PODCAST: December 2017 Episode

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On the third day of Christmas, my DJ gave to me: A new podcast (finally)! Don't worry, this is the December Episode of "Out ov the Coffin" and not a full-on xmas special -- but for those in the spirit (so to speak), there are some holiday gems to adore. We begin, in fact, with new music from Death In Rome, who turn in another unexpectedly moving cover of an unlikely classic. This time, "Last Christmas," originally written and recorded by WHAM!. Whaaaaa? Yes, and it's so good, because they don't just slap their style on the song, they also incorporate counter melodies from musical history that really put the star on the top of the old tree.

After that seasonal intro, we get down to a great bunch of new goth/post-punk, for any time of the year, starting with music from the new Fearing EP, Black Sands (their second great EP this year, mind you). Next, we go one track deeper into the new EP from Virginia's Shadow Age, this autumn's excellent, The Fall. Lakes return after that with the title track from their latest neo-folk/post-punk fusion, Silver Thorns, before we slide into the vaults for an overlooked 1983 track from Nervous Germans. Finally, the new stomper from Los Angeles deathrock band The Wraith rounds out the first set.

Set two is what I like to call the gooey Xmas center of the show, flanked by holiday-related instrumentals from Xmal Deutschland and Depeche Mode, the set takes off with a traditional French Christmas Carol, made their own by Siouxsie & the Banshees back in 1982. A live rarity from The Cure falls from your chimbley next, and lands on both feet, wearing a coal-covered Slade t-shirt (ok, it's a Slade cover they performed live 30 years ago this month). If that isn't weird enough for you, crazy Uncle Al (Jourgensen, of Ministry fame) shows up bearing an original Christmas collaboration with Mark Thwaite (of The Mission fame) before we mark the 30th anniversary of the cult classic HÖH / Current 93 chestnut, Crowleymass!

The Cruxshadows kick off the third set again this month, with a deeper look into their new darkwave opus, Astromythology, which in turn launches a deeper look at Soror Dolorosa's pensive new Apollo album. Not to be outdone, UK act FEHM steps in with the b-side from their cracking new Human Age single, rolling us further into the post-punk/wave realm, before hitting the (dark)waves again for a second look at Wake from Ohio's Skeleton Hands. Washington's The Dancing Plague of 1518 close this set with another taste their Habitual EP, proving that this set's unintentional theme was "one track deeper into cool new albums."

For the dark metal portion of the show, we begin with an excerpt from the massive, one-song-album that is Bell Witch's Mirror Reaper. Already topping many 'Album of the Year' lists across the globe, you can fully to expect to hear another excerpt from this one next month, when the "Out ov the Coffin: Best ov 2017" episode arrives. Following that is a new strain of doom from The Howling Void's new one, The Darkness at the Edge of Dawn. Already heavily on repeat in my car, we next rip into new music from Barshasketh, taken from their new split with Outre, before closing the set with something from the regions between hardcore punk and black metal, taking the form of Devil Master's new EP, Inhabit the Corpse.

All of that PLUS: New soundtrack work from the lush new Guillermo del Toro film, "The Shape of Water" (by Alexandre Desplat); Selections from the Goth, Darkwave, and Horror Holiday vaults; and more!

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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: December 27th, 2017

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

Death In Rome - Last Christmas  [single, 2017]
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Alexandre Desplat - The Creature / He's Coming For You  ["The Shape of Water" (soundtrack) 2017]
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Fearing - In the Fog  [Black Sand, 2017]
Shadow Age - Luminosas  [The Fall, 2017]
Lakes - Silver Thorns  [Silver Thorns, 2017]
Nervous Germans - Vanishing Point  [Summer of Love, 1983]
The Wraith - Prevail  [Prevail (single), 2017]
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Xmal Deutschland - Xmas in Australia  [Tocsin, 1984]
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Il est né, le divin Enfant  [Melt! (single), 1982]
The Cure - Merry Christmas Everybody (live)   [The Cure at Wembly 9th December, 1987]
Al Jourgensen & Mark Thwaite - It's Always Christmas Time  [It's Always Christmas Time, 2009]
HÖH / Current 93 - Crowleymass  [Crowleymass, 1987]
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Depeche Mode - Christmas Island  [A Question of Lust (single), 1986]
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The Cruxshadows - Stay  [Astromythology, 2017]
Soror Dolorosa - Another Life  [Apollo, 2017]
FEHM - Last Breath  [Human Age, 2017]
Skeleton Hands - Shadows  [Wake, 2017]
The Dancing Plague of 1518 - Cataracts  [Habitual, 2017]
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Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind - Rocky Mountains  ["The Shining" (soundtrack) 1980]
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Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper (exc.)  [Mirror Reaper, 2017]
The Howling Void - Silence and the Setting Sun  [The Darkness at the Edge of Dawn, 2017]
Barshasketh - Being  [Sein/Zeit (split w/ Outre) 2017]
Devil Master - Blood On My Shroud  [Inhabit the Corpse, 2017]
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Perry Botkin - Snow Dreams  ["Silent Night, Deadly Night" (soundtrack) 1984]
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The Legendary Pink Dots - Crossroads  [The Legendary Pink Dots' Christmas Special 2017, 2017]

