| 1. Early Riser |
| 2. Sailor Song |
| 3. Evil and Cruel |
| 4. Day of Doom |
| 5. Andrea |
| 6. Earth |
| 7. Me and My Momma |
| 8. Brighter Side |
Day of Doom,Crack,Radioactive,Rock,Rock/Pop
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Day of Reckoning
Pentagram Manufacturer: Peaceville UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007YNRKY Release Date: 2005-08-08 |
Tracks:
- Day Of Reckoning
- Evil Seed
- Broken Vows
- When The Screams Come
- Burning Savior
- Madman
- Wartime
Product Description
1. Day Of Reckoning
2. Evil Seed
3. Broken Vows
4. When The Screams Come
5. Burning Saviour
6. Madman
7. Wartime
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
Killer album.......2005-09-05
5/5 for good guitar, bass, drums and vocals.
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Special Herbs & Spices Volume 1
MF Doom , and MF Grimm Manufacturer: Day By Day Entertainment ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00029RRWI Release Date: 2004-05-11 |
Tracks:
- Intro
- No Snakes Alive pt. 3
- Superhero
- 1000 Degrees
- War Paint
- 10 Years Later
- Bottle Rocket
- Rain Blood pt. 2
- Stress Box
- Tick Tick pt. 2
- Shifting Lanes feat. Kurious
- Tonight's Show feat. Invisible Man + Lord Smog (M.I.C.)
- Outro
- Bonus Track: My Love
Customer Reviews:
Special Herbs & Spices (beats & rhymes).......2006-07-14
Some of the tracks seem a little rushed with the rhymes... but I was told he freestyled a good portion of this. Other M.I.C. members make cameos along with Fat Man Scoop who psudo hosts the LP, which leads to the following questions.
Is it an album? A mix-tape? Don't know. It kind of falls inbetween the two as it's an entity of its own, but also a promotion for Grimm's triple LP "American Hunger."
If you're a HUGE Doom fan you might be dissapointed due to the metal faced villan not being on a single track and have hearing these beats before. But, if your a fan of Grimm and are looking for the closest thing to a colab LP outside of their split EP or Iblys... cop this joint.
POOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-11-12
A manic monday and a plate of gritty ol' meatloaf............2005-08-17
Why Is Grimm So Slept On?.......2005-05-01
Great Duo.......2005-04-05
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Brave Murder Day
Katatonia Manufacturer: Century Media ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005HNY Release Date: 1997-09-23 |
Tracks:
- Brave
- Murder
- Day
- Rainroom
- 12
- Endtime
- Funeral Wedding
- Shades OF Emerald Fields
- For Funerals To Come
- Epistel
Customer Reviews:
The Best Doom/Death Album. Period........2006-11-11
Katatonia's finest moment. Hypnotic, emotional and beautiful!.......2006-08-01
Every time I put "Brave Murder Day" on it captivates me. The band utilizes minor keys consistently to grasp at my emotions and beautiful harmonies that make me feel like weeping with happiness. They use hypnotic repetitious themes to get under my skin, and then various interludes and slight changeups to hold me in a state of trance-like rapture.
Blackheim and Fredrik's guitar work is absolutely awesome. Their mid paced riffing and lead work is what makes "Brave Murder Day" work so astoundingly well. They manage to create an extremely dark and desperate mood, without ever plodding into boredom territory. Borrowing Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth for vocal duties, whom I consider to be one of metal's best vocalists, only adds to the brilliance with his tortured guttural outbursts taking their previous sound to a totally new level. Jonas' drumming deserves mention also. While he never reaches high levels of technicality, he proves that less is more when it comes to death / doom metal, adding minor double bass sections and cymbal variances regularly, yet at all the right times to be effective.
If you have even the slightest tendencies towards doomy death metal, then "Brave Murder Day" is a completely essential album, sitting at the very top of the genre alongside My Dying Bride and Saturnus. It also stands as one of my very favourite albums of any genre...ever! Future Katatonia albums would travel a different path (one less aggressive, yet still filled with loss and despair), which I can only see as a fairly decent decision, as it would be futile to even attempt to make a better album in this style than "Brave Murder Day".
