PODCAST: July 2015 Episode

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This episode begins on a sad, but respectful, note. Earlier this week, Nick Cave's 15-year-old son Arthur was killed in a fall from a cliff. "The Weeping Song" seemed perhaps a little too fitting, but it was the only way I could send my sympathies, so I chose to do so.

Once past that bit of bad news, the first full set begins with our first taste of the forthcoming Lycia album, A Line That Connects (courtesy of a stream from Decibel Magazine's website). The song gets better with each listen, and definitely harkens back to the classic sound that put the band on the map. You will soon be able to pre-order the album on the Handmade Birds site.

After a personal classic from the criminally underrated Black Ice, the set travels the globe to bring you fresh music, starting with a new German band called Transylvania. Not much is known about the band, but their sound offers a nice, ethereal, goth/deathrock vibe. The UK's Red Sun Revival follows with a track from their new faithfully-goth-rock album, Identities, followed by the first band to grace the show from Belarus, the curiously-named Another Lips, with an alternatingly catchy-then-suffocating post-punk piece from their new EP Грязь.

The first set closes with a moment of celebration for this week's 30th anniversary of the release of the classic Phantasmagoria album from The Damned. The album marked the band's most outwardly gothic sound, and is often remembered for its iconic album cover, which coincidentally features model Susie Bick, who would later marry Nick Cave. Small world.

The second set begins with a pair of songs played in tribute to Simon Manning, founding member of the bands Children on Stun and Grooving In Green, who passed away last week. I never knew the man, but he wrote some infectious goth rock that hit me in my formative years, and I salute him for that. The set continues with a pair of classics from the vault, before heading into some recent goth/punk fusion from Iceland's Börn, who give us a taste of their 2014 self-titled album. The set wraps up with new music from Seattle's Arcane, whose demo offers a unique take on anarcho/peace-punk.

The darkwave section of this episode is rife with new releases and bands, beginning with a taste of the new Lebanon Hanover album, Besides the Abyss, which leads into a track from fellow Germans Keluar, taken from their new EP, Panguna.  Meanwhile, back in the States, we finally get caught up in last year's Floods EP from Brooklyn's Aeon Rings (formerly heard on this show as Night Vision), before getting a taste of the much-talked-about new Los Angeles band, Drab Majesty. The first video from their Careless album can be seen here, paired with an interview about the project's visual component.

The darkwave crashes with the powerful and emotionally challenging title track from the new Ego Likeness album, When the Wolves Return. A pensive, slowly-building song may seem an odd choice for a lead single, but it shows what sets this band apart from their peers; a weakness that gave them strength. Watch the equally stark video for the song here.

The Dark metal portion of the show begins gradually, teasing in with two acts that flirt, to varying degrees, with the heavier side of the dark music spectrum. First up is a song from the new Nostalgist album, Of Loves and Days Ago. The Seattle band's sound is not easily pegged, evoking post-punk notes of bands like Lowlife, mixing in '90s alternative rock like The Smashing Pumpkins or Hum, getting noisy with some shoegaze, and rounding it out with post-metallic influences like Agalloch. Overall, it's an interesting mix. Check it out here. 

Next up is a Philadelphia band called Cape of Bats, whose Ash Black Autumn EP mixes punk, deathrock, and black metal influences, with interesting results. We then take a dip in the late-'90s golden era of dark metal, from which you'll hear a couple of classics, along with some new music from Barshasketh -- who are not actually from the '90s, but my ears and memory were willingly fooled by the sound of their new album, Ophidian Henosis. Drudkh closes the set with a deeper cut from their latest album, A Furrow Cut Short.

Finland's elder statesmen of funeral doom, Skepticism, then step in to close the show with a track from their brand new album, Ordeal. Interestingly, the band chose to record this album completely live, before an audience, in one shot -- and the results pay off, with a sound that seems as large as they were when I had the distinct pleasure of seeing them with my own eyes.

All of that, PLUS: A deeper cut from Retro Promenade's "Carpenter" tribute, this time from the band Hide & Sequence; New Dark Ambient music from Italy's Enmarta and France's L'Enfant De La Forêt; Selections from the '70s Horror, post-punk, darkwave, and goth vaults; and more. 

