seeking Animals – Prehensile Tales Phil Manzanera/801 – Listen Now Greenslade – Greenslade Hail Spirit Noir – “Blood Guru”
Ginn: Hieronymous Bosch – Equivoke Hieronymous Bosch – Artificial Emotions Diamond Head – Lightning to the Nations Virus – Carheart Blue Oyster Cult – Agents of Fortune Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties Opeth – Watershed MGLA – Exercises in Futility Venom – Black Metal Annihilator – Alice in Hell Rotting Christ – Passage to Arcturo Samael – Ceremony of Opposites Funeral Mist – “ A Circle of Eyes” Jeff Buckley – Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk
Wagner: Nocturnus – Thresholds Joywave – Possession Nuclear Death – For Our Dead Blasphemy – Fallen Angel of Doom Blasphemy – Gods of War Carnivore – “Predator” Ihsahn – Telemark (3 main songs) Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestin Kynsi Jean-Luc Ponty – Imaginary Voyage Rush – “Cygnus X-1 (Book II: Hemispheres)” Rush – A Show of Hands Mythopoeic Mind – Mythopoetry Herbie Hancock – Future Shock Thin Lizzy – “Opium Trail” Gaahls Wyrd – Gastir: Ghosts Invited Gene Simmons 1978 solo album Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Ginn: Deathspell Omega – Kénôse Hum -Downward Is Heavenward Alice In Chains – Dirt Jesters of Destiny – “Diggin’ that Grave” Abigor – Channeling the Quintessence of Satan Sanguisugabogg – Pornographic Seizures Univers Zero – Ceux du Dehors Suffocation – Effigy of the Forgotten Porcupine Tree – “Waiting, Phase 2” Incantation – Mortal Throne of Nazarene Opeth – “Reverie/Harlequin Forest” Primus – Frizzle Fry Enslaved – Mardraum Maudlin of the Well – “Gleam In Ranks” Bullet Lavolta – The Gift Eucharist – Mirrorworlds Velocity Girl – “Crazy Town”
Then Came The First Days of May, 2020:
Wagner: Sweven – The Eternal Resonance Cirith Ungol – Forever Black Novalis – Novalis Juggernaut – Baptism Under Fire Sacred Rite – Is Nothing Sacred Jumbo – DNA Björk – Biophilia Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – most of The Roaring Silence Genesis – “Inside and Out,” “Pigeons” Peter Gabriel – Up Iron Maiden – ‘83/‘84 era 12 inches Mind Over Four – “Barriers and Passages” Kiss – Unmasked The Mars Volta – Octahedron Khorada – Salt Fates Warning – Inside Out Pink Floyd – The Wall
Ginn: Kreator – Flag of Hate EP Triosk – The Headlight Serenade Funeral Mist – Salvation Slint – Spiderland Murcof – Remembranza Fates Warning – Perfect Symmetry The Dale Cooper Quartet – Parole de Navarre Eivind Aarset – Light Extracts Dodheimsgard – Monumental Possession Fantasy – Paint a Picture Leatherface – Mush Whirr – Sway The Smiths – Singles Helios Creed – Lactating Purple
late April 2020 Wagner: Confessor – Condemned Toby Driver – They Are the Shield Rush – Grace Under Pressure Rush – Hold Your Fire Fates Warning – “Still Remains” Scorpions – Fly to the Rainbow Thin Lizzy – Johnny the Fox Deep Purple – The Book of Taliesyn Khorada – Salt Witchfinder General – Death Penalty Anacrusis – Suffering Hour Nasty Savage – Penetration Point Nocturnal Rites – “Okahoo” Solefald – “2011, or a Knight of the Fail” Giles, Giles & Fripp – The Cheerful Insanity of… Genesis – “Feeding the Fire” Matthew Parmenter – Horror Express Jumbo – Vietato Ai Minori Di 18 Anni? Nomeansno- Betrayal Fear Anger Hatred 7” Pearl Jam – Gigaton metric fucktons of the KISSFAQ podcast
Ginn: MIA (perhaps in Canada in search of Sylvain Houde)
Wagner: Arcturus – Arcturian Mythopoeic Mind – Mythopoetry Wishbone Ash – No Smoke Without Fire UFO – Obsession Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell Fates Warning – Parallels Jean-Luc Ponty – Mystical Adventures (twice) Celtic Frost – Tragic Serenades Celtic Frost – Into the Pandemonium (twice) Enslaved – Monumension Pyogenesis – Waves of Erotasia 3 – The Ghost You Gave to Me Pattern-Seeking Animals – Prehensile Tales ZZ Top – “Master of Sparks,” “Precious and Grace” Melvins – most of Basses Loaded Akercocke – Renaissance in Extremis Rush – “Vital Signs” live 1981 Judas Priest – “Turbo Lover” Priest Live! version Steve Hackett – Voyage of the Acolyte Judy Henske & Jerry Yester – Farewell Aldebaran Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon Arcturus – ReArcturianized
Ginn: Slint – Spiderland Jellyfish – Spilt Milk Morbid Angel – Blessed Are the Sick Strapping Young Lad – City Cave In – Lost in the Air/Lift Off single Emperor – Reverence Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger Godflesh – Streetcleaner Aeternus – Beyond the Wandering Moon Rob – Maniac OST Voivod – The Wake Scorn – Evanescence Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Radiohead – In Rainbows
April 1st, No Joke:
Wagner: Akercocke – Renaissance in Extremis Acid Bath – Radio Edits Nomeansno – 0+2=1 The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta Pearl Jam – Gigaton Radiohead – “Talk Show Host” in its various permutations Disillusion – “Alea” Happy the Man – “New York Dreams Suite” Darkthrone – Soulside Journey Anthrax – Spreading the Disease Testament – The Legacy Peter Hammill – Over TNT – Transistor Borknagar – The Olden Domain
