Bonfires burning bright, pumpkin faces through the night I remember Halloween On this day, anything goes, burning bodies hanging from poles I remember Halloween
Unless you haven't looked at a calendar, you'd already know that today is the glorious day known as Halloween. In honor of this originally Pagan celebration, here's The Misfits. Not only are the 'Fits one of the greatest punk bands of all time, but they are also my favorite. Happy Halloween!
1) Static Age 2) TV Casualty 3) Hybrid Moments 4) Spinal Remains 5) Come Back 6) Some Kinda Hate 7) Theme For A Jackal 8) Angelfuck 9) Who Killed Marilyn? 10) Where Eagles Dare 11) She 12) Halloween 13) American Nightmare
Crappy production. Raw energy. Satan. What more could you want from one of the greatest heavy metal albums ever? Now lay down your soul to the gods Rock and Roll!
1) Black Metal 2) To Hell and Back 3) Buried Alive 4) Raise the Dead 5) Teacher's Pet 6) Leave Me In Hell 7) Sacrifice 8) Heaven's on Fire 9) Countess Bathory 10) Don't Burn the Witch 11) At War With Satan (Preview)
Imagine England before the Roman Empire. Now pair it up with black metal and you have Winterfylleth. Unlike most pagan black metal bands, Winterfylleth creates a Celtic sort of atmosphere rather than a Viking one. The production on this isn't exactly the greatest, but it wasn't recorded with a tape recorder and a coffee can.
1) Mam Tor (The Shivering Mountain) 2) Casting The Runes 3) The Ghost Of Heritage
Here we have one my favorite and one of the greatest black metal recordings ever. Harsh, brutal, and raw, Mayhem helped to define the second wave of black metal with the infamous Deathcrush.
Hollenthon is tough to classify as one genre. The Metal Archives even gives them four genres! Combining melodeath, orchestras, and Middle Eastern and European folk music, the band has managed to create a truly unique sound. Domus Mundi is the first of three albums released by Hollenthon.
Normally, I would praise a Swedish metal band for being insanely heavy death metal. However, Setherial is some of the best black metal I've ever heard. Sure they aren't the most original, but they certainly do an amazing job playing grim, icy, frostbitten, epic black metal.
1) In the Still of a Northern Full Moon 2) Mörkrets Tid 3) Över Det Blodtäckta Nord 4) I Nattens Famn 5) För Dem Mitt Blod 6) I Skuggors Dunkla Sken
Shakedown is one of the several local bands I have had the pleasure of seeing live. Although they claim to play "classic rock," Shakedown also has post-grunge, alternative, hard rock, and reggae songs as found on this demo. The Rough Cuts demo is also available for download on the band's Myspace page.
1) The Painter 2) Seasick and Whisked Away 3) The Reason Why 4) Keep On
