PODCAST: Halloween Special (October 2019)

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TEAR FORTH FROM YOUR GRAVES, it's time for The 2019 "Out ov the Coffin" HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Yes, three blood-soaked hours of Halloween-obsessed sounds for your treat bags, featuring full-size songs from the most morbid realms of goth, post-punk, deathrock, horror punk, darkwave, and dark metal, riddled with hundreds of fun-sized bites of cvlt movie dialogue, sound effects, trailers, radio spots, novelties, and, of corpse, horror film and television soundtracks, all assembled in ritual formation, and (g)hosted by yours truly, DJ Ichabod.

In addition to many traditional Classicks from the Crypt, I have ungraved some delightfully fresh musical specimens for this year's special, including the most recently deceased releases from: Calabrese, Twin Tribes, Coffin Moth, Secret Shame, Vernian Process, Erythrite Throne, Tristengrav, and premieres from a shocking THREE Halloween-centric acts from right here in Nashsylvania: Boo Dudes, MALCO, and Unhallows Eve! Plus, many great selections from Something Weird's new compilation record, Spookshow Spectacular A-Go-Go, which I can't recommend enough to fans of classic, hyperbolic horror-show ad spots and spooky mid-20th-century monster kid culture. 

 
So, crash right through these cemetery gates, wander the sonic tombs, and set the volume to scare the whole neighborhod. May this show improve your Halloween season -- and if it does, please hand it out to your fiends by sharing it on your social media 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: 2019!

  Show recorded on: Tuesday, October 29th, 2019

[Sample] Scooby Doo, Where Are You? Hassle in the Castle/A Night of Fright is No Delight
Gabe Castro - Dead End Drive (exc.)  [Nightmares, 2015]
[Sample] The Midnight Hour (1985)
[Sample] Elvira on SNL
Something Weird - Halloween Convention of Spooks  [Spookshow Spectacular A-Go-Go, (comp.) 2019] 

[Sample] Phantasm (1979)
[Sample] CBS "Special" Intro Jingle

Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me (Twin Peaks Murder Edition 2017)
Something Weird Video - Young American Mystic Cult of Horrors (exc.)  [Spookshow Spectacular A-Go-Go, (comp.) 2019]
Dr. Blood - The Thunderstorm (exc.)  [Dr. Blood's Screamscapes!, 1996] 
Calabrese - Invisible Witches  [Those Who Flee the Light, 2019]
[Sample] The Midnight Hour (1985) 
Misfits - Halloween  [Halloween, 1981]
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MALCO - Scoppio (Dei Morti Viventi) [single, 2019]
Martin Cooper & David A. Hughes - Main Title  ["C.H.U.D." (soundtrack) 1984]
Bob Summers - Main Title ["One Dark Night" (soundtrack) 1982]
Daniele Patucchi - Esorcismo  ["Il Sesso Della Strega (Sex of the Witch)" (soundtrack) 1973]
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Kid Stuff Repertory Company - Night Prowl (exc.). [Mostly Ghostly, 1977]
[Sample] Something Weird - A Man Buried Alive (exc.) 
[Sample] "The Premature Burial" (1962)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Premature Burial  [Join Hands, 1979]Unhallows Eve - Eerie Tales  [The Midnight Hour, 2019]
[Sample] "Vincent Price's Once Upon a Midnight Scary"
[Sample] "Mausoleum" (1983)
Sonsombre - Nocturnal  [A Funeral for the Sun, 2018]
[Trailer] "Nosferatu" (1979)
[Sample] "The Premature Burial" (1962)
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Death Waltz  [Death and Flamingos, 2019]
[Sample] "Vincent Price's Once Upon a Midnight Scary" (1979)
Twin Tribes - Fantasmas  [single, 2019]
[Trailer] "Suspiria" radio spot (1977)
Kælan Mikla - Nornalagið (The Witches' Song) [Nótt eftir nótt, 2018]
[Sample] "The Premature Burial" (1962)   
Secret Shame - Haunter  [Dark Synthetics, 2019]
[Sample] "Castle of Blood" (1964)
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Cimitir - Cryptstench and Gravemold  [Duskhymns, 2018]
Fabio Frizzi - Paura  ["City of the Living Dead" (soundtrack) 1980]
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Boo Dudes - RIPped In My Crypt  [Candy Corn Sells... But Who's Buying?, 2019]
[Trailer] Boris Karloff , "The Haunted Strangler" (1958) radio spot
Nosferatu - Graveyard Shift  [Prince of Darkness, 1996]
[Sample] "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" (1973)
[Sample] "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985)
Francis Haines - The Trioxin Theme  ["The Return of the Living Dead" (score) 1985] 
45 Grave - Party Time (Zombie version)  ["The Return of the Living Dead" (soundtrack) 1985]
[Sample] "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985)
Blu Anxxiety - Uninvited to the Funeral Home  [God's Exposure, 2019]
[Sample] Richard O'Brien (MTV 1989)
Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast - The Time Warp ["The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (soundtrack) 1975] 
[Sample] Dr. Macabre's Frightmare Of Movie Monsters