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PODCAST: November 2017 Episode

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Arriving late in the month, but simply loaded with new releases, the November episode of "Out ov the Coffin" is a return to traditional form, after a few of months of special editions. We begin by saluting this month's 30th anniversary of the release of The Sisters of Mercy's landmark goth classic Floodland, selections from which actually bookend this episode. I chose two of my personal favorites for the occasion, two songs which receive little in the way of club play, so they run little risk of sounding worn out.

From there, we dive into a set filled with almost entirely new material. Virginia's Shadow Age are up first, with the lead single from their new EP, The Fall. The band just wrapped up a tour cursed by a broken van, but despite that disappointment, the band's material continues to be among the best in the current American post-punk scene. Soror Dolorosa come next, with a first taste of their new Apollo album, on which they continue to provide solid modern goth rock. NOIR slides in next, with an atypical selection from their new remix EP, Reburning. Contrary to most remixes, this version of the song is a stripped-down, neo-classical version that really stood out to me.

Continuing the first set is a relatively new German band called La Scaltra, offering what i would call a very '90s-influenced darkwave/goth sound, reminiscent of Switchblade Symphony's best work. Ashton Nyte (of The Awakening) pays us a visit next, with his latest solo single, a cover of the Boy George classic, "The Crying Game." The set concludes with a Lycia classic, taken from their first (and newly reissued) album, 1989's Wake. 

The second set begins with new music from Finland's Kuudes Silmä, taken from their impressive new album. The fresh euro-post-punk continues with the new single from UK act FEHM, the immediately-catchy Human Age. We then visit the vaults for some mid'90s Cure-worship from germany's The Caves, before getting back to the brand new music with a song from Autobahn's new primal post-punk release, The Moral Crossing. We then go a track deeper into the latest from Pawns, hiding for a moment in the title track from The Gallows. Then, finally, the "Most Interesting Band Name" award this month goes to Washington's The Dancing Plague of 1518, who close this set with the title track from their latest, Habitual. 

The Cruxshadows kick off the third set with what has emerged as my favorite song from their new Astromythology album. As mentioned on the podcast, if you had lost track of the band for a while, this new album is a great time to reconnect, as it sees Rogue and company branching out in several new directions, trying new things, and succeeding. A taste of the new Bootblacks LP, Fragments, follows with some consistent, pulsing new darkwave, leading us to the lead single from Ohio's Skeleton Hands, who recently graced the stage for Fascination Street here in Nashville. Their new album Wake is out now.

Set 3 continues with what one might call the return of Zola Jesus. After dabbling in electro-pop for an album, Okovi sees them once again embracing some of the colder and darker tones that drew in fans early on. And speaking of returning to form, the set wraps up with a new recording of a very old song from the legendary John Carpenter, delving further into his new Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 LP. 

The final set explores several artists, who in entirely different ways, find themselves placed in the "metal" section at record stores. First, we go deeper into Women, the latest from Ides of Gemini, whose new sound on this release owes a lot more to deathrock than it does to the more metallic sounds with which the band was once associated. France's Nyss make their 'Coffin debut next with the third act from their new avant-garde black metal release, Princesse Terre (Three Studies of Silence and Death). A rare foray near the realms of hardcore comes next, with a taste of the new Beauty Fades EP from dark Boston punks, Sadist, which leads, in a cool way, into a closing track from Norwegian black metal legends, Mayhem. Just before recording this episode, I had the amazing experience of watching the surviving members of the De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas line-up perform that album in its entirety. Naturally, I had to close this set with one of those songs.

