PODCAST: December 2019 Episode

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Welcome to the December 2019 edition of "Out ov the Coffin"! Yes, "it's that time of the year again" means a lot of different things to people, but in the scope of this show, it means you'll be getting a few serious holiday-related gifts, a couple of lumps of coal, and a whole lot of what this show is known for year-round, which is fresh music from the realms of goth, post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, industrial, film scores, dark metal, and other delights from the shadows. So, let's open this thing, and see what ole Saint Ich' brought you this year...

We begin with a fresh live recording from The Cure's recent 40th anniversary festival celebrations, which have now been collected in an audio/video box set entitled 40 Live: Curaetion-25 + Anniversary. Leaning towards the band's atypical setlist at Robert Smith's Meltdown Fest last June, this episode opens with a super-clean and strong rendition of their Faith-era classic "Other Voices." There's a light xmas reference in there, too -- see how I did that? Shame on me.

The first full set rolls out with new music from October Burns Black, who are a trad-goth supergroup of sorts, featuring members of The Wake (US), Long Night, and Sweet Ermengarde, to name a few. We then hear new goth from Germany's Golden Apes, taken from their latest LP, Kasbek, before going a bit more ethereal for a new single from the UK's The Visceral Pleasure. The lead single from the latest New Model Army album, From Here, follows, carrying on the band's legacy of socially conscious post-punk with darkened folk edges. Then, we revisit a pair of classic albums that have received new treatment: First, the 30th anniversary remaster of Black Tape for a Blue Girl's Ashes in the Brittle Air, from which we hear a new 2019 mix of my favorite song, followed by a taste of London After Midnight's complete overhaul of their 1991 debut, Selected Scenes from the End of the World, which saw the band going back to the original master tapes, and even the original studio, to emerge with a shockingly clean, totally remixed and mastered edition, subtitled 9119. This edition is available on vinyl for essentially the first time (if you don't count rare picture discs), with a nice set of bonus track rarities.

Set two is where the Christmas music been quarantined, so if you're not in the mood for any of that "big red noise," feel free to fly past it to the third set. However, if you're in one of several moods for holiday cheers and/or jeers (and maybe a somber tune or two), we have three wise NEW xmas tracks to take in this year! First, a collaboration between Sue Hutton & Athan Maroulis (she from Rhea's Obsession, Indarra; he from NOIR, Spahn Ranch, Black Tape for a Blue Girl) on an EP entitled Christmas Nocturne. Then, we have received two holiday singles from Rogue / The Cruxshadows this year. I went with their faithful take on "Silent Night," but you can find that and the 2019 update of "Anmi's Christmas" as donation-ware right here. If all that is too traditional for you, allow me to heap on you a dose of slick and sweaty holiday snappery from none other than Shoreleave, from quality-television's The Venture Bros. Yes, Doc Hammer and the gang have come through with a new single for this season, and you can find it, along with several bonuses, here (BOOM, YUMMY). The set rounds out with three more holiday-related essentials from Alien Sex Fiend, Hanoi Rocks, and Siouxsie & the Banshees. Enjoy?

Set three resumes the normal tone of the show, kicking off with the another spotlight on the current Twin Tribes tour, which will be rolling into Nashville on December 23rd at the East Room. Scary Black leads the set with another great new single, followed by a deeper cut into Twin Tribes' new Ceremony album, which is already popping up on "Best of 2019" lists everywhere, despite having only been out for a single week! The two bands will be playing multiple shows together on this tour, so don't miss it. We then drop back in the vaults for a blast from 1997, courtesy of Dead Souls Rising, before hitting several more new 2019 releases (as I try to catch up on everything prior to next month's "Best ov 2019" special). First, a taste of rich, French darkwave from the return of Minuit Machine, followed by some fresh, but somber, electro-punk from New York's Pop. 1280 (who also supply the music in the next talk break). Swedish post-punk/goths A Projection make their debut next, from their 2019 release, Section, before we close the set with an interesting combination of "traditional" elements, that being the fusion of trad-goth and trad-metal elements, in the hands of a new Portland band, Idle Hands, who have generated a lot of buzz this year for doing so on their full-length, Mana.