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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: July 17th, 2015

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

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song (remix)  [The Good Son, 1990]
Enmarta - Aesthetics  [Sea of Black, 2015]
Lycia - Monday Is Here  [A Line That Connects, 2015]
Black Ice - In the Dark  [Myopia, 2007]
Transylvania - No Return  [demo, 2015]
Red Sun Revival - Four Walls  [Identities, 2015]
Another Lips - Самозащита  [EP Грязь, 2015]
The Damned - Street of Dreams  [Phantasmagoria, 1985]
Disasterpeace - Playpen  ["It Follows" (soundtrack) 2014]
Children on Stun - Sidelined  [Tourniquets Of Loves Desire, 1994]
Grooving In Green - Stranglehold  [Strangelhold, 2012]
Twisted Nerve - Séance  [Séance, 1984]
Marquee Moon - Prince of Darkness  [Beyond the Pale, 1985]
Börn - Friður í helvíti  [Börn, 2014]
Arcane - Sleepless Paralysis  [demo 2014]
Hide & Sequence - Ghosts  ["Carpenter" (comp.) 2015]
Lebanon Hanover - Chimerical  [Besides the Abyss, 2015]
Keluar - Panguna  [Panguna, 2015]
Aeon Rings - No More Pain  [Floods, 2014]
Drab Majesty - The Heiress  [Careless, 2015]
Diary of Dreams - War on a Meadow  [Cholymelan, 1994]
Ego Likeness - When the Wolves Return  [When the Wolves Return, 2015]
L'Enfant De La Forêt - Black Figures  [Abraxas, 2015]
Nostalgist - The Derelict [Of Loves and Days Ago, 2015]
Cape of Bats - Death Born King  [Ash Black Autumn, 2014]
Rotting Christ - Out of Spirits  [A Dead Poem, 1997]
Barshasketh - II  [Ophidian Henosis, 2015]
Morgion - Canticle  [Solinari, 1999]
Drudkh - Cursed Sons II  [A Furrow Cut Short, 2015]
Pierre Raph - Francoise Chante  ("The Iron Rose")  ["The Films of Jean Rollin" (comp.) 1994]
Skepticism - Closing Music  [Ordeal, 2015]

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PODCAST: May 27th, 2014 [June 2014 Edition]

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Following a three-week tour of Europe with Loss that was filled with amazing concerts, unbelievable locations, significantly beautiful sights, and a great deal of sleep-deprivation, Out ov the Coffin returns in its new monthly format. What can I say? I'm simply not in one place long enough to record a show more often than that, at least for now.

This episode, colored explicitly by the influence of my travels across so many great countries, emerges at the tail-end of May, so it will serve as the June 2014 episode. I've followed a loose theme, gathering songs that relate to the shows we played, the bands we met, the landscapes we crossed, and the music that visited my head in those moments. I've also made this show extra-long and packed it with a great deal of brand new music.

This one begins with a birthday nod to Siouxsie Sioux, in the form of her collaboration with Morrissey, who just so happened to have celebrated his own birthday last week. The birthdays don't end there, and neither do the nods to dark music icons. Peter Murphy returns with the first single from his new Lion album on this episode.

The ever-prolific Legendary Pink Dots have issued several new items in the last few months, so we only begin to catch up with a selection from their limited vinyl release, The Curse of Marie Antoinette -- which I've packed with an older Edward Ka-spel piece that never fails to enchant. Why? Because we kept playing venues where the Dots had just performed, and it made me wish we'd arrived just a bit earlier.

One of the locations we did not have the privilege of arriving in whatsoever was Sweden -- home to many great acts, including Principe Valiente, who have just returned with their best work yet, in the form of Choirs of Blessed Youth. Look forward to a brand new track from them, and to hearing more from these guys in the future.

This episode also features new music from two heralded acts that we all thought were defunct. In a great turn of events, though, The Last Dance has started releasing new music again, two songs at a time, with the ultimate goal of a new full-length this fall. The lead singles, "Scars" and "Mesmerize" are available on iTunes and Soundcloud, respectively. Watch for another pair soon. Meanwhile, the former members of Veil Veil Vanish have re-emerged, slightly altered, in the form of Vaniish, who will release their new album Memory Work on Metropolis Records on June 10th.

