
17 May Recent Listening @ Radical Research HQ – PLAYLISTS
Free Falls into the Vortex…
Jeff:
Zappa – Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses
Fates Warning – A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Mekong Delta – “Imagination,” “The Healer”
Horrendous – Anareta
Aera – Humanum Est
Aera – Hand und Fuss
Neoandertals – Neanderthals Were Master Butchers
Deathspell Omega – “Enantiodromia”
Dodheimsgard – Black Medium Current
Anekdoten – “Our Days are Numbered”
Tony Driver – Madonnawhore
Tim Bowness – “Ghostlike”
+ Voivod live twice & absolutely destroying
Hunter:
Carpathian Forest – Black Shining Leather
Hittman – Hittman
Obliveon – From This Day Forward
Afghan Whigs – Congregation
Beherit – Electric Doom Synthesis
Scott Walker – “Corps de Blah,” “SDSS1416 (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)”
W.A.S.P. – W.A.S.P.
Arcadia – So Red the Rose
Queens of the Stone Age – “Emotion Sickness”
Mercyless – Abject Offerings
Radiohead – Amnesiac
Suffocation – Effigy of the Forgotten
Anekdoten – Vemod
Mr. Bungle – Mr. Bungle
Wipers – “Doom Town”
Sepultura – Schizophrenia
Soundgarden – various tracks from Echo of Miles
Metallica – Kill ’em All
Dawnbringer – Unbleed
Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog
Oz – Fire in the Brain
Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses
Mekong Delta – Visions Fugitives


Wagner:
Terra Odium – Ne Plus Ultra
Enslaved – Heimdal
Neoandertals – Neanderthals Were Master Butchers
Queensryche – Promised Land
Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
Scorpions – Fly to the Rainbow
SBB – “Ze Slowem Biegne do Ciebie”
Transit Express – Couleurs Naturelles
Morrissey – Viva Hate
Joywave – various live joy
Brad Mehldau – Jacob’s Ladder
Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
The Meads of Asphodel – Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua
Ginn:
Beach House – Bloom
Beach House – Teen Dream
Mogwai – Young Team
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol – Antics
Dismember – Indecent and Obscene
Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
Thief – The 16 Deaths of My Master
Queensryche – Rage for Order
Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum
Aktor – Placebo
Brad Mehldau – Jacob’s Ladder
Ice Cube – Death Certificate
Chelsea Wolfe – Apokalypsis
Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
Laster – Het Wassen Oog
Popul Vuh – Nosferatu
Nightfall – Athenian Echoes
Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
Carcass – Tools of the Trade


Wagner:
Dodheimsgard – Black Medium Current
Darkthrone – Soulside Journey
Hellhammer – Apocalyptic Raids
The Meads of Asphodel – The Excommunication of Christ
Lifelover – Pulver
Joywave – choice nugs
Rush – “Digital Man”
Strawbs – “Ghosts” (song)
Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle
Fear Factory – “Self Bias Resistor”
Napalm Death – Mentally Murdered EP
Black Sabbath – The Eternal Idol – Ray Gillen demos
Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
Cardiacs – Sing to God
Enslaved – Heimdal
Incantation – “Emaciated Holy Figure”
Genesis – “Evidence of Autumn”
Ginn:
Sacramentum – Far Away from the Sun
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Helmet – Meantime
Ozzy Osbourne – The Ultimate Sin
Pest – Ara
Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
The Wildhearts – P.H.U.Q.
Danzig – III: How the Gods Kill
Blind Guardian – Imaginations from the Other Side
Gorguts – Considered Dead
Edge of Sanity – Until Eternity Ends


Wagner:
Joywave – Content
Circus – Movin’ On
Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
Afflicted – all demo/7” 1990-1992
Afflicted – Dawn of Glory
Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break the Oath
Omen – The Curse
Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat
Enslaved – Heimdal
David Bowie – “Lazarus”
Joywave – Live
Ginn:
Paysage D’Hiver – Das Tor
Savatage – Sirens
Dax Riggs – “Night Is the Notion,” “Ghost Movement,” “Forgot I Was Alive”
Isis – Panopticon
Cradle of Filth – Vempire EP
Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger, “She Likes Surprises”
Enslaved – “Sacred Horse,” “The River’s Mouth”
Cave In – Jupiter (side 2)
Lunar Aurora – Hoagascht
Exciter – Long Live the Loud
Dodheimsgard – “Det Tomme Kalde Morke”
Coil – Horse Rotorvator
Monumentum – In Absentia Christi
Black Flag – Damaged
Katatonia – For Funerals to Come
Jag Panzer – The Fourth Judgement
Swans – “Paradise Is Mine”
Destroyer 666 – Phoenix Rising
Purity Ring – “Crawlersout,” “Ungirthed”
Mercyful Fate – “Doomed by the Living Dead,” “A Corpse Without Soul”
Negura Bunget – OM
Amorphis – Elegy
Omen – The Curse
Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact


Wagner:
Kvist – For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike
Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta: Saturnian Poetry
Anathema – “They (Will Always) Die”
Terra Odium – Ne Plus Ultra
Psychotic Waltz – “I Remember”/“Only in a Dream” 7”
Loudness – Live Loud Alive
The Meads of Asphodel – “Book of Dreams,” “Like Blood Shaped Flakes of Snow”
Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
Split Enz – “Give it a Whirl”
Anyone’s Daughter – “Out of this World”
Arch/Matheos – Winter Ethereal
Paradise Lost – 1988/89 demos
Xysma – No Place Like Alone
Joywave – Possession
Ginn:
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Anathema – Eternity
Ministry – Filth Pig
Sylvian/Sakamoto – “Forbidden Colours”
David Sylvian – “Forbidden Colours (Version)”
Vemod – Venter Pa Stormene
Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris
Misthyrming – Algleymi
Destroyer 666 – Cold Steel for an Iron Age
Monster Magnet – Powertrip
Himinbjorg – Haunted Shores
Grimes – Visions
Tribulation – The Children of the Night
AC/DC – Flick of the Switch, “Evil Walks”
Mogwai – Come on Die Young
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Blues X Man,” “Full Grown”
Darkspace – III I
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Alcest – Kodama
Motörhead – “Keep Us on the Road,” “Metropolis,” “Built for Speed”
Beach House – Depression Cherry
Beach House – Teen Dream


Wagner:
Suffocation – Effigy of the Forgotten
Psychotic Waltz – Mosquito
Egoist – “Flora”
Ulver – “Exodus”
The Meads of Asphodel – Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua
The Meads of Asphodel – “On the Surface”
The Meads of Asphodel – The Murder of Jesus the Jew
Grave – all demos 1989-91
Rottrevore – all tractor pull reverberations 1990-92
Anthony Phillips – The Geese & the Ghost
Styx – The Same Stardust EP
The Mars Volta – “Cicatriz ESP”
Mr. Bungle – “Existential Blues / Pencil Neck Geek” live 1/13/91 Berkeley, CA
Blind Illusion – demos 1980-1986
Gorguts – Colored Sands
Enslaved – Utgard
Ginn:
Grinderman – 2
Le Orme – Felona e Serona
Outkast – Stankonia
Majesties – Vast Reaches Unclaimed
T. Jarva & The Dark Place – “Venus Is High,” “Calamity”
The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
Ice Cube – Death Certificate
Morbid Angel – Domination
Avalanches – remixes on deluxe edition of Since I Left You
SPK – Leichenschrei
Germ – Escape
Xysma – No Place Like Alone
V/A – Run The Road, Vol. 1
Koenjiyhakkei – Nivraym
My Dying Bride – Turn Loose the Swans
Queens of the Stone Age – enough to choke the people inside a Trojan Horse
Garden of Shadows – Heart of the Corona
De La Soul – Buhloone Mindstate


Jeff:
Uriah Heep – Demons and Wizards
Lifelover – Pulver
Putrefaction – Painful Death 1989 demo
Bulldozer – 1984 demo
Blue Oyster Cult – “Unknown Tongue”
Psychotic Waltz – “My Grave”
Voivod – “The End of Dormancy”
Sparks – A Woofer in Tweeter’s Clothing
The Faint – Danse Macabre
Band of Horses – “Our Swords”
Type O Negative – World Coming Down
Disillusion – Gloria
The Meads of Asphodel – Sonderkommando
The Meads of Asphodel – Damascus Steel
The Meads of Asphodel – The Excommunication of Christ
Deathspell Omega – The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Hunter (“Let the music do the talking”) Ginn:
Todtgelichter – Angst
Majesties – Vast Reaches Unclaimed
Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
Memento Mori – Vol. 4: Songs for the Apocalypse
Trial of the Bow – “Serpent”
Alcest – Les Voyages de L’ame
Necrodeath – Mater of All Evil
Volahn – Aq’ab’al
Depresy – A Grand Magnificence
Pharaoh – The Longest Night
Dodheimsgard – “Abyss Parahelion Transit”
Nocturnal Rites – Afterlife
Fall of the Leafe – Evanescent, Everfading
Disillusion – Back to Times of Splendor
Disillusion – Gloria
Without Grief – Deflower
Dissection – “The Somberlain” (song)
Amorphis – Elegy
Katatonia – Viva Emptiness
Dark Tranquillity – Of Chaos and Eternal Night
W.A.S.P. – “Crimson Idol Medley” (live)


Wagner:
Dodheimsgard – Monumental Possession
Ansur – “An Exercise in Depth of Field”
Maudlin of the Well – “The Curve that to an Angle Turn’d”
Gorguts – From Wisdom to Hate
Gary Numan – “Betrayed”
FM – Black Noise
FM – City of Fear
The Police – “Does Everyone Stare”
Styx – The Grand Illusion
Enslaved – Heimdal
Kvist – For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike
Arcturus – Constellation
The Meads of Asphodel – Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua
The Meads of Asphodel – Running Out of Time Doing Nothing
Megadeth – Killing is My Business… and Business is Good
Ginn:
Red Temple Spirits – Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon
Kayo Dot – Plastic House on Base of Sky
Poison Idea – Feel the Darkness
Nastrond – Toteslaut
Guns N’ Roses – “Think About You,” “You’re Crazy”
Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
Vehementer Nos – Vehementer Nos
Faith No More – “The World Is Yours,” “Absolute Zero”
Pyogenesis – Twinaleblood
Gorguts – Considered Dead
Skinny Puppy – The Process
Disillusion – Gloria
Hum – Inlet
Kultivator – Barndomens
Rumours – Neither Innocent nor Wavering


