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As can be seen from this month's graphic, the February episode of "Out ov the Coffin" came to fruition under the influence of winter's mounds of snow and ice, by which many of us were trapped inside. But that provided some good opportunities for listening to great dark music, so here we are...
We begin by marking this year's 25th anniversary of Lycia's "Cold" album, a masterpiece of mood that I have something of a personal relationship with, but that's a story for another time, when certain recordings may yet see the light of day. For that, as well as more obvious reasons, I went with the song "Colder," which holds greater significance at this time of year than it would in October, when the album will actually hit its quarter-century mark.
The first full set begins with new music from Florida's Astari Nite, who tease us with a new single, "All Else is a Curse," rendered in their signature darkwave sound. From there, we hear a debut from Canadian coldwave act Palissade, taken from their self-titled 2020 release. Praise of Folly, one of the greatest obscure goth bands of the '90s follows next, loosely marking last year's 25th anniversary of their only album Disillusioned. If you've never heard the full release, find it somehow. You will not regret it. While we're in the land of overlooked '90s goth, we get a classic from Dream Disciples, taken from their 1991 debut EOP, Veil of Tears, before returning to the present for another debut -- this time we meet Swiss post-punk band Future Faces and their 2020 release, Euphoria. Finally, the set concludes with another brand new single from Georgia's Entertainment, serving as the second face of their forthcoming Horror, Part 1 EP. A video for the single is promised soon as well...
Set two begins with an infectiously synth-y new stand-alone single from Sweden's A Projection, followed by a new entry from Italy's Fall Shock, who are among the best of the acts that have emerged recently with Drab Majesty's influence dreaming on their sleeves. New (and quite catchy) Russian post-punk from Karlův Týn follows next, with a selection from their late 2020 release Мерцание ("flicker"), before we slip all the way back to 1986 for a soaring anthem from the vault, courtesy of The Snake Corps -- a band formed from the ashes of Sad Lovers and Giants when they initially broke up in 1984. We then return to Georgia for a debut from NAW, who may not have intended to make something with deathrock appeal, but I love it when that happens anyway. "Weed Them and Reap" is the single from their forthcoming Head Pain. Closing out the set, Rosegarden Funeral Party finaly lands in the 'Coffin this month, with the opening track from their 2020 EP, At the Stake -- one of several releases that just narrowly missed inclusion on last month's "Best ov 2020" episode.
We begin by marking this year's 25th anniversary of Lycia's "Cold" album, a masterpiece of mood that I have something of a personal relationship with, but that's a story for another time, when certain recordings may yet see the light of day. For that, as well as more obvious reasons, I went with the song "Colder," which holds greater significance at this time of year than it would in October, when the album will actually hit its quarter-century mark.
The first full set begins with new music from Florida's Astari Nite, who tease us with a new single, "All Else is a Curse," rendered in their signature darkwave sound. From there, we hear a debut from Canadian coldwave act Palissade, taken from their self-titled 2020 release. Praise of Folly, one of the greatest obscure goth bands of the '90s follows next, loosely marking last year's 25th anniversary of their only album Disillusioned. If you've never heard the full release, find it somehow. You will not regret it. While we're in the land of overlooked '90s goth, we get a classic from Dream Disciples, taken from their 1991 debut EOP, Veil of Tears, before returning to the present for another debut -- this time we meet Swiss post-punk band Future Faces and their 2020 release, Euphoria. Finally, the set concludes with another brand new single from Georgia's Entertainment, serving as the second face of their forthcoming Horror, Part 1 EP. A video for the single is promised soon as well...
Set two begins with an infectiously synth-y new stand-alone single from Sweden's A Projection, followed by a new entry from Italy's Fall Shock, who are among the best of the acts that have emerged recently with Drab Majesty's influence dreaming on their sleeves. New (and quite catchy) Russian post-punk from Karlův Týn follows next, with a selection from their late 2020 release Мерцание ("flicker"), before we slip all the way back to 1986 for a soaring anthem from the vault, courtesy of The Snake Corps -- a band formed from the ashes of Sad Lovers and Giants when they initially broke up in 1984. We then return to Georgia for a debut from NAW, who may not have intended to make something with deathrock appeal, but I love it when that happens anyway. "Weed Them and Reap" is the single from their forthcoming Head Pain. Closing out the set, Rosegarden Funeral Party finaly lands in the 'Coffin this month, with the opening track from their 2020 EP, At the Stake -- one of several releases that just narrowly missed inclusion on last month's "Best ov 2020" episode.
Set three begins with somethig I missed a couple of years ago: Greek act Angel’s Arcana, and a track from their 2018 album, Selva. They have a more recent album out that I will get to soon as well. Meanwhile, another new single from Belgium's A Slice of Life keeps things rolling, followed by a further cut from Grandeur's 2020 relase The Illusion of Power. A new single from New York's NOIR lands us in even more electronic territory, ushering in the hybrid goth/industrial/metal sound of Ludovico Technique's new single, "Up to the Flames." Closing the set is a song from one of the greatest goth/metal fusion albums of all, 1996's Buried Again album from Germany's Dreadful Shadows. In the early 2000's, the band would merge into Zeraphine, who shed the metallic sounds in favor of more post-punk/alternative influences, and in the last decade to a more electronic incarnation, the currently-active Solar Fake.
The dark metal set begins with a pair of songs from a memory hole into which I recently fell while rewatching the 1997 VHS compilation, Beauty in Darkness, which attempted to capture that era's peak of goth and metal heavily interbreeding. The results were a mixed bag, not always backing up the theme, but it cannot be argued that some dark metal classics were represented therein. The two whose riffs I could not get out of my head were Sentenced's "Nepenthe" and Hypocrisy's "Roswell 47," from 1995 and 1996 respectively. After that, we visit Austria for some new black metal from Transilvania's brand new album Of Sleep and Death. A stand-alone single from Celestial Season comes next, showing a more pensive, experimental side of the band's recently revisited doom metal era on "Even This Shall Pass Away." We then pay our respects to the majesty of Ukrainian black metal with new music from Svrm, taken from their brand new album Розпад ("decay").
