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EPISODE NOTES & HIGHLIGHTS:

I want to start by thanking everyone for the great support for last month's Halloween episode, which landed in the #1 spot on both the Goth and Black Metal charts on Mixcloud. A lot of time goes into those specials, so I greatly  appreciate it! Now, for November, we dive into the huge stack of new releases we've been showered with so far this fall.

On a somber note, this episode begins with a tribute to Kevin "Geordie" Walker, guitarist, songwriter, and founding member of one of post-punk's most influential, storied, and unflinching bands, Killing Joke. Walker's death from a stroke was announced on November 26th, while this show was being assembled, so I could do no less than to change my plans around and begin with a double shot of KJ singles -- starting with their biggest and most beloved hit, "Love Like Blood", and following with their latest, and perhaps final (?) single, "Full Spectrum Dominance." It would appear now that the 45-year journey of Killing Joke has come to an end with the loss of Geordie, who formed the core of the band along with vocalist Jaz Coleman, and I truly regret not getting to see them perform. The music will live on, though.

Kevin "Geordie" Walker (1958-2023) RIP

Before diving head first into new music, the first full set begins with a 25th anniversary salute to the Victim Destroys Assailant album by The Empire Hideous, mostly because the song "Hereafter" was the one that first drew my attention to this still-underrated goth band. Beyond that, we hear fresh post-punk offerings from the new Fearing album, Destroyer, and Night Nail's Fate Explained, followed by some brand new deathrock/goth from Ukraine's own Old Cat’s Drama. We then hear a new single from the somewhat mysterious act Colonizing Elsewhere (ok, maybe they just don't use Bandcamp), before diving deeper into the new EP from Knoxville's own Attic Eyes, whose powerful vocal approach have kept them in my player often lately.

Set two kicks off with the brand new single from the unstoppable US darkwave force that is Twin Tribes, taken from their forthcoming album Pendulum, which is slated for full release in early 2024. Check out the accompanying video for "Monolith" here. We then further explore the darkwave and emerging dark electronic territories with a debut from Italy's The Coventry, as well as a brand new single from crowd favorites Urban Heat. We then hear a deeper cut from the new System Syn album, Kill the Light, in the form of the opening/title track, followed by a further taste of St. Digue's Toxic Kiss album. Finally, the set closes with a first look at The Great Filter, the latest EP from Stoneburner (the more industrial arm of Steven Archer from Ego Likeness).

Set three brings us back towards deathrock territory with a full slate of new releases, beginning with a debut from Los Angeles outfit The Xray5. We then hear an exclusive track that Florida's Obsidian released on the Goths For Sanctuaries, The Album charity compliation, followed by a debut from Canadian deathrockers Dead Born Babies. Reaching back into the vaults, we get a goth rock classic from New Zealand's Disjecta Membra, taken from their new compilation release, Pearls Before Swine. The set wraps up with the welcome return of Arizona's U.S. Grave, who just issued their first, self-titled full length, followed by a deeper cut from Final Gasp's Relapse Records debut, Mourning Moon. 

 

Set four pulls us into the dark metal territory, starting with a pair of 20th anniversary salutes, first for Anathema's A Natural Disaster, then for Swallow the Sun's debut, Tomorrow Never Came -- each of which made a mark on me, and this show, back in the day. We then hear brand new, and consistently good, French-Canadian black metal from one of my perneiial fagborites, Délétère, taken from their new album Songes d'une Nuit Souillée. Venturing over to the Netherlands for a few minutes, we hear a taste of the new Gnaw Their Tongues album, The Cessation of Suffering, which combines harsh noise textures with the structures of metal and dark ambient, once again yielding unnerving results. Next we venture back to Ukraine for a debut from black metal act Shadows Ground, before closing the set with a taste of the new Wolves in the Throne Room EP, Crypt of Ancentrsal Knowledge.

 

Despite it being techincally late, we close the show with something from The Legendary Pink Dots' Hallowe'en Special 2023, which honestly works well at any time of year, but since I overlooked it while preparing last month's special, I decided to include it this time -- because a nice, dark bedtime story is always in season.

All of that PLUS: New soundtrack work from The Newton Brothers' score to The Fall of the House of Usher; More new dark ambient from Sweden's Lẽtum and Ukraine's Seraphina & No Justice; 50th anniversary music from the atmospheric Euro-horror vaults; some leftover holiday horror from the Thanksgiving soundtrack; 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
  November 2023 Episode
  Show recorded November 29th, 2023

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

Killing Joke - Love Like Blood  [Night Time, 1985]
Killing Joke - Full Spectrum Dominance  [single, 2023] {RIP Kevin “Geordie” Walker}
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The Newton Brothers -  Uncanny / You Are My Perfect Creation / Foundation  [“The Fall of the House of Usher” (soundtrack) 2023]
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The Empire Hideous - Hereafter  [Victim Destroys Assailant, 1998]
Fearing - Finding Where You Are  [Destroyer, 2023]
Night Nail - Fates Explained  [Fates Explained, 2023]
Old Cat’s Drama - Prymara (“ghost”)  [single, 2023]
Colonizing Elsewhere - It’s Haunting  [single, 2023]
Attic Eyes - Seer  [Attic Eyes, 2023]
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Seraphina & No Justice - Sweet Moon  [Embodiment, 2023]
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Twin Tribes - Monolith  [Pendulum, 2024]
The Coventry - Fear State  [Atlas: The Weight of the World, 2023]
Urban Heat - Like This  [single, 2023]
System Syn - Kill the Light  [Kill the Light, 2023]
St. Digue - I Live in Spite  [Toxic Kiss, 2023]
Stoneburner - Generation Loss  [The Great Filter, 2023]
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Lẽtum - Thoughts of the Morning Sun to Calm My Heart  [Dreams and Illusions, 2023]
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The Xray5 - Dark Star  [Elegy, 2023]
Obsidian - Decay  [“Goths For Sanctuaries, The Album” (comp.) 2023]
Dead Born Babies - Shall Die  [Macondo, 2023]
Disjecta Membra - Cauldron of Derridwen (single version)  [Pearls Before Swine (comp.) 2023]
U.S. Grave - Reunification  [U.S. Grave, 2023]
Final Gasp - Climax Infinity  [Mourning Moon, 2023]
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Brandon Roberts - Jess Suspicious  ["Thanksgiving" (soundtrack) 2023]
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Anathema - Pulled Under at 2000 Metres a Second  [A Natural Disaster, 2003]
Swallow the Sun - Hold This Woe  [The Morning Never Came, 2003]
Délétère - La Nuit Souillée  [Songes d'une Nuit Souillée, 2023]
Gnaw Their Tongues - Vengeful Spit  [The Cessation of Suffering, 2023]
Shadows Ground - War Ritual Dance  [Echo In Eternity, 2023]
Wolves in the Throne Room - Beholden to Clan  [Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge, 2023]
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Bruno Nicolai - Seq. 22 / Seq. 21  [“A Virgin Among the Living Dead” (soundtrack) 1973]
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The Legendary Pink Dots - Murder of Crows Parts 1-3 [The Legendary Pink Dots' Hallowe'en Special 2023]
 

 

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