Jeff:
Die Kreuzen – Cement
Brad Mehldau – Jacob’s Ladder
Joywave – Cleanse
Enslaved – Heimdal
Dark Angel – Darkness Descends
Armored Saint – Delirious Nomad
The Meads of Asphodel – Sonderkommando
The Meads of Asphodel – “Infidel”
Tjolgtjar – “A Goat in the Wood,” “Winter Research”
Blut Aus Nord – Deus Salutis Meae
Heldon – “Stand By” (song)
Crosses – Permanent Radiant
Hunter:
Paraxism – Promo 1995
Epitaph – Disorientation 1991 demo
Black Sabbath – Sabotage
Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
Fates Warning – Awaken the Guardian
Crosses – Permanent Radiant
Lush – “Desire Lines”
God Dethroned – Bloody Blasphemy
Realm – Suiciety
Ulver – “Om Hanumate Namah,” “Desert/Dawn”
Cave In – Antenna
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual (side 2)
Scanner – Hypertrace
Weakling – Dead As Dreams
Palms – Palms
Mind Over Four – Halfway Down
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro
Isis – “Hall of the Dead,” “Threshold of Transformation”
Primus – Frizzle Fry
Bjork – “Cocoon,” “Undo,” “Pagan Poetry”
Swans – To Be Kind (album 2)
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Asphyx – The Rack
Paradise Lost – Host
Lantlos – “Lake Fantasy”
Battles – Mirrored
Sa-Ra Creative Partners – “Thrilla”
Only Living Witness – Innocents
Blind Guardian – “Under the Ice,” “Punishment Divine”


Wagner:
The Meads of Asphodel – Running Out of Time Doing Nothing
The Meads of Asphodel – The Excommunication of Christ
The Meads of Asphodel / Tjolgtjar – Taste the Divine Wrath split
Eucharist – “The View” & 1992 demo
Armageddon – Crossing the Rubicon
Styx – “Snowblind” (live 2001)
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field
Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork
Asia Minor – Between Flesh and Divine
Nova – Blink
Frank Zappa – You Are What You Is
Ginn:
Swans – To Be Kind
Fates Warning – “The Apparition,” “Epitaph”
Handsome – Handsome
Autopsy – Shitfun
The Mars Volta – “Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore”
Pyogenesis – Love Nation Sugarhead EP
Slayer – South of Heaven
Firewater – Get Off the Cross…We Need the Wood for the Fire
Death – Individual Thought Patterns
Black Sabbath – Sabotage
Coroner – No More Color
Bad Religion – “Only Entertainment”
Riot – Fire Down Under
Enslaved – Blodhemn


Jeff:
Steve Hackett – Voyage of the Acolyte
Brad Mehldau – Jacob’s Ladder
Nova – Blink
Blut Aus Nord – Deus Salutis Meae
Scorpions – Lonesome Crow
Voivod – Dimension Hatross
The Meads of Asphodel – Running Out of Time Doing Nothing
The Meads of Asphodel – Sonderkommando
Sadus – Swallowed in Black
Type O Negative – Slow, Deep and Hard
Bauhaus – The Sky’s Gone Out
Deftones – “Rosemary”
Hunter:
Coil – The Ape of Naples
Hades Almighty – Pyre Era, Black
Gamma Ray – Insanity & Genius
Swans – Soundtracks for the Blind
Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
Enslaved – Monumension
Enslaved – E
Death In June – Take Care and Control
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
Rage – Trapped!
Nurse with Wound – “Astral Dustbin Dirge”
Slowdive – Souvlaki
The Ruins of Beverast – Exuvia
Purity Ring – Shrines
Ulver – Themes From William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (disc 1)
My Vitriol – Finelines
Current 93 – Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre
Fear of Men – Fall Forever
Summoning – Nightshade Forests
Smiths – Strangeways, Here We Come
Morrissey – Bona Drag
Bruce Dickinson – The Chemical Wedding


Jeff:
Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field
Kansas – “Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel)”, “Death of Mother Nature Suite”
Melvins – Bad Mood Rising
Anthony Phillips – 1984
Brad Mehldau – Jacob’s Ladder
Styx – Crystal Ball
Blue Oyster Cult – Tyranny and Mutation
Destruction – Bestial Invasion of Hell ‘84 demo
Eucharist – “The View” + demo 1 (1992)
Deftones – Saturday Night Wrist
Cardiacs – On Land and In the Sea
Opeth – Sorceress
Opeth – Watershed
Hunter:
Cindytalk – Camouflage Heart
Arcturus – The Sham Mirrors
Woven Hand – Woven Hand
Primal Scream – Xterminator
Gehenna – First Spell
Madvillain – Madvillainy
Roy Montgomery – “Just Melancholy”
Cynic – Focus
Death In June – The World That Summer
Steve Hackett – Please Don’t Touch
God Is an Astronaut – A Moment of Stillness EP
Miles Davis – Agharta (LP 1)
Crosses – Crosses
Alcest – Shelter