Ginn: Minus the Bear – Voids 5uu’s – Hunger’s Teeth God Macabre – The Winterlong Chavez – Gone Glimmering Maximo Park – The National Health Coroner – “Serpent Moves” Carcass – Symphonies of Sickness Blind Guardian – “Theatre of Pain” Pyogenesis – “God Complex” Hexx – No Escape Gorguts – “Nostalgia” Marduk – Opus Nocturne Enslaved – “Striker” Tuatara – Breaking the Ethers
Quarantining:
Wagner: Pearl Jam – Gigaton Gentle Giant – Civilian Gentle Giant – The Last Steps Kataklysm – Sorcery Archgoat – Whore of Bethlehem Todtgelichter – Angst Laster – Het Wassen Oog Hail Spirit Noir – “The Mermaid” My Dying Bride – “The Whore, the Cook and the Mother” Kansas – The Absence of Presence Judy Henske & Jerry Yester – Farewell Aldebaran Mike Oldfield – “Taurus II” ZZ Top – (most of) Eliminator Eddie Hazel – Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs
Ginn: Agents of Oblivion – Agents of Oblivion Godflesh – Us & Them Nostalgist – Disaffection Il Balletto di Bronzo – Ys Hemlock – Funeral Mask Hemlock – Lust for Fire Miranda Sex Garden – Suspiria Crawl – Earth Agalloch – The Mantle Poison Idea – Feel the Darkness Forbidden – “Forbidden Evil” track Cathedral – Statik Magik EP Todtgelichter – Schemen Wool – “Chances Are” Death – Human Katatonia – For Funerals to Come
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Wagner: Judy Henske & Jerry Yester – Farewell Aldebaran Eddie Hazel – Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs Jet Lag – Delusione Ottica Atheist – Unquestionable Presence Bathory – “In Nomine Satanas” A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant David Bowie – Let’s Dance Japan – Tin Drum Kataklysm – Temple of Knowledge Disharmonic Orchestra – Ahead Witchcraft – “White Light Suicide” Mercyful Fate – Melissa Diamond Head – Lightning to the Nations Kiss – Lick it Up The Beach Boys – Wild Honey Kansas – The Absence of Presence Psychotic Waltz – The God-Shaped Void
Ginn: My Dying Bride – Turn Loose the Swans Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted At the Gates – With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness Strapping Young Lad – City Amebix – Monolith Darkthrone – Under a Funeral Moon Novalis – Brandung Lisa Gerrard – The Mirror Pool Anathema -“Sleepless” Whirr – Sway Brutal Truth – Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses Pan-Thy-Monium – Dream II Thule – Natt Ulver – A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP
Wagner: Holy Terror – Mind Wars Katatonia – For Funerals to Come My Dying Bride – As the Flower Withers The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium Laster – De Verste Verte Is Hier Discipline – Unfolded Like Staircase UFO – No Heavy Petting Van Der Graaf Generator – “Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild)” Arcturus – ReArcturianized
Ginn: Cynic – Focus Satyricon – The Shadowthrone Jeff Buckley – “Forget Her” Jeff Buckley – Grace Madvillain – Madvillainy Leprous – “Echo” Dysrhythmia – Terminal Threshold Godflesh – Selfless Monster Magnet – “Snake Dance” Opeth – Still Life Opeth – “Bleak,” “Deliverance” Swervedriver – “Never Lose That Feeling”
Wagner:
Island – Pictures Zapped – Bizarre/Straight compilation 1970 Fleurety – “Face in a Fever” Laster – Het Wassen Oog Alphataurus – “La Mente Vola” Chick Corea – The Leprechaun Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down, Discouraged Ones Duran Duran – Paper Gods Dust – Hard Attack, “From a Dry Camel,” “Often Shadows Felt” Kiss – Rock and Roll Over, Dynasty Jag Panzer – Chain of Command TNT – Knights of the New Thunder
Ginn: Nick Cave – Ghosteen Ulver – Nattens Madrigal, “Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses” Solstafir – Masterpiece of Bitterness Dissection – Storm of the Light’s Bane Present – “Promenade Au Fond D’un Canal” (Live at NEARFest 2005) Voorhees – Spilling Blood Without Reason Crosses – Crosses Beastmilk – Climax Cradle of Filth – “To Eve the Art of Witchcraft” Opeth – “Bleak” Mindrot – Dawning Paul Chain – Alkahest Lustmord – Heresy Deadboy and the Elephantmen – 2001 demo
Wagner: Genesis – Wind and Wuthering
Genesis – A Trick of the Tail Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast Bruce Dickinson – “Book of Thel” Steven Wilson – “Salvaging” Japan – “Suburban Love” Peter Hammill – “A Better Time (Acapella)”
Bent Knee – Say So, “Way Too Long” Thought Industry – Black Umbrella
Anathema – Pentecost III Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses Blue Oyster Cult – Fire of Unknown Origin Foreigner – choice nuggs ’77/’78
Ginn: Deadboy and the Elephantmen – various live bootlegs circa 2003-2004
Emperor – Wrath of the Tyrant EP Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep of Reason
