Episode #39 - Mangled Beyond Recognition

1. Song: Intro , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
2. Song: The Mangling of Tasmanian Wolves , Artist: Wolfmangler , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
3. Song: Báthory Erzsébet , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Black One (Southern Lord)

• The name for this song comes from Hungary's most infamous serial killer, Countess Erzsébet Báthory, who was accussed of torturing and killing dozens of girls and young women during the 16th and 17th centuries. She allegedly bathed in the blood of her victims in an attempt to retain her youth.

4. Song: Eletronic , Artist: Botch , Album: We Are the Romans (Hydra Head)

• Hidden electronic track at the End of We Are the Romans.

5. Song: Suicide , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: The Destroyer (Digital Hardcore)
6. Song: Black Gun Red , Artist: Kim Cascone , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
7. Song: Black Market , Artist: Snatch , Album: New York Noise, Vol. 3: Music from the New York Underground 1979-1984 (Soul Jazz)
8. Song: My Teacher , Artist: A-Frames , Album: Black Forest (Sub Pop)
9. Song: Robot Chant , Artist: Mogwai , Album: Rock Action (Matador)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #39 2007-10-20

Episode #37 - Darkness Eternal

1. Song: What a Horrible Night for a Curse , Artist: The Black Dahlia Murder , Album: Nocturnal (Metal Blade)
2. Song: Air Nozzles and Echoes Reset Live , Artist: Agata , Album: Spike (Tzadik)
3. Song: - , Artist: Nurse With Wound , Album: Chance Meeting On a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (United Diaries)
4. Song: La Booly Boo , Artist: Eric Copeland , Album: Hermaphrodite (Paw Tracks)

• The newest album from Eric Copeland (Black Dice, Terrestrial Tones) sounds like a mix between Terrestrial Tones' Dead Drunk, Animal Collective's poppier material (think Peacebone EP), and Black Dice's stuff just as they were transitioning from their hardcore roots into more avant territory (Miles of Smiles, Creature Comforts). This is one of the more drone-oriented tracks.

5. Song: Digital Hardcore , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
6. Song: Gd_Chck , Artist: Error , Album: Unknown
7. Song: Untitled , Artist: 16 Bitch Pile Up , Album: Bury Me Deep (Troniks)

• This is the first cut off this interesting concept(?) album.

8. Song: - , Artist: Hair Police , Album: Drawn Dead (Hanson)

• Another scuzzy untitled drone cut, this one the third track on Drawn Dead.

9. Song: Not Here / Not Now , Artist: Angels of Light , Album: We Are Him (Young God)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #37 2007-10-6

Episode #36 - Not In Kansas Anymore

1. Song: Built for Sin , Artist: The Black Dahlia Murder , Album: Miasma (Metal Blade)
2. Song: Death Rides a Horse , Artist: Russian Circles , Album: Enter (Flameshovel)
3. Song: White Cadillacs , Artist: Double Leopards , Album: A Hole is True (Troubleman Unlimited)
4. Song: Smack , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: Generation Star Wars (Mille Plateaux)
5. Song: Ostia (The Death of Pasolini) , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
6. Song: Panic , Artist: Animal Collective , Album: Here Comes the Indian (Paw Tracks)
7. Song: Dorothy Taps the Toe of the Tinman , Artist: Liars , Album: Atheists, Reconsider (Arena Rock Recording)

• Split with Oneida.

8. Song: Skin's Getting Weird (Subtitle Remix) , Artist: Kill Me Tomorrow , Album: Skin's Getting Weird (Gold Standard Laboratories)
9. Song: Wild World , Artist: Error , Album: Release the Bats: The Birthday Party as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (Three One G)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #36 2007-9-29

Episode #32 - Dead Air

1. Song: Lord Winter , Artist: Death In June , Album: Rose Clouds of Holocaust (NER)
2. Song: The Rite of Infernal Invocation , Artist: Gorgoroth , Album: Under the Sign of Hell (Century Media)
3. Song: Terrible Canyons of Static , Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor! , Album: Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (Kranky)
4. Song: The Tumultuous Upsurge , Artist: Nurse With Wound , Album: Homotopy to Marie (United Diaries)
5. Song: Deep In the Woods , Artist: T Cells , Album: Release the Bats: The Birthday Party as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (Three One G)

• From opener Cattle Decapitation's rendition of "Sonny's Burning" to closer Some Girls' "Release the Bats" (fitting that they would play the title track if you consider their popularity when this came out), Release the Bats is an excellent compilation tribute to The Birthday Party (Nick Cave's first band; see also: Grinderman). Only a few duds here, with highlights coming from the likes of Melt Banana ("Faint Heart"), The Chinese Stars ("The Plague", which previously aired in Episode #22), Error ("Wild World"), Celebration ("King Ink"; ex-Love Life), Kill Me Tomorrow ("Junkyard"), Daughters (see below), the aforementioned tracks from Cattle Decap and Some Girls, as well as this nauseating little ditty from T Cells that'll make your stomach swim.

