Friday, December 21, 2018

PODCAST: December 2018 Episode

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December is upon us already, and with it, that jolly red holiday that some of us love, and some of us love to hate. I fall somewhere in the middle, personally, so while this will not be a full-blown Christmas special, you will find some stocking stuffers along the way. And if that's not your cup of egg nog, please enjoy an especially large amount of new music for you to check out this month, because there's a lengthy list.

The show begins with new music from a Belgian group that came to me at random and managed to have just the right sound at just the right time to reach through my veil. Whispering Sons, on their new album Image, manage to make their discomfort alluring for the listener, utilizing familiar influences to create a direct and unsettling approach to post-punk that is both murky and immediate, somber and desperate.

The first full set begins with music from one of many talked-about new post-punk bands that are finally emerging on this episode: Sacramento's Creux Lies wear their love for early Cure material on their sleeve, but add modern, full-bodied post-punk production on their new album The Hearth. Venturing next to Colombia, we catch up with 
La Procesión de lo Infinito, whose current album La Era Oscura shows a lot of welcome '90s goth influence, which plays nicely into a modern classic from The Machine in the Garden's 2005 Shadow Puppets album.

Germany's highly-praised new export 
Holygram arrives at the door next, with the standout track (and video) "Signals," from their new Modern Cults album, which no doubt offered some highly-accessible post-punk to fresh ears on their recent tour with VNV Nation. Next up, France's Varsovie return with another collection of driving post-punk/rock attitude on Coups Et Blessures, which is followed by an overdue track from this summer's Offering EP by Oakland's Esses, who have yet to let me down. They already have a new one in the works, too, so look forward to that. 

Set two starts with a spotlight on two current tours, which will converge in Nashville (where this show is based) this Sunday, December 23rd. Chicago dreampop/darkwavers Wingtips begin the set, with their latest digital single, Relativity, (video here) followed by buzzworthy Texas post-punk/goth duo Twin Tribes, with another track from their best-of list-charming Shadows LP. Nashville's own Night Machine creep in next with another taste of their Themes of the Dead album, the horror-synth sounds of which will kick off the concert that all three bands above are playing at The East Room this weekend.

Not content to end the set there, two more new arrivals round out the set: Italy's 
Ash Code give you a taste of their latest darkwave collection, Perspektive, followed by new music from North Carolina's Delphine Coma. Their sound at the start of their new album Leaving the Scene reminded me (quite pleasantly), at times, of cult '90s goth band The Wake -- with other influences and modern updates, of course. 

Set three is where we get a little festive, if you will, if not entirely serious. On the most-assuredly serious side of the fence, we start with the brand new holiday single from The Cruxshadows, an updated version of the traditional Coventry Carol entitled Carol of the Innocents. It is available here as a pay-what-you-will single. We then jump to the ridiculous side of the fence with a short-but-plucky song from the 2002 Invader Zim Xmas special, which then yields a new tongue-in-cheek ode to the season from The Legendary Pink Dots. Sliding gently down the tree on the way out of Christmas-ville, we mark this month's 35th anniversary of The Cure's Japanese Whispers collection with the very loosely holiday-themed classic, "Let's Go To Bed." 

But don't go to bed yet! New music from Boston darkwavers House of Harm arrives next, taken from their new Coming of Age EP, which turns the airwaves over to a new one from Austin, Texas outfit Temple of Angels, taken from their latest EP, Foiled. Finally, the set settles in for a nice winter's nap with a subdued selection from Lycia's new, and somehow remarkably consistent, LP, In Flickers. 

The final full set does not simply crash into dark metal, as usual, but rather, it starts with something that was, I would venture to say, inevitable: The combination of the ever-trending synthwave style (think: the "Stranger Things" score) and the equally popular path of blackgaze (itself a combination of black metal influences and shoegaze). You with me? Maybe/maybe not, but you're curious, so I begin with a track from an anonymous project called Abstract Void, whose new album is entitled Back to Reality. After that, we go a track further into the avant-garde metal of A Forest of Stars's Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes, and while we're in that mood, a taste of Italy's Selvans, from their Faunalia album, which shows draws its sound from not only folk, doom metal, and prog, but also cult Horror soundtracks. Nice. And since it is that time of the year, I wrap up the metal section with two doses of classic holiday jeer, first from Type O Negative, and then from King Diamond, who gets the final word on the subject, as well he should.


