Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (2007)

Genre: Psychedelic Pop

1. Forever Heavy
2. Jump into My Mouth and Breathe the Stardust
3. Melt Me
4. Lollipopsichord
5. They Live in the Meadow
6. Sun Lips
7. Rollerdisco
8. Neon Syrup for the Cemetery Sisters
9. The Afternoon Turns Pink
10. When the Sun Grows on Your Tongue
11. Spinning Cotton Candy in a Shack Made of Shingles
12. Drippy Eye
13. Lost, Picking Flowers in the Woods
14. Caterpillar House
15. Wall of Gum
16. Untitled Roadside Demo
17. Untitled (Hidden Song)
    

I know it's difficult to take songs with acid-themed titles seriously, but it's really catchy.

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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

Genre: Psychedelic Pop, Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Experimental

1. In The Flowers
2. My Girls
3. Also Frightened
4. Summertime Clothes
5. Daily Routine
6. Bluish
7. Guys Eyes
8. Taste
9. Lion In a Coma
10. No More Runnin
11. Brother Sport
    

I know it's a pitchfork album, but it's still great music.

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Lotus - Nomad (2004)

Genre: Trance Fusion, Jam Band

1. Suitcases
2. Llivingston Storm
3. Spiritualize
4. Plant Your Root
5. Travel
6. Greet the Mind
7. Ball Energy
8. Jump Off
9. Colorado
   

A very relaxed, almost psychedelic album.

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Cynic - Traced in Air (2008)

Genre: Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal

1. Nunc Fluens
   
2. The Space for This
3. Evolutionary Sleeper
4. Integral Birth
5. The Unknown Guest
6. Adam's Murmur
7. King of Those Who Know
8. Nunc Stans
   

Cynic is not your average metal band. Since releasing their debut (and only other album) in 1994, their sound has evolved into one of the most complex I've ever heard.

And the voice effects.

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Boxcutter - Glyphic (2007)

Genre: Dubstep

1. Glyphic
2. Windfall
3. Bug Octet
4. Rusty Break
5. J Dub
6. Chiral
7. Kaleid
   
8. Bloscid
9. Foxy
10. Lunal
11. Fieldtrip
    

An IDM and acid-like dubstep album.

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The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (2005)

Genre: Progressive Rock, Experimental

1. Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus
2. The Widow
3. L'Via L'Viaquez
4. Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore
5. Cassandra Gemini
   

The Mars Volta is a fairly well-known band, which is odd for an experimental group.

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Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (1996)

Genre: Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Pop

1. Song Against Sex
2. You've Passed
3. Someone Is Waiting
4. A Baby for Pree
5. Marching Theme
6. Where You'll Find Me Now
   
7. Avery Island/April 1st
8. Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone
9. Three Peaches
10. Naomi
11. April 8th
12. Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye

There are always psychedelic undertones in NMH, and this album has much more of them than Aeroplane. An enjoyable listen.

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Here's an alternative cover for the hipsters, and a back cover for whatever reason (in order respectively):

Also, this blog needs a huge design overhaul, anyone have any suggestions?

Dreamsploitation - The Soft Focus Sound of Today (2008)

Genre: Electronic, Experimental

1. The Night Everything Changed
2. Status Bloody Status
3. Anxious Lullaby
4. Major Seventh Gates
5. Monochrome
6. Family
7. Continue to Dream, if Only Sleeping
8. The Soft Focus Sound of Today
9. Creating Love and Happiness out of the Noir - the Melancholy
10. Our Future Salad Days
11. Our Very Own Harmonized Quilt
12. Grandfather by My Shoulder
13. Flashback, Temporal Bliss, Flashback
14. Death to the Chuck I Hate
    

Although largely off-color, The Soft Focus Sound of Today is a nice, quaint album.

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Nero's Day At Disneyland - From Rotting Fantasylands (2009)

Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Breakcore

1. In Aisles
2. Civilizing People
3. No Money Down, Low Monthly Payments
4. Child Protection Services Theme Song
5. Charging Swarm Of Mousketeers
6. Everything Must Go
7. Death Parade
8. Action Winter Journey
9. Stretched Linen Over Contorted Bodies
10. Eulogy For Nick Galvas
11. In Keyed Shields
12. Probably End Up In A Ditch Somewhere
13. Plumes Of ATM Sinew
14. Vengeance In Cloudland
15. Sprawling Idiot Effigy

This is some very experimental electronic with hints of breakcore. It's a very fun listen.

