PODCAST: July 2017 Episode

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As mandated by the dreaded, wet heat of the south (and travel), this show has been slow to emerge, but here it is: The July 2017 edition of "Out ov the Coffin." We begin this month with a special tribute to the life and work of legendary film maker, George A. Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017), who died last week at the age of 77. Few need to be reminded that Romero is the father of the zombie genre as we know it, but he gave us more than just the living dead, so the opening set attempts to balance songs and sounds from, and about, his well-known work (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead) with something less often praised (1978's Martin). Rest in peace, George, and thank you for all you accomplished.

George Romero and I in 2008.

Following that introduction, the show moves into a long list of new music, starting with a catchy new single from rising UK post-punk act Chain of Flowers, which is followed quickly with more new post-punk from Portland's Spirit Host, taken from their new Howl album. On the verge of both a new album AND a US tour with Aurelio Voltaire, Bella Morte jumps in next with a b-side from their latest maxi-single, One Bright Soul In This Emptiness, which also leans more to the post-punk side of the fence. Dipping back to last year for an overlooked item, we next hear from Italy's European Ghost, before getting a taste of Oakland's Fearing, whose A Life of None strikes a somber tone next to the former's more upbeat post-punk approach. Mummy Calls is the last stop of the set, included here to honor the 30th anniversary of the 1987 summer vampire film classic, "The Lost Boys." 

The second set springs (back) to life with some further new deathrock sounds from Chile's Diavol Strâin, taken from their Demonio EP.  Keeping in the deathrock vein, we then hear a new single from multi-continental act Air Hunger, which leads into a classic moment from Fields of the Nephilim before sliding into a lo-fi track from Horror Vacui's 2017 flexi, Die Schwarzen Keller Session. We then hear a closely-related pair of songs from members of Germany's Bloody Dead and Sexy: First, a taste of two of the members' more low-key side-project, Psi Club, then a previously unreleased track taken from the full band's new retrospective collection, Crucifixion Please!.

The third set explores more synth and electronic territory, starting with a new song from Skinny Puppy-and-Legendary Pink Dots-collaboration The Tear Garden's The Brown Acid Caveat. A double-shot of new music from right here in Nashville comes next, first from FIRES, who have taken the unusual step of releasing their remix collection ahead of their debut album, then from relative newcomers Other Voices, who take a soulful approach to their new wave/post-punk sound, not unlike Krovi (with whom they share a member). We then hear a debut from Michigan's Osseovs, whose lo-fi darkwave might appeal to fans who already miss Tollund Men. Finally, the set concludes with a classic from Belfegore's self-titled 1984 album.

The dark metal section of the show begins in a relatively non-metal fashion, with new music from France's Les Chants du Hasard, whose black-metal-esque style is crafted without the use of guitars, bass, or drums, opting instead for classical instrumentation. We then get another taste of Seattle's Isenordal, diving deeper into their Shores of Mourning cassette, before getting another great taste of Light of the Morning Star's Nocta LP. The set rounds out with new music from Ides of Gemini's seemingly deathrock-infused new LP, Women, before the whole show eventually concludes with an overlooked new, and much heavier, track from Spectral Apparition's 2016 Manifestation EP. 

All of that, PLUS: Music from the new Castlevania animated series by Trevor Morris; Further new soundtrack work from Jim Williams' "Raw" score; Fresh dark ambient from Of Earth and Sun; selections from the horror punk, darkwave, and goth 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 22nd, 2017