John Zacherley - Happy Halloween  [Scary Tales, 1962]
William Castle - Terror from the Tomb (exc.)  [Ghost Story, 1972]
Allegro Corporation - Eerie Music. [Sounds of Horror, 2005]
The Misfits - Night of the Living Dead  [Night of the Living Dead (single) October 31st, 1979]
[Trailer] "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) 
Screaming Dead - Angel of Death  [Night Creatures, 1983]
[Sample] "Dellamorte Dellamore" (Cemetery Man) (1994)
Eat Your Make Up - I Was the Murderer  [First Dinner, 2005]
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Vernian Process - Vampire Killer  [Castlevania: The Eternal Legacy, 2019]
Goblin - Suspiria (exc.)  ["Susprira" (soundtrack) 1977]
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Kid Stuff Repertory Co. - Ghostly Mostly (exc.). [Mostly Ghostly, 1977]
SWV - Dr. Satan and His Shrieks in the Night (exc.)  [Spookshow Spectacular A-Go-Go, (comp.) 2019] 
Samhain - Halloween II  [November-Coming Fire, 1986]
[Trailer] "Zombi" (1979) 
Bella Morte - The Fallen  [The Deathrock EP, 2001]
Coffin Moth - Night of the Witch  [single, 2019]
[Sample] "Once Upon a Midnight Scary: The House With a Clock In Its Walls" (1979)
[Trailer] "Creepshow" radio spot (1982)
[Sample] Freddy Krueger 1-900 Phone Number story (exc.)
Charles Bernstein - Main Title  ["A Nightmare on Elm Street" (soundtrack) 1984] 
Horror Vacui - New Wave of Fear  [New Wave of Fear, 2018]
[Sample] "Castle of Blood" (1964)
Astrovamps - Transylvania  [Manifesto, 2007]
[Sample] "Castle of Blood" (1964) 
Altar de Fey - Crimson Sin  [The Insatiable Desire... For More, 2019]
[Sample] "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" (1971)
Danzig - When Death Had No Name  (Danzig III sessions)  [The Lost Tracks of Danzig, 2007]
[Trailer] "House of Dark Shadows" (1970)
Seraphim Shock - After Dark [Red Silk Vow, 1997]
[Sample] Vincent Price / "The House of Seven Corpses" (1974)
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John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Halloween III Close/Open  ["Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (Complete Original Motion Picture Score) 1982/2007]
Erythrite Throne - The Dhampyre's Tomb (exc.)  [Ghost Stories, 2019]
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[Sample] Alice Cooper, "Headbanger's Ball" Halloween Night 1989
King Diamond - Welcome Home (live at Graspop)  [Songs for the Dead Live, 2018]
[Trailer] "Necromancy" (1972) radio spot
Agathodaimon - Banner of Blasphemy  [Near Dark (demo), 1997]
[Trailer] "Dracula" (1979)
Nokturnal Mortum - Return of the Vampire Lord  [Return Of The Vampire Lord, 1997]
Celestial Grave - Burial Ground Trance  [Burial Ground Trance, 2016]
[Sample] William Castle - The Catherdral of Evil 
Devil Master - Black Flame Candle  [Satan Spits on Children of Light, 2019]
[Sample] "Christian Perspective on Halloween" 
Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh  [The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, 1994]
[Sample] Masters of the Universe "The House of Shokoti, pt. 2"
Tristengrav - Pitch Black Catacombs  [II - Nychavge, 2019]
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Don Peake - Halloween Knight, pt. 8  ["Knight Rider" (soundtrack) 1984/2009]
Eerie Von & Mike Morance - Nightmare  [Uneasy Listening, 1996]
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[Sample] Something Weird Sound Effect / Hey Weirdos
T.S.O.L. - Code Blue  [Dance with Me, 1981]
[Sample] Scooby Doo  "...and I would've gotten away with it..."

