PODCAST: April 25th, 2014

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It's been a few weeks since the last show, and it will actually be about a month before the next episode arrives, so I've made this one extra-long to help bridge the gap. More about the reasons for that gap in a minute -- but for now, prepare yourselves for over 3 hours of music.

This episode begins with a slightly belated birthday wish for (the man, the myth, the legend) Robert Smith of The Cure, who celebrated his 55th earlier this week. In honor of that, you'll hear a pair of rarities (one live and one obscure) on the way in. Closely following that, the neo-folk fans who rarely get enough of that style here will revel in fresh sounds from New York's Blood and Sun, taken from their new album White Storms Fall.

Those lucky enough to find themselves in Chicago this weekend will be able to attend Convergence 20: First & Last & Always, celebrating 20 years(!) of the annual alt.gothic festival. This year's line-up includes The March Violets and the first-ever US show by UK-Goth-saviours Pretentious, Moi? -- both of whom you'll hear in this episode, in honor of the fact that I'd love to be there in person. But alas...

For the modern post-punk fans, you'll have several reasons to rejoice. First up is the Australian/German combo Ascetic:, who makes their debut here with a song from their Self-Initiation album. Next up is Florida's Astari Night, with a song from their new Stereo Waltz album, followed by Washington's Criminal Code, with an already popular dance track (here in Nashville, at least) from their No Device album.

We'll also dig a bit deeper in to the latest from Ottawa's goth-punk hybrid, Aube, from their 2013 Demo; Turkey's excellent darkwave/goth mixture, She Past Away, from their Belirdi Gece album; and the post-gothic/synth work of Seeming, from their new album, Madness & Extinction.
Now, the reason for my month away from podcasting comes into play during the dark metal set, which is comprised entirely of doom this time. I will be on tour with Loss for the better part of May, as we cross Europe for the first time in our career. In honor of that, the last portion of the show begins with the latest from our tour-mates, German doom-legends Worship, then leads into a set of bands we'll be playing shows with, including new material from three great French acts: Ataraxie, Funeralium, and Monarch!.

All of that, plus: Fresh atmosphere from London's Double Echo and Brian Tyler's soundtrack to the "Sleepy Hollow" television series (how could I resist?); The undying and explicitly 'saxual' new-wave-result of seeing "The Lost Boys" again on the big screen (with an introduction by Corey Feldman himself, no less); Selections from the vault of underrated songs; 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)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, April 25th, 2014

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

The Cure - The Figurehead (live in Bremen: May 7th, 1989)  [Plainsongs, 2012]
The Cure - Cloudberry  [Lost Wishes, 1994]
The Legendary Pink Dots - Death of a King  [A Perfect Mystery, 2000]
Blood and Sun - Keen  [White Storms Fall, 2013]
Faith and the Muse - Cernunnos/The Hand of Man  [Annwynn, Beneath the Waves, 1996]
Gestalt - Deuxième Ombre  [Le Sommeil Du Singe, 1987]
The March Violets - Essence  [Walk Into the Sun, 1984]
Pretentious, Moi? - Astrid  [Pretentious, Moi?, 2010]
Double Echo - Metropolis  [Phantomime, 2013]
Ascetic: - We're Not All Dead  [Self-Initiation, 2013]
Mephisto Walz - Eternal Deep  ["Kaliffornian Deathrock" (comp.) 2006]
Astari Night - Astrid  [Stereo Waltz, 2014]
Aube - De Guerre Lasse  [demo, 2013]
Criminal Code - Mocking Shadows  [No Device, 2013]
Funeral Parade - Eyes of Madmen  [Funeral Parade, 2010]
She Past Away - Belirdi Gece - Musallat (The Night Emerged - Haunt)  [Belirdi Gece, 2013]
Thomas Newman - The Old Resort/Drinking Blood/Falling Home/Headlights ["The Lost Boys" (soundtrack) 1987]
Mummy Calls - Beauty Has Her Way  [Mummy Calls, 1986]
Naked Eyes - Could Be  [Burning Bridges, 1983]
Seeming - The Eyes of Extinction  [Madness and Extinction, 2014]
IAMX - Sorrow  [The Unified Field, 2013]
Mesh - Self-Healing Lie  [The Point at Which It Falls Apart, 1999]
Velvet Acid Christ - Killing a Stranger  [The Art of Breaking Apart, 2009]
Brian Tyler - Sleepy Hollow Theme ["Sleepy Hollow" (soundtrack) 2013]
Worship - Terranean Wake I: Tide Of Terminus  [Terranean Wake, 2012]
Aldebaran - Beasts at the Throne  [Dwellers in Twilight, 2007]
Ataraxie - Procession of the Insane Ones  [L'Être Et La Nausée, 2013]
Abysmal Grief - Lords of the Funerals  [Feretri, 2013]
Monarch! - Transylvanian Incantations  [Omens, 2012]
Funeralium - Deceived Idealism  [Deceived Idealism, 2013]