All of that PLUS: Fresh dark ambient/soundscapes from Velvet Dream and Apparition; Selections from the 'Santa Slasher Soundtrack' vault; News, trivia, and more!


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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Show recorded on: December 21st, 2018

Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]
Whispering Sons - Waste  [Image, 2018]
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Velvet Dream - Winter im Gebirg  [Darkened Mysteria, 2018]
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Creux Lies - Virginity  [The Hearth, 2018]
La Procesión de lo Infinito - La Tumba de los Dioses  [La Era Oscura, 2018]
The Machine in the Garden - Suspend  [Shadow Puppets, 2005]
Holygram - Signals  [Modern Cults, 2018]
Varsovie - Va Dire À Sparte  [Coups Et Blessures, 2018]
Esses - Mercury  [Offering, 2018]
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Apparition - The Grave Robbers  [The Ravenous Dusk, 2018]
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Wingtips - Relativity  [Relativity (single), 2018]
Twin Tribes - Portal to the Void  [Shadows, 2018]
Night Machine - Chapel District (The Ripper)  [Themes of the Dead, 2018] [N]
Ash Code - Icy Cold  [Perspektive, 2018]
Delphine Coma - We Never Sleep  [Leaving the Scene, 2018]
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The Legendary Pink Dots - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Decade  [Festive (comp.), 2015]
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The Cruxshadows - Carol of the Innocents  [Carol of the Innocents (single) 2018]
Kevin Manthei - Jolly Boots of Doom  ["Invader Zim: The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever" (soundtrack) 2002]
The Legendary Pink Dots - Government Heath Warning  [The 9th Day of Christmas, 2018]
The Cure - Let's Go To Bed  [Japanese Whispers, 1983]
House of Harm - Always  [Coming of Age, 2018]
Temple of Angels - Star-Shaped Eyes  [Foiled, 2018]
Lycia - Late Night Solitude  [In Flickers, 2018]
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Steven Soles - End Title  ["Silent Night Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out" (soundtrack) 1987]
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Abstract Void - Disconnected  [Back to Reality, 2018]
A Forest of Stars - Decomposing Deity Dancehall  [Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes, 2018]
Selvans - Anna Perenna  [Faunalia, 2018]
Type O Negative - Red Water (Christmas Mourning)  [October Rust, 1996]
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Carl Zittrer - Silent Night (exc.)  ["Black Christmas" (soundtrack) 1974]
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King Diamond - No Presents for Christmas  [No Presents for Christmas, 1985]


KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist


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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

PODCAST: November 2018 Episode

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This month's episode begins by marking the 40th anniversary of the release of the first Siouxsie & the Banshees album, "The Scream" -- which none may cast doubt upon, as Siouxsie and the boys went on to become one of the most influential acts in goth, post-punk, deathrock, new wave, '80s pop, and, well, music and culture in general, really. 40 years on, and their influence is still as strong as ever, in fact. 

The first full set begins, at long last, with a taste of the first full length from Virginia's favorite post-punk sons,
Shadow Age, whose self-titled album dropped a couple of months ago. From there, we hear a second call from The Voice of an Idiot Ghost EP by newcomers U.S. Grave, before catching up with Italy's Der Himmel Über Berlin, who contributed a track to Venus Aeon's new REBIRTH compilation, showcasing this decade's revival of goth rock and related genres. We then settle in for a whiskey soaked second act, featuring new music from Portland's Murderbait, conjuring some Nick Cave vibes that slide nicely into a second sip of Aelter's latest release, One. The set rounds out in suitably melancholy fashion with a selection from The Twilight Garden, going back to their 2012 release, Hope.