All of that PLUS: New dark ambient from Russia's Frozen Ocean and Flames of Genesis (UK); New soundtrack work from the bizarre new film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Some velevty 1970s Satano-horror soundtrack work; A 30th anniversary nod to cult zombie film classic The Video Dead; 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: November 28th, 2017

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

The Sisters of Mercy - Driven Like the Snow  [Floodland, 1987]

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Frozen Ocean - Brooks Run to the Comet Lake  [Transience, 2017]
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Shadow Age - The Fall  [The Fall, 2017]
Soror Dolorosa - The End  [Apollo, 2017]
NOIR - The Burning Bridge (Acoustic Interlude)  [Reburning, 2017]
La Scaltra - Lucian  [Cabaret, 2016]
Ashton Nyte - The Crying Game  [The Crying Game (single), 2017]
Lycia - This Decline  [Wake, 1989]
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Oleh Krysa & Torleif Thedeen - Rejoice!: IV. And He Returned To His Own Abode  ["The Killing of a Sacred Deer" (soundtrack) 2017]
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Kuudes Silmä - Aistiharhoja  [Pelko, 2017]
FEHM - Human Age  [Human Age, 2017]
The Caves - Sometimes Hostile  [Drifting In Visions, 1994]
Autobahn - The Moral Crossing  [The Moral Crossing, 2017]
Pawns - The Gallows  [The Gallows, 2017]
The Dancing Plague of 1518 - Habitual  [Habitual, 2017]
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Flames of Genesis - Entering the Breathing Spaces Between Worlds  [A Bridge to Further Realms, 2017]
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The Cruxshadows - Stargazer  [Astromythology, 2017]
Bootblacks - The Longest Night  [Fragments, 2017]
Skeleton Hands - Gardens  [Wake, 2017]
Zola Jesus - Exhumed  [Okovi, 2017]
John Carpenter - Escape From New York  [Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998, 2017]
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Jerry Goldsmith - The Funeral  ["The Mephisto Waltz" (soundtrack) 1971]
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Ides of Gemini - Zohra  [Women, 2017]
Nyss - iii  [Princesse Terre (Three Studies of Silence and Death), 2017]
Sadist - (You Have) Complete Control  [Beauty Fades, 2017]
Mayhem - Life Eternal  [De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, 1994]
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Stuart Rabinowitsh - End Title  ["The Video Dead" (soundtrack) 1987]
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The Sisters of Mercy - 1959  [Floodland, 1987]

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PODCAST: Halloween Special (October 2017)

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Velcome, all ye wandering spirits, to the 2017 "Out ov the Coffin" HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!! It's the most wonderful show of the year, because it's absolutely DEADicated to the most wonderful time of the year!

If you're new to the Halloween Special, strap yourself in and prepare for a ride through over 3 hours of howliday-themed deathrock, goth, post-punk, horror punk, darkwave, and dark metal songs, movie trailers, dialogue samples, soundtrack music, creepy effects, way too many thunderclaps, and more... all (g)hosted by yours truly. I'll be guiding you through the dark in every direction tonight, stopping to dig up long-entombed traditional and nostalgic Halloween classics along the way, but sure to shine a lantern on some recently deceased arrivals as well. Beware of new music from: John Carpenter, Crypt of Carmilla, Loss, Lock Howl, Light of the Morning Star, The Kentucky Vampires, The Flatfield, and more!

Lest ye should stray from the path into the unlit void, I encourage to follow along with the morbidly-detailed and fully-linked playlist below.

*Note: Mixcloud's playlist editor is not functioning properly right now, so the playlist is not currently time-stamped on their site, but a rough version of it is there to read, at least -- and you can absolutely listen to the show and enjoy, regardless. I will update the playlist when the bugs are sorted out. Meanwhile the playlist on this page is accurate.

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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2017!