KEY:
(comp.) = compilation

(exc.) = excerpt

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PODCAST: September 2019 Episode

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This episode begins with new music from The Legendary Pink Dots, who are living up to the "legendary" portion of their name by embarking on a tour to celebrate their upcoming 40th anniversary as a band! Their new album Angel in the Detail is out now on Metropolis Records.

The first full set begins with a debut from North Carolina's Secret Shame, who provide a great new album's worth of traditional goth/deathrock sounds on their just-released Dark Synthetics. Speaking of tradition, we then celebrate the return of '90s UK goth rock band Children on Stun, who emerged earlier this year with the catchy, even Brit-pop-esque, Echoes. We then check back in with Italy's Hapax for a track deeper into their latest album, Monade, before diving into the vaults to revisit a classic from the also-recently-unearthed second-wave goth rock act Kill Sister Kill, who has made some of their more obscure albums available to modern collectors. Some fresh deathrock comes next from Florida's Obsidian, taken from their debut EP, A Swamp. Finally, we round out the set with your first taste of the new Calabrese album, Flee the Light. The horror-rock brothers three have upped the ante this time by, believe it or not, producing a video for every single song on the album! Catch them on tour now.

Set two kicks in with some much-talked-about new darkwave from Louisville, Kentucky's Scary Black, who first appeared on last month's "Compilation for the Dead" special. The band has just been picked up by Secret Sin Records for their debut full length. New York's A Cloud of Ravens fly by after that, with a second taste of their Sacred Hearts EP, before you're given the chance to decide for yourself about the new Night Sins album, A Portrait In Silver, which sees the band's sound sliding from The Sisters to Depeche Mode, to speak reductively. Texas act Three Rose Charm is next, with a debut from their new Austral Rites release, which easily sounds like an obscurity from a forgotten '80s goth LP that a collector would carefully pull out and let you hear -- only if you were cool.

The set then shifts into inspiration from my recent week at Dragon Con 2019, the southeast's largest sci-fi/fantasy/comics/horror/etc convention, beginning with a look back at Atlanta locals Entertainment, with a classic from 2008's Gender album. Valentine Wolfe are up next, with a minimal piece from their 2018 release, Dolorosa Lachrymosa, which was selected as a stand in for their yet-unreleased original score to the silent film classic Nosferatu (1922) -- which the duo improvised on the spot during a screening we held at the horror track over Labor Day weekend. Closing the set is an atypical piece form Aurelio Voltaire, taken from his latest release, What Are the Oddz?, which circles back to pick up and complete the material from an unrealized new-wave-inspired project that began back in 2005.

After nerding out about the '80s sci-fi television classic, "V", set three starts with the last piece of my Dragon Con recap, a nod to The Cruxshadows' enduring commitment to a great live performance. After that, you'll hear a song from the brand new Wingtips album, Exposure Therapy (they'll be on tour this fall, and in Nashville October 10th) followed by a selection from the new Velvet Acid Christ album, Ora Oblivionis. In honor of the show they just played at Fascination Street here in Nashville, I then revisit the EP that got me into Portland's Dancing Plague, before ending the set with new music from Maryland's Stoneburner (the tribal industrial solo project of Steven Archer of Ego Likeness). The new album is called Technology Implies Belligerence, and there will be a tour in support of that this fall -- including a Nashville date on Friday November 22nd @ The East Room.

