• 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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  • Incantation

    Title: Onward to Golgotha

    Label: Relapse Records

    Date: 1992

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

    [1] Golgotha
    [2] Devoured Death*
    [3] Blasphemous Cremation
    [4] Rotting Spiritual Embodiment
    [5] Unholy Massacre
    [6] Entrantment of Evil
    [7] Christening the Afterbirth
    [8] Immortal Cessation
    [9] Profanation
    [10] Deliverance of Horrific Prophecies
    [11] Eternal Torture

    [The beginnings of greatness...]

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  • Grave

    Title: Souless

    Label: Century Media

    Date: 1994

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

    [1] Turning Black*
    [2] Soulless*
    [3] I Need You
    [4] Bullets are Mine
    [5] Blodshed
    [6] Judas
    [7] Unknown
    [8] And Here I Die
    [9] Genocide
    [10] Rain
    [11] Scars

    [This CD opens up with a sample from Robocop?! "Bitches leave!" Ha! Yet, this is an extremely good release, following a long line of good releases from this band. 'Soulless' remains one of Grave's greatest tracks.]

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  • Cannibal Corpse

    Title: Eaten Back to Life

    Label: Death Records

    Date: 1990

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

    [1] Shredded Humans
    [2] Edible Autopsy
    [3] Put Them to Death
    [4] Mangled*
    [5] Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains
    [6] Born in a Casket
    [7] Rotting Head
    [8] The Undead Will Feast
    [9] Bloody Chunks
    [10] A Skull Full of Maggots*
    [11] Buried in the Backyard

    [Cannibal Corpse's brutal beginnings... And who could forget the ever endearing 'Skull Full of Maggots, one of death metal's greatest love songs!]

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  • Cannibal Corpse

    Title: Butchered at Birth

    Label: Death Records

    Date: 1991

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

    [1] Meat Hook Sodomy
    [2] Gutted
    [3] Living Dissection
    [4] Under the Rotted Flesh
    [5] Covered with Sores*
    [6] Vomit the Soul*
    [7] Butchered at Birth
    [8] Rancid Amputation
    [9] Innards Decay

    [Chris Barnes and Cannibal Corpse's death metal masterpiece. 'Vomit the Soul', with Glen Benton doing some backing vocals, remains one of the greatest songs in death metal. I've seen Cannibal Corpse live a few times, once with Chris Barnes on vocals, and once with that other guy who replaced him. To me, it is not Cannibal Corpse without Barnes. It's like a corpse without a maggot...]

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  • Mephisto Walz

    Title: terra Regina

    Label: Cleopatra

    Date: 1993

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

    [1] Prologue
    [2] Aegis*
    [3] Unbrea*
    [4] The Starveling
    [5] To the Schadows
    [6] A Gathering of Elementals
    [7] Protecteur*
    [8] It is the Skin of Night
    [9] In the Room Where Love Exists
    [10] Am Sonntag
    [11] Epilogue
    [12] Skin of Night (revisited)
    [13] Aegis Remains

    [Mephisto Walz is a very unique and distinct band, and strangely relatively unknown. This was a great release.]

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  • Mephisto Walz

    Title: Thalia

    Label: Cleopatra

    Date: 1995

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

    [1] Along the March*
    [2] Euphrosyne*
    [3] Thalia
    [4] The Hunter's Trail
    [5] Mephisto Waltz*
    [6] No Way Out*
    [7] White Rabbit
    [8] T-200 (KOKORO)
    [9] A Precession of the Equinoxes
    [10] Aglaia At Auroras

    [I know as much about this band as I did years ago, which is nothing. They never provide any pictures or information on their releases, which is a part of their mystery that I like. I've learned long ago not to delve too much into the people behind the music you like, or you might just end up hating it.]

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  • Death

    Title: Leprosy

    Label: Combat

    Date: 1988

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

    [1] Leprosy*
    [2] Born Dead
    [3] Forgotten Past*
    [4] Left to Die
    [5] Pull the Plug*
    [6] Open Casket*
    [7] Primitive Ways
    [8] Choke On It*

    [Personally, I thought this was much better than their first full length, 'Scream Bloody Gore', although that is classic too.]

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  • Death

    Title: Spiritual Healing

    Label: Combat

    Date: 1990

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

    [1] Living Monstrosity*
    [2] Altering the Future
    [3] Defensive Personality
    [4] Withing the Mind*
    [5] Spiritual Healing*
    [6] Low Life*
    [7] Genetic Reconstruction
    [8] Killing Spree

    [Death just kept getting better with each album. This album is classic!]

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  • Nocturnus

    Title: The Key

    Label: Combat

    Date: 1990

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

    [1] Lake of Fire
    [2] Standing in Blood
    [3] Visions from Beyond the Grave
    [4] Neolithic
    [5] Undead Journey (bonus track)*
    [6] BC/AD
    [7] Andromeda Strain
    [8] Droid Sector
    [9] Destroying the Manger
    [10] Empire of the Sands

    [One of the most unique death metal bands of its time, or of all time for that matter. This was an incredible album.]

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  • Nocturnus

    Title: Threshholds

    Label: Earache

    Date: 1992

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

    [1] Climate Controller*
    [2] Tribal Vodoun
    [3] Nocturne in B m
    [4] Arctic Crypt
    [5] Aquatica
    [6] Subterranean Infiltrator
    [7] Alter Reality
    [8] Gridzone

    [While not as good as 'The Key', still a cool release, especially the opening track 'Climate Controller'.]

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