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Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun (1999)

Genre: Post-Rock

1. Intro
2. Svefn-g-englar
3. Starálfur
4. Flugufrelsarinn
5. Ný batterí
6. Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)
7. Viðrar vel til loftárása
8. Olsen Olsen
9. Ágætis byrjun
10. Avalon
    

Another great post-rock album, this one more well-known than the others.

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Koji Kondo - Hyrule Symphony (1999)

Genre: Soundtrack

1. Title
2. Kokiri Forest
3. Hyrule Field
4. Hyrule Castle
5. Lon Lon Ranch
6. Kakariko Village
7. Death Mountain
8. Zora's Domain
9. Gerudo Valley
10. Ganondorf
11. Princess Zelda
12. Ocarina Medley
13. The Legend of Zelda Medley
14. Market
    

To make up for a recent dry spell of posts, I bring you a slightly gimmicky album, but excellent nonetheless. Seriously, who doesn't like the Legend of Zelda?

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Moving Mountains - Pneuma (2007)

Genre: Emo, Post-Rock

1. Aphelion
2. Cover The Roots, Lower The Stems
3. Alastika
4. Fourth
5. 8105
6. Bottom Feeder
7. Sol Solis
8. Grow On, Grow Up, Grow Out
9. The Earth And The Sun
10. Ode We Will Bury Ourselves
    

Highly recommended for fans of My Heart to Joy, Pneuma is a nice balance of emo and post-rock elements.

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Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs (2009)

Genre: Post-Punk, Shoegaze, Black Metal

1. Gas in Veins
2. Les Ruches Malades
3. Heurt
4. Recueillement
5. Faux Semblants
6. Trouble (Éveils Infâmes)
7. I XIII V XIX XV V XXI XVIII XIX – IX XIX – IV V I IV
8. Video Girl
9. La Reine Trayeuse
10. Amesoeurs
11. Au Crépuscule de Nos Rêves
    

Don't be deterred by any of the genres listed.. I simply didn't have anything else to call them. Amesoeurs reminds me of Agalloch with a softer sound.

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Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (2008)

Genre: Electronic, Experimental

1. Untrust Us
2. Alice Practice
3. Crimewave
4. Magic Spells
5. XXZXCUZX Me
6. Air War
7. Courtship Dating
8. Good Time
9. 1991
10. Vanished
11. Knights
12. Love and Caring
13. Through the Hosiery
14. Reckless
15. Black Panther
16. Tell Me What to Swallow
    

Crystal Castles is a mix of Atari bleeps and beats, with a fantastic result.

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Agalloch - Pale Folklore (1999)

Genre: Folk Metal, Doom Metal, Black Metal

1. She Painted Fire Across the Skyline I
2. She Painted Fire Across the Skyline II
3. She Painted Fire Across the Skyline III
4. The Misshapen Steed
5. Hallways of Enchanted Ebony
6. Dead Winter Days
7. As Embers Dress the Sky
8. The Melancholy Spirit
   

This album features a lot less post-rock and neofolk then The Mantle. It's much more of a real 'metal' sound. It's definitely recommended to anyone who liked The Mantle.

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Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)

Genre: Indie Rock, Folk Rock

1. Roscoe
2. Bandits
3. Head Home
4. Van Occupanther
5. Young Bride
6. Branches
7. In This Camp
8. We Gathered in Spring
9. It Covers the Hillsides
10. Chasing After Deer
11. You Never Arrived
    

A nice, relatively quaint album.

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Tenhi - Kauan (1999)

Genre: Dark Neofolk

1. Näkin Laulu
2. Huomen
3. Revontulet
4. Hallavedet
5. Etäisyyksien Taa
6. Lualuin Sinulle
7. Taival
8. Souto

This style of what I call 'dark neofolk' reminds me of Agalloch with a slightly more acoustic sound.

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[Non-Music] Removed Albums

As you may have noticed, albums have been starting to get removed by way of copyright claims. This (continuously updated) list marks all the ones which have, so far, been removed.

