Episode #51 - None More Black

1. Song: Mantis , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: The Poacher Diaries (Relapse)
2. Song: Sonata McGrath , Artist: Cave In , Album: Creative Eclipses (Hydra Head)
3. Song: Black On Black and So Much Class , Artist: As the Sun Sets , Album: 8949 (Trash Art!)

• Pre-Daughters grindcore band from Providence, Rhode Island, with a bit rawer sound than Daughters. Aside from the singer, bassist, and drummer (who went on to form Daughters), other one-time members ended up in bands Bury Your Dead , She Rides (formerly known as Playgirl), and fellow Rhode Islanders (Pawtucket, to be exact) Suffering Bastard.

4. Song: Flood , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Sovereign (Neurot)

• EP that was Neurosis' first release on their own label, and produced by Steve Albini to boot.

5. Song: The Lewdness and Frenzy of Surrender , Artist: Tusk , Album: The Resisting Dreamer (Hydra Head)
6. Song: Seeing You Off the Edges , Artist: Eluvium , Album: Copia (Temporary Residence)
7. Song: Don't Dream It , Artist: Jesu , Album: Pale Sketches (Avalanche)
8. Song: Track 1 , Artist: Formication , Album: Agnosia (Dark Winter)
9. Song: PS I Love You (Autobahn Rmx by Rechenzentrum) , Artist: Kid 606 , Album: PS I Dub Ya E.P. (Force Lab)
10. Song: Dog Shelter , Artist: Burial , Album: Untrue (Hyperdub)
11. Song: When Acting As a Particle , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Ire Works (Wea/Relapse)
12. Song: Maaneskyggens Slave , Artist: Gorgoroth , Album: Pentagram (Century Media)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #51 2008-1-12

Episode #48 - Four Horsemen

1. Song: Epilogue of a Carcrash , Artist: Orchid , Album: Chaos Is Me (Ebullition)
2. Song: Three Ring Ocean Sideshow , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
3. Song: Black & Orange , Artist: Oubliette , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
4. Song: Black Peter , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)
5. Song: Crutch Field Tongs , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Miss Machine (Relapse)
6. Song: She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone In an Empty Field , Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor! , Album: Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven! (Kranky)
7. Song: The Falling Sun , Artist: A Place to Bury Strangers , Album: A Place to Bury Strangers (Killer Pimp)
8. Song: Al-Lat , Artist: Jacob Kirkegaard , Album: Eldfjall (Touch UK)
9. Song: Bananas , Artist: Black Dice , Album: Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
10. Song: Gli Intoccabili/Gli Intoccabili (Titoli) , Artist: Ennio Morricone , Album: Crime and Dissonance (Ipecac)
11. Song: Music Box , Artist: Philip Glass , Album: Music of Candyman (Orange Mountain)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #48 2007-12-22

Episode #11 - Escape

1. Song: Etna , Artist: Sunn O))) & Boris , Album: Altar (Southern Lord)

• Vinyl version of this comes with an extra track, "Her Lips Were Wet With Venom [Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas], not to mention a 16-page color booklet and liner notes from Kim Thayil (Soundgarden).

2. Song: Jesse , Artist: Scott Walker, Album: The Drift (4AD)

• This is really scary stuff, a combination of baroque pop and what Roy Orbison would sound like if he were from the 7th level of Hell. Totally different stuff from his early career and his material on The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou soundtrack. Can't wait for the documentary chronicling his career, 30th Century Man (which is currently only screening in the U.K.), to hit stateside at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Features a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Drift, as well as interviews with Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead, Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), David Bowie, Sting, and more.

3. Song: Analogue Skillet , Artist: Jackie-O-Motherfucker , Album: Fig. 5 (Road Cone)
4. Song: Gekihatsu , Artist: Never Presence Forever , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
5. Song: With CB , Artist: Zipperspy , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
6. Song: Hungry Homeless Handjob , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope (Relapse)
7. Song: Time As Surrogate Religion , Artist: Buried Inside , Album: Chronoclast: Selected Essays on Times Reckoning and Auto-Cannibalism (Relapse)
8. Song: Sunshine the Werewolf , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Miss Machine (Relapse)
9. Song: That's Not Blood , Artist: Hair Police , Album: Blow Out Your Blood (Freedom From)
10. Song: Cupid Shot Me , Artist: Noxagt , Album: Turning It Down Since 2001 (Load)
11. Song: I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper , Artist: Erika Eigen , Album: A Clockwork Orange (Warner Bros.)
12. Song: Super 16 , Artist: Neu! , Album: Neu! 2 (Astralwerks)

• Shortened version of this is available on the Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack.

13. Song: At the Heart of It All (Created by Aphex Twin) , Artist: Aphex Twin , Album: 26 Mixes for Cash (Warp)
14. Song: Pyramid of Skulls , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Subliminal Genocide (Hydra Head)
15. Song: Amphibia Salientia , Artist: Hrvatski , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
16. Song: Folded Space - Lead Poisoning & Distortion , Artist: Combatwoundedveteran , Album: I Know a Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos (No Idea)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #11 2007-4-7

Episode #4 - Aftermath

1. Song: Singin' In the Rain , Artist: Gene Kelly , Album: A Clockwork Orange (Warner Brothers)
2. Song: Untitled , Artist: Cornelius , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)

• Double album compilation of remixes of material from Merzbow's 2002 album Amlux. Also features tracks from Negativland, Mouse on Mars, DJ Spooky, Alec Empire (of Atari Teenage Riot), Kawabata Makoto (of Acid Mothers Temple), John Wiese, K.K. Null, and others.

3. Song: Raggsokk , Artist: Svarte Grenier , Album: Raggsokk (Type)

• Norwegian artist also known as Erik K. Skodvin, one half of the duo Deaf Center.

4. Song: *#.. , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Calculating Infinity (Hydra Head)
5. Song: Electric Love Cunt , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
6. Song: No More Air , Artist: Carlos Giffoni , Album: Arrogance (No Fun Productions)

• Giffoni curates New York's annual No Fun Fest, usually held at The Hook. This year's lineup, scheduled for May 17-20, includes Hair Police, Merzbow, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), The Rita, Keiji Haino, Aaron Dilloway (Wolf Eyes), and Giffoni himself. He's also the guitarist for Monotract, and does electronics for noise supergroup Death Unit, which also features Chris Corsano, Trevor Tremaine (of Hair Police), and Brian Sullivan (Mouthus). Catch some footage from 2006's 'Fest by buying the double disc DVD over at Load Records.

7. Song: Weekend Sex Change , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Calculating Infinity (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Outdoorsman/Indestructible , Artist: Prurient , Album: Pleasure Ground (Load)
9. Song: Cloud Melodie , Artist: Tussle , Album: Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound)
10. Song: The Dead Flag Blues: The Dead Flag Blues - (Intro)/Slow Moving Trains/ The Cowboy.../Outro , Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor! , Album: F#A#∞ (Kranky)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #4 2007-2-17