Friday, January 27, 2012

PODCAST: January 26th, 2012

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Following the take-down of Megaupload last week, the links for all 2011 episodes are currently broken, BUT there will soon be a new way of downloading past and present episodes of "Out ov the Coffin." Expect a post about that as soon as the details are hammered out. In the meantime, this episode (as well the last one) have been uploaded to Mediafire.

Among the new releases featured on the show this time, you'll find Puerto Rico's The Dead Souls, who play a brand of post-punk reminiscent of bands like The Chameleons. Their new EP Ambition is currently available as a free download on their Bandcamp site.

Returning with their first album since 2005, Italy's The Frozen Autumn emerge with Chirality -- a scientific term that describes an object or being that is not identical to its mirror image. If applied to their sound, it could make a statement about the '80s new wave and synth-pop influences they wear proudly, but do not merely imitate.

You'll also hear further new tracks from: Iscariot Blues, the latest album from Switzerland's The Beauty of Gemina; Icon:Koru, the new industrial set from Germany's [:SITD:]; and two more selections from the Kalpamantra label's Saur Maas compilation, in the form of songs by Unknown Vistae and Canadian experimental artist, Aidan Baker.


At the end of the show, you'll hear a taste of the latest from France's Alcest, who have just released their 3rd full-length of shoe-gazing black metal, entitled
Les Voyages De L'âme. Believe it or not, the band will be touring the US this spring, and even hitting the Southeastern United States. You can see their tour dates here.

Rounding out this episode: More new music from Haujobb's New World March, Live, alternate takes from The Cure and The Chameleons, revisited masters from Mentallo & the Fixer and Arcturus, obscurities rescued from the vinyl mines, and a spotlight thrown on the latest single from New York's Light Asylum, who just released this excellent video.


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PLAYLIST
Format: Band Name - Song Title [Album Title, Year]
(each band name is also a website link)



"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
Show date: Thursday, January 26th, 2012


Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]


Black Ice - In Winter  [Terrible Birds, 2005]
Bear McCreary -  Children of Caprica  ["Caprica" (soundtrack), 2009]
The Bolshoi - Barrowlands  [Lindy's Party, 1987]
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (live in Amsterdam, 1/80) [Seventeen Seconds, deluxe edition, 2005]
Clan of Xymox - Waterfront  [Creatures, 1999]
Bauhaus - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes  [Mask, 1981]
Red Temple Spirits - Exorcism/Waiting for the Sun  [Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon, 1988]
Human Disease - Even Unblameable (Be. Loved)  [Our Flesh Deception, 2004]
Aidan Baker - Fever Dreams  [v/a - Saur Maas, 2011]
The Chameleons - Here Today (acoustic)  [Strip, 2000]
The Dead Souls - Hidden Intentions  [Ambition, 2011]
Eat Your Make-up - Neither Sane Nor Insane  [First Dinner, 2005]
The Beauty of Gemina - Prophecy  [Iscariot Blues, 2012]
The Exploding Boy - Sweet Little Lies  [The Black Album, 2011]
Stuart Rabinowitsh - (end credits) ["The Video Dead" (soundtrack), 1987]
The Frozen Autumn - Before the Storm  [Chirality, 2012]
Light Asylum - Skull Fuct  [In Tension, 2010]
Mentallo & the Fixer - Legion of Lepers [Return to Grimpen Ward, 2001]
Project Pitchfork - K.N.K.A. (Climax version)  [Psychic Torture, 1991]
Haujobb - Let's Drop Bombs  [New World March, 2011]
[:SITD:] - Code Red  [Icon:Koru, 2011]
Unknown Vistae - What Has Found Us?  [v/a - Saur Maas, 2011]
Kampfar - Trolldomspakt  [Mare, 2011]
Arcturus - Du Nordavind  [Aspera Hiems Symfonia/Constellation/My Angel, 2002]
Bethlehem - Mein Kuss Erstickt Im Imperativ  [Schatten Aus Der Alexander Welt, 2001]
Anathema - Lost Control  [Alternative 4, 1998]
Fredrik Klingwall - 4:18 at the Morgue  [Epitome of the False Dichotomy,  2009]
Alcest - Là Où Naissent Les Couleurs Nouvelles  [Les Voyages De L'âme, 2012]


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Friday, January 13, 2012

PODCAST: January 12th, 2012

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This episode kicks off with a brand new track from Autumn Cannibals, which started as the solo project of Jeff Diehm from The Last Dance, and has now grown into more of a full band. The single "Worn" serves as a teaser for the second Autumn Cannibals release, expected later this year.

