PODCAST: April 5th, 2012

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Sometimes, the space between two episodes feels quite brief. This time, however, so many things have taken place, and are about to take place, that the show is packed with spotlights, reflections, and memorials.

I had the great fortune of traveling to California this past weekend to play a concert. Along the way, I pondered how I might handle my traditional, annual tribute to Rozz Williams, as I would likely be in an airport on the anniversary of his death, unable to sensibly sport a Christian Death shirt without receiving a pat-down, let alone play a set of his music for anyone. Thanks to a local friend's advice, though, I was able to have a more meaningful experience than ever before, by actually visiting his memorial in person:

The Rozz Williams memorial at
The Hollywood Forever Cemetery
(April 1st, 2012)

Standing in front of the ashes of one your favorite artists, staring at this words and images on display, brings a new meaning to the term "paying your respects." In that moment, I left a small sum of my admiration upon the glass that shrouded his remains, and I've attempted to carry the feeling I had that morning into a tribute set on this episode. Rest in peace, Rozz.

Beyond that opening tribute set, this show features a lot of brand new music: You'll hear fresh Greek post-punk from We Came From Waters, whose new release Unfamous Quotes can be heard here. On the darkwave/ebm side, you'll hear a brand new song from our friends Ego Likeness, who contributed an exclusive track to the new Electronic Saviours II collection -- the second in a series of cancer-fighting benefit compilations, which will be released next month on Metropolis Records. It features 6 discs of exclusive and rare songs from many of the biggest and best names in the current industrial, ebm, and electronic music scene. Pre-order your copy here.

Also in the industrial realm, you'll hear 4 new offerings from the Alfa-Matrix label, including brand new tracks from Stray, Diskonnekted, and Freakangel, plus a new version of a Mentallo & the Fixer classic, from a soon-to-be-released rarities collection.

I throw the spotlight on a couple of events this time around: First, The Full Moon Tattoo & Horror Festival, which is happening this weekend (April 6 - 8) in Nashville, at the Downtown Convention Center. Guests include Kristin Bauer (True Blood), Ace Frehley (KISS), Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead 1979), Tom Atkins (The Fog, Halloween III, Night of the Creeps), and many more. I chose much of the soundtrack music for this episode to celebrate their appearances in my home town. To see the full list of guests, go here.

Also coming up soon, in Nashville and around the country, is "CENSORED: A Hobo Cabaret," a tour featuring the talents of This Way to the Egress, Mister Joe Black, and Hellblinki -- all of whom have new songs featured on this episode, to better whet your appetites for the fancier side of macabre musical theatre. They'll be plowing through The Rutledge in Nashville on Thursday, April 12th. I'll be providing specially crafted DJ sets that night, too. Click here for details.

Speaking of live music, I had the pleasure of sharing a stage with some great bands in California this past weekend, two of which have new tracks featured on this episode: The soon-to-be-legendary Pallbearer, whose new album Sorrow & Extinction is winning people over left and right, and the mighty Yob, whose latest album, Atma, has just formally entered my collection. Coming soon to this podcast: Music from The Atlas Moth and Wolvhammer, who rounded out a great bill at Saturday's Profound Lore Records showcase.


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

(each band name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, April 5th, 2012