Jeff:
Porcupine Tree – Stupid Dream
Soft Machine – Bundles
Henry Cow – live 1973 (Greasy Truckers tracks)
Ewigkeit – Radio Ixtlan
Kiss – Destroyer
Chrome – Into the Eyes of the Zombie King
Anthony Phillips – Sides
Dredg – “Sorry but it’s Over”
TNT – Tell No Tales
Judas Priest – “Diamonds and Rust”
Voivod – “Rise,” “The Tower,” “Divine Sun”
Xysma – “Until I Reach the Unattainable”
Ihsahn – Telemark (minus covers)
Hunter:
Malokarpatan – Stridzie Dni
Ulver – Perdition City
Ulver – Shadows of the Sun
Present – Le Poison Qui Fou
Minas Tirith – Demons Are Forever
Coil – “Windowpane”
King Diamond – Conspiracy
Jesse Sykes & the Great Hereafter – Reckless Burning
MF Doom – MM…Food
Nihilist – Only Shreds Remain demo
Horacee Arnold – “Puppet of the Seasons,” “Sing Nightjar”
ZZ Top – Tejas
Death – Human
King Crimson – The Power to Believe
Bad Brains – “She’s Calling You”
Rotting Christ – Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
Cypress Hill – III: Temples of Boom
Ozzy Osbourne – Diary of a Madman
Laika – Silver Apples of the Moon
Magma – “Kohntarkosz” (BBC 1974 version)


Jeff:
Brad Mehldau – Jacob’s Ladder
Mats/Morgan – The Teenage Tapes
Seven Impale – Beginning/Relieve
The Residents – Duck Stab
Motörhead – “Lost Johnny”
10cc – “The Second Sitting for the Last Supper”
Queen – “Dragon Attack”
Loudness – The Law of Devil’s Land
Mercyful Fate – 1982 s/t EP
Mercyful Fate – March ‘83 Friday Rock Show BBC session
Mercyful Fate – Melissa
Omen – Warning of Danger
Helloween – “Someone’s Crying”
Sloche – J’un Oeil
Sloche – Stadacone
Puscifer – “The Remedy”
Paraxism – “Standing”
Obituary – “Don’t Care”
Osanna & David Jackson – Prog Family
Rush – “The Spirit of Radio”
Hunter:
Alchemist – Austral Alien
Cathedral – Forest of Equillibrium
Glassjaw – Our Color Green EP
Amorphis – “The Way”
Dodheimsgard – Kronet til Konge
Helmet – Born Annoying EP
Sentenced – “The Glow of 1000 Suns”/ “Amok Run” 7″
The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet
Candlemass – From the 13th Sun
Rush – Moving Pictures (side 2), “Different Strings,” “Afterimage”
Deicide – Deicide
Katatonia – Brave Murder Day
Godflesh – Cold World EP
Soundgarden – “Bones of Birds,” “Taree”
Meshuggah – Immutable
Sacramentum – The Coming of Chaos
Death – “Bite the Pain,” “Story to Tell”
Queensryche – Operation: Mindcrime
Ladytron – “Destroy Everything You Touch,” “International Date Line”


Jeff:
Brad Mehldau – Jacob’s Ladder
Akercocke – Renaissance in Extremis
Soft Machine – Bundles
Nova – Blink
Anthony Phillips – 1984
National Health – “Dreams Wide Awake”
The Faint – “Violent”
Opeth – In Cauda Venenum (Swedish version)
Voivod – Killing Technology
Sloche – Stadacone
Pavor – Furioso
Melvins – Bad Mood Rising
Metal Church – first side of first album
Die Kreuzen – “Hide and Seek”
The Residents – Fingerprince
Bauhaus – The Sky’s Gone Out
Hunter:
NoMeansNo – 0+2=1
Mourning Sign – Alienor
Ghostface Killa – Supreme Clientele
The Jesus Lizard – Lash
Destruction – “Sign of Fear”
Rainbow – Rising
Eisenvater – III
Secret Chiefs 3 – Hurqalya: 2nd Grand Constitution & Bylaws
Michael Schenker Group – Assault Attack
Gang Gang Dance – “Chinese High,” “Adult Goth”
Immortal – Blizzard Beasts
New Kingdom – Paradise Don’t Come Cheap
A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
Dissection – The Somberlain
Genesis – And Then There Were Three
Shining – “The Madness and the Damage Done”
Medicine – Shot Through Self Living
Paraxism – Selected Works
Thin Lizzy – “Gonna Creep Up On You,” “Got to Give it Up,” “Holy Wars”
Gehenna – Seen Through Veils of Darkness
My Vitriol – Finelines
Techno Animal – Brotherhood of the Bomb
Entombed – Wolverine Blues
M.I.A – After the Fact
Starbreaker – Starbreaker
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine, “Clip the Apex…Accept Instruction”
Edan – The Beauty & the Beat
Insides – Euphoria
Judas Priest – “(Take These) Chains,” “Desert Plains”
Drudkh – Handful of Stars
Gravediggaz – 6 Feet Deep
Frantic Bleep – The Sense Apparatus
Darkthrone – Panzerfaust
Talisman – “So Long”