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

[Samples: Night of the Living Dead]
Misfits - Night of the Living Dead  [Walk Among Us, 1982]
Soft Cell - Martin (Ichabod's edit)   [original version on "The Art of Falling Apart," 1983]
[Trailer: "Dawn of the Dead" (1978)]
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Goblin - L'alba die mart viventi  ["Dawn of the Dead" (soundtrack) 1978]
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Chain of Flowers - Flesh, Blood, & Bone  [Let Your Light In/Flesh, Blood, & Bone (single) 2017]
Spirit Host - Grey  [Howl, 2017]
Bella Morte - Break This Cold  [One Bright Soul In This Emptiness, 2017]
European Ghost - Preset  [Pale and Sick, 2016]
Fearing - Behind the Mask  [A Life of None, 2017]
Mummy Calls - Beauty Has Her Way  ["The Lost Boys" (soundtrack) 1987]
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Thomas Newman - The Old Resort  ["The Lost Boys" (score) 1987]
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Diavol Strâin - Maledicto Divinorvm  [Demonio, 2016]
Air Hunger - Retreat  [Shooting Down​/​Retreat (single), 2017]
Fields of the Nephilim - (Dead But Dreaming) For Her Light  [Elizium, 1990]
Horror Vacui - Behind  [Die Schwarzen Keller Session, 2017]
Psi Club - Echoes of Yesterday  ["33 Goth Bands You Should Know V" (comp.) 2017]
Bloody Dead and Sexy - White Noise Paranoia  [Crucifixion Please!, 2017]
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Jim Williams - Specimen Jars in the Dark  ["Raw" (soundtrack) 2017]
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The Tear Garden - Strange Land  [The Brown Acid Caveat, 2017]
FIRES - Tides (Lain Hiro Mix)  [Morning Tide Grey, 2017] [N]
Other Voices - Meli (Lie)  [Possibilities, 2017] [N]
Osseovs - Untended Cemetery  [Black Age, 2017]
Belfegore - Questions  [Belfegore, 1984]
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Trevor Morris - Alucard Rises ["Castlevania" (Music from the Netflix Original Series), 2017]
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Les Chants du Hasard - Chant II: Le Soleil  [Les Chants du Hasard, 2017]
Isenordal - Shores of Mourning  [Shores of Mourning, 2017]
Light of the Morning Star - Grey Carriages  [Nocta, 2017]
Ides of Gemini - Mother Kiev  [Women, 2017]
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Of Earth and Sun - 9 (Teth)  ["The Echoing Black" (comp.) 2016]
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Spectral Apparition - Voices Call from Beyond the Shroud of Perception  [Manifestation EP, 2016]

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PODCAST: December 2014 Episode

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Traditionally, a warped sort of X-mas episode appears here in December, but there was a lack of new and dark holiday-related songs this year (no way!), so I can't put that kind of episode under your tree this time; however, this episode is loaded down with new music to check out (and, okay, *one* morbidly glamorous X-Mas obscurity from the vaults that I simply couldn't live without), so in that regard, let's consider this show a gift. 

One band that did deliver on a Christmas song this year: The Crüxshadows. Their free (or donations-appreciated) single "Light A Way (Back Home)" is available here. It's a bit jolly for the tone of this episode (not that there's anything wrong with that!), so I didn't include it here, but if you absolutely can't live without some goth-related X-Mas revelry, you can revisit the infamous last Out ov the Coffin Xmas Bonus Episode here.

You also may be wondering about the "Best ov 2014" show. That one is coming up next! Look for the upload around January 9th, after I've had a chance to fully soak in all the releases I may have missed. In the meantime, this episode is loaded with new music, because good bands just keep releasing new stuff, all the way up to the bitter end of the year.

This episode begins with a selection from Mitternacht, the latest album from the mysterious and ever-distraught, literally gothic, Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows. From there, we finally get to the lavishly packaged and amazingly extensive new box set from ROME, A Passage to Rhodesia. This double-album set (and DVD, and 10-inch, and hardbound book, and much more) is a concept album that shoukld really be taken as a whole, but as far as sound goes, it finds Jérôme Reuter returning to some of his early martial-pop sounds, as well as his more recent deep folk style, stretched across a little-known historical narrative.

The post-punk noir of Ritual Howls follows next, with a selection from their new Turkish Leather album, leading into the frenetic dark punk sounds of Canada's White Lung, taken from their new Deep Fantasy album. The Smiths' guitarist, Johnny Marr, steps in after that, with a post-punk-leaning track from his new solo album, Playland, and -- following a classic from the '90s goth vaults -- the set finishes with more dark-punk/deathrock from the new Lost Tribe album, Solace. 

