PODCAST: Halloween Special (October 2018)

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GOOD EVENING... you have arrived just in time for The 2018 "Out ov the Coffin" Halloween Special! Hold out your bags and prepare to receive over 3 hours of Halloween-obsessed sonic tricks and treats. In addition to full-size songs from the most ghoulish realms of goth, post-punk, deathrock, horror punk, darkwave, industrial, and dark metal, you'll find hundreds of fun-sized clips from the crypts: Movie dialogue, sound effects, trailers, radio spots, tv ads, and, of corpse, horror film and television soundtracks, all assembled in ritual formation, and (g)hosted by yours truly.

In addition to traditional Hallowed Hymns, I have unearthed some new arrivals for this year's special, including recently deceased entries from Grave Society, The Dirty Horror, Ritual Howls, Nox Novacula, Draconian Incubus,The Spiritual Bat, Sargeist, and fresh soundtrack work from "The Haunting of Hill House" and John Carpenter's new "Halloween" soundtrack for 2018.

While this show was coming together, James Karen, who played one of my favorite roles in my favorite film of all, "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985), passed away at the age of 94. To honor his memory, I paid several tributes to him and his iconic role as Frank throughout this episode.

R.I.P. James Karen (1924-2018)

And with that, I send you into the night eternal. May this show improve your Halloween season -- and if so, please share it on your social platform of choice!

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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
 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: 2018!