Wagner:
Mats/Morgan – The Teenage Tapes
Virus – Investigator 7”
King Diamond – “At the Graves”
Abigor – Verwustung / Invoke the Dark Age
The Residents – Duck Stab
Chrome – Into the Eyes of the Zombie King
Gorgoroth – Under the Sign of Hell
Venom – Possessed
Dredg – Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy
Anthony Phillips – Sides
Al Di Meola – Elegant Gypsy
Sloche – J’un Oeil
Bauhaus – The Sky’s Gone Out
Happy Family – Happy Family
Ginn:
Beyond Dawn – Frysh
Fleurety – Last-Minute Lies
Forbidden – Disillusions demo (1992), Distortion demo (1993)
Ripping Corpse – Dreaming with the Dead
Digable Planets – Blowout Comb
Rush – Grace Under Pressure
Bjork – Telegram
Flower Travellin’ Band – Satori
PFM – L’Isola di Niente
Jag Panzer – Mechanized Warfare
Macabre – Sinister Slaughter
Human Remains – Using Sickness as a Hero


Wagner:
Asia Minor – Between Flesh and Divine
Chrome – Blood on the Moon
Radiohead – “True Love Waits”
Everything Everything – “Supernormal”
Toby Driver – “Boys on the Hill”
Autopsy – Fiend for Blood
Abigor – Totschlager: A Saintslayer’s Songbook
Al Di Meola – Elegant Gypsy
Ginn:
Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Gorguts – “Clouded”
Crawl – Earth
Faith No More – Album of the Year
Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny
David Bowie – “Red Sails”
Satyricon – Nemesis Divina
The Obsessed – “Peckerwood Stomp”
Traun – The Lilac Moon (2017)
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
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!!!
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
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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
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!
Pentagram – Be Forewarned
Abigor – Hollenzwang: Chronicles of Perdition
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muukalainen Puhuu
Pyogenesis – “Love Nation Sugarhead” (orig. song + 5 remixes), “Silver Experience”
Mingo Lewis – “The Wizard”
Al Di Meola – Land of the Midnight Sun
Rainer Landfermann – Mein Wort in Deiner Dunkelheit
Le Orme – Contrappunti
Anthony Phillips – Wise After the Event
Ginn:
Lion’s Share – Fall From Grace
Lion’s Share – II
Celtic Frost – “Dawn of Megiddo”
Beherit – Electric Doom Synthesis
Khan – “Space Shanty” (song)
Dismember – Death Metal
Emperor – “Depraved”
Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger
In Flames – Clayman
LL Cool J – “Droppin’ ‘Em”
Carpathian Forest – Black Shining Leather
Monster Magnet – “Elephant Bell”
Iommi/Hughes – Eighth Star bootleg
Naglfar – Diabolical
Ministry – In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up


Wagner:
Sentenced – North From Here
Sigh – Shiki
Fair to Midland – “Quince”
Ghost – “Spillways”
Type O Negative – “Who Will Save the Sane?”
Talk Talk – “It’s Getting Late in the Evening”
Split Enz – various songs 1980-84
Bjork – Fossora
Cardiacs – “Leaf Scrapings”
Krokus – Krokus (the vaguely-proggy 1976 debut)
Steve Hackett – “Tigermoth”
Cathedral (US) – Stained Glass Stories
Mercy – Witchburner
Accept – Breaker
Bulldozer – The Day of Wrath
Abigor – Verwustung / Invoke the Dark Age
Bethlehem – Dictius te Necare
Ginn:
Solitude Aeturnus – Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Bark Psychosis – Hex
Museo Rosenbach – Zarathustra
Old Funeral – “Forced to Be Lost”
Hawkwind – Church of Hawkwind
Sentenced – Journey to Pohjola 1992 demo
Kiss – “100,000 Years,” “Parasite,” “Watchin’ You”
Joy Division – Closer (esp. “The Eternal”)
Cardiacs – Special Garage Concerts Vol I & II
Goblin – Profondo Rosso
The Men – Open Your Heart
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Juju
D Generation – Through the Darkness
Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
Mr. Bungle – “Desert Search for Techno Allah,” “Violenza Domestica”