The second set kicks off with new music from France's
Rendez-Vous, whose follow up to the much-lauded electro post-punk banger of an EP, Distance, is now here, entitled Superior State. Staying in France for the next song, we get a first look at Night Train to Nowhere's new post-punk exhibit, the stylishly-named Pictures At A Damnation, which is followed by a visit from San Francisco's almost Am/Rep-leaning post-punk act, The Tunnel, from their new Exoskeletal EP. Back to France, and back in time to the year 1988, we get a vault classic from Asylum Party, before coming back to the modern world with newly-formed international act, Terremoto, featuring members of both Crimson Scarlet and Masses on their collaborative post-punk/wave-pop crossover EP, The Bridge. New music from one of my personal favorites in recent years, UK act FEHM, closes this set, with the a-side of their new single, Scarborough Warning/The Sea To Come.

Set three begins with even more new French music -- which is not a theme, but France is really churning out some good music right now -- this time from
FTR ("future"), with their electro-post-punk-wave (?) single, June. Eric Vain returns to the show next with music from his brand new EP, Black Lung, followed by a 20-year-old club classic from EBM act Evil's Toy, just for the fun of looking back. Another taste of the new self-titled album from Chicago's Panic Priest comes next, and then newcomers Spire Circle from Seattle have the honor of rounding out this more electronic-leaning set with a new single, "Narrow Stereo Field."

Set four begins the dark metal portion of this episode with brand new music from the curious Englishmen known as A Forest of Stars. Sure to appeal to fans of Garm's time with many eccentric metal acts (Arcturus, Ulver, Borknagar), their new album is entitled Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes. Austria's The Negative Bias take the stage next, with an overdue selection from last year's Lamentation of the Chaos Omega, before this set of extended extremities concludes with a third measure of music from Drudkh's new album, Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring). After visiting Hill House for a moment during the last talk break, things feel sad enough to close with something from Skepticism's newly-relastered 1995 funeral doom opus, Stormcrowfleet.


All of that PLUS: New synthwave/horror music from Nashville's own Night Machine; A surprising classical instrumental from the new VNV Nation album, Noire; New and old cvlt soundtrack work for the two holidays most recently in our rearview; and more!


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Format: Band Name - Song Title [Album Title, Year]
(each band name is also a website link)
(sets and talk breaks separated by dashes)



"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Show recorded on: November 27th, 2018

Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Mirage  [The Scream, 1978]
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Night Machine - Old Dust (The Crypt)  [Themes of the Dead, 2018] [N]
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Shadow Age - I Love You  [Shadow Age, 2018]
U.S. Grave - Don't Pull Out (feat. Nicole Laurenne)  [Voice of an Idiot Ghost, 2018]
Der Himmel Über Berlin - Dead Cities  ["REBIRTH" (comp.) 2018]
Murderbait - Ruts  [digital single, 2018]
Aelter - Dove  [One, 2018]
The Twilight Garden - Hope  [Hope, 2012]
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John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies - Say Something  ["Halloween 2018" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Rendez-Vous - Sentimental Animal  [Superior State, 2018]
Night Train to Nowhere - Bare Artist  [Pictures At A Damnation, 2018]
The Tunnel - Death's Request  [Exoskeletal EP, 2018]
Asylum Party - Together In The Fall  [Picture One, 1988]
Terremoto - Blue Houses  [The Bridge, 2018]
FEHM - Scarborough Warning  [Scarborough Warning/The Sea To Come (single) 2018]
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Richard Einhorn - End Titles (Blood Rage)  ["Blood Rage" (soundtrack) 1987]
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FTR - June  [digital single, 2018]
Eric Vain - Black Lung  [Black Lung, 2018]
Evil's Toy - From Above Comes Sleep  [Angels Only!, 1998]
Panic Priest - Die Divine  [Panic Priest, 2018]
Spire Circle - Narrow Stereo Field  [digital single, 2018]
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VNV Nation - Nocturne No. 7  [Noire, 2018]
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A Forest of Stars - Persistence Is All / Precipice Pirouette  [Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes, 2018]
The Negative Bias - The Golden Key to a Pandemonium Kingdom  [Lamentation of the Chaos Omega, 2017]
Drudkh - Vechirniy Smerk Okutuye Kimnaty...  [Їм часто сниться капіж’ (‘They Often See Dreams About the Spring’), 2018]
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The Newton Brothers - Come Home  ["The Haunting of Hill House" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Skepticism - By Silent Wings  [Stormcrowfleet (remaster), 1995/2018]

