PODCAST: February 9th, 2012

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This week's show begins with another new live track from Dead Can Dance, who have just released Part III in their free, online series, Live Happenings. The series is designed to whet fans' appetites for their forthcoming new album and tour. To learn more, or grab these EPs for yourself, click HERE.

Brand new to the show this week is Bulgarian band Voyvoda, whose atypical sound combines elements of Balkan folk music and Eastern Orthodox chants with cold wave and post-punk influences. Their new album is called Изток (Iztok), and you can stream it HERE.

Also appearing for the first time on this episode are Italy's Chemical Waves, whose new single "The Origin" can be streamed HERE. It's an unusual piece of post-punk experimentation, chronicling a journey through the history of mankind's cruelty unto itself, through an act like a holocaust.

Other new entries include: A remix from the latest Aesthetic Perfection single, Inhuman; a deeper look into one of the three new albums from ROME; a second look at the new EP from Puerto Rico's The Dead Souls, and two more new dark ambient tracks from Norway's Plague Machinery and Psychomanteum (USA).

The regional concert spotlight for this episode is thrown on two acts that will be hitting the greater TN/AL area in the next week: Zola Jesus, who will be playing in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday, February 11th; and VNV Nation, who will play Nashville's Exit/In on February 15th. On a side note, you will catch me at both of these shows. For the VNV Nation show, I will be DJing (along with DJ Jimmy) before and between the bands.

Also on this episode: Songs from the vaults, in the form of rescued deathrock classics, sadly forgotten regional music, and a war-torn lullaby from one of the most contentious plots of land in world history. That, and plenty of other current and classic dark music upon which to feast your ears.


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PLAYLIST
Format: Band Name - Song Title [Album Title, Year]

(each band name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, February 9th, 2012

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

Dead Can Dance - Dreams Made Flesh  [Live Happenings, Part III, 2012]
Plague Machinery - Anti-Clockwise Rotation  [Saur Maas, 2011]
The Dead Souls - The Highest Hill [Ambition, 2011]
ROME - You Threw It At Me Like Stones [Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit - Band 3: Aufgabe]
Myssouri - Devil On My Shoulder  [Furnace Songs, 2001]
Miranda Sex Garden - Cover My Face  [Fairytales of Slavery, 1994]
Siiiii - Speaking in Tongues  [Ancient, 2006]
Zola Jesus - Vessel  [Conatus, 2011]
Bear McCreary - Season 2 Music Medley  ["The Walking Dead" (soundtrack) 2011]
Nosferatu - Entwined  [Wonderland, 2011]
Rubella Ballet - Tangled Web  [At Last It's Playtime, 1986]
Skeletal Family - Promised Land (extended version)  [single, 1985]
Ulterior - The Emptiness We Share  [Wild In Wildlife, 2011]
Voyvoda - Stefan the Vlach's Son  [Изток (Iztok), 2012]
Chemical Waves - The Origin  [single, 2012]
Phillippe d'Aram - L'Amour Des Deux Filles ("Fascination" 1979) ["The Films of Jean Rollin" 1994]
VNV Nation - Further  [Burning Empires, 2000]
Front 242 - Waste  [06:21:03:11 Up Evil, 1993]
Aesthetic Perfection - Inhuman (Panic Lift Remix)  [Inhuman, 2011]
Necro Facility - Explode  [Wintermute, 2011]
Psyclon Nine - There But for the Grace of God  [We The Fallen, 2009]
Psychomanteum - The Existential Collapse and Rebirth  [Saur Maas, 2011]
Profanum - Gates of Armageddon  [Flowers of Our Black Misanthropy, 1996]
Primordial - Among the Lazarae  [Spirit the Earth Aflame, 2000]
Lycus - Resonance In Aether  [demo, 2011]
Electric Wizard - Black Mass  [Black Masses, 2010]
Cam España - (untitled)  ["Black Candles" (soundtrack) 1982]
Sleepless - Sands of Time  [demo, 1999]

KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist
(exc.) = excerpt
^RQ^ = requested

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PODCAST: August 11th, 2011

Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of the notorious attack on Sophie Lancaster, a young goth girl who was beaten mercilessly in a UK park, then later died as a result of the injuries sustained. Simply put, it was a hate crime, in its most basic (and base) form, spurred by the selfishness of her attackers, who gave themselves over to their own hostility. She was only 20. I opened this week's show with a small tribute to her memory, in the form of the Autumn Cannibals song, "Monument to Shame." I would say more about this, but the song says everything so well that I will let it stand alone. It is, after all, a monument.

