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.
Label: Osmose Productions
Date: 1992
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] The Call of the Wintermoon*
[Although the CD lists the titles and lyrics of 6 tracks, there are eight. Not sure why? Anyway, 'The Call of the Wintermoon' is legendary stuff.]
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Label: Nuclear Blast America
Date: 1992
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Impotent God*
[Proof that Sweden could produce death metal as good as anything in the United States. Penetralia was a landmark for death metal. 'Impotent God' being one of the coolest death metal tracks ever.]
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Label: Candlelight Records
Date: 1993
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Spilling Holy Blood*
[This is the most over-the-top piece of vulgar anti-Christian music, perhaps ever. The profanities screamed are laughable at times. But despite this, it is a good release, not lacking in its own vile charm. I once drove a bothersome family member out the door by blaring the most offensive track on this CD, which is composed of the singer screaming his hatred of Christianity for one minute 56 seconds, all without music. I should also note, while there are only 12 songs listed, there are actually 15.]
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Label: Massacre Records
Date: 1995
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] A Hamlet for a Slothful Vassal*
[Of all the death metal bands with female vocals, here was one of the best. This first CD contains my favorite song by the band, '...a Distance there is...', a beautiful track comprised of piano and Liv's (the female vocalist) delicate vocals. ]
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Label: Massacre Records
Date: 1996
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Velvet Darkness They Fear
[Theatre of Tragedy's follow-up was as superb as their first, full of memorable songs. This was to be their last good work.]
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Label: Roadrunner Records
Date: 1991
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Memorial Arrangements*
[One of the death metal kings of the glory days of death metal. It's hard to pick favorites on a CD like this, where nearly every song is a brutal masterpiece. I remember seeing these guys way back when, they played at this little rented hall with Obituary, Cannibal Corpse and Agnostic Front and the hall was literally torn to pieces. The hall had a Country & Western theme, therefore they had half of wagon wheels coming out of the ceiling (!?), just above reach. Well, one determined metal head reached one of them, lifted himself up and with his feet kicked the ceiling tiles. It rained pieces of ceiling on the crowd. The management of the hall didn't like this, and other events at all. They tried to tell people they couldn't dive off the stage anymore, among other useless rules that we did our best to break. I don't like Agnostic Front, but I liked how they invited the whole crowd on the stage with them in defiance. To end this eventful show, we went out to our car to find our car's battery had been stolen! Ah, the glory days of death metal...]
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Label: Nuclear Blast
Date: 1991
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] What Kind of God*
[This was a landmark release for Paul Speckman's Master. John Tardy lends his wholly unique death metal voice on backing vocals on a few songs and Paul Masvidal of Death/Cynic does guitar. This is a superb release, Speckman's voice seethes with anger. This was also one of the first bands we wrote for an interview back in 1995. This CD contains the patriotic classic track 'America the Pitiful', stating the truth about this violent, greedy and blind country.]
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Label: Deathlike Silence
Date: 1993 (originally released in 1987)
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Silvester Enfang*
[Crazy to think this pioneering work debuted in 1987, although most, including myself, wouldn't hear it until Euronymous released it on Deathlike Silence in 1993. I'm unsure why seven tracks are listed, since there are only six.]
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Label: Relativity Records
Date: 1986/87
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Live, Suffer, Die
[The beginnings of Nuclear Assault. The tracks 'Justice' and 'The Plague' are masterpieces.]
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Label: Cold Meat Industry
Date: 1995
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] De Profundis
[This CD held some great dark ambience. A favorite 'background noise' for me and unlike many other artists of this genre, not boring.]
[CD tray inlay]
Label: Micetrap Records
Date: 2003
Track listing: (favorites marked with an '*')
[1] Intro
[Hassgesang play some of the catchiest and aggressive music ever. A great, fearless band.]
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Page III
[2] Unholy Forces of Evil
[3] Cryptic Winterstorms
[4] Cold Winds of Funeral Dust
[5] Blacker than Darkness
[6] A Perfect Vision of the Rising Northland
[2] Suffering Souls*
[3] Nightmare
[4] Jesus Fall
[5] God is a...*
[6] Left to Rot
[7] Burn by the Cross
[8] To Escape is to Die
[9] Take the Throne
[10] Penetralia
[2] Final Hour of Christ
[3] Weeping in Heaven*
[4] I Arose
[5] Heavenly Father
[6] Once Removed Savior
[7] Raping of Angels
[8] The King of the Jews
[9] Behold the Prince of Peace
[10] Holy Blood Holy Grail
[11] Fucking of Sacred Assholes
[12] Nazarene Decomposing
[2] Cheerful Dirge
[3] To These Words I Beheld No Tongue*
[4] Hollow-Hearted, Heart -Departed*
[5] ...a Distance there is...*
[6] Sweet Art Thou
[7] Mire
[8] Dying - I Only Feel Apathy
[9] Monotone
[2] Fair and 'Guiling Copesmate Death*
[3] Bring Forth ye Shadow*
[4] Seraphic Deviltry*
[5] And When He Falleth*
[6] Der Tanz der Schatten
[7] Black as the Devil Painteth
[8] On whom the Moon doth Shine
[9] The Masquerader and Phoenix
[2] Premature Burial*
[3] Remnants of Withered Decay*
[4] Multiple Stab Wounds
[5] Impaled Existence*
[6] Thou Shall Kill!
[7] Sacrificial Annihilation
[8] Decadence Within*
[9] Injected Sufferage
[10] Malevolent Creation
[2] Latitudinarian*
[3] Heathen
[4] Used
[5] Demon
[6] Constant Quarrel
[7] Judgement of Will
[8] America the Pitiful
[9] Whose Left to Decide
[10] Submerged in Sin
[2] Death Crush*
[3] Chainsaw Gutsfuck*
[4] Witching Hour
[5] Necrolust
[6] (Weird) Manheim
[7] Pure Fucking Armageddon
[2] Sin
[3] Cold Steel
[4] Betrayal
[5] Radiation Sickness
[6] Hang the Pope
[7] After the Holocaust
[8] Mr. Softee Theme
[9] Stranded in Hell
[10] Nuclear War
[11] My America
[12] Vengeance
[13] Brain Death
[14] Game Over
[15] Nightmares
[16] (You Figure it Out)
[17] Justice*
[18] The Plague*
[19] Cross of Iron
[2] Where Happiness Ruled*
[3] Reaping the Fallen. The First Harvest...*
[4] This is Darkness. There Will be Light*
[5] Safe Sane and Consensual*
[6] Angels of the Highest Order - We are Seraphim
[7] Dominatrix Purgatory
[8] Silent Hymn for Ms. Atrophy
[9] In Nomeni Dei Nostri, Satanas Luciferi Excelsi - In Hoc Signo Vinces...
[2] Freiheit oder Tod
[3] Deutschkurs I
[4] Kein Demokrat
[5] Final Fight*
[6] Die Holle Von...
[7] Ein Ganzes Volk
[8] 18
[9] Deutschkurs II
[10] An den Kanzler
[11] Mord verjahrt nicht
[12] Denunziant
[13] Skinhead fur immer
[14] B.Z.L.T.B.
[15] Deutschkurs III
[16] Schuldpropaganda
[17] Israel
[18] Dann holen wir uns uns're Ehre wieder
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