Episode #107 - Shot In the Back of the Head

1. Song: Trick or Treat , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: Every Day Is Halloween Volume II (Self-Released)
2. Song: Shining , Artist: Philip Jeck , Album: Sand (Touch)
3. Song: Kelly In the Other Room, Me In My Room , Artist: U.S. Girls , Album: Gravel Days (Chocolate Monk)
4. Song: Operator Dead...Post Abandoned , Artist: Burning Star Core , Album: Operator Dead...Post Abandoned (No Quarter)
5. Song: The Man From Nowhere , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)
6. Song: Into the Rainbow Vein , Artist: Boards of Canada , Album: The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
7. Song: Voice of Fire , Artist: Doomriders , Album: Black Thunder (Deathwish Inc.)

• Side project of Converge bassist/vocalist and Old Man Gloom guitarist/vocalist Nate Newton. Foursome that churns out dual vocal thrash metal in the vein of Converge (think "Black Cloud" or "Eagles Become Vultures"), with a few licks of stoner metal thrown in for good measure. Also features John-Robert Connors on drums (Cave In), Jebb Riley on bass and vox (There Were Wires, Disappearer), and Chris Pupecki (Cast Iron Hike) with a second guitar. Aside from this instrumental, other favorites include "Ride or Die" and skate anthem "Deathbox".

8. Song: Submersed , Artist: Leviathan , Album: The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide (Moribund)
9. Song: Wavering Radiant , Artist: Isis , Album: Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
10. Song: Giant Me On the Other Side (Loren Connors) , Artist: Mono , Album: New York Soundtracks (Temporary Residence)

• Remixes of the tracks from One Step More and You Die, which, packaged with this album, was just given the deluxe reissue treatment as a double LP. Also features tracks from Calla and Jackie-O Motherfucker, among others.

11. Song: Intermission One , Artist: Aneuretical , Album: When You Were a Kid (Afternoon)
12. Song: Shot In the Back of the Head , Artist: Moby , Album: Wait for Me (Little Idiot)

• First single off of Moby's latest album, the video of which is directed by David Lynch (Mulholland Dr., Eraserhead, Inland Empire).

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #107 2009-5-9

Episode #105 - Disemboweled

1. Song: Absinthe , Artist: Ink & Dagger , Album: Ink & Dagger (New American Dream)
2. Song: Bomber , Artist: :Zoviet*france: , Album: Recovery (Fractured Recordings)

• Cover of Motörhead.

3. Song: Traveling Over the Ocean's Skull , Artist: Leviathan , Album: A Silhouette In Splinters (Moribund)
4. Song: PreMature , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)

• Eight new tracks from Throbbing Gristle, a 2009 USA tour-only disc that in spots sounds a bit like Part Two: The Endless Not, but mostly like the live soundtrack they did for In the Shadow of the Sun at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on April 16 combined with dark ambient. Good stuff.

5. Song: Intermission Two , Artist: Aneuretical , Album: When You Were a Kid (Afternoon)
6. Song: More Blood and Guts , Artist: Kevin Drumm , Album: Imperial Distortion (Hospital Productions)
7. Song: Yearning , Artist: Mono , Album: You Are There (Temporary Residence)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #105 2009-4-25