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Welcome to the November 2024 episode of "Out ov the Coffin," arriving at the tail-end of what has been a truly challenging month all around. But at least we have good music! So, on with the show...

This month begins with -- and I really wasn't sure how many more years would pass before I could say this -- brand new music from The Cure! That's right, in case you've been residing under a rock, with a roaring stream to drown out the mournful beauty of its initial singles, Songs of a Lost World finally emerged on the first of this month. And? It's beautiful, sad, atmospheric-yet-personal -- and from the previews we'd heard live already, I expected no less. But, seriously, if you have yet to take the whole thing in as one piece, dim the lights and do so when you have the mental space to let it wash over you. I'll be doling out tracks from it here for the next few months, and it's sure to top the "Best ov 2024" show in January, but why wait?

The first full set begins with the brand new single from everybody's favorite Icelandic coven, Kælan Mikla, who offer us "Stjörnuljós" ('starlight' in English) as a taste of their forthcoming LP. The band will be touring the US with Alcest in early 2025. After that, we delve further into ROME's new EP World in Flames, which is rife with apparent history lessons and references that people will be debating for years to come, I am sure. Next, we have the least expected collaboration in years: Peter Murphy & Boy George releasing a duet, entitled "Let the Flowers Grow," which is as touching as it is surprising. Arguably the most well-known Belarusians at the moment, Molchat Doma, ease in behind them with a single from their latest album, Belaya Polosa, before we switch focus to Ukraine's post-punk scene with a new song from ДК Енергетик's Завтра. Finally, the set draws to a close with some fresh New England gothic rock from the wonderfully-named Ghost Painted Sky.

Set two begins with a spotlight on the new benefit compilation, "Goths for Palestine," which brings together 30 bands from under the dark music umbrella to raise money for humanitarian aid in a region besieged by genocide. I'll be featuring tracks from this compilation for several months, to be sure, but for this episode, I went with two heavy hitters to start: New tracks from Scary Black and Vision Video. 100% of proceeds from this compilation will go directly to the cause, so generosity is encouraged when you check out.

 

Set two continues with new French coldwave/post-punk from Trait d'union, who also feature on another benefit album for Palestine, which I will cover next month. After that we visit Germany for some new deathrock from (what I must say is a great name for a deathrock band) Illegal Funeral. From there, we dig one track deeper into the latest from Minnesota's The Rope, before allowing Seraphim Shock the final word, with their new single that emerged right on the cusp of October/November, the Samhain-themed "Sunest to Sunset."

Set three is this month's themed/anniversary collection, focused on the Gothic Horror Film wave of the 1990s, which saw many of the classics of that era being released in the chill of November. In particular, the spotlight this month falls on the 25th anniversary of Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" (1999) and the 30th anniversaries of "Interview with the Vampire" and "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," both from 1994. The set flows backwards through time, including soundtrack work and original TV spots from each film, plus a '90s goth track that fit the theme for each title, including recently unearthed 1993 release from the band Sleepy Hollow, some mid-'90s visual kei from one of the Japan's sharpest exports, Malice Mizer, and another rarity from New Jersey goth band Kathedral. Not to be outdone, I threw in a TV Spot for "Bram Stoker's Dracula," to honor its November 1992 trend-setting release.

 

Set three then shifts back to 1984 to salute the anniversary of the Mozart-based classic "Amadeus" (which happened in the haste of September of this year) with a Mozart-infused mix that I made of the neo-classical '90s goth gem "Ungrateful Girl" by Mors Syphilitica. I whipped it up to be featured at Fascination Street that month, but it was too satisfying to never be heard again. Then, to put a nice bow on it all, I give a nod on the way out to the 40th anniversary of the Cocteau Twins' finest hour (IMHO) 1984's Treasure. 

Set four brings us to the dark metal table, but since the chill of November has brought my mind to a very specific feel and mood, the path here will wind through the woods a bit. We start with a track from the new Tribulation album, Sub Rosa In Æternum, which sees the band shifting to mostly clean vocals, with a few more '60s/'70s influenced sounds, at least to my ears. Speaking of the somber side of the '70s, I found French folk act Malicorne on an old playlist of mine last week, and it simply had to be brought back, at least for a minute (literally), to suit the mood of this season. 