If you'd like to know more about Sophie's story, click here. To visit the website for the foundation set-up in her memory, please go here: http://www.sophielancasterfoundation.com/

Among the brand new material on this week's show, we heard our first taste of the newly-released final album from New Jersey's The Empire Hideous. According to one-time-Misfits-singer Myke Hideous, this will be the final chapter in the band's impressive history. The album, appropriately titled "The Time Has Come," was originally to be produced by Type O Negative's Peter Steele, but his untimely death just barely prevented that from happening.

Also new to the show this week was music from Canada's The Birthday Massacre, whose new EP "Imaginary Monsters" was released this week. Their Metropolis Records label-mates God Module also issued a new EP/single this week, entitled "Rituals," from which I actually selected a remix to play on this week's show. That's rare for me, as I'm usually not interested in remixes at all. So, consider that a positive review.

For the rest of the show, I attempted to get everyone as excited as I am for this year's Dragon*Con, threw in mentions of several upcoming tours (including Bella Morte, Swans, and Die Sektor), pulled out some obscure soundtrack selections, explored the far reaches of French-Canadian black metal, and ran from one side of the dark music spectrum to the other.

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 ...And here's what was played...
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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, August 11th, 2011

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

Autumn Cannibals - Monument to Shame [R.I.P. Sophie Lancaster]
Keima - Lost / Lament
The Empire Hideous - Serpent's Trance
Swans - Miracle of Love
Fields of the Nephilim - At the Gates of Silent Memory
Frank the Baptist - All the Faces
Win Butler, Régine Chassagne & Owen Pallett - Kidnapping [from "The Box" (soundtrack)]
In Loving Memory - My Hysteria
Christian Death - Spectre (Love is Dead)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - We Hunger
Eat Your Make-Up - I Was the Murderer
The Birthday Massacre - Burn Away
Depeche Mode - Useless
Shirley Walker, Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion - Bullock Gets the Croc [from "Batman: The Animated Series" Episode: 'Vendetta']
The Crüxshadows - Dragonfly
Diary of Dreams - O Brother Sleep (Sleepwalker Mix)
Die Sektor - In His Mercy, All Will Perish
In Strict Confidence - My Despair (single version)
Cryogen Second - Anthem for the Great Self Destruct [N]
God Module - Remember (God Mod Vexed Mix)
Wendy Carlos - Title Music [from "The Shining" (soundtrack)]
Miserere Luminis - Miserere Luminis
Dark Tranquility - Iridium
Amesoeurs - Au Crépuscule De Nos Rêves
Gris - Cicatrice
Brian Tyler - Sin Eater  [from "The Final Cut" (soundtrack)]
Oneiroid Psychosis - (hidden track from "Garden of Remembrance")

KEY:

^RQ^ = requested
(exc.) = excerpt
[N] = Nashville artist
[from ____ ] = title of soundtrack or compilation


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PODCAST: August 4th, 2011

This week's show was kicked off with another taste of the brand new Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows album, "Have You Seen This Ghost." Interestingly, the album is filled with cover songs, some of the choices for which will raise more than a few eyebrows -- Lionel Richie and Bonnie Tyler spring to mind -- but Anna Varney truly makes each song her own, lacing each with her trademark aching-period-piece style. For more info on the album, look here. I also came across a nice link for the cover artist for the album, here.

From Sopor, we immediately moved into a new track from Hopeful Machines, which is a more experimental ambient/electronic project from Steven Archer of Ego Likeness. The new album is called "On the Mending of Pack," and you can find the ordering info for that one here.

We also heard from Nashville's own Cryogen Second, who have just released their first full-length album, "Anthem for the Great Self Destruct," on Beyond Therapy Records (the label started by Ben from The Ludovico Technique). You can grab that here. If you're a fan of the harder side of Industrial/ebm, Battlestar Galactica's extended social metaphors, and politically charged lyrics, you will like Cryogen Second. If you catch them live, count on the addition of guitars, bringing the presentation to yet another level.

Also new this week: Music from Germany's two-man post-punk (and sometimes metallic) band, Aeon Sable, whose new album "Per Aspera Ad Astra" can be found here. We dug a bit deeper into the latest from London's Ulterior, whose album "Wild in Wildlife" is really making me wish I'd made a greater to effort to get to Europe for some of the more gothcentric festivals this year. But, alas...

