Recent Listening @ Radical Research HQ – PLAYLISTS

17 May Recent Listening @ Radical Research HQ – PLAYLISTS

2020 – The End of the Beginning:

Welcome to Hell…who gives a shit?

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)

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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”

 

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”

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

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”

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

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)

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)

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”

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)”

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

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”

 

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

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”

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

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

late December:

mid December:

Wagner:
Holy Terror – Terror and Submission
Holy Terror – Mind Wars
McDonald & Giles – s/t
The United States of America – s/t
Rush – Power Windows
Voivod – “Condemned to the Gallows”
Abigor – Fractal Possession
Genesis – Trespass
OSI – Free
Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force – Marching Out

 

early December:

mid November:

Wagner:
Self Spiller – Worms in the Keys
Coroner – Punishment for Decadence
Mayhem – Wolf’s Lair Abyss
Bjork – Vulnicura
Colosseum II – Electric Savage
Paul Chain – Alkahest
Tim Finn – “In a Minor Key” track

Wagner:
Cirith Ungol – One Foot in Hell
Rush – Rush
Voivod – The Wake
DVC – Molecular Shadow
Mekong Delta – The Principle of Doubt
Triumvirat – “Dancer’s Delight” track

late October:

Wagner:
Borknagar – Quintessence
Manowar – Into Glory Ride
Mekong Delta – Visions Fugitives
Gorefest – False
Phil Manzanera – K-Scope
Raw Material – “Empty Houses” track
Grobschnitt – awash in various versions of “Solar Music”

Ginn:
Kayo Dot – Plastic House on Base of Sky
Gorgoroth – Destroyer
Running Wild – Gates of Purgatory
Dun – Eros
Nifelheim – Servants of Darkness
Teenage Fanclub – “Sparky’s Dream” track
Marduk – Heaven Shall Burn…When We Are Gathered

mid October:

Wagner:
Holy Terror – Terror and Submission
Voivod – The Wake, The Outer Limits
Jethro Tull – Songs from the Wood
Hammers of Misfortune – 17th Street
Armored Saint – “Reign of Fire” track
The 3rd & the Mortal – Tears Laid in Earth
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro

early October:

Jeff:
Beyond Dawn – The Righteous Underground, “Hairy Fiquid” > “Fairly Icky (live)”
“The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits,” “Food For Your Soul”, & “Tank” Carl Palmer side of ELP – Works
Manes – Slow Motion Death Sequence
Horrendous – Idol
Afflicted – all
Darryl Way’s Wolf – Canis Lupus
Grobschnitt – s/t

late September

Wagner:
Celtic Frost – Vanity/Nemesis
Egoist – Dead Egg
Brand X – Moroccan Roll
The Beatles – Help!
Helios Creed – The Last Laugh
Horrendous – Idol
Beherit – Drawing Down the Moon

Ginn:
Don Caballero – World Class Listening Problem
Type O Negative – Dead Again
Solefald – Neonism
Varathron – The Lament of the Gods EP
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times
Amorphis – The Karelian Isthmus

mid September 2018 II
Wagner:
Afflicted – Prodigal Sun
Manes – Slow Motion Death Sequence
Opeth – Deliverance
Grobschnitt – “Solar Music” (various versions)
Melvins – The Bootlicker
Palms – Palms
Everything Everything – Arc
The Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow

Ginn:
Dark Tranquillity – Skydancer
Clan of Xymox – Clan of Xymox
Dodheimsgard – Kronet Til Konge
The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
Scanner – Hypertrace
Death in June – Nada
Genesis – “Scenes from a Night’s Dream” track
Darkthrone – Soulside Journey

mid September 2018

Wagner:
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Steve Hackett – Please Don’t Touch
Fleurety – Last-Minute Lies
Kataklysm – Vision the Chaos 7″
Sacred Rite – Sacred Rite
D.C. Cooper – D.C. Cooper

Ginn:
Rippikoulu – Musta Ceremonia demo
16 Horsepower – Secret South
Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels
Master’s Hammer – Jilemnicky Okultista demo
Varathron – Walpurgisnacht
Gamma Ray – Sigh No More

early September 2018

Wagner:
Moth Vellum – Moth Vellum
Deathspell Omega – Paracletus
Morbus Chron – Sweven
Bathory – Bathory
Maudlin of the Well – Begat of the Haunted Oak: An Acorn 1997 demo
Gigan – Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes

Ginn:
Seaweed – Four
PFM – Per Un Amico
Candlemass – Dactylis Glomerata
Bolt Thrower – The IVth Crusade
Anata – The Infernal Depths of Hatred

