PODCAST: August 10th, 2012

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This episode begins with new music from Brooklyn, New York's Light Asylum, whose full length debut Light Asylum proves to be another great showcase for singer Shannon Funchess' ever-impressive, deep, powerful, dramatic -- and even operatic -- voice, which takes their '80s-steeped electro/darkwave music into many new dark and danceable arenas.

Speaking of singing to impress: Amidst news of vocalist Jaz Coleman's apparent and confusing disappearance this week, you'll hear music from Killing Joke's new album, MMXII. It's another solid release, loaded with their signature atmosphere, biting lyrical content, and, of course, Jaz's soaring -- and sometimes absolutely serrated -- voice.

Earlier this week, Germany's afmusic offered up a free, 63-track retrospective of the many genres of music they've been releasing up to this point, offering fans of goth, darkwave, post-punk, and many other styles a whole lot of sounds to check out. Three selections are featured on this episode (from Amada, The Foreign Resort, and M!R!M), but you can grab the whole collection right here.

Also featured on this episode: New mid-paced doom/dark metal from Italy's The Foreshadowing, who return this month with a new album entitled Second World; fresh experimentation from Chicago's Locrian, who also return with a new release this month, entitled The Clearing & Final Epoch; and even some newly released live material from Loss, recorded at March's Scion A/V showcase for Profound Lore Records. That whole live compilation (also featuring Pallbearer, Wolvhammer, The Atlas Moth, and Yob) can be downloaded for Free right here.

All of that, plus: New horror-inspired alternate soundtrack music from France's Neon Rain (who seem to have some interesting mixtapes available); a whole set of new and classic material for the goth-punks among us; another musical trip to Nolan's Batcave; and more -- for a total of two and a half hours of current and classic dark music.

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

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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, August 10th, 2012

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

Light Asylum - Shallow Tears  [Light Asylum, 2012]
Benjamin Stauffer - Imaginosis  ["A Cage Went in Search of a Bird" 2000]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cascade  [A Kiss in the Dreamhouse, 1982]
Solemn Novena - Trick or Treat  [Kiss the Girls, 2010]
Nosferatu - Diva (Scarlet Mix)  [Legend, 1993]
Amada - Nuovi Re  [Nuovi Re, 2009]
Vendemmian - Masquerade  [Through the Depths of Innocence, 1994]
The Foreign Resort - Orange Glow (edit)  [The Foreign Resort, 2011]
Neon Rain - The Hunters & The Preys  […Of the Dead, 2012]
Christ vs Warhol - Robin Hood In Reverse  [Dissent, 2010]
Eat Your Make Up - I Was the Murderer  [First Dinner, 2005]
M!R!M - Deep Throat  [It's Not Enough Anymore, 2011]
Cinema Strange - Anti-Good (2004)  [10th Anniversary Novelty Product, 2004]
1919 - The Scream  [The Complete Collection, 2001] (orig: 1983's 'Machine' EP)
Killing Joke - Primobile  [MMXII, 2012]
Hans Zimmer - Risen From Darkness  ["The Dark Knight Rises" (soundtrack), 2012]
Nitzer Ebb - I Give To You  [Ebbhead, 1991]
Godkomplex - All or Nothing  [Audial Apostasy, 2006]
Velvet Acid Christ - Blood  [Lust for Blood, 2006]
Cyanotic - Static Screens (In Syndication)  [The Medication Generation, 2010]
Haujobb - Lost  [New World March, 2011]
Coph'Antae Tryr - Wyrvart  ["Saur Maas" (comp.) 2011]
The Foreshadowing - Second World  [Second World, 2012]
Anima Morte - Twilight of the Dead  [Face the Sea of Darkness, 2007]
Ancient Wisdom - The Serpent's Blessing  […And the Physical Shape of Light Bled, 2002]
Kampfar - Mare  [Mare, 2011]
Loss - Cut Up, Depressed and Alone (live)  ["Scion A/V Presents: Profound Lore Records," 2012]
Funerary Call - Transference from the Void  ["Crucial Blast: Heresies" (comp.) 2012]
Locrian - Chalk Point  [The Clearing & Final Epoch, 2012]



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PODCAST: July 27th, 2012

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Having just returned from a week in California, seeing ROME twice and having a generally great time, this episode is filled with music I picked up in my travels, and stories gathered along the way.