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Deadmau5 - Random Album Title

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998)

Genre: Electronic

1. Wildlife Analysis
2. An Eagle in Your Mind
3. The Color of the Fire
4. Telephasic Workshop
5. Triangles & Rhombuses
6. Sixtyten
7. Turqoise Hexagon Sun
8. Kaini Industries
9. Bocuma
10. Roygbiv
11. Rue the Whirl
12. Aquarius
13. Olson
14. Pete Standing Alone
15. Smokes Quantity
16. Open the Light
17. One Very Important Thought
18. Happy Cycling
    

Although I try not to use the term 'IDM', it definitely describes this music. there's a lot more of it on this blog.

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King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

Genre: Progressive Rock

1. 21st Century Schizoid Man
2. I Talk to the Wind
3. Epitaph
4. Moonchild
5. The Court of the Crimson King
   

Most of these tracks are a few songs combined into one, all edited together.

As for the content itself, In the Court of the Crimson King is definitely a progressive rock classic. Listen to it, it's really quite good.

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Air France - No Way Down (2008)

Genre: Electronic

1. Maundy Thursday
2. June Evenings
3. Collapsing at Your Doorstep
4. No Excuses
5. No Way Down
6. Windmill Wedding
   

No Way Down is a very warm and tropical album. It's like sunshine and happiness in a CD case (or, in this case, a mediafire link).

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[Non-Music] Recommended Albums

Check the tag 'recommended' for the best albums of the blog.

So far we have:

jj - jj n° 2
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/08/jj-jj-n-2-2009.html

The Antlers - Hospice
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/08/antlers-hospice-2009.html

The Flashbulb - Kirlian Selections
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/07/flashbulb-kirlian-selections-2005.html

Ozric Tentacles - The Yumyum Tree
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/07/ozric-tentacles-yumyum-tree-2009.html

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/07/genre-indie-king-of-carrot-flowers-pt.html

Agalloch - The Mantle
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/07/agalloch-mantle-2002.html

Agalloch - Pale Folklore
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/08/agalloch-pale-folklore-1999.html

Cynic - Traced In Air
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/10/cynic-traced-in-air-2008.html

The Antlers - Hospice (2009)

Genre: Indie Rock

1. Prologue
2. Kettering
3. Sylvia
4. Atrophy
5. Bear
6. Thirteen
7. Two
8. Shiva
9. Wake
10. Epilogue
    

This is the shit that makes grown men cry.

;_;

The guy who wrote this wrote it after years of social isolation in New York. It's the story of a man watching his wife die of bone cancer. A very minimalistic but well-made album.

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Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I (2007)

Genre: Electronic, Ambient

1. Stella
2. Write Once, Run Melos
   

The tracks are 25 and 35 minutes long.

"This shit's like listening to a journey."
-Anonymous

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Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)

Genre: Industrial, Shoegaze

1. A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticutt
2. Bloodhail
3. The Big Gloom
4. Hunter
5. Telephony
6. Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun
7. There is No Food
8. Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail
9. Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000
10. Deep, Deep
11. The Future
12. I Don't Love
13. Earthmover
    

This album definitely has a nice noisy and dark sound. It is also definitely not for everyone.

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Tool - Ænima (1996)

Genre: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Alternative Metal

1. Stinkfist
2. Eulogy
3. H.
4. Useful Idiot
5. Forty-Six & 2
6. Message to Harry Manback
7. Hooker With a Penis
8. Intermission
9. Jimmy
10. Die Eier von Satan
11. Pushit
12. Cesaro Summability
13. Ænema
14. (-) Ions
15. Third Eye
    

Though you all may already have this, it's still a good album. Anyone who doesn't have it yet should probably get it.

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Foxhole - We the Wintering Tree (2004)

Genre: Post-Rock

1. A Series of Springs and Falls
2. The End of Dying
3. Dead Rimes
4. Spectacle
   
5. Lent
6. At Right Angles
7. A Children's Canto
8. Lamentation
9. A Lion in Winter / Long Live the King
10. Through Bone and Marrow
    

I love a good post-rock album, and I have to say, this is a fine example of one. It puts a new spin on concepts seen in regular rock, with a very good outcome.

