What are your favourite Fallen-related releases
Whilst updating my list of favourite metal albums on the General forum I thought I'd start a clan-specific thread.
So what are your top twenty, thirty or whatever albums that reside in The Fallen?
I've gone with thirty which are all 5/5s for me (one release per band only):
1. Warning - Watching from a Distance (2006)
2. Winter - Into Darkness (1990)
3. Solstice - New Dark Age (1998)
4. Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence (2019)
5. SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods (2013)
6. Hell - III (2012)
7. Evoken - Quietus (2001)
8. Cianide - A Descent Into Hell (1994)
9. Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea (2006)
10. Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend (2002)
11. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)
12. MSW - Obliviosus (2020)
13. Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper (2017)
14. Yith - Immemorial (2018)
15. Inter Arma - Sulphur English (2019)
16. Scald - Will of the Gods Is Great Power (1996)
17. Skepticism - Lead and Aether (1997)
18. Windhand - Soma (2013)
19. Bismuth - The Slow Dying of the Great Barrier Reef (2018)
20. Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries (1988)
21. Colosseum - Chapter 2: Numquam (2009)
22. Tyranny - Tides of Awakening (2005)
23. CHRCH - Light Will Consume Us All (2018)
24. Spiritus Mortis - The God Behind the God (2009)
25. Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress (2001)
26. Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer: 10 Psalms for Our Lord of Light (1998)
27. Epitaphe - I (2019)
28. Monolithe - Monolithe III (2012)
29. Ogre - Plague of the Planet (2008)
30. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction (2012)
Good list and good thread idea, Sonny! It would be interesting to see this "clan-specific favorite releases" topic spread over to other clans. I would probably start with my other 3 clans (Guardians, Infinite, and Revolution), but for now, here are my top 10 for The Fallen:
10. The Ocean - Pelagial (2013)
9. Charon - Songs for the Sinners (2005)
8. Ava Inferi - Onyx (2011)
7. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times (1995)
6. Moonspell - Irreligious (1996)
5. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (1996)
4. Type O Negative - October Rust (1996)
3. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans (1993)
2. Dolorian - Dolorian (2001)
1. Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light (2012)
Here's my top ten (baring in mind that I don't believe in the one release per band philosophy):
1. Pig Destroyer – “Natasha” E.P. (2008)
2. Sunn O))) – “Black One” (2005)
3. Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“ (2003)
4. Rosetta – “The Galilean Satellites” (2005)
5. Neurosis – “Souls At Zero” (1992)
6. diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral” (1993)
7. Isis – “The Mosquito Control” E.P. (1998)
8. Isis – “Panopticon” (2004)
9. Celtic Frost – “Monotheist” (2006)
10. Warning – “Watching From A Distance” (2006)
I'll have to use the one release per band thing, otherwise the first two bands below would dominate too much.
OK, off the top of my head (meaning I've probably forgotten something important)...
1. Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
2. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
3. disEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral
4. The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
5. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
6. Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale
7. Saturnus - Paradise Belongs to You
8. Rapture - Futile
9. Draconian - Under a Godless Veil
10. Dolorian - Dolorian
Here's my updated top ten (baring in mind that I don't believe in the one release per band philosophy):
01. Pig Destroyer – “Natasha” E.P. (2008)
02. Sunn O))) – “Black One” (2005)
03. Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“ (2003)
04. Esoteric - "The Maniacal Vale" (2008)
05. Rosetta – “The Galilean Satellites” (2005)
06. Neurosis – “Souls At Zero” (1992)
07. diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral” (1993)
08. Isis – “The Mosquito Control” E.P. (1998)
09. Isis – “Panopticon” (2004)
10. Celtic Frost – “Monotheist” (2006)