In the dark-ambient/experimental-atmospheres realm, this episode features new music from San Francisco's Common Eider, King Eider, a collaboration between Trepaneringsritualen & Sutekh Hexen entitled One Hundred Year Storm, and fresh soundtrack work from Dominik Morgenroth, who also happens to be the bassist for our European tour-mates, the German funeral doom-legends Worship. As cool day jobs go, scoring for video games is pretty high on the list.

It's no surprise that the dark metal portion of this episode begins with a classic from Worship, going back to their earliest work, and highlighting one of my favorite parts of their live set each night. I watched them 14 nights in a row and never tired of hearing it. Beyond that, you'll hear a song from the new Profetus album, As All Seasons Die, followed by new music from one of the best support acts with whom we shared a stage -- in this case in Poland -- the avant-black metal band Outre, taken from their split with Thaw.

Speaking of sharing, I had the pleasure of sharing merch space with Alan from Primordial at Heavy Days in Doomtown in Copenhagen, where his new band Dread Sovereign were performing as well. The highlight of their set, for me, was a song called "We Wield the Spear of Longinus," taken from their new album All Hell's Martyrs, so you will hear that one on the way out.

All of that, plus: New Front Line Assembly remixed by Youth Code; Fresh soundtrack additions from Marco Beltrami's World War Z and Ryan Amon's Elysium; A triple birthday salute to three of horror's finest gentlemen: Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, and Christopher Lee; Selections from the vault of memory; and much more...


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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: Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

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

Morrissey & Siouxsie - Interlude  [Interlude, 1994]
Marco Beltrami - No Teeth, No Bite ["World War Z" (soundtrack) 2013]
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Curse of Marie Antoinette  [The Curse of Marie Antoinette, 2013]
Edward Ka-spel - Believe on a Breeze  [Red Letters, 2000]
Bloody Dead and Sexy - Baby Moon  [Bad Ambient, 2013]
Corpus Delicti - Dusk of Hallows  [Sylphes, 1994]
Frank the Baptist - On My Tongue  [Different Degrees of Empty, 2003]
Zeraphine - Still  [Still, 2006] 
Trepaneringsritualen & Sutekh Hexen - One Hundred Year Storm, Part 1 (exc.)  [One Hundred Year Storm, 2014]
Principe Valiente - Wasted Time  [Choirs of Blessed Youth, 2014]
Vaniish - Kaliedoscoped  [Memory Work, 2014]
Night Sins - Neon Light Intoxicants  [To London or the Lake, 2013]
The Sisters of Mercy - Black Planet  [First and Last and Always, 1985]
New Model Army - Spirit of the Falklands  [Vengeance, 1984]
Joy Division - The Only Mistake  [Still, 1981]
Common Eider, King Eider - As the Soil Rises Up Past Our Bodies  [Taaleg Uksur, 2014]
The Last Dance - Scars  [Scars (single), 2014]
Peter Murphy - Hang Up  [Lion, 2014]
Ryan Amon - When He Wakes Up  ["Elysium" (soundtrack) 2013]
Front Line Assembly - Echogenetic (Youth Code mix)  [Echoes, 2014]
Laibach - Die Liebe  [Nova Akropola, 1985]
Rammstein - Klavier  [Sehnsucht, 1997]
Dominik Morgenroth - The City at Night ["Dark" (videogame soundtrack) 2013]
Worship - Whispering Gloom  [Last CD Before Doomsday, 1999]
Profetus - A Reverie (Midsummer's Dying)  [As All Seasons Die, 2014]
Skepticism - Shred of Light, Pinch of Endless  [Farmakon, 2003]
Outre - Garden of Earthly Delights: I - The Joining of Adam and Eve / II - The Garden  [Thaw/Outre (split), 2013]
Primordial - Journey's End  [A Journey's End, 1998]
Richard Harvey - Medley  ["House of Long Shadows" (soundtrack) 1983]
Dread Sovereign - We Wield the Spear of Longinus  [All Hell's Martyrs, 2014] 
Horse Latitudes - Into the Deep  [Awakening, 2011]


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PODCAST: March 14th, 2014

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New graphic for Spring 2014

This episode begins on a sad note, marking the passing of Broughty Cole, drummer for the band Lasher Keen. Following a tense, week-long search for his whereabouts after he was reported missing, his body was finally found in the Sacramento River, close to where his abandoned car had been discovered over the weekend. He was only 28. On a better note, the band has dedicated their forthcoming album, Mantic Poetry, Oracular Prophecy, to his memory & spirit -- and if the early mix of "Trembling Dreams" that you'll hear on the way into this episode is any indication, it will be a powerful journey.