 

With your thoughts in the decay of wet leaves by now, it's time to look back on Celestial Season's 1994 romantic doom classic, "Above Azure Oceans," a song that I've said, time and again, changed the course of my musical life by merging moods, elements, and styles I had not previously considered a match -- but that I, then, could no longer be without. From there, while we're in the throes of that atmosphere, it's time to let Ulver be our guide through the Scandinavian woods with a track from their acoustic album, Kveldssanger. Lastly, some brand new Norwegian wood, in the form of Hjemsøkt's new album, Om Vinteren, På En Sort Trone ("In winter, on a black throne"), which bridges the calm of Ulver's acoustic passages with the ferocity of raw black metal. 

On the way out this month, I dedicate the final two prongs on my Ukrainian trident, and the rest of the show itself, to honoring the memory of former Drudkh drummer/keyboardist Amorth, who was killed in battle last month, defending Ukraine from the ongoing Russian invasion. Amorth (aka Микола Состін / Mykola Sostin) was with Drudkh from 2004-2006, appearing on some of the band's formative works. I have chosen two lengthy tracks to showcase his role, first from the 2006 album Кров у Наших Криницях (Blood in Our Wells), and one from fan-favorite Autumn Aurora to close the show on a fitting note.

Amorth (22 June 1985 - 29 October 2024) RIP.

 

 

All of that PLUS: New film music from Chris Bacon's "Heretic" and Benjamin Wallfisch's score to "Alien: Romulus"; New Swedish dark ambient from LẼTUM; Selections 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)
(sets and talk breaks separated by dashes)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  November 2024 Episode
  Show recorded November 29th, 2024

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

The Cure -  All I Ever Am  [Songs of a Lost World, 2024]
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Goblin - Profondo Rosso (Remix Version)  ["Deep Red" (soundtrack) 1975]
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Kælan Mikla - Stjörnuljós [single, 2024]
ROME  - First We Take Berlin  [World in Flames, 2024]
Peter Murphy & Boy George - Let The Flowers Grow [single, 2024]
Molchat Doma - Сон / Son  [Belaya Polosa, 2024]
ДК Енергетик (DK Energetik) - ДТКТВ (DTKTV)  [Завтра (Tomorrow), 2024]
Ghost Painted Sky - Insomnia  [single, 2024]
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Chris Bacon - Two Doors / Opening / The Prophet  ["Heretic" (soundtrack) 2024]
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Scary Black - Fall  ["Goths for Palestine" (comp.) 2024]
Vision Video - Sign of the Times  ["Goths for Palestine" (comp.) 2024]
Trait d'union - Exil Mental  [Adieu la Fête, 2024]
Illegal Funeral - Shadow Grave  [Until We Turn To Dust, 2024]
The Rope - Nightbird  [Nightbird, 2024]
Seraphim Shock - Sunset to Sunset  [single, 2024]
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Danny Elfman - Into the Woods / The Witch  ["Sleepy Hollow" (soundtrack) 1999]
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Danny Elfman - Introduction (exc.)  ["Sleepy Hollow" (soundtrack) 1999]
[Trailer] "Sleepy Hollow" TV Spots [1999]
Sleepy Hollow - Vanish  [Sleepy Hollow, 1994]
Elliot Goldenthal - Born to Darkness Part 1  ["Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack) 1994]
Malice Mizer - Transylvania  [Voyage Sans Retour, 1996]
[Trailer] "Interview with the Vampire" [1994]
Patrick Doyle - Yes I Speak (exc.)  ["Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (soundtrack) 1994]
[Trailer] "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" [1994]
Kathedral - Evening Fear  [“Gotham” (comp.) 1994]
[Trailer] "Bram Stoker's Dracula" [1992]
Mors Syphilitica - Ungrateful Girl (Mozart Syphilitica Mix by Ichabod)  [original version on Primrose, 1998]
Cocteau Twins - Persephone  [Treasure, 1984]
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Benjamin Wallfisch - Entering Nostromo / Prometheus Fire / The Hive  ["Alien: Romulus" (soundtrack) 2024]
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Tribulation - Tainted Skies  [Sub Rosa In Æternum, 2024]
Malicorne - Margot  [Almanach, 1976]
Celestial Season - Above Azure Oceans  [Lords of the Stone/Celestial Season (split) 1994]
Ulver - Naturmystikk  [Kveldssanger, 2002]
Hjemsøkt - Døden Hersker Blandt Fjord & Fjel  [Om Vinteren, På En Sort Trone, 2024]
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LẼTUM - Distant Dead Stars  [Distant Dead Stars, 2024]
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Drudkh - Коли Пломінь Перетворюється на Попіл (When the Flame Turns to Ashes)  [Кров у Наших Криницях (Blood in Our Wells), 2006]
Drudkh - Summoning The Rain / Glare of Autumn  [Autumn Aurora, 2004] 