The second set leads with a debut from the new Swedish post-punk band, Hemgraven, taken from their Sanddyner av glas album, followed by several early '80s classics (one of them being the ultimate drunken-feather-boa Christmas carol from Hanoi Rocks). The set closes with another post-punk/darkwave debut, this one from Warmline's very-simply-titled new album Sad, followed by the flipside (and title track) of the new single from Night Sins, entitled Down to Drown.

The darkwave/synth/industrial set for this show begins with a newly-unearthed 1983 rarity from Ministry, made doubly-surprising when you consider the source. Al Jourgensen himself not only acknowledged the band's early style for the first time in years by bringing up the lost track, but he then gave the song away for free. You can get the download here or here. Now that you're dancing, you'll be ready for another debut, this time from Italian darkwave act, Ash Code, who give you a slice of their new album, Oblivion. 

The set continues with a second taste of Hot Guts' new album, Wilds, folllowed by a classic from Front Line Assembly, who I finally got to see live in Atlanta the other day, along with the ever-promising relative newcomers in  Youth Code, from whom you will hear another taste of the year-end-list-favorite A Place to Stand. Velvet Acid Christ rounds out the set with the closing track from their new Subconscious Landscapes album.

The dark metal portion of the show begins once again with music from Atriarch's An Unending Pathway, before launching into a track from the new Cult of Fire 7-inch, Čtvrtá Symfonie Ohně. Abigor then makes their triumphant return to the show with a song from the heavily-praised Leytmotif Luzifer, hailed by many as a brilliant return to form, before the set concludes with a debut from the new Bölzer release, Soma.

All of that, plus: A closing track from the new Pallbearer album, Foundations of Burden; An instrumental debut from Ireland's Vircolac; Selections from the new and cult soundtrack vaults; and much 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: December 19th, 2014

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

Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - If You Cold Only Read My Mind  [Mitternacht, 2014]
Angelo Badalamenti - The Arrow  ["Twin Peaks" (unreleased soundtrack) 1990]
ROME - A Farewell to Europe  [A Passage to Rhodesia, 2014]
Ritual Howls - Zemmoa  [Turkish Leather, 2014]
White Lung - In Your Home  [Deep Fantasy, 2014]
Johnny Marr - Back in the Box  [Playland, 214]
Autumn - Suffer the Wild Dogs  [Autumn, 1994]
Lost Tribe - Disease  [Solace, 2014]
Clan of Xymox - Theme I  [Medusa, 1986]
Hemgraven - Kains Irrläror  [Sanddyner av glas, 2014]
1919 - After the Fall  [Caged, 1982]
Hanoi Rocks - Dead By X-Mas  [Dead By X-Mas, 1981]
Marquee Moon - Beyond the Pale  [Beyond the Pale, 1985]
Warmline - Fade With My Heart  [Sad, 2014]
Night Sins - Down to Drown  [Down to Drown, 2014]
Hans Zimmer - No Time For Caution  ["Interstellar" (soundtrack) 2014]
Ministry - Anything For You  [Anything For You (digital single 2014) 1983]
Ash Code - Oblivion  [Oblivion, 2014]
Hot Guts - Kite and Shadow  [Wilds, 2014]
Front Line Assembly - Mindphaser  [Tactical Neural Implant, 1992] 
Youth Code - Consuming Guilt  [A Place to Stand, 2014]
Velvet Acid Christ - Empusa  [Subconscious Landscapes, 2014]
Popol Vuh - Brüder Des Schattens  ["Nosferatu" (soundtrack) 1979]
Atriarch - Revenant  [An Unending Pathway, 2014]
Cult of Fire - Vltava  [Čtvrtá Symfonie Ohně, 2014]
Abigor - Temptation VI: Compos Mentis  [Leytmotif Luzifer, 2014]
Bölzer - Steppes  [Soma, 2014]
Vircolac - Codex Perfida  [Codex Perfida, 2014]
Pallbearer - Vanished  [Foundations of Burden, 2014]

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PODCAST: April 25th, 2014

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It's been a few weeks since the last show, and it will actually be about a month before the next episode arrives, so I've made this one extra-long to help bridge the gap. More about the reasons for that gap in a minute -- but for now, prepare yourselves for over 3 hours of music.