ROME is the type of band that I was unsure I would ever get to see live, so it was quite a privilege to be able to see them play two nights in a row. The first show, in Riverside California, was held at a very small, DIY venue that served as a bookshop and resource center by day. While this didn't provide much in the way of atmosphere or sound/lighting, it did give the people who made the trek a unique opportunity to meet the band on casual terms.

The following night in Hollywood, ROME shared the stage with Unwoman at Bar Sinister. Other than the thumping dance beats that were bleeding over from the other end of the club, this
 was the full-fledged show we'd all waited and traveled long to see. The ROME sets on both nights were filled with songs from across the band's catalogue, one of which is featured on this episode, along with a track from Unwoman, since all of these sounds are still so fresh in my mind.

Also fresh in my mind: "The Dark Knight Rises." I saw it in IMAX when I returned, absolutely loved it, and immediately ran out to buy Hans Zimmer's soundtrack -- a few selections from which can be heard on this episode. I have to hand it to the man for setting new trends in film music with his Batman scores. Great stuff. And if you get the physical CD, it comes with a drop card that gives you access to download some additional songs, too.

On the industrial/ebm side of the fence, this episode features new music from Germany's Heimataerde, taken from their new album Gottgleich; a newly revamped version of one of the earliest songs from South Africa's Acretongue; and a further selection from disKonnekt, the latest album from Canada's Decoded Feedback.

This episode also features a horror rock set that unleashes another new song from Calabrese, alongside a classick from Alice Cooper -- both of whom will be appearing at this year's Dragon*Con in Atlanta, although it is unclear whether Alice will be performing live at the convention, or appearing solely as a guest. Either way, it shall be an honor to have him aboard. In further Dragon*Con news, our friends in Ego Likeness have just been added to the line-up as well.

In addition to all of the above, this episode also features: Additional new entries from Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat and Anhedonist, fresh experimental sounds from LPF12, more great soundtrack work, several obscurities pulled from the vault, and much, much more.

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

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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, July 27th, 2012

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

IAMX - Dance With Me  [Volatile Times, 2011]
ROME - In Cruel Fire  [Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit - Band 1: Aufbruch, 2011]
Bear McCreary - Elegy  ["Battlestar Galactica: Season 4" (soundtrack) 2009]
Bloody Dead and Sexy - Three Corners of An Eye, Part IV: Hidden Corner  [Liquid Grey, 2011]
Zoar - In These Rooms  [Clouds Without Water, 2002]
The Legendary Pink Dots - Leap of Faith  [Seconds Late for the Brighton Line, 2010]
Unwoman - Trouble  [Trouble EP, 2008]
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - My Word as Gospel  [Weltuntergangsstimmung, 2012]
The Empire Hideous - Welcome to the Here and Now  [Say Your Prayers, 2003]
Hans Zimmer - A Storm is Coming/On Thin Ice  ["The Dark Knight Rises" (soundtrack) 2012]
Strange Boutique - Ears to the Ground  [The Collection: 1988 - 1994, 2004]
The Vanishing - Terror, I've Been Dying to Meet You  [Songs for Psychotic Children, 2003]
The Last Dance - Into the Ghost  [Fairytales, 1996]
François-Eudes Chanfrault - Memories (final)  [A L'Intérieur (Inside) (soundtrack) 2007]
Belisha - Eyes That Blacken  [People of the Dark, 2002]
Remain in Silence - Wasted Time  [Monument, 1985]
Philippe Sissman - (untitled)  ["The Grapes of Death" (soundtrack) 1978]
Heimataerde - Dein Opfer  [Gottgleich, 2012]
ThouShaltNot - New World  [New World, 2008]
Acretongue - Violent Pale  [Dependent 2012]
Decoded Feedback - The Devil You Know  [disKonnekt, 2012]
LPF12 - Unlocking Hidden Doors  [Guiding Principles, 2012]
Samhain - Macabre  [Initium, 1984]
Calabrese - Coffin of Ruins  [Dayglo Necros, 2012]
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies  [Billion Dollar Babies, 1973]
Sólstafir - Sjúki Skugginn  [Svartir Sandar, 2011]
Anhedonist - Saturnine  [Netherwards, 2012]
Tenhornedbeast - Our Lady of the Lightning Bolt  [The Sacred Truth, 2007]
Summoning - South Away  [Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame, 2001]



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PODCAST: July 13th, 2012

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With today being Friday the 13th, I thought this would be a good time to make the shift to labeling each show with Friday's date, instead of the traditional Thursday time-stamp. This makes things more realistic, considering that each new episode is uploaded on a Friday afternoon, after having been recorded on a late Thursday night/early Friday morning.

