Episode #56 - Hell's Kitchen

1. Song: Ride the Lighter , Artist: The Fucking Wrath , Album: Season of Evil (Goodfellow)
2. Song: Remember When I Didn't Say What I Wanted to Say , Artist: As the Sun Sets , Album: 8949 (Trash Art!)
3. Song: Suicide In Dark Serenity , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Suicide In Dark Serenity (Bestial Onslaught)
4. Song: Mutagen , Artist: Nadja , Album: Touched (Alien8)
5. Song: The Inevitable Conclusion , Artist: The Howling Wind , Album: Pestilence & Peril (Profound Lore)
6. Song: Acute Awareness (For Wood) , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Honky Reduction (Relapse)
7. Song: A Wet Cleaner , Artist: Vincent Gallo , Album: Buffalo 66 (Will)
8. Song: Odds On , Artist: Sightings , Album: Arrived In Gold (Load)
9. Song: Sorrow In the House , Artist: Loren Connors , Album: Hell's Kitchen Park (Family Vineyard)
10. Song: Mineral Balance , Artist: Jon Mueller , Album: Metals (Table of the Elements)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #56 2008-2-16

Episode #51 - None More Black

1. Song: Mantis , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: The Poacher Diaries (Relapse)
2. Song: Sonata McGrath , Artist: Cave In , Album: Creative Eclipses (Hydra Head)
3. Song: Black On Black and So Much Class , Artist: As the Sun Sets , Album: 8949 (Trash Art!)

• Pre-Daughters grindcore band from Providence, Rhode Island, with a bit rawer sound than Daughters. Aside from the singer, bassist, and drummer (who went on to form Daughters), other one-time members ended up in bands Bury Your Dead , She Rides (formerly known as Playgirl), and fellow Rhode Islanders (Pawtucket, to be exact) Suffering Bastard.

4. Song: Flood , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Sovereign (Neurot)

• EP that was Neurosis' first release on their own label, and produced by Steve Albini to boot.

5. Song: The Lewdness and Frenzy of Surrender , Artist: Tusk , Album: The Resisting Dreamer (Hydra Head)
6. Song: Seeing You Off the Edges , Artist: Eluvium , Album: Copia (Temporary Residence)
7. Song: Don't Dream It , Artist: Jesu , Album: Pale Sketches (Avalanche)
8. Song: Track 1 , Artist: Formication , Album: Agnosia (Dark Winter)
9. Song: PS I Love You (Autobahn Rmx by Rechenzentrum) , Artist: Kid 606 , Album: PS I Dub Ya E.P. (Force Lab)
10. Song: Dog Shelter , Artist: Burial , Album: Untrue (Hyperdub)
11. Song: When Acting As a Particle , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Ire Works (Wea/Relapse)
12. Song: Maaneskyggens Slave , Artist: Gorgoroth , Album: Pentagram (Century Media)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #51 2008-1-12

Episode #50 - Death Ray

1. Song: Pentascam Constellation , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: The Poacher Diaries (Relapse)

• Split album with Converge.

2. Song: Track 2 , Artist: Formication , Album: Agnosia (Dark Winter)

• Five-track (all untitled) album of minimalist ambient noise from the Dark Winter net label.

3. Song: Spirale Malax , Artist: Lard Free , Album: III / Spirale Malax (Spalax)

• Progressive French band from the '70s Lard Free (terrible band name) serves up this jazz/krautrock mess, along with the four-part "Synthetic Seasons" on their third album.

4. Song: Wash It All Away , Artist: Jesu , Album: Pale Sketches (Avalanche)

• Collection of unreleased Jesu tracks from 2000-2007 released on Jesu's own label.

5. Song: Scarlet , Artist: Unearthly Trance , Album: The Trident (Relapse)
6. Song: The Last Seed , Artist: Sightings , Album: Arrived In Gold (Load)
7. Song: Sonata Brodsky , Artist: Cave In , Album: Creative Eclipses (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Bound to the Wheel , Artist: Long Live Death , Album: Secret Eye Sampler 2005 (Secret Eye)
9. Song: Headhunter , Artist: High On Fire , Album: Death Is This Communion (Relapse)
10. Song: Mandied (Self Reborn) , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #50 2008-1-5

Episode #49 - Dressed Up Sharp In Suits of Green and Placed Upon the War Machine

1. Song: Bells Dark Above Our Heads , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
2. Song: The Electrician , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)

• Cover of The Walker Brothers.