6. Song: We All Die! , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: The Destroyer (Digital Hardcore)
7. Song: Humanshields , Artist: Drumcorps , Album: Rmx or Die (Kriss)
8. Song: Budapest , Artist: Poni Hoax , Album: Poni Hoax (Tigersushi)
9. Song: Marry Me (Lie Lie) , Artist: Daughters , Album: Release the Bats: The Birthday Party as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (Three One G)

• Lex does his best Danzig impression, which turned out to be stylistic foreshadowing for Daughters' 2006 album Hell Songs.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #32 2007-9-1

Episode #25 - Abduction

1. Song: Takemitsu Unholy , Artist: Lasse Marhaug , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
2. Song: Giddiness Throne , Artist: Boris , Album: Dronevil: Final (Inoxia)
3. Song: SGNL>01 , Artist: Isis , Album: Celestial (Escape Artist)
4. Song: Mitternachtsmesse I , Artist: Peter Frohmader , Album: Musik Aus Dem Schattenreich

• Ambient electronic music that sounds like it could be the soundtrack to a John Carpenter flick (the album name translates to "Music from the Darkness"). German composer Peter Frohmader has also worked with German krautrock/progressive rock bands Amon Düül, Embryo, and Emtidi, and has also collaborated with Russian composer Artemiy Artemiev and guitarist Richard Pinhas of the French band Heldon.

5. Song: The Future For Less , Artist: Les Geores Leningrad , Album: Sangue Puro (Tomlab)
6. Song: SGNL>03 , Artist: Isis , Album: Celestial (Escape Artist)
7. Song: Dreaming Is a Form of Astrotravel , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5 (Mille Plateaux)
8. Song: Untitled , Artist: 16 Bitch Pile Up , Album: Bury Me Deep (Troniks)
9. Song: Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) , Artist: Nancy Sinatra , Album: Kill Bill, Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack (Maverick)
10. Song: SGNL>04 (End Transmission) , Artist: Isis , Album: Celestial (Escape Artist)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #25 2007-7-14

Episode #24 - It's All Just a Dream

1. Song: Outro , Artist: UNKLE , Album: Psyence Fiction (Mo' Wax)
2. Song: Heartbeat That Isn't There , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: The Destroyer (Digital Hardcore)
3. Song: River of Transfiguration , Artist: Six Organs of Admittance , Album: Sun Awakens (Drag City)
4. Song: Riverdeadbank , Artist: Current 93 , Album: Thunder Perfect Mind (Durtro)
5. Song: All That We Can See , Artist: Sholi , Album: All That We Can See / The Pinky Ring (KDVS Recordings)

• Split 7" with The Dead Science on KDVS Recordings, the record label of UC-Davis' non-commercial freeform station KDVS 90.3 FM.

6. Song: A Walk Beyond Utter Blackness , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Nocturnal Poisoning (Blood Fire Death)
7. Song: Make a Change , Artist: Tricky , Album: Nearly God (Island)
8. Song: Arnold , Artist: Clint Mansell & The Kronos Quartet , Album: Requiem For a Dream Soundtrack (Elektra/Asylum)
9. Song: Try To Sleep , Artist: It's a Fucking Trap , Album: Die or Be Died
10. Song: SGNL>05 (Final Transmission) , Artist: Isis , Album: SGNL>05 (Neurot)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #24 2007-7-7

Episode #23 - Dead Alive

1. Song: Catasstasteatrophy , Artist: White Mice , Album: BLasssTPhlEgMEICE (Load)
2. Song: Untitled , Artist: 16 Bitch Pile Up , Album: Bury Me Deep (Troniks)

• First off, love the cover art - a throwback to '70s slasher flicks ("The beaches were covered in blood......and so were the bitches!"). This plays like a murkier version of Nurse With Wound's Homotopy to Marie, but with a little more variety in the sense that it's not as cohesive. There's tons of stuff just lurking below the surface, which gives me the feeling that this is one of those albums where you discover something else on each listen. This is the second track ("The Dead Boy Would Not Go Away"(?)), eighteen minutes of somewhat soothing drone.