This episode begins with my excitement over the upcoming U.S. concerts from ROME, who have become one of my all-time favorite bands since their inception in 2005. To date, they have only performed once in the United States, but there will be four shows on our soil next week, all in California (see those dates here). I am fortunate/crazy enough to be flying out to see two of them, myself, so this episode begins with one of my current favorite songs, taken from the recent Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit triple-album collection.

Italy's Christina Plays Viola have issued a new promo EP for 2012, further exhibiting their '80s/'90s goth influences on such tracks as this episode's "Apocryphal Supremacy." You can grab that EP right here. Meanwhile, fellow Italians Chemical Waves have released another new single, The Great Dictator (free download here), which again features two versions of the single/title track, along with a more experimental/instrumental track, which is the one I found myself drawn to this time.

Ukraine's Nightchild A. -- an alternate project from one of the founders of The Nightchild -- emerged this week with a new instrumental EP entitled Images. The project serves as a place for material that doesn't quite fit the main project, having been inspired by such things as the soundtrack to the film 28 Days Later, which I paired them with on this episode. A video has also been created for their featured song "Abandoned Places."

Having just been confirmed to play Dragon*Con 2012, Calabrese return to the show this week with another undeniably catchy horror rock anthem from their brand new Dayglo Necros (you can score your own copy of it right here). For those who are also going to the Con this year, I hope to see you in the crowd when they perform. Ego Likeness returns on this show as well, this time with a dancefloor-filler from their new East EP. You can still order one of the last remaining copies of that one here, if you hurry.

Nebraska's Strap on Halo make their debut on this episode with a new, pre-album single. They will be joining such acts as Entertainment, Ex-VoTo, Lestat, and many more at the Age of Decay festival in Jacksonville, FL on September 22nd of this year. Since not many goth-specific American festivals happen these days, you might consider making the drive for this one. Details here.

More reasons to listen to this episode? Sure: More sounds from the new live Skinny Puppy album; a spotlight on the Nations Collide Tour featuring Nolongerhuman (which will be coming through Nashville for FREE!) next week; plenty of classic goth/deathrock; some shoegaze and neofolk selections; and several gems from the vaults.

For those in Nashville this weekend:  +SALVATION+ Gothic/Industrial Night is happening on Saturday the 14th, and we'll be giving away a pair of tickets to see Dead Can Dance's Nashville show. This edition has been billed our Family Reunion Event, which will feature resident DJ sets from myself, Jimmy, and Assimilat, as well as guest spots from returning +SALVATION+ DJs Nephilim and Reaver. It should be a fun night.



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

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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, July 13th, 2012

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

Unwoman - Compliance  [Blossoms, 2007]
ROME - Automation  [Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit - Band 3: Aufgabe, 2011]
Chemical Waves - Haze  [The Great Dictator, 2012]
Lycia - A Presence in the Woods  [The Burning Circle and then Dust, 1995]
Cocteau Twins - Amelia  [Treasure, 1984]
Frank the Baptist - Iron, Water, and Wood  [The New Colossus, 2007]
Spiritual Front - Jesus Died in Las Vegas  [Armageddon Gigolo' 2006]
Black Ice - Signals  [Myopia, 2007]
Nightchild A. - Abandoned Places  [Images, 2012]
John Murphy - In the House, In a Heartbeat ["28 Days Later" (soundtrack) ]
Christine Plays Viola - Apocryphal Supremacy  [Promo 2012]
Christian Death - Sleepwalk  [Catastrophe Ballet, 1984]
Strap on Halo - You & Your Ghost  [pre-album single, 2012]
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field  [Swing the Heartache: The BBC Sessions, 1989]
Calabrese - History of Nothing  [Dayglo Necros, 2012]
Harry Manfredini - Main Title ["Friday the 13th" (soundtrack) 1980]
Ego Likeness - Persona Non Grata  [East, 2012]
Necro Facility - Ignite  [Wintermute, 2011]
Nolongerhuman - Not Your Only MIstake  [Promo, 2007]
System Syn - Confession  [All Seasons Pass, 2011]
Skinny Puppy - Shore Lined Poison (Budapest)  [Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent Seas, 2012]
Christopher L. Stone - (untitled 13) ["Phantasm IV: OblIVion" (soundtrack), 1998]
The God Machine - The Blind Man  [Scenes from the Second Storey, 1993]
Pallbearer - The Legend  [Sorrow and Extinction, 2012]
Pensées Nocturnes - Eros  [Grotesque, 2010]
Hypocrisy - The Fourth Dimension  [The Fourth Dimension, 1994]
Atum - Nightfall  [Lost Days, 2012]
Bell Witch - Beneath the Mask… I Wait  [Demo 2011]