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

Rozz Williams - Dec. 30. 1334 (exc.) [The Whorse's Mouth, 1996]
Rozz Williams & Gitane Demone - Flowers  [Dream Home Heartache, 1995]
John Carpenter - The Legend / Midnight  ["The Fog" (soundtrack) 1980]
Christian Death - The Angels (The Zend-Avesta Mix)  [Death Mix, 1996]
Christian Death - Resurrection - Sixth Communion  [Only Theatre of Pain, 1982]
Faith and the Muse - Romeo's Distress (live)  [Vera Causa, 2001]
Shadow Project - Death Plays His Role  [Shadow Project, 1991]
Christian Death - Haloes (1985)  [Invocations, 1993]
Nathan Barr - The Funeral  ["True Blood" (soundtrack) 2009]
Joe Black - Vile Volumes for Villainous Children  [Vile Volumes for Villainous Children, 2011]
Joe Black - Child Catcher (2009 Studio version)  [Vile Volumes for Villainous Children, 2011]
This Way to the Egress - Titles [Ballads and Titles to Slaughter Your Spouse By, 2011]
Hellblinki - Breaking Everything (live)  [Hellblinki live at Sky City 08-13-11, 2012]
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Main Title/Chariots of Pumpkins  ["Halloween III: season of the Witch" (soundtrack) 1982]
The Sisters of Mercy - Heartland (1983) [Some Girls Wander By Mistake, 1992]
We Came From Waters - A Silence Like Poetry  [Unfamous Quotes, 2012]
Ulterior - Too In Love To Fuck  [Wild In Wildlife, 2011]
The Awakening - Indian Summer Rain  [Tales of Absolution + Obsoletion, 2009]
Snakedance - Fall From Grace  [Winterland, 2011]
The Eternal Fall - Into a Dream  [MM - MMXII, 2012]
Enslaved - Synthesis  [The Sleeping Gods, 2011]
Ego Likeness - Infidel  ["Electronic Saviours, Volume II" 2012]
Mentallo & the Fixer - Decomposed (spent)  [A collection of rare, unreleased & remastered, 2012]
Stray - Remember Me  [Letting Go, 2012]
Diskonnekted - Neverland (Matrix edit)  [Hotel Existence, 2012]
Freakangel - Used  [Let It All End, 2012]
Doubting Thomas - Movie 13  [Father Don't Cry, 1991]
Ides of Gemini - Slain In Spirit  [The Disruption Writ, 2010]
Black Witchery - Sepulchral Witchcraft  [Inferno of Sacred Destruction, 2010]
Dark Castle - Into the Past  [Spirited Migration, 2009]
Yob - Prepare the Ground  [Atma, 2011]
Pallbearer - Foreigner  [Sorrow & Extinction, 2012]
The Black Sea - Melting Hopeful  [Spacewalk, 2002]
Elliot Goldenthal w/ Beth Gibbons (Portishead) - Prospera's Coda ["The Tempest" (soundtrack) 2010]

KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist
(exc.) = excerpt
^RQ^ = requested

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PODCAST: March 22nd, 2012

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I'd have to say that the biggest music news of the week has been the announcement of a US tour from the legendary Dead Can Dance. I'm most excited, of course, about their Nashville date (September 4th @ The Ryman), but you can see all of the dates here. While you're there, you can download a free copy of the newly released Live Happenings: Part IV, a selection from which is featured on this episode.

This episode opens with a debut from the Austrian band Cold Flesh Colony. Their sound is an unusual mix of post-punk bass-lines, industrial beats, and near-black-metal vocal delivery. Their new album is entitled The Dark Passenger, and it is available as a free or a pay download here.

Out of Texas, you'll hear brand new music from the band Ending the Vicious Cycle, whose love for old-school gothic rock would be hard to mask. Their single is called 1,000 Words, and you can learn more about that one here.

From the Metropolis Records camp, you'll hear from two new releases: The more rock-infused, old-school industrial sound of Inure, from their new album The Offering; then, a remix from the new EP by Everything Goes Cold, who have kept things on their own EBM/Industrial terms with The Tyrant Sun.

Also new to the show this week: A closer look at Painthings, from Poland's Deathcamp Project; new dark ambient sounds from Pennsylvania's Deorsum Fluens; and the latest single (and video) from Alcest, in honor of their tour hitting this part of the US this week.

All that, plus: More Italian-Horror-music-worship with the likes of Sweden's Anima Morte, among others; an older version of Light Asylum's new single to whet your appetite for their soon-to-be-released new album; a stack of current and classic deathrock; a journey into early '90s dark death metal; and more.