Broughty Cole (Lasher Keen) R.I.P.

From there, we move into another new, brooding instrumental from Bella Morte's Andy Deane, who continues to issue new songs, one by one, from his new Small Precious Lights project, which explores dark ambient soundscapes.

On the verge of the release of their new album, Mosaic, Itlay's The Spiritual Bat return with the single "We Are Born, We Live, We Die," which remains true to their old-school goth rock/psychedelic deathrock sound. You can catch a teaser for the album here. Meanwhile, in Canada, the traditional deathrock fires are being stoked by Ottawa's Aube, whose 2013 Demo has been making the rounds online. You'll hear their 'Coffin debut this time around.

In the darkwave realms, you'll get your first taste of Seeming, the new band of former ThouShaltNot collaborators Alex Reed and Aaron Fuleki. Their new album, Madness & Extinction, has just seen release this week. Order it here. We'll also dig a bit deeper into the
darkwave/post-punk sounds of She Past Away, with another taste of their Belirdi Gece album, followed by another song from the new Clan of Xymox album, Matters of Mind, Body, and Spirit.

Industrial/Synth/Wave veteran Gary Numan will play Nashville this coming Monday night @ The Mercy Lounge. In honor of that, you'll hear the title track from his latest album Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind), backed with one of his earliest instrumentals. It should be a great show.

As we move toward the end of the show, you'll hear a brand new track from Esben and the Witch, streamed from their forthcoming split 12" with Thought Forms. Finally, on the way out, things will take a much heavier turn as you hear side A of the new Hex/Golden Sunshine 7-inch from Nashville's own doom/noise factory Pornography, followed by a black metal offering from the new Sargeist album, Feeding the Crawling Shadows.

All of that, plus: A note of remembrance for the multi-talented Ghostbuster himself, Harold Ramis, following his passing a couple of weeks back; Further exploration of the punk side of the goth/rock fence; More genre-news & tour updates; Deeper current cuts from Theurgist, Double Echo, and Deathcharge; Selections from the vault; and more...


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

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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, March 14th, 2014

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

Lasher Keen - Trembling Dreams (preview edit)  [Mantic Poetry Oracular Prophecy, 2014]
Small Precious Lights - Toward an Unknown Familiar  [Toward an Unknown Familiar, 2014]
Hexvessel - I Am the Ritual  [Dawnbringer, 2011]
Sad Lovers & Giants - Seven Kinds of Sin  [The Mirror Test, 1987]
The Chameleons - Soul in Isolation  [Strange Times, 1986]
Double Echo - Desertion  [Black Morning EP, 2012]
Gene Loves Jezebel - Upstairs  [Promise, 1983]
The Spiritual Bat - We Are Born, We Live, We Die  [Mosaic, 2014]
Simon Chamberlain - Sonata In C Major, Opus 2, No.3 - Adagio (Ludwig van Beethoven)  ["Byzantium" (soundtrack) 2012]
Norma Loy - Lesbische Voodoo Teenagers  [Psychic Altercation/Rewind, 1988]
Ramones - Garden of Serenity  [Halfway to Sanity, 1987]
Rubella Ballet - False Promises  [If, 1986]
Aube - Exil  [demo, 2013]
Silent Scream - Dying Dreams  [Public Execution, 2012]
Ghost of Lemora - Beauty Can't Die  [Reach for the Ground, 2004]
Elmer Bernstein - Library/The Gatekeeper  ["Ghostbusters" (Original Score) 1984]
Seeming - The Burial  [Madness & Extinction, 2014]
She Past Away - Monoton  [Belirdi Gece, 2013]
Clan of Xymox - The Climate Changed  [Matters of Mind, Body, and Soul, 2014]
Gary Numan - Splinter  [Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind), 2013]
Gary Numan - Asylum  [Cars/Asylum, 1979] 
Vaura - Mare of the Snake  [The Missing, 2013]
Soror Dolorosa - Exodus  [No More Heroes, 2013]
Theurgist - Lizzie Boredom  [DeathBed, 2013]
Deathcharge - To An Early Death  [Bad Dream Forever, 2013]
Esben and the Witch - No Dog  [Esben and the Witch/Thought Forms (split), 2014]
Anathema - Sleepless  [Serenades, 1993]
Agalloch - This White Mountain on Which You Will Die  [Ashes Against the Grain, 2006]
Pornography - Hex  [Hex/Golden Sunshine, 2014]
Sargeist - Funerary Descent  [Feeding the Crawling Shadows, 2014]

