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CD:s unless mentioned otherwise.

Absurd - Totenlieder
Absurd - Raubritter / Grimmige Volksmusik
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre Monde
Alice Cooper - Classicks
Barathrum - Anno Aspera - 2003 Years After Bastard's Birth
Barathrum - Hailstorm / Eerie
Barathrum - Infernal
Barathrum - Legions of Perkele
Barathrum - Legions Of Perkele / Saatana
Barathrum - Okkult
Barathrum - Venomous
Beherit - Engram
Billy Idol - Cyberpunk
Billy Idol - Idolize Yourself: The Very Best Of Billy Idol
Burzum - Belus
Burzum - Burzum / Aske
Burzum - Dauði Baldrs
Burzum - Det Som Engang Var
Burzum - Draugen Rarities
Burzum - Fallen
Burzum - Filosofem
Burzum - From the Dephts of Darkness
Burzum - Hliðskjálf
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Catamenia - Winternight Tragedies
Church Of Misery - The Second Coming
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Darkthrone - Preparing for war
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Dead Reich Supremacy - …

I've always been intrigued by these kinds of releases, especially when they come from artists or bands that have never shown any penchant for folk or ambient. Maybe composing, playing, and mixing all that metal gets grating after a while, and the artists just need to take a breather.

If there were multiple releases of this sort by the same artist, I used the most well-known/well-received, or maybe just with the one with track samples.

Feel free to suggest additions. Any would be greatly appreciated.

You can see the lazy version here.


Agalloch - The White (USA, 2008 - Neofolk)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1094336.jpg


Amber Asylum - Frozen in Amber - (USA, 1996 - Neoclassical Darkwave / Dark Ambient)
Features members of The Gault.
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s85244.jpg
Riviera


Ashen Light - Stary Byliny / Slavenskie Vecera (Russia, 2001 - Ambient / Slavonic Folk)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s291052.jpg


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Noch im Kindheitsstadium, also Fresse halten wenn ich bitten darf. http://www.messengercontentplus.com/winks/images/Middle-Finger.png

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N1KR8719L._SL75_SS50_.jpg Bathory - Octagon
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/003/708/0000370821_50.jpg Burzum - Burzum / Aske (Digi-Pack)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/t2601955.jpg Burzum - Belus (Digi-Pack)
http://www.recordshopx.com/cover/thumb/4/42/42720.jpg Burzum - Filosofem (Digi-Pack)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SJY3P112L._SL75_SS50_.jpg Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger (Digi-Pack)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31Sh7B%2B%2B5wL._SL75_SS50_.jpg Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup (Digi-Pack + Bonusmaterial)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gQter5VPL._SL75_SS50_.jpg Gernotshagen - Märe aus wäldernen Hallen
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/615misKWBzL._SL75_SS50_.jpg Gernotshagen - Wintermythen
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I scrobbled my 50,000th track on 3rd June 2008, the lucky track being La Mort d'Arthur. When I started scrobbling in 2006 I took the habit of writing a journal when I hit the milestones of 5,000 or 10,000 scrobbled tracks and so on. I was too lazy to keep on doing that, however, so 10,000 tracks was my last milestone journal - up until now.

So, for the occasion, I wanted to write something about my current top artists: how I discovered them, why I like them or whether I even like them that much anymore. I did this mostly for my own enjoyment but if you find something you'd like to comment on, please do.

This journal deals with my top 10. I plan on writing something about the rest of my top 50 too, but I might still be a bit too much of a lazybones to do that.

The "top songs" mentioned after each artist are my most played songs according to my charts, not necessarily my favourite songs.

Top 10

1. Iron Maiden (1,793 plays)

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