Danzig has some tunes highly appropriate to this theme.
Bringer of Death -This would make a great opener because of its own opening klaxons and gunfire.
End of Time -Probably my favorite Danzig song. It really is a great song all around, if only slightly disturbing. Great use of the dreaded death metal Triangle (The musical instrument…seriously.)
Apokalips- doesn’t really have much to do with the apocalypse…it’s sexual innuendo.
oooh oohh!
I remembered an old 80’s favorite of mine.
Peter Schilling- The Noah Plan
This song is great! Geekariffic. It’s a narrative song of mankind taking flight from the doomed earth to the stars in giant spaceships. Catchy tune, too.
Hell, that reminds me the whole album this song was on had an apocalyptic theme.
Ummm… there seems to be a prophetic track on here as well, Hurricane (Hammers on the Shore). I don’t remember hearing this song but the reviews sound good- I guess it is a ballad.
Man, between Nena and Peter Schilling we (USA) sure did inspire some understandable Angst in the Germans and Austrians during the late 80’s haydays of the Cold War.
Siegfried’s Funeral March in Wagner’s Gotterdammerung
Six-Six-Six by the Cowsills (I’m not kidding at all)
After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
Seven by Prince
Vangelis in “Aphrodite’s Child” did a Revelation-based album “666”
I’ve never heard it & totally regret passing it up when I saw it in the last 70s-
early 80s in a used-record store.
Well I think you should end your cd compilation with a few tracks by GodSpeedYouBlackEmperor - focus more on the first few albums (SlowRiotForNewZeroKanada, F#A#Inifinty, Lift your Skinny Fists like Antenna to the Sky)…
Their music is more music to describe the world after the apocalyps
my fav is The Dead Flag Blues from F#A#Infinity which starts off like this…
the car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel
and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
and a dark wind blows
the government is corrupt
and we’re on so many drugs
with the radio on and the curtains drawn
we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
and the machine is bleeding to death
the sun has fallen down
and the billboards are all leering
and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles
it went like this:
the buildings tumbled in on themselves
mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble
and pulled out their hair
the skyline was beautiful on fire
all twisted metal stretching upwards
everything washed in a thin orange haze
i said: “kiss me, you’re beautiful -
these are truly the last days”
you grabbed my hand and we fell into it
like a daydream or a fever
we woke up one morning and fell a little further down -
for sure it’s the valley of death