Finally, the show comes to its final rest with the title track from Profetus' 2019 album The Sadness of Time Passing -- because, to be honest, that feels like a good anthem for the past year, and a fitting way to bookend this episode with appropriate winter moods.
Finally, the show comes to its final rest with the title track from Profetus' 2019 album The Sadness of Time Passing -- because, to be honest, that feels like a good anthem for the past year, and a fitting way to bookend this episode with appropriate winter moods.
All of that PLUS: New score music from two more noteworthy 2020 films, Ben Lovett's “The Wolf of Snow Hollow” and Gazelle Twin's “Nocturne”; further tastes of the "Gretel & Hansel" score by Rob, as well as Jim Williams' "Possessor"; another Bach interpretation from Neige & Noirceur; 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)
(sets and talk breaks separated by dashes)
"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
Show recorded: February 23rd, 2021
Lycia - Colder [Cold, 1996]
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Gazelle Twin - Golden Light [“Nocturne” (soundrack) 2020]
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Astari Nite - All Else Is a Curse [single, 2021]
Palissade - L’hiver [Palissade, 2020]
Praise of Folly - Love is Green and Burning [Disillusioned, 1995]
Dream Disciples - Pray [Veil of Tears, 1991]
Future Faces - Billion Years [Euphoria, 2020]
Entertainment - Voyeur [Voyeur, 2020]
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Jim Williams - The Owned Can Not Have a Soul of Its Own / Shudder of His Awakening [“Possessor” (soundtrack) 2020]
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A Projection - Darwin’s Eden [single, 2021]
Fall Shock - Retouch [Interior, 2020]
Karlův Týn - Жан Ре [Мерцание, 2020]
The Snake Corps - Testament [Testament EP, 1986]
NAW - Weed them and Reap [Head Pain, 2021]
Rosegarden Funeral Party - Fear of Feeling Nothing [At the Stake, 2020]
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Rob - Somniferum [“Gretel & Hansel” (soundtrack) 2020]
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Angel’s Arcana - Black Roses [Selva, 2018]
A Slice of Life - Sweet Sin (Lockdown Mix) [single, 2021]
Grandeur - Not of Your Waking World [The Illusion of Power, 2020]
NOIR - Just Fascination [Just Fascination, 2021]
Ludovico Technique - Up to the Flames [single, 2021]
Dreadful Shadows - Condemnation [Buried Again, 1996]
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Ben Lovett - Snow Hollow Mystery / Second Relapse [“The Wolf of Snow Hollow” (soundtrack) 2020]
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Sentenced - Nepenthe [Amok, 1995]
Hypocrisy - The Gathering / Roswell 47 [Abducted, 1996]
Transilvania - Opus Morbi [Of Sleep and Death, 2021]
Celestial Season - Even This Shall Pass Away (Vocal version) [Even This Shall Pass Away/For Twisted Loveless, 2020]
Svrm - Крематорій (“crematorium”) [Розпад, 2021]
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Neige & Noirceur - BWV 941 Prélude en E mineur [Bach, 2020]
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Profetus - The Sadness of Time Passing [The Sadness of Time Passing, 2019]
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Gazelle Twin - Golden Light [“Nocturne” (soundrack) 2020]
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Astari Nite - All Else Is a Curse [single, 2021]
Palissade - L’hiver [Palissade, 2020]
Praise of Folly - Love is Green and Burning [Disillusioned, 1995]
Dream Disciples - Pray [Veil of Tears, 1991]
Future Faces - Billion Years [Euphoria, 2020]
Entertainment - Voyeur [Voyeur, 2020]
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Jim Williams - The Owned Can Not Have a Soul of Its Own / Shudder of His Awakening [“Possessor” (soundtrack) 2020]
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A Projection - Darwin’s Eden [single, 2021]
Fall Shock - Retouch [Interior, 2020]
Karlův Týn - Жан Ре [Мерцание, 2020]
The Snake Corps - Testament [Testament EP, 1986]
NAW - Weed them and Reap [Head Pain, 2021]
Rosegarden Funeral Party - Fear of Feeling Nothing [At the Stake, 2020]
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Rob - Somniferum [“Gretel & Hansel” (soundtrack) 2020]
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Angel’s Arcana - Black Roses [Selva, 2018]
A Slice of Life - Sweet Sin (Lockdown Mix) [single, 2021]
Grandeur - Not of Your Waking World [The Illusion of Power, 2020]
NOIR - Just Fascination [Just Fascination, 2021]
Ludovico Technique - Up to the Flames [single, 2021]
Dreadful Shadows - Condemnation [Buried Again, 1996]
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Ben Lovett - Snow Hollow Mystery / Second Relapse [“The Wolf of Snow Hollow” (soundtrack) 2020]
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Sentenced - Nepenthe [Amok, 1995]
Hypocrisy - The Gathering / Roswell 47 [Abducted, 1996]
Transilvania - Opus Morbi [Of Sleep and Death, 2021]
Celestial Season - Even This Shall Pass Away (Vocal version) [Even This Shall Pass Away/For Twisted Loveless, 2020]
Svrm - Крематорій (“crematorium”) [Розпад, 2021]
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Neige & Noirceur - BWV 941 Prélude en E mineur [Bach, 2020]
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Profetus - The Sadness of Time Passing [The Sadness of Time Passing, 2019]
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