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(comp.) = Taken from a compilation album


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Monday, October 29, 2018

PODCAST: Halloween Special (October 2018)

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GOOD EVENING... you have arrived just in time for The 2018 "Out ov the Coffin" Halloween Special! Hold out your bags and prepare to receive over 3 hours of Halloween-obsessed sonic tricks and treats. In addition to full-size songs from the most ghoulish realms of goth, post-punk, deathrock, horror punk, darkwave, industrial, and dark metal, you'll find hundreds of fun-sized clips from the crypts: Movie dialogue, sound effects, trailers, radio spots, tv ads, and, of corpse, horror film and television soundtracks, all assembled in ritual formation, and (g)hosted by yours truly.

In addition to traditional Hallowed Hymns, I have unearthed some new arrivals for this year's special, including recently deceased entries from
Grave Society, The Dirty Horror, Ritual Howls, Nox Novacula, Draconian Incubus,The Spiritual Bat, Sargeist, and fresh soundtrack work from "The Haunting of Hill House" and John Carpenter's new "Halloween" soundtrack for 2018.

While this show was coming together, James Karen, who played one of my favorite roles in my favorite film of all, "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985), passed away at the age of 94. To honor his memory, I paid several tributes to him and his iconic role as Frank throughout this episode.

R.I.P. James Karen (1924-2018)

And with that, I send you into the night eternal. May this show improve your Halloween season -- and if so, please share it on your social platform of choice!


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 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: 2018!
  Show recorded on: Monday, October 29th, 2018

Tom Rivest - Halloween [Halloween: The Ultimate Soundtrack for your Halloween Parties, 1997]
The Zombie Kill-Harmonic Orchestra - Raging Storm (exc.)  [Midnight Mausoleum, 2011]
[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)
Dennis Michael Tenney - The Possession Suite  ["Night of the Demons" (soundtrack), 1988][Sample] CBS "Special" Intro Jingle
Endvra - He Knows the Gate  [The Dark is Light Enough, 1996]

[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)

Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me (Ichabod's Twin Peaks/The Return Murder Mix, 2017)
[Sample] Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[Sample] The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)
Bauhaus
- Stigmata Martyr  [In the Flat Field, 1980]
[Sample] Angus Scrimm, Fangoria Ad
[Sample] "Deadtime Stories" Trailer
Misfits - Halloween  [Halloween, 1981]
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John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies - The Shape Returns  ["Halloween 2018" (soundtrack) 2018]
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[Sample] "Castle of Blood" (1964)
Calabrese - Voices of the Dead  [The Traveling Vampire Show, 2007]
[Trailer] Vampyres (1974)
Screaming Dead - Night Creatures  [Night Creatures, 1983]
[Trailer] Re-Animator
Fields of the Nephilim - Re-Animator  [Dawnrazor, 1987]
[Sample] Elvira Schlock-A-Thon promo (1993)
[Sample] The Real Ghostbusters: "No One Comes to Lupusville"
Grave Society - Chiroptophobia  [Act I. Dictum Nyctophilia, 2018]
[Sample] "Dark Shadows"
Ritual Howls - Blood Red Moon  [Their Body, 2017]
[Radio Spot] "Devil's Nightmare"
Draconian Incubus - Incubus  [Devotion, 2016]
[Trailer] Demons [1985]
Altar de Fey - Demons  [Echoes in the Corridor, 2016]
Joseph LoDuca - Book of Evil  ["Evil Dead II" (soundtrack) 1987]
[Sample] "Demons" (1985)
Bella Morte - Demons  [The Deathrock EP, 2001]
Calabrese - Vampires Don't Exist  [The Traveling Vampire Show, 2007]
[Radio Spot] The Hearse (1980)
Corpus Delicti - Haunting Picture  [Twilight, 1993]
Vincent Price - The Sabbat (exc.)  [Witchcraft - Magic: An Adventure In Demonology, 1969]
The Spiritual Bat - The Killing (REBIRTH version)  [REBIRTH (comp.) 2018]
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The Newton Brothers - Main Title  ["The Haunting of Hill House" (soundtrack) 2018]
Backyard Ghost - Samhain  [Grimoire, 2010]
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Matt Clifford - Fresh Inventory  ["The Return of the Living Dead" (unreleased score) 1985]
[Sample] "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985)
Francis Haines - The Trioxin Theme  ["The Return of the Living Dead" (unreleased score) 1985]
45 Grave - Party Time (Zombie version) ["The Return of the Living Dead" (soundtrack) 1985]
[Sample] The Real Ghostbusters: :"When Halloween Was Forever"
Samhain - Halloween II  [November-Coming-Fire, 1986]
Danzig - Possession  [Danzig, 1988]
[Trailer] Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Misfits - Night of the Living Dead  [Walk Among Us, 1982]
Vic Crume - The Haunted House  [The Haunted House and other Spooky Poems and Tales, 1970]
Nox Novacula - The Light Below  [Nox Novacula, 2018]
[Sample] "Castle of Blood" (1964)
Horror Vacui - In Darkness You Will Feel Alright  [In Darkness You Will Feel Alright, 2012]
[Sample] The Haunted Palace
Ramones - Pet Sematary  [Brain Drain, 1987]
[Sample] Elvira
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Halloween Montage: Silver Shamrock  ["Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (soundtrack) 1982]
[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)
T.S.O.L. - Code Blue  [Dance With Me, 1981]
[Sample] James Karen, "Screen Scaries" (1989)
John Zacherley - Happy Halloween  [Scary Tales, 1962]
[Trailer]
"A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" (1988)
Tuesday Knight - Nightmare  ["A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (soundtrack) 1988]
[Sample]
"A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" (1988)
The Misfits - Don't Look Now ["Jem: Trick or Techrat" (soundtrack) 1987]
Jem and the Holograms - It's Fun to Be Scared ["Jem: Trick or Techrat" (soundtrack) 1987]
[Trailer] "Chopping Mall" (1986)
God Module - Orange and Black  [Let's Go Dark, 2007]
[Radio Spot] Halloween '78
Electric Hellfire Club - Invocation  [Burn Baby Burn, 1993]
Seraphim Shock - Shapeshifter  [Halloween, Sex n' Vegas, 2004]
Type O Negative - All Hallow's Eve (edit)  [World Coming Down, 1999]
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Francois de Roubaix - Daughters of Darkness Ending/Opening/Les Dunes d'Ostende ["Daughters of Darkness" (soundtrack) 1971]
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The Haxan Cloak - Miste (exc.) [Excavation, 2013]
[Sample] Pagan Invasion