  Show recorded on: Monday, October 29th, 2018

Tom Rivest - Halloween [Halloween: The Ultimate Soundtrack for your Halloween Parties, 1997]
The Zombie Kill-Harmonic Orchestra - Raging Storm (exc.)  [Midnight Mausoleum, 2011]
[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)
Dennis Michael Tenney - The Possession Suite  ["Night of the Demons" (soundtrack), 1988][Sample] CBS "Special" Intro Jingle
Endvra - He Knows the Gate  [The Dark is Light Enough, 1996]
[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me (Ichabod's Twin Peaks/The Return Murder Mix, 2017)
[Sample] Interview with the Vampire (1994)
[Sample] The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr  [In the Flat Field, 1980]
[Sample] Angus Scrimm, Fangoria Ad
[Sample] "Deadtime Stories" Trailer
Misfits - Halloween  [Halloween, 1981]
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John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies - The Shape Returns  ["Halloween 2018" (soundtrack) 2018]
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[Sample] "Castle of Blood" (1964)
Calabrese - Voices of the Dead  [The Traveling Vampire Show, 2007]
[Trailer] Vampyres (1974)
Screaming Dead - Night Creatures  [Night Creatures, 1983]
[Trailer] Re-Animator
Fields of the Nephilim - Re-Animator  [Dawnrazor, 1987]
[Sample] Elvira Schlock-A-Thon promo (1993)
[Sample] The Real Ghostbusters: "No One Comes to Lupusville"
Grave Society - Chiroptophobia  [Act I. Dictum Nyctophilia, 2018]
[Sample] "Dark Shadows"
Ritual Howls - Blood Red Moon  [Their Body, 2017]
[Radio Spot] "Devil's Nightmare"
Draconian Incubus - Incubus  [Devotion, 2016]
[Trailer] Demons [1985]
Altar de Fey - Demons  [Echoes in the Corridor, 2016]
Joseph LoDuca - Book of Evil  ["Evil Dead II" (soundtrack) 1987]
[Sample] "Demons" (1985)
Bella Morte - Demons  [The Deathrock EP, 2001]
Calabrese - Vampires Don't Exist  [The Traveling Vampire Show, 2007]
[Radio Spot] The Hearse (1980)
Corpus Delicti - Haunting Picture  [Twilight, 1993]
Vincent Price - The Sabbat (exc.)  [Witchcraft - Magic: An Adventure In Demonology, 1969]
The Spiritual Bat - The Killing (REBIRTH version)  [REBIRTH (comp.) 2018]
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The Newton Brothers - Main Title  ["The Haunting of Hill House" (soundtrack) 2018]
Backyard Ghost - Samhain  [Grimoire, 2010]
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Matt Clifford - Fresh Inventory  ["The Return of the Living Dead" (unreleased score) 1985]
[Sample] "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985)
Francis Haines - The Trioxin Theme  ["The Return of the Living Dead" (unreleased score) 1985]
45 Grave - Party Time (Zombie version) ["The Return of the Living Dead" (soundtrack) 1985]
[Sample] The Real Ghostbusters: :"When Halloween Was Forever"
Samhain - Halloween II  [November-Coming-Fire, 1986]
Danzig - Possession  [Danzig, 1988]
[Trailer] Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Misfits - Night of the Living Dead  [Walk Among Us, 1982]
Vic Crume - The Haunted House  [The Haunted House and other Spooky Poems and Tales, 1970]
Nox Novacula - The Light Below  [Nox Novacula, 2018]
[Sample] "Castle of Blood" (1964)
Horror Vacui - In Darkness You Will Feel Alright  [In Darkness You Will Feel Alright, 2012]
[Sample] The Haunted Palace
Ramones - Pet Sematary  [Brain Drain, 1987]
[Sample] Elvira
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Halloween Montage: Silver Shamrock  ["Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (soundtrack) 1982]
[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)
T.S.O.L. - Code Blue  [Dance With Me, 1981]
[Sample] James Karen, "Screen Scaries" (1989)
John Zacherley - Happy Halloween  [Scary Tales, 1962]
[Trailer] "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" (1988)
Tuesday Knight - Nightmare  ["A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (soundtrack) 1988]
[Sample] "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" (1988)
The Misfits - Don't Look Now ["Jem: Trick or Techrat" (soundtrack) 1987]
Jem and the Holograms - It's Fun to Be Scared ["Jem: Trick or Techrat" (soundtrack) 1987]
[Trailer] "Chopping Mall" (1986)
God Module - Orange and Black  [Let's Go Dark, 2007]
[Radio Spot] Halloween '78
Electric Hellfire Club - Invocation  [Burn Baby Burn, 1993]
Seraphim Shock - Shapeshifter  [Halloween, Sex n' Vegas, 2004]
Type O Negative - All Hallow's Eve (edit)  [World Coming Down, 1999]
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Francois de Roubaix - Daughters of Darkness Ending/Opening/Les Dunes d'Ostende ["Daughters of Darkness" (soundtrack) 1971]
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The Haxan Cloak - Miste (exc.) [Excavation, 2013]
[Sample] Pagan Invasion
[Sample] "Night of the Demons" (1988)King Diamond - Welcome Home  [Them, 1988]
[Sample] "Escaping Satan's Web" (1987)
[Sample] Friday the 13th: The Series, "Helloween"
Sargeist - To Wander the Night's Eternal Path  [Unbound, 2018]
[Sample] "Evilspeak" (1981)
Hypocrisy - The Arrival of the Demons pt. 2  [Abducted, 1997]
[Sample] Pagan Invasion
Cradle of Filth - Of Mist and Midnight Skies  [The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, 1994]
[Sample] Pagan Invasion
Naglfar - Of Gorgons Spawned Through Witchcraft  [Ex Inferis, 2002]
[Trailer] "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave"
Abysmal Grief - Hidden in the Graveyard  [Feretri, 2013]
[Sample] Scooby Doo - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Tribulation - Nightbound  [Down Below, 2018]
[Sample] "One Dark Night" (1982)
Devil Master - Inhabit the Corpse  [Inhabit the Corpse, 2017]
[Sample] "Cemetery Man" ("Dellamorte Dellamore") (1994)
Alice Cooper - Devil's Food / The Black Widow  [Welcome to My Nightmare, 1975]
Mighty Sphincter - Blood Banquet  [The New Manson Family, 1986]
[Trailer] "Friday the 13th Part VI" (TV spot)
The Dirty Horror - Dead Eyes [digital single, 2018]
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Gregory T. Haggard - Main Titles ["Hack-O-Lantern" (soundtrack) 1988]
Ken Higgins, Jim Calabrese - Kreon's Grave  ["Spookies" (soundtrack) 1986]
Matt Clifford - Destruction  ["The Return of the Living Dead" (score) 1985]
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Roky Erickson - Burn the Flames ["The Return of the Living Dead" (soundtrack) 1985] {Dedicated to James Karen, 1924-2018, R.I.P. ...?}
[Sample] "Castle of Blood" (1964)

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PODCAST: Halloween Special 2016!