3. Song: The Death Mask , Artist: JM Ginsberg , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)

• Creepy children's voices at the end of this track remind me of Tales from the Crypt.

4. Song: Don't Worry Baby , Artist: The Beach Boys , Album: Endless Summer (Capitol)
5. Song: 13465 , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: Generation Star Wars (Mille Plateaux)
6. Song: Washer , Artist: Slint , Album: Spiderland (Touch & Go)
7. Song: Morningside , Artist: Husere Grav , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
8. Song: Revolution 9 , Artist: The Beatles , Album: The Beatles (Capitol)
9. Song: A Kiss To Build a Dream On , Artist: Louis Armstrong , Album: A Kiss To Build a Dream On (Delta)

• Added by request.

10. Song: Untitled , Artist: 16 Bitch Pile Up , Album: Bury Me Deep (Troniks)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #23 2007-6-30

Episode #20 - Mushroom Cloud

1. Song: Sysyphus: Part I , Artist: Pink Floyd , Album: Ummagumma (Capitol)

• Double live album from 1969. First disc features live cuts from Piper At the Gates of Dawn, such as a double-length version of "Astronomy Domine", as well as tracks that are also featured on the Live At Pompeii DVD, while the second disc showcases some of Pink Floyd's stranger numbers ("Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave and Grooving With a Pict" comes directly to mind).

2. Song: Akuma No Kuma , Artist: Sunn O))) & Boris , Album: Altar (Southern Lord)
3. Song: 5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyl:(5-Me0-DMT) , Artist: Coil , Album: Time Machines (Eskaton)
4. Song: 20[1] , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: Low On Ice (The Iceland Sessions) (Mille Plateaux)
5. Song: Zeros and Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction) , Artist: Aphex Twin , Album: 26 Mixes for Cash (Warp)
6. Song: Blood Red and True, Pt. 3 , Artist: Leviathan , Album: Tentacles of Whorror (Moribund)
7. Song: Nocturnal Poisoning , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Nocturnal Poisoning (Blood Fire Death)
8. Song: Window Skeleton , Artist: King Wheat , Album: Everyday is Halloween (Self-Released)

• Compilation curated and presented by Nursing Home.

9. Song: - , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Phantom Limb (Relapse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #20 2007-6-9

Episode #18 - Total Eclipse

1. Song: The Man Comes Around , Artist: Johnny Cash , Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around (Universal)
2. Song: The Void Introduction , Artist: The Flying Luttenbachers , Album: The Void (Troubleman Unlimited)
3. Song: The History of Rape , Artist: Leviathan , Album: Tentacles of Whorror (Moribund)
4. Song: Stigmata Martyr , Artist: Angel Hair , Album: Pregnant With the Senior Class (Gravity)

• Cover of the classic Bauhaus track.

5. Song: Nobody Gets Out Alive! , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: The Destroyer (Digital Hardcore)
6. Song: Decay , Artist: Nachtmystium , Album: Instinct: Decay (Southern Lord)
7. Song: Car Chase Terror , Artist: M83 , Album: Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute U.S.)
8. Song: Apple Tree Victim , Artist: Prurient , Album: Pleasure Ground (Load)
9. Song: Norge , Artist: Thorr's Hammer , Album: Dommedagsnatt (Southern Lord)

• Very short-lived (six weeks) doom metal outfit from Ballard, Washington, featuring the likes of Greg Anderson (Sunn O))), Goatsnake)and Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Khanate), along with Jamie Sykes and James Hale. Seventeen year-old female exchange student Runhild Gammelsæter, handled vocals, which are sung entirely in Norwegian (Norway is Gammelsæter's native country). During their time together, the group cut a demo and this album (Norwegian for "Doomsday Night"), which was re-released in 2004 with an extra live track ("Mellom Galgene") and some rare bonus video footage.

10. Song: Mammoth , Artist: Pelican , Album: Pelican (Hydra Head)
11. Song: Paint It Black , Artist: The Rolling Stones , Album: Aftermath (ABKCO)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #18 2007-5-26