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PODCAST: April 1st, 2014

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This episode was intentionally launched a few days late, so that it could arrive on April 1st, to hold up the legacy of Rozz Williams on the anniversary of his death. As is the tradition, this episode begins with a tribute set that features many of his musical, experimental, and poetic outlets, including Christian Death, Shadow Project, Daucus Karota, Bloodflag, Premature Ejaculation, Heltir, and the many solo ventures and collaborations he did under his chosen name. This year, I selected deeper cuts and odd versions that are not often heard, although a proper tribute to Rozz cannot begin with out his musical epitaph, "Flowers," which you will find at the top. Always.

New to the show this time is music from Portland's Arctic Flowers, another in a long line of Pacific-Northwestern post-punk/deathrock bands that have helped to carve the new scene that exists in the US right now. You'll hear the title track from their new Weaver album, just before we go a bit deeper into the latest from their Portland neighbors, The Bellicose Minds. This time, you'll get the closing track from their latest LP, The Spine.

We'll also go a bit deeper into the latest release from Denmark's Metro Cult -- which is actually a 7-inch, so we'll call it the flip-side. New Space/Ghost is also available digitally, right here, for free, so grab it while you can.

While we're going back for seconds,  you'll get another taste of Seeming, the new band of erstwhile ThouShaltNot collaborators Alex Reed and Aaron Fuleki. On their new album, Madness & Extinction, they return to an obscure later track from their former band's catalog, giving it a new spin. Check it out, then order it here.

In closing, we'll take a look at the newly re-issued first Velnias album, Sovereign Nocturnal, which has just been given the deluxe treatment by Eisenwald Records. Bask in its 15-minute scope, then pick it up here.

All of that, plus: Further expansion into the current releases from LowCityRain and Beastmilk; Unreleased '80s horror soundtrack work rescued from obscurity; Selections from the darkwave and apocalyptic doom vaults; and more...


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

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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