From Metropolis Records this week, three new entries emerge: The bluesy, gothic rock of Switzerland's The Beauty of Gemina, from their forthcoming release, Iscariot Blues; then, some atypical EBM from South Africa's Acretongue, whose new release is Strange Cargo; and, finally, the more aggressive side of ebm/industrial, as represented by Germany's [:SITD:], from their latest release, Icon:Koru.

You'll also hear me talk quite a bit about a new compilation from the Kalpamantra label entitled Saur Maas, which collects 72 tracks of mostly dark ambient bands -- for FREE!
You can grab the download of this compilation HERE. You're sure to hear many, many selections from this release on future shows, since it's full of great atmosphere, but included on this episode are four of those acts: Ukraine's First Human Ferro, Germany's E.V.P., Sweden's Nebulosation, and France's Treha Sektori, who I often mention are among my favorite dark ambient acts.

This show also delves further into the latest releases from ROME and
Sólstafir, rescues a couple of songs that were sadly left out of the "Best ov 2011" episode, hits more fresh material from IAMX (check out the video!) and Dead Can Dance's Brendan Perry, offers some interesting covers of classic songs, and closes with the spotlight thrown on the recent remaster/reissue of the 4-way doom metal split, Fo(u)r Burials, on both CD and Vinyl.

Also: As promised, here are the links for the Nashville area events that I mention on this episode:  Re:Wind '80s Night, Jan 14th @ Canvas, and +SALVATION+ Gothic/Industrial Night, Jan 21st @ The Rutledge. Come hang out.

Ready to hear the show? Here's the link to download it:






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PLAYLIST
Format: Band Name - Song Title [Album Title, Year]

(each band name is also a website link)



"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
Show date: Thursday, January 12th, 2012


Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]


Autumn Cannibals - Worn [single, 2012]
E.V.P. - Sky Ritual  [v/a - Saur Maas, 2011]
Brendan Perry - Babylon  [Ark, 2011]
Esben and the Witch - Marching Song  [Violet Cries, 2011]
IAMX - Bernadette  [Volatile Times, 2011]
ThouShaltNot - The Haunted Phonograph  [single, 2011]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - You're Lost Little Girl  [Through the Looking Glass, 1987]
Mors Syphilitica - Galatea  [Feather and Fate, 2001]
Angelo Badalamenti - New Shoes  [Twin Peaks Season 2 Music and More, 2007]
The Beauty of Gemina - Voices of Winter  [Iscariot Blues, 2012]
ROME - A Pact of Blood  [Die Æsthetik Der Herrschaftsfreiheit - Band 1: Aufbruch, 2011]
Virgin Prunes - Walls of Jericho  […If I Die, I Die, 1982]
1919 - The Hunted  [The Machine, 1983]
The Deadfly Ensemble - Horse on the Moor  [An Entire Wardrobe of Doubt and Uncertainty, 2006]
Bat For Lashes - Daniel vs The Cure - A Forest (Thriftshop XL's Obvious Mash-up) [digital, 2009]
Nebulosation - Claustrophobia  [v/a - Saur Maas, 2011]
Acretongue - Amber  [Strange Cargo, 2011]
Velvet Acid Christ - The Figurehead  [Wound (single), 2006]
C-Drone-Defect - Tempus Fugit  [Dystopia, 2009]
Treha Sektori - Devehassiah Entestereh  [v/a - Saur Maas, 2011]
[:SITD:] - Dystopie  [Icon:Koru, 2011]
Bear McCreary -  Among the Ruins  [Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 (soundtrack), 2009]
My Dying Bride - Scarborough Fair  [Bring Me Victory EP, 2009]
Sólstafir - Ljós í Stormi  [Svartir Sandar, 2011]
Rapture - Gallows  [Songs for the Withering, 2002]
Borknagar - Svartskogs Gilde  [Borknagar, 1996]
First Human Ferro - Particles of God  [v/a - Saur Maas, 2011]
Mournful Congregation - Left Unspoken  [v/a - Fo(u)r Burials, 2008]



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