Might just be my favourite album of all time.......2006-04-18
The first track, "Brave," is an epic, ten minute peice that must be the most accomplished song on the album. It cycles through riffs in an almost orchestral way and is practically hypnotic. For ten minutes it draws you in and does not let go. Another personal favourite of mine is the haunting ballad, "Day," which may just be one of the most beautiful songs ever written. It's lonely and dark, and certainly the most emotionally affecting song that Katatonia has ever released.
The indisputable Katatonia masterpiece.......2006-04-06
For their second full-length album, the band decided to enlist the help of their friend Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth to do the vocals, since Jonas Renkse was unable to produce any harsh vocals at the time. I've always argued that Brave Murder Day contains Mikael Akerfeldt's best vocal peformance (outside Opeth that is), as he's never sung with so much pain and emotion before or after. He sure has improved a lot over the years, both as a growler and clean singer, but his vocals on this album are unparalleled.
The album starts with the 10-minute "Brave", perhaps the most definitive Brave Murder Day song. Grey guitar lines slowly dissolve during tense, mournful passages thanks to the distant, simple production of Opeth's and Katatonia's earlier producer Dan Swano. The whole album is laced with repeated key themes, which show little variation on the following songs, giving the impression that they are just parts of a huge composition a la Edge of Sanity's Crimson (also featuring Mikael Akerfeldt as a guest). The growls on the piece are low and sound extremely tortured, climaxing during the line that says, "Wherever you are I am not". That is possibly Mikael Akerfeldt's longest and most emotional scream ever recorded. Add to this Blackheim's haunting guitar melody that keeps churning forever. Thus, a doom-death metal masterpiece is complete. "Murder" is perhaps the most simple cut on the album. Only half as long, slowly strummed guitar chords and a repetitive melody bring the piece an added clarity while Akerfeldt delivers the lyrics with utmost conviction.
"Day" features Jonas Renkse's clean voice from start to finish. Since Renkse played the drums on Brave Murder Day, they decided to use a static drum machine for this particular song. The guitars are repetitive in a hypnotic fashion. Granted Renkse has come a long way as singer over the last years (particularly from Last Fair Deal Gone Down onwards), his vocals on this track are very emotive and the "Let's stay here for a while" chorus is infectious. On the final track "Endtime", Renkse and Akerfeldt sing together, with Akerfeldt doing the growls (do I have to repeat you've never heard him growl like this before?) and Renkse the clean vocals. Mostly acoustic, the song bears effective guitar waves and a solemn, gloomy pace. On the other hand, "Rainroom" has a nice yet dark acoustic interlude and a very powerful guitar theme. "12" is the album's most progressive number, and in many ways similar to the first two Opeth albums, particularly Morningrise. The Dan Swano influence is impossible to overlook here, as the songs goes through several movements, ignoring any conventional songwriting formulas. The intro of this song is simply fantastic: utterly dark, it even destroys the smallest glimpse of hope. Huge, cascading doom riffs explode only to reinvent themselves with ever-changing chord progressions (though it's all done so subtly that you may not understand anything upon first listen).
If you get the re-release of Brave Murder Day, you'll also hear the For Funerals to Come EP, consisting of four tracks, featuring original singer Jonas Renkse. This is a great EP with some great songs, but Renkse's harsh vocals simply pale in comparison to Akerfeldt's, both on this album and its successor: the Sounds of Decay EP.
All in all, this album is easily a milestone in doom-death and quite possibly the favourite album of most Katatonia fans.