 

late August 2018

Wagner:
Deathspell Omega – “Mass Grave Aesthetics” track
Melvins – Nude With Boots
Quiet Sun – Mainstream
Daryl Way’s Wolf – Saturation Point
The Fixx – Reach the Beach
Voivod – Post Society EP
Kiss – Alive II studio side

early August 2018:

Wagner:
Gentle Giant – Out of the Woods (The BBC Sessions)
Phil Manzanera/801 – Live
Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs
King Diamond – Abigail
Manowar – Sign of the Hammer
ZZ Top – Tres Hombres
Bang – “Windfair”

Ginn:
Orphaned Land – Sahara
Sentenced – North From Here
Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion
Disgrace – Vol. 2
Seefeel – “Time to Find Me” (AFX Fast & Slow remixes)
Order From Chaos – Stillbirth Machine

late July 2018:

Wagner:
Voivod – The Wake
Deathrow – Riders of Doom
Carbonized – everything
National Health – Of Queues and Cures
Genesis – Live Over Europe
Crack the Sky – Photoflamingo
Deftones – Diamond Eyes

Ginn:
Peter Hammill – The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
Mourning Sign – Last Chamber / Alienor
Mythos – Pain Amplifier
Dysrhythmia – No Interference
Memento Mori – La Danse Macabre
Death – Human
Ride – Going Blank Again

mid July 2018:

Wagner:
Black Sabbath – Headless Cross
Voivod – The Wake
Crack the Sky – Photoflamingo
Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans
King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
Osanna – Palepoli

Ginn:
Enslaved – Eld
At the Gates – The Red in the Sky is Ours
Hexx – Under the Spell
Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Deadboy & the Elephantmen – demos 2002-2004
Anathema – Eternity

late June 2018:

Wagner:
Kaipa – Inget Nytt Under Solen
Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Ben Levin Group – Our Place
Corte Dei Miracoli – Corte Dei Miracoli
Pestilence – Testimony of the Ancients
Citizen Band – “The Ladder Song” track

Ginn:
Mid Evil – Promo 1992
Vintersorg – Cosmic Genesis
Dr. Octagon – Octagonecologyst
Bathory – Bathory
Mystifier – Goetia
Mew – “Making Friends” track

mid-June 2018:

Jeff Wagner:
Voivod – The Wake
Bent Knee – Bent Knee
The Mars Volta – Amputechture
King Crimson – Three of a Perfect Pair
Godley + Creme – Ismism

Hunter Ginn:
Mew – +-
Bolt Thrower – Realm of Chaos
Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Blind Mr. Jones – Stereo Musicale
Dark Tranquillity – The Mind’s I

 

mid-May 2018:

Jeff Wagner:
A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant
Celtic Frost – Emperor’s Return
Ulver – Sic Transit Gloria Mundi EP
Kansas – Point of Know Return
Minus the Bear – Infinity Overhead

Hunter Ginn:
Depresy – A Grand Magnificence
A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant
Loveliescrushing – Xuvetyn
Trial of the Bow – Rite of Passage
Believer – Dimensions

early May 2018:

Jeff Wagner:
Fleurety – Inquietum
Morbid Angel – Covenant
Voivod – Voivod
Forbidden – Twisted Into Form
Godley & Creme – Music from Consequences

Hunter Ginn:
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Now I Got Worry
Banco – Banco
Corrosion of Conformity – Deliverance
Gang Starr – Daily Operation
Cemetary – An Evil Shade of Grey

late April 2018:

JEFF WAGNER:
A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant
Happy the Man – Happy the Man
Colosseum II – War Dance
Wishbone Ash – There’s the Rub
Riot – Rock City

mid April 2018:

JEFF WAGNER
King Crimson – live in Zurich, November 1973
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures at an Exhibition
Dredg – El Cielo
No-Man – Wild Opera
Mid-Evil – 1992 promo/demo

HUNTER GINN
Crypt of Kerberos – Cyclone of Insanity/Visions Beyond Darkness + Demos
Swans – Soundtracks for the Blind
Devil Doll – The Girl Who Was…Death
Scorn – Ellipsis
Eisenvater – Eisenvater

early April 2018:
JEFF WAGNER
Fleurety – Min Tid Skal Komme
Deadboy & the Elephantmen – If This is Hell Then I’m Lucky
Judas Priest – Firepower high points: “Firepower,” “Guardians/Rising from Ruins,” “Spectre,” “No Surrender,” “Sea of Red”
Downes-Braide Association – Suburban Ghosts
Cave In – Anomalies Vol. 1

HUNTER GINN
Pyogenesis – Twinaleblood
Minus the Bear – Voids
Zyklon B – Blood Must Be Shed
My Dying Bride – 34.788%…Complete
David Sylvian – Gone to Earth