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

Rozz Williams - Dec. 30th, 1334 (exc.)  [The Whorse's Mouth, 1996]
Rozz Williams & Gitane Demone - Flowers  [Dream Home Heartache, 1995]
Rozz Williams - Abandoned House/Death  ["Pig" (soundtrack) 1998]
Rozz Williams - The Angels (1995 version) [Untitled EP (aka 13:34), 1999]
Christian Death - The Blue Hour  [Catastrophe Ballet, 1984]
Bloodflag feat. Rozz Williams - Daughters of Darkness (Heltir Mix) (exc.) ["Merry Maladies" (comp.) 1998]
Daucus Karota - Father of Temptation  [Shrine, 1994]
Shadow Project - Zaned People  [Dreams for the Dying, 1992]
Christian Death - Skeleton Kiss (Death Mix)  [The Iron Mask, 1992]
Premature Ejaculation - Visitation  [Death Cultures, 1987]
Arctic Flowers - Weaver  [Weaver, 2014]
The Bellicose Minds - In Greed  [The Spine, 2013]
Anasazi - Nuclear Paradise  [Demo, 2011]
Nite Nite - What They Do Not Know  [How to Touch the Moon, 2010] [N]
Metro Cult - Ghost  [New Space/Ghost, 2013]
Clan of Xymox - Out of the Rain  [Hidden Faces, 1997]
David Bowie - Crystal Japan  [Crystal Japan/Alabama Song, 1980]
LowCityRain - Grey View  [LowCityRain, 2013]
Seeming - New Year  [Madness and Extinction, 2014]
Aeon Rings - Betrayal  [Night Vision, 2012]
Kas Product - Never Come Back  [Try Out, 1982]
Ulterior - Locus of Control  [The Bleach Room, 2012]
Kendall Schmidt - (untitled)  ["Neon Maniacs" (soundtrack) 1986]
Brotherhood of Pagans - Sinner Comes to Bits  [Tales of Vampires, 1995]
Beastmilk - The Wind Blows Through Their Skulls  [Climax, 2013]
Neurosis - A Chronology for Survival  [Souls at Zero, 1992]
Atriarch - Oblivion  [Atriarch/Alaric split, 2012]
Tangerine Dream - The Evil Within  ["The Keep" (soundtrack) 1983]
Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal  [Sovereign Nocturnal, 2014]

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PODCAST: March 14th, 2014

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New graphic for Spring 2014

This episode begins on a sad note, marking the passing of Broughty Cole, drummer for the band Lasher Keen. Following a tense, week-long search for his whereabouts after he was reported missing, his body was finally found in the Sacramento River, close to where his abandoned car had been discovered over the weekend. He was only 28. On a better note, the band has dedicated their forthcoming album, Mantic Poetry, Oracular Prophecy, to his memory & spirit -- and if the early mix of "Trembling Dreams" that you'll hear on the way into this episode is any indication, it will be a powerful journey.

Broughty Cole (Lasher Keen) R.I.P.

From there, we move into another new, brooding instrumental from Bella Morte's Andy Deane, who continues to issue new songs, one by one, from his new Small Precious Lights project, which explores dark ambient soundscapes.

On the verge of the release of their new album, Mosaic, Itlay's The Spiritual Bat return with the single "We Are Born, We Live, We Die," which remains true to their old-school goth rock/psychedelic deathrock sound. You can catch a teaser for the album here. Meanwhile, in Canada, the traditional deathrock fires are being stoked by Ottawa's Aube, whose 2013 Demo has been making the rounds online. You'll hear their 'Coffin debut this time around.

In the darkwave realms, you'll get your first taste of Seeming, the new band of former ThouShaltNot collaborators Alex Reed and Aaron Fuleki. Their new album, Madness & Extinction, has just seen release this week. Order it here. We'll also dig a bit deeper into the
darkwave/post-punk sounds of She Past Away, with another taste of their Belirdi Gece album, followed by another song from the new Clan of Xymox album, Matters of Mind, Body, and Spirit.

Industrial/Synth/Wave veteran Gary Numan will play Nashville this coming Monday night @ The Mercy Lounge. In honor of that, you'll hear the title track from his latest album Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind), backed with one of his earliest instrumentals. It should be a great show.

As we move toward the end of the show, you'll hear a brand new track from Esben and the Witch, streamed from their forthcoming split 12" with Thought Forms. Finally, on the way out, things will take a much heavier turn as you hear side A of the new Hex/Golden Sunshine 7-inch from Nashville's own doom/noise factory Pornography, followed by a black metal offering from the new Sargeist album, Feeding the Crawling Shadows.

All of that, plus: A note of remembrance for the multi-talented Ghostbuster himself, Harold Ramis, following his passing a couple of weeks back; Further exploration of the punk side of the goth/rock fence; More genre-news & tour updates; Deeper current cuts from Theurgist, Double Echo, and Deathcharge; Selections from the vault; and more...


