PODCAST: July 2019 Episode

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This episode begins with a small tribute to the memory and contributions of Thierry Sobezyk, co-founder, co-vocalist, and bassist for late-'80s French coldwave pioneers, Asylum Party, who died earlier this month. The fact that their songs can still be heard on playlists and dance floors worldwide, 30 years later, is a testament to his influence as a musician. Rest In Peace.

Showing some of that influence, set one begins with the first single from Texas darkwave duo Twin Tribes' forthcoming album, Ceremony. We then hear the 'Coffin debut of Italy's Japan Suicide, sharing some emotive post-punk from their new KI album, before sliding into new music from fellow Italians, Hapax, whose latest album, Monade, is a thoughtful journey through modern goth/post-punk. Up next is the return, after several quiet years, of Arizona's Audra, with a single from their forthcoming Dear Tired Friends., followed by an upbeat goth rocker from The Rope's new Lillian album, featuring the driving vocal performances that put them on my map. Finally, set one concludes with another great taste of trad-gothic rock from the new Sonsombre album, The Veils of Ending.  

Set two begins with another hot new single, this time from Florida goth/darkwavers Astari Nite. Going deeper into the dreamlike vibes, we then hear a deep cut from the new Drab Majesty album, Modern Mirror. Going into the vaults, we reach for a darkwave-ish obscurity from Black September (who, vocally, land between Ian Astbury and Morrissey), going back to the magical year that was 1986. Back to the present day, we check back in with Belarus post-punks, Nürnberg, for another taste of last year's Skryvaj album. I was surprised to learn that France's Lovataraxx will be playing live in Nashville on August 9th (and elsewhere, too), so I celebrated with a track from them, before closing the set with more music from the much-talked-about new She Past Away album, Disko Anksiyete. I also complain about missing the band's current US tour dates (see them here), but that's understandable, right?

The tour spotlight is turned on once again for set three, which begins with new music from New York's Silent EM, bridging darkwave, post-punk, and EBM sounds on their latest album, The Absence. Their label, Disko Obscura, has put together a tour with them and labelmates Ortrotasce, which will be rolling through Nashville on August 10th @ Fascination Street. Having realized the two bands were connected, I follow Ortrotasce with a related project from a few years back, Warmline. We keep the pace going with new electro-goth from New York's A Cloud of Ravens, before putting the brakes on for something brand new to the show: Berlin's captivating None, who provide a blanket of dark electronic submersion, which leads nicely in to the latest from L.A.'s Thief, who will soon bring their new Map of Lost Keys material to The Cobra in Nashville on August 27th.

Along with Thief, that August 27th show (and the tour it's part of) will include the first band we hear in set four: Oakland's Silence in the Snow, a tribal goth/dark-rock band, featuring a member of Lycus (and many other bands, because a good human drummer stays busy). Their new album Levitation Chamber is probably not what you'd expect from that résumé, instead having more in common with lesser-known mid-'80s goth acts than with modern doom. The UK's Lock Howl then provide a great transition between the goth and metal worlds, which leads us to brand new music from Slovakian black metal act Aeon Winds. The atmospherically-inclined should check out their new album, Stormveiled. We then get a third taste of Barshasketh's latest, self-titled black metal opus, which drops nicely into a vault-selection from Impaled Nazarene's 2000 album, Nihil.

After that, the show closes with a pensive, personal classic from Clan of Xymox (who will make up their missed US tour dates this fall), fittingly sealing this episode with their 1997 classic, "The Story Ends," taken from their underrated Hidden Faces album.

