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Black Metal · Satyr & Frost (Oslo, 1990)

Satyricon, from Oslo, is one of the chart-tier names of Norwegian black metal, Nemesis Divina (1996) a high point of the second wave's dark majesty. It is the same act the machine already keeps a dedi

Black Metal · Kristoffer Rygg (Oslo, 1993)

Ulver began in Oslo in 1993 as a folkloric black metal project (the Bergtatt trilogy, drawn from Norwegian fairy tale and the motif of being taken into the mountain) before moving on into wholly other

Black Metal · Ihsahn & Samoth (Notodden, 1991)

Emperor, from Notodden, defined symphonic black metal with In the Nightside Eclipse (1994), pairing the genre's intensity with a cosmic, majestic grandeur drawn from European romanticism.In the machin

Black Metal · Abbath & Demonaz (Bergen, 1991)

Immortal, from Bergen, built an entire imagined realm, the frostbitten kingdom of Blashyrkh, rather than any political program. The work is winter, cold, and fantasy taken to operatic extremes, one of

Black Metal · Grutle Kjellson & Ivar Bjornson (Norway, 1991)

Enslaved, formed in Norway in 1991, built the bridge from second-wave black metal to a wider Norse and progressive register. Their catalogue is explicitly rooted in Old Norse mythology and the Viking

Black Metal · Quorthon (Stockholm, 1983)

Bathory, formed in Stockholm in 1983 around Quorthon, is one of the founding works of black metal and the origin point of Viking metal. The early records set the genre's raw template; the later ones (

Mass (autograph manuscript, incomplete) · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart began the Requiem in late July 1791 on commission from an anonymous patron, who turned out to be Count Franz von Walsegg, a Viennese nobleman who intended to pass the work off as his own compos

Manuscript (illuminated, parchment) · Anonymous goliards (compiled ca. 1230)

The Carmina Burana is a manuscript collection of two hundred and twenty-eight Latin, Middle High German, and Old French poems, compiled around 1230 in the Bavarian Alps. It was rediscovered in 1803 at

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Album · Elend

Beautiful dark music. It brought my imagination to dark old dungeons. I once listened to this music at a summer night walking on a graveyard. It gave me the shivers.