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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, March 14th, 2014

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

Lasher Keen - Trembling Dreams (preview edit)  [Mantic Poetry Oracular Prophecy, 2014]
Small Precious Lights - Toward an Unknown Familiar  [Toward an Unknown Familiar, 2014]
Hexvessel - I Am the Ritual  [Dawnbringer, 2011]
Sad Lovers & Giants - Seven Kinds of Sin  [The Mirror Test, 1987]
The Chameleons - Soul in Isolation  [Strange Times, 1986]
Double Echo - Desertion  [Black Morning EP, 2012]
Gene Loves Jezebel - Upstairs  [Promise, 1983]
The Spiritual Bat - We Are Born, We Live, We Die  [Mosaic, 2014]
Simon Chamberlain - Sonata In C Major, Opus 2, No.3 - Adagio (Ludwig van Beethoven)  ["Byzantium" (soundtrack) 2012]
Norma Loy - Lesbische Voodoo Teenagers  [Psychic Altercation/Rewind, 1988]
Ramones - Garden of Serenity  [Halfway to Sanity, 1987]
Rubella Ballet - False Promises  [If, 1986]
Aube - Exil  [demo, 2013]
Silent Scream - Dying Dreams  [Public Execution, 2012]
Ghost of Lemora - Beauty Can't Die  [Reach for the Ground, 2004]
Elmer Bernstein - Library/The Gatekeeper  ["Ghostbusters" (Original Score) 1984]
Seeming - The Burial  [Madness & Extinction, 2014]
She Past Away - Monoton  [Belirdi Gece, 2013]
Clan of Xymox - The Climate Changed  [Matters of Mind, Body, and Soul, 2014]
Gary Numan - Splinter  [Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind), 2013]
Gary Numan - Asylum  [Cars/Asylum, 1979] 
Vaura - Mare of the Snake  [The Missing, 2013]
Soror Dolorosa - Exodus  [No More Heroes, 2013]
Theurgist - Lizzie Boredom  [DeathBed, 2013]
Deathcharge - To An Early Death  [Bad Dream Forever, 2013]
Esben and the Witch - No Dog  [Esben and the Witch/Thought Forms (split), 2014]
Anathema - Sleepless  [Serenades, 1993]
Agalloch - This White Mountain on Which You Will Die  [Ashes Against the Grain, 2006]
Pornography - Hex  [Hex/Golden Sunshine, 2014]
Sargeist - Funerary Descent  [Feeding the Crawling Shadows, 2014]

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PODCAST: February 28th, 2014

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Just to clarify: There was no February 14th episode, so you haven't missed one. Due to studio sessions with my band, that episode was postponed until now -- which means that this brand new episode contains even more new music than it normally would. Behold!

Many great new post-punk/deathrock acts have come to my attention in the early part of this year already, hitting the scene from across the globe: England-by-way-of San-Francisco's Double Echo make their debut on this episode with a track from their traditional-goth-leaning Life Inside/Rupture/Sylvia online release. From Italy comes the frenetic post-punk of Soviet Soviet, whose Fate album crept in at the tail end of last year. From Denmark comes some impressive deathrock, in the form of Metro Cult's New Space/Ghost 7-inch (pun intended?). And, from Chicago, the band Population blows through with a song from their White Crosses EP.

Meanwhile, in Turkey, the darkwave/post-punk sounds of She Past Away make their debut on this episode as well, with a taste of their Belirdi Gece album. And who could discuss darkwave without mention of one of the art form's pioneers, Clan of Xymox? The Dutch group have returned with Matters of Mind, Body, and Spirit, from which you will hear a deeper cut this time.

