Madrugada - Discography

Despite of my somewhat blackened metal charts, my 2nd most listened band are Madrugada (spanish or portuguese for "dawn"), fronting Sivert Hoyem, which, since Madrugada has come to an end, tours solely.

Their music is almost completely melancholic, lyrically as well as musically. Of course they do have some faster songs like Running Out of Time (album The Deep End), but mainly they are low- to mid-paced with impressive riffs and structures.

Industrial Silence



Facts (CD1 - CD2):
• released 1999 (rereleased 2010 with bonus material)
• 1:08:23, originally 14 songs; this is a 2 CD release, over 2 hours long
• fixed bitrate of 320 kBit/s

Highlights: CD1 - actually everything CD2 - Highway 2.000.000, Tonight I Have No Words For You, 1990, I'm Life's Wonderful Way Of Letting You Down

You like? Buy here.

The Nightly Disease



Facts:
• released 2001
• 1:11:22, 13 songs
• fixed bitrate of 320 kBit/s (except the bonus track, 192 kBit/s)

Highlights: Step Into This Room And Dance For Me, Hands Up - I Love You, Sister, Only When You're Gone, Nightly Disease Part I

In case you like, this way.

Grit



Facts:
• released 2002
• 53:07, 11 songs
• fixed bitrate of 320 kBit/s

Highlights: Blood Shot Adult Commitment, I Don't Fit, Madrugada

Random notice: Got You is 10:56 long, at the end there's a hidden song named Love's Institution.

In case you like, this way.

The Deep End



Facts:
• released 2005
• 1:06:19, 14 songs
• fixed bitrate of 192 kBit/s

Highlights: The Kids Are On High Street, On Your Side, Hold On To You, Stories From The Street, Hard To Come Back, Slow Builder, Sail Away

In case you like, here you go.

Madrugada



Facts:
• released 2008
• 48:04, 9 songs
• fixed bitrate of 192 kBit/s

Highlights: Whatever Happened To You?, The Hour of the Wolf, Honey Bee, Highway of Light, Valley of Deception

In case you like, click.

Cathedral - The Guessing Game

Cathedral - The Guessing Game - two words: party music. I can't say it's bad, actually it's really good, but it's music you can play at a party (in contrast to bm) even with having people there that aren't familiar with metal in any way. At least I have the problem at some locations, if there's a song I know playing, I need to pay attention to it, whatever happens. But in this case, it simply rocks, literally, and you can play it without having the need to listen to it whilst being somewhere.

Facts:
• released 2010
• 1:24:50, 13 tracks (2 CD release)
• fixed bitrate of 320 kBit/s

In case you like (no, I actually don't copy & paste it even it would be worth the time I guess), click me.

Nargaroth - Semper Fidelis

Actually I have no clue what I should write about this album. Lyrics are great, as expected from Nargaroth. Next to Jahreszeiten and Black Metal ist Krieg it's the only album I can actually listen to; I don't get familiar with the vocals, normally I need to be able to understand the lyrics without reading them simultaneously, which isn't the case here.
But once familiar with song structures, lyrics and background informations I can enjoy it somewhat, else I wouldn't post it.

Facts:
• released 2007
• 1:19:52, 12 tracks
• fixed bitrate of 320 kBit/s

Highlights: Artefucked, Vereinsamt, Hate Song

In case you like, this way.

Update: Nagelfar

As of today, the Nagelfar albums Hünengrab im Herbst and Srontgorrth are coded 320 kBit/s.

Update: Dissection - Reinkaos

The whole album is now encoded with 320 kBit/s.

Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth

Not many bands are unique like Jex Thoth are. Named after their singer Jessica Thoth, they create a dense atmosphere of how the 70s and 80s must have felt musically - great.

Expect slow, sabbath-ish passages but also typical metal elements like Isis use with their latest release, Wavering Radiant (already posted here).

Facts:
• released 2008
• 50:57, 12 tracks
• VBR between 144 and 179 kBit/s

Highlights: Nothing Left To Die, Son of Yule

In case you like, buy here.

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Nothing has changed since my last post. Must-have, or at least, must-have-listened album!

Facts:
• released 1971
• 46:48, 6 tracks
• VBR between 232 and 262 kBit/s

Highlight: One of These Days, Echoes

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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

If I really need to point out this album you must have been living under a rock.

Facts:
• released 1973
• 42:54, 9 tracks
• fixed bitrate of 128 kBit/s

In case you like, buy here.

The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap

Thanks to Pink Floyd introducing me into the whole Psychedelic genre (beginning with Nachtmystium) I had the chance to see The Devil's Blood live at the german Summer Breeze festival and damned, this was by far the best concert I've visited!

This is Psychedelic Rock at its best, lyrically occult/satanic and inspired by bands like Watain and Dissection with which they already toured/are touring. Moreover they are related to Urfaust, one member was playing on the demo. By the way, Satanic Tyrant Werewolf of Satanic Warmaster created their logo.

Facts:
• released 2008
• 27:43, 5 tracks
• fixed bitrate of 320 kb/s

Highlights: the whole album, but my favorite track is Voodoo Dust

In case you like (how couldn't you?), buy here.

Our Survival Depends on Us - Painful Stories Told with a Passion for Life

It doesn't occur every few new albums I discover that I get a catchy tune from a song that I absolutely disliked, so with most songs of this album. After a few spins it became greater and greater and now evolved to one of my favorite Sludge/Doom albums. Sadly, the band is so unknown, I didn't even hear about them despite their long name before I read in an interview of Amestigon about other unknown austrian bands.
The bassist was 4 years in the well-known Belphegor (Aut).

Facts:
• released 2009
• 40:18, 6 tracks
• VBR between 184 and 279 kBit/s

Highlights: Angel Ranger

In case you like, buy here.

You can download both albums from their myspace homepage here.