[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)King Diamond - Welcome Home  [Them, 1988]
[Sample] "Escaping Satan's Web" (1987)
[Sample] Friday the 13th: The Series, "Helloween"
Sargeist - To Wander the Night's Eternal Path  [Unbound, 2018]
[Sample] "Evilspeak" (1981)
Hypocrisy - The Arrival of the Demons pt. 2  [Abducted, 1997]
[Sample] Pagan Invasion
Cradle of Filth - Of Mist and Midnight Skies  [The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, 1994]
[Sample] Pagan Invasion
Naglfar - Of Gorgons Spawned Through Witchcraft  [Ex Inferis, 2002]
[Trailer] "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave"
Abysmal Grief - Hidden in the Graveyard  [Feretri, 2013]
[Sample] Scooby Doo - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Tribulation - Nightbound  [Down Below, 2018]
[Sample] "One Dark Night" (1982)
Devil Master - Inhabit the Corpse  [Inhabit the Corpse, 2017]
[Sample] "Cemetery Man" ("Dellamorte Dellamore") (1994)
Alice Cooper
- Devil's Food / The Black Widow  [Welcome to My Nightmare, 1975]
Mighty Sphincter - Blood Banquet  [The New Manson Family, 1986]
[Trailer] "Friday the 13th Part VI" (TV spot)
The Dirty Horror - Dead Eyes [digital single, 2018]
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Gregory T. Haggard - Main Titles ["Hack-O-Lantern" (soundtrack) 1988]
Ken Higgins, Jim Calabrese - Kreon's Grave  ["Spookies" (soundtrack) 1986]
Matt Clifford - Destruction  ["The Return of the Living Dead" (score) 1985]
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Roky Erickson - Burn the Flames
["The Return of the Living Dead" (soundtrack) 1985] {Dedicated to James Karen, 1924-2018, R.I.P. ...?}
[Sample] "Castle of Blood" (1964)


KEY:
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(exc.) = excerpt

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Saturday, September 22, 2018

PODCAST: September 2018 Episode [Compilation for the Dead 2018]

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This month's episode is the Out ov the Coffin: Compilation for the Dead 2018. What's that? Well, if you ran into me at Dragon Con this year, you already know -- but for the rest of you, the "Compilation for the Dead" is a mixtape-style version of the podcast, designed to play through without breaks, so your ears can be flooded with the latest crop of new and current dark music that I think people should know about. It serves as both a good intro to the show, for newcomers, and a convenient collection of new and recent standouts for longtime listeners. Or, as the kids say, "nothing but bangers."

I started the "Compilation for the Dead" series back in 2007, after attending Dragon Con for a couple of years, where I would consistently have conversations about the state of "goth" music, the health of "the scene," and if there were any good bands still putting music out these days. My answer to the last question was always an emphatic "yes, damn it!," but in order to put my money where my mouth was, I decided to create proof.

"I made you a mixtape...." Except not in the creepy way. Wait 'til next month for that...

Anyway, each year I choose an album's worth of strictly new and current music to represent this podcast, my DJing style, and, most importantly, the current state of the goth & the wider dark music scene as I see it.

For those who just found out about Out ov the Coffin, welcome aboard. New, "regular" episodes happen once a month, featuring even more great new music -- but those episodes also include classics from the vault, episodic themes, and further cuts into current dark sounds from the realms of post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, goth, industrial, film scores, dark metal, and more. The next one will be October's traditional Halloween Special, which should arrive about this time next month, with "regular" episodes resuming again in November and December.

In the meantime, if you're new to this podcast, I encourage you to check out some of the previous episodes (here or here), and to follow the show on Facebook and Instagram.

Thanks,
Ichabod


* Neither this podcast nor this compilation are endorsed or produced by Dragon Con.


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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Talk breaks recorded on: Friday, September 21st, 2018


Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me  ["Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack) 1994]

The "Out ov the Coffin" Compilation for the Dead, 2018:

