{"id":5659,"date":"2026-10-28T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:35:13","slug":"the-black-dahlia-murder-the-best-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/5659","title":{"rendered":"The Black Dahlia Murder: The Best Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I somehow discovered this band in the summer of 2005 and instantly fell in love with Miasma<\/b>. It almost immediately became my Album of the Year<\/a>, an accolade I have never once doubted. However, upon Nocturnal’s<\/b> release, I was less enamored. As the years progressed, I’d return to dabble for a few songs on each album, never falling hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Short as I had decades prior. <\/p>\n

Now, I did<\/i> finally see the band recently, as chronicled previously<\/a>. In the weeks leading up to this monumentous event, I went on a frenzied binge of BDM<\/b>, mainly focused on their upcoming setlist. In the past, I might have considered that lame. Being 50 is far more lame (lamer?) than any fucks could possibly give, so I prepped myself and enjoyed the hell out of the night. <\/p>\n

In the wake of such a life-altering event (less so the band, moreso the life), I wanted to give a list of fan-fucking-tastic tracks the band has recorded in their storied history. Ideally, this will be a fluid list, as my two-decade gap of wisdom is re-examined. Whatever. Here are my favorite songs, posted tonight lest I perish in my sleep.<\/p>\n

These are in order of S-tier onwards…<\/p>\n

\nMiasma<\/b>: The entire fucking thing.
\nNocturnal<\/b>: Deathmask Divine, Everything Went Black, What A Horrible Night…
\nDeflorate<\/b>:
\nRitual<\/b>: The Window, Moonlight Equilibrium
\nEverblack<\/b>:
\nAbysmal<\/b>: That Cannot Die Which Eternally Is Dead
\nNightbringers<\/b>: The Lonely Deceased, Nightbringers,
\nVerminous<\/b>: Dawn Of Rats (!!!), The Wereworm’s Feast, Sunless Empire
\nServitude<\/b>: Panic Hysteric, Utopia Black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I somehow discovered this band in the summer of 2005 and instantly fell in love with Miasma. It almost immediately became my Album of the Year, an accolade I have never once doubted. However, upon Nocturnal’s release, I was less enamored. As the years progressed, I’d return to dabble for a few songs on each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}