PODCAST: December 2020 Episode

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In closing this long, strange year, we arrive at both the mouth of winter and the crest of the new-fallen holiday season. Those two factors will certainly color this episode's tone, but it's not a fully-themed show. Scattered throughout, you will find odes to the season at hand -- cold, sparse songs, fit for a frozen, pensive landscape. You'll find a special set in the middle carrying most of that weight, along with a handful of actual Christmas songs, but the bulk of the show will be comprised of the new, non-seasonal dark music that you've come to expect, along with a few classics from the vaults to balance the journey.

We begin with a not-so-holly-jolly song from the new ROME album, The Lone Furrow. Perhaps it's the difficulty of our times speaking, but the tone of "Kali Yuga Über Alles" just felt right at the front of the line this month. From there, we kick off the first full set with some trad-goth music from Nashville's own Shadow Assembly, whose new album Arcane Fusion features many guest vocalists that you will recognize, including Sonsombre's own Brandon Pybus. What you'll hear on this episode (despite my mix-up in the talk break) is actually an older track featured on Cleopatra's new compilation, "The Unquiet Grave 2020." We then dip back to 2018 for some energized post-punk from Blood Bells (also featured on said compilation) before finally checking out a song from the new Rosetta Stone album, Cryptology, which sees the return of more traditional songwriting to the project, but with more stripped-down, less "wet" production than the '90s incarnation.

We then visit Ukraine for a dose of sparse, melancholic post-punk/minimal-darkwave from The Glass Beads' new Therapy album. Having finally issued their first physical release in many years, The Fairmount Chronicles: Chapter One, Seraphim Shock returns with another new single, this time of the piano-based and more somber variety, which suits this episode just fine. Speaking of which, The Last Dance goes beyond somber to heartbreaking, with a set-closing, December-themed classic from 2005's essential, Once Beautiful.

Set two is where the seasonal songs have mostly been, uh... quarantined? Rogue and/or The Cruxshadows start things off with their 2020 holiday song -- a bouncy, danceable number this time (grab it here) -- followed by an equally danceable, but far more frosty take on winter's lore by Iceland's own ice queens, Kælan Mikla. Mephisto Walz then give us "A Winter Song" from their more recent output, before we dive into a pair of especially-goth takes on traditional Christmas songs, courtesy of Lycia (featuring The Unqiet Void) and Eva O. Both songs appear on Projekt Records' "Excelsis 1 (A Dark Noel)" compilation, which turns 25 this year. Finally, a new entry from Detroit's Vazum rounds out this set by turning the very same holiday classic you just heard on its ear as a deathrock/darkwave inversion. You can find that, and a couple of other twisted takes, on their holiday EP, Vazumnacht.

 

Set three returns us to reality, beginning with a small tribute to the memory of Dariusz Malinowski, bassist/vocalist for cult Polish post-punk band Siekiera, who died earlier this month. In his honor, we begin with the immortal title track from the band's landmark 1986 album, Nowa Aleksandria.

Siekiera's Dariusz Malinowski (center), R.I.P.

 

A 2018 cut from NONE's Havoc album continues the set, leading us to a new single from Chile's Diavol Strâin. And I'm late to the party on this, but Oakland's Cult Strange steps up next, featuring at least one member of Altar de Fey, to give us even more quality California deathrock from their early-2020 EP, Rites of Passage. The Nephilim-esque sounds of Sweden's The Last of Us come riding into the sunset after that, leading us to the set's closer from New Skeletal Faces, who have a good buzz around them at the moment for their late-2019 release, Celestial Disease. If you like to walk the borders of deathrock and metal, don't sleep on this one like I did for a while. And check out their new video here. 

