Out ov the Coffin: March 2021

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This month's episode of "Out ov the Coffin" looks over the horizon of a weary world at what might be the end of our long ordeal. We can only hope. In the meantime, we turn our attention to this spring's emerging crop of music, with a lengthy list of new and recent releases on which to shine our newfound light. We begin the show with new music from Sevit, out of Dallas, Texas. The band offers a generous spread of sounds on their first full-length collection, On the Edge of a Darker Place, starting out in the realms of synth-washed deathrock, then gradually edging towards more darkwave sounds. I chose "As Animals" to open the show this month, as it struck me much the same way as Cinema Strange's debut did some 20 years ago, and that is definitely a compliment.

The first full set begins with impassioned new music from Germany's Bleib Modern, taken from their Afraid to Leave album. We then move into the 'MH radio edit' of The Wake's "Break Me Not," taken from a new DJ single built around alternate versions of what might be my favorite track from their 2020 album, Perfumes & Fripperies. The Secret French Postcards, actually from Sweden, make their debut next with a song from their Colours album, which answers the unasked question "what if you crossed the chemically-relaxed goth vocals of Tiamat with the music of The Mission, then made The Frozen Autumn play the result without synths?" That is also a compliment, because the result is uniquely suited for long, pensive night drives on empty roads. We then visit the vaults for some '90s French coldwave from Nuit D’Octobre, before marking the 20th anniversary this year of Judith's "Play of Light" album, a relic of the nearly forgotten turn-of-the-century 'romantigoth' sound. Finally, we close the first set with new music from Luxembourg's ever-prolific ROME, who have just issued the cheeky new album Parlez-Vous Hate, offering songs that seem to be about the ensuing debate over their meaning.

Set two begins with fresh darkwave from New York's A Cloud of Ravens, offering a first taste of their new release, Another Kind of Midnight. Not to be out-Ravened, Russia's Raven Said fly in next, with a late-arrival of orthodox gothic rock from their 2020 release, Beyond The Darkest Hour. Philadelphia's Deep Tissue then make their debut, holding up the more punk side of the deathrock equation with their latest album Patience or Fear, followed by another 2020 release that I'm debuting on this episode, Suite Nº Zero by Protgual's Morte Psíquica. We then plumb the vaults for something previously unheard from that bittersweet year, 1986, in which Sweden's Gregor Samsa gave us their Sexplosion 7-inch. Nürnberg rounds out the set with two selections from their latest collection of Belarusian post-punk, Paharda, the second of which plays under the talk break.

Set three begins with new music from Greek darkwave act, Kalte Nacht, taken from their also-quite-driveworthy self-titled 2020 release. We then return to Ukraine for more of the sublime sounds of The Glass Beads' new Therapy album, before slipping into the surreal, experimental landscapes of Night Sky Body, a project by a former member of Tennessee's own Pain and Its Relief, for those old-school enough to remember them from the early days of "Out ov the Coffin." The focus then shifts to the more electronic side of the spectrum for the last few songs of the set: First, a new remix from System Syn's If It Doesn't Break You, then a seldom-heard vault selection from Das Ich's 2002 Anti'Christ album, and, finally, one of the first successful hybrids of industrial and black metal to come from the industrial side of that imaginary fence, courtesy of 2005-era Psyclon Nine.

Set four sees us diving headlong into actual black metal, beginning with new music from Arizona's Suicide Forest, taken from their brand new album, Reluctantly. Some epic-length Ukrainian black metal follows next, from Severoth's new Vsesvit album, before we witness the return (following a ten year absence) of Australian black metal cult, Nazxul, with their new Irkalla album. Unofficial sponsor for this episode, the country of Sweden, then presents Escumergamënt to lay the set to rest with the approproately titled "To Envy the Corpses," taken from their new 2021 album, ...ni degu fazentz escumergamënt e mesorga.

All of that PLUS: A new closing piece from ethereal fellow Swedes, Beckahesten; New soundtracks to unrealized film work from John Carpenter's new "Lost Themes III" LP; Selections from the dark ambient 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: March 30th, 2021

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

Sevit - As Animals [On the Edge of a Darker Place, 2020]
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John Carpenter - Dripping Blood [Lost Themes III, 2021]
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Bleib Modern - Loony Voices [Afraid to Leave, 2021]
The Wake - Break Me Not (MH Radio Edit) [Break Me Not (single), 2021]
The Secret French Postcards - Pleasure [Colours, 2020]
Nuit D’Octobre - Le Voile Des Années [Tempêtes, 1992]
Judith - La Bella [Play of Light, 2001]
ROME - Feral Agents [Parlez-Vous Hate, 2021]
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Jim Williams - Reborn in the Mind of Another [“Possessor” (soundtrack) 2020]
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A Cloud of Ravens - Embraced [Another Kind of Midnight, 2021]
Raven Said - Children of the Midnight [Beyond The Darkest Hour, 2020]
Deep Tissue - Injury [Patience or Fear, 2020]
Morte Psíquica - Olham E Sorriem [Suite Nº Zero, 2020]
Gregor Samsa - Sexplosion [Sexplosion, 1986]
Nürnberg - Adny [Paharda, 2020]
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Nürnberg - Katarsis [Paharda, 2020]
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Kalte Nacht - A Rare Obsession [Kalte Nacht, 2020]
The Glass Beads - Music Box [Therapy, 2020]
Night Sky Body - Caught in the Creek [Recurring, 2021]
System Syn - We Had Time (Mercury Lust Remix) [If It Doesn't Break You, 2021]
Das Ich - Tor Zur Hölle [Anti'Christ, 2002]
Psyclon Nine - The Feeding [INRI, 2005]
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Gazelle Twin - Invocation [“Nocturne” (soundrack) 2020]
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Suicide Forest - Reluctantly [Reluctantly, 2021]
Severoth - Попереду, нарешті, порожнеча (“Ahead, finally, emptiness”) [Vsesvit, 2021]
Nazxul - Divine Death [Irkalla, 2021]
Escumergamënt - To envy the corpses [...ni degu fazentz escumergamënt e mesorga, 2021]
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Flames of Genesis - A Legacy of Ice Across the Cosmos (exc.) [Interstellar Transmigration Part I: A Bridge To Further Realms, 2017]
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Beckahesten - Midvinter [single, 2021]

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