spielwiese. (Posts about love and death.)https://spielwiese.fontein.de/tag/love-and-death.atom2019-11-17T10:46:32ZfelixNikolabest albums so far.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/26/best-albums-so-far/2007-12-26T23:19:08+01:002007-12-26T23:19:08+01:00felix<div><p>after making a <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/25/best-concerts-this-year/">best of concerts</a> list for this year, i decided to make a best of albums list for all albums i have bought until now. i divided this up into several categories:</p>
<ul>
<li>prog;</li>
<li>punk/punk rock;</li>
<li>trip hop, alt rock;</li>
<li>other non-metal;</li>
<li>metal: atmospheric;</li>
<li>metal: death/black;</li>
<li>metal: doom;</li>
<li>metal: extreme prog;</li>
<li>metal: folk/pagan/viking;</li>
<li>metal: gothic;</li>
<li>metal: power;</li>
<li>metal: prog;</li>
<li>metal: other.</li>
</ul>
<p>note that this list reflects a snapshot of my current interest and remembrance of most of the albums. it could already be different in a few days. but feel free to comment or discuss this with me.</p>
<h4>prog.</h4>
<ol>
<li>porcupine tree: deadwing.</li>
<li>pure reason revolution: the dark third.</li>
<li>frost: milliontown.</li>
<li>opeth: damnation.</li>
<li>porcupine tree: the sky moves sideways.</li>
</ol>
<h4>punk/punk rock.</h4>
<ol>
<li>die ärzte: die bestie in menschengestalt.</li>
<li>wizo: uuaarrgh!.</li>
<li>die toten hosen: kauf mich!.</li>
<li>die ärzte: planet punk.</li>
<li>die ärzte: 13.</li>
</ol>
<h4>trip hop, alt rock.</h4>
<ol>
<li>kari rueslåtten: other people’s stories.</li>
<li>radiohead: ok computer.</li>
<li>portishead: portishead.</li>
</ol>
<h4>other non-metal.</h4>
<ol>
<li>kari rueslåtten: spindelsinn.</li>
<li>nine inch nails: the downward spiral.</li>
<li>eläkeläiset: humppasirkus.</li>
<li>bohren & der club of gore: black earth.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: atmospheric.</h4>
<ol>
<li>the 3rd and the mortal: tears laid in earth.</li>
<li>finntroll: visor om slutet.</li>
<li>tool: 10 000 days.</li>
<li>anathema: a natural disaster.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: death/black.</h4>
<p>note that i took out the prog death/prog black (avantgarde) albums into its own category, called <i>metal: extreme prog</i>.</p>
<ol>
<li>bolt thrower: those once loyal.</li>
<li>moonspell: the antidote.</li>
<li>wintersun: wintersun.</li>
<li>amorphis: elipse.</li>
<li>childen of bodom: hatebreeder.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: doom.</h4>
<p>i think this is the category where i could have made the longest list. there are many really good albums missing, for example <i>down</i> and <i>love and death</i> by <i>sentenced</i>, the other <i>swallow the sun</i> albums, <i>sunn o)))</i> and <i>boris</i>‘ <i>altar</i>, some <i>candlemass</i> albums, <i>unholy</i>‘s <i>the second ring of power</i>, and some more.</p>
<ol>
<li>sentenced: frozen</li>
<li>swallow the sun: ghosts of loss.</li>
<li>type o negative: world coming down.</li>
<li>tiamat: prey.</li>
<li>unholy: rapture.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: extreme prog.</h4>
<p>this category is dominated by opeth; therefore, i decided to list the top seven instead of the top five.</p>
<ol>
<li>opeth: still life.</li>
<li>orphaned land: mabool — the story of the three sons of seven.</li>
<li>opeth: blackwater park.</li>
<li>distorted: memorial.</li>
<li>opeth: orchid.</li>
<li>borknagar: epic.</li>
<li>edge of sanity: crimson (part one).</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: folk/pagan/viking.</h4>
<ol>
<li>moonsorrow: viides luku: hävitetty.</li>
<li>moonsorrow: verisäkeet.</li>
<li>primordial: to the nameless dead.</li>
<li>finntroll: jaktens tid.</li>
<li>moonsorrow: voimasta ja kunniasta.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: gothic.</h4>
<ol>
<li>lacuna coil: karma code.</li>
<li>tristania: beyond the veil.</li>
<li>lake of tears: a crimson cosmos.</li>
<li>poisonblack: lust stained despair.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: power.</h4>