 

The dark metal set begins with a pair of new Finnish black metal releases. First, a taste of the new Horna LP,  Kuoleman Kirjo, then -- to make sure you have not a moment's rest -- a new one from Valravn's Prey LP jumps right in. Moving over to Sweden, we then hear the first single (and video) from the forthcoming Tribulation album, Where the Gloom Becomes Sound. Nashville strigoi-synth vamp, Crypt of Carmilla, creeps in next with his new Winter Solstice single, a cover of Onoskelis' "Hierarchic Battle of Pagan Storm." Finally, more new Swedish black metal from Ondskapt closes the set, with a track from their new Grimoire Ordo Devus album.

Finally, as it has become something of a tradition, I allow Edward Ka-Spel (and the rest of The Legendary Pink Dots) to close the December show with one of his famously bizarre, creepy-quaint tales. This one is taken from the just-released The Legendary Pink Dots Christmas Special 2020. Sing while you may...

 

All of that PLUS: Soundtrack selections to suit the wintry/holiday vibe; new dark ambient from The Unqiet Void; a promised rarity from Elliot Goldenthal's "Interview with the Vampire" recording sessions; 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: December 22nd-23rd, 2020

Opening Theme: 
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994] 

ROME - Kali Yuga Über Alles  [The Lone Furrow, 2020]
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Danny Elfman - The Cemetery / The Lair (Part II)  [“Batman Returns” (soundtrack) 1992]
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Shadow Assembly (feat Brandon Pybus) - Languish  ["The Unquiet Grave 2020" (comp.)]
Blood Bells - Destroy  [A Time for Roses, 2018]
Rosetta Stone - Remember (Don’t)  [Cryptology, 2020]
The Glass Beads - Dark Side  [Therapy, 2020]
Seraphim Shock - We Bleed  [The Fairmount Chronicles: Chapter One, 2020]
The Last Dance - December  [Once Beautiful, 2005]
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Ludwig Göransson - Beneath the Ice  [“The Mandalorian” Season 2, Vol. 1 (soundtrack) 2020]
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Rogue/The Cruxshadows - Persephone (Love in Winter)  [single, 2020]
Kælan Mikla - Draumadís  [Nótt eftir nótt, 2018]
Mephisto Walz - A Winter Song  [Scoundrels, 2017]
Lycia & The Unqiet Void - We Three Kings  ["Excelsis 1 (A Dark Noel)" (comp.) 1995]
Eva O - O Holy Night  ["Excelsis 1 (A Dark Noel)" (comp.) 1995]
Vazum - Unholy Night  [Vazumnacht, 2020]
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Johnny Douglas & Robert J. Walsh - Hssssssssss! / Drama Underfoot / Snowy Mountain Calamities  [“G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero” (soundtrack) 1983]
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Siekiera - Nowa Aleksandria  [Nowa Aleksandria, 1986]
NONE - Mystery  [Havoc, 2018]
Diavol Strâin - Destino Destrucción  [single, 2020]
Cult Strange - Slave to the Algorithm  [Rites of Passage, 2020]
The Last of Us - Draw  [The Last of Us, 2020]
New Skeletal Faces - Leather Funeral  [Celestial Disease, 2019]
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The Unqiet Void - Song of My Soul  [“The Unquiet Grave 2020” (comp.)]
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Horna - Saatanan Viha  [Kuoleman Kirjo, 2020]
Valravn - Throne of Blood  [Prey, 2020]
Tribulation - Leviathans  [Where the Gloom Becomes Sound, 2021]
Crypt of Carmilla - Hierarchic Battle of Pagan Storm (Onoskelis Cover) [single, 2020]
Ondskapt - Excision  [Grimoire Ordo Devus, 2020]
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Elliot Goldenthal - Claudia’s Theme for Glass Harmonica (v1)  [“Interview with the Vampire” (The Recording Sessions) 1994]
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The Legendary Pink Dots - A Feathered Friend  [The Legendary Pink Dots' Christmas Special 2020]

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PODCAST: November 2020 Episode

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And we are back with a fresh episode -- a Black Friday episode, if you like, but it will be around for much longer than those sales. I trust and hope that everyone is still among us, despite the many challenges of the present world, but at least we've had some good developments since Halloween. I can't supply you with much additional good news, myself, but I can offer you a show filled with things that are both good and new. To that end, this month's episode begins with new music from that master of the morose tale of love gone wrong, Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows. In fact, the entire new album, Island of the Dead ... or the Five Stages of Mourning is an ode to the withering of affections and subsequent misery, offset a bit by lush production and what I must say is a crystal clear and well-balanced recording for something created in such an emotional state.

