• Far from complete, and definitely in no particular order, here are some of our favorite albums from artists of many genres and time periods. Some may be very known to you, maybe you also listened to a lot of these same bands while growing up, as we did. The crazy excitement of youth and the aching boredom, some of these were a soundtrack to our teenage years. Through the reckless parties, sex, violence, and all the tainted fruits of life. Others carried us into our work with Mourning the Ancient, some of these bands we've even come to know personally or have had the opportunity to interview. Others we might not have liked as much, except for maybe they played during certain times in our lives, they 'grew' on us as they say. I'm sure you have more than a few favorites like this too.

    As you may estimate, this is a huge undertaking, so we'll be adding more and more material every update. Hopefully, there will be some gem here that had slipped by you, and through these pages, you discover musical treasure as we have.


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  • Morgoth

    Title: The Eternal Fall/Resurrection Absurd

    Label: Century Media

    Date: 1991

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Burnt Identity*
    [2] Female Infanticide
    [3] White Gallery
    [4] Pits of Utumno*
    [5] Eternal Sanctity
    [6] Dictated Deliverance
    [7] Travel
    [8] The Afterthought
    [9] Selected Killing
    [10] Lies of Distrust

    [I got the pleasure of seeing Morgoth live back in the day. I had fond bruises from that show! Anyway, this was some awesome death metal.]

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  • Morgoth

    Title: Cursed

    Label: Century Media

    Date: 1991

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Cursed
    [2] Body Count*
    [3] Exit to Temptation
    [4] Unreal Imagination
    [5] Isolated
    [6] Sold Baptism*
    [7] Suffer Life
    [8] Opportunity is Gone
    [9] Darkness*

    [Cursed was equally great as the last release from Morgoth.]

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  • Coroner

    Title: Punishment for Decadence

    Label: Noise International

    Date: 1988

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Intro
    [2] Absorbed*
    [3] Masked Jackel*
    [4] Arc-Lite
    [5] Skeleton on Your Shoulder
    [6] Sudden Fall
    [7] Shadow of a Lost Dream
    [8] The New Breed
    [9] Voyage to Eternity
    [10] Purple Haze

    [From 1988, one of Coroner's best releases, certainly their most popular.]

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  • Carcass

    Title: Symphonies of Sickness

    Label: Combat/Earache

    Date: 1989

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Reek of Putrefaction*
    [2] Exhume to Consume
    [3] Excoriating Abdominal Emanation
    [4] Ruptured in Purulence
    [5] Empathological Necrotism
    [6] Embryonic Necropsy and Devourment
    [7] Swarming Vulgar Mass of Infected Virulency
    [8] Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites
    [9] Slash Dementia
    [10] Crepitating Bowel Erosion
    [11] Genital Grinder
    [12] Regurgitation of Giblets
    [13] Maggot Colony
    [14] Pyosisified (Rotten to the Gore)
    [15] Vomited Anal Tract
    [16] Fermenting Innards
    [17] Excreted Alive
    [18] Suppuration
    [19] Foeticide
    [20] Feast on Dismembered Carnage
    [21] Splattered Cavities
    [22] Psychopathologist
    [23] Burnt to a Crisp
    [24] Pungent Excruciation
    [25] Oxidised Razor Masticator
    [26] Malignant Defecation

    [The chaos of early Carcass releases were an acquired taste, far from the more refined sound of later releases. Let me just say it was no fun typing up these song titles! ]

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  • Cerebral Fix

    Title: Tower of Spite

    Label: Roadrunner Records

    Date: 1990

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Unity for Who?
    [2] Enter the Turmoil
    [3] Feast of the Fools
    [4] Chasten of Fear
    [5] Circle of the Earth
    [6] Tower of Spite
    [7] Injecting Out
    [8] Quest for Midian
    [9] Forgotten Genocide
    [10] Culte des Mortes*
    [11] Closing Irony

    ['Culte des Mortes' is a unique and classic metal track.]

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  • Cianide

    Title: The Dying Truth

    Label: Grind Core

    Date: 1992

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Mindscrape*
    [2] Human Cesspool
    [3] The Suffering
    [4] Scourging at the Pillar
    [5] Crawling Chaos
    [6] The Dying Truth
    [7] Funeral
    [8] Second Life

    [This was some great doom/death.]

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  • Dismal Euphony

    Title: Soria Moria Slott

    Label: Napalm Records

    Date: 1996

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Prolog
    [2] Et vintereventyr*
    [3] Natten loftet sitt tunge ansikt
    [4] Alvedans
    [5] Trolloundet
    [6] Ekko
    [7] Isgrav, det siste hvilested
    [8] Epilog

    [This is a very cool release. Track two shining the brightest.]

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  • Sorrow

    Title: Forgotten Sunrise

    Label: Roadrunner Records

    Date: 1991

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Awaiting the Savior
    [2] Eternally Forgotten*
    [3] Curse the Sunrise*
    [4] A Wasted Cry for Hope

    [I never heard much about this band, but they were very good doom/death. Maybe it was the beautiful picture below that scared people away?!]

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  • Sorrow

    Title: Hatred and Disgust

    Label: Roadrunner Records

    Date: 1992

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Insatiable
    [2] Forced Repression
    [3] Illusion of Freedom
    [4] Human Error*
    [5] Separative Adjectives
    [6] Unjustified Reluctance

    [Equally good as the first, except the song 'Human Error' I think was their best.]

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  • Siebenburgen

    Title: Loreia

    Label: Napalm Records

    Date: 1997

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Vampyria*
    [2] Nattens vav
    [3] Mardrom
    [4] Angentum Pharelis*
    [5] ...Om hosten dod
    [6] Loreia
    [7] Att dricka nagons blod*
    [8] Vittring av liv
    [9] Morgtaria
    [10] Dodens somn

    [The first few Siebenburgen releases were good black metal. Here's the first...]

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  • Siebenburgen

    Title: Grimjaur

    Label: Napalm Records

    Date: 1998

    Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')

    [1] Grimjaur*
    [2] Vintervila*
    [3] Nattskracken
    [4] Slottet Auragon
    [5] for Mig... Ditt Blod Utgutet
    [6] Dodens Svarta fana
    [7] Luna Luciferi
    [8] I Doden fann hon Liv
    [9] Vargablod
    [10] Ibi Cubavit Lamia*

    [The second and better release from Siebenburgen. The final track is a beautiful sounding accoustic track with female vocals. Superb!]

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