This has also been a good month for the debut of side projects. Bella Morte's Andy Deane has emerged with two new songs from his Small Precious Lights project, which explores a dark ambient/electronic sound. Nearby, Steven Archer (of Ego Likeness) has just released Stoneburner's The No Chamber, which features experimental electronic landscapes based on the chronicles of Dune. Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest, Assemblage 23's Tom Shear has just released Oceania, the new album from his project Surveillance.

You'll also get a taste of the new God Module album, False Face, just before we slide into a dark metal set that is filled with new music as well: A pair of bizarre, experimental black metal entries from Sweden's Stilla and Macedonia's Kult of Taurus, along with the raw, cassette-demo vibe of Finland's Cemetery Fog, and a closing debut from USBM act, Incursus.  

All of that, plus forgotten songs culled from post-punk, deathrock, dark metal, and psychedelic darkwave vaults, and more...


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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, February 28th, 2014

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

The Tear Garden - The Running Man  [The Last Man to Fly, 1993]
Small Precious Lights - Death In Hopeless Times [single, 2014]
Double Echo - Sylvia  [Life Inside. Rupture. Sylvia, 2014]
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - Shake Off Your Dreams  [Weltuntergangsstimmung , 2012]
Eat Your Make-Up - Pandemonic  [Things As They Should Be, 2008]
Of a Mesh - Candy (Is An Axe Now)  [Of A Mesh, 1986]
Fade to Black - Soundtrack  [Corridors of Gender, 1984]
Night Sins - Knell  [New Grave, 2012]
Soviet Soviet - Ecstasy  [Fate, 2013]
Metro Cult - New Space  [New Space/Ghost 7", 2013]
Population - White Crosses  [White Crosses, 2013]
Witching Hour - Ligea  [Hourglass EP, 1992]
The Last Dance - Cages  ["Out ov the Coffin: Compilation for the Dead, 2008"]
She Past Away - Kasvetli Kutlama  [Belirdi Gece, 2013]
Stoneburner - The Cry of the Water-Poor  [The No Chamber, 2014]
Clan of Xymox - I Close My Eyes  [Matters of Mind, Body, and Soul, 2014]
Catastrophe Ballet - Love is Dead & Death is the Only Love  [Menschenfeind, 1997]
Youth Code - No Animal Escapes  [Youth Code, 2013]
Surveillance - Voyeur  [Oceania, 2014]
God Module - Faith is Fragile  [False Face, 2014]
Javier Navarrete - Hotel Byzantium  ["Byzantium" (soundtrack) 2013]
Katatonia - Funeral Wedding  [For Funerals To Come…, 1995]
Cemetery Fog - Shadows from the Cemetery  [Shadows from the Cemetery, 2013]
Stilla - Ensamhetens andar  [Ensamhetens andar, 2014]
Kult of Taurus - Where No Moon Rises  [Divination Labyrinths, 2014]
Phragments  - And Now Eternity  [Homo Homini Lvpvs, 2005] 
Incursus - Adaestuo I  [Adaestuo, 2014] 

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PODCAST: January 31st, 2014

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Nashville has been lucky enough to host some great live shows in the last week. Most recently, I had the distinct pleasure of seeing Chelsea Wolfe, performing as a headliner on the eve of a string of dates opening for Queens of the Stone Age -- I may not be a fan of QOTSA, but they have chosen some great openers recently. I encourage anyone in the path of Ms. Wolfe's tour plans to catch her live show, and in honor of that recommendation, I've included one of her older tracks on this episode.

This past weekend, I was also able to catch the much-talked-about Youth Code, when they came through town with AFI. Now, that crowd wasn't really sure what to make of a traditional EBM/industrial act, but I applaud AFI, too, for taking hungry young bands of different styles on the road and keeping things fresh. You'll hear a track from the new self-titled Youth Code record on this episode as well.

Speaking of classic industrial sounds, I take a stroll down that lane of memory on this episode, revisiting some of the '90s sounds that bolstered my interest in the genre. Not to be outdone by a retro-trip, though, you'll get a taste of the new Rabia Sorda album, Hotel Suicide, which experiments with new ways of moving people on the dance floor, while retaining the punch that Erk Aicrag is known for delivering behind the microphone with his main band, Hocico.