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The 2016 "Out ov the Coffin" Halloween Special is here! RUN AND HIDE! Or, pull up a grave and take in over 3 hours of aural tricks and treats, including howliday-themed deathrock, goth, post-punk, darkwave, and dark metal songs, movie trailers, dialogue samples, soundtrack music, creepy effects, and more, all (g)hosted by yours truly.

This year's show digs a bit deeper for songs not usually unearthed, to be prematurely-buried alongside some of the essential 'Coffin classics. As always, there are a few recently deceased anthems, too, from the likes of S U R V I V E, Altar de Fey, The Bellicose Minds, and more. To keep the frights rolling, this episode is divided into 3 main sets. The first concentrates on goth, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock; the second on horror punk, horror rock, and even more deathrock (because Halloween); and the third is a special '90s-black-metal-themed set, temporarily bringing back to life some of the glory days of the show, with a few related tracks from outside of the second wave thrown in for flavor.

While this show was being assembled, I received news of the passing of iconic horror host John Zacherle (aka Zacherley, The Cool Ghoul), so I allowed him the first and last words of this episode, as a small tribute.

R.I.P. John Zacherle (1918-2016)

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

(each band name is also a website link)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2016
  Show recorded on: October 29th, 2016

[Sample] John Zacherle (aka The Cool Ghoul)
[Sample] Scooby Doo: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?" (1970)
[Sample] Phantasm (1979)
Dennis Michael Tenney - Hull House 101  ["Night of the Demons" (soundtrack) 1988]
[Sample] Ghost Stories Intro (Ball Records, 1963)
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera me (Twin Peaks Murder Edition)
[Sample] Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
Simon Boswell - Disturbing the Graveyard ("Theme II") (exc.)  ["Graveyard Disturbance" (soundtrack) 1987]
[Sample] Ghost Stories Intro (Ball Records, 1963)
[Sample] The Real Ghostbusters: When Halloween Was Forever (1986)
Misfits - Halloween  [Halloween, 1981]
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[Talk Break] Charles Bernstein - Main Title ["A Nightmare on Elm Street" (soundtrack) 1984]
S U R V I V E - Sorcerer  [RR7349, 2016]
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Altar de Fey - Veil of Death  [Echoes in the Corridor, 2016]
[Trailer] The Mask (1961)
The Bellicose Minds - The Mask  [The Creature, 2016]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Premature Burial  [Join Hands, 1979]
Brotherhood of Pagans - Halloween  [Tales of Vampires, 1995]
[Trailer] The Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (1965)
London After Midnight - Trick or Treat  [Selected Scenes From The End Of The World, 1992]
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - The Goat  [Like A Corpse Standing In Desperation: Part 2, 2008]
[Trailer] Subspecies (1991)
Nosferatu - Witching Hour  [Lord of the Flies, 1997]
[Trailer] Horror of Dracula (1958)
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Plasma Twins  [Any Day Now, 1987]
Francis Haines - The Trioxin Theme ["The Return of the Living Dead" (unreleased score) 1985]
[Sample] One Dark Night (1982)
[Sample] Mausoleum (1983)
Tollund Men - Mausoleum of Desire  [Autoerotik, 2016]
[Sample] Mortuary (1983)
Oneiroid Psychosis - Psychopathia Sexualis (edit)  [Sillbirth, 1995]
[Trailer] Halloween (1978) Radio Spot #1
Switchblade Symphony - Witches (Temple of Rain Mix)  [Sinister Nostalgia: A Switchblade Symphony Remix Collection, 2001]
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[Talk Break] John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Main Title / Chariots of Pumpkins  ["Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (soundtrack) 1982]
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Horror Vacui - Corvus Corax  [In Darkness You Will Feel Alright, 2012]
[Trailer] Suspiria Radio Spot #1
Deth Crux - Insanguination  [Pears of Anguish, 2015]
[Trailer] The Hearse Radio Spot 2
Twisted Nerve - Séance  [Séance, 1984]
[Trailer] Phantasm Radio Spot