The last full set, typically riddled with dark metal, eases into its role with more new music from Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, whose latest work, Death and Flamingos, sets up the metal portion of the show by making use of some very doom-friendly guitar lines. Following that, we get another taste of the latest from Montreal's Ossuaire, who already have the follow-up to Premier Chants ready to release this fall. A pair of classics comes next, in the form of some Tales from the Thousand Lakes-era Amorphis, and the first full length from Swallow the Sun, the Twin Peaks-soaked The Morning Never Came. Both songs were played heavily in my radio days, both on the air and off. Closing the metal set is a debut from Arizona depressive black metal band Suicide Forest, taken from their new self-titled album.

Finally, the show ends on a up beat with one more memory from Dragon Con 2019 -- actually from the day before the con started in earnest. I had the pleasure of seeing (and meeting) Tim Cappello -- yes, the sweaty sax guy from "The Lost Boys" himself. To sum it up, he put on a great show, giving a master class in how to work an audience and make the whole experience fun for both the ironic attendees and those who genuinely enjoyed the man's perspective, positive spin, and sweaty sax work. "Believe" it or not, after supporting so many others in his storied career, he just released his first proper album last year, the aptly titled Blood on the Reed. Unsurprisingly, it contains a new version of his signature song, "I Still Believe," and so I close with that one, of corpse. And if that gets you in the mood for some Halloween vibes, good! The next episode of Out ov the Coffin will be the annual HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, so stay tuned BOiLS and GHoULS!

All of that PLUS: More '80s synthwave atmosphere from the "Stranger Things 3" score by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein; Actual '80s synthwave revisited, from Black Tape for a Blue Girl's Sam Rosenthal; Selections from the '60s and '80s horror vaults; and more!

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

(each band name is also a website link)
(sets and talk breaks separated by dashes)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Show recorded on: September 20th, 2019

Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]
The Legendary Pink Dots - Mantis  [Angel in the Detail, 2019]
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Sam Rosenthal - They Came At Night  [Tanzmusik, 1984]
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Secret Shame - Gift  [Dark Synthetics, 2019]
Children on Stun - Echoes  [Echoes, 2019]
Hapax - Creature of Distance  [Monade, 2019]
Kill Sister Kill - Blessings  ["The Goth Box" (comp.), 1996]
Obsidian - Nondisclosure  [A Swamp, 2018]
Calabrese - Pleasures of Evil  [Flee the Light, 2019]
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - The Week Is Long  ["Stranger Things 3" (soundtrack) 2019]
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Scary Black - Icarus  [digital single, 2019]
A Cloud of Ravens - This Quickening  [Sacred Hearts, 2019]
Night Sins - Two Headed Dream  [Portrait In Silver, 2019]
Three Rose Charm - Soft as Stone  [Austral Rites, 2019]
Entertainment - A Seduction Walks  [Gender, 2008]
Valentine Wolfe - Ophaniel  [Dolorosa Lachrymosa, 2018]
Aurelio Voltaire - Firestorms of Venus  [What Are the Oddz?, 2019]
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Barry De Vorzon & Dominik Hauser - Main Title  ["V: The Final Battle" (soundtrack) 1986]
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The Cruxshadows - Jupiter  [Astromythology, 2017]
Wingtips - Accidental Effigies  [Exposure Therapy, 2019]
Velvet Acid Christ - Trash  [Ora Oblivionis, 2019]
Dancing Plague - Habitual  [Habitual, 2017]
Stoneburner - The Angel of Abscess  [Technology Implies Belligerence, 2019]
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Jean Prodromides - Carmilla Et Léopoldo ["Blood and Roses" (soundtrack) 1960]
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Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Mephistophilia  [Death and Flamingos, 2019]
Ossuaire - Saints Céphalophores  [Premiers Chants, 2019]
Swallow the Sun - Hold This Woe  [The Morning Never Came, 2003]
Amorphis - Drowned Maid  [Tales from the Thousand Lakes, 1994]
Suicide Forest - Sea of Trees  [Suicide Forest, 2019]
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Thomas Newman - The Old Resort ["The Lost Boys" (score) 1987]
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Tim Cappello - I Still Believe  ["Blood on the Reed" 2018]
 

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PODCAST: Compilation for the Dead 2019 (August 2019 Episode)

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Arriving a little late due to travel, but acting as the August 2019 episode, here is the all-new Out ov the Coffin: Compilation for the Dead 2019! What's that, you say? It's a mixtape-style version of the show, designed to play through without talk breaks, so your ears can focus on this season's crop of new and current dark music that I think people should know about. It serves as both a good intro to the show, for newcomers, and a convenient collection of new and recent standouts for longtime listeners. It's also something of a tribute to those all-important, ever popular goth compilation CDs that were so helpful to me when I first got into this kind of music, way back in the '90s.

