Overture of the Rebel Angels

Black Aria is an instrumental album composed by Glenn Danzig, the vocalist/songwriter for Danzig and previously for Samhain and The Misfits. Although some of the material on the album was recorded as early as 1987, it was not released until 1992. This original release was on Danzig's old Misfits-era label, Plan 9 Records, and like his Misfits and Samhain releases, was distributed by Caroline Records. The album was reissued in 2000 on E-Magine Records, and a sequel followed on Evilive Records in 2006.

The album is largely modern instrumental classical music, and is very dark, with perhaps "gothic metal" tendencies. Select tracks from the album served as intro music to early Danzig shows, and excerpts of some songs were included on Danzig's first two compilation home videos released by Def American Recordings in 1989 and 1991. The song titles reference a sort of "soundtrack" to John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, which describes Lucifer's rebellion from the Christian God, and his subsequent expulsion from Heaven with the angels who joined him. The final three tracks do not reference Paradise Lost, because they were written earlier by Danzig while he was still in Samhain.

All tracks were written by Glenn Danzig, who also performed most (or all) instruments. Engineering was provided by Nick Didia and Martin Schmelze (tracks 1-7) and Bob Alecca (tracks 8, 9). Female voices were provided by Janna Brown and Reneé Rubach.


Glenn Danzig - music, composition, all instruments
Janna Brown - female voices
Reneé Rubach - female voices

Category:

Music

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• Danzig
• Black
• Aria
• Glenn
• Classical
• Doom
• Gothic

[evilevilsaint]

CD? i had this on tape!

[whorethrower]

Used to get stoned with this CD back in the day, great fall/winter stoner music

[MusicalJaime]

It's a shame that I wasn't even born when this album was released :3

[simykl79]

I used to play this while I read the vampire chronicles. And please refrain from any gay references at this. I was young and the books were good then

[DrgnLord92]

Awesome score, such dark power in this instruments \m/

[dmdt1313]

@whorethrower Used to use this as "mood" music back in the day. haha

[TheBrodizzel]

@evilevilsaint I had this on tape too! LOL

[sanitysevered]

Yeah i used to drop tabs and listen to this and lucifuge constantly in the autumn,,,Fangs for the post dethhead!

[djsleezyc]

damn i used to have this cd. i must have it again !!!

[WeepingWillow2414]

@bagnato11 go to google, type "youtube mp3 converter" and put the url of this vid into it, it downloads it and converts it to mp3 for you. :) you're welcome

[Exxoduss1]

how is it you idiots dont know how to use music in blackmagick? Just f*kkin baffles me

[bagnato11]

i wish i could get this song for a trailer that im writing for a sci fi horror zombie movie is there away i can get it im not selling it i just want the music for the trailer no joke or a lie please somone get back to me