PODCAST: January 2019: The Best of 2018

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As is the tradition, the first episode of the year is a long and loving look back at the best music that the last year had to offer, as carefully selected from the realms of goth, post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, industrial/ebm, film scores, dark metal, and the regions between. Clocking in at well over 3 hours this time, it is clear that I had a hard time paring it all down, but that's a testament to all that 2018 had to offer. There is a lot to appreciate here, culled from a great deal of worthwhile sonic research. Even so, there will always be something I missed or didn't get into as deeply as others, so feel free to encourage me to have another look at something that you think should have been here.  

That said, welcome to the "Out ov the Coffin: Best ov 2018" Edition (aka The January 2019 Episode). Consider this a sonic time-capsule, as I like to see it, or a themed mix-tape of the songs, artists, and albums that stood out, made the strongest impressions, were often stuck in my player, or were attached to the defining moments of the year that was 2018. Scattered throughout, you will hear music from some of my favorite darker films and television shows of the year, as well. Note: These songs/albums are not ranked like a lot of year-end lists, but played in an order that flows for the listener. The same goes for the accompanying graphic, which certainly includes a lot of my personal highlights, but acts as more of a collage. 

As always, mixed in with all the familiar songs heard on the show throughout the year, there are a few brand new entries that slipped in just under the wire -- which is why I prefer to do these "best ov" shows about a month into the new year. So, premiering on this episode, as well as landing in the "best ov" pile, is new music from The Awakening and Dead Can Dance, as well as the soundtracks to "Mandy," "Hereditary," and "Summer of 84."

 
So, I hope you enjoy this collection. If you like what you hear, please share the link online, or pass it along to pretty much everybody you know.

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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: January 29th, 2019

Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]
Whispering Sons - Alone  [Image, 2018]
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The Newton Brothers - Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone / Hill House  ["The Haunting of Hill House" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Them Are Us Too - Floor  [Amends, 2018]
Astari Nite - Sunday Queen  [Midnight Conversations, 2018] 
Creux Lies - Tsavo  [The Hearth, 2018] 
Twin Tribes - Shadows  [Shadows, 2018]
Bambara - Jose Tries to Leave  [Shadow on Everything, 2018]
ROME - Hawker  [Hall of Thatch, 2018] 
Holygram - Signals  [Modern Cults, 2018]
Naut - Disintegration  [Raise the Lights, 2018] 
Delphine Coma - Is This Forever  [Leaving the Scene, 2018]
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Marco Beltrami - Water in the Basement  ["A Quiet Place" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Grave Society - Lilith In Nox  [Act I. Dictum Nyctophilia, 2018]
Nox Novacula - The Light Below  [Nox Novacula, 2018]
U.S. Grave - Stumble Off the Earth  [Voice of an Idiot Ghost, 2018]
Cruz De Navajas - Párasitos  [Dominación, 2018] 
Esses - Glorious Poison  [Offering, 2018]
Soft Kill - Dancing On Glass  [Savior, 2018]
Shadow Age - Volant  [Shadow Age, 2018]
The Awakening - Raphael Awake  [Chasm, 2018] 
La Procesión de lo Infinito - Memento Mori  [La Era Oscura, 2018]
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Le Matos - Mackey's Theme Extended  ["Summer of 84"(soundtrack) 2018]
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Dancing Plague - Slow Years  [Pure Desperation, 2018]
Eric Vain - Bow + Arrow  [Pedestals For The Broken, 2018]
Silent EM - The Hunt  [Foreign States, 2018] 
House of Harm - Always  [Coming of Age, 2018]
FEHM - Scarborough Warning  [Scarborough Warning/The Sea To Come (single) 2018]
Alex Reed - Famine of the Soul  [The Gothic, 2018] 
Wingtips - Relativity  [Relativity (single) 2018]
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - The Alien (exc.)  ["Annihilation" (soundtrack) 2018]
Kælan Mikla - Næturblóm  [Nótt Eftir Nótt, 2018]
Panic Priest - Sideways  [Panic Priest, 2018]
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Night Machine - Old Dust (The Crypt)  [Themes of the Undead, 2018] [N] 
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Lycia - 25 Years  [In Flickers, 2018]
Aelter - Raven  [One, 2018]
Johann Johannsson - Sand  ["Mandy" (soundtrack) 2018]
Primordial - Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed  [Exile Amongst the Ruins, 2018]
Délétère - Cantus IX – Oratio Magna   [De Horae Leprae, 2018]
Colin Stetson - Hail, Paemon!  ["Hereditary" (soundtrack) 2018]
Tribulation - The World  [Down Below, 2018] 
Selvans - Phersu  [Faunalia, 2018]
Dead Can Dance - Act II: The Invocation [Dionysus, 2018]
Summoning - Silvertine  [With Doom We Come, 2018]
Drudkh - U Dakhiv Irzhavim Kolossyu…  [Їм Часто Сниться Капіж (They Often See Dreams About The Spring), 2018]
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John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies - Intro/Prison Montage  ["Halloween 2018" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Isenordal - Eternal Winter of the Mind  [Isenordal/Void Omnia (split), 2018]

KEY:

[N] = Nashville artist
(exc.) = excerpt

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