Calabrese - Inside This Coffin  [The Traveling Vampire Show, 2007]
[Trailer] Dawn of the Dead Radio Spot 2
Samhain - Halloween II  [November-Coming-Fire, 1986]
[Sample] The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Bella Morte - The Dead  [The Death Rock EP, 2001]
[Sample] The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Misfits - Night of the Living Dead  [Walk Among Us, 1982]
Calabrese - New York Ripper  [Lust For Sacrilege, 2015]
Danzig - When Death Had No Name (Danzig III sessions)  [The Lost Tracks Of Danzig, 2007]
W.A.S.P. - Tormentor (Dungeonmaster version)  [W.A.S.P., 1984] 
Seraphim Shock - Halloween Girl  [Halloween, Sex n' Vegas, 2004]
White Zombie - Soul Crusher  [La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1, 1992]
William Castle - Terror from the Tomb (exc.)  [Ghost Story: Thrilling, Chilling Sounds of Fright & the Supernatural, 1972]
Type O Negative - Wolf Moon  [October Rust, 1996]
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[Talk Break]
John Cacavas - The Satanic Rites of Dracula  ["The Satanic Rites of Dracula" (soundtrack) 1973]
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[Sample] Vincent Price: Summon the Witch
Evereve - Autumn Leaves  [Seasons, 1996]
William Castle - The Cathedral of Evil (exc.)  [Ghost Story: Thrilling, Chilling Sounds of Fright & the Supernatural, 1972]
Ancient Wisdom - The Calling of Nocturnal Demons  [The Calling, 1997]
[Sample] Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
Emperor - Night of the Graveless Souls  [Emperor/Hordanes Land (split w/ Enslaved), 1993]
Mark Korven - Witch's Coven (exc.)  ["The VVitch" (soundtrack) 2016]
Vincent Price - The Witches Sabbat (exc.)  [Witchcraft - Magic: An Adventure In Demonology, 1969]
Mayhem - Freezing Moon (Dead version) [Studio Sessions, 1990]
[Sample] Quantum Leap: Blood Moon (1993)
Cradle of Filth - Funeral in Carpathia  [Dusk... And Her Embrace, 1996]
[Trailer] Demons (1985)
King Diamond - Haunted  [Fatal Portrait, 1986] 
[Sample] A Christian Perspective on Halloween (1979)
Marduk - Burn My Coffin  [Those of the Unlight, 1993]
[Sample] A Christian Perspective on Halloween (1979)
Abigor - A Breath From Worlds Beyond  [Opus IV, 1996]
[Trailer] Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger  [Transilvanian Hunger, 1994]
[Sample] Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
Bathory - Raise the Dead  [Bathory, 1984]
Jeff Grace - Mother (exc.)  ["The House of the Devil" (soundtrack) 2009]
Daemonarch - Call From the Grave  [Hermeticum, 1998]
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[Talk Break] Goblin - Possessione (Fabio Pignatelli) / 
Keith Emerson - The Possession  ["The Church" (soundtrack) 1988]
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Tim Curry - I'm Going Home  ["The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (soundtrack) 1975]
[Sample] John Zacherle (Halloween Radio Show 1988)
John Zacherley - Happy Halloween  [Scary Tales, 1962]

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PODCAST: March 22nd, 2012

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I'd have to say that the biggest music news of the week has been the announcement of a US tour from the legendary Dead Can Dance. I'm most excited, of course, about their Nashville date (September 4th @ The Ryman), but you can see all of the dates here. While you're there, you can download a free copy of the newly released Live Happenings: Part IV, a selection from which is featured on this episode.

This episode opens with a debut from the Austrian band Cold Flesh Colony. Their sound is an unusual mix of post-punk bass-lines, industrial beats, and near-black-metal vocal delivery. Their new album is entitled The Dark Passenger, and it is available as a free or a pay download here.

Out of Texas, you'll hear brand new music from the band Ending the Vicious Cycle, whose love for old-school gothic rock would be hard to mask. Their single is called 1,000 Words, and you can learn more about that one here.

From the Metropolis Records camp, you'll hear from two new releases: The more rock-infused, old-school industrial sound of Inure, from their new album The Offering; then, a remix from the new EP by Everything Goes Cold, who have kept things on their own EBM/Industrial terms with The Tyrant Sun.

