Battle for Heaven

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

[dreds07]

If and, only if you have a good enough imagination can you sinc this with your mind and take it for what it's worth. IT'S SOME PRETTY GOOD SOUNDING STUFF!

[Mike4metal]

this is awesome! these songs remind me

of dead can dance! killer!!!!!!

[aky19832001]

@simykl79 I listen to this for no good reason. Great idea though.

[simykl79]

* scenes

[simykl79]

I listened to this when I read Anne rice's vampire chronicles. It makes me picture the screens from "the vampire lestat" when he battled the wolves before becoming undead

[dexexe21]

i love this "music".....scary !!!!!! perfect...

[daTruChosen]

@grendelhvs Yeah, we all used to bump this shit during our RPG (Earthdawn and D&D, of course) episodes in the dorm room ... the memories are just .... KILLER!!!!

[grendelhvs]

@daTruChosen. Fuck yeah!

[daTruChosen]

First time I heard this was in '94; Brian Rock (yep, the comedian Chris Rock's brother) put me on to it when we were in college. He put me on to metal, period, as I was all hip-hop, all day back then. My tastes are more diverse now (and now that I'm disillusioned with hip-hop now, I listen to Led Zep, Hendrix, Miles Davis, Joplin, and BLACK-MO'FUGGIN"-ARIA, bitch!). Matter of fact, I still got the cassette, that I subsequently bought, the same day he B. let me hear this; as a matter of fact.

[morsmortistangere]

Love Black Aria & II, The Songs are so EPIC!!!!!!

[marchofgodzilla]

Evil Elvis is A Genius!

[ZuggaTugga]

remember the amazing feeling when i listened to this music as a young boy...now i realize that the idea is a metaphor for a protege outgrowing his master - 1/3 of heaven left with lucifer...it also silenced questioning about god's dark side for the blindly obedient