Prog Halloween compilations

**AncientChord** · 10-23-2015

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. And to help celebrate it I've made my own CD compilations over the years. And as much as I still love the ancient Celtic holiday, as I've aged I am more low key and am usually at home on Oct. 31st. So I turn down the lights, light some candles, indulge in some spirits (the liquid kind!), and listen to some of these to get into the essence of the holiday. Here are a few I've made over the years. Each block will fit on one CD-R. Many of the tracks are older, but some are recent. I'd be interested in what other PE members like to listen to also to give me future ideas for similar compilation. There are some repeated tracks, but they work well within the block of tracks. Oh and please forgive the excessive mellotron, but to me the tron works so well with doom and gloom. Hope everyone has a ghoulishly Devil of a good time! Happy Halloween (Samhain).

1. THE PINEAPPLE THIEF: Sense Of Fear (Live, 2014) 4:53
2. PROGRESSION BY FAILURE: Sonic Travelogue 10:03
3. ANEKDOTEN: Our Days Are Numbered 8:36
4. ARLEKIN: In This Puzzled Roundabout 15:04
5. BLUE SHIFT: Savant Guard 7:10
6. KATATONIA: Sleeper (Live, 2014) 4:38
7. VESPERO: 4:17:37-4:29:59 / Vision 4.15 12:22
8. CICACADA: Eternal 8:01
9. GAZPACHO: Tick Tock Part 2 (Live, 2015) 8:o4

1. GOBLIN: Uneven Times 7:29
2. THE BLACK CODEX: Behind The Threshold Of Worlds 8:20
3. NORDIC GIANTS: Futures Dark 4:15
4. NOT A GOOD SIGN: Open Window 7:26
5. THE PINEAPPLE THIEF: Coming Home (Live, 2014) 3:14
6. SIMON STEENSLAND: Schrodinger’s Cat 16:51
7. UNIT WAIL: Teralithic Spaceship 3:57
8. ZOLTAN: The Ossuary 4:47
9. ANEKDOTEN: Get Out Alive 7:32
10. KATATONIA: A Darkness Coming (Live, 2014) 5:16
11. ANNOT RHUL: The Mountains Of Madness 7:17

1. ÄNGLAGÅRD: Vangringar I Vilselnet (Live, 2015) 13:23
2. ANIMA MORTE: Echoing The Red 5:17
3. WOBBLER: Imperial Winter White 15:01
4. PAATOS: Gasoline 5:55
5. WHITE WILLOW: Soulburn 9:21
6. LANDBERK: Lonely Land 10:28
7. NORDAGUST: In The Mist Of Morning 5:58
8. ANEKDOTEN: Our Days Are Numbered 8:36
9. OPETH: The Lines In My Hand 3:48

1. KING CRIMSON: Epitaph (2009 Remix) 8:52
2. DUN: L’Epice 9:30
3. SPYRA: Mellotron Etude 2:32
4. NORDAGUST: In The Mist Of Morning 5:58
5. NECROMONKEY: Last Entry 4:55
6. THE WATCH: Flower Of Innocence 3:50
7. A Game With Shifting Mirrors 8:01
8. UK: One More Red Nightmare (Tokyo, 2012) 6:17
9. DAVID CROSS: Not So 4:55
10. OPETH: Mellotron Heart 5:28
11. NICKLAS BARKER: Celestial Ghost 5:18
12. RHYS MARSH AND THE AUTUMN GHOST: In Deceit They Play 4:33
13. UNIT WAIL: Ombos 4:58
14. Sargasso Sea 4:33

1. HERD OF INSTINCT: Brutality Of Fact 3:16
2. STEVEN WILSON: The Watchmaker (Live, 2013) 11:50
3. STORM CORROSION: Hag 1 6:28
4. UNIT WAIL: Telete 4:42
5. NORDAGUST: Mysterious Ways 7:05
6. NECROMONKEY: Asshole Vote 6:15
7. WHITE WILLOW: Searise 13:11
8. THE TEA CLUB: The Eternal German Infant 8:17
9. THE MARS VOLTA: In Absentia 7:26
10. KING CRIMSON: Epitaph (Alternate Instrumental Track) 9:25