Also new to the show this week: A closer look at Painthings, from Poland's Deathcamp Project; new dark ambient sounds from Pennsylvania's Deorsum Fluens; and the latest single (and video) from Alcest, in honor of their tour hitting this part of the US this week.

All that, plus: More Italian-Horror-music-worship with the likes of Sweden's Anima Morte, among others; an older version of Light Asylum's new single to whet your appetite for their soon-to-be-released new album; a stack of current and classic deathrock; a journey into early '90s dark death metal; and more.

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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, March 22nd, 2012

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

Cold Flesh Colony - The Dark Passenger  [The Dark Passenger, 2012]
The Deadfly Ensemble - Tiny Little Things (exc.) [A Seed Catalog for Extinct Annuals, 2008]
Dead Can Dance - Rakim [Live Happennigs: Part IV, 2012]
ROME - The Merchant Fleet  [Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit - Band 1: Aufbruch, 2011]
Light Asylum - Shallow Tears  [single, 2012]
Bella Morte - Bones Below  [Before the Flood, 2011]
Ending the Vicious Cycle - One Thousand Words (Angels of Liberty Mix) [1000 Words, 2012]
Deorsum Fluens - Gleaming Are The Unseen Structures  [Saur Maas, 2011]
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Last Train [Paint Your Wagon, 1986]
The Mission UK - Over the Hills and Far Away  [The First Chapter, 1987]
Burning Image - Haunted  [Kaliffornian Deathrock, 2006]
The Eternal Fall - The Scar  [To Darkness, 2006]
Acid Bats - Madre Morte  [Exhumacion, 2008]
In Loving Memory - Emmanuelle  [Phrenology, 2010]
Walter Rizzati / Franco de Gemini - Tema Bambino ["The House By The Cemetery" (soundtrack, 1981)]
Deathcamp Project - Cold the Same  [Painthings, 2011]
Inure - All Alone  [The Offering, 2012]
Anders Manga - Catastrophe  ["Gothic Compilation Part XLVI "]
Everything Goes Cold - The Iron Fist Of Just Destruction (Cosmic Cubanate Remix By Be My Enemy)  [The Tyrant Sun, 2012]
The Ludovico Technique - Heal My Scars  [The Ludovico Technique EP, 2010]
Baal Mefisto - Ruins of a Bygone Age  [The Prophecy, 2005]
Anima Morte - The Revenant  [The Nightmare Becomes Reality, 2011]
Samael - Sleep of Death  [Worship Him, 1991]
Amorphis - Black Embrace  [The Karelian Isthmus , 1992]
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood  [Through Silver in Blood, 1996]
Borknagar - Om Hundrede Aar Er Alting Glemt  [The Olden Domain, 1997]
Alcest - Autre Temps  [Les Voyages De L'Âme, 2012]

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

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PODCAST: February 23rd, 2012

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This episode brings new music from Naiades, the brand new album/art collection from Monica Richards. You should recognize her name and art style from her work with Faith and the Muse. The new release is available as a book/CD combo HERE.

Finally making it to the show this time around is the single "Take Forever," which is a collaboration between Irish electronic act The Japanese Popstars (your guess is as good as mine) and Robert Smith (of The Cure). It did, in fact,"take forever" for me to get this one on the show, but it's well worth the wait.

The release of the debut full-length from one of the greatest doom bands in the US, Pallbearer, is finally here. Sorrow & Extinction, released by Profound Lore Records, will no doubt top many year-end lists for 2012 -- but before then, opportunities to catch their live show are stacking up. Dates in New York and Texas have just been announced, and this weekend will bring a pair of official CD release shows, first in their home state of Arkansas (details HERE), then Saturday night in Nashville (details HERE). Both shows will also feature Loss on the bill.

Speaking of Nashville's music scene: This episode's local spotlight is thrown on the debut EP from a newly-transplanted industrial act that now calls Nashville home: Frontal Boundary. You can check out the sounds of "Electronic Warfare" HERE.

New sounds from the forthcoming Locrian & Mamiffer dark noise collaboration will also filter in, alongside tracks from the latest releases by The Beauty of Gemina and The Frozen Autumn. We'll also peel back another layer of Alcest's latest, Les Voyages De L'âme. All that, plus: A rare home studio demo from Corpus Delicti, a seldom-heard US-darkwave collaboration, a pair of listener requests, a gushing live-show review, cool new-release announcements, and loads of current and classic dark music.