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PODCAST: December 20th, 2013

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The 'Best of 2013' episode is coming up in just two weeks, which means that this episode is crammed with last-minute additions to the new music realm. Certainly not to be left off the year-end list is the latest from Philadelphia's current goth/deathrock/post-punk heroes, Night Sins, whose 2nd full-length, To London or the Lake, has just seen release.

Meanwhile in Finland, a whole lot of traditional goth/deathrock is springing up as well. Masquerade topped Cvlt Nation's list of the year's best deathrock on the strength of their 2013 demo, from which you'll get a taste on this episode. Also lauded on that list was Spain's Belgrado, who recently issued their 2nd album, Siglo XXI.

For those looking for an Xmas Special this year, there simply wasn't enough new material to out-do last year's gift, so I've re-uploaded the 2012 Xmas Bonus Show. Get it HERE or HERE. Not to be a complete "Bah-Humbugger," though, I have included The Cruxshadows' new Christmas single on this episode, which is available for free (or pay-what-you-want) right HERE.

In the darkwave/electronic realm, you'll hear new material from Waves, the latest from Virginia's one-man project The Purge, alongside further new music from Nashville's own one-man dynamo, Becoming the Devourer. And, all the way from Belarus, you'll get your first taste of Cold In May's latest synthrock release, Dark Season.

In the realm of current dark metal, we'll dip further in to the latest from the much-talked-about new Cult of Fire album मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान (good luck with that one!), before visiting some oft-overlooked modern doom classics, and trying out something from the brand new Thrall album, Aokigahara Jukai. 

All of that, PLUS: Excellent new soundtrack music from Steven Hufsteter and Co.'s "Kiss of the Damned" and Javier Navarrete's "Byzantium" score; New dark ambient sounds from Lycia, Caul & Hall of Mirrors, and Allesandro Parisi's Italian Horror-soaked soundscapes; Some sounds from down on Fascination Street; Some classics from the 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 date: Friday, December 20th, 2013

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

The Cure - A Chain of Flowers  [Catch, 1987]
Javier Navarrete - It Would Be Fatal/An Empty Island  ["Byzantium" (soundtrack) 2013]
Nite Nite - Touch the Moon  [How to Touch the Moon, 2010] [N]
Asylum Party - Better Days Ahead  [Borderline, 1989]
Human Disease - Disclosed In Flesh  [Our Flesh Deception, 2004]
Leitmotiv - Settlement  [Caress & Curse, 1983]
Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig (7" version)  [Peppermint Pig, 1983]
The Snake Corps - Calling You  [Smother Earth, 1990]
Steven Hufsteter - When a Vampire Ascends the Stairs/Vapeur  ["Kiss of the Damned" (soundtrack) 2013]
Night Sins - Bound 'Round the World  [To London or the Lake, 2013]
Entertainment - A Seduction Walks  [Gender, 2008]
Masquerade - Cuts  [demo, 2013]
Specimen - The Beauty of Poisin  [The Beauty of Poisin, 1983]  
Belgrado - Wake Up  [Siglo XXI, 2013]
Alien Sex Fiend - Stuff the Turkey  [Stuff The Turkey/They All Call Me Crazee, 1987]
Alessandro Parisi - The Fall of Draconia/The Rise of Draconia  [Draconia, 2013]
Cruxshadows - December Lights (Merry Christmas, Dear) [online single, 2013]
The Purge - Harmony  [Waves, 2013]
Ego Likeness - Above the Soil (Isabel's Version)  [Water to the Dead (re-issue) 2004/2013]
Cold In May - Starbright  [Dark Season, 2013]
Becoming the Devourer - Street Spirit [online single, 2013] [N] 
Lycia - The Pier  [Quiet Moments, 2013]
Paradise Lost - Last Regret  [Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us, 2009]
Morgion - Relic of a Darkened Past  [Among Majestic Ruin, 1997]
Javier Navarrete - You Came For Me (exc.)  ["Byzantium" (soundtrack) 2013]
Thrall - The Pact  [Aokigahara Jukai, 2013]
Cult of Fire - अस्तित्व की चिता पर (#2)  [मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान, 2013]
Caul & Hall of Mirrors - The Sky Alone is Left  ["The Black Plague" (compilation) 2013]
Mourners Lament - Suffocating Hopes  [Unbroken Solemnity, 2008]