Opeth meets The Cure... emphasis on Opeth on this album...........2006-03-13
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Brave Murder Day
Katatonia Manufacturer: Peaceville UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000IHYTRK Release Date: 2006-11-20 |
Tracks:
- Brave
- Murder
- Day
- Rainroom
- 12
- Endtime
- Nowhere
- At Last
- Inside the Fall
Album Description
2006 reissue of one of the most important and revered Gothic/Doom Metal albums ever released featuring bonus tracks. Originally released in 1996, this was Swedish Metal monsters Katatonia's sophomore album and proved to be their breakthrough. Also included as bonus tracks is their Sounds Of Decay EP, released in 1997. Peaceville.Album Details
Undoubtedly their Breakthrough Album, Originally Released Way Back in 1996, 'brave Murder Day' is as Fresh Today as it was Then. The Primitive Structures and Melodies Give this Album an Unparalleled Trance-like Quality, by Taking a Strong Early Paradise Lost Influence and Forming a Completely Unique Sound. The Majority of the Vocal Duties, in a More Guttural Death Metal Style, were Carried Out by a Certain Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth, While Jonas Renkse Delivered the More Touching Heartfelt Vocals that He is Re-known for Today on the Ethereal Track 'day' (Also Showing their Influence by Non-metal Acts Such as the Cure), as Well as Playing Drums on the Album. 'brave Murder Day' was Recorded at Unisound, Sweden, in July 1996, and was Engineered by Dan Swano (Marduk, Dark Funeral, Dissection). This Re-issue also Includes the 'sounds of Decay' EP from 1997, Again featuring Mikael Akerfeldt on Vocals.Customer Reviews:
Katatonia's finest moment. Hypnotic, emotional and beautiful!.......2007-02-25
Every time I put "Brave Murder Day" on it captivates me. The band utilizes minor keys consistently to grasp at my emotions and beautiful harmonies that make me feel like weeping with happiness. They use hypnotic repetitious themes to get under my skin, and then various interludes and slight changeups to hold me in a state of trance-like rapture.
Blackheim and Fredrik's guitar work is absolutely awesome. Their mid paced riffing and lead work is what makes "Brave Murder Day" work so astoundingly well. They manage to create an extremely dark and desperate mood, without ever plodding into boredom territory. Borrowing Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth for vocal duties, whom I consider to be one of metal's best vocalists, only adds to the brilliance with his tortured guttural outbursts taking their previous sound to a totally new level. Jonas' drumming deserves mention also. While he never reaches high levels of technicality, he proves that less is more when it comes to death / doom metal, adding minor double bass sections and cymbal variances regularly, yet at all the right times to be effective.
If you have even the slightest tendencies towards doomy death metal, then "Brave Murder Day" is a completely essential album, sitting at the very top of the genre alongside My Dying Bride and Saturnus. It also stands as one of my very favourite albums of any genre...ever! Future Katatonia albums would travel a different path (one less aggressive, yet still filled with loss and despair), which I can only see as a fairly decent decision, as it would be futile to even attempt to make a better album in this style than "Brave Murder Day".
Note : When "Brave Murder Day" was originally released, it surprisingly had not been mastered at all. It has finally been mastered for this 2006 digipak version and while it's not hugely different sounding, the result is a positive one. As a bonus, it also contains the three tracks off the "Sounds of Decay" EP. It's suitable to find these tracks alongside "Brave Murder Day" as they contain a very similar sound and also include Mikael Akerfeldt on vocals. If you don't own either of these releases, then I suggest you snap this up immediately. If you own "Brave Murder Day" already but not "Sounds of Decay", then I suggest getting the "Brave Yester Days" compilation instead which contains all three tracks plus a whole bunch more.
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Day of Doom
Crack Manufacturer: Radioactive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0006BI12W Release Date: 2006-03-31 |
Tracks:
- Early Riser
- Sailor Song
- Evil and Cruel
- Day of Doom
- Andrea
- Earth
- Me and My Momma
- Brighter Side
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A New Day
Sinamore Manufacturer: Napalm ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000CNEOLQ Release Date: 2006-02-21 |
Tracks:
- Follow Into The Cry
- Crimson Leaf
- Sleeping Away
- Darkness Of Day
- My Rain
- Fallen
- Misery Carnival
- A New Day
- Drama For Two
- The Art Of Regret
Album Description
Bittersweet, biting, melancholic, and majestic: All this, and much more, describes Sinamore's debut album, A New Day. Perhaps drawing their influences from the sullen yet hopeful Finnish persona, Sinamore provocatively challenge the likes of H.I.M. and Sentenced for the crown of inspired mope-metal, their songwriting seamless and irrefutably infectious. Discover the genre's best-kept secret before a Hollywood-bound pro skateboarder does!Album Description
Sinamore have also joined the Napalm Records artist roster. The 4 young Finns have managed to create a catchy, guitar-oriented form of Gothic rock. Their debut album A New Day was mixed by Anssi Kippo (To Die For, Lullacry, Entwine, Children Of Bodom, etc..) at Astia Studios, Finland. Napalm. 2006.Customer Reviews:
Finland goth-beauty.......2006-12-13
Finnish brilliance.......2006-08-24
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Handel: Susanna (Highlights); Theodora (Highlights)
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000APHO5 Release Date: 2003-11-11 |
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Theophany: The Book of Elevations
Manufacturer: Day By Day Entertainment ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0001E5T38 Release Date: 2004-02-04 |
Tracks:
- Intro
- The Conqueror
- F.E.D.'s
- No Snakes Alive Pt. II featuring Shaman
- Roll Call featuring Kong, Kamackeris and Gigan
- War In Heaven Pt. 1
- Erotic Peaks
- Flight Lessons
- Sumthin To Prove (Remix)
- No Degrees
- War In Heaven Prt. II
- The Wilderness
- G.O.D.