All of that PLUS: Great new atmosphere from the "Stranger Things 3" score by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein; A taste of Psyclon Nine frontman Nero Bellum's new experimental soundscape album NFRNº; Selections from the modern and classic soundtrack vaults; 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: July 30th, 2019

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

Asylum Party - Play Alone  [Borderline, 1989]

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Adam Taylor - River Walk / Ofglen & Offred / Descending  ["The Handmaid's Tale" (soundtrack) 2017]
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Twin Tribes - Heart & Feather  [Ceremony, 2019]
Japan Suicide - One Day the Black Will Swallow the Red  [KI, 2019]
Hapax - Parallel Words  [Monade, 2019]
Audra - Wish No Harm  [Dear Tired Friends, 2019]
The Rope - Given to the Gun  [Lillian, 2019]
Sonsombre - Mirror Mirror  [The Veils of Ending, 2019]
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Paul Zaza - Same Dream  ["Popcorn" (soundtrack) 1991]
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Astari Nite - Dearly Beloved  [Dearly Beloved (single), 2019]
Drab Majesty - Noise of the Void  [Modern Mirror, 2019]
Black September - David  [Rainbow Kiss (12"), 1986]
Nürnberg - Biessensoŭnasć  [Skryvaj, 2018]
Lovataraxx - Hoop  [Kairos, 2017]
She Past Away - Durdu Dunya  [Disko Anksiyete, 2019] 
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - It's Just Ice  ["Stranger Things 3" (soundtrack) 2019]
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Silent EM - Virtues of Our Age  [The Absence, 2019]
Ortrotasce - You'll Never Be Real  [Monument of Existence, 2016]
Warmline - Fade With My Heart  [Warmline, 2015]
A Cloud of Ravens - Sacred Hearts  [Sacred Hearts, 2019]
None - This Heat  [Heat, 2019]
Thief - With Love, From Nihil  [Map of Lost Keys, 2019]
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Thief - Gouging Out a Cave in Empty Sky  [Map of Lost Keys, 2019]
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Silence in the Snow - Smoke Signals  [Levitation Chamber, 2019]
Lock Howl - The Seventh Room  [Pareidolia, 2017]
Aeon Winds - Beyond All Empty Places  [Stormveiled, 2019]
Barshasketh - Consciousness II  [Barshasketh, 2019]
Impaled Nazarene - How the Laughter Died  [Nihil, 2000]
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Nero Bellum - The Beauty In Something Broken  [NFRNº, 2019]
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Clan of Xymox - The Story Ends  [Hidden Faces, 1997]

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PODCAST: November 2016

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Last month's episode was, of corpse, focused specifically on the celebration of Halloween, which means that a great many new releases started to stack up over the past two months, and, as a result, this episode (and next month's) will be filled to the rim with fresh faces. We begin with new music from London's The Agnes Circle, whose new album Some Vague Desire offers a lush mixture of goth and post-punk style.

The first full set kicks off with a song from the much-anticipated new Soft Kill album, Choke. Having heard some of the new material on tour over the summer, it's been a long, but worthwhile wait. You can pick it up here, and catch them on tour in December with All Your Sisters. After that, we go for a deep, rich cut from ROME's latest, The Hyperion Machine, before diving into traditional goth territory with new music from Portugal's NU:N, whose Naked Until Noema will delight fans of bands like Fields of the Nephilim or Love Like Blood. Germany's Golden Apes follow suit with a taste of their latest, M Ʌ L V S.

We do some catching up next, dipping back into the forgotten '80s vaults, with a track from the new Killed By Deathrock Vol. 2 compilation. This selection spotlights a catchy post-punk/wave track from UK act Flowers For Agatha, originally released in 1985. We then jump 30 years to 2015, picking up on a track from Minnesota's trad-goth act, The Rope, who initially came to my attention via the great compilation series, 33 Goth Bands You Should Know. Check those out!

The next set turns into darkwave/electronic territory, beginning with a spotlight on the current mini-tour from Bella Morte frontman Andy Deane's new synthwave project, The Rain Within. They'll play Nashville on December 4th, along with the other two bands you'll hear in the first half of the second set: The unique electro-goth approach of Nashville's own HR_Lexy, taken from their new Slave to the Light EP, followed by a new digital single from fellow Nashville act, FIRES (featuring members of Cryogen Second and Becoming the Devourer). 