  Show recorded on: Thursday, October 26th, 2017

[Sample] Centron Halloween Safety Video (1977)
[Sample] Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
[Sample] "Scooby-Doo Where Are You?" intro sting (1969)
[Sample] Phantasm (1979)
Kid Stuff Repertory Company - Halloween Night (exc.)  [Mostly Ghostly, 1977]
[Sample] Rocktober Blood (1984)
Stu Phillips - Opening music  ["The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula" (soundtrack) 1977]
(Uncredited) - Chamber of Horrors (exc.)  [Chamber of Horrors, 1988]
[Sample] One Dark Night (1982)
[Sample] The Real Ghostbusters, "When Halloween Was Forever" (1986)
[Sample] James Karen, "Screen Scaries" (1989)
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me (Ichabod's Twin Peaks/The Return Murder Mix, 2017)
[Sample] Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[Sample] The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Calabrese - Death Eternal  [The Traveling Vampire Show, 2007]
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Samhain - Night Chill  [Final Descent, 1990]
John Carpenter - Halloween  [Anthology: Movie Themes 1974​-​1998, 2017]
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[Sample] Sabrina The Teenage Witch, "Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace" (1999)
Misfits - Halloween  [Halloween, 1981]
[Trailer] Halloween (1978) Radio Spot 1
Misfits - Halloween II  [Halloween, 1981]
[Trailer] Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Lock Howl - Graveless  [Pareidolia, 2017]
[Sample] George A. Romero
[Trailer] "Creepshow" (1982)
Altar de Fey - Wraith  [Echoes in the Corridor, 2016]
[Sample] Cemetery Man (1994)
Eat Your Make Up - I Was the Murderer  [First Dinner, 2005]
[Trailer] Near Dark (1987)
[Sample] The Lost Boys (1987)
The Kentucky Vampires - Sleep All Day, Party All night, Never Grow Old, Never Die  [Blood Lust, 2017]
[Trailer] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Bella Morte - The Coffin Don't Want Me, and She Don't Either  [The Death Rock EP, 2001]
The Cramps - The Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon  [Stay Sick!, 1989]
[Sample] The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Penis Flytrap - Cemetery Girl  [Dismemberment, 2001]
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Wojciech Golczewski - The Game  ["Beyond the Gates" (soundtrack) 2017]
Goblin - Suspiria  ["Suspiria" (soundtrack) 1977]
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[Sample] "The Exorcist" TV series (2016)
The Flatfield - The Exorcist  [Manie Sans Délire, 2017]
[Sample] The Night Gallery, "The Cemetery" (1969)
Bauhaus - Mask  [Mask, 1982]
Cinema Strange - Tomb Lilies  [The Astonished Eyes of Evening, 2002]
[Trailer] Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
London After Midnight - Claire's Horrors  [Selected Scenes from the End of the World, 1992]
[Trailer] Lifeforce (1985)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Halloween  [Juju, 1981]
[Trailer] Mortuary (1983)
Screaming Dead - Necroaria  [Night Creatures, 1983]
[Trailer] Vampyres (1974)
Nosferatu - The Haunting (Main Mix)  [Prince of Darkness, 1996]
[Sample] The Vampire Lovers (1970)
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John Carpenter - Prince of Darkness  [Anthology: Movie Themes 1974​-​1998, 2017]
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Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)  ["Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives" (soundtrack) 1986]
[Trailer] "Prince of Darkness" TV Spot (1987)
Francis Haines - The Trioxin Theme  ["The Return of the Living Dead" (unreleased score) 1985]
God Module - Spooky  [Let's Go Dark, 2007]
Tuesday Knight - Nightmare (studio version, 1988)  [Nightmare, 2015]
Charles Bernstein - A Nightmare on Elm Street (Dance with the Dead remix)  [digital release, 2016]
[Sample] A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Dokken - Dream Warriors  [Dream Warriors, 1987]
[Trailer] Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride (The Satanic Rites of Dracula)
Seraphim Shock - After Dark (Devil's Trip Mix)  [Red Silk Vow, 1997]
[Sample] Psychomania (1973)
[Sample] The Superfriends Meet Frankenstein (1979)
Type O Negative - Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective)  [Nativity In Black (comp.) 1994]
Crypt of Carmilla - Ascension to the Black Realms  ["Bloodletting Beneath a Full Moon" (split w/ Werwolfsblut), 2017] [N]
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Mortiis - Trollmannen's Krypt (exc.) [Crypt of the Wizard, 1997]
Megaptera - Don't Desecrate the Dead  [The Absolute Supper (comp.) 1997]
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[Sample] Devil Worship - The Rise of Satanism (1989)
King Diamond - Funeral/Arrival  [Abigail, 1987]
[Sample] Devil Worship - The Rise of Satanism (1989)
King Diamond - Halloween  [Fatal Portrait, 1986] 
Light of the Morning Star - Lord of All Graves  [Nocta, 2017]
Loss - The End Steps Forth  [Horizonless, 2017] [N]
Necromantia - Spiritdance  [Scarlet Evil Witching Black, 1995] 
[Sample] Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969)
Cradle of Filth - To Eve the Art of Witchcraft  [The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, 1994]
[Sample] The Gate (1987)
Philadelphia Orchestra - The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga) by Modest Moussorgsky (exc.)  [Pictures at an Exhibition, 1867]
Samael - Baphomet's Throne  [Ceremony of Opposites, 1994]
[Sample] Devil Worship - The Rise of Satanism (1989)
[Sample] "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The House of Shokoti, Pt II" (1983)
Emperor - Inno a Satana  [In the Nightside Eclipse, 1994]
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things / Hazmat Suits / The Upside Down  ["Stranger Things" vol. 1 (soundtrack) 2016]
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Tim Curry - I Put a Spell On You  [Simplicity, 1981]
Barry Bostwick & Susan Sarandon - Super Heroes  ["The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (soundtrack) 1975]
[Sample] Vincent Price, "The Horror Hall of Fame" (1974)
[Sample] The Real Ghostbusters, "Transylvanian Homesick Blues" (1987)