The rest of the show is filled with: obscure local music, recently unearthed early Slovenian industrial, space obsessed soundscapes, odd goth b-sides, new sounds from Henry Jackman's finally-released X-Men: First Class soundtrack, and much, much more.

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 ...And here's what was played...
(each artist's name below is a link):



"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, August 4th, 2011

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

Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Starlight Seen Through Veils of Tears
Hopeful Machines - thedreamoftheclosedcircuit
ROME - One Flesh
Pain and Its Relief - The Cold Dirt  [N]
Cocteau Twins - Five Ten Fiftyfold
The Cure - Disintegration (Live Dallas Starplex 9/15/89) [from "Alternative Rarities 1988-1989"]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Lovely Creature
IAMX - S.H.E.
Henry Jackman - Frankenstein's Monster  [from "X-Men: First Class" (soundtrack)]
Danse Society - Somewhere
Pink Turns Blue - After All
The Sisters of Mercy - Poison Door
The Awakening - Open
Ulterior - Sex War Sex Cars Sex
Michl Britsch - Boom  [from "Pandorum" (soundtrack)]
Bella Morte - The Last
Borghesia - Toxido
Cryogen Second - If I Had My Way  [N]
Life Cried - Bloodstained
Cyanotic - The Static Screens (In Syndication)
Graeme Revell - Elegy  [from "Pitch Black" (complete soundtrack)]
Aeon Sable - Exodus
Rotting Christ - Ira Incensus
Electric Wizard - Black Mass
The Phantom Limbs - Somebody Twisted Your Arm
Agalloch - The Watcher's Monolith
Arcturus - Ad Astra
Mark Isham - Mist  [from "The Mist" (soundtrack)]
Dissection - Night's Blood

KEY:

^RQ^ = requested
(exc.) = excerpt
[N] = Nashville artist
[from ____ ] = title of soundtrack or compilation


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PODCAST: July 28th, 2011

One of the phrases I've used to describe this show over the years is "exploring the unlit corners of a strange musical map," and since it had been a while since I last pushed the proverbial envelope to the edge of this coffin, I decided, while looking over some of the new entries, that this would be the week to do so.

With a new digital single from ThouShaltNot out this very week, I simply couldn't resist. And if this song's inclusion on Projekt Records' forthcoming "A Dark Cabaret 2" compilation was to be any indication, "The Haunted Phonograph" would be otherworldly, anachronistic, and equally suited for either a smoke-laden cabaret setting or a turn-of-the-last-century séance. And it is! Get it for yourself at their Bandcamp site.

Also treading into territory not usually covered by this show was a new collaboration between Neko Case and perennial favorite Nick Cave, which was recorded for use in the first episode of True Blood: Season 4. If that isn't enough to make you want to hear it, the song, "She's Not There," happens to be a cover of noted psychedelic '60s band The Zombies, who gave us the classic "Time of the Season" back in 1969.

Also making its debut this week was the new single from (former Rosetta Stone frontman) Porl King's current "post-gothic" band, Miserylab. The song, "Children of the Poor," is available here as a free mp3 download. If you visit the official Miserylab site, you can also check out the new video he made for the song.

You will also hear more new music in this episode from Sweden's Principe Valiente, whose self-titled new album is picking up steam among post-punk fans worldwide. Not to sell them short by comparing them to another band, but if you miss how Interpol sounded on their first album, you'll want to check these guys out.

The industrial portion of this week's show went largely oldschool, revisiting some classic club tracks from the late '90s/early 2K's. In the dark metal section at the end of the show, you'll hear new music from Italy's Abhor, whose forthcoming album Ab Luna Lucenti, Ab Noctua Protecti, will hit the streets on September 27th on the Moribund label.