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This episode begins with a taste of the new Zola Jesus album, Versions, which is a collaboration with J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus, music for "The Venture Bros."), who arranged ten of vocalist/writer Nika Roza Danilova's songs for string quartet, with interesting results. A DVD of their performance at the Guggenheim in New York City was also pressed, and is available in limited quantities as a giveaway/bonus from select retailers with the purchases of the album.

Finally making its way on the show this time is the new Lycia album, Quiet Moments. Billed as a return-to-form for the long-dormant nearly-ambient goth/darkwave project, longtime fans have not been disappointed with the results, which grow from slow, moody pieces, to more animated electronic fare as the album builds.

Making their debut on this episode is Germany's LowCityRain, whose modern mixture of post-punk, new wave, and shoegaze has garnered a good deal of praise over the last few months, in advance of their self-titled new album's release. Speaking of high praise, we'll go a track deeper into the new Beastmilk album, Climax, which continues to appear on many a writer's forthcoming "Best of 2013" lists. You'll see it on my list as well.

Taking a turn for the electronic/industrial, you'll hear another new song from NOIR's new album, Darkly Near; however, if that's not hard enough for you, stay tuned for the 'Coffin-debut of Pharmakon, whose new EP Abandon is a sordid, uncomfortable wasteland of screams and noise that might pleasantly set your teeth on edge. Then, as we lean towards the metal portion of the show, you'll get your first taste of Order of the Shadow, Act 1, the latest industrial/metal infection from Psyclon Nine.

A rather non-traditional metal set begins with new music from the band Vaura. Something of a super-group, the band features members of Gorguts, Secret Chiefs 3, Kayo Dot, and Blacklist, the last of which being no strangers to this podcast. Their new Profound Lore album, The Missing, might best be described as "Agalloch gone post-punk." If that's not heavy enough for you, some new death-doom from Manifesting's Descension Through the Seven Forbidden Seals album should fill that void. You'll aslo hear another new cut from Cult of Fire, venturing further into their new album, मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान.

All of that, PLUS: Further fresh music from Lux Interna, Soror Dolorosa, Gris, and Sewer Goddess; A spotlight on the current Ego Likeness US tour; some choice selections from the vault; and more.


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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, November 22nd, 2013

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

Zola Jesus w/ J.G. Thirlwell - Night  [Versions, 2013]
Angelo Badalamenti - Night Life in Twin Peaks  ["Twin Peaks" (soundtrack) 1990]
Lycia - The Visitor  [Quiet Moments, 2013]
The Legendary Pink Dots - A Star Is Born  [The Gethsemane Option, 2013]
Lux Interna - Threefold  [There Is Light In the Body, There Is Blood In the Sun, 2013]
LowCityRain - Phantom  [LowCityRain, 2013]
The Mission - The Crystal Ocean (extended)  [The First Chapter, 1987]
Batzz in the Belfry - Come and Die  ["CYBER 10 Dark Nights 3" (comp.) 2013]
Nagual Art - Sternenlied  [Sternenlieder, 2011]
Beastmilk - You Are Now Under Our Control  [Climax, 2013]
Anasazi - Loving You  [Attic Noise, 2012]
Spectres - Amnesia  [Nothing to Nowhere, 2012]
Killing Joke - America  [Outside the Gate, 1988]
The Danse Society - Hide  [The Danse Society, 1984]
Soror Dolorosa - Silver Square  [No More Heroes, 2013]
Marco Beltrami - Crossing the Causeway/The Attic Room  ["The Woman in Black" (soundtrack) 2012]
NOIR - The Bells  [Darkly Near, 2013]
Necro Facility - Do You Feel the Same  [Wintermute, 2011]
Light Asylum - Hour Fortress  [Light Asylum, 2012]
Ego Likeness - Persona Non Grata  [East, 2012]
Pharmakon - Milkweed/It Hangs Heavy  [Abandon, 2013]
Psyclon Nine - Order of the Shadow (The Heretic Awakens) [Order of the Shadow: Act 1, 2013]
Anima Morte - The Dead Will Walk the Earth  [The Nightmare Becomes Reality, 2011]
This Empty Flow - Distress  [Magenta Skycode, 1996]
Vaura - The Missing  [The Missing, 2013]
Cult of Fire -  काली मां  [मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान, 2013]
Manifesting - Disciples of Murmur  [Descension Through the Seven Forbidden Seals, 2013]
Sewer Goddess - Nature of the Black Liquid  ["Samhainwork II" (comp.)  2013]
Gris - Seizième prière  [À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée…, 2013]