 

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PODCAST: The Out ov the Coffin HALLOWEEN Special 2024

 

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"When you least expect it..."

Like a ghost from the shadows of a fog-lit stage, I'M BACK with the Out ov the Coffin HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2024! Prepare your bodies to slash through the veils of night on a ghoul-guided three-hour-tour through the crypts of Halloween-obsessed Goth, post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, metal, and horror! Featuring: NEW, current, and classic FULL-SIZE songs, riddled with dozens of fun-sized bites of cvlt movie dialogue, sound effects, trailers, TV spots, novelty records, horror movie sounds, and FAR too many thunderclaps -- all assembled in ritual formation, and (g)hosted by yours truly, DJ Ichabod.

Once again, in addition to a cryptful of clasSICK Halloween Hymns and SCAREities from the vault, I have ungraved some fresh musical specimens for you this year, including new tricks from Calabrese, Nox Novacula, Vision Video, The Awakening, She Past Away, Pøltergeist, The Rope, Los Vampiros del Mar, Boo Dudes, The Neuro Farm, Slasher Dave, Valentine Wolfe, Cimitir, John Carpenter, and more!

This year's episode artwork was inspired by the 40th anniversary of the cult heavy metal horror film, Rocktober Blood. As the legend goes, one of the first (and the few) theaters in which the film premiered in October of 1984 was in Nashville, so I couldn't resist pulling from one of my favorite horror sub-genres for both an anniversary theme AND a costume this year. Yes, if you guessed that was me dressed up as the main character in the classic Fang Face mask, you're right! Big thanks to Gabe at Studio Luna for capturing this shot at the Fascination Street Halloween party earlier this month!

But that's not the only anniversary to mark. In fact, there were so many 40th anniversaries to mark that there's an entire set entitled "Halloween 1984" just to celebrate them all! I'll also drop some '90s Halloween nostalgia into your pillow cases, too, along with some cursed relics of an even older vintage to help turn you into a, well, nevermind...

NOW, turn off the lights (or head to your local cemetery), turn up the volume, and make room for all the Halloween spirit I've packed into this episode. If it pierces your veil in the right way, please hand it out to your FIENDS by sharing it on your social media platform of choice.

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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
 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: 2024!