Hum – Downward Is Heavenward
Defleshed – Under the Blade DBC – Universe Edan – Beauty and the Beat Amorphis – The Karelian Isthmus
Aeternus – Ascension of Terror
Loudblast – Sublime Dementia
Loincloth – At War with Norway demo 2003
Paradise Lost – Believe in Nothing
Wagner: Billy Cobham – Spectrum Black Sabbath – Paranoid Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Celtic Frost – Into the Pandemonium My Dying Bride – “Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium” Kayo Dot – Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue Spastic Ink – “Words for Nerds” Bjork – “An Echo, a Stain” Pearl Jam – “Dance of the Clairvoyants” Iron Maiden – “Childhood’s End,” “Total Eclipse” Porcupine Tree – “Arriving Somewhere But Not Here,” “Open Car” Enslaved – Monumension Nuclear Death – The Planet Cachexial Nuclear Death – All Creatures Great and Eaten
Ginn: Frantic Bleep – The Sense Apparatus
In Flames – The Jester Race Death – Human Cynic – Focus Immortal – “In My Kingdom Cold” Godflesh – Us & Them
Coil – Horse Rotorvator Morrissey – Bona Drag Nachtmystium – Instinct: Decay Dead Can Dance – “Xavier” Christian Death – Only Theater of Pain Dark Tranquillity – Enter Suicidal Angels
Wagner: Celtic Frost – Into the Pandemonium Prince – “Bambi,” “Tamborine,” “America” No-Man – Love You to Bits (best guitar solo of 2019: David Kollar) David Bowie – Low Godley & Creme – Freeze Frame My Dying Bride – 7 inches 1991-1994 My Dying Bride – Turn Loose the Swans Amorphis – Black Winter Day EP Witchcraft – The Alchemist Thin Lizzy – Fighting Beardfish – 2003 recording session King Crimson – “Sleepless” live 10/94 Argentina Desert Sessions – four songs from Vol. 11/12
Ginn: Flying Saucer Attack – Further Celtic Frost – Into the Pandemonium Swans – Holy Money Swans – Cop Swans – Young God Kansas – Point of Know Return Wool – “Chances Are” Rush – Caress of Steel Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Exit the Warrior>>>
Wagner: Rush – Permanent Waves Van Der Graaf Generator – H to He Who Am the Only One King Crimson – Thrak Ved Buens Ende – Those Who Caress the Pale Virus – The Black Flux (while thinking about Carheart) Nuclear Death – various horrors ’86-’00 Autopsy – 1987 demo Archgoat – Angelcunt (Tales of Desecration) Megadeth – The System Has Failed Rush – Exit… Stage Left
Ginn: Anaal Nathrakh – Total Fucking Necro Thorns – Thorns Porcupine Tree – “Waiting (Phase 2)” Collosamite – All Lingo’s Clamor EP Rush – Hemispheres Rush – Moving Pictures Rush – “The Analog Kid” Digable Planets – Blowout Comb Carpathian Forest – Defending the Throne of Evil Melvins – A Senile Animal Melvins – Eggnog Diabolical Masquerade – Nightwork Scorn – Vae Solis Pan-Thy-Monium – …..Dawn 1990 demo Floor – Madonna 7”
First listens of 2020
Wagner: Nomeansno – Wrong Arcturus – Arcturian Ved Buens Ende – Those Who Caress the Pale Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets, “Chapter 24” Tchornobog – Tchornobog No-Man – Love You to Bits Into Another – Into Another Virus – Carheart
Ginn: In Camera – IV Songs Arcturus – Constellation Fennesz – Venice New Order – Low-Life Summoning – Minas Morgul Front Line Assembly – Tactical Neural Implant Thergothon – Stream From the Heavens Guapo – Black Oni Effigies – Fly on a Wire Burzum – Filosofem Clogs – Lantern Godflesh – Love and Hate in Dub Radiohead – Kid A
Wagner: Virus – Carheart No-Man – Love You to Bits Porcupine Tree – In Absentia Arcturus – Arcturian Arcturus – Constellation Circus – Movin’ On Corrosion of Conformity – Blind King Crimson – Heavy Construkction Gentle Giant – Free Hand Styx – The Grand Illusion Split Enz – “Stuff and Nonsense”
Ginn: Bent Knee – Say So Faith No More – Angel Dust Holygram – Modern Cults Count Raven – Destruction of the Void Bathory – Blood on Ice Leeway – Open Mouth Kiss Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses Nirvana – Bleach Brujeria – Matando Gueros + demos Eela Craig – Missa Universalis Brown Vs. Brown – Odds and Unevens Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork Sloan – “Hollow Head”
Wagner: Ved Buens Ende – Written in Waters Virus – Carheart Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Live Oranssi Pazuzu – VärähtelijäGenesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Psychotic Waltz – The God-Shaped Void Leprous – Pitfalls Steven Wilson – “Significant Other” The Buggles – “Rainbow Warrior” Rob Halford – Celestial Iron Maiden – “Twilight Zone,” “Wrathchild,” Maiden Japan Gonin-Ish – “The Crimson Memory”
Ginn: Voivod – Killing Technology Brand X – Unorthodox Behaviour Kate Bush – Hounds of Love EL-P – Cancer for Cure
Albino Slug – Albino Slug
O.Rang – Fields and Waves Radiohead – Kid A Anekdoten – A Time of Day
Voxtrot – “The Start of Something” Alastis – The Other Side Prince Paul – Prince Among Thieves
Anglagard – Buried Alive U.K. – U.K.