Wagner:
Portal – Vexovoid
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
Manilla Road – The Courts of Chaos
Lucifer’s Friend – Where the Groupies Killed the Blues
Bethlehem- Schatten aus Der Alexander Welt (Das Grauen & Der Dorsch CDs)
Voivod – Angel Rat demos (cool, but NOT better than the album, as the bassist claims)
Split Enz – various songs 1975-78
Goatlord – Reflections of the Solstice
Abigor – Totschlager: A Saintslayer’s Songbook
Matthew Parmenter – Horror Express
Ginn:
Absu – In the Eyes of Ioldanach EP
Peepshows – Mondo Deluxe
Blue Oyster Cult – “I Love the Night,” “7 Screaming Diz-Busters,” “Teen Archer,” “The Revenge of Vera Gemini,” “Tattoo Vampire”
Ministry – “Just One Fix”
Loudness – Devil Soldier
Edge of Sanity – Crimson
Kiss – Creatures of the Night, Lick it Up
Isis – Oceanic
Riot – Inishmore
Le Orme – Felona e Sorona
Clipse – “When the Last Time,” “Grindin’,” “Momma I’m So Sorry”
Target – Master Project Genesis (side 1)
Monster Magnet – “Bummer”
Lost Horizon – “Cry of a Restless Soul,” “Think Not Forever,” “Highlander (The One)”
Dawn – The Eternal Forest – Demo Years ’91-’93
Gang Gang Dance – “Vacuum”
Morbid Angel – Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Unholy – “Languish for Bliss,” “Covetous Glance”
N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton
Slayer – “Silent Scream,” “Ghosts of War,” “War Ensemble”
Mark Korvan – The Witch OST
Hemlock – Funeral Mask


Wagner:
Die Kreuzen – Century Days
Rainer Landfermann – Mein Wort in Deiner Dunkelheit
Voivod – Synchro Anarchy, “We Are Connected”
Sigh – Shiki
Kayo Dot – “The Mortality of Doves”
Autopsy- Shitfun
Frank Zappa – Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Hawkwind – “Free Fall”
The Beatles- “I’m Only Sleeping”
Flotsam and Jetsam – Doomsday for the Deceiver
Primus – Conspiranoid
Omega – 200 Years After the Last War
Gorgoroth – Antichrist
Archgoat – “Grand Marshal of the Black Tower”
Sigh – In Somniphobia
lots of Dax Riggs/Deadboy 2003/04
Ginn:
Morbid Angel – Covenant
Sonic Youth – Bad Moon Rising
Brian Eno – Discreet Music
Ice Cube – Amerikkka’s Most Wanted
David Sylvian – “Promise (The Cult of Eurydice)”
Incantation – Diabolical Conquest
Strid – Strid EP
Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Running Wild – Death or Glory
LL Cool J – Walking with a Panther (Side 1)
Deicide – Once Upon the Cross
Pain Teens – Stimulation Festival
Tad – Salt Lick
Brutal Truth – “Painted Clowns,” “Eggshells”
The Lord Weird Slough Feg – Traveller
Smiths – “I Know It’s Over,” “This Night Has Opened My Eyes,” “Half a Person”
3rd Bass – The Cactus Album
Cop Shoot Cop – White Noise
Dwarves – Blood, Guts, and Pussy


Wagner:
Bjork – Fossora
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions
Kayo Dot – Hubardo
Kayo Dot – Coffins on Io
Mats/Morgan Band – Live
Lucifer’s Friend – Where the Groupies Killed the Blues
The Mars Volta – “Equus 3”
The Cure – Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (minus two)
Frank Zappa – Sheik Yerbouti
Kansas – Audio-Visions
Armored Saint – March of the Saint
Ginn:
Borknagar – The Olden Domain
Slowdive – Pygmalion
Living Colour – Stain
Mr. Bungle – “Vanity Fair,” “Coldsore,” “Lemmy Caution”
Bethlehem – S.U.I.Z.I.D.
The Cure – Pornography
Master’s Hammer – Jilemnicky Okultista demo
Pulsar – Pollen
Blind Guardian – Somewhere Far Beyond
SPK – Zamia Lehmanni (Songs of Byzantine Flowers)
The Bug – Tapping the Conversation
Manowar – Into Glory Ride
Fantomas – Fantomas
Them – Themselves
Nile – Into the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Jag Panzer – The Age of Mastery
Enslaved – “Eld,” “Alfablot”
Tom Waits – “Goin’ Out West”
Skid Row – Subhuman Race
Wigrid – Hoffnungstad
Skin Yard – Skin Yard
Skin Yard – Hallowed Ground
Rush – Hold Your Fire
Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese


