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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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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: December 27th, 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]
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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]
(exc.) = excerpt from a longer song
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