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This episode -- the first "regular" episode in a few months -- begins by marking two personally-significant moments in '90s goth: First, the 30th anniversary of the release of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) -- a film so beautifully shot and exquisitely atmospheric that it remains a favorite despite a couple of flaws that may not hold up for present-day viewers. One thing that is certainly without flaw to this day is Wojciech Kilar's powerful, dramatic, and compelling score, which will likely always be cited as his greatest and most famous work.
I use a selection from that score to lead us into the second anniversary I wished to mark on the way in this month: Seraphim Shock's debut album, Red Silk Vow, which first appeared on this very day, 25 years ago in 1997. The band's blend of goth, industrial, metal, sacrilege, and darkly romantic sentiment met me exactly where I was at the time, so it's a personal favorite, and I chose two selections from the album to set the tone tonight.
From there, we dive into a sea of new singles and releases which have flooded my world in the past two months, beginning with one of several new singles that have emerged from ROME, leading up to the release of their latest full-length, Hegeminkon. The consistency of Jerome Reuter's songwriting abilities still amazes me, with this latest collection referencing some of my favorite earlier sounds from the project. We then go a track deeper into the latest from Vision Video's Haunted Hours, which shows the band honing its post-punk craft, before melting into a classic from Siouxsie & the Banshees, in honor of the 40th anniversary of their 1982 album, A Kiss in the Dreamhouse. A debut from the French goth act Distance H comes in next, followed by a new single from Brooklyn darkwavers A Cloud of Ravens, as a further taste of their forthcoming new album Lost Hymns. Another 40th anniversary nod comes after that, this time to The Sisters of Mercy classic "Alice," which first appeared as a single 40 years ago this month. And finally, we close the first set with new music from The Bleak Assembly, a new goth project joining members of Bow Ever Down and Fiction8.
Set two gathers one of the most infectious collections of new darkwave you've heard from me all year, beginning with a track from the new Panic Priest album, Psychogoria, which is followed by a deep cut from Nuovo Testamento's 2021 collection, New Earth. The two acts will be performing together for an exclusive dual engagement on December 15th at The East Room in Nashville, so I couldn't resist paring them up on this episode as well. After that, we check out a very dancefloor-ready single from Pure Obsessions & Red Nights, followed by a second taste of Vandal Moon's instant-club-hit album, Queen of the Night. An incredibly catchy new song from Aeon Rings' new album Enemy the leads us into a brand new track from Sweden's A Projection, who are, by now, no strangers to filling a dancefloor themselves, with their excellent blend of darkwave, synth, and post-punk sounds.
Set three brings us back into deathrock territory, kicking things off with a song that hits so hard right out of the gate, I think I startled some people on the dancefloor with it recently: Secret Shame's "Luxury Bitch," a snappily-titled anthem from their new Autonomy album, and a great one to hear live. Spain's Mausoleo fits right in next, with a debut from their new Refugio Transitorio EP, followed closely by a debut from Canadian post-punk/coldwave act, Give My Remains to Broadway. One more anniversary classic lines up next, this time marking the 40th anniversary of the Virgin Prunes' classic If I Die, I Die. From there, we begin this month's Ukrainian Trident (aka 3 or more songs from Ukrainian artists, as a small show of support during the ongoing war). First, we have music from an impressive band I just caught up with, КАДРИЛЬ (Kadril), and a deeper cut from a band I've covered a few times on the show so far, Gentle Ropes. Both songs go back to a slightly better time, 2017, but let's hope a fully better time will dawn on us all soon.
After a transition featuring another Ukrianian release -- a solid, moody instrumental piece from Toten Wasser -- the dark metal set begins by completing the Ukrainian trident with newly-reissued black metal from Këkht Aräkh. Having garnered a good deal of online attention for last year's Pale Swordsman, the US label Sacred Bones has picked it up for re-release, no doubt spreading their harshly-melancholic sound to many new ears. An absolute second-wave black metal classic from Abigor follows, leading us into some brand new death-doom from Italy's In Grief. Since it is, in fact, the onset of doom season for me, I continue that feeling with Dutch blackened-doom act Half Visible Presence, taken from their newly reissued Three-Faced Scapular of Death EP. Tribulation gets the honor of closing out the last full set with their latest stand-alone single, "Hamartia," which retains their signature goth/dark-metal sound.
Finally, the show comes to a close with a 30th anniversary nod to an album some of you may not have expected to be covered on this show, but it remains a classic in my mind, from an era in which darker "alternative" rock drew from post-punk, noise rock, and metal influences. The band I speak of is Therapy?., and their breakthrough album Nurse was released 30 years ago this month, and I couldn't pick just one to close the show with, so you get two personal favorites.
All of that PLUS: New music from Michael Abels' "Nope" score; Selections from the vaults; 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 26th, 2022
Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me ["Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack) 1994]Wojciech Kilar - Dracula: The Beginning (exc.) ["Bram Stoker’s Dracula" (soundtrack) 1992]
Seraphim Shock - Shadow Realm / Annabell [Red Silk Vow, 1997]
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Wojciech Kilar - The Castle / The Brides ["Bram Stoker’s Dracula" (extended soundtrack) 1992]
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ROME - Solar Caesar [single, 2022]
Vision Video - Unwanted Faces [Haunted Hours, 2022]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Melt! [A Kiss in the Dreamhouse, 1982]
Distance H - Waters of Woe (feat. Marita Volodina) [single, 2022]
A Cloud of Ravens - Nature of Artifice [single, 2022]
The Sisters of Mercy - Alice [single, 1982]
The Bleak Assembly - Slow Down Time [We Become Strangers, 2022]
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Angelo Badalamenti - Dark Intro #4 [The Twin Peaks Archive, 2011]
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Panic Priest - When Daylight Disappears [Psychogoria, 2022]
Nuovo Testamento - Golden Boy [New Earth, 2021]
Pure Obsessions & Red Nights - Sadie Wants the Night [single, 2022]
Vandal Moon - Queen of the Night [Queen of the Night, 2022]
Aeon Rings - Shallow End [Enemy, 2022]
A Projection - Regenerate [In a Different Light, 2022]
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Michael Abels - What’s a Bad Miracle / The Unaccounted For / Progressive Anxiety [“Nope” (soundtrack) 2022]
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Secret Shame - Luxury Bitch [Autonomy, 2022]
Mausoleo - Detrás de un disfraz [Refugio Transitorio, 2022]
Give My Remains to Broadway - Access Revoked [My Will is Not My Own, 2022]
Virgin Prunes - Walls of Jericho [If I Die, I Die, 1982]
КАДРИЛЬ (Kadril) - Черная весна (Chernaya vesna) [Прости (Prosti), 2017]
Gentle Ropes - Burn With Me [Rose Wine & Gallows, 2017]
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Toten Wasser - Angel of Death [Memory of the Laid Asphalt About the Sounds Heard in Sтarkon Essence, 2020]
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Këkht Aräkh - Night Descends [Pale Swordsman, 2021]
Abigor - Scars in the Landscape of God [Nachthymnen (From The Twilight Kingdom), 1995]
In Grief - Beyond the Dark Veil [An Eternity of Misery, 2022]
Half Visible Presence - Loss [Three-Faced Scapular of Death, 2022]
Tribulation - Hamartia [single, 2022]
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Tangerine Dream - Mae Comes Back [“Near Dark” (soundtrack) 1987]
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Therapy? - Nausea / Gone [Nurse, 1992]
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