Top fuel blowers:
Wagner:
Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat
Kansas – various songs 1972-80
Brian Eno – Before and After Science
Raw Material – Time Is…
Abigor – Satanized
Savatage – Hall of the Mountain King
Axegrinder – Rise of the Serpent Men
Wartech – demos 93/92
Confessor – “Uncontrolled” (1989 demo version)
Isengard – various songs 1993
Omega – 200 Years After the War
Gold, Frankincense & Disk-Drive – “Orienteering,” “Overblow”, “Gutbucket”
The Mars Volta – “No Case Gain,” “Equus 3,” “The Requisition”
Paradise Lost – Believe in Nothing
Prince – “I’m Yours”
Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry
Ginn:
Telefon Tel Aviv – Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Incantation- Onward to Golgotha
Mr. Bungle – “None of Them Knew They Were Robots,” “The Holy Filament”
Virgin Prunes – If I Die, I Die
Confuse – Nuclear Addicts
Arcturus – “Alone,” “The Throne of Tragedy,” “Of Nails and Sinners”
Scott Walker – “The Seventh Seal”
Bethlehem – Dictius te Necare
Coil – “Are You Shivering,” “Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night”
Death – “Story to Tell,” “Flesh and the Power it Holds”
Bel Canto – “Shoulder to the Wheel,” “Birds of Passage”
Paradise Lost – One Second
Paradise Lost – Host
Paradise Lost – Believe in Nothing (2nd half)
Emperor – Reverence EP
Lost Horizon – “Welcome Back,” “World Through My Fateless Eyes”
Morgion – Solinari
Picture – “Eternal Dark”
Impetigo – Faceless EP
Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
Glassjaw – Everything You Wanted to Know About Silence
Ras Algethi – Oneiricon: The White Hypnotic
Cave In – “Lost in the Air/Lift Off” single
Timeghoul – “Occurrence at Mimas”
Gardenian – “If Tomorrow’s Gone,” “Small Electric Space”
Labradford – “Comfort”
Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecolagyst


Tripping balls.
Wagner:
Pulsar – Pollen
Sigh – Heir to Despair
Gold, Frankincense & Disk-Drive – Where Do We Draw the Line?
Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz
Omega – The Hall of Floaters in the Sky
Omega – Skyrover
Beastmilk – Climax
Kiss – Des Moines, Iowa, Nov 29, 1977
Black Sabbath – “Digital Bitch”
Kansas – various songs 1974-2020
Metal Church – The Dark
CSSO – Nagro Lauxes XIII
Devo – Duty Now for the Future, “Penetration in the Centrefold”
Ginn:
Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat
Beyond Dawn – “Phase Juxtaposition”
Bjork – Homogenic
Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
Cocteau Twins – The Spangle Maker EP
Cocteau Twins – Aikea-Guinea EP
Cocteau Twins – Tiny Dynamine EP
Cocteau Twins – Echoes in a Shallow Bay EP
Cocteau Twins – “Heaven or Las Vegas”
Nocturnal Rites – “Call Out to the World,” “Awakening”
Mortician – House By the Cemetery EP
Devil Doll – Eliogabalus
Sun Ra – Disco 3000
Amebix – Arise!
Bat for Lashes – “Glass,” “Siren Song”
Resilent – “1.2”
Porter Ricks – Biokinetics
Scott Walker – “Cossacks Are,” “Clara”
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
My Bloody Valentine – EPs: 1988 – 1991
Soundgarden – “The Telephantasm,” “Black Rain,” “She Likes Surprises”


Wagner:
Kansas – Monolith
Kansas – Two for the Show
Paradise Lost – Lost Paradise
Paradise Lost – Gothic
Onslaught – Power from Hell
Sigh – Infidel Art
Scanner – Hypertrace
Kevin Moore – Ghost Book
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester – Farewell Aldebaran
Fields of the Nephilim – “Last Exit for the Lost”
Tim Bowness – Butterfly Mind
David Bowie – The Next Day
The Grays – Ro Sham Bo
Ginn:
El – P – Fantastic Damange
El – P – I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
Dismember – Massive Killing Capacity
The Sisters of Mercy – “Poison Door”
Lethal – 1994 demo
Marduk – Nightwing
Elegy – Supremacy
Fear Factory – Fear Is the Mindkiller EP
Fear Factory – “Demanufacture” (song), “Self-Bias Resistor”
Into Another – Seemless
Beyond Dawn – “Ripe As the Night”
Radakka – 1991 demo
Seaweed – Spanaway
Masquerade – “Say Your Prayer,” “America,” “State of Grace”
Type O Negative – Dead Again
Nevermore – “The Dreaming Mind”
Red Harvest – “Last Call”
Chris Cornell – Euphoria Mourning
Lion’s Share – Lion’s Share
Wipers – “Don’t Know What I Am”
Paradise Lost – One Second
Paradise Lost – Host
Abstrakt Algebra – “Shadowplay,” “Nameless”
TNT – Firefly
TNT – Transistor
Carcass – “Buried Dreams”
DC Cooper – “Take Me In”
Radiohead – “Sit Down, Stand Up”
Wicked Maraya – “Another Day,” “Resurrection,” “Alone”
Tad Morose – Leaving the Past Behind
Helmet – “Driving Nowhere”


Wagner:
Paradise Lost – Host
The Fixx – “Deeper and Deeper”
Sigh – Heir to Despair
Sigh – Shiki
Ihsahn – Amr
Gnidrolog – In Spite of Harry’s Toenail
Tim Bowness – Butterfly Mind
Melvins (w/Jello Biafra) – “In Every Dream Home a Heartache”
Primus – Conspiranoid
Primus – Antipop
Ginn:
Antipop Consortium – Tragic Epilogue
Human Remains – demo 1996
Nocturnal Rites – “Awakening”
Eric B and Rakim – Paid In Full
Eric B and Rakim – Follow the Leader
Napalm Death – Mentally Murdered
Living Colour – Stain
Death Is Just the Beginning II compilation
Julian Priester – Love Love
Murcof – Martes
Murcof – Remembranza
Pharaoh – “Telepath”
Ice – Bad Blood
Defleshed – Royal Straight Flesh
Tool – Opiate
Cypress Hill – “Let it Rain”
Dawn – Slaughtersun


