PODCAST: September 2019 Episode

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This episode begins with new music from The Legendary Pink Dots, who are living up to the "legendary" portion of their name by embarking on a tour to celebrate their upcoming 40th anniversary as a band! Their new album Angel in the Detail is out now on Metropolis Records.

The first full set begins with a debut from North Carolina's Secret Shame, who provide a great new album's worth of traditional goth/deathrock sounds on their just-released Dark Synthetics. Speaking of tradition, we then celebrate the return of '90s UK goth rock band Children on Stun, who emerged earlier this year with the catchy, even Brit-pop-esque, Echoes. We then check back in with Italy's Hapax for a track deeper into their latest album, Monade, before diving into the vaults to revisit a classic from the also-recently-unearthed second-wave goth rock act Kill Sister Kill, who has made some of their more obscure albums available to modern collectors. Some fresh deathrock comes next from Florida's Obsidian, taken from their debut EP, A Swamp. Finally, we round out the set with your first taste of the new Calabrese album, Flee the Light. The horror-rock brothers three have upped the ante this time by, believe it or not, producing a video for every single song on the album! Catch them on tour now.

Set two kicks in with some much-talked-about new darkwave from Louisville, Kentucky's Scary Black, who first appeared on last month's "Compilation for the Dead" special. The band has just been picked up by Secret Sin Records for their debut full length. New York's A Cloud of Ravens fly by after that, with a second taste of their Sacred Hearts EP, before you're given the chance to decide for yourself about the new Night Sins album, A Portrait In Silver, which sees the band's sound sliding from The Sisters to Depeche Mode, to speak reductively. Texas act Three Rose Charm is next, with a debut from their new Austral Rites release, which easily sounds like an obscurity from a forgotten '80s goth LP that a collector would carefully pull out and let you hear -- only if you were cool.

The set then shifts into inspiration from my recent week at Dragon Con 2019, the southeast's largest sci-fi/fantasy/comics/horror/etc convention, beginning with a look back at Atlanta locals Entertainment, with a classic from 2008's Gender album. Valentine Wolfe are up next, with a minimal piece from their 2018 release, Dolorosa Lachrymosa, which was selected as a stand in for their yet-unreleased original score to the silent film classic Nosferatu (1922) -- which the duo improvised on the spot during a screening we held at the horror track over Labor Day weekend. Closing the set is an atypical piece form Aurelio Voltaire, taken from his latest release, What Are the Oddz?, which circles back to pick up and complete the material from an unrealized new-wave-inspired project that began back in 2005.

After nerding out about the '80s sci-fi television classic, "V", set three starts with the last piece of my Dragon Con recap, a nod to The Cruxshadows' enduring commitment to a great live performance. After that, you'll hear a song from the brand new Wingtips album, Exposure Therapy (they'll be on tour this fall, and in Nashville October 10th) followed by a selection from the new Velvet Acid Christ album, Ora Oblivionis. In honor of the show they just played at Fascination Street here in Nashville, I then revisit the EP that got me into Portland's Dancing Plague, before ending the set with new music from Maryland's Stoneburner (the tribal industrial solo project of Steven Archer of Ego Likeness). The new album is called Technology Implies Belligerence, and there will be a tour in support of that this fall -- including a Nashville date on Friday November 22nd @ The East Room.

The last full set, typically riddled with dark metal, eases into its role with more new music from Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, whose latest work, Death and Flamingos, sets up the metal portion of the show by making use of some very doom-friendly guitar lines. Following that, we get another taste of the latest from Montreal's Ossuaire, who already have the follow-up to Premier Chants ready to release this fall. A pair of classics comes next, in the form of some Tales from the Thousand Lakes-era Amorphis, and the first full length from Swallow the Sun, the Twin Peaks-soaked The Morning Never Came. Both songs were played heavily in my radio days, both on the air and off. Closing the metal set is a debut from Arizona depressive black metal band Suicide Forest, taken from their new self-titled album.

Finally, the show ends on a up beat with one more memory from Dragon Con 2019 -- actually from the day before the con started in earnest. I had the pleasure of seeing (and meeting) Tim Cappello -- yes, the sweaty sax guy from "The Lost Boys" himself. To sum it up, he put on a great show, giving a master class in how to work an audience and make the whole experience fun for both the ironic attendees and those who genuinely enjoyed the man's perspective, positive spin, and sweaty sax work. "Believe" it or not, after supporting so many others in his storied career, he just released his first proper album last year, the aptly titled Blood on the Reed. Unsurprisingly, it contains a new version of his signature song, "I Still Believe," and so I close with that one, of corpse. And if that gets you in the mood for some Halloween vibes, good! The next episode of Out ov the Coffin will be the annual HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, so stay tuned BOiLS and GHoULS!

All of that PLUS: More '80s synthwave atmosphere from the "Stranger Things 3" score by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein; Actual '80s synthwave revisited, from Black Tape for a Blue Girl's Sam Rosenthal; Selections from the '60s and '80s horror 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)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Show recorded on: September 20th, 2019

Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]
The Legendary Pink Dots - Mantis  [Angel in the Detail, 2019]
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Sam Rosenthal - They Came At Night  [Tanzmusik, 1984]
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Secret Shame - Gift  [Dark Synthetics, 2019]
Children on Stun - Echoes  [Echoes, 2019]
Hapax - Creature of Distance  [Monade, 2019]
Kill Sister Kill - Blessings  ["The Goth Box" (comp.), 1996]
Obsidian - Nondisclosure  [A Swamp, 2018]
Calabrese - Pleasures of Evil  [Flee the Light, 2019]
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - The Week Is Long  ["Stranger Things 3" (soundtrack) 2019]
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Scary Black - Icarus  [digital single, 2019]
A Cloud of Ravens - This Quickening  [Sacred Hearts, 2019]
Night Sins - Two Headed Dream  [Portrait In Silver, 2019]
Three Rose Charm - Soft as Stone  [Austral Rites, 2019]
Entertainment - A Seduction Walks  [Gender, 2008]
Valentine Wolfe - Ophaniel  [Dolorosa Lachrymosa, 2018]
Aurelio Voltaire - Firestorms of Venus  [What Are the Oddz?, 2019]
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Barry De Vorzon & Dominik Hauser - Main Title  ["V: The Final Battle" (soundtrack) 1986]
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The Cruxshadows - Jupiter  [Astromythology, 2017]
Wingtips - Accidental Effigies  [Exposure Therapy, 2019]
Velvet Acid Christ - Trash  [Ora Oblivionis, 2019]
Dancing Plague - Habitual  [Habitual, 2017]
Stoneburner - The Angel of Abscess  [Technology Implies Belligerence, 2019]
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Jean Prodromides - Carmilla Et Léopoldo ["Blood and Roses" (soundtrack) 1960]
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Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Mephistophilia  [Death and Flamingos, 2019]
Ossuaire - Saints Céphalophores  [Premiers Chants, 2019]
Swallow the Sun - Hold This Woe  [The Morning Never Came, 2003]
Amorphis - Drowned Maid  [Tales from the Thousand Lakes, 1994]
Suicide Forest - Sea of Trees  [Suicide Forest, 2019]
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Thomas Newman - The Old Resort ["The Lost Boys" (score) 1987]
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Tim Cappello - I Still Believe  ["Blood on the Reed" 2018]
 

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