Meanwhile, in the realm of goth rock & darkwave, I'll unearth some of the late '90s gems that frequented this show's earliest playlists. Going a step further back than that, you'll also get a taste of the two new Sacred Bones Records releases that came out last week: Sanctuary: The complete Discography of cult anarcho-punk/deathrock act Vex, and the newly-compiled "Killed By Deathrock" LP, which highlights a collection of otherwise-forgotten deathrock and post-punk bands from the '80s, such as New Jersey's own Screaming for Emily, whom I chose to feature this time.

In this episode's last moments, as things turn from strange to stranger, Chicago's I Shalt Become will lead you away with a selection from their latest abstract black metal experiment, Louisiana Voodoo.

All of that, PLUS: Deeper cuts from the new Beastmilk and LowCityRain albums; The 'Coffin debut of Uruguay's first goth band, RRRRRRR; A lifting of the veil to revisit the oft-overlooked Fear of God; Some obscure 1970s necrophilia-cult soundtrack music; and much, much more.


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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, January 31st, 2014

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

LowCityRain - I Don't Know Myself  [LowCityRain, 2013]
Angelo Badalamenti - Harold's Theme ["Twin Peaks: Season Two Music and More" (soundtrack) 1991]
The Twilight Garden - Reconcile  [Hope, 2012]
David Sylvian - Forbidden Colours  [Secrets of the Beehive, 1987]
Silke Bischoff - Flash in My Veins  ["Call on the Dark - vol. 1" (comp.) 1997]
Love Like Blood - Dawnland  [Snakekiller, 1998]
ROME - Amsterdam, The Clearing  [Hell Money, 2012]
Swans - Better Than You  [White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, 1991]
Dernière Volonté - Hymn  [Commémoration, 2004]
Vex - Sanctuary  [Sanctuary (The Complete Discography), 1984/2014]
Nosferatu - Bombers  [Wonderland, 2011]
Screaming for Emily - The Love  ["Killed By Deathrock" (comp.) 2014]
RRRRRRR - Maniqui  [Maniqui/Una Herejia (single) 2005]
Chelsea Wolfe - Demons  [Ἀποκάλυψις, 2011]
Beastmilk - Fear Your Mind  [Climax, 2013]
Manuel de Sica - Stolen Murders  ["Dellamorte Dellamore" (soundtrack) 1994]
Malaise - Walking Through the Wonderland  [Fifty-Two Ways, 1996]
I, Parasite - Slow Pain of Water  [Turin, 1999]
Mentallo & the Fixer - Ruthless  [Return to Grimpen Ward, 2001]
Out Out - Admire the Question  [Pepperbox Muzzle, 1991]
Youth Code - First & Last  [Youth Code, 2013]
Rabia Sorda - Deaf  [Hotel Suicide, 2013]
Phragments & Shock Frontier - Ignis Cerebri  ["The Black Plague" (comp.) 2013]
Darc Entries - Precious.Limetree  […In Hate, Havoc or in Haze, 1999]
Fear of God - Drift  [Within the Veil, 1991]
Atriarch - Altruist  [Ritual of Passing, 2012]
The Deadfly Ensemble - The Early Years of Dr. Lindsay  [An Instructional Guide for Aspiring Arsonists, 2012]
Keith Emerson - Mater Tenebrarum  ["Inferno" (soundtrack) 1980]
Phil Moody - untitled ["Love Me Deadly" (soundtrack) 1972]
I Shalt Become - Total Perspective Vortex  [Louisiana Voodoo, 2013]

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The first regular episode of 2014 arrives with another armload of new releases to expose, and current albums in which to dig a bit deeper. In honor of her upcoming Nashville concert (1/28 @ The Exit/In), the show begins with a wet, shadowy piece taken from the latest Chelsea Wolfe album, Pain is Beauty.