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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 23rd, 2012

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

Zola Jesus - Avalanche  [Conatus, 2011]
Sex Gang Children - Sugar Pill  [Medea, 1993]
Monica Richards: Infra Warrior - We Go On  [Naiades, 2012]
Gropius - Tents of Kedar  [Indelicate, 2000] ^RQ^
Corpus Delicti - Out of Steam (unreleased home studio demo) [A New Saraband of Sylphes, 2007]
Jeniferever - Deception Pass  [Silesia, 2011]
Dekoder - Refuse  [Dekoder, 2011]
Wire - It's a Boy  [A Bell Is A Cup… Until It's Struck, 1988]
Stendhal - War Song  [Stendhal, 2000]  ^RQ^
The Beauty of Gemina - Haddon Hall  [Iscariot Blues, 2012]
Pins and Needles - Bright Lights in Cascades  [Victims, 2008]
Killing Joke - Darkness Before Dawn  [Night Time, 1985]
The Wake - Audrey  [Masked, 1993]
The Frozen Autumn - The Last Train  [Chirality, 2012]
Cinema Strange - Rat Catcher  [Quatorze Exemples Authentiques Du Triomphe De La Musique Décorative, 2006]
The Japanese Popstars (Featuring Robert Smith) - Takes Forever  [Controlling Your Allegiance, 2011]
The Last Dance - Terribly When (Ego Likeness Mix)  [Reflections of Rage, 2004]
Frontal Boundary - Time To Heal (C/A/T remix)  [Electronic Warfare, 2012]  [N]
:Wumpscut: - Dying Culture (Second Movement)  [Bunker Gate Seven, 1997]
Psyclon Nine - Under the Judas Tree  [We The Fallen, 2009]
Locrian & Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You  [Bless Them That Curse You, March 6th, 2012]
Alcest - Faiseurs De Mondes  [Les Voyages De L'âme, 2012]
Miserere Luminis - Miserere Luminis  [Miserere Luminis, 2009]
Swallow the Sun - Through Her Silvery Body  [The Morning Never Came, 2003]
Mournful Congregation - The Catechism of Depression  [The Book of Kings, 2011]
Goblin - L'alba die Morti Vi ["Dawn of the Dead" (soundtrack) 1978]
Pallbearer - An Offering of Grief  [Sorrow and Extinction, 2012]

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

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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]

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PODCAST: January 26th, 2012

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Following the take-down of Megaupload last week, the links for all 2011 episodes are currently broken, BUT there will soon be a new way of downloading past and present episodes of "Out ov the Coffin." Expect a post about that as soon as the details are hammered out. In the meantime, this episode (as well the last one) have been uploaded to Mediafire.

Among the new releases featured on the show this time, you'll find Puerto Rico's The Dead Souls, who play a brand of post-punk reminiscent of bands like The Chameleons. Their new EP Ambition is currently available as a free download on their Bandcamp site.

Returning with their first album since 2005, Italy's The Frozen Autumn emerge with Chirality -- a scientific term that describes an object or being that is not identical to its mirror image. If applied to their sound, it could make a statement about the '80s new wave and synth-pop influences they wear proudly, but do not merely imitate.

You'll also hear further new tracks from: Iscariot Blues, the latest album from Switzerland's The Beauty of Gemina; Icon:Koru, the new industrial set from Germany's [:SITD:]; and two more selections from the Kalpamantra label's Saur Maas compilation, in the form of songs by Unknown Vistae and Canadian experimental artist, Aidan Baker.

At the end of the show, you'll hear a taste of the latest from France's Alcest, who have just released their 3rd full-length of shoe-gazing black metal, entitled Les Voyages De L'âme. Believe it or not, the band will be touring the US this spring, and even hitting the Southeastern United States. You can see their tour dates here.

Rounding out this episode: More new music from Haujobb's New World March, Live, alternate takes from The Cure and The Chameleons, revisited masters from Mentallo & the Fixer and Arcturus, obscurities rescued from the vinyl mines, and a spotlight thrown on the latest single from New York's Light Asylum, who just released this excellent video.