  Show recorded on: October 29th, 2024

[Sample] "A Nightmare on Elm Street" 1984
Charles Bernstein - Horror Movie (source) ["A Nightmare on Elm Street" (soundtrack) 1984]
[Sample] "A Nightmare on Elm Street" 1984
Smokey Huff - (untitled graveyard scene music)  ["Rocktober Blood" 1984]
[Sample] "Rocktober Blood" 1984
[Sample] "Dark Shadows" ep 1106
[Sample] "Dark Shadows" ep 948
[Sample] "Scooby Doo, Where Are You?" ep "Which Witch is Which"
[Sample] "Phantasm" 1979
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me (Ichabod's Twin Peaks Murder version 2017)
[Sample] "Dark Shadows" ep 942
Misfits - Halloween [Halloween, 1981]
[Sample] The Real Ghostbusters: When Halloween Was Forever
[Sample] The Real Ghostbusters: Halloween II and a Half
Calabrese - Mother of Mercy  [single, 2024]
Wade Denning - A Visit to Transylvania (exc.)  [Famous Ghost Stories with Scary Sounds, 1975]
[Sample] "Dark Shadows" ep 989
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⚰️ Cimitir - Bloodcurdling Sounds (exc.) [Bloodcurdling Sounds, 2024]
Ted Nichols - Untitled Medley  ["Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" (Soundtrack) 1969]
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Uncredited - The Graveyard (Exc.)  [Ghostly Sounds, 1974]
[Sample] Wolves Howling "Night in a Graveyard"
Nox Novacula - Wolves  [Feed the Fire, 2024]
[Sample] "The Wolf Man" 1941
Vision Video  - Dead Gods  [Modern Horror, 2024]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Halloween  [Juju, 1981]
[Trailer] "Vampyres" 1974
Nosferatu - Vampyres Cry [Rise, 1993]
[Sample] Boris Karloff, Tales of the Frightened
Cinema Strange - Nightfalls [10th Anniversary novelty Product, 2004]
некрохолод (Necroholod) - Afterword... [Fragments of Edward Munch's 'The sick girl', 2024]
Paul Hecht - The Haunted House  [The Haunted House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales, 1970]
The Awakening - Through the Veil  [The Awakening, 2024]
[Sample] "Tenebrae" 1982
She Past Away - Inziva [single, 2024] Watch the video
[TV spot] "Phantasm" 1979
[Sample] "Castle of Blood" 1964
Pøltergeist - Ethereal Nightmare  [Nachtmusik, 2024]  Watch the video
[Trailer] "The House of Seven Corpses" 1974
The Rope - Murder of Gods  [Nightbird, 2024]
[Sample] "Scooby Doo, Where Are You?" ep "Don't Fool with a Phantom"
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⚰️ John Carpenter  - Shadows Have a Thousand Eyes  [Lost Themes IV: Noir, 2024]
Simonetti Horror Project - Halloween - Main Title  [Days Of Confusion, 1991]
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Los Vampiros Del Mar - The Haunting  [The Haunting, 2024]
[Radio spot] "The Hearse" 1980
The Cramps - The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon  [Stay Sick!, 1989]
Something Weird - The Monsters Crash the Pajama Party [“Something Weird: Spook Show Spectacular A-Go-Go” (comp.) 2018]
Boo Dudes - Frankenstein Crashed on My Couch  [TOAD/RETOAD, 2024]
John Zacherley - Happy Halloween  [Scary Tales, 1962]
Screaming Dead - Necroaria  [Night Creatures, 1983]
[Sample] "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" 1972 (We are the grave robbers)
Ramones - Garden of Serenity  [Halfway to Sanity, 1987]
[TV spot] "Evil Dead" 1982
[Sample] "Demons" 1985
The Neuro Farm - Demons  [Voices, 2024]
Slasher Dave - Witches Wear High Hats  [single, 2024]
[TV spot] "The Return of the Living Dead" 1985
[Sample] Vincent Price "Witchcraft - Magic: An Adventure In Demonology" 1969
Bella Morte - Where Shadows Lie  [Where Shadows Lie, 1999]
AFI - Fall Children  [All Hallow's E.P., 1999]
Something Weird - Young American Mystic Cult of Horrors (exc.)  [“Something Weird: Spook Show Spectacular A-Go-Go” (comp.) 2018]
Calabrese - Thing Unnatural  [single, 2024]
[Sample] Alfred Hitchcock presents: "Music to Be Murdered By" 1958 (self service mortuary)