Making their debut on the show, but not on the scene, is San Francisco's recently resurrected original deathrock project, Altar de Fey. "Crimson Sin" is one of two new singles the band issued in 2013, and I look forward to more. Meanwhile, in Portland, Shadowhouse is stirring the post-punk pot with their new 7-inch, Haunted, from which we'll hear the b-side.

One of the more underrated acts, State-side at least, in dark rock/folk/post-punk has to be New Model Army -- a band with integrity and talent to spare, that somehow continues to fly under the radar of so many. You'll get a taste of their new album, Between Dog and Wolf, and if you like that, I encourage you to work backwards through their catalogue.

Several cool digital singles came out in the past two weeks, including the return of Ohio's The Wake, who were one of the finest and most overlooked US gothic rock bands of the '90s. Their new single, "Rusted," is available here or here as both an original version and a remix. Also issuing a new digital single is Mexican deathrock band Acid Bats, whose Srita. Destrucción can be picked up for free right here.

Not to be outdone, darkwave/goth veterans Clan of Xymox have released the first single from their forthcoming album, Matters of the Mind, Body and Soul. You'll hear their curiously titled "Love's On Diet" on this episode, immediately following another dose of the fully-addictive new Night Sins album, To London or the Lake. Even before that, fellow Philadelphians Theurgist will have dazzled you with your second taste of their new DeathBed EP, which you can get here.

In the dark metal portion of the show, we'll sink one cut deeper into Aokigahara Jukai, the latest from Australia's Thrall, after partaking in a wave of the new Hopeful Machines album. HM, as you may know, is the more experimental electronic arm of Steven Archer from Ego Likeness. You can grab the last remaining copies of the limited edition of The Spring of the Drowned Girl right here.

All of that, PLUS: More '80s horror-soaked synth-work from the new Allesandro Parisi album, La Porta Ermetica; Birthday nods to both John Carpenter and David Bowie; Touring news; Classics from the vault; 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)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, January 17th, 2014

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

Chelsea Wolfe - Sick  [Pain Is Beauty, 2013]
John Carpenter - The Fog  ["The Fog" (soundtrack) 1980]
Altar de Fey - Crimson Sin  [digital single, 2013]
Cocteau Twins - When Mama Was Moth  [Head Over Heels, 1983]
David Bowie - Saviour Machine  [The Man Who Sold the World, 1970]
Modern English - Just a Thought  [Mesh & Lace, 1981]
New Model Army - I Need More Time  [Between Dog and Wolf, 2013]
Giorgio Moroder - Ruined Landscape/Swamps of Sadness  ["The NeverEnding Story" (soundtrack) 1984]
Shadowhouse - Lonely Psalm  [Haunted, 2013]
The Wake - Rusted  [digital single, 2014]
Acid Bats - Srita. Destrucción  [Srita. Destrucción, 2013]
Deathcharge - untitled (#5)  [Love Was Born To An Early Death, 2012]
Theurgist - Love Lies Bleeding (demo)  [DeathBed, 2013]
Alessandro Parisi - Hesperius Draco  [La Porta Ermetica, 2013]
Night Sins - Dear Marquis  [To London or the Lake, 2013]
Clan of Xymox - Love's On Diet  [Matters of the Mind, Body and Soul, 2014]
The Japanese Popstars feat. Robert Smith - Take Forever  [Take Forever, 2011]
Switchblade Symphony - Wallflower  [Serpentine Gallery, 1995]
Corpus Delicti - The Awakening  [Sylphes, 1994]
Hopeful Machines - The Spring of the Drowned Girl  [The Spring of the Drowned Girl, 2013]
Deafheaven - Vertigo  [Sunbather, 2013]
Laudanum - Invoke  [The Coronation, 2009]
Pallbearer - The Legend  [demo, 2010]
Thrall - Longing for Death  [Aokigahara Jukai, 2013]
Acanthus - Sleeping Beauty (Angoisse Temporelle)  ["Kiss of the Damned" (soundtrack) 2013]
My Dying Bride - The Sexuality of Bereavement  [Trinity, 1995]