 

The first full set begins with new music from The Twilight Garden, a band that I am glad to see back in the ring, perhaps to get the attention they deserve for the new album, Revelation. Following that, we mark the 40th anniversary of the first Bauhaus full length, before diving deeper into The Wake's new Perfumes & Fripperies album. Shifting from more orthodox goth to modern post-punk, we then hear the new single from Portland's Shadowhouse, before hopping over to Belgium for A Slice of Life's new updated single. Finally, a new one from former-Californian-but-now-German band Night Nail's new March to Autumn album.

 

We open set two with more new California deathrock from longtime masters Altar de Fey, before moving just a few inches over to fresh-faced Californian deathrockers Deep Cavity, with a track from their 2019 release, Spectres on the Sacristy. We then fall back to 2018 to catch up with the latest from Italy's reunited Burning Gates, before stepping into the vaults for a 2001 hard-goth classic from Austria's Kiss the Blade, which really took me down a memory hole. In a good way. The last pair of songs go together, in that the first is brand new from Delphine Coma's Tortuosa LP, and the second is their remix contribution to the new single from Entertainment, entitled Maggot Church. It's good to see two southeastern US bands that are both really making it happen right now, working together. 

 

Set three begins with a small tribute to the memory and work of Daria Nicolodi (1950-2020), actress and screenwriter known for her contributions to such iconic Italian horror pieces as Suspiria, who died on Thanksgiving Day. Several of her works were actually spotlighted on last month's show, so for this one, I played selections from Deep Red and Inferno during the preceding talk break, which lead into a clip from the Inferno movie trailer, and finally to the song "Mother Tenebrarum" from Decoded Feedback.

Daria Nicolodi (1950-2020) R.I.P.

The set then continues in the darkwave/industrial vein, with a couple of vault-classics from Velvet Acid Christ and Malaise, before giving you a taste of S.C.R.A.M., a new dark ambient / industrial landscape project, who have just released what would be a great soundtrack for exploring abandoned sites, Sellafield Mox. Brand new music from Steven Archer's Stoneburner steps in next, taken from the new Beauty is Terror album, before we're struck by a selection from the new Bestial Mouths LP, RESURRECTEDINBLACK, which sees the band/project expanding their sound in some cool new ways.

The dark metal set kicks off with something that would have been great for the Halloween special, but alas, The Kryptik's new Behold Fortress Inferno came out on October 31st, making it a few days late to have made the cut. Nevertheless, it should satisfy '90s classic black metal fans quite well. Speaking of classic '90s metal sounds, we mark the 25th anniversary of Dissection's Storm of the Light's Bane this month, with a song that provided one of the blueprints for the Swedish death/black sound for years to come. Brand new melodic black metal from Portland's Uada comes next, taken from their Djinn LP, followed by a third portion of Pallbearer's latest doom opus, Forgotten Days. In closing the show, we hear from Canadian neoclassical dark metal act Neige & Noirceur, whose latest album, Bach, serves as a tribute to the legendary composer.

