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Welcome to the combination June/July 2025 episode of "Out ov the Coffin." In spite of my typical distaste for remix albums, this one begins with a brand new reworking of The Cure's "I Can Never Say Goodbye," the Cinematic Mix courtesy of Paul Oakenfold -- who'd probably be as surprised to be found on this playlist as I was to wind up featuring his work at the top of the show. But, we all make exceptions for the greatest band in the land, The Cure, and their Mixes of a Lost World collection does feature a few interpretations worth hearing. 

 

The first full set begins with a deeper cut, and another type of reworked song, taken from Isolated Youth's new album Misrere Mei, on which they rerecorded their breakthrough single "Oath," with very satisfying results. We then move to a late debut from North Carolina's Feyleux, whose name was on my radar for a while, but I just finally spent some time appreciating their reverent blend of classic goth and darkwave sounds on their 2024 release, Midnight Hearts. Fom there, we enjoy a new single from the one and only Chameleons, on tour this week in the US with The Psychedelic Furs, who have returned to classic form on the very topical track "Saviours Are A Dangerous Thing." Following that acoustic guitar thread, we then go a track deeper into the latest ROME LP, Civitas Solis, before checking out the opening track from Australian post-punk act Body Maintenance's new album Far From Here. Finally, the set concludes with a new entry from Ostatnia Klatka, who reach back to the classic post-punk sounds of fellow Polish acts like Siekiera.

 

We begin set two in Italy, with a track from Edna Frau's new album "Slow, Be Gentle I Am Virgin," which manages to straddle the line between deathrock and modern post-punk well. We then dip down to Argentina for some new post-punk from Tensión, before making this episode's first visit to Ukraine for the latest single from post-punk act Small Depo. Georgia's Entertainment returns next with the third in their series of re-imagined older tracks, with new vocals and fresh mixes aimed at club play, which leads us to a debut from New Mexico's BLDDDLTTR, with a club friendly single "Hea(r)t Death." The set closes with a triple shot of 40th anniversary selections that are all VERY 'Summer of 1985.' First, we mark the anniversary of the self-titled debut from Darkwave icons Clan of Xymox, followed closely by what may be the surprising inclusion of A-ha, with a lesser-played song from their breakthrough album "Hunting High and Low." Not particularly darkwave, but in between the Xymox track and the talk-break selection from the soundtrack of 1985's "Day of the Dead," in felt right -- and it is one of the greatest of all the '80s new wave albums. Add these three to the music from "Lifeforce" that you heard in the last break, and it's a 4-part 1985 salute.

 

Set three finds us going in several unique directions, bookended by two different aspects of the same band. We start with the new surprise collaboration from Aurelio Voltaire and Calabrese! "Zombie Elvis Cannot Die" sees the two bands merging their interests on a tongue-in-cheek throwback sixties-ballad-turned-horror-punk anthem, which will eventually be included on Voltaire's forthcoming SummerWeen album. AND, if you're in the Nashville area, you can catch Aurelio Voltaire live on Saturday, July 5th at the East Room. 

 

The set continues with the new single from Detroit's own deathgazers Vazum, before I finally catch up with a song from Amulet's Katharsis. I had played a few singles from the DC-area band previously, but somehow missed their full release late last year, with its effective mix of darkwave, goth, and industrial sounds. After featuring Whispering Sons on the Best ov 2024 list, I figured that a deeper cut from their excellent The Great Calm was more than deserved, so we get that here, followed by a new entry from cabaret-darkwave act Hot Hail!, taken from their new 2025 full length All the Blood You Wanted. Finally, the set wraps up with the promised new material from horror rock's favorite sons, Calabrese, who have upped the ante with the closing track on their latest EP, No Return from Darkness. Chef's kisses all around for the inclusion of Latin chants and tolling bells on that one. 