I started the "Compilation for the Dead" series back in 2007 (which makes this one the lucky 13th), after attending Dragon Con for a couple of years, where I would consistently have conversations between panels about "the state of goth music," the health of "the scene," and if there were any good bands still putting music out these days. My answer to the last question was always an emphatic "YES," but in order to put my money where my mouth was, I decided to create some proof.

"I made you a mixtape...."

So, each year I choose an album's worth of strictly new and current music to represent this podcast, my DJing style, and, most importantly, the current state of goth & the wider dark music scene as I see it.

For those who just found out about Out ov the Coffin, welcome aboard. New, "regular" episodes happen once a month, featuring even more great new music -- but also including classics from the vault, episodic themes, and further cuts into current albums in the realms of Goth, post-punk, deathrock, darkwave, coldwave, industrial, film scores, dark metal, and more. The next one, the actual September episode, will be coming up in a week or two, followed by October's traditional Halloween Special, which is both a personal and listener favorite each year.

In the meantime, if you're new to this podcast, I encourage you to check out some of the previous episodes (here or here), and to follow the show on Facebook and Instagram.

Thanks,
Ichabod

* Neither this podcast nor this compilation are endorsed or produced by Dragon Con.


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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

  This mix/episode originally compiled August 2019.

Intro track, which plays backwards beneath the introduction:

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

The "Out ov the Coffin" Compilation for the Dead, 2019:

1.    Jóhann Jóhannsson - Seeker of the Serpent's Eye  ["Mandy" (soundtrack) 2018]
2.    Whispering Sons - Alone  [Image, 2018]
3.    The Rope - Given to the Gun  [Lillian, 2019]
4.    Sonsombre - The Future Is Black  [The Veils of Ending, 2019]
5.    Blu Anxxiety - Cats Eye and Corpse  [digital single, 2019]
6.    Kælan Mikla - Næturblóm  [Nótt eftir nótt, 2018]
7.    Silence in the Snow - Smoke Signals  [Levitation Chamber, 2019]
8.    Creux Lies - Tsavo  [The Hearth, 2018]
9.    U.S. Grave - Stumble Off the Earth  [Voice of an Idiot Ghost E.P., 2018]
10.  La Procesión de lo Infinito - La Era Oscura  [La Era Oscura, 2018]
11.  Night Machine - Old Dust (The Crypt)  [Themes of the Dead, 2018]
12.  VR Sex - Maiden China  [Human Traffic Jam, 2019]
13.  Scary Black - Josephine  [Shadow Dwellers, 2019]
14.  Delphine Coma - Is This Forever  [Leaving the Scene, 2018]
15.  The Newton Brothers - Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone  ["The Haunting of Hill House" (soundtrack) 2018]
16.  Spire Circle - Ghosts With Teeth  [digital single, 2019]
17.  None - This Heat  [Heat, 2019]
18.  Thief - Frost Breath  [Map of Lost Keys, 2019]
19.  Devil Master - Listen, Sweet Demons... Nightmares in the Human Collapse  [Satan Spits on Children of Light, 2019]
20.  Michael Abels - Battle Plan  ["Us" (soundtrack) 2019]
21.  Délétère - Babel Insanifusor  [Theovorator: Babelis Testamentum, 2019]
22.  Colin Stetson - Hail, Paemon!  ["Hereditary" (soundtrack) 2018]

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PODCAST: July 2019 Episode

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This episode begins with a small tribute to the memory and contributions of Thierry Sobezyk, co-founder, co-vocalist, and bassist for late-'80s French coldwave pioneers, Asylum Party, who died earlier this month. The fact that their songs can still be heard on playlists and dance floors worldwide, 30 years later, is a testament to his influence as a musician. Rest In Peace.