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PODCAST: June 28th, 2012

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This episode opens with fresh music from Sweden's Brotherhood, whose new album, …Turn the Gold to Chrome…, has just been issued on Germany's afmusic. You can check out more of their post-punk/goth rock sound on their Bandcamp site.

Dead Can Dance have just started taking pre-orders for their much-anticipated first studio album in 16 years, Anastasis. As a gift to their many curious fans, they have released a digital single, which is featured on this episode (and available here). The album will be issued in multiple formats, to coincide with their Fall 2012 tour, which will hit Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on September 4th.

Incidentally, for those in the Nashville area, word on the street is that +SALVATION+ Gothic/Industrial Night will be giving away a pair of tickets to the Dead Can Dance show at their July 14th event. For those keeping tabs on Dragon*Con in Atlanta (Labor Day Weekend), I'll talk about some of the bands that have said they will be playing there this year, including South Carlina's Valentine Wolfe, whose macabre Steampunk ambience is featured on this episode. 

Speaking of events, the brand new Calabrese album has finally landed, and it is GOOD. Dayglo Necros is another fine example of the 3 brothers serving up the catchiest and coolest horror rock in the world right now. You can score your own copy of it right here. Act quickly, and you may even be able to sink your fangs into some of the pre-order extras.

Ego Likeness has just issued the 4th volume in their Compass EP series, the long-awaited East. This one clocks in at more of an album's length, but I doubt anyone will complain about that part. The opening track, "-geist," is quite striking, so it is featured it on the way in to this episode's darkwave/ebm/industrial set. The EP is limited to only 300 CDs, but you can still order one of the last remaining copies here, if you hurry.

Also new to the show: A taste of new electro/darkwave from Until the Air Runs Out, the new album from Seattle's Nightmare Fortress; a further cut from Darker Days Tomorrow's new album, False Prophets; more new electro-cabaret from AlterRed's Dollstown album; a remastered and revamped cut from the 2nd installment of Suicide Commando's The Suicide Sessions collection; and more fresh Swedish post-punk from Svarta Hundar, who is featured on The Peter Out Wave compilation. Their track "Mörkt Vatten" has also yielded a video, which can be seen here.

All of that, PLUS: A post-birthday horror-rock nod to Glenn Danzig, a look back at the golden age of the oft-contested subgenre of Gothic Metal, more debuts, more horror soundtracks, more current & classic dark music, and the announcement of my next live DJ/Cult Film combo-appearance at Cult Fiction Underground in Nashville.


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

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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Thursday, June 28th, 2012