1. THE RESIDENTS: Death In Barstow 2:03
2. Lights Out (Prelude) 5:57
3. THE FIBONACCIS: Velma (Live at The Whiskey, Hollywood, 1983) 3:30
4. Psycho (Extended) 3:21
5. TANGERINE DREAM:
Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmare (Revisited) 9:53
6. DARK SUNS: That Is Why They All Hate You In Hell 4:32
7. DUN: L’Espice 9:30
8. STORM CORROSION: Hag 1 6:28
9. UNIT WAIL: Magnetostiction 3:23
10. THE RED MASQUE: The Minotaur 5:04
11. VAN DER GRAFF GENERATOR: Gog (Berlin, 2013) 6:04
12. KATATONIA: Dead Letters 4:49
13. DAEMONIA: Zombi 4:31
14. NECROMONKEY: Asshole Vote 6:15
15. THE FIBONACCIS: Art Life 2:25

1. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR:
A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers (Berlin, 2013) 23:22
2. MOGON: The Chairs 7:21
3. THE FIBONACCIS: Anti-Oedipus 4:54
4. STEVEN WILSON: Raider II (Demo) 21:07
5. THE RESIDENTS: Would We Be Alive 5:13
6. The New Hymn (Recessional) 4:21
7. UNIT WAIL: Sargasso Sea 4:33
8. Holocene Extinction 2:43
9. NORDAGUST: Can You Tell 5:54

I do have more, but this is enough to wet your appetite, but I do hope it's not for blood.

**Soc Prof** · 10-24-2015

Ad Infinitum: All Hallow's Eve

**Lopez** · 10-24-2015

I see you have the Fibonaccis in there a couple times. Kooky sound; love it.

**bob_32_116** · 10-24-2015

If you are in Oz, the most appropriate song for Oct 31st is Taxman, by the Beatles.

**Crystal Plumage** · 10-24-2015

Standarte
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**rickawakeman** · 10-24-2015

No Halloween in your halloween comp? Heresy

**AncientChord** · 10-24-2015

Originally Posted by rickawakeman

No Halloween in your halloween comp? Heresy

True, these tracks are basically from the dark side of prog, and IMO fit well with the spirit of Halloween. More mood music than direct Halloween references.

**AncientChord** · 10-24-2015

Originally Posted by Lopez

I see you have the Fibonaccis in there a couple times. Kooky sound; love it.

Yes, have always loved the fibs. When they were around in L.A. in the mid-eighties, they were called a new-wave band. But they were really a prog band in disguise. And I have a hunch that they influenced many later day prog bands, like Thinking Plague as an example.

**ArthurReviews** · 10-24-2015

This is quite possibly the BEST post i've seen all day. Time to start a new playlist ready for a long night of music and peace.

**nosebone** · 10-24-2015

Killer playlist, but you NEED Univers Zero and Present in there.

**AncientChord** · 10-24-2015

Originally Posted by nosebone

Killer playlist, but you NEED Univers Zero and Present in there.

Thanks for the compliment. Oh yeah. Both UZ and P are onearlier compilations. All of the playlists ^^^^^ are more recent dark prog compilations, that I'v made, with no connections to Halloween. But again IMO they fit well with the occasion.

**mellotron storm** · 10-24-2015

I usually bring the boom box down to the foyer and pick out something from these, Heresie, Nosferatu(Art Zoyd), Shub Niggurath, October Equus-S/t and whatever else is dark and eerie.

**firth5th** · 10-25-2015

GENESIS: The Waiting Room

**flowerking** · 10-25-2015

Ayreon - House on Mars
Kate Bush - 9th Wave (or just Waking the Witch)
VdGG - Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Genesis - The Knife, Home By the Sea 1 & 2
Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon
BOC - Don't Fear the Reaper (or maybe Godzilla)
District 97 - Perfect Young Man
IQ - The Enemy Smacks
Nektar - Journey to the Centre of the Eye
Zappa - The Torture Never Stops

**kristi** · 10-25-2015

You might want to check out Anima Morte. I particularly like the song Premature Burial on Face the Sea of Darkness. I think it would fit well in your mix generally....the whole album is fantastic, btw.