3. Song: Your Far Church , Artist: Mouthus , Album: Saw a Halo (Load)
4. Song: Lullaby for Strangers , Artist: Traveling Bell , Album: Secret Eye Sampler 2005 (Secret Eye)

• Compilation CD of Secret Eye artists, which also features tracks from Avarus, Black Forest/Black Sea, Spires That In the Sunset Rise, Long Live Death, Larkin Grimm, Fürsaxa, and others.

5. Song: Cowboy Soundcheck , Artist: Black Dice , Album: Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
6. Song: - , Artist: Beck , Album: Stereopathic Soul Manure (Flipside)
7. Song: Put the Time Machine In Your Mouth Pt. II , Artist: Kill Me Tomorrow , Album: Skin's Getting Weird (Gold Standard Laboratories)
8. Song: Devastator / Mighty Trust Krusher , Artist: Godflesh , Album: Streetcleaner (Combat)
9. Song: The House of Feasting , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Honky Reduction (Relapse)
10. Song: Radio Ballet , Artist: Eluvium , Album: Copia (Temporary Residence)

• Soothing classical piano and string type stuff here, compared to the post-rock guitar drone material found on, say, When I Live by the Garden and the Sea.

11. Song: ...And Texas Spaceship , Artist: Boris & Merzbow , Album: Megatone (Inoxia)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #49 2007-12-29

Episode #14 - Careful What You Wish For

1. Song: A Celebration for the Death of Man... , Artist: Agalloch , Album: The Mantle (The End)
2. Song: Cossacks Are , Artist: Scott Walker , Album: The Drift (4AD)
3. Song: Providence: Divorce and Fever/Dead Metheny/Kicking Horse on Brokenhill/String Loop Manufactured During Downpour , Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor! , Album: F#A#∞ (Kranky)
4. Song: Type Tactical , Artist: Made , Album: All Tomorrow's Parties 3.0: Autechre Curated (ATP)

• Double-disc compilation also featuring tracks from Autechre, Pita, Jim O'Rourke, Baby Ford, Hecker, Public Enemy and others.

5. Song: Three Ring Inferno Mix (Vidna Obmana) , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: PCP Tornado / ANbRX (Hydra Head)

• Reissue of the classic ANB album PCP Tornado with an extra disc of remixes and reinterprations from the likes of Merzbow, James Plotkin (Khanate), Justin Broadrick (Napalm Death, Final, Jesu), Jansky Noise, DJ Speedranch, and others.

6. Song: Master of Alchemy: House of Whipcord / The Black Drug , Artist: Electric Wizard , Album: Let Us Prey (Music Cartel)
7. Song: We Have Reached an Official Verdict: Nobody Gives a Shit , Artist: The Locust , Album: New Erections (Anti)
8. Song: Unchained Melody , Artist: The Righteous Brothers , Album: Unchained Melody (Curb)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #14 2007-4-28

Episode #11 - Escape

1. Song: Etna , Artist: Sunn O))) & Boris , Album: Altar (Southern Lord)

• Vinyl version of this comes with an extra track, "Her Lips Were Wet With Venom [Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas], not to mention a 16-page color booklet and liner notes from Kim Thayil (Soundgarden).

2. Song: Jesse , Artist: Scott Walker, Album: The Drift (4AD)

• This is really scary stuff, a combination of baroque pop and what Roy Orbison would sound like if he were from the 7th level of Hell. Totally different stuff from his early career and his material on The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou soundtrack. Can't wait for the documentary chronicling his career, 30th Century Man (which is currently only screening in the U.K.), to hit stateside at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Features a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Drift, as well as interviews with Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead, Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), David Bowie, Sting, and more.

3. Song: Analogue Skillet , Artist: Jackie-O-Motherfucker , Album: Fig. 5 (Road Cone)
4. Song: Gekihatsu , Artist: Never Presence Forever , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
5. Song: With CB , Artist: Zipperspy , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
6. Song: Hungry Homeless Handjob , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope (Relapse)
7. Song: Time As Surrogate Religion , Artist: Buried Inside , Album: Chronoclast: Selected Essays on Times Reckoning and Auto-Cannibalism (Relapse)
8. Song: Sunshine the Werewolf , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Miss Machine (Relapse)
9. Song: That's Not Blood , Artist: Hair Police , Album: Blow Out Your Blood (Freedom From)
10. Song: Cupid Shot Me , Artist: Noxagt , Album: Turning It Down Since 2001 (Load)
11. Song: I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper , Artist: Erika Eigen , Album: A Clockwork Orange (Warner Bros.)
12. Song: Super 16 , Artist: Neu! , Album: Neu! 2 (Astralwerks)

• Shortened version of this is available on the Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack.