Showing some of that influence, set one begins with the first single from Texas darkwave duo Twin Tribes' forthcoming album, Ceremony. We then hear the 'Coffin debut of Italy's Japan Suicide, sharing some emotive post-punk from their new KI album, before sliding into new music from fellow Italians, Hapax, whose latest album, Monade, is a thoughtful journey through modern goth/post-punk. Up next is the return, after several quiet years, of Arizona's Audra, with a single from their forthcoming Dear Tired Friends., followed by an upbeat goth rocker from The Rope's new Lillian album, featuring the driving vocal performances that put them on my map. Finally, set one concludes with another great taste of trad-gothic rock from the new Sonsombre album, The Veils of Ending.  

Set two begins with another hot new single, this time from Florida goth/darkwavers Astari Nite. Going deeper into the dreamlike vibes, we then hear a deep cut from the new Drab Majesty album, Modern Mirror. Going into the vaults, we reach for a darkwave-ish obscurity from Black September (who, vocally, land between Ian Astbury and Morrissey), going back to the magical year that was 1986. Back to the present day, we check back in with Belarus post-punks, Nürnberg, for another taste of last year's Skryvaj album. I was surprised to learn that France's Lovataraxx will be playing live in Nashville on August 9th (and elsewhere, too), so I celebrated with a track from them, before closing the set with more music from the much-talked-about new She Past Away album, Disko Anksiyete. I also complain about missing the band's current US tour dates (see them here), but that's understandable, right?

The tour spotlight is turned on once again for set three, which begins with new music from New York's Silent EM, bridging darkwave, post-punk, and EBM sounds on their latest album, The Absence. Their label, Disko Obscura, has put together a tour with them and labelmates Ortrotasce, which will be rolling through Nashville on August 10th @ Fascination Street. Having realized the two bands were connected, I follow Ortrotasce with a related project from a few years back, Warmline. We keep the pace going with new electro-goth from New York's A Cloud of Ravens, before putting the brakes on for something brand new to the show: Berlin's captivating None, who provide a blanket of dark electronic submersion, which leads nicely in to the latest from L.A.'s Thief, who will soon bring their new Map of Lost Keys material to The Cobra in Nashville on August 27th.

Along with Thief, that August 27th show (and the tour it's part of) will include the first band we hear in set four: Oakland's Silence in the Snow, a tribal goth/dark-rock band, featuring a member of Lycus (and many other bands, because a good human drummer stays busy). Their new album Levitation Chamber is probably not what you'd expect from that résumé, instead having more in common with lesser-known mid-'80s goth acts than with modern doom. The UK's Lock Howl then provide a great transition between the goth and metal worlds, which leads us to brand new music from Slovakian black metal act Aeon Winds. The atmospherically-inclined should check out their new album, Stormveiled. We then get a third taste of Barshasketh's latest, self-titled black metal opus, which drops nicely into a vault-selection from Impaled Nazarene's 2000 album, Nihil.

After that, the show closes with a pensive, personal classic from Clan of Xymox (who will make up their missed US tour dates this fall), fittingly sealing this episode with their 1997 classic, "The Story Ends," taken from their underrated Hidden Faces album.

All of that PLUS: Great new atmosphere from the "Stranger Things 3" score by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein; A taste of Psyclon Nine frontman Nero Bellum's new experimental soundscape album NFRNº; Selections from the modern and classic soundtrack vaults; and more!

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

(each band name is also a website link)
(sets and talk breaks separated by dashes)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Show recorded on: July 30th, 2019

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

Asylum Party - Play Alone  [Borderline, 1989]