- Human Inquisition
- Outro
- Century 21 featuring Megalon
- Run the Sphere v.2.3 featuring Kong, Loch Ness, Megalon, King Ceasar, Kamackeris, MF Doom and MF Grimm
- Ability to Speak
Album Description
Debut album from Rodan of Monsta Island Czars. One of the original members of KMD, Rodan is best known for his guest appearances on MF Doom's "Operation: Doomsday", Viktor Vaughn's "Vaudeville Villain", "No Snakes Alive" with MF Doom and MF Grimm and most recently was featured on many tracks on the Monsta Island Czars debut "Escape from Monsta Island". "Theophany: The Book of Elevations" features production from X-Ray of Monsta Island Czars and guests appearances by MF Doom, MF Grimm, Megalon and Monsta Island Czars.Customer Reviews:
Sky is the limit for this highly recommendation!!!.......2007-05-23
"A faker with no respect for the underground"
<-------????????? these are the words of an idiot .......2006-03-07
the monsta island czar
then you already know Rodan <--------2
is one of the most gifted lyrisist in the rap game
some idiot wrote below that Rodan sounded like a bad RBL or something.....???!!
yeah right....
and this kid said rodan was biting some rock bands name....?????
I'd like to fight this person now
If you listen to some stupid "indie" rock or whatever then don't even bother with Rodan
he wouldn't make sence to you
for those of you that appreciate quality hip hop
let me excuse this reviewer of which I speak
for saying things that hold no real insight
"a faker with no respect for the underground"
is a good description of the person who said this of RODAN.
RODAN
is a REAL <-- rapper FROM <--- the UNDERGROUND <-- hip-hop scene
of a stagnated NYC...!!!!!!!!! M.I.C. 4ever....!!!!!!!!
BY THE TIME IT'S OVER NO SNAKES ALIVE
the best that monsta island has to offer..........2006-02-18
Ignorant.......2005-10-13
Straight Fire.......2005-09-18
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Handel: Susanna
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000007FD Release Date: 1995-07-18 |
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Handel: Susanna [Highlights]
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000007J4 Release Date: 1997-11-11 |
Tracks:
- How Long, Oh Lord, Shall Israel Groan? - U.C. Berkeley Chm Chor/Philip Brett
- When Thou Art Nigh - Drew Minter/Lorraine Hunt
- Peace Crown'd With Roses - U.C. Berkeley Chm Chor/Philip Brett
- The Parent Bird In Search Of Food - Drew Minter
- What Means/Bending To The Throne Of Glory - Lorraine Hunt
- Ye Verdant Hills, Ye Balmy Vales - Jeffrey Thomas
- The Oak That For A Thousand Years - David Thomas
- Righteous Heav'n Beholds Their Guile - U.C. Berkeley Chm Chor/Philip Brett
- Crystal Streams In Murmurs Flowing - Lorraine Hunt
- Deceitful Wolves!/Away, Away! - U.C. Berkeley Chm Chor/Philip Brett
- If Guiltless Blood Be Your Intent - Lorraine Hunt
- Chastity, Thou Cherub Bright - Jill Feldman
- Raise Your Voice To Sounds Of Joy/Bless'd Be The Day That Gave Susanna Birth! - U.C. Berkeley Chm Chor/Philip Brett
- Guilt Trembling Spoke My Doom - Lorraine Hunt
- To My Chaste Susanna's Praise - Drew Minter/Lorraine Hunt
- A Virtuous Wife Shall Soften Fortune's Frown - U.C. Berkeley Chm Chor/Philip Brett
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