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For those who were unable to attend Dragon Con, there are many things you missed -- and while I cannot replace most of those things, or approximate them for you, there is one thing I can give you. This podcast replicates the contents of my 2013 "Compilation for the Dead," which is known to many as a giveaway that I offer to those I run into each year at the convention.

The point? I make a small batch of these each year to highlight some great current artists -- which is also part of the mission of this podcast, so it also serves as a taste of what the show is like. Win/win. If my mission is successful, people will come out the other side having been turned on to a short list of current artists from the realms of goth, deathrock, post-punk, darkwave, industrial, dark ambient, and dark metal -- and, hopefully, they'll go out and support these bands, talk about them, and pick up their albums.

More than just a look back at sounds you've heard on this show before, this compilation/podcast offers several brand new bands and tracks making their debut on this episode: Fresh darkwave/post-punk from Brazil's Escarlatina Obsessiva; new post-punk/neo-folk from Australia's Lakes; traditional gothic rock from France's Soror Dolorosa; another brand new track from the just-released Chelsea Wolfe album, Pain is Beauty; along with previously unheard, but recently unearthed, gems from Nagual Art, Funeral Parade, and Kontravoid.

For those who just found out about this podcast at Dragon Con this year, I welcome you aboard. This is a special recap, but the next regular, brand new episode will launch on Friday, September 27th, featuring even more great new music, alongside classics and other current dark sounds. In the meantime, if you're new to this show, I encourage you to check out some of the previous episodes (here), and to follow the show on Facebook.

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Ichabod


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PLAYLIST
Format: Artist's Name - Song Title [Album Title, Year]

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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

  Show date: Friday, September 13th, 2013

Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me/Lestat's Recitative  ["Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack) 1994]

The "Out ov the Coffin" Compilation for the Dead, 2013:

1.   Nagual Art:  Prozession (exc.)  [Sternenlieder, 2011]
2.   Monica Richards:  Endbegin  [Naiades, 2012]
3.   Grooving In Green:  Stranglehold  [Stranglehold, 2012]
4.   Lakes:  Blood of the Grove  [Blood of the Grove, 2013]
5.   Anasazi:  Samsara  [Attic Noise, 2012]
6.   Horror Vacui:  In Darkness You Will Feel Alright  [In Darkness You Will Feel Alright, 2012]
7.   Funeral Parade:  For You  [Funeral Parade, 2010]
8.   Spectres: Remote Viewing  [Nothing to Nowhere, 2012]
9.   Soror Dolorosa:  The Figure of the Night  [No More Heroes, 2013]
10.  The Estranged:  Statue in a Room  [The Subliminal Man, 2010]
11.  The Exploding Boy:  Torn  [The Black Album, 2011]
12.  The Bellwether Syndicate:  The Night Watch  [The Night Watch EP, 2013]
13.  Night Sins:  Playing Dead  [New Grave, 2012]
14.  Escarlatina Obsessiva:  Emerald Green  [The Organ Grinder Songs, 2012]
15.  White Lies:  Getting Even  [Big TV, 2013]
16.  Chelsea Wolfe:  The Warden  [Pain is Beauty, 2013]
17.  Kontravoid:  Silent Visions  [Kontravoid, 2012]
18.  Brian Tyler:  Strange Passenger  ["John Dies at the End" (soundtrack) 2013]
19.  Sombres Forêts:  La Disparition  [La Mort du Soleil, 2013]

Elliot Goldenthal - Born to Darkness, Part 2  ["Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack) 1994]



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