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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