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

Brotherhood - End of Time  [ …Turn the Gold to Chrome…, 2012]
Philippe D'Aram - Apparition Du Chateau ["Fascination" (soundtrack)1979]
Dead Can Dance - Amnesia (radio edit)  [Anastasis, 2012]
Sol Invictus - The Killing Tide  [The Killing Tide, 1991]
Tearwave - First Time  [Different Shade of Beauty, 2008]
The Prophetess - Darkness Leaves  [Dichotomy, 1996]
Principe Valiente - The Night  [Principe Valiente, 2011]
Terminal Gods - God Child  [Electric Eyes, 2012]
Paul McCollough - Cemetery (exc.) ["Night of the Living Dead" (soundtrack) 1990]
Calabrese - Heart Possession  [Dayglo Necros, 2012]
The Other - Transyvania  [New Blood, 2010]
Samhain - Black Dream  [Initium, 1984]
Svarta Hundar - Mörkt Vatten  ["The Peter Out Wave" (comp.) 2012]
Led Er Est - Scissors  [Dust On Common, 2010]
Diary of Dreams - Chemicals  [One of 18 Angels, 2000]
Valentine Wolfe - Imaginary Landscape  [Five Nocturnes (bonus disc), 2009]
Ego Likeness - -geist  [East, 2012]
AlterRed - And We Disappear  [Dollstown, 2012]
Nightmare Fortress - Visionquest  [Until the Air Runs Out, 2012]
Suicide Commando - The Exit  [The Suicide Sessions 2, 2012]
Hocico - Silent Wrath (I Break)  [Disidencia Inquebrantable , 2003]
Darker Days Tomorrow - Winter  [False Prophets, 2012]
E.V.P. - The Left Hand of Glory  [Postmortem Canticles Of Necromancy, 2008]
Dreadful Shadows - Everlasting Words  [Buried Again, 1996]
Tiamat - Alteration X10  [A Deeper Kind of Slumber, 1997]
Tristania - Beyond the Veil  [Beyond the Veil, 1999]
Daeonia - Angel for a Better Day  [Craven, 1999]
Katatonia - Nerve  [Discouraged Ones, 1998]
Javier Álvarez - (closing theme) ["Cronos" (soundtrack) 1993]
Miserere Luminis - Senectus  [Miserere Luminis, 2009]

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[EVENT PLAYLIST] Cult Fiction Underground: June 23rd, 2012

This past Saturday night, I started a new kind of event here in Nashville, combining my love for cult horror films, stylish settings, and dark music. The idea was to bring goth, post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, and horror music to a more relaxed setting, away from the dance floors of night clubs, where song-selection could be based on what fit the atmosphere, rather than what might fill a dance floor.

The result was not unlike a live version of the first hour of "Out ov the Coffin," which is one reason that I'm posting this playlist here. Of course, this live version was thrice as long, and you could have a beer and hang out with like-minded people while you listened. The tone for the night is set by a movie screening, held in the theatre next door to the Underground Lounge. In this case, it was Richard Blackburn's 1973 atmospheric horror classic, "Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural," which won a lot of new fans that night.

To clear any confusion, the following playlist is not related to an episode that can be streamed or downloaded -- although a new podcast is coming later this week. The playlist below shows precisely what I played for the first installment of this event, so everyone can get a good idea of what this night is about.

For those who wish to go to a night like this: "It is happening again!" On Saturday, July 28th, I will return to Cult Fiction Underground. The movie that night will be Jean Rollin's bizarre French zombie film, "The Grapes of Death" (1978). Mark your calendar & Bring a friend. The film will start at 10pm, and the music will begin immediately after the screening.

Otherwise, here's what I played this past Saturday night. Each artist's name below is also a link:


PLAYLIST: Cult Fiction Underground w/ DJ Ichabod
@ Logue's Black Raven Emporium: June 23rd, 2012

Film of the week: "Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural" (1973)

