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EPISODE NOTES & HIGHLIGHTS:
This month, in addition the regular flow of the show that you (hopefully) know and love, I have included a special set in the middle, focusing on Dragon Con 2018, the annual sci-fi/comics/horror/fantasy/music/et cetera-convention held every labor day weekend in Atlanta, GA. More on that later, when we get to that set...
First up on this episode is new music from Boise, Idaho's Aelter, a more somber, goth-forward musical outlet for Blk from the band Wolvserpent. The new album is entitled One, and you can check out the rest of it here.
From there, we launch in to the first full set of the show, starting with newcomers U.S. Grave (Phoenix, Arizona), who set the tone with an upbeat gloomy number from their Voice of an Idiot Ghost EP. We then dig a track deeper into two current releases: The new Raise the Lights EP from NAUT, followed by Borderlands from Denver's Weathered Statues. Los Angeles deathrockers The Dirty Horror jump in with both boots next, delivering the 'Coffin premiere of their new single, "Dead Eyes," followed by a second look at Autobahn's 2017 album, The Moral Crossing. Finally, the set closes with a request for a new London act, The Visceral Pleasure, whose sound is pleasantly reminiscent of certain pockets of '90s goth, for fans of Lycia and the like.
First up on this episode is new music from Boise, Idaho's Aelter, a more somber, goth-forward musical outlet for Blk from the band Wolvserpent. The new album is entitled One, and you can check out the rest of it here.
From there, we launch in to the first full set of the show, starting with newcomers U.S. Grave (Phoenix, Arizona), who set the tone with an upbeat gloomy number from their Voice of an Idiot Ghost EP. We then dig a track deeper into two current releases: The new Raise the Lights EP from NAUT, followed by Borderlands from Denver's Weathered Statues. Los Angeles deathrockers The Dirty Horror jump in with both boots next, delivering the 'Coffin premiere of their new single, "Dead Eyes," followed by a second look at Autobahn's 2017 album, The Moral Crossing. Finally, the set closes with a request for a new London act, The Visceral Pleasure, whose sound is pleasantly reminiscent of certain pockets of '90s goth, for fans of Lycia and the like.
DRAGON CON 2018:
The second full set acts as a spotlight on Dragon Con 2018, which takes place in Atlanta, Georgia across multiple host hotels on Labor Weekend (August 30th - September 3rd). 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. They book cool goth/industrial-related bands.
Disclaimer: I volunteer and serve as the Assistant Director for Dragon Con's Horror Track, so this set leans that way, 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 my annual goth panel:
The second full set acts as a spotlight on Dragon Con 2018, which takes place in Atlanta, Georgia across multiple host hotels on Labor Weekend (August 30th - September 3rd). 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. They book cool goth/industrial-related bands.
Disclaimer: I volunteer and serve as the Assistant Director for Dragon Con's Horror Track, so this set leans that way, 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 my annual goth panel:
"Goth A.D. 2018"
Saturday, 2:30pm, Westin Peachtree 1-2
Saturday, 2:30pm, Westin Peachtree 1-2
Panelists: Aurelio Voltaire, Cruxshadows, Jess-O-Lantern, and possibly more TBA...
(Download the Dragon Con 2018 app to see the full list of guests and panels for the Horror Track and all the other tracks, too).
With that said, this set includes music from several of this year's live performers, including the return of Abney Park, mainstays The Crüxshadows and Aurelio Voltaire, plus newcomers The Cybertronic Spree -- a Transfomers-themed cover/tribute act that plays the soundtrack from the 1986 film, plus other '80s synth-rock anthems, like the theme from "Kung Fury," which I've included here. Not only that, but they do so while dressed as fucking Autobots! Seriously, check out the video here. Sandwiched in between the songs of this set are several iconic horror trailers, which I've included in reference to The Horror Track panels we'll have this year about each of them, to mark significant anniversaries of their release dates. Anyway, now that my nerdity is showing, I'll move on to the next, not-Con-related set...
Set three begins with newly-released old material from Ego Likeness, taken from the 2-disc collection of their earliest material, entitled Songs from a Dead City, which was just made available from Metropolis Records. Following similar sonic lines, Helix comes next with something from their new album Twin. Not to be confused with the hair-raising '80s metal band, this Helix is a collaboration between Tom Shear (Assemblage 23) and vocalist Mari Kattman (Day Twelve, Mari & The Ghost). I then reach back to 2005 for a second dear vault track, this time from System Syn's Postscript album, before delving deeper into the latest, and sadly last, album from Them Are Us Too. As the set began, so it ends, with a re-issued classic courtesy of Metropolis Records. This time, we get a taste of The Legendary Pink Dots1992 album, Shadow Weaver.
The fourth set eases into the dark metal realm with a pair of acts that began life (death?) on the extreme side of the metal fence, then hopped over, in favor of different pastures. First up is Norway's Manes, whose sound is a bit hard to peg, but interesting to follow on their latest, Slow Motion Death Sequence. Fans of Garm's output take note. Next, we step back just over 20 years for a look back at the onset of Tiamat's flirtation with psychedelic goth rock on A Deeper Kinf of Slumber. If all that isn't heavy enough for you, never fear, we then go a cut deeper into Drudkh's new album, Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring).Canada's Finnr's Cane step in next with a taste of their brand new album, before we ultimately close this episode with another great song from Délétère's latest opus, De Horae Leprae.
All of that PLUS: New film/television soundtrack work from Thomas Newman's "Castle Rock" score and "Annihilation" by Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow; Multiple film/music anniversaries to note; 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: August 28th, 2018
Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]
Aelter - Raven [One, 2018]
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Thomas Newman - A Run of Bad Luck ["Castle Rock" (soundtrack) 2018]
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U.S. Grave - Stumble Off the Earth [Voice of an Idiot Ghost EP, 2018]
NAUT - Disintegration [Raise the Lights, 2018]
Weathered Statues - Sabbat [Borderlands, 2018]
The Dirty Horror - Dead Eyes [digital single, 2018]
Autobahn - Fallen [The Moral Crossing, 2017]
The Visceral Pleasure - 743 [digital single, 2018] ^RQ^
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Johan Söderqvist - The Arrival / Spotting a Victim / Virginia Wakes Up ["Let the Right One In" (soundtrack) 2008]
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Abney Park - Dear Ophelia [The Death of Tragedy, 2005]
TRAILER "Night of the Living Dead" 1968
TRAILER "Dawn of the Dead" 1978
The Crüxshadows - Stay [Atromythology, 2017]
Aurelio Voltaire - Ex-Lover's Lover [The Devil's Bris, 1998]
TRAILER "Halloween" (1978)
The Cybertronic Spree - True Survivor [digital single, 2018]
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Tangerine Dream - Mae Comes Back ["Near Dark" (soundtrack) 1987]
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Ego Likeness - The Burning Land (demo) [Songs From a Dead City, 1999/2018]
Helix - Anymore [Twin, 2018]
System Syn - The Saddest Sound Was You [Postscript, 2005]
Them Are Us Too - No One [Amends, 2018]
The Legendary Pink Dots - City of Needles [Shadow Weaver, 1992/2018]
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Craig Safan - Resurrection ["A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" (soundtrack) 1988]
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Manes - Chemical Heritage [Slow Motion Death Sequence, 2018]
Tiamat - Teonanacatl / Trillion Zillion Centipedes [A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997]
Drudkh - У Дахів Іржавім Колоссю... [Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring), 2018]
Finnr's Cane - Strange Sun [Elegy, 2018]
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Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - For Those That Follow ["Annihilation" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Délétère - Oratio Magna [De Horae Leprae, 2018]
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