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(exc.) = excerpt
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PODCAST: September 2017 Episode [Compilation for the Dead 2017]

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Tis the season for specials, and this special episode is the podcast version of the Out ov the Coffin: Compilation for the Dead 2017. What's that? Well, the "Compilation for the Dead" is actually a mixtape-style version of the podcast, so the snake is eating its tail again here.

I started the "Compilation for the Dead" series back in 2007, after attending Dragon Con for a couple of years, where I would consistently have conversations about the state of "goth" music, the health of "the scene," and if there were any good bands still putting music out these days. My answer to the last question was always an emphatic "yes, damn it!," but in order to put my money where my mouth was, I decided to actually create proof.

"I made you a mixtape...." See? Not creepy at all! Right?

So, each year I choose just under 80 minutes of strictly new and current music to represent this podcast, my DJing style, and, most importantly, the current state of the goth & dark music scene as I see it.

For those who just found out about "Out ov the Coffin" from me at Dragon Con this year, I welcome you aboard. New, "regular" episodes happen once a month, featuring even more great new music -- but alongside classics from the vault, episodic themes, and other current dark sounds from the realms of post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, goth, industrial, film scores, dark metal, and more. The next one will be October's much-anticipated Halloween Special, in fact, so look for that one in the corpse -- er, course -- of the next month...

In the meantime, if you're new to this podcast, I encourage you to check out some of the previous episodes (here or here), and to follow the show on Facebook.

Thanks,
Ichabod

* Neither this podcast nor this compilation are endorsed or produced by Dragon Con.


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PLAYLIST
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(each artist's name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

  Show recorded on: Thursday, September 21st, 2017

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

The "Out ov the Coffin" Compilation for the Dead, 2017:

1.    Jim Williams:  Raw Main Title Theme  ["Raw" (soundtrack) 2017]
2.    HR_Lexy:  Eyes  [Slaves to the Light, 2016] [N]
3.    The Bellicose Minds: The Mask  [The Creature, 2016]
4.    Fearing:  Another Night  [A Life of None, 2017]
5.    Tanks and Tears:  Butterfly  [Aware, 2017]
6.    The Agnes Circle:  Martial Love  [Some Vague Desire, 2016]
7.    Esses:  Echoes  [No Light In This Fire, 2016]
8.    Osseovs:  Silent as a Grave  [Black Age, 2017]
9.    Chain of Flowers:  Flesh, Blood and Bone  [Let Your Light In/Flesh Blood and Bone (single) 2017]
10.  The Kentucky Vampires:  Hex  [Blood Lust, 2017]
11.  Garden of Mary:  Graveflower  [The Agony in Memory, 2016]
12.  New Today:  Commendation  [Better Than Death, 2017]
13.  FEHM:  Derailed  [Circadian Life, 2016]
14.  Cristobal Tapia de Veer:  Sleepers (exc.)  ["The Girl with All the Gifts" (soundtrack) 2017]
15.  Wingtips:  Eyes Shut to the Sky  [Greyarea, 2016]
16.  Hante.:  Lies // Light  [Between Hope and Danger, 2017]
17.  Luminance:  Constance In Sorrow  [Constance In Sorrow, 2017]
18.  Cruz de Navajas:  Imperialismo  [Imperialismo (single), 2017]
19.  The Rope:  Suffer  [Waters Rising, 2015]
20.  Lock Howl:  The Seventh Room  [Pareidolia, 2017]
21.  Light of the Morning Star:  Serpent Lanterns  [Nocta, 2017]
22.  Ides of Gemini:  Mother Kiev  [Women, 2017]