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 ...And here's what was played...
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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, July 28th, 2011 

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

Dead Can Dance - The Summoning of the Muse ^RQ^
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - It is Safe to Sleep Alone
Elliot Goldenthal - Théâtre Des Vampires [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack)]
Black Ice - Signals
Zola Jesus - Night
Adoration - Sense
Ikon - Fall Apart
The Valerie Project - Grandmother
ThouShaltNot - The Haunted Phonograph
Nick Cave + Neko Case - She's Not There [from "True Blood Vol. 3"]
Hyena Motorcade - Snowflakes
Miserylab - Children of the Poor
Principe Valiente - One More Time
James Newton Howard - The Shed Not to Be Used [from "The Village" soundtrack]
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather
Corpus Delicti - Patient
Still Patient? - Pigeonhole
Violet Stigmata - Absolute Oblivion
Komu Vnyz - Lyras  [from "Gotham (Gothic Anthem) Vol. 1"]
Epochate - Substantia
Caithness - Derniers Pas A Travers Le Brouillard
The Last Dance - Laughing
:Wumpscut: - Hang Him higher
Velvet Acid Christ - There Is No God  ^RQ^
Oneiroid Psychosis - Midnight Mist
Alcest - Abysses
Anathema - Angelica
Abhor - Golden Path
Emperor - I Am the Black Wizards
Peste Noire - Requiem Pour Nioka (À Un Berger-Allemand)
Sargeist - Nocturnal Revelation
Moëvöt - (untitled #3 from "Ezleyfbdrehtr Vepreub Zuerfl Mazagvatre Erbbedrea")
Tenhornedbeast - Strength Through Fear (exc.)
Elend - Je Rassemblais Tes Membres

KEY:

^RQ^ = requested
(exc.) = excerpt
[N] = Nashville artist
[from ____ ] = title of soundtrack or compilation


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Out ov the Coffin: PODCAST: June 23rd, 2011

Another pile of new music greeted this week's show, including a teaser track from the forthcoming Gary Numan album, "Dead Son Rising." This special edit was prepared to whet the appetites of Numan fans everywhere, and I would say that it worked quite well, with its abrupt ending that seems to promise more.

Several new entries appeared in the industrial portion of the show this time, including the new single from Haujobb, entitled "Dead Market," and brand new sounds from Spain's PAIL, from their latest CD, "Faith in the Void." We also went a little deeper into the much-talked-about new "Wintermute" album from Sweden's Necro Facility, who are receiving high praise not only from fans, but from their fellow musicians across the ebm/industrial scene.

We also dug a bit deeper into the latest albums from Bella Morte, whose newly-released album, "Before the Flood," has been topping the Metropolis Records sales charts since its release, and Clan of Xymox, who kicked off this week's show with another great track from their latest, "Darkest Hour."

I also went on a bit of a harpsichord trip this week, pulling out some atypical atmospheric interpretations of the instrument's sound from vastly different time-periods, none of which were the heyday of the harpsichord. I also gave you tastes of the latest from Blut Aus Nord and Dark Castle in the metal portion of the show, and paid a special tribute to Glenn Danzig, who celebrated his 56th birthday last night.

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...And here's what was played...
(each artist's name below is a link):


"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 

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

Clan of Xymox - Dream of Fools
Catherine Christer Hennix - The Electric Harpsichord (exc.)
Bat for Lashes - The Big Sleep
Nite Nite - Touch the Moon  [N]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Rhapsody
Soper Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Resume
Chants of Maldoror - Sometimes a Poison
John Carpenter - Laurie's Theme [from "Halloween II" (soundtrack)]
Mute Angst Envy - All Shadows
Praise of Folly - The Hanged Man
Luna Sea - Gravity
Artica - Deserter
Diary of Dreams - Echo In Me
Bella Morte - The Morning Sun
Glenn Danzig - Conspiracy Dirge
Danzig - End of Time
Samhain - To Walk the Night
Misfits - London Dungeon
Glenn Danzig - Shifter
Gary Numan - The Fall (v21 Mallet edit)
PAIL - Planet Prison
Interlace - Master
Michl Britsch - All That is Left of Us [from "Pandorum" (soundtrack)]
Necro Facility - Ignite
Haujobb - Dead Market
X-Fusion - Amen
Harpsicorpse - Outro (Suite for Harpsichord)
Blut Aus Nord - Epitome II
Dark Castle - Heavy Eyes
Ancient Wisdom - Of Darkness Spawned Into Eternity
James Kenelm Clarke - (untitled excerpt) [from "Vampyres" (soundtrack)]
Cor Scorpii - I, The Damned           
Anton Garcia Abril - Theme from the Blind Dead [from "Tombs of the Blind Dead" (soundtrack)]
Anhedonist - The Insatiable Hole

KEY:

^RQ^ = requested
(exc.) = excerpt
[N] = Nashville artist
[from ____ ] = title of soundtrack or compilation


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