Wagner: Circus – Movin’ On Wobbler – Rites at Dawn Virus – Carheart In Flames – Lunar Strain Roxy Music – Roxy Music King Crimson – A Beginner’s Guide to Projekcts: The Deception of the Thrush Manes – “Ease Yourself Back (Into Consciousness),” “Tzolv” Purtenance Avulsion – “Inside the Crematory” Spock’s Beard – “The Light” (song) Melvins – five-eighths of Pinkus Abortion Technician
Ginn: Bizarre – Beautica Eela Craig – Missa Universalis Kansas – various tracks from the first 5 albums Photek – The Hidden Camera EP Aeternus – Beyond the Wandering Moon Sieges Even – “The Lonely View of Condors,” “Unbreakable” Cave In – Jupiter Bjork – Medulla; “Telegram” and “Joga” remixes Urfaust – “Voodoo Dust” Radiohead – Amnesiac
Live to Listen, Listen to Live: Wagner: Enslaved – Mardraum: Beyond the Within Mayhem – Daemon Arcturus – Aspera Hiems Symfonia Joywave – How Do You Feel Now? Sanctuary – Inception Fates Warning – Live Over Europe Incantation – Onward to Golgotha; Mortal Throne of Nazarene King Crimson – Live at the Orpheum Jakszyk/Fripp/Collins – A Scarcity of Miracles Devil Doll – Dies Irae Abstrakt Algebra – II (unreleased 1997 album) Minus the Bear – Planet of Ice Thom Yorke – “Atoms for Peace” TNT – “Wisdom”
Ginn: Ulver – Drone Activity Red House Painters – Red House Painters (aka Rollercoaster); “Shock Me” Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures Abhorrence – Completely Vulgar Goblin – Roller Lustmord – Heresy Bark Psychosis – Hex Madvillain – Four Tet Remixes Disgrace – Vol. 2 Bohren & der Club of Gore – Black Earth
Givingthanks: Wagner: Wobbler – From Silence to Somewhere Toby Driver – Madonnawhore No-Man – Speak Slayer – Show No Mercy Abigor – Opus IV Leprous – Pitfalls Wishbone Ash – Just Testing Discipline – To Shatter All Accord Virus – Memento Collider Blut Aus Nord – 777 Sect(s) Angel Witch – Angel of Light Realm – Suiciety
Ginn: Black Tape for a Blue Girl – Remnants of a Deeper Purity Disco Inferno – The 5 EPs Hades – The Dawn of a Dying Sun Saint Vitus – Saint Vitus (1984) Guided By Voices – Alien Lanes Samael – Ceremony of Opposites Virus – The Agent That Shapes the Desert Bowery Electric – Bowery Electric In the Woods… – Strange in Stereo Lush – Split
Listening with mind open and eyes closed: Wagner: City Boy – City Boy Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean Chroma Key – Colorblind, “Landslide,” “Strong” Joywave – How Do You Feel Now? Split Enz – Corroboree Anekdoten – A Time of Day Immortal – Blizzard Beasts Tool – Fear Inoculum Fates Warning – Awaken the Guardian Live, “Still Remains” Mayhem – Daemon (on my way to kill Teloch)
Ginn: Rotting Christ – Non Serviam Lilys – In the Presence of Nothing Idlewild – 100 Broken Windows Idlewild – “Love Steals Us from Loneliness” Septic Flesh – Esoptron Tape – Rideau Glassjaw – Everything You Wanted To Know about Silence Goblin – Buio Omega Ice – Bad Blood Labradford – Mi Media Naranja Anglagard – Hybris
Just trying to make sense of it all. This helps: Wagner: Lost Horizon – A Flame to the Ground Beneath Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath Opeth – In Cauda Venenum Fates Warning – Perfect Symmetry demos Immortal – Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism Xysma – Fata Morgana 7″ Leprous – Pitfalls Bruford – Gradually Going Tornado Earth Electric – Vol. 1: Solar Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean No-Man – Schoolyard Ghosts Blut Aus Nord – Hallucinogen Testament – “Alone in the Dark” (2001 w/Steve Souza)
Ginn: Coil – The Ape of Naples The Birthday Party – Junkyard Impaled Nazarene – Decade of Decadence Ministry – The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste Even Johansen – Quiet and Still Mercyful Fate – “Evil” (R.I.P. Timi Hansen) Poison Idea – Feel the Darkness Abigor – Four Keys to a Foul Reich The Danse Society – Seduction Cluster – Sowiesoso Marduk – Dark Endless