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Adam Taylor - River Walk / Ofglen & Offred / Descending  ["The Handmaid's Tale" (soundtrack) 2017]
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Twin Tribes - Heart & Feather  [Ceremony, 2019]
Japan Suicide - One Day the Black Will Swallow the Red  [KI, 2019]
Hapax - Parallel Words  [Monade, 2019]
Audra - Wish No Harm  [Dear Tired Friends, 2019]
The Rope - Given to the Gun  [Lillian, 2019]
Sonsombre - Mirror Mirror  [The Veils of Ending, 2019]
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Paul Zaza - Same Dream  ["Popcorn" (soundtrack) 1991]
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Astari Nite - Dearly Beloved  [Dearly Beloved (single), 2019]
Drab Majesty - Noise of the Void  [Modern Mirror, 2019]
Black September - David  [Rainbow Kiss (12"), 1986]
Nürnberg - Biessensoŭnasć  [Skryvaj, 2018]
Lovataraxx - Hoop  [Kairos, 2017]
She Past Away - Durdu Dunya  [Disko Anksiyete, 2019] 
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - It's Just Ice  ["Stranger Things 3" (soundtrack) 2019]
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Silent EM - Virtues of Our Age  [The Absence, 2019]
Ortrotasce - You'll Never Be Real  [Monument of Existence, 2016]
Warmline - Fade With My Heart  [Warmline, 2015]
A Cloud of Ravens - Sacred Hearts  [Sacred Hearts, 2019]
None - This Heat  [Heat, 2019]
Thief - With Love, From Nihil  [Map of Lost Keys, 2019]
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Thief - Gouging Out a Cave in Empty Sky  [Map of Lost Keys, 2019]
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Silence in the Snow - Smoke Signals  [Levitation Chamber, 2019]
Lock Howl - The Seventh Room  [Pareidolia, 2017]
Aeon Winds - Beyond All Empty Places  [Stormveiled, 2019]
Barshasketh - Consciousness II  [Barshasketh, 2019]
Impaled Nazarene - How the Laughter Died  [Nihil, 2000]
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Nero Bellum - The Beauty In Something Broken  [NFRNº, 2019]
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Clan of Xymox - The Story Ends  [Hidden Faces, 1997]

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We begin this episode by marking this month's 40th anniversary of Joy Division's iconic 1979 debut album, "Unknown Pleasures." Insert your favorite t-shirt joke here, if you must, but let us not dismiss the huge impact this album had on every generation of goth and post-punk ever since, especially the current revivalist wave. I chose two of my favorite songs from the album to celebrate, connecting them with an excerpt from a 1979 BBC interview with Stephen Morris and Ian Curtis. 

The first full set begins by delving deeper into the thematically-complex new album from Luxembourg's ROME, Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro. While the sound looks back a bit to the band's neo-folk and martial roots, the lyrics and themes dive into the murky waters of current European identity politics, both reflecting and causing confusion along the way. In a recent interview, though, songwriter Jerome Reuter talked about his fear of oncoming war, and his desire, as a pacifist, for peace, in spite of all the tensions and division.

From there, we reach back into the highest-of-quality '90s goth vaults for a personal favorite from California's sadly short-lived Praise of Folly, before launching into another new track from 1919's latest catchy deathrock work, Futurecide. We then visit Greece for a brand new dark entry from Data Fragments, whose new self-titled album reminded me of the lost sound of '80s German goth band Remain In Silence. Reaching back for a second dose of 1995's silver age, we pull out a goth rock obscurity from Germany's Pictures of Agony, taken from their On A Burning Ground cassette.

Set one draws to a triumphant close with another instant-classic from the brand new Sonsombre album, The Veils of Ending (order it here). This song holds special value to those of us in Nashville, as the band recorded their new video for said song during their appearance at Fascination Street, here in Nashville, back on June 8th. If you were there, or perhaps if you wish you had been, you can see them smoke The East Room's stage in that video right here:


Set two begins with music from the eagerly-anticipated new album from Turkey's She Past Away. The album is called Disko Anksiyete, and its release will be followed by an extensive tour that actually includes US dates (see them here). A debut from fellow darkwavers Nuovo Testamento comes next, featuring the vocals of Chelsey Crowley (Crimson Scarlet) on their new EP, Exposure. Former Nashvillian (currently making "elfwave" in Georgia) Λ°C drops in right behind, with a new digital single that asks the eternal question, "Are you Coming to the Function?" We then visit Poland for more new darkwave from Undertheskin's latest, N E G A T I V E, before introducing Dutch post-punk/darkwave outfit GOLD, with a track from their new Artoffact Records release, Why Aren't You Laughing?. Finally, we close the set with the first single from the forthcoming Drab Majesty album, Modern Mirror, which has thus far shown the band continuing to conjure sublime, ethereal darkwave for the new age. 

