Death-related albums

Started by wash in blood, November 28, 2022, 05:03:36 AM

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wash in blood

I'm interested in albums that are thematically about death. Anything heavily inspired or influenced by death as a concept/idea, or that evokes feelings related to dying/death/death anxiety/etc. I was reading interviews with PORTAL and also DEATHSPELL OMEGA and both bands seemed to indicate death was either something they wanted to manifest sonically or had a role in their creative process.

I'd rather not confine myself to just metal so any genre will do, noise, metal or otherwise.

Andrew McIntosh

Start with Brighter Death Now and Atrax Morgue.

Further afield, there's Elaine Radigue's "Trilogy of Death".

Just with those names alone you can be set up for life.
Shikata ga nai.

WCN

CON-DOM - How Welcome Is Death to I Who Have Nothing More to Do but Die
Harsh Noise label and EU based distro of American Imports
https://whitecentipedenoise.com/

TS

Quote from: WCN on November 28, 2022, 11:37:31 AM
CON-DOM - How Welcome Is Death to I Who Have Nothing More to Do but Die

Amen!

Kropper uten Mellomrom

APPLE

Kode9 & the Spaceape - killing season

made while Spaceape was dying of terminal cancer. candid and brutal reflections on mortality. musically it evokes the dread, discomfort and anxiety of impending death.

Stipsi

Cervical Smear – Real-Death Enthusiast
North Central
Mademoiselle Bistouri
Daddy's Entertainment.
PERVERT AND PROUD.

Thermophile


Bloated Slutbag

The first couple Archon Satani are to these ears of a distinctly morbid disposition- better re-collected in the Virgin Birth cd reissue.
Someone weaker than you should beat you and brag
And take you for a drag

UL.TH.NL

https://ul-th-nekrolatria.bandcamp.com/

We dwell solely in the realms of Death adorning all it's aspects. New cassette out today.


cantle


Yvette

Controlled Death - Hymn to the Eternal Death
Fistfuck - The Moors Murders
Merzbow - Brain Ticket Death

Balor/SS1535

Quote from: Yvette on December 09, 2022, 04:24:38 AM
Controlled Death - Hymn to the Eternal Death

I can't believe I forgot this!  Pretty much all Controlled Death is great and perfect for this topic.  This one is a personal favorite as well: https://www.discogs.com/release/21779395-Controlled-Death-Death-Synth-Box

FreakAnimalFinland

Quote from: TS on November 28, 2022, 03:21:05 PM
Quote from: WCN on November 28, 2022, 11:37:31 AM
CON-DOM - How Welcome Is Death to I Who Have Nothing More to Do but Die

Amen!


It is excellent album in its harsh cold realistic perspective, where death has no "cool" qualities. Its the last howls of demented patients just hoping to die, human remains that are alive, but weak and without purpose. Disease and decay, that isn't about pile of corpses and dreams of what awaits "on the other side".

These experiences of real life sheer misery are good substance and one angle to death, but that said, I think in noise there is this element that you find certain realism from absurdity of imagination. I probably said it elsewhere too, but like with death, one can look another classic topic of rough sound: Sex.  Would one want noise based on healthy relationship. What's that garbage? Of course many may find it funny that some socially awkward virgin is doing totally dehumanizing sexobject filth, but that emotion tends to be real and with consequences. Plenty of variation in degrees of obsessions and emotions, but in context of noise, outrageous and unrealistic lust of virgin could be vastly more interesting than something based on healthy relationship.

In death-noise, you can see the same. All those people who tend to deal with death and disease in their life (like work), it is real and it may be personal in some ways, but also largely routine. Something that goes beyond the banal level what we all can sooner or later see, the content that is something else, seems very valid for me. In short, pile of corpses on tape cover, rarely disappointment. Even if done by people who approach it from seemingly funny angle, like virgins approach sex noise.
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MND


Cementimental

won't it be quicker to list the ones which aren't death-related?