The set then turns to new music from a very catchy new Chicago band, Wingtips, whose Greayarea EP will no doubt be stuck in several people's car stereo's soon. Sinking into murkier waters, we then get a taste of the new Chasms album, On the Legs of Love Purified, which effectively combines shoegaze and industrial elements. Finally, we see the set close with a sadly-overlooked track from one of several Virginia acts featured this month, Decades/Failures.

Speaking of Virginia, the third set takes off with a brand new one from True Body's Demo '16, before giving you a second taste of the new Belgrado album, Obraz. We then take a detour to the '80s vaults again for rarities from Screams for Tina and The Lucy Show, before jumping, with both feet, into another new track from The Bellicose Minds' new LP, The Creature. Finally, we go full-on Mexican Deathrock with a brand new track from CRVEL, taken from their new Sombras album. 

While we're feeling a little heavier, you might just be convinced to try some dark metal, so the next set begins with a brand new one from Cast Away Souls, the latest album from Oakland's Cardinal Wyrm. Following with a curve ball, we're yanked back to 1995 for a bit of a classic from Sentenced, before getting some more California dark metal, this time from the one-man-band Mare Cognitum, whose new album, Luminiferous Aether, delves into the further realms of atmospheric black metal. The set concludes with the other new track that Ukraine's Drudkh contributed to their new split (with Grift), which you'll find under the title Betrayed By The Sun/Hägringar. 

All of that, PLUS: New music on the way out from Norway's Wardruna; Fresh theatrical soundscapes from "Stranger Things" composers Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, both with and without their band S U R V I V E ; An 8-bit horror tribute from Comptroller; More music from The Venture Bros., courtesy of J.G. Thirlwell; A dip in the dark ambient vault; 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)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Show recorded on: November 28th, 2016

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

The Agnes Circle - The Crystal Flowers  [Some Vague Desire, 2016]
S U R V I V E - Low Fog  [RR7349, 2016]
Soft Kill - Wake Up  [Choke, 2016]
ROME - Cities of Asylum  [The Hyperion Machine, 2016]
NU:N - Carved Silence  [Naked Until Noema, 2016]
Golden Apes - Verity  [M Ʌ L V S, 2016]
Flowers For Agatha - The Freedom Curse (1985) ["Killed By Deathrock Vol. 2" (comp.) 2016]
The Rope - Suffer  [Waters Rising, 2015]
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Hazmat Suits  ["Stranger Things Vol. 1" (soundtrack) 2016]
HR_Lexy - Eyes  [Slave to the Light, 2016] [N]
The Rain Within - Dark Drive  [Dark Drive, 2016]
FIRES - Counting Walls  [digital single, 2016] [N]
Wingtips - Eyes Shut to the Sky  [Greyarea, 2016]
Chasms - Intimacy  [On the Legs of Love Purified, 2016]
Decades/Failures - Everything In Black  [002, 2014]
J.G. Thirlwell - Fantomas Office  [Music of The Venture Bros. Volume 2, 2016]
True Body - Silent March  [Demo '16, 2016]
Belgrado - Fragmenty Świata  [Obraz, 2016]
Screams for Tina - Fool's Gold  [Strobelight Funeral, 1986]
The Lucy Show - Resistance  [Extended Play, 1984]
The Bellicose Minds - The Hordes  [The Creature, 2016]
CRVEL - Miseria  [Sombras, 2016]
Comptroller - Main Title (Phantasm)  [You Play a Good Game Boy, 2016]
Cardinal Wyrm - The Resonant Dead  [Cast Away Souls, 2016]
Sentenced - Nepenthe  [Amok, 1995]
Mare Cognitum - Aether Wind  [Luminiferous Aether, 2016]
Drudkh - His Twenty-Fourth Spring  [Betrayed By The Sun/Hägringar (split w/ Grift) 2016]
Silent Sound - Skin of Sorrow, Soul Without End  ["Unexpected Silenzio" (comp.) 1989]
Wardruna - Raido  [Runaljod - Ragnarok, 2016]

KEY:

^RQ^ = requested

(exc.) = excerpt

(comp.) = compilation

[N] = Nashville artist

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