Set three starts a track deeper into Death and Flamingos, the latest from the infamous Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, which shows them expanding their trademark melancholia with the addition of rock-centric guitars and drumming. Athens, Georgia's Tears for the Dying follow with a taste of their new Charon album, flying the flag for traditional deathrock/goth-punk sounds, which lead us back to the vaults for a 1989 spirited rarity from Ravencathaus. Adding some industrial flair to their post-punk sound, All Your Sisters then jumps in with another track from Trust Ruins, which is followed by another taste of Drab Majesty's more rocking side-project, VR Sex, from their new Human Traffic Jam album. Finally, set three closes with an infectious cover of Real Life's immortal '80s anthem, "Send Me An Angel," as pepped up a bit by Nuke York's own Blu Anxxiety.

Set four begins the dark metal portion of the show, but retains a certain deathrock flavor by starting with the chorus-washed guitar sounds of a deeper cut from the new Devil Master LP, Satan Spits on the Children of Light. They'll be on tour with Obituary this year. We then hear some new, yet traditional, Greek black metal from Funeral Storm, featuring Varathron members on their new album, Arcane Mysteries. After revisiting the latest from Sargeist, we delve deeper into the new EP from Canada's Délétère, Theovorator: Babelis Testamentum. Closing the set is some newly reissued Italian doom from Abysmal Grief, which leads us to the a nice, spacey show-closing track from the brand new Pinkish Black album, Concept Unification.

All of that PLUS: 30th and 40th cinematic anniversaries for Batman (1989) and Alien (1979); Current soundtrack work from the recent Westworld series; Selections from the goth, deathrock, and darkwave vaults; and more!

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

(each band name is also a website link)
(sets and talk breaks separated by dashes)

"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
  Show recorded on: June 28th, 2019

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

Joy Division - New Dawn Fades  [Unknown Pleasures, 1979]
Ian Curtis & Stephen Morris - Interviewed by Richard Skinner (exc.)  [The Complete BBC Recordings, 1979]
Joy Division - Shadowplay  [Unknown Pleasures, 1979]
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Ramin Djawadi - Bicameral Mind  ["Westworld" Season 1 (soundtrack) 2016]
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ROME - A New Unfolding  [Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro, 2019]
Praise of Folly - The Envisioned  [Disillusioned, 1995]
1919 - Anxiety  [Futurecide, 2019]
Data Fragments - No Sign of Life  [Data Fragments, 2019]
Pictures of Agony - Vale of Ice  [On A Burning Ground, 1995]
Sonsombre - Fear  [The Veils of Ending, 2019]
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Twin Tribes - Lapiz Lazuli/The Path to Antares  [Shadows, 2018]
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She Past Away - Renksiz  [Disko Anksiyete, 2019]
Nuovo Testamento - Cascade  [Exposure, 2019]
Λ°C - Are You Coming to the Function?  [digital single, 2019]
Undertheskin - Poison  [N E G A T I V E, 2019]
GOLD - He Is Not  [Why Aren't You Laughing?, 2019]
Drab Majesty - Ellipsis  [Modern Mirror, 2019]
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Danny Elfman - Bat Cave  ["Batman" (score) 1989]
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Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Kinder Des Teufels  [Death and Flamingos, 2019]
Tears for the Dying - Monachopsis  [Charon, 2019]
Ravencathaus - Burning  [Brothers of the Sun, 1989]
All Your Sisters - Your Way  [Trust Ruins, 2019] 
VR Sex - Maiden China  [Human Traffic Jam, 2019]
Blu Anxxiety - Send Me An Angel  [God's Exposure, 2019]
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Johann Johannsson - Temple/Burning Church  ["Mandy" (soundtrack) 2018]
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Devil Master - Her Thirsty Whip  [Satan Spits on the Children of Light, 2019]
Funeral Storm - The Martyr of the Lake  [Arcane Mysteries, 2019]
Sargeist - Unbound  [Unbound, 2018]
Délétère - Babel Insanifusor  [Theovorator: Babelis Testamentum, 2019]
Abysmal Grief - Mors Eleison  [Mors Eleison, 2006 (ressiued 2019)]
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Jerry Goldsmith - The Skeleton (Rescored Alternate Cue)  ["Alien" (score) 1979]
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Pinkish Black - Concept Unification  [Concept Unification, 2019]

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