PODCAST: The Best ov 2019 (January 2020 Episode)

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EPISODE NOTES & HIGHLIGHTS: 

As is the tradition, the first episode of the year is a long 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, coldwave, industrial/ebm, film scores, dark metal, and the regions between. Clocking in at over 3 hours again this year, it's clear that I had a hard time paring it all down, but that's a testament to the ocean of new music with which 2019 flooded us all. 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 2019" Edition (aka The January 2020 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 2019. During the talk breaks, you will hear music from some of my favorite darker films and television shows of the year, as well. Please note that none of the songs/albums featured on this episode are ranked, like a lot of year-end lists; rather, they are 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 representative collage. 

Also, there are a few new entries here that either slipped in under the wire, or evaded my review until late in the year -- which is why I prefer to do these "best ov" shows about a month into each new year. So, premiering on this episode AND landing in the "best ov" pile, is new music from The Wraith, Angels of Liberty, La Scaltra, The Kryptik, and Crimson Moon, as well as the soundtracks to "Midsommar" (by Bobby Krlic) and "The Lighthouse" (by Mark Korven).

 
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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 30th, 2020

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

Sonsombre - The Future Is Black  [The Veils of Ending, 2019]
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Hildur Guðnadóttir - Hoyt's Office / Following Sophie / Penny Taken to the Hospital / Bad Comedian  ["Joker" (soundtrack) 2019]
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Twin Tribes - Fantasmas  [Ceremony, 2019]
Blu Anxxiety - Cats Eye Corpse  [Baptized in Space, 2019]
Altar de Fey - Elisa Lam  [The Insatiable Desire... For More, 2019]
A Projection - Verdicts  [Section, 2019]
Angels of Liberty - The Last Vampire  [Servant of the Grail, 2019]
Spire Circle - Ghosts With Teeth  [single, 2019]
Secret Shame - Haunter  [Dark Synthetics, 2019]
New Model Army - Never Arriving  [From Here, 2019]
ROME - The West Knows Best  [Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro, 2019]
Ritual Howls - The Offering  [Rendered Armor, 2019]
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Michael Abels - Human  ["Us" (soundtrack) 2019]
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Nox Novacula - Drug  [Hitchhiker/Drug EP, 2019]
The Rope - Given to the Gun  [Lillian, 2019]
Isolated Youth - Oath  [Warfare, 2019]
La Scaltra - Love In One Hearse  [The Third Eye, 2019]
Scary Black - Where You'll Go  [Shadow Dwellers, 2019]
Hante. - Waiting for a Hurricane  [FIERCE, 2019]
Drab Majesty - Noise of the Void  [Modern Mirror, 2019]
She Past Away - Durdu Dünya  [Disko Anksiyete, 2019]
Minuit Machine - DRGS  [Infrarouge, 2019]
Wingtips - Accidental Effigies  [Exposure Therapy, 2019]
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Code Red  ["Stranger Things 3" (soundtrack) 2019]
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The Wraith - Of the Earth  [Gloom Ballet, 2019]
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Spell Bound  [Death and Flamingos, 2019]
Fliehende Stürme - Sensation  [Neun Leben, 2019] 
Silent EM - Virtues of Our Age  [The Absence, 2019]
Seraphim Shock - Ascend  [single, 2019]
The Kentucky Vampires - Holy Heretic  [Blood and Tears, 2019]
Silence in the Snow - Smoke Signals  [Levitation Chamber, 2019]
THIEF - Frost Breath  [Map of Lost Keys, 2019]
Calabrese - Invisible Witches  [Flee the Light, 2019]
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Mark Korven - Arrival / Into the Light  ["The Lighthouse" (soundtrack) 2019]
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Délétère - Theovoratoris Aduentus  [Theovorator: Babelis Testamentum, 2019]
Mgła - Age of Excuse V  [Age of Excuse, 2019]
Nocturnal - My Flesh is But Rot  [The Greater Emptiness, 2019]
Ossuaire - Premiers Chants  [Premiers Chants, 2019]
The Kryptik - Ungodly  [When The Shadows Rise, 2019]
Devil Master - Desperate Shadow  [Satan Spits on Children of Light, 2019]
Barshasketh - Consciousness I  [Barshasketh, 2019]
Crimson Moon - Funeral Begotten  [Mors Vincit Omnia, 2019]
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Bobby Krlic - Ritual in Transfigured Time / Murder (Mystery)  ["Midsommar" (soundtrack) 2019]
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Sun Forest  [Ghosteen, 2019]

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