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

(each band name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

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

Cold Flesh Colony - The Dark Passenger  [The Dark Passenger, 2012]
The Deadfly Ensemble - Tiny Little Things (exc.) [A Seed Catalog for Extinct Annuals, 2008]
Dead Can Dance - Rakim [Live Happennigs: Part IV, 2012]
ROME - The Merchant Fleet  [Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit - Band 1: Aufbruch, 2011]
Light Asylum - Shallow Tears  [single, 2012]
Bella Morte - Bones Below  [Before the Flood, 2011]
Ending the Vicious Cycle - One Thousand Words (Angels of Liberty Mix) [1000 Words, 2012]
Deorsum Fluens - Gleaming Are The Unseen Structures  [Saur Maas, 2011]
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Last Train [Paint Your Wagon, 1986]
The Mission UK - Over the Hills and Far Away  [The First Chapter, 1987]
Burning Image - Haunted  [Kaliffornian Deathrock, 2006]
The Eternal Fall - The Scar  [To Darkness, 2006]
Acid Bats - Madre Morte  [Exhumacion, 2008]
In Loving Memory - Emmanuelle  [Phrenology, 2010]
Walter Rizzati / Franco de Gemini - Tema Bambino ["The House By The Cemetery" (soundtrack, 1981)]
Deathcamp Project - Cold the Same  [Painthings, 2011]
Inure - All Alone  [The Offering, 2012]
Anders Manga - Catastrophe  ["Gothic Compilation Part XLVI "]
Everything Goes Cold - The Iron Fist Of Just Destruction (Cosmic Cubanate Remix By Be My Enemy)  [The Tyrant Sun, 2012]
The Ludovico Technique - Heal My Scars  [The Ludovico Technique EP, 2010]
Baal Mefisto - Ruins of a Bygone Age  [The Prophecy, 2005]
Anima Morte - The Revenant  [The Nightmare Becomes Reality, 2011]
Samael - Sleep of Death  [Worship Him, 1991]
Amorphis - Black Embrace  [The Karelian Isthmus , 1992]
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood  [Through Silver in Blood, 1996]
Borknagar - Om Hundrede Aar Er Alting Glemt  [The Olden Domain, 1997]
Alcest - Autre Temps  [Les Voyages De L'Âme, 2012]

KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist
(exc.) = excerpt
^RQ^ = requested

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PODCAST: March 8th, 2012

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This show starts with a nod and a birthday wish to Gary Numan, who turned 54 yesterday. To demonstrate how the man still has it after all these years, I chose to play the (almost) title-track to his latest release, Dead Son Rising on the way in.

Having just returned from a trip to Chicago that centered largely around the Polish section of town, it seemed curiously well-timed that two Polish bands would happen to turn up with new releases for this episode. First-up is Deathcamp Project, who recently returned with the Painthings album, filled with harder edged Goth Rock. Then, you'll hear the more coldwave/deathrock sound of Cabaret Grey, whose new EP, Stirring, can be streamed HERE.

Also new to the show this week is yet another fresh single from Italy's Chemical Waves. "Murders TV" is a rhythmic, hypnotic musical track, verbalized only by the social observations of a serial killer. For me, it's reminiscent of The Cure's track "Pornography," with some of the atmosphere last heard from cult favorites, The God Machine. You can download the single for free HERE.

In the dark ambient/industrial realm, you'll here a new entry from Russia's Lamia Vox, as well as a new track from Sweden's Atrium Carceri. In the dark metal portion of the show, we'll delve deeper into Sorrow and Extinction, the brand new album from Pallbearer, whose sense of doom is currently winning reviewers over around the world.

Plus: Great moments in Italian Horror Music, George Romero's continuing influence on modern bands, the great 'King' of insomnia's love of black and fright films, regional events to check out, and loads of other current and classic dark music.

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

(each band name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, March 8th, 2012

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

Gary Numan - Dead Sun Rising  [Dead Son Rising, 2011]
Atrium Carceri - The Long Walk  ["Saur Maas," 2011]
Chemical Waves - Murders TV  [Murders TV, 2012]
Bat For Lashes - Glass  [Two Suns, 2009]
Depeche Mode - To Have and To Hold  [Music for the Masses, 1987]
Cabaret Grey - World of Glass  [Stirring, 2011]
Fields of the Nephilim - Dead But Dreaming/For Her Light  [Elizium, 1990]
Goblin - Non Ho Sonno  ["Sleepless" (soundtrack) 2002]
Deathcamp Project - Too Late  [Painthings, 2011]
Veil Veil Vanish - This is Violet  [Change in the Neon Light, 2010]
The Trespass - Comedown (Lost In Light)  [Mirror Moon, 2008]
Death In June - Nothing Changes  [The Guilty Have No Pride, 1983]
The Vanishing - The Disaffectionate  [In the Bat Haus, 2002]
Alessandro Blonksteiner - Blonk Suspense ["House By the Cemetery"  (soundtrack) 1981]
Lamia Vox - Enemy of Heaven  ["Saur Maas," 2011]
Puissance - Brittle  [Grace of God, 2007]
Grendel - Catastrophe  [End of Ages, 2002]
Die Sektor - In His Mercy All Will Perish  [Applied Structure in a Void, 2011]
Panzer AG - Battlefield  [This Is My Battlefield, 2004]
John Harrison - The Dead Suite (exc.)  ["Day of the Dead" (soundtrack) 1985]
Anathema - Eternity, Part I  [Eternity, 1997]
Pallbearer - Given to the Grave  [Sorrow & Extinction, 2012]
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - Between Skylla and Charibdis (exc.)  [The Nebulous Dreams, 2008]
Skepticism - The Arrival  [Alloy, 2008]
Sombres Forêts - L'oeil Nocturne  [Royaume de Glace, 2008]
Les Baxter - Black Sunday (Orchestral Suite) (exc.)  ["Black Sunday" (soundtrack) (1960)]
King Diamond - Sleepless Nights  [Conspiracy, 1989]

KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist
(exc.) = excerpt
^RQ^ = requested

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PODCAST: February 23rd, 2012

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This episode brings new music from Naiades, the brand new album/art collection from Monica Richards. You should recognize her name and art style from her work with Faith and the Muse. The new release is available as a book/CD combo HERE.

Finally making it to the show this time around is the single "Take Forever," which is a collaboration between Irish electronic act The Japanese Popstars (your guess is as good as mine) and Robert Smith (of The Cure). It did, in fact,"take forever" for me to get this one on the show, but it's well worth the wait.

The release of the debut full-length from one of the greatest doom bands in the US, Pallbearer, is finally here. Sorrow & Extinction, released by Profound Lore Records, will no doubt top many year-end lists for 2012 -- but before then, opportunities to catch their live show are stacking up. Dates in New York and Texas have just been announced, and this weekend will bring a pair of official CD release shows, first in their home state of Arkansas (details HERE), then Saturday night in Nashville (details HERE). Both shows will also feature Loss on the bill.

Speaking of Nashville's music scene: This episode's local spotlight is thrown on the debut EP from a newly-transplanted industrial act that now calls Nashville home: Frontal Boundary. You can check out the sounds of "Electronic Warfare" HERE.

New sounds from the forthcoming Locrian & Mamiffer dark noise collaboration will also filter in, alongside tracks from the latest releases by The Beauty of Gemina and The Frozen Autumn. We'll also peel back another layer of Alcest's latest, Les Voyages De L'âme. All that, plus: A rare home studio demo from Corpus Delicti, a seldom-heard US-darkwave collaboration, a pair of listener requests, a gushing live-show review, cool new-release announcements, and loads of current and classic dark music.


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

(each band name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

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

Zola Jesus - Avalanche  [Conatus, 2011]
Sex Gang Children - Sugar Pill  [Medea, 1993]
Monica Richards: Infra Warrior - We Go On  [Naiades, 2012]
Gropius - Tents of Kedar  [Indelicate, 2000] ^RQ^
Corpus Delicti - Out of Steam (unreleased home studio demo) [A New Saraband of Sylphes, 2007]
Jeniferever - Deception Pass  [Silesia, 2011]
Dekoder - Refuse  [Dekoder, 2011]
Wire - It's a Boy  [A Bell Is A Cup… Until It's Struck, 1988]
Stendhal - War Song  [Stendhal, 2000]  ^RQ^
The Beauty of Gemina - Haddon Hall  [Iscariot Blues, 2012]
Pins and Needles - Bright Lights in Cascades  [Victims, 2008]
Killing Joke - Darkness Before Dawn  [Night Time, 1985]
The Wake - Audrey  [Masked, 1993]
The Frozen Autumn - The Last Train  [Chirality, 2012]
Cinema Strange - Rat Catcher  [Quatorze Exemples Authentiques Du Triomphe De La Musique Décorative, 2006]
The Japanese Popstars (Featuring Robert Smith) - Takes Forever  [Controlling Your Allegiance, 2011]
The Last Dance - Terribly When (Ego Likeness Mix)  [Reflections of Rage, 2004]
Frontal Boundary - Time To Heal (C/A/T remix)  [Electronic Warfare, 2012]  [N]
:Wumpscut: - Dying Culture (Second Movement)  [Bunker Gate Seven, 1997]
Psyclon Nine - Under the Judas Tree  [We The Fallen, 2009]
Locrian & Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You  [Bless Them That Curse You, March 6th, 2012]
Alcest - Faiseurs De Mondes  [Les Voyages De L'âme, 2012]
Miserere Luminis - Miserere Luminis  [Miserere Luminis, 2009]
Swallow the Sun - Through Her Silvery Body  [The Morning Never Came, 2003]
Mournful Congregation - The Catechism of Depression  [The Book of Kings, 2011]
Goblin - L'alba die Morti Vi ["Dawn of the Dead" (soundtrack) 1978]
Pallbearer - An Offering of Grief  [Sorrow and Extinction, 2012]

KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist
(exc.) = excerpt
^RQ^ = requested

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PODCAST: February 9th, 2012

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This week's show begins with another new live track from Dead Can Dance, who have just released Part III in their free, online series, Live Happenings. The series is designed to whet fans' appetites for their forthcoming new album and tour. To learn more, or grab these EPs for yourself, click HERE.