Angels of Liberty - Monster In Me  [Monster In Me EP, 2011]
Murnau's Playhouse - Sister Violence  [Sanity Show, 2009]
X-Mal Deutschland - Mondlicht  [Tocsin, 1984]
The Cure - M  [Seventeen Seconds, 1980]
The Cocteau Twins - Persephone  ^RQ^  [Treasure, 1984]
Samhain - To Walk the Night {Happy Birthday to Glenn Danzig}  [November-Coming Fire, 1986]
Charles Bernstein - Run, Nancy! ["A Nightmare on Elm Street" (soundtrack) 1984]
Entertainment - Flesh!  [Gender, 2008]
Bauhaus - Dark Entries  ^RQ^  ["1979-1983 Volume One" (comp) 1986]
Terminal Gods - Electric Eyes  [Electric Eyes, 2012]
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Chariots of Pumpkins ["Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (soundtrack) 1982]
The Grinning Plowman - Killing Floor  [N]  [Days of Deformity, 1988]
Nosferatu - Horror Holiday  [Wonderland, 2011]
Blacklist - Still Changes  [Midnight of the Century, 2009]
Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave - The Tall Man on Main Street  ["Phantasm" (soundtrack) 1979]
Christian Death - The Angels (Cruciform)  ^RQ^  [The Path of Sorrows, 1993]
Zola Jesus - Avalanche  [Conatus, 2011]
Lubos Fiser - The Letter 2  ["Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" (soundtrack) 1970]
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - The Shadows Are You  [Weltuntergangsstimmung, 2012]
Diary of Dreams - Reign in Chaos  ^RQ^  [Nigredo, 2004]
Goblin - Profondo Rosso (alternate take)  ["Goblin Volume II 1975-1980" (comp) 1998]
Malign - The Diseased and the Blind  [Shatter And Impale, 1996]
Pretentious, Moi? - Astrid  [Pretentious, Moi?, 2010]
Brighter Fires - From the Sky  [Brighter Fires, 2012]
Joy Division - A Means to and End  [Closer, 1980]
The Wake - First  [Nine Ways, 1996]
John Cacavas - Main Title ["The Satanic Rites of Dracula" (soundtrack) 1973]
ROME - Sons of Aeeth  [Die Æsthetik Der Herrschaftsfreiheit: Aufruhr, 2011]
Bloody Dead and Sexy - Cheeks  [Narcotic Room, 2005]
Faith and the Muse - When We Go Dark  [: Ankoku Butoh : , 2009]
Goblin - Tenebrae  ["Tenebrae" (soundtrack) 1983] ^RQ^
The Legendary Pink Dots - Under Glass  [Any Day Now, 1987]
Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdom  ^RQ^  [Too Dark Park, 1990]
Alien Sex Fiend - Hurricane Fighter Plane  [Drive My Rocket, 1994]
Calabrese - Heart Possession  [Dayglo Necros, 2012]
Kill Sister Kill - Fever Dream  ["Kaliffornian Deathrock" (comp) 2006]
Frank the Baptist - On My Tongue  [Different Degrees of Empty, 2003]
Weep - The Passion of Lovers  [The Passion of Lovers (single), 2011]
Robert Cobert - Carolyn & Barnabas  ["House of Dark Shadows" (soundtrack) 1970]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - We Hunger  [Hyaena, 1984]
New Days Delay - Tiny Monsters & Furry Little Creatures  [Splitterelastisch, 2007]
Mute Angst Envy - Taste of Insanity  [Archetype/Trust, 1991]
Cinema Strange - Sadist Sagittarius (2004) [A Cinema Strange 10th Anniversary Novelty Product , 2004]
James Bernard - End Credits (Lust for a Vampire) ["The Hammer Vampire Film Music Collection" (comp) 2002]
Seraphim Shock - Anna  [Black Heart Revival , 2010]
The Sisters of Mercy - On the Wire  [First and Last and Always (remaster), 2006]
Ulterior - Big City, Black Rain  [Wild In Wildlife, 2011]
Night Vision - Betrayal  [Night Vision, 2012]
Giuliano Sorgini - George  ["The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue" (soundtrack) 1974]
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Dead Souls  [Es Reiten Die Toten So Schnell (Or: The Vampyre Sucking At His Own Vein), 2003]
Tim Curry - Don't Dream It, Be It  ["The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (soundtrack) 1975]


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PODCAST: June 14th, 2012

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New to the show this time is a crop of more traditional goth and post-punk sounds. From the the UK, we have Angels of Liberty, who have several releases available on their Bandcamp site. I chose to start at the beginning, showcasing the title track from their Monster In Me EP (2011). It's an amazingly catchy and satisfying piece of energetic goth rock.

Also hailing from the UK, The Gaa Gaas make their debut on the show this time, flaunting their psyche-punk sound that evokes an early deathrock/batcave attitude. The song, "Hypnoti(z)ed" is taken from a new compilation from Peter Out Records, called The Peter Out Wave, which is intended to bring together acts from various scenes and countries that are (perhaps unintentionally) part of the new wave of post-punk. Grab it here.

Also featured on that compilation is France's Joy/Disaster, who have just released a new alt-post-punk album called Sickness. Their song "Suicide" is featured on both releases, as well as this episode. In the neo-classical realm, Portland, Oregon's Disemballerina have returned with another impressive new piece called "Sundowning," which is available on their Bandcamp site as well.

