WINTER IS COMING [playlist]

40 songs to fight the heat wave and long for better, colder days.

Look at that picture, isn’t it beautiful? Can’t you just feel the cold, foggy breeze enveloping you just by staring at it for a couple of seconds? Well, if you’re in one of the many countries having a hellish, heat wave-ridden summer, you probably can’t, because all that you’re able to feel is unbearable heat and the constant trickle of your own sweat as soon as you wake up. The horrors of climate change will probably ensure this is the coldest summer of the rest of our lives too, so we’re essentially fucked.

So let’s at least listen to good music while we melt away, eh? For each of the ungodly (Celsius) degrees that have consumed us - yeah, it’s gotten to 40ºC and even above that for a few days, where I live - I picked a song to fight the rising temperature and long for better, colder days. It’s my first (of many, hopefully) playlist here on The Devil’s Mouth, but I still wanted to keep it breezy, pun obviously intended, so I didn’t put too much deep thought into it. I just added songs I love that either reference the cold in any way, in titles and/or lyrics or in less obvious ways, or that just feel absolutely fuckin’ cold musically and will chill you to your bones even if the weather isn’t really their main thematic concern.

Also, genres and musical frontiers be damned. I purposefully created contrasts and sudden direction changes, so it doesn’t “make sense” as a playlist should - it’s meant to startle you and catch you off guard. Obviously there’s a slight dominance of black metal over the rest, because if ever there was a weather-obsessed genre, goddamnit it’s that. But there’s plenty else to keep you hopefully entertained

I ran a poll of sorts the other day on my social media to see what format people would prefer to listen to this sort of thing on - obviously, “send me a C-90 tape in the mail” was the clear winner, but until you guys start to subscribe to this thing in serious numbers that won’t happen. Even if it started as a joke, it’s something I might really consider in the future. But for now, let’s keep it digital, and because I’m super accomodating, here are two different options, the most popular ones in that poll. First up, spotistuff:

Here’s the direct link for that too, if you prefer.

If you’d rather do Mixcloud, where we host our regular podcast as well, go ahead and click here. Unfortunately Substack doesn’t embed Mixcloud links yet. Please note the final track differs on the two platforms, because Wold are naturally too cool to have all of their albums on spotithings.

Here is the final track listing, too. Enjoy!

WINTER IS COMING

Beastmilk - Love In A Cold World
Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn
Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason
Metallica - Trapped Under Ice
At The Gates - Cold
High On Fire - Frost Hammer
Diamanda Galás - Autumn Leaves
Enslaved - Loke
Anathema - Shroud Of Frost
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
Leonard Cohen - Winter Lady
Sólstafir - Köld
Forgotten Woods - Grip Of Frost
While Heaven Wept - Souls In Permafrost
Winter - Eternal Frost
Darkthrone - Summer Of The Diabolical Holocaust
David Lynch - Cold Wind Blowin
Woods Of Ypres - The Northern Cold
Katatonia - Cold Ways
Crowbar - December's Spawn
Khold - Midwinterblot
My Dying Bride - The Snow In My Hand
Forever Autumn - The Firmament In Absence
Klimt 1918 - Snow Of '85
Mayhem - Freezing Moon
Sentenced - Ever-Frost
The Angelic Process - Million Year Summer
Bathory - Blood On Ice
Coldworld - Hymn To Eternal Frost
Ministry - Burning Inside
Blut Aus Nord - The Son Of Hoarfrost
Agalloch - Dead Winter Days
Krieg - Dead Windows
Iron & Wine - Faded From The Winter
Skepticism - March October
L'Acéphale - Winternacht
Zeni Geva - Dead Sun Rising
Paysage D'hiver - Im Winterwald
Orville Peck - Nothing Fades Like The Light
Wold - Wintertime (Mixcloud) / The Cold Wind’s Grasp (spotify)