Wagner: Xysma – Yeah Witchcraft – Firewood Motorhead – “Iron Fist”/”Remember Me, I’m Gone” 7″ Amebix – The Power Remains Amebix – Monolith Blut Aus Nord – Hallucinogen Heldon – Interface Buggles – Adventures in Modern Recording Pestilence – Dysentery 1987 demo Osanna – L’uomo Legend (US) – From the Fjords Judas Priest – “Turbo Lover” Burzum – Burzum Kayo Dot – “Whisper Ineffable”
Ginn: Samael – Worship Him Skryptor – Luminous Volumes Clan of Xymox – Clan of Xymox Quiet Sun – Mainstream Voivod – Killing Technology Lush – Split Secret Chiefs 3 – Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini Magma – Attahk Bent Knee – “Hold Me In” The Cure – The Head on the Door Mayhem – Daemon The Legendary Pink Dots – Any Day Now The Legendary Pink Dots – Hallway of the Gods
Wagner: Ihsahn – After Gaahls Wyrd – Gastir: Ghosts Invited Rush – A Farewell to Kings Fates Warning – Parallels Fates Warning – Inside Out Morrissey – Kill Uncle Therion – Of Darkness Mortem – Slow Death 7″ King Crimson – In the Wake of Poseidon Mr. Bungle – California Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean Acid Bath – Radio Edits Toby Driver – “Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)” Yes – “Parallels,” “Awaken,” Vevey (Revisited),” “Amazing Grace”
Ginn: Dismember – Indecent and Obscene Univers Zero – Uzed Sarcofago – I.N.R.I. Piano Magic – Low Birth Weight Dawn – Naer Solen Gar Nilper For Evogher Les Thugs – As Happy as Possible Mr. Bungle – California Gaahls Wyrd – Gastir: Ghosts Invited Peter Gabriel – Passion Morgoth – Cursed Sad Lovers & Giants – Epic Garden Music Merciless – The Awakening Picture – “Eternal Dark” (song)
Wagner: Jethro Tull – Aqualung (Steven Wilson remix) Opeth – In Cauda Venenum Tool – Fear Inoculum Heldon – Stand By Kyuss – Blues for the Red Sun Kyuss – Sky Valley Kayo Dot – Blasphemy Toby Driver – In the L…L…Library Loft Kreator – Coma of Souls Kreator – Extreme Aggression Armored Saint – Symbol of Salvation demos Hypocrisy – Abducted
Ginn: ‘O’Rang – Herd of Instinct Mayhem – advance singles from Daemon Richard Pinhas – Chronolyse Gang Starr – Daily Operation Mystifier -Goetia Eric B and Rakim -Follow the Leader Death Side – Wasted Dream Jawbox – For Your Own Special Sweetheart Sugar – “Needle Hits E” Kyuss – Sky Valley The Effigies – Ink Manes – Under ein Blodraud Manne Pestilence – Testimony of the Ancients
Wagner: Gaahls Wyrd – Gastir: Ghosts Invited Kayo Dot – Blasphemy, Hubardo, Coyote, “The Mortality of Doves” Toby Driver – They Are the Shield King Crimson – Red Nirvana – Bleach Pearl Jam – Riot Act Yes – Tormato Holocaust – Spirits Fly
Ginn: Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence Sonic Youth – Dirty Pyogenesis – Ignis Creatio Nation of Ulysses – 13-Point Program to Destroy America Incantation – Mortal Throne of Nazarene Solefald – Neonism Helmet – “Silver Hawaiian” Sugar – File Under: Easy Listening The Third Eye Foundation – Sound of Violence
Final listens, Summer 2019:
Wagner: Tchornobog – Tchornobog Ulver – Childhood’s End Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean Joywave – Content Styx – Equinox Roxy Music – Siren Plasmatics – Coup d’Etat Faith No More – Angel Dust Gaahls Wyrd – Gastir: Ghosts Invited OSI – Fire Make Thunder
Biscuit: Archers of Loaf – Icky Mettle Crack the Sky – Crack the Sky Deceased – The Blueprints For Madness Hot Snakes – Suicide Invoice Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes The Black – The Priest of Satan Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf Converge – Jane Doe The Bronx – “History’s Stranglers” Jesus Lizard, Melvins and Superchunk tracks from the Dope, Guns and Fucking in the Streets compilation
September ’19, week 1:
Wagner:
King Crimson – Beat
Blut Aus Nord – The Work Which Transforms God
Thom Yorke – Anima
Morrissey – Vauxhall and I
Hoelderlin – Hoelderlin
Naervaer – Naervaer 7″
De De Lind – Io Non So Da Dove…
Leprous – Pitfalls
Kiss – Alive II Side IV
Malice – License to Kill
A Forest of Stars – Beware the Sword You Cannot See
Ginn:
Vlad Tepes / Belketre – March to the Black Holocaust
Chavez – Gone Glimmering
Chavez – Ride the Fader
Sodom – Agent Orange
Finch – Glory of the Inner Force
Deftones – “Digital Bath”
Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
Craw – Lost Nation Road
Bettie Serveert – Palomine
hear, now: Wagner: Tool – Fear Inoculum Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean Leprous – Pitfalls Leprous – Tall Poppy Syndrome Circa Survive – Descensus Europe – Wings of Tomorrow
Ginn:
Quiet Sun – Mainstream
Slayer – Decade of Aggression
Japan – Exorcising Ghosts
Pelt – Pearls From the River
Skald – Agyl’s Saga
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
For Against – Echelons
Gang Starr – Hard to Earn
in trance:
Wagner:
Genesis – Selling England by the Pound Brand X – Livestock Samla Mammas Manna – Klossa Knapitatet The Residents – Meet the Residents Scorpions – In Trance Saga – Worlds Apart Hieronymus Bosch – The Human Abstract Phil Manzanera – Diamond Head Libra – Schock Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden Deathspell Omega – The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Ginn:
Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
Supuration – Sultry Obsession
Into Another – Seemless
Toxik – Think This
Amebix – Arise
Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork
Starkweather – Croatoan
Godley/Creme – L
Naked Raygun – All Rise
The Mission – Hurricane
mid-August:
Wagner: Frank Zappa – The Man From Utopia, Studio Tan, Baby Snakes Master’s Hammer – Vracejte Konve Na Misto Supuration – “Sojourn in the Absurd” Loudblast – Sublime Dementia Canvas Solaris – Chromosphere Thom Yorke – Anima Roxy Music – Avalon Boston – Boston Johannes Luley – Qitara Helstar – Nosferatu Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Ginn: His Name is Alive – Livonia Corrosion of Conformity – Technocracy Cocteau Twins – Victorialand Gastr Del Sol – The Serpentine Similar Alice In Chains – Facelift David Bowie – Heathen David Bowie – Blackstar Wool – Box Set Tad – Salt Lick Mr. Bungle – Mr. Bungle Bjork – Pagan Poetry single
The Blur of August:
Wagner: Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick Black Sabbath – Technical Ecstasy Spiral Architect – A Sceptic’s Universe Psychotic Waltz – Bleeding Kayo Dot – Blasphemy Camel – first two albums Magnum – Marauder Thom Yorke – Anima Roxy Music – Stranded Sadus – Illusions
Ginn: Henry Cow – Unrest Mayhem – Grand Declaration of War Mark Lanegan – Whiskey for the Holy Ghost Mark Lanegan – Blues Funeral Whirr – Sway Master’s Hammer – Vracejte Konve na Misto Scott Walker – Scott IV My Bloody Valentine – “Soon”
Can’t Get Enough:
Wagner: Bruford – One of a Kind Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Solar Fire Deathspell Omega – much of 2004-2019 Emperor – Wrath of the Tyrant 1992 demo Cirith Ungol – One Foot in Hell, most of Paradise Lost Split Enz – “Semi-Detached”, “Remember When” Camel – “Cloak and Dagger Man” lots of Devil Doll Ulver – Drone Activity Kayo Dot – Blasphemy
Ginn: Napalm Death – Fear, Emptiness, Despair Napalm Death – Diatribes Timeghoul – 1992-1994 Scratch Acid – Berserker Oval – 94 Diskont Tool – Undertow Fates Warning – “Don’t Follow Me” Thank You Scientist – Maps of Non-Existent Places Deathspell Omega – The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Keepin’ it unreal, mid-July 2019:
Wagner:
Kayo Dot – Blasphemy
Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here
Biglietto Per L’inferno – s/t
Rush – 2112
Voivod – “Bacteria”
Crack the Sky – Safety in Numbers
Therion – Time Shall Tell EP
Witchcraft – Witchcraft
Alcatrazz – No Parole from Rock ‘n’ Roll
Helloween – The Time of the Oath
Ginn:
Chrome – Half Machine Lip Moves
Satyricon – Rebel Extravaganza
Biglietto Per L’inferno – s/t
Human Clay – “Heaven on Earth”
Melvins – Bullhead
Altar de Fey – Echoes in the Corridor
Parish – demo 1993
Negative Approach – Total Recall
Paul Chain – Life & Death
early July ’19:
Wagner:
Iron Maiden – Killers
Van Der Graaf Generator – The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other
Neuschwanstein – Battlement
TV Toy – “Instant This, Instant That”
Everything Everything – A Fever Dream
Last Crack – Burning Time
Kiss – Alive!
