Alright, kids, it’s June, the weather is good, and I’m taking my niece and nephew to play mini-golf. I love you guys, but I’ve got better shit to do, so I’m keeping this brief. It’s time for Staff Infections, the concept of which is we, your Last Rites pals, think so highly of our own musical taste that we have to tell you what we’ve been listening to every month. If you could all pretend to be awed, it would help keep our inflated but fragile egos intact.
So, what have we been listening to? Well, for starters, Captain and Manny have donned their prog nerd caps or fedoras or berets or whatever the fuck prog nerds wear, and have made a hard push for King Crimson and The Chronicles of Father Robin, respectively, but with no back up for either, it’s all for naught. I’d say it’s a sad day in Nerdville, but the album of the month is folk metal, so surely that’s some consolation. Before we get to that, however, Ryan and Spencer have united in the name of blood-spattered brutality to give Exhumed’s classic debut Gore Metal a second-place finish. The big winner, as has been alluded to, is French blackened folk metal duo, Moisson Livide, with its first full-length release Sent Empèri Gascon. For a spirited review, Dan the man has you covered right here.
For our group discussion this month, in honor of our winner, give us your favorite folk metal album in the comments. While you’re at it, share your own playlist, and have a listen to the staff-curated Spotify playlist below. You all get outside and have some fun. I’ll see you next month.
- Ryan Tysinger
Exhumed – Gore Metal
Impetigo – Ultimo Mondo Cannibale
Impaled – Mondo Medicale
Gorgasm – Stabwound Intercourse
Gorelust – Reign of Lunacy
Death – Scream Bloody Gore - Danhammer Obstkrieg
Lichen – Spear & Stone
Octoploid – Beyond the Aeons
Furze – Caw Entrance
Alan Braufman – Infinite Love Infinite Tears
Sear Bliss – Heavenly Down - Zach Duvall
Moisson Livide – Sent Empèri Gascon
New Money – Dinero Nuevo
Cheap Trick – Dream Police
Scald – Will of Gods Is a Great Power
Clutch – Transnational Speedway League
Replicant – Infinite Mortality - Captain
King Crimson – Thrak
King Crimson – Three of a Perfect Pair
King Crimson – Discipline
King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson – The Power to Believe
Empyrium – The Turn of the Tides - Isaac Hams
Unleash the Archers – Phantoma
Kamelot – Ghost Opera
Moisson Livide – Sent Empèri Gascon
Kvaen – The Formless Fires
Charli XCX – Crash
Summoning – Stronghold - Andrew Edmunds
Dismember – Where Ironcrosses Grow
Loudness – Disillusion
Gorguts – Obscura
Victims – The Horse & Sparrow Theory
Holy Terror – Mind Wars
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams - Manny-O-War
The Chronicles of Father Robin – The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book I
The Chronicles of Father Robin – The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book II
The Chronicles of Father Robin – The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book III
Icy Steel – The Wait, The Choice, And the Bravery
The Alchemist, Oh No & Gangrene – Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current - Josh Heath
Entombed – Wolverine Blues
Ulcerate – Stare into Death and Be Still
Hemotoxin – When Time Becomes Loss
Mortal Wound – The Anus of the World
Katatonia – The Great Cold Distance
Xoth – Interdimensional Invocations - Lone Watie
Moisson Livide – Sent Empèri Gascon
Freedom Call – Silver Romance
Arcana Liturgia – Tome of the Dragon’s Blood
Magick Brother & Mystic Sister – Tarot Pt. 1
DIIV – Frog in Boiling Water
Last Exit – Last Exit - Dave Pirtle
Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith
Appalachian Anarchy – Appalachian Anarchy
Black Label Society – Stronger Than Death
Killswitch Engage – As Daylight Dies
Thou – Umbilical
Amerikan Kaos – Armageddon Boogie - Spencer Hotz
REZN – Burden
Korpse – Insufferable Violence
The Mars Volta – De-Loused In The Comatorium
Night Verses – Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of The Night
Isiah Collier & The Chosen Few – The Almighty
Exhumed – Gore Metal - Jeremy Morse
Darkthrone – Soulside Journey
Darkthrone – Goatlord (Original)
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
Slayer – Show No Mercy
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos – Carnegie Hall Concert
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Bat – Under the Crooked Claw
Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
Windhand – Eternal Return
Cloakroom – Time Well
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Judas Priest – British Steel
Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit
The Ocean – Phanerozoic I / Phanerozoic II
The Ocean – Holocene
LLNN – Unmaker
Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
Thou – Umbilical
Dream Theater – Distance Over Time
Favourite folk metal album is Agalloch – The Mantle. Fen – Epoch, Obsequiae – The Palms of Sorrowed Kings, and every other Agalloch album also deserve a special mention.
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
Viniloversus – Mi Mejor Enemigo
REZN – Burden
Sepultura – Chaos A.D.
Der Weg einer Freiheit – Noktvrn
Karner – Untam Liacht tota Stern
Cryypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
Charlie XCX – Brat
Slift – Ummon
Queensryche – Rage for Order
Henrik Palm – Nerd Icon
Tangerine Dream – Rubycon
No particular thoughts on folk metal albums…
Coffin Storm – Arcana Rising
Necrot – Lifeless Birth
Zeal and Ardor – Zeal and Ardor
Hemotoxin – When Time Becomes Loss
Unleash the Archers – Phantoma
Knife – Heaven Into Dust
Skyclad’s ‘Prince of the Poverty Line’ is far-and-away, and without question, my favorite folk metal album.
Skyclad ruuuuuuuuuuuules. Prince probably my favorite from them, too, but Wayward Sons and Jonah’s Ark are pretty close behind.
Vale of Pnath – Between the Worlds of Life and Death
Inherits the Void – The Impending Fall of the Stars
Funeral Storm – Chthonic Invocations
SIG:AR:TYR – Northen
Hemotoxin – When Time Becomes Loss
Alchemy of Flesh – By Will Alone
Folk metal eh?
Ulver – Bergtatt
best folk (black) metal album ever
P.S. King Crimson is cool too.