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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.
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)
(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]
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]
The Sisters of Mercy - Driven Like the Snow [Floodland, 1987]
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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