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Jupiter One - Jupiter One (2007)

Genre: Indie Rock, Synth Pop

1. Intro for Ani Enorda
2. Countdown
3. Moon Won't Turn
4. Unglued
5. Mystery Man
6. Turn Up the Radio
7. Platform Moon
8. Wrong Line
9. Fire Away
10. Kamikaze Pilots
11. Way to the Floating Hospital / The Miracle of Flight
12. Umbrellas
13. Summer Song
    

This seems to be a great album for trying out synth pop. It's quite catchy.

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Kylesa - Static Tensions (2009)

Genre: Sludge Metal, Doom Metal

1. Scapegoat
2. Insomnia for Months
3. Said and Done
4. Unknown Awareness
5. Running Red
   
6. Nature's Predators
   
7. Almost Lost
   
8. Only One
   
9. Perception
   
10. To Walk Alone
    

Kylesa's music is hard to describe, as it possesses elements from many different genres, while still having a sludgy sound.

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jj - jj n° 2 (2009)

Genre: Electronic

1. things will never be the same again
2. from africa to málaga
   
3. ecstasy
   
4. are you still in vallda?
   
5. my love
   
6. intermezzo
   
7. my hopes and dreams
   
8. masterplan
   
9. me & dean
   

Sorry for the wait.

jj is quite the odd group. Nearly nothing is known about their members or location, but they have already garnered attention in the short time that they've existed. This is a good, fun, and uplifting album that everyone should give at least a try.

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Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery (2008)

Genre: Death Metal

1. At the Behest of Their Death
2. Process of Disillumination
3. Slaughtering the Will to Live
4. Mock the Cross
5. Treasonous
6. Iesous
7. Drink From the Cup of Heresy
8. Devouring the Feeble
9. Earthrot
10. Hades Rising
11. Wretched Human Mirror

The Fathomless Mastery is a catchy piece by a band with pretty well-reputed members. It's definitely worth a listen for any death metal fan.

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Cirque du Soleil - Varekai (2002)

Genre: New Age

1. Acrobatic Pas de Deux
2. Aerial Straps
3. Flight of Icarus
4. Handbalancing on Canes
5. Icarian Games
6. Juggling
7. Lezginka
8. Russian Swings
9. Slippery Surface
10. Solo on Crutches
11. Theme
12. Triple Trapeze
13. Water Meteors
    

I've been waiting to post this. This is a soundtrack to the Cirque du Soleil show Varekai, ripped by yours truly. It is the live version, since the album one isn't that great. The songs are named after their respective acts.

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My Heart to Joy - Seasons in Verse (2009)

Genre: Emo

1. Time Spent Breathing
2. Empty Homes
3. Seasons in Verse
4. All Life is Coming Home
5. Worn Out Weather
6. Giving My Hands Away
7. Serpent Bearer
8. Old Capitals
9. Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
10. Thistly Corner of the Forest
11. Watch Me Live
    

Another excellent album by an un-well known band. A very classic and good sound.

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Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (2004)

Genre: Dance-Punk

1. Turn it Out
2. Romantic Rights
3. Going Steady
4. Go Home, Get Down
5. Blood on Our Hands
6. Black History Month
   
7. Little Girl
8. Cold War
9. You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
10. Pull Out
11. Sexy Results
    

Although this is a weird and off-color album for this blog, it still sounds very good.

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Wisp - The Shimmering Hour (2009)

Genre: Electronic

1. Teddy Oggie
2. Picatrix
3. Keeper of the Hills
4. Hexenringe
5. Cultus Klatawa
6. Katabatic
7. Summoner's Hollow
8. World Rim Walker
9. The Shaper
10. Hidebehind
11. The Fire Above
12. Winter of Flight
13. Seaway Trail
14. Flat Rock

A very IDM-like electronic album.

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The Flashbulb - Kirlian Selections (2005)

Genre: Electronic, Breakcore

1. Eyes of June
2. Binedump
3. Passage D
4. Lawn Wake IX
5. Mellann
6. Kirlian Isles I
7. Kirlian Isles II
8. Dishevel
9. My Life of Loving Ghosts
10. Kirlian Shores
11. At One Last Night
12. Blackout
13. Creep
14. Autumn Insomnia Session
15. Shortcuts
16. Kirlian Choices
17. OFE Highways
18. IPSE Highways
19. Dakota June
20. Parkways
21. Lifeless Indoors
22. Six Months Without Light
23. [Untitled]
    
24. California Dreaming
    
25. Kirlian Changes
26. Kirlian Isles III
27. Miles and Miles
28. Five Karots

This album absolutely blew me away when I first listened to it. It is a must for anyone who likes electronic, let alone breakcore.