In the industrial realm, you'll hear a selection from the new Decoded Feedback album, disKonnekt; a remix from the latest Aesthetic Perfection single, A Nice Place to Destroy; an atypical cut from the new Grendel album, Timewave: Zero; and requested (and classic) music from the new Skinny Puppy live album, Bootlegged, Broke and Insolvent Seas. All of these releases are available now through Metropolis Records.

I also remember a couple of very different anniversaries on this episode: June 14th marks the 33rd anniversary of the release of Joy Division's classic debut "Unknown Pleasures," which originally fell into the hands of the already-in-the-know way back in 1979. And, on June 14th, 1956, the world saw the birth of Kim Petersen, who would later come to be known to the world as King Diamond.

Beyond that, this show is loaded with: Minimal neo-folk submissions, recently revisited film scores, current and classic goth-rock anthems, '90s-style doom, and '70s style atmosphere, in both musical and cinematic forms.

** AND... speaking of '70s style atmosphere, I will be DJing at Logue's Black Raven Emporium in East Nashville on Saturday June 23rd, alongside a screening of the classic 1973 film, Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural. It will be a lot like the first hour of "Out ov the Coffin," only in a live setting, with a bar. The Facebook event page is here, for more information.


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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, June14th, 2012

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

Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - Ruins  [Weltuntergangsstimmung, 2012]
Craig Armstrong - Hymn  ["Plunkett & MacLeane" (soundtrack), 1999]
Current 93 - A Silence Song  [Thunder Perfect Mind, 1992]
ROME - Les Deracines  [Nos Chants Perdus, 2010]
The Crüxshadows - Ariadne (Legendary Mix)  [Immortal, 2008]
Clan of Xymox - Crucified  [Creatures, 1999]
Peter Murphy - I Spit Roses  [Ninth, 2011]
Joy Division - Shadowplay  [Unknown Pleasures, 1979]
Disemballerina - Sundowning (exc.)  [Sundowning, 2012]
Angels of Liberty - Monster In Me  [Monster In Me, 2011]
Solemn Novena - Silver  [Kiss the Girls, 2010]
Fields of the Nephilim - Laura  ["The Black Bible" (comp.) 1998]
New Model Army - The Hunt  [The Ghost of Cain, 1986]
Joy/Disaster - Suicide  [Sickness, 2012]
The Gaa Gaa's - Hypnoti(z)ed (Alt. version)  ["The Peter Out Wave vol. 1" (comp.) 2012]
Dan Neufeld - (untitled) ["Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural" (soundtrack), 1973]
The Ghost of Lemora - Dread the Day (The Cities Rise)  [The Silhouette Scene E. P., 2002]
Michl Britsch - Bower's Trip  ["Pandorum" (soundtrack) 2009]
Decoded Feedback - Heart of Stone  [disKonnekt, 2012]
Aesthetic Perfection - All Beauty Destroyed (Sensuous Enemy Remix)  [A Nice Place to Destroy, 2012]
Grendel - Fall  [Timewave: Zero, 2012]
Imperative Reaction - Surface  [Imperative Reaction, 2011]
Skinny Puppy - Morpheus Laughing (Warsaw)  [Bootlegged, Broke and Insolvent Seas, 2012]  ^RQ^
Sumornost - I Give You Unto Earth and Time  ["Saur Maas" (comp.) 2011]
Anathema - Far Away  [Eternity, 1997]
Lacrimas Profundere - Solicitude, Silence  [Burning: A Wish, 2001]
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today  [Witchcult Today, 2007]
King Diamond - Funeral/Arrival  [Abigail, 1987]
Thomas Newman - Drinking Blood/Falling Home  ["The Lost Boys" (soundtrack) 1987]
Black Sabbath - Over and Over  [Mob Rules, 1981]

KEY:

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

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Out ov the Coffin: June 14th, 2012 by Out Ov The Coffin on Mixcloud

PODCAST: May 31st, 2012

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*** The original version of this episode was taken down after a claim from B*rzum's representatives was filed. While that gets sorted out, I've uploaded an edited version of the show with that song removed. All references to that song have been edited out as well, to avoid confusion.


