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Between Two Fires Playlist
A journey from plague-ravaged villages and the terror of a world at war with heaven into the fragile bond between Thomas and the child he protects. The first half moves through stark sacred and contemporary instrumental darkness; the vocal half brings in mortality, temptation, faith, and the stubborn persistence of compassion, with the intensity rising and easing rather than staying relentlessly bleak.
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20 songs
1
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
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Atmosphères
György Ligeti · György Ligeti
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Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: I. Dawn
Benjamin Britten · Britten: Orchestral Works
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The Protecting Veil: I. The Protecting Veil
John Tavener · The Protecting Veil & Wake Up...and Die (Remastered)
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Among The Sef
Colin Stetson · New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
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Black Star
Lustmord · Purifying Fire
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A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline
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The Shape Hunts Allyson
John Carpenter · Halloween (Original 2018 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Drop
The Haxan Cloak · Excavation
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The Host of Seraphim
Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time
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The Sinking of the Titanic
Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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The Alien
Ben Salisbury · Annihilation (Music from the Motion Picture)
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O Death
Ralph Stanley · O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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God's Gonna Cut You Down
Johnny Cash · American V: A Hundred Highways
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Wayfaring Stranger
16 Horsepower · Secret South
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath · The Ultimate Collection
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Devil's Spoke
Laura Marling · I Speak Because I Can
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The End
The Doors · The Doors
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In the Pines
Lead Belly · Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1
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