1.    Them Are Us Too:  Floor  [Amends, 2018]
2.    Astari Nite:  Sunday Queen  [Midnight Conversations, 2018]

3.    Temple of Angels:  Lex Talionis  [Temple of Angels EP, 2017]
4.    Bambara:  José Tries to Leave  [Shadow on Everything, 2018]
5.    Over:  Just Blood  [Vacant Daydream, 2017]
6.    NAUT:  I'm Here  [Raise the Lights, 2018]
7.    Nox Novacula:  The Path  [Nox Novacula EP, 2018]
8.    Panic Priest:  Sideways  [Panic Priest, 2018]
9.    Lovataraxx:  Hoop  [Kairos, 2017]
10.  House of Harm:  Cuts You Inside  [Demo, 2017]
11.  Dancing Plague:  Pure Desperation  [Pure Desperation, 2018]
12.  Twin Tribes:  Shadows  [Shadows, 2018]
13.  Marco Beltrami:  Positive Feedback  ["A Quiet Place" (soundtrack) 2018]
14.  Ritual Howls:  Perfume  [Their Body, 2017]
15.  Eric Vain:  Bow + Arrow  [Pedestals for the Broken EP, 2018]
16.  Silent EM:  Pure Heart  [Foreign States, 2018]   
17.  Grave Society:  Sanctified  [Act I: Dictum Nyctophilia, 2018]
18.  Alexandre Desplat:  The Creature  ["The Shape of Water" (soundtrack) 2018]
19.  Tribulation:  The Lament  [Down Below, 2018]
20.  Isenordal:  Pyres at Nightfall  [Shores of Mourning, 2017]




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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

PODCAST: August 2018 Episode

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EPISODE NOTES & HIGHLIGHTS: 

This month, in addition the regular flow of the show that you (hopefully) know and love, I have included a special set in the middle, focusing on Dragon Con 2018, the annual sci-fi/comics/horror/fantasy/music/et cetera-convention held every labor day weekend in Atlanta, GA. More on that later, when we get to that set...

First up on this episode is new music from Boise, Idaho's Aelter, a more somber, goth-forward musical outlet for Blk from the band Wolvserpent. The new album is entitled One, and you can check out the rest of it here.

From there, we launch in to the first full set of the show, starting with newcomers 
U.S. Grave (Phoenix, Arizona), who set the tone with an upbeat gloomy number from their Voice of an Idiot Ghost EP. We then dig a track deeper into two current releases: The new Raise the Lights EP from NAUT, followed by Borderlands from Denver's Weathered Statues. Los Angeles deathrockers The Dirty Horror jump in with both boots next, delivering the 'Coffin premiere of their new single, "Dead Eyes," followed by a second look at Autobahn's 2017 album, The Moral Crossing. Finally, the set closes with a request for a new London act, The Visceral Pleasure, whose sound is pleasantly reminiscent of certain pockets of '90s goth, for fans of Lycia and the like.

DRAGON CON 2018:

The second full set acts as a spotlight on Dragon Con 2018, which takes place in Atlanta, Georgia across multiple host hotels on Labor Weekend (August 30th - September 3rd). If you've never been, imagine 80,000 fans of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, music, gaming, comics, film, toys, puppets, anime, cosplay, and anything else you can be far too into, coming together in one location to celebrate those things with the people that make them. They book cool goth/industrial-related bands.

Disclaimer: I volunteer and serve as the Assistant Director for Dragon Con's Horror Track, so this set leans that way, but they are not connected with this podcast in any way. That said, if you're coming to the convention, come by the Horror Track room (Westin Peachtree 1-2, on the 8th floor) and say hello. Also, catch me moderating my annual goth panel:

"Goth A.D. 2018"
Saturday, 2:30pm, Westin Peachtree 1-2
Panelists: Aurelio Voltaire, Cruxshadows, Jess-O-Lantern, and possibly more TBA...

(Download the Dragon Con 2018 app to see the full list of guests and panels for the Horror Track and all the other tracks, too).

With that said, this set includes music from several of this year's live performers, including the return of Abney Park, mainstays The Crüxshadows and Aurelio Voltaire, plus newcomers The Cybertronic Spree -- a Transfomers-themed cover/tribute act that plays the soundtrack from the 1986 film, plus other '80s synth-rock anthems, like the theme from "Kung Fury," which I've included here. Not only that, but they do so while dressed as fucking Autobots! Seriously, check out the video here. Sandwiched in between the songs of this set are several iconic horror trailers, which I've included in reference to The Horror Track panels we'll have this year about each of them, to mark significant anniversaries of their release dates. Anyway, now that my nerdity is showing, I'll move on to the next, not-Con-related set...

