Eternal Playlist

The Eternal Playlist of Lord Alaric Thorne

“Even the dead must have their music...”

Beneath the candle wax and cracked mirror of my study, I keep a collection—frayed at the edges, yet eternal. These are the albums that have cradled my sleepless hours, stirred ash from memory, and whispered to the bones of the house.

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I. Hymns of the Hollow Hall (Video Playlist)

• Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
• Cocteau Twins – Treasure
• This Mortal Coil – It'll End in Tears
• Lycia – A Line That Connects
• Faith and the Muse – Elyria
• Love Is Colder Than Death – Teignmouth
• Dark Sanctuary – Thoughts: 9 Years in the Sanctuary
• Chandeen – Forever and Ever
• Autumn's Grey Solace – Eifelian
• Black Tape for a Blue Girl – Remnants of a Deeper Purity

II. Nocturnes for the Forgotten

• Bohren & der Club of Gore – Sunset Mission
• The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Here Be Dragons
• Angelo Badalamenti – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
• Barry Adamson – Moss Side Story
• Tuxedomoon – Half-Mute
• Cigarettes After Sex – Cry
• Morphine – Cure for Pain
• Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See
• Antimatter – Leaving Eden
• Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams

III. Elegies of Immortality

• Arcana – Inner Pale Sun
• Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows – Dead Lovers' Sarabande
• Trobar de Morte – Reverie
• Qntal – Qntal II
• Ataraxia – Simphonia Sine Nomine
• Daemonia Nymphe – Psychostasia
• Stellamara – Star of the Sea
• Vas – In the Garden of Souls
• Erik Satie – Gymnopédies & Gnossiennes
• Jocelyn Pook – Untold Things

IV. Velvet Dirges & Cabaret Shadows

• Voltaire – Almost Human
• The Tiger Lillies – The Brothel to the Cemetery
• Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer
• Jill Tracy – Diabolical Streak
• Vermillion Lies – Separation Songs
• Tom Waits – Alice
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Boatman's Call
• Diamanda Galás – The Litanies of Satan
• Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic
• Soap&Skin – Lovetune for Vacuum

V. Songs from the Sirens

• Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials
• Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
• Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
• Zola Jesus – Conatus
• Agnes Obel – Philharmonics
• Marissa Nadler – For My Crimes
• Nico – The Marble Index
• Lisa Gerrard – The Mirror Pool
• Emilie Autumn – Opheliac
• Eivør – Slør

VI. Soundtracks to Lost Dreams

• Lustmord – Heresy
• Atrium Carceri – Kapnobatai
• Raison d'être – Metamorphyses
• Wardruna – Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga
• Nox Arcana – Transylvania
• Arcana Obscura – Dark Age of Reason
• Elend – Winds Devouring Men
• Atrium Carceri & Herbst9 – Ur Djupan Dal
• Kammarheit – The Starwheel
• Phelios – Human Stasis Habitat

VII. Blood-Stained Sonatas

• Max Richter – Sleep
• Philip Glass – Glassworks
• Henryk Górecki – Symphony No. 3
• Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa
• J.S. Bach – The Art of Fugue
• Ludovico Einaudi – Divenire
• Hans Zimmer – Interstellar OST
• Thomas Newman – The Shawshank Redemption OST
• Clint Mansell – The Fountain OST
• Michael Nyman – The Piano OST

VIII. Dust and Velvet: The Old World Singers

• Édith Piaf – La Vie en Rose
• Marlene Dietrich – Falling in Love Again
• Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin
• Nina Simone – Pastel Blues
• Ella Fitzgerald – The Cole Porter Song Book
• Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours
• Sarah Vaughan – With Clifford Brown
• Judy Garland – Alone
• Nat King Cole – Love Is the Thing
• Julie London – Cry Me a River

IX. Rituals Beneath the Veil

• Lisa Gerrard & Hans Zimmer – Gladiator OST
• Sevara Nazarkhan – Yol Bolsin
• Lama Gyurme & Jean-Philippe Rykiel – The Lama's Chants
• Yasmin Levy – Sentir
• Omar Faruk Tekbilek – Alchemy
• Estampie – Fin Amor
• Loreena McKennitt – The Mask and Mirror
• Hildegard von Bingen – Vision
• Gregorian – Masters of Chant
• Enigma – MCMXC a.D.

X. Modern Shadows, Ancient Echoes

• Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
• Sigur Rós – Takk...
• Explosions in the Sky – The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
• Low – Double Negative
• Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
• The Veils – Nux Vomica
• Depeche Mode – Violator
• Peter Murphy – Deep
• IAMX – The Alternative
• Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I–IV

“What you hear in these works is not merely sound—it is memory, grief, desire, and the echo of eternity. Listen carefully. Some of these melodies were composed for you, long before you were born.”

— Lord Alaric Thorne