Cirith Ungol – Witch’s Game 12″
Danzig – 4p
Deathspell Omega – The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Ginn:
Corte Dei Miracoli – s/t
Pest – Ara
Chavez – Gone Glimmering
Deathspell Omega – “1523”
Polvo – Today’s Active Lifestyles
Crematory – Denial
Dazzling Killmen – Face of Collapse
Fates Warning – Parallels
mid June ’19 II
Wagner: Deathspell Omega – The Furnaces of Palingenesia Voivod – Dimension Hatross Baroness – Gold & Grey Mahavishnu Orchestra – Visions of the Emerald Beyond Deftones – Deftones Cathedral – Statik Majik Pan-Thy-Monium – Dawn of Dreams Egoist – Ultra-Selfish Revolution Genesis – Nursery Cryme Aphrodite’s Child – 666 Heldon – Stand By
Ginn:
Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious Carcass – Heartwork
Handsome – Handsome
Memento Mori – Rhymes of Lunacy
Helmet – Aftertaste
Steve Reich – Octet
Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
GZA – Liquid Swords
Deathprod – Morals & Dogma
mid June ’19
Wagner:
Deathspell Omega – Kenose
DVC – Descendant Upheaval
Benediction – Dark is the Season
Incubus – Serpent Temptation (1988 original)
Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Tim Bowness – Abandoned Dancehall Dreams
Bruford – Feels Good to Me
TV Toy – 6 song live 1982
Voivod – Killing Technology
Genesis – Live (1973)
Aerosmith – Draw the Line
Kiss – Love Gun
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Cirith Ungol – King of the Dead
Ginn:
Dissection – Storm of the Light’s Bane
Childhood – Lacuna
Queensryche – Operation: Mindcrime
The Horrors – Luminious
Tim Bowness – Abandoned Dancehall Dreams
Helstar – Burning Star
Kent – Rod
then came the last days of May
Wagner:
Eucharist – Mirrorworlds
Anathema – The Optimist
Morbus Chron – Sweven
Pyogenesis – Sweet X-Rated Nothings
Stille Oppror – S.o2
Rainbow – Rising
The Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Ginn:
Mercyful Fate – Melissa
Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break the Oath
Saint Vitus – Saint Vitus (1984)
Marduk – Opus Nocturne
Bullet Lavolta – The Gift
Strapping Young Lad – City
Burzum – Burzum
Death – “Sacred Serenity”
more days of May…
Wagner:
Stille Oppror – S.o2
Arch Matheos – Winter Ethereal
Stargazer – A Merging to the Boundless
Roxy Music – Flesh and Blood
Melvins – “The Anti-Vermin Seed”
Hawkwind – In Search of Space
Ghost – Prequelle
Manes – 1993-1995 demos
Be Bop Deluxe – Modern Music
Kiss – Gene Simmons 1978 album, Dynasty
Ginn:
Abigor – Verwustung: Invoke the Dark Age, Opus IV
Mr. Bungle – Mr. Bungle
Carcass – Tools of the Trade EP
Mew – Frengers
Carbonized – Disharmonization
Satyricon – “Tied in Bronze Chains”
Joy Division – Closer
Sepultura – Beneath the Remains
Virus – Oblivion Clock EP
Takara – Eternal Faith
week of May 6th…
Wagner: Watchtower – Concepts of Math: Book One Manilla Road – The Courts of Chaos Gigan – Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery and Super Science Melvins – Hostile Ambient Takeover Dax Riggs – Say Goodnight to the World Happy the Man – Beginnings In the Woods… – “Omnio” track Peter Hammill – “A Better Time (Acapella)”
Ginn: Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium Funebrarum – Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods Extol – Extol Repulsion – Horrified Diabolical Masquerade – “Haunted by Horror” Napalm Death – Harmony Corruption Taake – “Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik VII” Peter Gabriel – Security
Then Came The First Days of May…
Wagner:
Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity (custom perfect 8-song version)
Mekong Delta – Visions Fugitives
Steven Wilson – Hand Cannot Erase
Genesis – “Twilight Alehouse”
Pearl Jam – “Dead Man”
Enya – “On Your Shore”
Ginn:
Catacomb – The Lurker at the Threshold / In the Maze of Kadath
Magnum – Kingdom of Madness
Carnivore – Retaliation
Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine
Mercyful Fate – In the Shadows
Forbidden – “Forbidden Evil” (song)
late April
Wagner: The Cure – 4:13 Dream King Crimson – Discipline Eela Craig – “Circles” The Residents – various weirdness Magma – Udu Wudu Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells Holy Terror – Mind Wars Mekong Delta – The Principle of Doubt Witch Cross – Fit for Fight
Ginn: Unleashed – Shadows in the Deep Novalis – Sommerabend Himinbjorg – Haunted Shores As Serenity Fades – Earthborn Gorgoroth – Incipit Satan Gamma Ray – Land of the Free Minus the Bear – Voids Seefeel – “Time to Find Me (AFX Slow mix)” Today Is the Day – Supernova
mid April
Wagner: In the Woods – Omnio Drawn – A New World? Kiss – Destroyer Manowar – Sign of the Hammer Rush – Caress of Steel, A Farewell to Kings Peter Hammill – Nadir’s Big Chance Pestilence – Testimony of the Ancients Trelldom – Till et Annet… Manitou – Entrance Blue Oyster Cult – “Perfect Water”
Ginn: Liers in Wait – Spiritually Uncontrolled Art Rob – Maniac OST Hawkwind – PXR5 Obituary – The End Complete Glenn Hughes – From Now On… Cave In – “All Illusion” Deathrow – Raging Steel Current 93 – Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre Root – Hell Symphony Cadaver – Hallucinating Anxiety
early April
Wagner: Kayo Dot – Coffins on Io Canvas Solaris – The Atomized Dream Duran Duran – Seven and the Ragged Tiger, “Late Bar” Genesis – Foxtrot Baroness – Purple Root – The Book Anathema – “Everything”