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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, January 26th, 2012

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

Black Ice - In Winter  [Terrible Birds, 2005]
Bear McCreary -  Children of Caprica  ["Caprica" (soundtrack), 2009]
The Bolshoi - Barrowlands  [Lindy's Party, 1987]
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (live in Amsterdam, 1/80) [Seventeen Seconds, deluxe edition, 2005]
Clan of Xymox - Waterfront  [Creatures, 1999]
Bauhaus - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes  [Mask, 1981]
Red Temple Spirits - Exorcism/Waiting for the Sun  [Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon, 1988]
Human Disease - Even Unblameable (Be. Loved)  [Our Flesh Deception, 2004]
Aidan Baker - Fever Dreams  [v/a - Saur Maas, 2011]
The Chameleons - Here Today (acoustic)  [Strip, 2000]
The Dead Souls - Hidden Intentions  [Ambition, 2011]
Eat Your Make-up - Neither Sane Nor Insane  [First Dinner, 2005]
The Beauty of Gemina - Prophecy  [Iscariot Blues, 2012]
The Exploding Boy - Sweet Little Lies  [The Black Album, 2011]
Stuart Rabinowitsh - (end credits) ["The Video Dead" (soundtrack), 1987]
The Frozen Autumn - Before the Storm  [Chirality, 2012]
Light Asylum - Skull Fuct  [In Tension, 2010]
Mentallo & the Fixer - Legion of Lepers [Return to Grimpen Ward, 2001]
Project Pitchfork - K.N.K.A. (Climax version)  [Psychic Torture, 1991]
Haujobb - Let's Drop Bombs  [New World March, 2011]
[:SITD:] - Code Red  [Icon:Koru, 2011]
Unknown Vistae - What Has Found Us?  [v/a - Saur Maas, 2011]
Kampfar - Trolldomspakt  [Mare, 2011]
Arcturus - Du Nordavind  [Aspera Hiems Symfonia/Constellation/My Angel, 2002]
Bethlehem - Mein Kuss Erstickt Im Imperativ  [Schatten Aus Der Alexander Welt, 2001]
Anathema - Lost Control  [Alternative 4, 1998]
Fredrik Klingwall - 4:18 at the Morgue  [Epitome of the False Dichotomy,  2009]
Alcest - Là Où Naissent Les Couleurs Nouvelles  [Les Voyages De L'âme, 2012]

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PODCAST: December 22nd, 2011 - The Xmas Bonus!

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Normally, there would not have been an episode this week, but as I recalled last year's "Out ov the Coffin 39 and 1/2 foot Xmas Special," and how much fun that was, it seemed a shame to let it fall into obscurity; however, I didn't want to upload a pure re-run. So, I took that show, chopped it up, kept the best parts, added some new ones, and reworked the whole thing as a new special for this year: "The Out ov the Coffin Xmas Bonus 2011!"

Now, for those that have never heard an "Out ov the Coffin" Xmas Special, I should warn you that this is not at all a typical episode. In fact, it's a complete oddball, framing the Christmas season in a mixture of holiday horror, warped nostalgia, and absolute silliness. It's still done from a goth perspective, of corpse, but this would be the episode in which my sense of humor does most of the driving, and the references become a bit... abstract. What can I say? Christmas is for children, so I'm going to act like one, haha. Having said that: You have been warned...

Featured on this bonus podcast, you will hear a brand new Christmas song from The Cruxshadows, who provide two of the only serious moments in the whole show. Their brand new, 2011 Christmas single, "Anmi's Christmas (Red, Green, Silver & Gold)," is available as a free, or pay-what-you-feel, download right here, along with last year's faithful version of "O Holy Night," both of which are featured on this episode.

And, appearing online just in the St. Nick of time to be included on this podcast, is the new Venture Bros. holiday single. This time, Doc and Jackson present us with their rendition of the classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside," filtered through the characters of The Mighty Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch. The result is called "Baby It's Cold In Here," and I think it's my favorite holiday song since 2008's "Wonderful Christmastime." The download is available right here. You can also grab the rest of their free Christmas singles (going all the way back to 2004) right here.