13. Song: At the Heart of It All (Created by Aphex Twin) , Artist: Aphex Twin , Album: 26 Mixes for Cash (Warp)
14. Song: Pyramid of Skulls , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Subliminal Genocide (Hydra Head)
15. Song: Amphibia Salientia , Artist: Hrvatski , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
16. Song: Folded Space - Lead Poisoning & Distortion , Artist: Combatwoundedveteran , Album: I Know a Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos (No Idea)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #11 2007-4-7

Episode #8 - The Infected

This episode is a Part Two of sorts to Episode #7. It's a pretty claustrophobic mix as a whole, there's really no room to stop for air, which I think contrasts nicely with a lot of the drone and ambience present in the last episode.

1. Song: (Intro) Engineering a Pill Frenzy , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope (Relapse)
2. Song: Saddest , Artist: Drumcorps , Album: Cock Rock Disco 2006 (Cock Rock Disco)

• Grindcore mash-up, for lack of a better term, of Converge's "The Saddest Day" condensed to about a minute-thirty (from around seven minutes), so you can imagine how insane this shit is. Apparently Drumcorps, also known as Aaron Spectre, does whole albums of this stuff, combining breakcore with grindcore and blast beats. His 2006 album Grist, also pulls material from Botch, Pig Destroyer, and Cave In, and this song is also on a free Cock Rock Disco sampler available for download at their website. I may have to pick this album up.

3. Song: Untitled , Artist: The Pervatrons , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)
4. Song: A .45 Caliber Defibrillator, a Prototype of Sorts , Artist: Found Dead Hanging , Album: BMA Vs Metal Blade Vs Robotic Empire Sampler 2004 (Black Market Activities / Metal Blade / Robotic Empire)
5. Song: About a Plane Crash , Artist: Suicide Silence , Album: Suicide Silence (Third Degree)
6. Song: Imogen's Puzzle , Artist: Psyopus , Album: Ideas of Reference (Metal Blade)
7. Song: Horror Theme Song , Artist: Suicide Note , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)
8. Song: - , Artist: Merzbow , Album: Merzbuta (Important)

• Not to be confused with the album Merzbuddha, also on Important Records.

9. Song: You Can't Help Me , Artist: Pedestrian Deposit , Album: Fatale (Hanson)

• Interesting album, this one. Four tracks that alternate between harsh noise ala John Wiese and ambient, melodic interludes.

10. Song: The White Mice , Artist: White Mice , Album: ASSPhiXXXEATATESHUN (Load)
11. Song: Descent to Mimas , Artist: Bastard Noise , Album: Descent to Mimas (Ground Fault)
12. Song: Untitled , Artist: Last Remaining Pinnacle , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)
13. Song: Woe is the Contagion , Artist: Twilight , Album: Twilight (Southern Lord)
14. Song: Jones From Indiana , Artist: Daughters , Album: Canada Songs (Robotic Empire)
15. Song: Willie Loman , Artist: Ed Gein , Album: Ed Gein (Hex)

• I actually pulled this from the long out-of-print self-titled three-song demo CD (self-released I'd imagine), although it's also available on the LP version (along with the other two demo tracks) of It's a Shame That a Family Can Be Torn Apart by Something as Simple as a Pack of Wild Dogs on Hex Records.

16. Song: On Top , Artist: Whitehouse , Album: Birthdeath Experience (Come Organisation)
17. Song: Born Different , Artist: Usurp Synapse , Album: Disinformation Fix (Alone)

• From the double-CD discography. These guys reformed in July 2004 to record new material, and are currently in the process of mixing and finishing vocals for their next album, titled Vile Contamina.

18. Song: (The Pipes) , Artist: Excepter , Album: Alternation (5 Rue Christine)
19. Song: SGNL>02 , Artist: Isis , Album: Celestial (Escape Artist)
20. Song: Intro , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Terrifyer (Relapse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #8 2007-3-17