Brand new to the show this week is Bulgarian band Voyvoda, whose atypical sound combines elements of Balkan folk music and Eastern Orthodox chants with cold wave and post-punk influences. Their new album is called Изток (Iztok), and you can stream it HERE.

Also appearing for the first time on this episode are Italy's Chemical Waves, whose new single "The Origin" can be streamed HERE. It's an unusual piece of post-punk experimentation, chronicling a journey through the history of mankind's cruelty unto itself, through an act like a holocaust.

Other new entries include: A remix from the latest Aesthetic Perfection single, Inhuman; a deeper look into one of the three new albums from ROME; a second look at the new EP from Puerto Rico's The Dead Souls, and two more new dark ambient tracks from Norway's Plague Machinery and Psychomanteum (USA).

The regional concert spotlight for this episode is thrown on two acts that will be hitting the greater TN/AL area in the next week: Zola Jesus, who will be playing in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday, February 11th; and VNV Nation, who will play Nashville's Exit/In on February 15th. On a side note, you will catch me at both of these shows. For the VNV Nation show, I will be DJing (along with DJ Jimmy) before and between the bands.

Also on this episode: Songs from the vaults, in the form of rescued deathrock classics, sadly forgotten regional music, and a war-torn lullaby from one of the most contentious plots of land in world history. That, and plenty of other current and classic dark music upon which to feast your ears.


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

(each band name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, February 9th, 2012

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

Dead Can Dance - Dreams Made Flesh  [Live Happenings, Part III, 2012]
Plague Machinery - Anti-Clockwise Rotation  [Saur Maas, 2011]
The Dead Souls - The Highest Hill [Ambition, 2011]
ROME - You Threw It At Me Like Stones [Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit - Band 3: Aufgabe]
Myssouri - Devil On My Shoulder  [Furnace Songs, 2001]
Miranda Sex Garden - Cover My Face  [Fairytales of Slavery, 1994]
Siiiii - Speaking in Tongues  [Ancient, 2006]
Zola Jesus - Vessel  [Conatus, 2011]
Bear McCreary - Season 2 Music Medley  ["The Walking Dead" (soundtrack) 2011]
Nosferatu - Entwined  [Wonderland, 2011]
Rubella Ballet - Tangled Web  [At Last It's Playtime, 1986]
Skeletal Family - Promised Land (extended version)  [single, 1985]
Ulterior - The Emptiness We Share  [Wild In Wildlife, 2011]
Voyvoda - Stefan the Vlach's Son  [Изток (Iztok), 2012]
Chemical Waves - The Origin  [single, 2012]
Phillippe d'Aram - L'Amour Des Deux Filles ("Fascination" 1979) ["The Films of Jean Rollin" 1994]
VNV Nation - Further  [Burning Empires, 2000]
Front 242 - Waste  [06:21:03:11 Up Evil, 1993]
Aesthetic Perfection - Inhuman (Panic Lift Remix)  [Inhuman, 2011]
Necro Facility - Explode  [Wintermute, 2011]
Psyclon Nine - There But for the Grace of God  [We The Fallen, 2009]
Psychomanteum - The Existential Collapse and Rebirth  [Saur Maas, 2011]
Profanum - Gates of Armageddon  [Flowers of Our Black Misanthropy, 1996]
Primordial - Among the Lazarae  [Spirit the Earth Aflame, 2000]
Lycus - Resonance In Aether  [demo, 2011]
Electric Wizard - Black Mass  [Black Masses, 2010]
Cam España - (untitled)  ["Black Candles" (soundtrack) 1982]
Sleepless - Sands of Time  [demo, 1999]

KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist
(exc.) = excerpt
^RQ^ = requested

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PODCAST: January 26th, 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

(each band name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, January 26th, 2012

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

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

KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist
(exc.) = excerpt
^RQ^ = requested

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PODCAST: January 12th, 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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



"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, January 12th, 2012

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

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

KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist
(exc.) = excerpt
^RQ^ = requested

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