Episode #42 - Buried Alive

1. Song: Revelations (Intro) , Artist: Suicide Silence , Album: The Cleansing (Century Media)
2. Song: Warborn , Artist: The Black Dahlia Murder , Album: Nocturnal (Metal Blade)
3. Song: Belülről Pusztít , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Oracle (Southern Lord)

• Hungarian for "destroys from the inside", "Belülről Pusztít" is from the Oracle EP, which was sold during the band's 2007 Pacific Rim tour and on the Southern Lord West Coast 777 tour. Joe Preston (Earth, Melvins, Thrones) provides the jackhammer (yes, jackhammer) on this track, although it sounds more like a drawbridge being raised and lowered, or someone being stretched out on a rack, which, coupled with the awesome album art, fits the mood of the track perfectly. These guys never cease to amaze me. The other track on the disc (the version sold at shows has an extra disc with a 45-minute live track from 2005 called "HeliO)))Sophist"), "Orakulum" is not as good but still killer.

4. Song: Dissolution III (Oversaturated Intervallic Collisions) , Artist: Earth , Album: All Tomorrow's Parties 3.0: Autechre Curated (ATP)
5. Song: Terry Shiva , Artist: Mudboy , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
6. Song: Samskeyti [Live] , Artist: Sigur Rós , Album: Hvarf / Heim (XL)
7. Song: The Opera Song , Artist: Botch , Album: Unifying Themes Redux (Excursion)

• Compilation album of songs from Botch's The Unifying Themes of Sex, Death, and Religion, as well as tracks from the John Birch Conspiracy Theory and Faction 7"s, as well as other rarities (including a cover of The B-52's' "Rock Lobster". Reissued in 2006 with an alternate cover on Hydra Head.

8. Song: Frog Remix , Artist: John Wiese , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
9. Song: Origin , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Given to the Rising (Neurot)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #42 2007-11-10

Episode #41 - Hopeless

1. Song: Spaim , Artist: Botch , Album: An Anthology of Dead Ends (Hydra Head)
2. Song: Torching Koraviev , Artist: Khanate , Album: Khanate (Southern Lord)
3. Song: The Sixth Extinction Crept Up Slowly, Like Sunlight Through the Shutters, As We Looked Back In Regret , Artist: Red Sparowes , Album: At the Soundless Dawn (Neurot)
4. Song: I'm On Fire , Artist: Mugison , Album: Lonely Mountain (Lifelike)
5. Song: Uneaten Stars Duo , Artist: Birchville Cat Motel , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
6. Song: This Weekend Wow , Artist: Terrestrial Tones , Album: Dead Drunk (Paw Tracks)
7. Song: 7-11 , Artist: Kill Me Tomorrow , Album: The Garbageman and the Prostitute (Gold Standard Laboratories)
8. Song: Holland Tunnel Drive , Artist: Implog , Album: New York Noise, Vol. 3: Music From the New York Underground 1979-1984 (Soul Jazz)
9. Song: Untitled , Artist: John Wiese , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
10. Song: Tin Pie , Artist: Gogogo Airheart , Album: Rats! Sing! Sing! (Gold Standard Laboratories)
11. Song: Reckoner , Artist: Radiohead , Album: In Rainbows (Self-Released)

• One of my fav tracks off this album, which sounds like a mix between OK Computer and Hail to the Thief.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #41 2007-11-3

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 #35 - End Transmission

1. Song: New In Town , Artist: Clockcleaner , Album: Babylon Rules (Load)
2. Song: Mantra 3 , Artist: Merzbow , Album: Merzbuddha (Important)
3. Song: In the Multi-Purpose Room , Artist: East West Blast Test , Album: Popular Music for Unpopular People (Ipecac)

• Comprised of duo Chris Dodge (No Use for a Name) and Dave Witte (Discordance Axis, Municipal Waste, Anodyne, Birds of Prey, Phantomsmasher), East West Blast Test's Popular Music for Unpopular People is a cross-country collaboration (Witte and Dodge live on separate coasts) akin to something Fantômas might put out - xylophones, death metal guitars, and this strange German spoken word track.

4. Song: The Cable Has No Name , Artist: Agata , Album: Spike (Tzadik)
5. Song: Assembler Mix , Artist: Nobukazu Takemura , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
6. Song: Babylero , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
7. Song: Wrawblow , Artist: White Mice , Album: BLasssTPhlEgMEICE (Load)
8. Song: The Wrong Coat for You Mt. Heart Attack , Artist: Liars , Album: Drum's Not Dead (Mute)
9. Song: Afgamistam , Artist: Botch , Album: An Anthology of Dead Ends (Hydra Head)
10. Song: Micaragua , Artist: Botch , Album: An Anthology of Dead Ends (Hydra Head)

• The perfect one-two punch (quiet to loud; the tracks flow into each other without a break) ending for Botch's last album before they broke up.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #35 2007-9-22

Episode #34 - Back from the Dead

1. Song: Native Belle , Artist: Animal Collective , Album: Here Comes the Indian (Paw Tracks)
2. Song: 4-Indolol, 3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl], Phosphate Ester (Psilocybin) , Artist: Coil , Album: Time Machines (Eskaton)
3. Song: Cold Hands , Artist: Black Dice , Album: Cold Hands (Troubleman Unlimited)
4. Song: Demai , Artist: John Zorn , Album: The Unknown Masada (Tzadik)
5. Song: Untitled , Artist: 16 Bitch Pile Up , Album: Bury Me Deep (Troniks)

• Fifth track off the album.

6. Song: Man the Ramparts , Artist: Botch , Album: We Are the Romans (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #34 2007-9-15