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This episode begins on a somber note, with a small tribute to Andy Anderson, former member of The Cure, who died this week, only days after announcing that he had terminal cancer. He was 68. Andy joined the band in the post-Pornography reconstruction era, following the departure of Simon Gallup, and Lol Tolhurst's move from drums to keyboards. Anderson was the drummer on parts of Japanese Whispers, the live album Concert, and the entirety of the band's underrated 1984 album, The Top. I've chosen the title track from the latter to serve as the opening song for this month's episode. Rest in peace, Andy.
R.I.P. Andy Anderson
(January 30th, 1951 – February 26th, 2019)
(January 30th, 1951 – February 26th, 2019)
The first full set begins with a deeper look at Whispering Sons new album Image, which scored high for me on last month's "Best ov 2018" show. It's the first of several late-2018 albums that gets deeper coverage this time around. Brand new to the table after that, all the way from Denmark, is the urgent first single from The Foreign Resort's forthcoming album, Outnumbered, due out in April. Another look at the Modern Cults album from Germany's Holygram arrives door next, followed by brand new music from ROME, whose new album La Ceneri Di Heliodoro seems to walk the line between reflecting on Europe's current difficulties and possibly taking a stance, but that is really for the artist to clarify. We then visit the vaults for a '90s goth classic from Subterfuge, before the rounding the set out in that same spirit with new music from Virginia's Sonsombre, taken from their 2018 full length, A Funeral for the Sun.
The second set begins with my sincere apologies to Horror Vacui for mistakenly leaving them out of the "Best ov 2018" episode, thinking that their New Wave of Fear album had come out in 2017, when it had not. Hence, this set starts with a banger from that album, followed by brand new music from Nuke York's much-talked-about Blu Anxxiety. The band features ex-members of Anasazi, and their sound can be seen as an extension of that band's legacy, if you like. Check out their new EPs here, and some of their even more recent (and really "out there") videos here and here. We then briefly visit the '90s goth vaults again with The Horatii, before delving into something that sounds older, but is actually new, from Belarusian act Nürnberg, who bring an '80s minimal post-punk sound on their latest album, Skryvaj.
Set two continues with an even deeper reach into the vaults, this time yielding some Spanish goth/deathrock from Euroshima's 1987 album Gala. We then check in with San Francisco's The Tunnel, whose latest release, The Blood EP, mixes even more noise rock into their deathrock sound (or is that vice versa?). Finally, the set concludes with welcome new music from fellow bay area deathrockers, Altar de Fey, whose new albumThe Insatiable Desire... For More has just seen digital release, with a vinyl version on the Occult Whispers label coming just around the corner.
Set three slides from post-punk to darkwave territory, starting with a second taste of Kælan Mikla's great new album, Nótt Eftir Nótt. See the video for "Draumadís" here. Next up, appearing under the new name Is There Light, is Gopal Metro (founder of Bella Morte, Brighter Fires, and Gild the Mourn, to name a few), collaborating here with Willow Zember on a new song entitled "Hel." Gopal's current musical output can be tracked on his Patreon page. French darkwave/synth act Hante. returns next with a track from her new FIERCE album, out now (in the USA) on Metropolis Records, followed by fresh California darkwave from Death Loves Veronica, making their 'Coffin debut this month. Dipping back to 2017, I finally catch up with fellow Californian's Glaare, and a track from their album To Deaf and Day. Finally, in honor of this week's (fictional) 30th anniversary of Dale Cooper's arrival in Twin Peaks (aka "Twin Peaks Day"), I close the set with the alternate, dark synth version of Laura Palmer's immortal theme, by Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch.
Making a sharp turn into dark metal, because I know everybody loves that, the 4th set vacillates (puns ahead...) between new releases in the black metal vein and iconic releases that are all hitting their 25th anniversaries this month. UK traditionalists Barshasketh start things off, with a track (entitled "Vacillation". See?) from their new self-titled album, which leads us into the opening track from Samael's 1994 masterwork, Ceremony of Opposites. New music from Black Funeral, who coincidentally started in the mid-'90s themselves, comes next, followed by the title track from the first full length by the oft-maligned Cradle of Filth. Philadelphia's Devil Master storm in next, with a taste of their latest death-punk-infused black metal release, Satan Spits on the Children of Light. The opening piece from Emperor's absolutely essential masterpiece, In the Nightside Eclipse, finishes the set.
And, in closing, I leave you with one more new, and also traditional black metal, item, a song from the new Funereal Presence album, Achatius.
All of that PLUS: Fresh dungeon synth/black metal atmosphere from Denmark's Ærekær; Further new soundtrack work from Hereditary, Summer of '84, and Mandy; A peak into my personal sleep music vault; 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: February 27th, 2019
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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Le Matos - End of Summer ["Summer of 84" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Whispering Sons - Hollow [Image, 2018]
The Foreign Resort - Outnumbered [Outnumbered, 2019]
Holygram - A Faction [Modern Cults, 2018]
ROME - One Lion's Roar [La Ceneri Di Heliodoro, 2019]
Subterfuge - Darkland Awakening [Darkland Awakening, 1994]
Sonsombre - Nocturnal [A Funeral for the Sun, 2018]
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Haim Saban, Shuki Levy, and Erika Lane - Desolation ["He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" (soundtrack) 1983-1985/2015]
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Horror Vacui - The Other Side [New Wave of Fear, 2018]
Blu Anxxiety - Uninvited to the Funeral Home [God's Exposure, 2019]
The Horatii - Eddie's Legs [Riposte, 1995]
Nürnberg - Usio roŭna [Skryvaj, 2018]
Euroshima - Ejército Del Odio [Gala, 1987]
The Tunnel - Unseen Sea [The Blood EP, 2019]
Altar de Fey - Elisa Lam [The Insatiable Desire... For More, 2019]
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Colin Stetson - Séance Sleepwalking ["Hereditary" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Kælan Mikla - Draumadís [Nótt Eftir Nótt, 2018]
Is There Light - Hel (feat. Willow Zember) [digital single, 2018]
Hante. - Waiting for a Hurricane [FIERCE, 2019]
Death Loves Veronica - Strange Pictures [Vampiros Electric, 2018]
Glaare - Ruins [To Deaf and Day, 2017]
Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch - Laura Palmer's Theme (Dark Synth) [The Twin Peaks Music Archive (comp.) 2011]
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Ærekær - III [MMXVII, 2018]
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Barshasketh - Vacillation [Barshasketh, 2019]
Samael - Black Trip [Ceremony of Opposites, 1994]
Black Funeral - Chemosh of the Dust and Darkness [The Dust and Darkness, 2018]
Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh [The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, 1994]
Devil Master - Black Flame Candle [Satan Spits on the Children of Light, 2019]
Emperor - Into the Infinity of Thoughts [In the Nightside Eclipse, 1994]
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Johann Johannsson - Seeker of the Serpent's Eye ["Mandy" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Funereal Presence - Wherein a Messenger of the Devil Appears [Achatius, 2019]
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