<ol>
<li>nevermore: dead heart in a dead world.</li>
<li>nevermore: dreaming neon black.</li>
<li>symphony x: paradise lost.</li>
<li>communic: waves of visual decay.</li>
<li>nightwish: oceanborn.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: prog.</h4>
<ol>
<li>dream theater: train of thought.</li>
<li>the gathering: mandylion.</li>
<li>ayreon: the human equation.</li>
<li>dream theater: metropolis pt. 2 — scenes from a memory.</li>
<li>dream theater: images and words.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: other.</h4>
<ol>
<li>timo rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus: hartes land.</li>
<li>rage: lingua mortis.</li>
<li>samael: solar soul.</li>
<li>annihilator: king of the kill.</li>
<li>apocalyptica: cult.</li>
</ol></div>sentenced.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/16/sentenced/2007-08-16T01:45:40+02:002007-08-16T01:45:40+02:00felix<p>during updating my music player, i had to think about which albums to put on it and which ones to delete. my previous playlist was really biased towards heavy and dark music, so i decided to lighten it a bit up. well, at least from the musical side. but nonetheless, i decided to add something more heavy, namely something from <a href="http://www.sentenced.org">sentenced</a>, which was my favorite band for a very long time. i was thinking hard about which album(s) to put on the player. maybe something oldskool from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_from_Here">north from here</a>? it contains the beautiful song <i>northern lights</i>. or maybe the <i>love and death</i> ep, containing classics like <i>love and death</i> (go hand in hand once more) and <i>the way i wanna go</i>. then, there’s the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_%28Sentenced_album%29">down</a> album, my favorite beauties from this one are <i>bleed</i> (to death), <i>sun won’t shine</i> (on me without your love) and the agressive <i>i’ll throw the first rock</i>. well, then there’s the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_%28album%29">frozen</a> album, my first sentenced album after all, and in my opinion still the best one. it contains one of my all time favorite songs, <i>dead leaves</i>. besides that (and many other great songs), it contains the slow rainy ballad <i>the rain comes falling down</i>, <i>grave sweet grave</i> and the (almost) instrumental <i>burn</i> (the pain away). but then, there are also beautiful songs like <i>fragile</i>, <i>dead moon rising</i> and <i>my slowing heart</i> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_%28Sentenced_album%29">crimson</a> album, in particular the latter being so expressive through its monotony. it’s a really sad song, only being topped by <i>no one there</i>, the last song on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_White_Light">the cold white light</a>. <i>no one there</i> is one of the saddest songs i know. (if you have never heard it, consider watching its <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ulTo4s3So">video</a>.) besides this song, <i>the cold white light</i> features some more songs i want to mention: namely <i>cross my heart and hope to die</i> (may my end come tonight), the self-ironic <i>excuse me while i kill myself</i> and the ballad <i>guilt and regret</i>. and, last but not least, there’s sentenced terminal album, fittingly entitled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funeral_Album_%28Sentenced_album%29">the funeral album</a>, which ends the misery with the great, even though more aggressive and more hateful, songs <i>may today become the day</i> (as i plunge into the gray), <i>ever-frost</i>, <i>vengeance is mine</i>, <i>drain me</i> and <i>end of the road</i>. so, there’re a lot of albums to chose from. my final decision was to include exactly the songs mentioned here, instead of a whole album. i’m really looking forward to tomorrow, when i have plenty of time to listen to this great collection of misery. it’s really a tragedy that sentenced is no more. rest in peace.</p>