Welcome to another episode that is simply loaded with new music.

The UK's AlterRed makes their debut on this episode with a selection from their Dollstown album. Their sound is a blend of electro and cabaret, which has drawn comparisons to such acts as IAMX; hence, I paired the two acts in the first set.

Out of Scotland comes The Twilight Sad, whose video for the song "Another Bed" caught my eyes this week. The song, which is included on this show, is taken from their latest album, No One Can Ever Know.

On the heels of the last show's debut of the UK's Terminal Gods, the band has decided to make a free, online release of their previous EP of traditional goth rock, Genesis, from which you'll hear a song on this episode. Get that EP for yourself, right here.

Also not to be missed: Another extremely catchy song from Brooklyn's Night Vision, whose brand of new darkwave continues to stick in my head. You can still grab their EP for free, right here, while it lasts.

Darker Days Tomorrow makes its debut on this episode as well, premiering a song from their 3rd, and latest, album False Prophets. The band currently has a Kickstarter campaign underway to fund the production of a music video, so if you'd like to join the cause, go here.

On the instrumental side of the fence, Italy's Chemical Waves provides a new track from their Sweet Candy Bullets EP (free right here), as does the Czech Republic's Tongue, with a track from their At the Beginning... album (free right here). You'll also hear new dark ambient selections from Sweden's Necrophorus and Poland's Atum, whose latest EP can be downloaded here.

During the industrial portion of the show, you'll hear a track from T.A.L.O.S., the latest from the Greek band PreEmptive Strike 0.1, along with a pair of excerpts from Alan Silvestri's score for the new Avengers film, which are wrapped around the new single from Dutch aggro-tech/ebm band Grendel, taken from their latest album Timewave: Zero. Incidentally, the video for that title track can be viewed here.

Towards the end, in the dark metal portion of the show, you'll hear a further cut from Anhedonist's new Netherwards album. Closing the show is a 30-minute epic taken from the latest Aldebaran CD, Embracing The Lightless Depths, available now from Profound Lore Records.

All of that, plus classic, current, and cult deathrock, goth, wave, 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, May 17th, 2012

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

Gitane Demone - Tales of Innocence  ["Goth: Music of the Shadows v1" (comp.)1999]
Chemical Waves - Wraith  [Sweet Candy Bullets, 2012]
Zola Jesus - Stridulum  [Stridulum, 2010]
The Twilight Sad - Another Bed  [No One Can Ever Know, 2012]
Two Witches - Requiem  [Bites, 1995]
AlterRed - Dollstown  [Dollstown, 2012]
IAMX - Music People  [Volatile Times, 2011]
Night Vision - Betrayal  [Night Vision, 2012]
Necrophorus - Sentiment II  ["Heathen Harvest Walpurgisnacht Sampler 2012" (comp.)]
Terminal Gods - Shine  [Genesis, 2011]
Complicity - 23 Years  [Playing God, 1997]
Siiiii - Rictus  [Ancient, 2006]
Alien Sex Fiend - She's a Killer  [Acid Bath, 1984]
Switchblade Symphony - Bad Trash  [Serpentine Gallery, 1995]
Descendants of Cain - Alive  [The Book of Changes, 2004]
Tongue - Speechless  [At the Beginning..., 2012]
Inure - All Alone  [The Offering, 2012]
The Frozen Autumn - Before the Storm   [Chirality, 2012]
Darker Days Tomorrow - Idol  [False Prophets, 2012]
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 - Bedingungslose Kapitulation  [T.A.L.O.S., 2012]
Alan Silvestri - A Little Help (exc.) ["The Avengers" (soundtrack), 2012]
Grendel - Timewave: Zero  [Timewave: Zero, 2012]
Alan Silvestri - Doors Open from Both Sides (exc.) ["The Avengers" (soundtrack), 2012]
Nightbringer - Serpent of the Midnight Sun  [Apocalypse Sun, 2010]
Anhedonist - Estrangement  [Netherwards, 2012]
Mirror of Deception - Ship of Fools  [Foregone, 2005]
Atum - Der Wille I  ["Saur Maas: Auditory Dark Matter" (comp.) 2011]
Aldebaran - Sentinel of a Sunless Abyss  [Embracing The Lightless Depths, 2012]

KEY:

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

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