This episode begins with a slightly belated birthday wish for (the man, the myth, the legend) Robert Smith of The Cure, who celebrated his 55th earlier this week. In honor of that, you'll hear a pair of rarities (one live and one obscure) on the way in. Closely following that, the neo-folk fans who rarely get enough of that style here will revel in fresh sounds from New York's Blood and Sun, taken from their new album White Storms Fall.

Those lucky enough to find themselves in Chicago this weekend will be able to attend Convergence 20: First & Last & Always, celebrating 20 years(!) of the annual alt.gothic festival. This year's line-up includes The March Violets and the first-ever US show by UK-Goth-saviours Pretentious, Moi? -- both of whom you'll hear in this episode, in honor of the fact that I'd love to be there in person. But alas...

For the modern post-punk fans, you'll have several reasons to rejoice. First up is the Australian/German combo Ascetic:, who makes their debut here with a song from their Self-Initiation album. Next up is Florida's Astari Night, with a song from their new Stereo Waltz album, followed by Washington's Criminal Code, with an already popular dance track (here in Nashville, at least) from their No Device album.

We'll also dig a bit deeper in to the latest from Ottawa's goth-punk hybrid, Aube, from their 2013 Demo; Turkey's excellent darkwave/goth mixture, She Past Away, from their Belirdi Gece album; and the post-gothic/synth work of Seeming, from their new album, Madness & Extinction.
Now, the reason for my month away from podcasting comes into play during the dark metal set, which is comprised entirely of doom this time. I will be on tour with Loss for the better part of May, as we cross Europe for the first time in our career. In honor of that, the last portion of the show begins with the latest from our tour-mates, German doom-legends Worship, then leads into a set of bands we'll be playing shows with, including new material from three great French acts: Ataraxie, Funeralium, and Monarch!.

All of that, plus: Fresh atmosphere from London's Double Echo and Brian Tyler's soundtrack to the "Sleepy Hollow" television series (how could I resist?); The undying and explicitly 'saxual' new-wave-result of seeing "The Lost Boys" again on the big screen (with an introduction by Corey Feldman himself, no less); Selections from the vault of underrated songs; 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, April 25th, 2014

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

The Cure - The Figurehead (live in Bremen: May 7th, 1989)  [Plainsongs, 2012]
The Cure - Cloudberry  [Lost Wishes, 1994]
The Legendary Pink Dots - Death of a King  [A Perfect Mystery, 2000]
Blood and Sun - Keen  [White Storms Fall, 2013]
Faith and the Muse - Cernunnos/The Hand of Man  [Annwynn, Beneath the Waves, 1996]
Gestalt - Deuxième Ombre  [Le Sommeil Du Singe, 1987]
The March Violets - Essence  [Walk Into the Sun, 1984]
Pretentious, Moi? - Astrid  [Pretentious, Moi?, 2010]
Double Echo - Metropolis  [Phantomime, 2013]
Ascetic: - We're Not All Dead  [Self-Initiation, 2013]
Mephisto Walz - Eternal Deep  ["Kaliffornian Deathrock" (comp.) 2006]
Astari Night - Astrid  [Stereo Waltz, 2014]
Aube - De Guerre Lasse  [demo, 2013]
Criminal Code - Mocking Shadows  [No Device, 2013]
Funeral Parade - Eyes of Madmen  [Funeral Parade, 2010]
She Past Away - Belirdi Gece - Musallat (The Night Emerged - Haunt)  [Belirdi Gece, 2013]
Thomas Newman - The Old Resort/Drinking Blood/Falling Home/Headlights ["The Lost Boys" (soundtrack) 1987]
Mummy Calls - Beauty Has Her Way  [Mummy Calls, 1986]
Naked Eyes - Could Be  [Burning Bridges, 1983]
Seeming - The Eyes of Extinction  [Madness and Extinction, 2014]
IAMX - Sorrow  [The Unified Field, 2013]
Mesh - Self-Healing Lie  [The Point at Which It Falls Apart, 1999]
Velvet Acid Christ - Killing a Stranger  [The Art of Breaking Apart, 2009]
Brian Tyler - Sleepy Hollow Theme ["Sleepy Hollow" (soundtrack) 2013]
Worship - Terranean Wake I: Tide Of Terminus  [Terranean Wake, 2012]
Aldebaran - Beasts at the Throne  [Dwellers in Twilight, 2007]
Ataraxie - Procession of the Insane Ones  [L'Être Et La Nausée, 2013]
Abysmal Grief - Lords of the Funerals  [Feretri, 2013]
Monarch! - Transylvanian Incantations  [Omens, 2012]
Funeralium - Deceived Idealism  [Deceived Idealism, 2013]