If you thought there were a lot of albums out this year in other genres, NOTHING compares to the sheer onslaught of new metal releases. It's almost impossible to check them all out, honestly, but I have been doing a lot of that this month. The dark metal set this time is entirely composed of new black metal, beginning with Poland's Mgła, whose Age of Excuse is already topping many year-end lists. Also on such lists, perhaps to the surprise of long-time listeners, is the latest from notorious 2nd-wave black metal pioneers, Mayhem, who could easily have rested on their laurels, but instead turned in the pummeling Daemon this year. A global conspiracy of artists from Argentina, Belgium, and the USA yielded newcomers Acathexis late last year, resulting in their self-titled album seeing wider relase this year. More quality output from the Ash Borer/Predatory Light camp also reared its head, giving us Vanum's latest, Ageless Fire, which is followed by new music from Italy's Comando Praetorio, taken from their latest, Ignee sacertà ctonie. Finally, the onslaught comes to a close with new music from Quebec's Sanctvs, from their Mors Aeterna album. Which of these contenders will make it to next month's "Best ov" show? Stay tuned to find out...

All of that PLUS: A closing classic from the '90s gothic metal vaults, courtesy of Poland's long-lost Sirrah; Subtle, frosty 'Howliday' nods dressing the windows of most of the talk breaks; 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: December 20th, 2019

Opening Theme: 
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994] 
The Cure - Other Voices (live)  [Cureation 25: From There to Here / From Here to There, 2019]
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Ennio Morricone - Desolation (Main Theme). ["The Thing" (soundtrack) 1982]
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October Burns Black - Cast Aside  [Reflections, 2019] 
Golden Apes - Oblivion  [Kasbek, 2019] 
The Visceral Pleasure - Is Now Mine  [single, 2019] 
New Model Army - End of Days (radio edit)  [From Here, 2019] 
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Across a Thousand Blades (2019 mix)  [Ashes in the Brittle Air, 1989 (remastered 2019)] 
London After Midnight - Spider and the Fly (9119)  [Selected Scenes from the End of the World: 9119, 1991/remixed & mastered 2019]
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The  Legendary Pink Dots  - Seasonal Chill  [The Legendary Pink Dots' Yuletide Special 2014, 2014]
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Sue Hutton & Athan Maroulis - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen  [Christmas Nocturne, 2019] 
Rogue / The Cruxshadows - Silent Night [single, 2019]
Shoreleave feat. Shallow Gravy - Last Christmas [Venture Bros. Holiday single, 2019]
Alien Sex Fiend - Stuff the Turkey  [Stuff The Turkey/They All Call Me Crazy, 1987]
Hanoi Rocks - Dead By X-Mas  [Self Destruction Blues, 1982]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Red Over White  [The Thorn, 1984]
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Michael J. Lewis - Wardrobe to Witch / Edmund Through Blizzard on Way to Witch  ["The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe" (soundtrack) 1979]
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Scary Black - Starlightdancer  [single, 2019] 
Twin Tribes - Upir  [Ceremony, 2019]
Dead Souls Rising - The Death of the Lovers  [Scented Garden, 1997]
Minuit Machine - Forgive Me for My Sins  [Infrarouge, 2019]
Pop. 1280 - Under Duress  [Way Station, 2019]
A Projection - Substitute  [Section, 2019]
Idle Hands - A Single Solemn Rose  [Mana, 2019]
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Pop. 1280 - The Convoy  [Way Station, 2019]
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Mgła - Age of Excuse III  [Age of Excuse, 2019]
Mayhem - The Dying False King  [Daemon, 2019]
Acathexis - Veins Hollowed  [Acathexis, 2019]
Vanum - Jaws of Rapture  [Ageless Fire, 2019]
Comando Praetorio - Anelito all'arcano  [Ignee sacertà ctonie, 2019]
Sanctvs - Sanctvs Domnius / Roi omnipotent, Sainteté maléfique  [Mors Aeterna, 2019]
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Perry Botkin - Going Nowhere  ["Silent Night, Deadly Night" (soundtrack) 1984]
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Sirrah - Acme  ["Beauty in Darkness" (comp.) 1996]
 

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