Ginn: Carcass – Heartwork Abigor – Verwustung – Invoke the Dark Age For Against – Coalesced Immortal – Pure Holocaust King Crimson – Lizard Cemetary – An Evil Shade of Grey Stillborn – “Albino Flogged in Black”
late March
Wagner:
Nomeansno – Mama, “Some Bodies”
Slayer – Haunting the Chapel
The Fixx – “Deeper and Deeper”
King Crimson – Three of a Perfect Pair
Tim Bowness – Flowers at the Scene
Cave In – Jupiter
Discipline – Captives of the Wine Dark Sea
The Residents – Fingerprince, “Kaw-Liga”
Ginn:
King Diamond – Them
Aeternus – …And So the Night Became
Idlewild – B-sides from The Remote Part
Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness
The Afghan Whigs – Congregation
December Wolves – Completely Dehumanized
Mysticum – In the Streams of Inferno
Sindrome – Resurrection: The Complete Collection
mid March
Wagner: Borknagar – The Olden Domain Blue Oyster Cult – Cultosaurus Erectus Hammers of Misfortune – The August Engine Wobbler – Rites at Dawn Osbourne/Rhoads/Daisley/Kerslake aka Blizzard of Ozz – “Over the Mountain” Opeth – Heritage Paraxism – 1993 promo Naervaer – “En Som” No-Man – Schoolyard Ghosts Nirvana – Bleach
Ginn: Laika – Silver Apples of the Moon Melvins – Stoner Witch Van Der Graaf Generator – “White Hammer” Timeghoul – 1992-1994 Discography Red House Painters – self-titled 1 Trial of the Bow – Ornamentation The Obsessed – The Church Within Satyricon – “Tied in Bronze Chains” Raison D’etre – Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations Dead Can Dance – Spleen and Ideal
early March
Wagner:
In The Woods… – Strange in Stereo
Fleurety – Min Tid Skal Komme
Delirium – III
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
The Michael Schenker Group – choice slabs from first 4 albums
Fates Warning – Theories of Flight
Max Webster – High Class in Borrowed Shoes
Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Ginn:
Sinister – Cross the Styx
Sinister – Diabolical Summoning
Muslimgauze – Citadel
Helstar – A Distant Thunder
Diamanda Galas – Vena Cava
Fleurety – Inquietum
Univers Zero – Ceux du Dehors
Death – Scream Bloody Gore
late February
Wagner: Anathema – Eternity A Forest of Stars – A Shadowplay for Yesterdays Bill Ward – Ward One: Along the Way Death – Human Hallows Eve – Death and Insanity Fear Factory – Soul of a New Machine Bruce Dickinson – Accident of Birth David Bowie – “Aladdin Sane,” “Time,” “Prettiest Star,” “Lady Grinning Soul” Roxy Music – Country Life Friendship Time – s/t Herbie Hancock – live in Greensboro NC 2/12/19 (Vinnie Colaiuta holy shit!)
Ginn:
Aborym – Kali Yuga Bizarre
Dark Tranquillity – Of Chaos and Eternal Night
Bohren & der Club of Gore – Black Earth
Misfits – Earth A.D.
Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Babatunde Olatunji – Drums of Passion
Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses
The Bug – Tapping the Conversation
Primordial – A Journey’s End
Virus – The Agent that Shapes the Desert
Morgion – Solinari
mid February
Wagner: Agent Steel – Unstoppable Force Van Der Graaf Generator – Still Life Eddie Jobson/Zinc – The Green Album Master’s Hammer – Fascinator Opeth – Still Life I Left the Planet – s/t EP A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes Kayo Dot – Gamma Knife Brand X – “Modern, Noisy and Effective”
Ginn: Nomeansno – 0+2=1 Moose – XYZ Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness Rival Schools – unreleased 2nd album Hypocrisy – The Fourth Dimension Saccharine Trust – Paganicons Failure – Fantastic Planet Manowar – “Guyana (Cult of the Damned)”
early February Wagner: Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro Judas Priest – Sin After Sin Starbreaker – Dysphoria Macabre (Pentagram) – “Be Forewarned” / “Lazy Lady” 7″ David Bowie – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) Wishbone Ash – Just Testing Talk Talk – It’s My Life Maxophone – Maxophone
Ginn: Swallow – Blow Destruction – Eternal Devastation Gehenna – First Spell Depresy – Sighting To Rococo Rot – “Parabola” track The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein
late January:
Wagner:
Coroner – Mental Vortex
Halford – Live Insurrection
Master’s Hammer – first two albums
Todd Rundgren – “The International Feel (in 8)”
Le Orme – Felona E Serona
Jellyfish – Bellybutton
The Beatles – Let it Be
Ginn:
Mystifier – Goetia
Accept – Restless and Wild
Minus the Bear – Fair Enough EP
Skyclad – The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth
Satan – Suspended Sentence
Aeternus — …And So the Night Became
mid January: Wagner: Eddie Jobson/Zinc – The Green Album Tim Bowness – Flowers at the Scene A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes In the Woods… – Live at the Caledonien Hall Dredg – The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion Godley/Creme – Freeze Frame King Crimson – Lizard
Ginn:
Thule – Natt
Wipers – Is This Real?
Arachnoid – Arachnoid
Peter Hammill – “A Louse Is Not a Home” track
Holy Terror – Mind Wars
Mekong Delta – Dances of Death (and Other Walking Shadows)
Suffocation – Effigy of the Forgotten
early January:
Wagner: Master’s Hammer – Ritual Grobschnitt – Rockpommel’s Land Rush – Fly By Night Earth Electric – Vol. 1: Solar Pestilence – Consuming Impulse Scorpions – In Trance The Fixx – Reach the Beach Spock’s Beard – X
Ginn: Cocteau Twins – Victorialand Holy Terror – Terror and Submission The Cramps – Songs the Lord Taught Us Mew – Visuals Forbidden – Twisted Into Form Arcadia – So Red the Rose Samael – Ceremony of Opposites The Tea Party – Edges of Twilight