 
All of that PLUS: Great new soundtrack work from “Lovecraft Country” and “The Haunting of Bly Manor”; new dark ambient from Abscheulichkeit; overlooked '80s soundtracks from the 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)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Show recorded: November 27th, 2020

Opening Theme: 
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994] 

Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Black Magic Spell  [Island of the Dead, 2020]
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The Newton Brothers - Flora / It’s You, It’s Me, It’s Us  [“The Haunting of Bly Manor” (soundtrack) 2020]
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The Twilight Garden - Revelation  [Revelation, 2020]
Bauhaus - Nerves  [In the Flat Field, 1980]
The Wake - Break Me Not  [Perfumes and Fripperies, 2020]
Shadowhouse - A Year Today  [A Year Today/Tonight (single), 2020]
A Slice of Life - Older (Revival Mix)  [single, 2020]
Night Nail - March to Autumn  [March to Autumn, 2020]
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Jonathan Elias - Dance of Death / Katrina’s Haunting / Katrina’s Stare / Darkness Comes  [“Vamp” (soundtrack) 1986]
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Altar de Fey -  Mercy’s Kiss  [And May Love Conquer All, 2020]
Deep Cavity - Your Sweet Satan  [Spectres in the Sacristy, 2019]
Burning Gates - Abandonment  [New Moon, 2018]
Kiss the Blade - Head and Heart  [Heartbeat Amplified, 2001]
Delphine Coma - Dissolve  [Tortuosa, 2020]
Entertainment - Maggot Church (Delphine Coma mix)  [Maggot Church (single), 2020]
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Goblin - Profondo Rosso  [“Profondo Rosso” (aka Deep Red, soundtrack) 1975]
Keith Emerson - Elisa’s Story  [“Inferno” (soundtrack) 1980]
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[SAMPLE, Trailer] “Inferno” (1980)  {R.I.P. Daria Nicolodi}
Decoded Feedback - Mother Tenebrarum  [Technophoby, 1997]
Velvet Acid Christ - Black Rainbows  [The Art of Breaking Apart, 2009]
Malaise - Walking Through the Wonderland  [“The Goth Box” (comp.) 1996]
S.C.R.A.M. - Into the Hive (Reactor No. 4)  [Sellafield Mox, 2020]
Stoneburner - Are You There the Way I’m Here?  [Beauty is Terror, 2020]
Bestial Mouths - In Ruins  [Resurrectedinblack, 2020]
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Laura Karpman & Raphael Saadiq - Sundown Town  [“Lovecraft Country” (soundtrack) 2020]
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The Kryptik - Behold Fortress Inferno  [Behold Fortress Inferno, 2020]
Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie  [Storm of the Light’s Bane, 1995]
Uada - The Great Mirage  [Djinn, 2020]
Pallbearer – Vengeance & Ruination  [Forgotten Days, 2020]
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Abscheulichkeit - The Ruined Symphony  [Dead Children's Nightmares, 2020]
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Neige & Noirceur - Invention 9 en F mineur  [Bach, 2020]

 

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PODCAST: HALLOWEEN SPECIAL (October 2020)

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Having spent the bulk of 2020 locked in my crypt, hiding from the Red Death, I've set stockpiled a great deal of material for this year's Halloween episode -- a GREAT, great deal. So, buckle up, boils and ghouls. We may not be able to party like we want to, but in an attempt to make up for that, we're driving this hearse into FOUR blood-soaked hours of Halloween Hymns this year! That's right, it's (quite possibly) the biggest coffin ever to be crammed through the internet and into your ears: It's The 2020 "Out ov the Coffin" HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!!!

Featuring: NEW, current, classic, and obscure FULL-SIZE songs from the most morbid realms of goth, post-punk, deathrock, horror punk, darkwave, damnbient, metal, and MORE, riddled with hundreds of fun-sized bites of cvlt movie dialogue, sound effects, trailers, TV spots, novelties, and, of corpse, horror film and television soundtracks, all assembled in ritual formation, and (g)hosted by yours truly, DJ Ichabod.

Once again I have ungraved some delightfully fresh musical specimens for this year's special. As if to make up for such a shit year, we have debuts this month from three of the strongest deathrock/goth acts in the US: Altar de Fey, The Wake, and Entertainment (who have also just released a fantastic new video), PLUS deeper cuts into the latest from Sonsombre, Vincas, Horror Vacui, The Kentucky Vampires, Naglfar, and Cultus Profano, fresh Halloween mood music from Slasher Dave, Images in Silence, MALCO, Cimitir, and John Carpenter, AND a closing premiere from Nashsylvania's own Halloween band, Boo Dudes.

