Monday, July 16, 2007

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

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Episode #22 - Extinction

1. Song: First Scream , Artist: With Love , Album: A Great Circle (Gold Standard Laboratories)
  • Really neat combo CD/DVD from this Italian band. No break between tracks, which, along with the film (which has the album as its soundtrack), makes this seem like some sort of concept album.
2. Song: Sewercide , Artist: White Mice , Album: BLasssTPhlEgMEICE (Load)
3. Song: Theme from the Godfather , Artist: The Professionals , Album: Belize City Boil-Up (Numero Group)
4. Song: The Plague , Artist: The Chinese Stars , Album: Release the Bats: The Birthday Party As Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (Three One G)
  • Compilation of Birthday Party covers, as the album title suggests. Also features Ex-Models, Les Georges Leningrad, Some Girls, Cattle Decapitation, Error, T-Cells, Daughters (with Lex doing his best Glenn Danzig interpretation), and others. Pretty excellent stuff, and comes on blood-spattered vinyl to boot if you pick up the LP version.
5. Song: Separated , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)
6. Song: Open Body , Artist: Hair Police , Album: Obedience Cuts (Freedom From)
7. Song: Old Year , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Froggie Bee-Baa , Artist: Boris , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
9. Song: Surf Rider , Artist: The Lively Ones , Album: Pulp Fiction (MCA)

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Monday, May 7, 2007

Episode #15 - They Only Come Out at Night

1. Song: Dark Night , Artist: The Blasters , Album: From Dusk Till Dawn (Sony)
2. Song: Loose , Artist: Boris , Album: Dronevil: Final (Inoxia)
3. Song: Bela Lugosi's Dead , Artist: Bauhaus , Album: Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground (Rhino)
  • Four-disc boxed set on the excellent Rhino label. Also includes tracks by Dinosaur Jr., Throbbing Gristle, R.E.M., Depeche Mode, Ministry, Bad Brains, Jane's Addiction, Cocteau Twins, Butthole Surfers, Dead Kennedys, Mission of Burma, New Order, Black Flag, and many more.

4. Song: If You're a Wizard, Then Why Do You Wear Glasses? , Artist: Liars , Album: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute)
5. Song: Greasy Spoon , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)

  • First album from Throbbing Gristle in over 20 years. The new album is a mixed affair, akin more to 20 Jazz Funk Greats than any of the Report albums. Most noticeable are the clean production values and Genesis P-Orridge's attempts to actually sing, where he falls flat most of the time, except on "Lyre Liar". All in all, kind of so-so; I'm just glad it's not an absolute stinkbomb, although the cover art is terrible. Tracks like this one, along with the opener "Vow of Silence", are great though.

6. Song: Lynch , Artist: Dälek , Album: Abandoned Language (Ipecac)
7. Song: Danse Macabre , Artist: Celtic Frost , Album: Morbid Tales (Metal Blade)
8. Song: The Crossing , Artist: Amps for Christ , Album: Every Eleven Seconds (5 Rue Christine) 9: Song: Lily, Henry, and The Willow Trees , Artist: Marissa Nadler , Album: The Saga of Mayflower May (Eclipse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #15 2007-5-5

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Sunday, March 4, 2007

Episode #6 - Burn

1. Song: The Wondrous Boat Ride , Artist: Unknown , Album: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (MCA)
2. Song: No Heroes , Artist: Converge , Album: No Heroes (Epitaph)
3. Song: O))) Bow 1 , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Flight of the Behemoth (Southern Lord)
  • Featuring Merzbow.

4. Song: Psychic Secession , Artist: Yellow Swans , Album: Psychic Secession (Load)
5. Song: Evil Wave Form , Artist: Boris , Album: Dronevil: Final (Inoxia)

  • Originally issued via Misanthropic Agenda, Dronevil: Final was re-released as an expanded (one additional track on each disc) double CD on Inoxia. The intended concept is that while each disc can stand by itself, you should play them simultaneously on two different stereo systems to achieve the intended results.

6. Song: In the Reflection , Artist: Flying Canyon , Album: Flying Canyon (Soft Abuse)

7. Song: Burn the Flames , Artist: Roky Erickson , Album: I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology (Shout Factory)
8. Song: Sound Holes , Artist: Double Leopards , Album: Halve Maen (Eclipse)
9. Song: - , Artist: Isis , Album: Oceanic (Ipecac)
10. Song: Hyperviolet , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Prowler In the Yard (Relapse)
11. Song: Strangler In the Night , Artist: Albert DeSalvo , Album: Unknown (Astor)

  • Reference to the Boston Strangler.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #6 2007-3-3

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