Set three begins with newly-released old material from
Ego Likeness, taken from the 2-disc collection of their earliest material, entitled Songs from a Dead City, which was just made available from Metropolis Records. Following similar sonic lines, Helix comes next with something from their new album Twin. Not to be confused with the hair-raising '80s metal band, this Helix is a collaboration between Tom Shear (Assemblage 23) and vocalist Mari Kattman (Day Twelve, Mari & The Ghost). I then reach back to 2005 for a second dear vault track, this time from System Syn's Postscript album, before delving deeper into the latest, and sadly last, album from Them Are Us Too. As the set began, so it ends, with a re-issued classic courtesy of Metropolis Records. This time, we get a taste of The Legendary Pink Dots1992 album, Shadow Weaver.

The fourth set eases into the dark metal realm with a pair of acts that began life (death?) on the extreme side of the metal fence, then hopped over, in favor of different pastures. First up is Norway's Manes, whose sound is a bit hard to peg, but interesting to follow on their latest, Slow Motion Death Sequence. Fans of Garm's output take note. Next, we step back just over 20 years for a look back at the onset of Tiamat's flirtation with psychedelic goth rock on A Deeper Kinf of Slumber. If all that isn't heavy enough for you, never fear, we then go a cut deeper into Drudkh's new album, Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring).Canada's Finnr's Cane step in next with a taste of their brand new album, before we ultimately close this episode with another great song from Délétère's latest opus, De Horae Leprae.


All of that PLUS: New film/television soundtrack work from Thomas Newman's "Castle Rock" score and "Annihilation" by Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow; Multiple film/music anniversaries to note; and more!


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PLAYLIST BEGINS HERE

Format: Band Name - Song Title [Album Title, Year]
(each band name is also a website link)
(sets and talk breaks separated by dashes)



"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Show recorded on: August 28th, 2018

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

Aelter - Raven  [One, 2018]
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Thomas Newman - A Run of Bad Luck ["Castle Rock" (soundtrack) 2018]
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U.S. Grave - Stumble Off the Earth  [Voice of an Idiot Ghost EP, 2018]
NAUT - Disintegration  [Raise the Lights, 2018]
Weathered Statues - Sabbat  [Borderlands, 2018]
The Dirty Horror - Dead Eyes [digital single, 2018]
Autobahn - Fallen  [The Moral Crossing, 2017]
The Visceral Pleasure - 743  [digital single, 2018]  ^RQ^
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Johan Söderqvist - The Arrival / Spotting a Victim / Virginia Wakes Up  ["Let the Right One In" (soundtrack) 2008]
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Abney Park - Dear Ophelia  [The Death of Tragedy, 2005]
TRAILER "Night of the Living Dead" 1968
TRAILER "Dawn of the Dead" 1978
The Crüxshadows - Stay  [Atromythology, 2017]
Aurelio Voltaire - Ex-Lover's Lover  [The Devil's Bris, 1998]
TRAILER "Halloween" (1978)
The Cybertronic Spree - True Survivor [digital single, 2018]
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Tangerine Dream - Mae Comes Back  ["Near Dark" (soundtrack) 1987]
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Ego Likeness - The Burning Land (demo)  [Songs From a Dead City, 1999/2018]
Helix - Anymore  [Twin, 2018]
System Syn - The Saddest Sound Was You  [Postscript, 2005]
Them Are Us Too - No One  [Amends, 2018]
The Legendary Pink Dots - City of Needles  [Shadow Weaver, 1992/2018]
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Craig Safan - Resurrection  ["A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" (soundtrack) 1988]
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Manes - Chemical Heritage  [Slow Motion Death Sequence, 2018]
Tiamat - Teonanacatl / Trillion Zillion Centipedes  [A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997]
Drudkh - У Дахів Іржавім Колоссю...  [Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring), 2018]
Finnr's Cane - Strange Sun  [Elegy, 2018]
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Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - For Those That Follow  ["Annihilation" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Délétère - Oratio Magna  [De Horae Leprae, 2018]


^RQ^ = requested

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