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PODCAST: August 2017 Episode

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EPISODE NOTES & HIGHLIGHTS: 

This episode arrives late in the month, admittedly, but it's packed with new music that would not have made the cut otherwise, including several bands played in this episode's extended spotlight on Dragon Con 2017. If you're attending the convention, think of it as a primer for the weekend's madness. If not, enjoy all the brand new music that the associated acts are releasing for the occasion -- and the many other new things coming at you on this August 2017 edition of "Out ov the Coffin."

We begin with an almost-obligatory nod to last week's eclipse, which had Nashville in its path of totality, and which caused the enduring refrain of "the sky's gone out!", from the Bauhaus classic "Exquisite Corpse," to be lodged in my head all week. From there, speaking of pointing at the heavens, we slid into an instrumental from the new Drab Majesty album, in a nod to their upcoming tour, which will hit Nashville on September 16th.

The first full set begins with new music from Fotocrime, a US gothic rock band composed of former members of much heavier acts like Coliseum. Their debut EP is called Always Hell, and they'll also be performing live in Nashville soon, this time at Fascination Street on September 23rd, during a huge month for shows and tours. The set continues with nothing but new music, offering new post-punk/goth from Vessel's Courting You, followed by the difficult-to-peg approach of Germany's Rope Sect. The band's new Personae Ingratae album will likely appeal to fans of modern acts like Beastmilk.

San Francisco's The Tunnel makes their debut next, with a sound that merges bay-area deathrock with classic '90s noise rock influences. The set rounds out with a track from the new Pawns LP, The Gallows, continuing to build Mass Media Records' contributions to the state of modern deathrock. 

DRAGON CON 2017:

The next two sets form a spotlight on Dragon Con 2017, which takes place in Atlanta, Georgia across multiple host hotels on Labor Weekend (August 31st - September 4th). If you've never been, imagine 80,000 fans of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, music, gaming, comics, film, toys, puppets, anime, cosplay, and anything else you can be far too into, coming together in one location to celebrate those things with the people that make them. AND, they book a lot of cool goth/industrial-related bands, hence the music in these sets.

Disclaimer: Yes, I volunteer and serve as the Assistant Director for Dragon Con's Horror Track, but they are not connected with this podcast in any way. That said, if you're coming to the convention, come by the Horror Track room (Westin Peachtree 1-2, on the 8th floor) and say hello. Also, catch me moderating these panels:

"Goth: The Heart of Darkness"
Friday, 5:30pm, Westin Peachtree 1-2

Panelists: Aurelio Voltaire, Cruxshadows, Bella Morte, Ego Likeness, The Long Losts, Ted Naifeh.

"Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors Anniversary Panel"

Sunday, 4:00pm, Westin Peachtree 1-2

Fan discussion of the cult-classic film, in honor of its 30th anniversary this year.

(Download the Dragon Con 2017 app to see the full list of panels for the Horror Track and all the others, too!).

With that said, the first set of bands that will be playing Dragon Con this year begins with more new music from Bella Morte, whose new Year of the Ghost sees the band delving further into its goth-rock and post-punk roots. Frontman Andy Deane's synthwave project The Rain Within follows next, leading into music from the forthcoming Cruxshadows album, Astromythology, which will be released at the convention this year (they will play the Hyatt on late Sunday night, same as last year). Steven Archer will also be pulling double duty on this year's bill, playing multiple sets with his tribal electronica project Stoneburner, in addition to his main band, Ego Likeness. Both acts will play together on Thursday night (along with Bella Morte) in the Hyatt's Centennial Ballroom. The Rain Within will have multiple shows on the concourse. 