We slide gradually into set four, beginning with a more tribal/ethereal new single from Sweden's Linnea Hjertén, before wading into the dark metal waters with new music from Polish/Italian black metal act Amalekim. Long-time Finnish black metal favorites Sargeist creep in next with the title track from their new Flame Within Flame album, followed by a deeper cut from Serbian black metal act CMPT's latest album, Na utrini. We then visit the vaults for a pair of '90s death/doom throwbacks -- first from Finland's As Serenity Fades, whose early work has been newly reissued on a split with August Moon, and then a classic track from one-time German goth-metal champs, Lacrimas Profundere.

 

The show draws to a somber, atmospheric close with a new song from Ukrainian dark-ambient project некрохолод (Necroholod), who take us out with the nearly-12-minute piece "More terrifying than the fear of death is the absence of fear before it." 

 

All of that PLUS: New Swedish neo-classical/folk work from Thomas von Wachenfeldt; New Ukrainian dark ambient from Shadowsun; New soundtrack work from Young Fathers for the film "28 Years Later"; 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
  June-July 2025 Episode
  Show recorded July 4th, 2025

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

The Cure - I Can Never Say Goodbye (Paul Oakenfold Cinematic Mix)  [Mixes of a Lost World, 2025]
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Thomas von Wachenfeldt - Suite no 2 in C Minor (Wiktor Öst)  III. En Spelmans Jordafärd (Sorrow March)  [Estradörerna: Hall- och Östlåtar, 2025]
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Isolated Youth - Oath  [Miserere Mei, 2025]
Feyleux - The Empress  [Midnight Hearts, 2024]
Chameleons - Saviours Are A Dangerous Thing (radio edit)  [single, 2025]
ROME - In Brightest Black  [Civitas Solis, 2025]
Body Maintenance - The Surface  [Far From Here, 2025]
Ostatnia Klatka - Sen ofiary  [single, 2025]
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Michael Kamen - After Autopsy / Hypnosis  ["Lifeforce" (soundtrack) 1985]
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Edna Frau - The Laundry of Sins  [Slow, Be Gentle I Am Virgin, 2025]
Tensión - Nuevas formas de belleza  [Nuevo Movimiento, 2025]
Small Depo - Вікна  [single, 2025]
Entertainment - Patroness (New Voice, Club Mix)  [single, 2025]
BLDDDLTTR - Hea(r)t Death  [DD6, 2025]
Clan of Xymox - Cry in the Wind  [Clan of Xymox, 1985]
A-ha - Here I Stand and Face the Rain  [Hunting High and Low, 1985]
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Modern Man - The Dead Walk  ["Day of the Dead" (soundtrack) 1985] 
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Aurelio Voltaire feat. Calabrese - Zombie Elvis Cannot Die [single, 2025]
Vazum - Arise  [single, 2025]
Amulet - The Hope That Kills You  [Katharsis, 2024]
Whispering Sons - Dragging  [The Great Calm, 2024]
Hot Hail! - Into the Dark  [All the Blood You Wanted, 2025]
Calabrese - I Was a Teenage Deathstalker  [No Return from Darkness, 2025]
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Young Fathers - Alpha Intro / Alpha Tunnel I / Slow Low I / Slow Low II  ["28 Years Later" (soundtrack) 2025]
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Linnea Hjertén - I aska  [single, 2025]
Amalekim - Chant VI: Tisha Daltot  [Shir Hashirim, 2025]
Sargeist - Flame Within Flame  [Flame Within Flame, 2025]
CMPT - Kao srp u noći  [Na utrini, 2024]
As Serenity Fades - Yearning  [Earthborn, 1993]
Lacrimas Profundere - The Embrace and the Eclipse  [Memorandum, 1999]
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Shadowsun - In a sleepless night  [Sumtok, 2025] 
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некрохолод (Necroholod) - More terrifying than the fear of death is the absence of fear before it. [single, 2025] 

 

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PODCAST: May 2025 Episode

 

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Welcome to the May 2025 episode of "Out ov the Coffin." We begin this month with new music from Sweden's Isolated Youth, whose new album Misrere Mei is already a contender for the Best ov 2025 episode, as far as I'm concerned. As I say in the introduction, this is a band who formed while really young and showed a lot of potential, and it is great to see them fulfill that potential with a truly well-produced full-length that brings their initial Joy Division via Placebo sound into familial territory with such dynamic modern greats as Whispering Sons. 

