Track of the Day

A track (at least) a day (not every day) that I particularily enjoyed listening to that day.

18.02.2026 – Joan Baez

Joan Baez – Diamonds And Rust
Additional listening: Farewell Angelina (album), I Still Miss Someone, It Ain't Me Babe, The Partisan (Leonard Cohen cover)

17.02.2026 – The Black Dahlia Murder

The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers
Additional mention: The entire Nightbringers album

I'm way more familiar with Black Dahlia Murder's ‘Nocturnal’ album (10/10 btw.), but Nightbringers (the song) was always one of my favourite TBDM songs. But in a move very familiar to me, called “Liking a song/band very much but never listening to more of the album/discography”, I never listened to the rest of the Nightbringers album. I thought I did once but didn't like it very much, but my last.fm stats disagree.

16.02.2026 – Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa – Bobby Brown Goes Down

Finally listened to more Frank Zappa :>

15.02.2026 – Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith – Half Right
Honorable mention: Elliott Smith – See You Later, Elliott Smith – Going Nowhere

It being the 15th of the month seems to make me wanna listen to Elliott Smith.

14.02.2026 – At the Gates

At the Gates – Forever Blind
Honorable mention: The entire album version of ‘Terminal Spirit Disease’

This is one of those days where it's really hard to pick a single song to be the titular “Track of the Day”. Every single track on Terminal Spirit Disease is just that good. Even the live performances are never getting skipped by me.

13.02.2026 – CANDLEMASS

Candlemass – Bewitched
Honorable mention: Gothic Stone followed by The Well Of Souls, At The Gallows End

The Messiah

I'M DOING IT. I'M FINALLY TALKING ABOUT MESSIAH MARCOLIN AGAIN.
Everything Messiah Marcolin touches turns into gold, I am 100% sure of that.

Here we have a guy who legally changed his first name to Messiah (I could not find a credible source when trying to confirm that just now. I don't care if it's really true or not though, as I wholeheartedly accept it as truth).
Every single song on Nightfall is good. There are no bad Nightfall songs. This album is near perfect. I've been wanting to get a tattoo of the cover (boat, guy and angel) for so long now and as soon as I can I will get it.

12.02.2026 – Lily Chou-Chou

Lily Chou-Chou – グライド (Glide)

I still haven't watched All About Lily Chou-Chou, the 2001 film that this album was produced for. This song would be a much better for Track of the Day for the day that I finally watch it. Why did I pick it today, then?
Because I finished reading volume 4 of Girl's Last Tour today.

10.02.2026 – At the Gates

At the Gates – Raped by the Light of Christ
Album: With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness

At the Gates re-recorded this song in 2018, 25 years after the original song came out. I prefer the original, though. The guitar tone combined with the vocals just hits right for me. But maybe check out the re-recording as well.

08.02.2026 – Baccara

Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

It's boogie sunday.

05.02.2026 – Architects

Architects – Alpha Omega

Architects used to be my favourite band for a long time, with the peak being around 2021 for me.
Sadly, they've heavily changed their sound starting with their 2021 album ‘For Those That Wish To Exist’. It breaks my heart but they sound very ““commercialized”” and just plain boring and bad to me now.
But oh well, at least they gave us eight banger albums before that point. I guess I can't be mad.