Also featured on this show: Loads of warped Christmas classics, from such disparate sources as Oscar the Grouch, King Diamond, Batman, Voltaire, The Grinch, The Ramones, The Cryptkeeper, Count von Count, and many, many more. It's a strange one, folks -- and unlike previous holiday specials, it's UNCENSORED, too! So, put a little something extra in your eggnog, and check out what SantaBod brought you this year...


Not into this episode's theme? No problem. STAY TUNED: The December 29th episode will feature "The Best ov 2011," a cross-section of songs from the best releases to have been featured on the show this year!


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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, December 22nd, 2011

Henchman 21 & 24 Intro (exc. from "Wonderful Christmastime") [digital single, 2008]
CBS Special Intro sound FX
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me ["Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]
Alec Guinness (as Jacob Marley) - See the Phantoms ["Scrooge" (soundtrack, 1970)]
The Cryptkeeper (John Kassir) - Twas the Fright Before Christmas [Tales From the Crypt: Have Yourself A Scary Little Christmas, 1994]
Gordy Goodwin - We Wish You a Scary Christmas [The Haunted Mansion unofficial 34th Anniversary Collection, 2005]
David G. Ravenswood - Grim, Grinning Ghosts (Phantom Manor Christmas Mix) [The Haunted Mansion unofficial 34th Anniversary Collection, 2005]
Porn Orchard (as Tom Waits & Peter Murphy) - This Holiday Season (w/ Intro) [Son of the Flagpole Christmas Album, 1992]
Jerry Goldsmith - A Christmas Story ["Gremlins" (soundtrack), 1984]
Oscar T. Grouch - I Hate Christmas [A Sesame Street Christmas, 1975]
Thurl Ravenscroft - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch ["How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (soundtrack)]
Count von Count - All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth [A Sesame Street Christmas, 1975]
Hellblinki - Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas ('Riverbottom Nightmare Band' exc.) [Xmas with Hellblinki, 2006]
Danny Elfman - Oogie Boogie's Song ["The Nightmare Before Christmas" (soundtrack), 1993]
Mark Hammil (as The Joker) - Jingle Bells ["Batman: The Animated Series" episode Christmas with the Joker, 1992]
She Wants Revenge - Kidnap the Sandy Claws ["The Nightmare Before Christmas" (deluxe soundtrack), 2006]
Shirley Walker, Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion - The Nutcracker Suite / Pie in Batman's Face / Dangling Hostages Saved/ Deck the Halls ["Batman: The Animated Series" episode Christmas with the Joker, 1992]
Venture Industries & Friends & Enemies - Venture Aid 2006/Feed the World (The Venture Bros.) [digital single, 2006]
The Monarch & Dr. Girlfriend - Little Drummer Boy (The Venture Bros.) [digital single, 2004]
Juan Schwartz & The South Park Christmas Choir - Dead, Dead, Dead [Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics, 1999]
Alien Sex Fiend - Stuff the Turkey [single, 1987]
Fear - Fuck Christmas [ single, 1982]
The Yobs - Come All Ye Faithful [XMas II, 1991]
Pansy Division - Homo Christmas [Fem In A Black Leather Jacket, 1992]
Voltaire - Comin' Out for Christmas (live) [Live!, 2006]
Bad News - Cashing In On Christmas [Bad News, 1987]
Danny Elfman - End Title ["The Nightmare Before Christmas" (soundtrack), 1993]
The Cruxshadows - Anmi's Christmas (Red, Green, Silver, & Gold) [digital single, 2011]
The Cruxshadows - O Holy Night  [digital single, 2010]
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)  [Brain Drain, 1989]
Boris Karloff - "Every Who Down in Whoville..." (sample from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", 1966)
King Diamond - No Presents for Christmas  [single, 1985]
The Cool Ghoul (Dick Von Hoene) - The Bite Before Christmas [The Cool Ghoul's Phantasmagorical Funky Fonograf Record, 1971]
The Monarch and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch - Baby It's Cold In Here [digital single, 2011]
The Unquiet Void - Silent Night [Middle Pillar Presents: A Misfit Xmas, Volume One, 2001]
Batman & Friends & Enemies - Christmas Carol Caper [Exciting Christmas Stories, 1977]



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