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⚰️ Charles Bernstein - Main Title / Telephone Terror / Jail Cell / Sleep Clinic  ["A Nightmare on Elm Street" (soundtrack) 1984]
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[Trailer] "A Nightmare on Elm Street" 1984
Charles Bernstein - Funeral  ["A Nightmare on Elm Street" (soundtrack) 1984]
[Sample] "A Nightmare on Elm Street" 1984
213 - Nightmare ["A Nightmare on Elm Street" (soundtrack) 1984]
[Sample] Freddy Krueger Hotline Commercial 1989
S.O.D. - Freddy Krueger [Speak English or Die, 1985]
[Sample] "Vincent Price's Halloween Thriller" 1984
[Trailer] "C.H.U.D." 1984
[TV spot] Knight Rider"Halloween Knight" promo 1984
Don Peake - "Halloween Knight" pts. 2, 3, 6, and 8  [Knight Rider: The Best of Don Peake, Vol. 1, 2009]
[Sample] "Vincent Price's Halloween Thriller" 1984
W.A.S.P. - Tormentor  ["Dungeonmaster" (soundtrack) 1984]
TV spot] "Friday the 13th IV: The Final Chapter" (1984) v2
Halloween - Trick or Treat  [Don’t Metal with Evil, 1984]
[Sample] "Rocktober Blood" 1984
Sorcery - I'm Back  ["Rocktober Blood" (soundtrack) 1984]
[Sample] "Rocktober Blood" 1984
Samhain - Macabre  [Initium, 1984]
Grimshrine - Rotting Undergrowth (exc.)  [Reliquary of Terror Vol. 3 (comp.) 2023]
[Sample] Vincent Price "Witchcraft - Magic: An Adventure In Demonology" 1969 (The Sabbath)
Mercyful Fate - Come to the Sabbath  [Don't Break the Oath, 1984]
[Sample] Devil Worship: The Rise Of Satanism VHS 1989
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⚰️ Goblin - L'alba dei morti viventi ["Zombi - Dawn of the Dead" (soundtrack) 1978]
Fabio Frizzi - Verso l'ignoto  ["The Beyond" (soundtrack) 1981]
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[Sample] Vincent Price on "Suspense" from "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Valentine Wolfe - The Night is Darkening Round Me  [Lost to the Night, 2024]
[Sample] "Dark Shadows" ep 1009 (Your are of the living, I am of the dead)
Philadelphia Orchestra - The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga) by Modest Moussorgsky (exc.)  [Pictures at an Exhibition, 1867/1991]
Samael - Baphomet's Throne  [Ceremony of Opposites, 1994]
[Trailer] "The Return of Dracula" 1958
Hypocrisy - Penetralia (edit) [Penetralia, 1992]
[Sample] "The Vampire Lovers" 1970
Dissection - Night's Blood (1994 version)  ["Death is Just the Beginning III (comp.) 1994]
[Sample] "Taste the Blood of Dracula" 1970
Cradle of Filth - To Eve the Art of Witchcraft  [The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, 1994]
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Omen Sinistrum  [Es reiten die Toten so schnell... - or: The Vampyre sucking at his own Vein, 2002]
Abysmal Grief - Mortician [Despise the Living, Desecrate the Dead (comp.) 2023]
[Sample] "Twins of Evil" 1971
Cloak - London Dungeon  [2 Hits from Hell EP, 2019]
Mark Korven - Tighten the Noose (exc.)  ["The First Omen" (soundtrack) 2024]
SVRM - в вікна глянув Сатана… (Satan Looked in the Windows) [Прощання (Farewell), 2024]
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⚰️ Shadowsun - Dark Side of the Woods  [Carpathian Silence, 2024]
Vargrav - Into the Shadow Crypts  [The Nighthold, 2023]
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Kælan Mikla & Bardi Johannsson - A Scent of Decay  [The Phantom Carriage, 2024]
Danzig - Invocation [Danzig 4P, 1994]
Witch Haunt - Falling Leaves & Skeletal Trees (exc.)  [Reliquary of Terror Vol. 3 (comp.) 2023]
[Sample] "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1949)
[Sample] "Dark Shadows" ep 1061 (I must find my coffin before sunrise)
[Sample] "The Fearless Vampire Killers"
[Sample] "Dellamorte Dellamore" 1994
[Sample] "Rocktober Blood" 1984
[Sample] "Dark Shadows" ep 1106 (Close the Coffin, Willy)

  

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(exc.) = excerpt
⚰️ = Talk break w/ background music

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