I promised, in this episode, to share a link to the A Southern Gothic Halloween special I mentioned (featuring Entertainment, Vincas, and many other great Georgia bands), so you can watch that here. And you should. Tis the season!

 

We'll also bite-mark the 50th anniversaries of three stone cold classic vampire films: Hammer's "Taste the Blood of Dracula" and "The Vampire Lovers," PLUS, the film that came out on this very day in 1970, Dan Curtis' big-screen adaptation of his cult hit TV series, "House of Dark Shadows"! Being a personal favorite of mine, I couldn't resist the coincidece of this episode launching on the very anniversary the film's release, so the artwork for this special reflects that celebration.

 

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! This withered pumpkin of a year desrves an extra kick in the gourds, so you're getting a bonus HEAVY HALLOWEEN HORROR set! That's right, I've once again traveled to the intersection of Heavy Metal and Horror Movies, and returned with not only the certified '80s Metal-Horror classics that you Dream Warriors know and love, but some overlooked cult selections, and even a few rarities -- all mixed with vintage ad spots and samples from the age we'll never allow to be buried.

 

I hope this show will help restore some of your stolen Halloween season -- and if it does, please hand it out to your fiends by sharing it on your social media platform of choice.

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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
 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: 2020!

  Show recorded on: October 27-28th, 2020

James Bernard - Taste the Blood / The Ceremony Begins  [“Taste the Blood of Dracula” (soundtrack) 1970]
[SAMPLE] Sammy Terry Intro (WTTV Indianapolis, 1986)
[SAMPLE] Something Weird - “Monsters Crash the Pajama Party” Opening
[SAMPLE] “Taste the Blood of Dracula” (1970)
[SAMPLE] Vintage CBS "Special" Bumper
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me (Twin Peaks Murder Edition by DJ Ichabod, 2017)
Calabrese - Maleficis Visibilis
[SAMPLE] “The Masque of the Red Death”
[SAMPLE] The Pagan Invasion, Vol. 1
Calabrese - He Who Flees the Light
[SAMPLE] “Scooby-Doo: The Ghoul, The Bad, and The Ugly”
[SAMPLE]  Something Weird - The Crawling Thing, The Creature of Evil (radio spot)
Misfits - Halloween  [Halloween, 1981]
[SAMPLE] Boris Karloff reads “Sleepy Hollow”
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Ken Higgins, Jim Calabrese - Opening Theme  ["Spookies" (soundtrack) 1986]
Slasher Dave - Dusk  [Spookhouse, 2020]
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[SAMPLE] “House of Dark Shadows” (1970)