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PODCAST: The Best ov 2013

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Here it is: Out ov the Coffin's aural time-capsule, carefully packed with the best of the past year in dark music. 2013 was a surprisingly good year, too. There honestly wasn't much that I was willing to trim from my rough list. As a result, you are about to hear an amazing stream of songs, solid from top to bottom, which will clock in one full hour longer than normal -- and it just happens to round out to a very tidy Top 40 list, although they're played by feel rather than rank.

So, pick your poison (DL or streaming), find a good space, and take in the best that 2013 had to offer in the unlit fields of goth, post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, synth, film music, dark metal, ambient, and more.

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"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod

Show date: Friday, January 3rd, 2014

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

Beastmilk - Death Reflects Us  [Climax, 2013]
Steven Hufsteter - KOTD Love Theme / The Long Drive Home  ["Kiss of the Damned" (soundtrack) 2013]
Chelsea Wolfe - Ancestors, The Ancients  [Pain Is Beauty, 2013]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away  [Push the Sky Away, 2013]
Lycia - Quiet Moments  [Quiet Moments, 2013]
Lux Interna - Tongues  [There Is Light In the Body, There Is Blood In the Sun, 2013]
Bloody Dead and Sexy w/ Gitane Demone - Plastic Night Sky  [Bad Ambient, 2013]
ROME - Hate Us and See If We Mind  [Hate Us and See If We Mind, 2013]
Goblin - Suspiria (2013)  [Tour EP 2013, 2013]
Night Sins - To London or the Lake  [To London or the Lake, 2013]
Savages - She Will  [Silence Yourself, 2013]
Silent Scream - Rotten Days  [Pubic Execution, 2012]
Vaura - Incomplete Burning  [The Missing, 2013]
The Bellwether Syndicate - The Night Watch  [The Night Watch EP, 2013]
Bellicose Minds - The Spine  [The Spine, 2013]
Javier Navarrete - Secrets / No One  [from "Byzantium" (soundtrack) 2013]
Masquerade - Needle Through a Bug  [demo, 2013]
Theurgist - Verdugo  [DeathBed, 2013]
salvation AMP - Pandorum  [Hidden Faces, 2013]
Anasazi - Serpent's Circle  [Nuke York, 2013]
Wax Idols - When It Happens  [Discipline & Desire, 2013]
Spectres - Remote Viewing  [Nothing to Nowhere, 2012]
Becoming the Devourer - DecemberHoveringOut  [DecemberHoveringOut, 2013] [N]
Soror Dolorosa - Silver Square  [No More Heroes, 2013]
Grooving In Green - Stranglehold  [Stranglehold, 2013]
LowCityRain - Nightshift  [LowCityRain, 2013]
White Lies - Getting Even  [Big TV, 2013]
IAMX - Sorrow  [The Unified Field, 2013]
NOIR - The Bells  [Darkly Near, 2013]
Alessandro Parisi - Si Sedes Non iS  [La Porta Ermetica, 2013]
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn  [Old Mornings Dawn, 2013]
Sombres Forêts - L'éther  [La Mort du Soleil, 2013]
Gris - Seizième prière  [À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée…, 2013]
Rituaal - Datura at the Astral Sabbat  [Rituaal 7", 2013]
Alraune - Exordium  [demo, 2013]
Cult of Fire - शव साधना  [मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान, 2013]
Wolvserpent - A Breath in the Shade of Time (exc.)  [Perigaea Antahkarana, 2013]
Ash Borer - Oblivion's Spring (exc.)  [Bloodlands, 2013]
Hell - Decedere (exc.)  [III, 2013]
Lycus - Coma Burn  [Tempest, 2013]

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