 

After a talk break featuring Vilde Tuv's music from the sadly under-featured recent Norwegian dark fantasy/body-horror film, "The Ugly Stepsister" (Den Stygge Stesøsteren), the first full set begins with music from French newcomers Alice Kean, whose debut single "Half Dead" promises solid modern post-punk to come. We then check back in with Florida's Astari Nite for their latest in an abundance of new singles that meld their goth/darkwave roots with '90s alt-rock, glam, and brit-pop panache. From there, we revisit Ukrainian post-punks Smurno, to catch up on an overlooked single from late last year, before sliding into a triple shot of anniversary salutes. 

 

First on board: The Chameleons, with a 40th anniversary selection from their second studio album, What Does Anything Mean? Basically, which leads into another anniversary cut from that same year from New Order's Low-Life record. The wonderfully pensive track I chose to go with is an atypical one, but as "Elegia" was dedicated to Ian Curtis, it made the perfect segue into Joy Division's "Day of the Lords," which is played here to mark the 45th anniversary of Ian Curtis' death in May of 1980. Finally, the set closes with brand new material from Bay Area neo-folk / "Americanoir" outfit Lux Interna, who will likely scratch an itch this show doesn't often reach, for fans of the moodier, more pastoral side of the Nick Cave school of dark music. 

 

Lest you should feel too close to restfulness, set two makes a turn towards deathrock territory, easing in with a synth-laden cover of the Suzi Sabotage song "Nazi Goths Fuck Off" from Tears for the Dying. Several acts have covered this one recently, for obvious reasons (as I gesture broadly at the state of US right now), but I think this is my favorite of them all. We then catch up on the second in a series of 'new flesh on older tracks' from fellow Georgians Entertainment. Third installment to be featured soon! Heading over to LA, we receive brand new deathrock from Culture Hex, a new act featuring members of Black Heroin Gallery and Scarlet's Remains. After revisiting PDX act Excess Blood's 2024 self-titled EP, we then get more new deathrock from Brazil's Sex in the Grave, followed by even MORE new deathrock from Polish newcomers Natures Mortes! Finally, we close out the set with a spotlight on Vincas current tour, which will see them here in Nashville this Thursday night, May 29th at Drkmttr, which I am stoked to catch.

 

Set three begins with a debut from German act Silver Tears (a combination of the acts Curses and Skelesys), who offer an energetic hybrid of post-punk and darkwave sounds on their self-titled release. Belgian darkwave act Bella Eterna steps in next, with an impassioned vocal approach to complement their catchy synth work, followed closely by the annual return of ROME, this time giving us less murky messages on his latest album, Civitas Solis. Picking up the pace again, we try on the catchy new single from California's Cruex Lies, which alternates smoothly between detachment and immediacy.

Set three continues with a return to Ukraine for some fresh darkwave from ЛІЗА ПАДЛІЗА (Liza Padliza). On her late-2024 debut full-length Міст через річку Порожнеча (Bridge over the River of Emptiness), Padliza explores an original, dreamlike conceptual world through the lens of dreamlike vocals over dark electronic instrumentation, with mood dictating speed throughout. We then hear a debut from Seattle's Hot Hail!, who have issued an updated version of a song from the artist's earlier band, no doubt due to its lyrical relevance in today's climate. Finally, we go one track deeper into the latest album from the Gothfather himself, Peter Murphy, who shows no signs of decline on the powerful vocal track that accompanies "The Meaning of My Life."