The second all-Dragon-Con set begins with a lowkey number from Aurelio Voltaire's brand new album, Heart-Shaped Wound. A collection of serious songs this time around, the album gathers the typically comical Voltaire's thoughts on a particularly devastating break-up. American Murder Song, a new musical project featuring Terrance Zdunich (Repo: The Genetic Opera), makes their debut next, showcasing a dark Americana sound, rife with murder ballads. From another dark American wing comes music from New York's The Long Losts, a newcomer to Dragon Con this time, who will surely add some Halloween spice to the mix. The set rounds out with brand new music from Horror track familiars Valentine Wolfe, taken from their The Elegiac Repose album. 

Note: Voltaire will be performing several times throughout the convention, as will Valentine Wolfe and The Long Losts, but you can catch them all together (along with friends like The Nathaniel Johnstone Band and This Way to the Egress) at Voltaire's Damnation Cabaret event on Thursday night in the Marriott's Atrium Ballroom. American Murder Sing will perform late Sunday (early Monday) at midnight, just before the Cruxshadows in the Hyatt. 

Back to the music at hand, the dark metal section of the show begins with new music from Atriarch, taken from their Dead as Truth album, which I decided to follow with a couple of '90s black metal gems from the vault. Hades tears in first with a track from their 1997 classic The Dawn of the Dying Sun, stepping out of the way for some Necromantia, keeping the bass assault going with the opening track of their 1995 classic, Scarlet Evil Witching Black. We the take a turn towards the extremes of classical with a further new cut into the latest from France's Les Chants du Hasard, before closing the set with one more vault-classic, this time from Ireland's Primordial. The show ultimately closes with some ritual dark ambient from the new Shibalba LP, Psychostasis - Death of Khat.

All of that, PLUS: A brief nod to the memory of director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Lifeforce, Poltergiest), who passed away this week (watch for a better tribute in October); selections from the '80s-nerd and '90s-metal 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: August 28th-29th, 2017

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

Bauhaus - Exquisite Corpse  [The Sky's Gone Out, 1982]
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Drab Majesty - A Spire Points at the Heavens  [The Demonstration, 2017]
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Fotocrime - Always Hell  [Always Hell, 2017]
Vessel - Mourning  [Courting You, 2017]
Rope Sect - King of the Night  [Personae Ingratae, 2017]
The Tunnel - Plasma Den  [Plasma Den/Overland (single), 2017]
Pawns - The Pyre  [The Gallows, 2017]
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Angelo Badalamenti - Puppet Walk  ["A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" (soundtrack) 1987]  {Dream Warriors panel, Sunday, 4pm}
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Bella Morte - Black Orchids  [Year of the Ghost, 2017]
The Rain Within - Eclipse  [Dark Drive, 2016]
The Cruxshadows - In Gardens  [Astromythology, 2017]
Stoneburner - Inkvine Scar  [The Agony Box, 2017]
Ego Likeness - Wolves 2017  [Wolves, 2017]
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Henry Mancini - The Vampire Lives  ["Lifeforce" (soundtrack) 1985] {R.I.P. Tobe Hooper}
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Aurelio Voltaire - The Necropolis of Former Lovers (Midnight in the Mausoleum Mix)  [Heart-Shaped Wound, 2017]
American Murder Song - August  [Compass Box Sette, 2017]
The Long Losts - Sam  [Scary Songs to Play in the Dark, 2014]
Valentine Wolfe - Taphophilia  [The Elegiac Repose, 2017]
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David Newman - Main Title (exc.)  ["Critters" (soundtrack) 1986] 
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Atriarch - Devolver  [Dead As Truth, 2017]
Hades - Awakening of Kings  [The Dawn of the Dying Sun, 1997]
Necromantia - Devilskin  [Scarlet Evil Witching Black, 1995]
Les Chants du Hasard - Chant V: Le Dieu  [Les Chants du Hasard, 2017]
Primordial - Journey's End   [A Journey's End, 1998]
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Monumentum - The Colour of Compassion  ["Presumed Guilty" (comp.) 1998]
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Shibalba - Opening the Shadow Box  [Psychostasis - Death of Khat, 2017]

KEY:
(exc.) = excerpt
(comp.) = compilation

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