spielwiese. (Posts about mabool.)https://spielwiese.fontein.de/tag/mabool.atom2019-11-17T10:45:25ZfelixNikolabest albums this year.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/26/best-albums-this-year/2007-12-26T23:31:51+01:002007-12-26T23:31:51+01:00felix<div><p>this will be the last best-of-list for this year. this time, i want to list the albums which influenced and intrigued me most during this year. this time, in chronological order.</p>
<ol>
<li>moonsorrow: <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/09/02/viides-luku-hvitetty-by-moonsorrow/">viides luku: hävitetty</a>.</li>
<li>moonsorrow: verisäkeet.</li>
<li>timo rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus: hartes land.</li>
<li>finntroll: <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/12/visor-om-slutet-by-finntroll/">visor om slutet</a>.</li>
<li>distorted: <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/memorial-by-distorted/">memorial</a>.</li>
<li>orphaned land: mabool — the story of the three sons of seven.</li>
<li><a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/10/09/swallow-the-sun/">swallow the sun</a>: ghosts of loss.</li>
<li>bolt thrower: those once loyal.</li>
<li>the 3rd and the mortal: <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/05/the-3rd-and-the-mortal/">tears laid in earth</a>.</li>
<li>rage: <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/11/lingua-mortis/">lingua mortis</a>.</li>
<li>kari rueslåtten: other people’s stories.</li>
<li>primordial: to the nameless dead.</li>
</ol></div>best 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>