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Post by _ on Jan 4, 2018 19:24:46 GMT -6
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Post by jazzhead on Jan 4, 2018 23:36:07 GMT -6
Can't really say I have a favorite "winter" album. The one album I really associate with a season is Jethro Tull's Songs From The Wood. Every year in early November I pull it out and play it through to Christmas. It's definitely an album for autumn: the leaves have fallen, the promise of first snow in the air, the scent of a campfire... Winter inspires more dark, bleak listening. New England winters can be brutal and unforgiving, so I always turn to more black, Doom, and drone stuff. Maybe it sounds odd, but I find that music to be like a warm blanket in the cold world sometimes.
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Post by Kaiheijinshu on Jan 5, 2018 10:22:03 GMT -6
I tend to listen to a lot of symphonic black and folk metal as the weather gets cold and grey. Scores of games such as RuneScape and The Elder Scrolls also tend to get a fair amount of play.Not really a departure from my usual listening habits, but a few songs I really enjoy listening during the winter.
Korpiklaani - Metsälle
Arkona - Liki bessmertnykh bogov
Dimmu Borgir - Gateways
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Post by _ on Jan 7, 2018 7:13:49 GMT -6
Beautiful atmospheric metal.
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Post by barabbas on Jan 7, 2018 13:04:50 GMT -6
The most recent metal albums for winter have been Winter's Dawn and Quest for Serenity. (I wish he was still making music and that I had all the albums.)
The standard non-metal winter albums for me are Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel (the album also has Für Alina) and Starflyer 59 - Silver.
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Post by Borndead on Jan 7, 2018 13:40:02 GMT -6
Can´t find the original on youtube but: Coldworld - Winterreise (Winter journey)
Lycia - Frozen
as a matter of fact a lot of Lycia:
Ulver - Not saved
mum - the ballad of a broken birdie
Burzum - Han som reiste
Also stuff like Mgla, Negura Bunget, Dathspell omega, Immortal, Wovenhand, Wardruna, Outre, also back in the day I listened to a loooot of Xasthur esspecially early in the winter mornings.
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Post by Borndead on Oct 17, 2019 11:42:39 GMT -6
Soon winter is coming, love stuff like this in the morning, while it´s ice cold outside. necro thread arise
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Oct 17, 2019 19:20:14 GMT -6
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Post by julienbakerfan on Oct 18, 2019 21:56:24 GMT -6
Is the Winter Contemplation album on Bandcamp? I need more Coldrealm in my life.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Oct 19, 2019 18:38:37 GMT -6
Is the Winter Contemplation album on Bandcamp? I need more Coldrealm in my life. Just here, on this split/comp I did. (The short ~30 second intro track isn't on this, but all the other songs are.) I'm thinking about moving Coldrealm (or "Bolcrealm" as I almost typed it) to its own Bandcamp page, and if that happens, I'll reupload "Winter Contemplation" as a separate release. Of course I'd have to talk to the label about that, but Filosofem is a cool guy, I think he'd allow it.
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Post by julienbakerfan on Oct 19, 2019 21:31:55 GMT -6
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Post by julienbakerfan on Oct 19, 2019 21:37:18 GMT -6
At Sea Compilations has done several Winter compilations. As far as I remember, the quality of the tracks is hit-and-miss. Sting's album If on a Winter's Night is excellent folk/Celtic winter music. Most of it is Christmas-themed, but don't expect Frosty the Snowman. Fleet Foxes' debut album has a winter vibe for me--in fact, the big song on the album is "White Winter Hymnal." Their second album has a more summer vibe, probably because I listened to it in the summer. Their third album has a strong "throw this in the trash because it sucks" vibe. I love Renaissance and Baroque music, especially J.S. Bach, and a lot of this music has a very wintery feeling. Some of it was particularly written for Christmas. Handel's Messiah is an excellent work as well. I don't like Christmas music because I don't like Christmas. I have no religious convictions against it; I just don't like it. Everything was fine in Narnia under the benevolent rule of the White Witch, and things would have continued peacefully if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
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