Sonsombre - One Thousand Graves  [One Thousand Graves, 2020]
[TRAILER] “House of Dark Shadows” (1970)
Nosferatu - Horror Holiday  [Wonderland, 2010]
[SAMPLE] “House of Dark Shadows” (1970)
Mephisto Walz - Dear Familiar Phantoms  [The Eternal Deep, 1994]
Nox Novacula - Hitchhiker  [Hitchhiker/Drug, 2019]
[SAMPLE] “The Masque of the Red Death”
[TRAILER] “The Mask” (1961)
Horror Vacui - My Funeral, My Party  [Living for Nothing, 2020]
Altar de Fey - And May Love Conquer All  [And May Love Conquer All, 2020]
[TRAILER] “The Vampire Lovers” (1970)
The Wake - Hammer Hall  [Perfumes and Fripperies, 2020]
[SAMPLE] “House of Dark Shadows” (1970)
The Kentucky Vampires - Vampire’s Coffin  [Crimson Curse, 2020]
[SAMPLE] “The Vampire Lovers” (1970)
Witching Hour - Ligea  [Hourglass, 1992]
[SAMPLE] “Vincent Price’s Halloween Thriller” (1984)
Sleepy Hollow - Terror of the Number  [Sleepy Hollow, 1994]
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Dennis Michael Tenney - Night of the Demons Theme  ["Night of the Demons" (soundtrack), 1988]
Images in Silence - Wandering Souls (exc.) [“Subsistence” (comp.) 2020]
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Entertainment - Maggot Church  [Maggot Church, 2020]
[SAMPLE] "The Haunted Mansion"
Corpus Delicti - Dancing Ghost [Obsessions, 1995] 
[SAMPLE] "The Midnight Hour" (1985)
[SAMPLE] Vincent Price, The Secrets of Witchcraft
La Scaltra - The Spell  [The Third Eye, 2019] (Seasonally Beautiful Video alert!)
[SAMPLE] “Tales from the Darkside: Trick or Treat"
London After Midnight - Trick or Treat (9199)  [Selected Scenes from the End of the World: 9119, 2019]
[TV SPOT] “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” (1st TV Broadcast 1987)
[TV SPOT] “The Dunwich Horror” (1970)
Marquee Moon - Prince of Darkness  [Beyond the Pale, 1985]
[TV SPOT] “Phantasm” (1979)
Vincas - Until It Rains Red  [Phantasma, 2020]
[SAMPLE] “The Dead of Night” (1977)
Screaming Dead - The Night  [The Danse Macabre Collection, 1984]
[TV SPOT] “Halloween” (1978) (1st television broadcast)
H. Zombie - Burato do Inferno feat. Txarly Usher  [Deathrock is Dead, 2013]
[SAMPLE] Elvira on "The Fall Guy" (1983)
The Last Dance - Elvira’s Theme (live)  [“The Search for the Next Elvira” (2007)]
[TRAILER] “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975)
John Zacherley - Happy Halloween  [Scary Tales, 1962]
[SAMPLE] “Terror on Tape” (1985)
[TV SPOT] “The Return of the Living Dead” (1985)  
[SAMPLE] “The Return of the Living Dead” (1985)
Francis Haines - Trioxin Theme [“The Return of the Living Dead” (score) 1985]
SSQ - Tonight (We Make Love Til We Die  [“The Return of the Living Dead” (soundtrack) 1985]
Babel - The Howling (Make Flesh Creep Mix)  [“Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf” (soundtrack) 1985]
[SAMPLE] The Real Ghostbusters “When Halloween Was Forever”
Samhain - Halloween II  [November-Coming Fire, 1986]
[SAMPLE] Christopher Lee reads “The Tell Tale Heart”
Voo-Doo Church - Eyes (Second Death)  [Voo-Doo Church, 1982]
[SAMPLE] “Dracula” (1931)
Burning Image - Haunted  [“Kaliffornian Deathrock” (comp.) 2006]
Charles Bernstein - Main Title (exc.)  [“A Nightmare on Elm Street” (soundtrack) 1984]
[SAMPLE] Boris Karloff - “Tales of the Frightened”
[TV SPOT] “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)
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John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Chariots of Pumpkins (Remix)  ["Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (soundtrack) 1982]
Cimitir - The Moon and the Waning Veil  [The Spectral Sessions (Autumnal Improvisations), 2020]