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PODCAST: The Best ov 2013

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Here it is: Out ov the Coffin's aural time-capsule, carefully packed with the best of the past year in dark music. 2013 was a surprisingly good year, too. There honestly wasn't much that I was willing to trim from my rough list. As a result, you are about to hear an amazing stream of songs, solid from top to bottom, which will clock in one full hour longer than normal -- and it just happens to round out to a very tidy Top 40 list, although they're played by feel rather than rank.

So, pick your poison (DL or streaming), find a good space, and take in the best that 2013 had to offer in the unlit fields of goth, post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, synth, film music, dark metal, ambient, 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, January 3rd, 2014

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

Beastmilk - Death Reflects Us  [Climax, 2013]
Steven Hufsteter - KOTD Love Theme / The Long Drive Home  ["Kiss of the Damned" (soundtrack) 2013]
Chelsea Wolfe - Ancestors, The Ancients  [Pain Is Beauty, 2013]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away  [Push the Sky Away, 2013]
Lycia - Quiet Moments  [Quiet Moments, 2013]
Lux Interna - Tongues  [There Is Light In the Body, There Is Blood In the Sun, 2013]
Bloody Dead and Sexy w/ Gitane Demone - Plastic Night Sky  [Bad Ambient, 2013]
ROME - Hate Us and See If We Mind  [Hate Us and See If We Mind, 2013]
Goblin - Suspiria (2013)  [Tour EP 2013, 2013]
Night Sins - To London or the Lake  [To London or the Lake, 2013]
Savages - She Will  [Silence Yourself, 2013]
Silent Scream - Rotten Days  [Pubic Execution, 2012]
Vaura - Incomplete Burning  [The Missing, 2013]
The Bellwether Syndicate - The Night Watch  [The Night Watch EP, 2013]
Bellicose Minds - The Spine  [The Spine, 2013]
Javier Navarrete - Secrets / No One  [from "Byzantium" (soundtrack) 2013]
Masquerade - Needle Through a Bug  [demo, 2013]
Theurgist - Verdugo  [DeathBed, 2013]
salvation AMP - Pandorum  [Hidden Faces, 2013]
Anasazi - Serpent's Circle  [Nuke York, 2013]
Wax Idols - When It Happens  [Discipline & Desire, 2013]
Spectres - Remote Viewing  [Nothing to Nowhere, 2012]
Becoming the Devourer - DecemberHoveringOut  [DecemberHoveringOut, 2013] [N]
Soror Dolorosa - Silver Square  [No More Heroes, 2013]
Grooving In Green - Stranglehold  [Stranglehold, 2013]
LowCityRain - Nightshift  [LowCityRain, 2013]
White Lies - Getting Even  [Big TV, 2013]
IAMX - Sorrow  [The Unified Field, 2013]
NOIR - The Bells  [Darkly Near, 2013]
Alessandro Parisi - Si Sedes Non iS  [La Porta Ermetica, 2013]
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn  [Old Mornings Dawn, 2013]
Sombres Forêts - L'éther  [La Mort du Soleil, 2013]
Gris - Seizième prière  [À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée…, 2013]
Rituaal - Datura at the Astral Sabbat  [Rituaal 7", 2013]
Alraune - Exordium  [demo, 2013]
Cult of Fire - शव साधना  [मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान, 2013]
Wolvserpent - A Breath in the Shade of Time (exc.)  [Perigaea Antahkarana, 2013]
Ash Borer - Oblivion's Spring (exc.)  [Bloodlands, 2013]
Hell - Decedere (exc.)  [III, 2013]
Lycus - Coma Burn  [Tempest, 2013]

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