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Ozric Tentacles - The Yumyum Tree (2009)

Genre: Space Rock, New Age,Instrumental, Psychedelic Rock

1. Magick Valley
2. Oddwierd
3. Mooncalf
4. Oolong Oolong
5. Yumyum Tree
6. Plant Music
7. Nakuru
8. San Pedro
   

Ozric Tentacles is an odd little psychedelic group with an amazing sound. I would almost call this ambient, just because it's so easy to listen to.

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Kalisia - Cybion (2009)

Genre: Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal

1. Introduction / Domination
2. Reception / Translation
3. Union / Construction
4. Declaration / Revolution
5. Division / Integration
6. Fusion / Rebellion
   
7. Violation / Condemnation
8. Education / Deification
9. Isolation / Liberation
10. Destination / Alteration
11. Damnation / Seclusion
12. Illusion / Desperation
    
13. Resolution / Protection
14. Reconstruction / Intrusion
15. Confrontation / Communication
16. Activation / Production
17. Confusion / Resurrection
18. Realization / Penetration
19. Disconnection / Comprehension
20. Salvation / Connection

Cybion is one long song, split into many different tracks. Although some parts of it resemble melodeath perfectly, there still seems to be a balance between the progressive and melodic parts of the album.

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Opeth - Still Life (1999)

Genre: Progressive Metal, Death Metal

1. The Moor
2. Godhead's Lament
3. Benighted
4. Moonlapse Vertigo
5. Face of Melinda
   
6. Serenity Painted Death
7. White Cluster

Still Life was recorded at Opeth's peak, and it truly reflects that. This album is a classic, and every metal fan should have it.

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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea (1998)

Genre: Indie Rock

1. The King of Carrot Flowers pt. 1
   
2. The King of Carrot Flowers pts. 2 & 3
3. In the Aeroplane over the Sea
4. Two-Headed Boy
5. The Fool
6. Holland, 1945
   
7. Communist Daughter
8. Oh Comely
9. Ghost
10. The Penny Arcade in California
11. Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two

This album has retained popularity despite its age, and for good reason. I know 'indie' really isn't a genre, but I don't know how else to describe it. Just download it.

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Burzum - Filosofem (1996)

Genre: Dark Ambient, Black Metal

1. Dunkelheit
2. Jesus' tod
   
3. Erblicket die Töchter des Firmaments
4. Gebrechlichkeit I
5. Rundgang um die transzendentale Säule der Singularität
6. Gebrechlichkeit II

Burzum was one of the cornerstones of the original Norwegian black metal scene. Filosofem has an extremely raw sound, as "No guitar amplifier is used, Varg plugged his guitar into his brother's stereo with a 1/4" plug and used an old fuzz pedal. He had asked a sound technician for the worst microphone he possessed and Varg used the microphone on a headset."

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Agalloch - The Mantle (2002)

Genre: Black Metal, Doom Metal, Post-Rock, Dark Folk, Folk Metal

1. A Celebration for the Death of Man…
2. In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
3. Odal
4. I Am the Wooden Doors
5. The Lodge
6. You Were but a Ghost in My Arms
7. The Hawthorne Passage
   
8. …and the Great Cold Death of the Earth
9. A Desolation Song

I named the blog after this album. It's nothing short of a masterpiece for anyone who enjoys metal. The songs fit together perfectly, and it's some of the most entertaining music I've ever really listened to.

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Emancipator - Soon It Will Be Cold Enough (2006)

Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Hip Hop, Trip-Hop

1. Eve
   
2. Soon It Will Be Cold Enough To Build Fires
   
3. First Snow
   
4. Wolf Drawn
5. Smoke Signals
6. When I Go
7. Periscope Up
8. With Rainy Eyes
9. Good Knight
10. Lionheart
11. Maps
12. Father King
13. The Darkest Evening Of The Year
    

Soon It Will Be Cold Enough incorporates many different genres of music into one album, from Ambient Hip-Hop to undertones of jazz. Every electronic fan deserves to listen to this.

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