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[SAMPLE] “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1992)
Seraphim Shock - Ascend  [single, 2019]
Grave Society - Sanctified  [Act I: Dictum Nyctophilia, 2018]
[SAMPLE] “House of Dark Shadows” (1970)
Lock Howl - Graveless  [Pareidolia, 2017]
[SAMPLE] “Cemetery Man” (1994)
Tribulation - The Lament  [Down Below, 2018]
[SAMPLE] “Castle of Blood” (1964)
Sarcófago - Nightmare  [Rotting, 1989]
[SAMPLE] "Dead of Night" (1977)
Mayhem - Freezing Moon (Dead version) [Studio Sessions, 1990]
[TRAILER] “Mortuary” (1983)
[SAMPLE] “Mortuary” (1983)
Cultus Profano - Upon a Tomb of Sacrilege  [Accursed Possession, 2020]
[TRAILER] “Taste the Blood of Dracula” (1970)
[SAMPLE] “Night Gallery: Return of the Sorcerer” (1972)
Cradle of Filth - Beneath the Howling Stars (Remixed and Remastered)  [Cruelty and the Beast (Re-Mistressed), 1998/2019]
[SAMPLE] “Dark Shadows” Ep. 248  
Naglfar - A Sanguine Tide Unleashed  [Cerecloth, 2020]
[SAMPLE] "Pagan Invasion Vol 1"
Hexenhammer - Cryptographik  [Underground, 1990]
[SAMPLE ] "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: House of Shokoti Pt 2" (1983)
King Diamond - Eye of the Witch  [The Eye, 1990]
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MALCO - El Santos Obsidian  [Horror Titles - Vol. I, 2020]
Claudio Simonetti - Demon  [“Demons” (soundtrack) 1985]
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[RETRO-WE’EN COMMERCIAL BREAK] The Haunted Mansion at Long Branch, Castlevania for Gameboy, Circuit City’s Midnight Madness Sale
[TRAILER] “Trick or Treat” (1986)
[SAMPLE] Alice Cooper hosting "Headbangers Ball" (Halloween 1989)
[SAMPLE] “Hack-O-Lantern” (1988)
DC LaCroix - Devil’s Son  [Hack-O-Lantern, 1988]
W.A.S.P. - Tormentor (“Dungeonmaster” version)
[TV SPOT] “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” (1987)
Dokken - Dream Warriors (video version, 1987)  [Unchain the Night (DVD 2007)]
[TV SPOT] “The Return of the Living Dead II” (1988)
Leatherwolf - Alone in the Night  [“The Return of the Living Dead II” (soundtrack) 1988]
[TRAILER] Black Roses
Black Roses / MASI - Soldiers of the Night  [“Black Roses” (soundtrack) 1988]
[SAMPLE] “Paganini Horror” (1989)
Vince Tempera - Stay the Night  [“Paganini Horror” (soundtrack) 1989]
[TV SPOT] “Incubus” (1981)
Samson - Vice Versa  [Head On, 1980]
[SAMPLE] “The Gate (1987)
[SAMPLE] “Rocktober Blood” (1984)
Sorcery - I’m Back  [“Rocktober Blood” (soundtrack) 1984]
[SAMPLE] CHiPs “Rock Devil Rock” episode (1982)
Moloch - Devil Take Me  [“CHiPs: Rock Devil Rock” (unreleased soundtrack) 1982]
[TRAILER] “Shock Em Dead” (1991)
[TV SPOT] “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter” (1984)
Lion - Love Is A Lie  [“Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter” (soundtrack) 1984]
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John Carpenter - Skeleton  [Skeleton b/w Unclean Spirit, 2020]
Goblin - Tenebrae (Main Title)  [“Tenebrae” (soundtrack) 1982]
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[SAMPLE] Alice Cooper, “Halloween: The Happy Haunting of America”  
Alice Cooper - He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)  [“Friday the 13th Part VI” (soundtrack) 1986]
[SAMPLE] “A Very Venture Halloween” Haunted Opening Theme (R.I.P.)
[SAMPLE] Robert England “Halloween: The Happy Haunting of America”
[SAMPLE] “A Very Venture Halloween”
Boo Dudes - There’s Some Ghosts in This House  […And Justice For Fall, 2020]
[SAMPLE] Tales from the Darkside (closing theme and narration)
[SAMPLE] Angus Scrimm “Halloween: The Happy Haunting of America”

