Episode #55 - So Dark the Con of Man

1. Song: Avalanche, Artist: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds , Album: From Here to Eternity (Mute / Elektra)
2. Song: 41st Century Splendid Man , Artist: Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. , Album: 41st Century Splendid Man (Tumult)
3. Song: Ouroboros Is Broken , Artist: Earth , Album: Hibernaculum (Southern Lord)
4. Song: Listened On , Artist: Lightning Dust , Album: Lightning Dust (Jagjaguwar)
5. Song: Southaven , Artist: The Howling Wind , Album: Pestilence & Peril (Profound Lore)

• Black metal side project of Ryan Lipynsky (ex-Thralldoom), vocalist and guitarist for NYC-based doom trio Unearthly Trance.

6. Song: Fever , Artist: Bloody Panda , Album: Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda (Holy Roar)
7. Song: Lust End , Artist: Prurient , Album: And Still, Wanting (No Fun Productions)
8. Song: Doomed by Howling Winds , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Xasthur (Maxo)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #55 2008-2-9

Episode #44 - Blackout

1. Song: In the Court of the Bear King , Artist: An Albatross , Album: Blessphemy (of the Peace-Beast Feastgiver and the Bear Warp Kumite) (Ace Fu)
2. Song: (Love is Like a) Heat Wave , Artist: Martha Reeves & the Vandellas , Album: Heat Wave (Gordy)
3. Song: Gaea , Artist: Jacob Kirkegaard , Album: Eldfjall (Touch UK)

• An album of field recordings from 2004, during which contact mics were shoved into the ground (geysers, volcanoes, etc.) of Iceland. Pretty interesting stuff.

4. Song: Arrived In Gold, Arrived In Smoke , Artist: Sightings , Album: Arrived In Gold (Load)
5. Song: Buzzers , Artist: Scott Walker , Album: The Drift (4AD)

• This album always manages to scare the shit out of me.

6. Song: O. Henry , Artist: Arab On Radar , Album: The Stolen Singles (Three One G)

• Compilation album featuring three cassette-only tracks, cuts from their split 7"s with The Locust and Kid Commando (as well as two of their own 7"s), and their material from the You're Soaking In It and RePopulation Program comps on Load Records.

7. Song: Shadow , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Given to the Rising (Neurot)
8. Song: Moon Spell , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
9. Song: Reduction , Artist: Sightings , Album: Absolutes (Load)
10. Song: Coda Masestoso In F(Flat) Minor (Autechre) , Artist: Earth , Album: Legacy of Dissolution (No Quarter)

• Autechre cover with a killer guitar solo. Best track on the album in my opinion.

11. Song: Medicine , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #44 2007-11-24

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 #38 - Sinners Repent

1. Song: Sin Nanna , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Black One (Southern Lord)
2. Song: Cuora Yuannanensis , Artist: Andrea Belfi & Stefano Pillia , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
3. Song: East Hastings: Nothing's Alrite in Our Life/Deadflagblues - (Reprise)/ The Sad Mafioso/Drugs in Tokyo/Black Helicopter , Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor! , Album: F#A#∞ (Kranky)
4. Song: Teeth of Lions Rule The Divine (Mogwai) , Artist: Earth , Album: Legacy of Dissolution (No Quarter)

• Essentially an Earth "remixed" album, but nonetheless interesting stuff. Five tracks in total, with the other contributions coming from Russell Haswell, Jim O'Rourke, Autechre, Justin Broadrick (Jesu, Final, Napalm Death, Godflesh), and Sunn O))) (who do a really evil version of "Rule the Divine (Mysteria Caelestis Mugivi) ").

5. Song: Shadows of War , Artist: German Oak , Album: German Oak (Bunker)
6. Song: Some Might Even Die... , Artist: Alec Empire / Merzbow , Album: Alec Empire Vs. Merzbow: Live CBGB's NYC 1998 (Digital Hardcore)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #38 2007-10-13

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