Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Episode #26 - The Day the Sun Went Out

1. Song: Intro , Artist: Nachtmystium , Album: Demise (Autopsy Kitchen)
2. Song: Double Dare , Artist: Bauhaus , Album: 1979-83 Vol. 1 (Beggars Banquet)
  • Excellent comp of Bauhaus' hits from the aforementioned period, featuring "Stigmata Martyr" (a track later covered by San Diego hardcore group Angel Hair, which is played in Episode #18), "Bela Lugosi's Dead", "In the Flat Field", and "The Passion of Lovers", among others.

3. Song: Careful With That Axe, Eugene , Artist: Pink Floyd , Album: Ummagumma (Capitol)
4. Song: Ice On Water , Artist: Urdog , Album: Garden of Bones (Secret Eye)

  • Now defunct Providence psych band. Drummer and vocalist Erin Rosenthal recently contributed vocals to some of Kites' newest album Peace Trials.

5. Song: Black Ships In Their Harbours , Artist: Current 93 , Album: Black Ships Ate the Sky (Durtro)

  • Features guest vocals from Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Marc Almond (Soft Cell), Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle), Clodagh Simonds, and Shirley Collins (a figure in the early-'60s folk revival in Britain).

6. Song: Bog , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
7. Song: Inmost Light , Artist: Double Leopards , Album: A Hole Is True (Troubleman Unlimited)
8. Song: Untitled , Artist: 16 Bitch Pile Up , Album: Bury Me Deep (Troniks)
9. Song: Dead Planet , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
10. Song: Forgotten Depths of Nowhere , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Nocturnal Poisoning (Blood Fire Death)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #26 2007-7-21

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

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

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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Episode #1 - Countdown to Armageddon

1. Song: - , Artist: End. , Album: The Sounds of Disaster (Ipecac)
  • Untitled last track off of The Sounds of Disaster.
2. Song: Prologue , Artist: John Carpenter , Album: The Fog (Varese Sarabande)
3. Song: Theme from "The Fog" , Artist: John Carpenter , Album: The Fog (Varese Sarabande)
  • John Carpenter scores his own music for all his films, which also include the Halloween movies, Escape from New York (1981), and The Thing (1982). Tracks 2 and 3 are from the soundtrack to his 1980 film The Fog. Narration is provided by John Houseman.

4. Song: Seule , Artist: Mike Patton / John Erik Kaada , Album: Romances (Ipecac)

  • Founder of Ipecac Recordings, Mike Patton has also recorded as Tomahawk and Peeping Tom, has done work with Dillinger Escape Plan, collaborated with Merzbow (as Maldoror) and the X-ecutioners, and has been in bands Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, and Fantômas.

5. Song: The Game , Artist: John Murphy & Dave Hughes , Album: Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Island)
6. Song: Grant Me the Strength , Artist: Dear Lover , Album: 4 Track Demo Recordings

  • Dear Lover is the side project of Jacob Bannon, the lead singer for Converge.

7. Song: Blood Thirsty Lust (Monotonos Remix) , Artist: The Crimson Curse , Album: Blood Thirsty Lust (Coalition)

  • This album also features remixes by Travis Ryan (lead singer of Cattle Decapitation), John Wiese, and Spacewürm, as well as the original version of "Blood Thirst Lust" by The Crimson Curse.

8. Song: Left in the Desert , Artist: Earth , Album: Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method (Southern Lord)
9. Song: Homotopy to Marie , Artist: Nurse with Wound , Album: Homotopy to Marie (United Diaries)

  • My first experience listening to Homotopy to Marie was alone at night; needless to say it scared the crap out of me.

10. Song: Jack the Ripper , Artist: Univers Zero , Album: Heresie (Cuneiform)
11. Song: Always Crashing in the Same Car , Artist: David Bowie , Album: Low (Virgin)
12. Song: All the Pretty Little Horses , Artist: Current 93 , Album: Judas as Black Moth (Castle Music UK)
13. Song: L' Uccello con le Piume di Cristallo/L'Uccelo Con Le Piume Di Cristallo (Titoli) , Artist: Ennio Morricone , Album: Crime And Dissonance (Ipecac)
14. Song: Batman Dracula , Artist: John Wiese , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #1 2007-1-27

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