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(exc.) = excerpt

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PODCAST: Compilation for the Dead 2020 (Bonus September 2020 Episode)

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As with everything this year, the Out ov the Coffin: Compilation for the Dead 2020 is a strictly virtual affair. This special, annual episode of the show always coincides with Dragon Con, and since the convention has gone virtual this year, I decided to follow suit and keep this tradition alive online, too. If you don't know what Dragon Con is, think of it as the Comicon of the Southeast, but more fan-driven, held every year in Atlanta Georgia on Labor Day Weekend. Comics, Fantasy, Horror, Music, Gaming, TV, Film, and even panels about Goth, which is where this compilation comes in -- but more on that in a minute. If you want to tune into this year's virtual Dragon Con, running 24 hours throughout the holiday weekend, follow this link:

https://dragoncon.tv/virtual

What is this "Compilation for the Dead," though? Well, it's something of a tribute to those goth compilation CDs that were so helpful to me when I first got into this kind of music in the '90s. It's designed to play through without talk breaks, so you can focus on this season's crop of new, current, and returning dark artists that I think people should know about. It's also a good intro to what the show is about, for any newcomers.

I started the "Compilation for the Dead" series back in 2007, after attending Dragon Con for a couple of years, where I would always have conversations between panels about the state of goth music, the health of the scene, and if there were any good bands still putting "this kind" of music out. My answer to the last question was always an emphatic "YES," but in order to put my money where my mouth was, I decided to create some proof.

"I made you a mixtape...."

So, each year I choose an album's worth of strictly new and current music to represent this podcast, my DJing style, and, most importantly, the current state of goth & the wider dark music scene as I see it.

If this is your first episode of Out ov the Coffin, the regular episodes happen once a month, taking the form of a traditional radio show, with an emphasis on new music -- but also including classics from the vault, episodic themes, and further cuts into current albums in the realms of: Goth, post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, coldwave, industrial, film scores, dark metal, and more. The next one in line will actually be another special edition, October's traditional Halloween Special, which is both a personal and listener favorite each year.

Until then, if you're new here, I encourage you to check out some of the previous episodes (here or here), and to follow the show on Facebook and Instagram.

Thanks,
Ichabod

* Neither this podcast nor this compilation are endorsed or produced by Dragon Con.

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PLAYLIST BEGINS HERE
Format: Band Name - Song Title [Album Title, Year]

(each band name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

  This mix/episode originally compiled September 2020.

Intro track, which then plays backwards beneath the introductory and closing remarks:

Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me  ["Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack) 1994]

The "Out ov the Coffin" Compilation for the Dead, 2020:

1.    Mark Korven - Arrival  ["The Lighthouse" (soundtrack) 2019]
2.    Secret Shame - Haunter  [Dark Synthetics, 2019]
3.    Grasshopper - October  [Scuttle, 2020]
4.    A Projection - Lucy Shrine  [Section, 2019]
5.    Anders Manga - Rosaries and Requiems  [Andromeda, 2020]
6.    October Burns Black - Cast Aside  [Reflections, 2019]
7.    False Figure - Cryptophasia  [A Promised End, 2019]
8.    Topographies - Not My Loneliness, But Ours  [Not My Loneliness, But Ours, 2020]
9.    The Cemetary Girlz - The Wanderer  [single, 2020]
10.  La Scaltra - The Spell  [The Third Eye, 2019]
11.  Pilgrims of Yearning - The Visitor  [Forsaken Lands, 2020]
12.  Je T'aime - The Flying Dutchman  [Je T'aime, 2019]
13.  Bobby Krlic - Ritual in Transfigured Time  ["Midsommar" (soundtrack) 2019]
14.  Kiss of the Whip - Circle of Knives  [New Lows, 2019]
15.  Shadow Figure - Purgatory  [Accept & Kneel, 2020]
16.  King Venus - Inhumite  [Inhumite, 2020]
17.  The Faces of Sarah - Memourium  [Memourium, 2020]
18.  Seraphim Shock - Ascend  [single, 2019]
19.  David Arnold & Michael Price - In the Mirror  ["Dracula" (soundtrack) 2020]
20.  Final Gasp - Dead Asleep  [Baptism of Desire, 2019]
21.  Vaeok - Souls Void  [Vaeok, 2020]

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