 

Arriving at the dark metal portion of this month's journey, we begin our descent with another taste of Drudkh's Shadow Play album, completing this episode's Ukrainian Trident. The intensity is then turned up on a debut from Swiss black metal act Aara, taken from their late-2024 release Eiger, until we go one track deeper into the new Barshasketh album, Antinomian Asceticism. We then visit soundtrack territory for an extended piece from Ludwig Göransson's score to the new movie "Sinners." It's an unusually heavy piece, the style of which is not often heard in mainstream modern cinema, so I figured it deserves its own space here. Closing out the set is a deeper cut from the latest Seth album, La France des Maudits, because it's a remarkable piece of work and should be heard more than once. 

 

The show draws to a close in the most graceful of ways, with a 30th anniversary classic from My Dying Bride's 1995 opus, The Angel and the Dark River. "The Cry of Mankind" has proven to be one of my favorite dark metal compositions of all time, so I have allowed its full 12 minutes of glory to ring out as the epilogue for this episode. May it grant you something you haven't felt in a while. 

 

 

All of that PLUS: New dark ambient from Italy's ILUITEQ; Anniversary soundtrack selections from films old enough to be your father; 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
  May 2025 Episode
  Show recorded May 27th-28th, 2025

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

Isolated Youth - Underlandet  [Miserere Mei, 2025]
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Vilde Tuv - Blomsterdansen  [Themes for "The Ugly Stepsister" (soundtrack) 2025]
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Alice Kean - Half Dead  [single, 2025]
Astari Nite - Ms. Rain on My Parade  [single, 2025]
Smurno - Леза (Blades) [single, 2024]
The Chameleons - Home is Where the Heart Is  [What Does Anything Mean? Basically, 1985] 
New Order - Elegia  [Low-Life, 1985] 
Joy Division - Day of the Lords  [Unknown Pleasures, 1980]
Lux Interna - Into Night  [New Wilderness Gospel, 2025]
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The Valerie Project - Grandmother / Death and Rebirth  [The Valerie Project, 2007]
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Tears for the Dying - Nazi Goths Fuck Off  [single, 2025]
Entertainment - Confusion of Senses (New Voice, Club Mix)  [single, 2024]
Culture Hex - Cloak and Dagger  [single, 2025]
Excess Blood - To Love is to Grieve  [Excess Blood, 2024]
Sex in the Grave- Penumbra  [single, 2025]
Natures Mortes - Bruises  [Blind Submission, 2025]
Vincas - Bury Me Upside Down  [Phantasma, 2020]
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Didier William Lepauw - (untitled medley)  ["Lèvres de sang" (aka Lips of Blood) soundtrack, 1975]
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Silver Tears - Again  [Silver Tears, 2025]
Bella Eterna - Me and the Desert  [Fire EP, 2025]
ROME - Food for Powder  [Civitas Solis, 2025]
Cruex Lies - Apocalypto  [single, 2025]
Liza Padliza (ЛІЗА ПАДЛІЗА) - Отруїлась в тумані (Poisoned in the Fog)  [Міст через річку Порожнеча (Bridge over the River of Emptiness), 2024]
Hot Hail! - My Own Private Weimar  [single, 2025]
Peter Murphy - The Meaning of My Life  [Silver Shade, 2025]
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Ludwig Göransson - Hole Up 'til Sunrise / I've Seen Enough of This Place  / Together Forever  ["Sinners" score, 2025]
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Drudkh - The Exile  [Shadow Play, 2025]
Aara - Grausig ist der Blick  [Eiger, 2024]
Barshasketh - Antinomian Asceticism  [Antinomian Asceticism, 2025]
Ludwig Göransson - Thy Kingdom Come  ["Sinners" score, 2025]
Seth - Dans le Coeur un Poignard  [La France des Maudits, 2024]
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ILUITEQ - Lament  ["Fauna" (compilation) 2024]
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My Dying Bride - The Cry of Mankind  [The Angel and the Dark River, 1995] 

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