• 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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  • Sodom

    Title: Persecution Mania

    Label: RC Records

    Date: 1987

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

    [1] Nuclear Winter*
    [2] Electrocution
    [3] Iron Fist*
    [4] Persecution Mania*
    [5] Enchanted Land*
    [6] Procession to Golgotha
    [7] Christ Passion*
    [8] Conjuration
    [9] Bombenhagel
    [10] Outbreak of Evil
    [11] Sodomy and Lust
    [12] The Conqueror
    [13] My Atonement

    [Sodom made 1987 a monumental year for metal with this release. Utterly classic album!]

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  • Sodom

    Title: Agent Orange

    Label: Steam Hammer Records/SPV

    Date: 1989

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

    [1] Agent Orange*
    [2] Tired and Red
    [3] Incest
    [4] Remember the Fallen*
    [5] Magic Dragon*
    [6] Exhibition Bout
    [7] Ausgebombt*
    [8] Baptism of Fire
    [9] Don't Walk Away

    [Another Sodom classic. Here is Sodom at their very best. 'Remember the Fallen' and 'Magic Dragon' are amongst my fave Sodom tracks ever.]

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  • Acheron

    Title: The Rites of the Black Mass

    Label: JL America

    Date: 1990

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

    [1] To Thee We Confess*
    [2] Thou Art Lord*
    [3] Ave Satanas
    [4] Summoning the Master*
    [5] One With Darkness
    [6] Prayer of Hell
    [7] Unholy Praises
    [8] Cursed Nazarene*
    [9] The Enochian Key
    [10] Let us Depart

    [The masterful first work of Vincent Crowley.]

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  • Abigor

    Title: Berwustung/Invoke the Dark Age

    Label: Napalm Records

    Date: 1994

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

    [1] Universe of Black Divine
    [2] Kingdom of Darkness*
    [3] Beneath a Steel Sky
    [4] Eye to Eye at Armageddon
    [5] In Sin
    [6] My Soft Vision in Blood
    [7] Weeping Midwintertears
    [8] Diabolic Unity
    [9] A Spell of Dark and Evil

    [Ah, Abigor's first opus... Nine tracks of great black metal.]

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  • The 3rd and the Mortal

    Title: Sorrow

    Label: Voices of Wonder/Head Not Found

    Date: 1993

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

    [1] Grevinnens
    [2] Sorrow*
    [3] Ring of Fire*
    [4] Silently I Surrender*

    [This EP was The 3rd and the Mortal's first, and a fine work it was. 'Ring of Fire' and 'Silently I Surrender' are truly works of art.]

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  • The 3rd and the Mortal

    Title: Tears Laid in Earth

    Label: Voices of Wonder/Head Not Found

    Date: 1994

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

    [1] Vandring
    [2] Why so Lonely*
    [3] Atupoema*
    [4] Death-Hymn*
    [5] Shaman
    [6] Trial of Past
    [7] Lengsel
    [8] Salva Me*
    [9] Song
    [10] In Mist Shrouded
    [11] Oceana*

    [The second and final The 3rd and the Mortal release with singer Kari Rueslatten. Once again a truly beautiful, dark and somber work.]

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  • Deceased

    Title: Luck of the Corpse

    Label: Relapse Records

    Date: 1991

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

    [1] Fading Survival*
    [2] The Cemetary's Full (sp)
    [3] Experimenting with Failure
    [4] Futuristic Doom
    [5] Haunted Cerebellum
    [6] Decrepit Coma
    [7] Shrieks from the Hearse
    [8] Psychedelic Warriors
    [9] Feasting on Skulls
    [10] Birth by Radiation
    [11] Gutwrench

    [The glory days of death metal... the days when you could buy any metal cassette you came upon and it would most likely be good, and 'Luck of the Corpse' was no exception!]

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  • Absu

    Title: Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L.

    Label: Osmose Productions

    Date: 1994

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

    [1] An Involution of Thorns*
    [2] Descent to Acheron
    (Evoling (typo?) into the Progression of Woe)*
    [3] A Equinox of Fathomless Disheartenment
    [4] The Thrice is Greatest to Ninnigal
    [5] Infinite and Profane Thrones
    [6] Fantasizing to the Third of the Pagan Vision
    (Quoth the Sky, Nevermore Act II)
    [7] An Evolution of Horns*

    [This was truly some great stuff to stumble upon back in '94. The cool cover photo beckoned some very unique black metal within. Classic stuff.]

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  • Pyogenesis

    Title: Self titled

    Label: Osmose Productions

    Date: 1992

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

    [1] Still Burn in Fire*
    [2] Like Tears (in the dust)*
    [3] On Soulwings
    [4] Underneath Orion's Sword
    [5] Ignis Creatio

    [Great death metal from Germany. One of my faves from back in the day.]

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  • Pyogenesis

    Title: Waves of Erotasia

    Label: Nuclear Blast

    Date: 1994

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

    [1] Through the Flames*
    [2] In the End*
    [3] Down
    [4] Lost in Revery

    [While this EP is still good, it signaled the end of Pyogenesis as a death metal band and a total change in style. You could hear it happening here, but it still managed to be quite good.]

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