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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