Wagner:
CSSO – Nagro Lauxes VIII
Lucifer’s Friend – Where the Groupies Killed the Blues
Porcupine Tree – Closure / Continuation
Toby Driver – They Are the Shield
Vauxdvihl – Vog
Paradise Lost – Host
Paradise Lost – Shades of God
Lucifer’s Friend – Lucifer’s Friend
10cc – “Tomorrow’s World Today”
Modern English – “Tranquility”
Leprous – “Forced Entry”
Black Sabbath – “The Sign of the Southern Cross”
Kansas – The Absence of Presence
Ginn:
The God Machine – Scenes from the Second Storey
Herbie Hancock – Crossings
Herbie Hancock – Sextant
Napalm Death – Utopia Banished
Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions
Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
Dimmu Borgir – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Bohren & der Club of Gore – Geisterfaust
Type O Negative – The Origin of the Feces
Brutal Truth – Ill Neglect EP
EPMD – Business As Usual
Amorphis – Elegy
Dark Tranquillity – Of Chaos and Eternal Night EP
Solace – Further
Carcass – The Heartwork EP
Carcass – Swansong


Wagner:
Tim Bowness – Butterfly Mind
Yes – “Eastern Numbers”
Everything Everything – everything
Vauxdvihl – Vog
Therion – Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas
Judas Priest – Unleashed in the East
Loudness – The Birthday Eve
Paradise Lost – Icon
Paradise Lost – Draconian Times
Scanner – Hypertrace
Lucifer’s Friend – Mind Exploding
Ginn:
Savage Republic – Tragic Figures
Cypress Hill – Temples of Boom
A Canorous Quintet – Silence of the World Beyond
Soundgarden – “Room A Thousand Years Wide”
Tarentel – The Order of Things
The Pharcyde – Labcabincalifornia
Brutal Truth – Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
Sodom – “Agent Orange” (song)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Now I Got Worry
Alice in Chains – Sap EP
Vio-lence – Oppressing the Masses
A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
Carnivore – Carnivore
Black Flag – “Obliteration”
Forced Entry – As Above, So Below (minus the two throwaway tracks)
Carbonized – “Night Shadows”
Voivod – Killing Technology
Sonic Youth – “Death Valley ’69”
Deadboy and the Elephantmen – various demos and live bootlegs 2002-2004
Slayer – Reign in Blood


Wagner:
Nudeswirl – Nudeswirl (1993)
The Grays – Ro Sham Bo
Everything Everything – Raw Data Feel
Arachnoid – Arachnoid
Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat
Therion – Beyond Sanctorum
Pan-Thy-Monium – Khaooohs & Kon-fus-ion
Disma – Earthendium
CSSO – Are You Excrements?
GTR – “Imagining”
Beyond Twilight – For the Love of Art and the Making
Lucifer’s Friend – Where the Groupies Killed the Blues
Schnell Fenster – The Sound of Trees
Isengard – Horizons (1991 demo)
Gorgoroth – Pentagram
Ginn:
Supersilent – 6
Posies – Frosting on the Beater
Comus – Song to Comus
Embrionic Death – Streams of Solidarity (1993 demo)
Tricky – Maxinquaye
Crimson Glory – Transcedence
Katatonia – Brave Murder Day
Tortoise – Tortoise
The Cure – Disintegration
Gordian Knot – Gordian Knot
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante
December Wolves – Completely Dehumanized


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Welcome to Hell…who gives a shit?
Ginn:
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)
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Autumn in the Air:
Wagner mid-September ’20:
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
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…


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:


Emanations from Savannah, Ginn Style:
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
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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
—
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”
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
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)”
Thought Industry – Black Umbrella
Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses
Blue Oyster Cult – Fire of Unknown Origin
Foreigner – choice nuggs ’77/’78
Deadboy and the Elephantmen – various live bootlegs circa 2003-2004
Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep of Reason
DBC – Universe
Edan – Beauty and the Beat
Amorphis – The Karelian Isthmus
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
Frantic Bleep – The Sense Apparatus
Death – Human
Cynic – Focus
Immortal – “In My Kingdom Cold”
Godflesh – Us & Them
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”
Voivod – Killing Technology
Brand X – Unorthodox Behaviour
Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
EL-P – Cancer for Cure
Radiohead – Kid A
Anekdoten – A Time of Day
Alastis – The Other Side
Prince Paul – Prince Among Thieves
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:
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
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
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:
early July ’19:
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
Carcass – Heartwork
mid June ’19
then came the last days of May


more days of May…
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…
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
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
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!)
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:
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
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
late December: