Episode #78 - Hangman's Noose

1. Song: Rape , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
2. Song: Arrodillate Ante la Madera y la Piedra , Artist: Orthodox , Album: Gran Poder (Southern Lord)
3. Song: Pink Shadows , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship (Load)
4. Song: Comes Another Brood , Artist: Prurient & Kevin Drumm , Album: All Are Guests In the House of the Lord (Hospital Productions)
5. Song: How Will You Learn More Successfully from Your Coach Than by Just Looking and Listening? , Artist: Chris Corsano , Album: The Young Cricketer (Hot Cars Warp)
6. Song: Auditorium , Artist: Jacob Kirkegaard , Album: 4 Rooms (Touch Tone)
7. Song: Theme, Pt. 5 , Artist: Rameses III , Album: Honey Rose (Important)
8. Song: Beneath the River , Artist: Mike Tamburo , Album: Ghosts of Marumbey (New American Folk Hero)
9. Song: Stigma , Artist: Ufomammut , Album: Idolum (Supernatural Cat)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #78 2008-7-19

Episode #75 - Mass Grave

1. Song: Fanfares , Artist: Philip Jeck , Album: Sand (Touch)
2. Song: Flicker Boosters , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
3. Song: Wendigo Psychosis , Artist: Robedoor , Album: Rancor Keeper (Release the Bats)
4. Song: Jealousy , Artist: Quintron , Album: These Hands of Mine (Skin Graft)
5. Song: Incense and Rubber , Artist: Prurient , Album: And Still, Wanting (No Fun Productions)
6. Song: Our Oases , Artist: Yellow Swans , Album: At All Ends (Load)
7. Song: Lamentings / Auguries , Artist: Darsombra , Album: Eternal Jewel (Public Guilt)
8. Song: Flowers of Flesh , Artist: Nadja , Album: Touched (Alien8)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #75 2008-6-28

Episode #70 - Concrete Boots

1. Song: Turning Point , Artist: Kevin Drumm , Album: Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
2. Song: Nice Garden/Lady's Compact , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
3. Song: Snow , Artist: KTL , Album: KTL (Editions Mego)

• KTL (short for Kindertotenlieder) is Sunn O))) guitarist Stephen O'Malley (Khanate, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Lotus Eaters) and Peter Rehberg (Pita). Five tracks of drone and minimal electronic soundscapes here, including the four-part "Forestfloor", which is sandwiched by the opener, "Estranged" (think "bassAliens" from Sunn O)))'s White2), and this cut.

4. Song: Child , Artist: Loren Connors , Album: Hell's Kitchen Park (Family Vineyard)
5. Song: Immortelle and Paper Caravelle , Artist: Kayo Dot , Album: Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (Robotic Empire)
6. Song: For the Loss , Artist: Marc Gartman , Album: Songs for the End of the World (Silber)
7. Song: Organs , Artist: Microphones , Album: It Was Hot So We Stayed In the Water (K)
8. Song: Empty Temple , Artist: Robedoor , Album: Rancor Keeper (Release the Bats)
9. Song: Tied to Stone , Artist: Prurient , Album: Adam Tied to Stone (Blossoming Noise)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #70 2008-5-24

Episode #63 - Seven Angels, Seven Plagues

1. Song: The Sun , Artist: The Microphones , Album: Mount Eerie (K)
2. Song: Race You To My Bedroom/Spirit Rise , Artist: Fuck Buttons , Album: Street Horrrsing (ATP)
3. Song: A Million Years , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Human Animal (Sub Pop)
4. Song: Glitter In the Hall of Triumph , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
5. Song: Notwo , Artist: Autechre , Album: Quaristice (Warp)

6. Song: Adonais , Artist: Loren Connors , Album: Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004 (Family Vineyard)

7. Song: Lust , Artist: The Raveonettes , Album: Lust, Lust, Lust (Vice)

8. Song: 5 Ghosts I , Artist: Nine Inch Nails , Album: Ghosts I-IV (The Null Corporation)

• 5th Track from the first Ghosts disc of the four.

9. Song: Walker of Dissonant Worlds , Artist: Xasthur , Album: To Violate the Oblivious (Moribund)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #63 2008-4-5

Episode #62 - The Day the Whole World Went Away

1. Song: Dont' Touch Dead Animals , Artist: Kayo Dot , Album: Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda (Holy Roar)
2. Song: Lake of Roaches , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Human Animal (Sub Pop)
3. Song: Track 4 , Artist: Formication , Album: Agnosia (Dark Winter)
4. Song: The Killing Spree , Artist: Chromatics , Album: Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)
5. Song: Mr. Sandman , Artist: The Four Aces , Album: The Four Aces: Greatest Hits (MCA)
6. Song: Cool People , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
7. Song: Outh9X , Artist: Autechre , Album: Quaristice (Warp)
8. Song: Late Night , Artist: Belong , Album: Colorloss Record (St. Ives)

• Limited four-track 12"/digitial-only EP of covers from New Orleans ambient/shoegaze/post-rock duo Belong, who added their own vocals. Not that it matters, though, because they're buried too far down in the mix to be recognizable. Case in point: "Late Night", a cover of Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd). The other three cuts follow a similar late '60s UK vibe: "Beeside" (Tintern Abbey), "Girl from New York" (Billy Nicholls), and "My Clown" (July).

9. Song: Ossification , Artist: Nadja , Album: Bodycage (Profound Lore)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #62 2008-3-29

Episode #61 - Funeral March

1. Song: Sweet Love for Planet Earth , Artist: Fuck Buttons , Album: Street Horrrsing (ATP)
2. Song: Rationed Rot , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Human Animal (Sub Pop)
3. Song: Sixteen Seconds Happy , Artist: Vincent Gallo , Album: Buffalo 66 (Will)
4. Song: Tweedle Dee , Artist: Lavern Baker , Album: The Departed (Warner Sunset)
5. Song: Ratnoise , Artist: Indian Jewelry , Album: Invasive Exotics (Monitor)
6. Song: Army Corpse/Supermen 2 , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
7. Song: Invaded , Artist: Agata , Album: Spike (Tzadik)
8. Song: Metal Machine Music, Part I , Artist: Lou Reed , Album: Metal Machine Music (Buddha)
9. Song: SonDEremawe , Artist: Autechre , Album: Quaristice (Warp)
10. Song: Intro / Instrumental , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Suicide In Dark Serenity (Bestial Onslaught)
11. Song: Jane Doe , Artist: Converge , Album: Jane Doe (Equal Vision)

• Great, epic track off of what (I think) is the best Converge album, from the opening salvo of "Concubine/Fault and Fracture", to "Homewrecker" to what sounds like two jaguars fighting on "Phoenix In Flames", to this, the final track, there isn't a dull spot on this album.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #61 2008-3-22

Episode #59 - What a Beautiful Day to Die

1. Song: Obnoxious Sample , Artist: As the Sun Sets , Album: Each Individual Voice Is Dead In the Silence (Moment of Clarity)
2. Song: Memorial To the Waste of Life , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head)
3. Song: Bug/Golem , Artist: Nadja , Album: Truth Becomes Death (Alien8)
4. Song: Poison Blur , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
5. Song: The Folding Road , Artist: Genghis Tron , Album: Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
6. Song: Law of Life , Artist: Farah , Album: After Dark (Italians Do It Better)

• Italo-disco compilation on the Troubleman Unlimited imprint Italians Do It Better. Also features tracks from Chromatics, Glass Candy, Mirage, and Professor Genius.

7. Song: Moccasin Tramp , Artist: Cursillistas , Album: Wasp Stings the Last Bitter Flavor (Digitalis Industries)
8. Song: Alone with the Alone , Artist: Six Organs of Admittance , Album: Shelter From the Ash (Drag City)
9. Song: Babies , Artist: Colleen , Album: Check the Water (Leaf)

• Double disc set of ambient/IDM/trip-hop originally released as a celebration of Leaf's ten year anniversary that also features cuts from Four Tet, Caribou, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Murcof, Clue to Kalo, Boom Bip & Doseone, Psapp, Efterklang, Hanne Hukkelberg, and others.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #59 2008-3-8

Episode #58 - Possessed By Demons

1. Song: Hallucination Guillotine , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
2. Song: Memory Leak , Artist: Nadja , Album: Truth Becomes Death (Alien8)
3. Song: Funerals Drenched In Apathy , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head)
4. Song: Larks On a String , Artist: Cursillistas , Album: Wasp Stings the Last Bitter Flavor (Digitalis Industries)
5. Song: Basilica , Artist: Rameses III , Album: Basilica (Important)
6. Song: Tick of the Clock , Artist: Chromatics , Album: Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #58 2008-3-1

Episode #57 - The Hitcher

1. Song: The Telephone Call , Artist: Chromatics , Album: Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)
2. Song: Chapels , Artist: Genghis Tron , Album: Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
3. Song: Clinodactyl , Artist: Nadja , Album: Bodycage (Profound Lore)
4. Song: Middle Ages Return , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Suicide In Dark Serenity (Bestial Onslaught)
5. Song: (Intermission) , Artist: Eluvium , Album: Copia (Temporary Residence)
6. Song: Part 5 , Artist: Ocrilim , Album: Annwn (Hydra Head)

• Seven-part solo album from avant-garde metal guitarist Mick Barr (Octis, Orthrelm, Crom Tech, Flying Luttenbachers, Quix*o*tic, Or Rathol Nok) and his drum machine that friggin' shreds. If you're looking for other recent material that's just as good, check out Octis: Iohargh Wended and his collab with Zach Hill (Hella), Shred Earthship.

7. Song: Trespass , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship (Load)
8. Song: Sovereign , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Sovereign (Neurot)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #57 2008-2-23

Episode #47 - Return to the Dark Ages

1. Song: Brain Returns to Initial State , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
2. Song: Certificate of No Effect , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)
3. Song: Edges 3 , Artist: Lance Olsen , Album: Edges: An Audio Portrait (Wandering Ear)

• Album from the field recordings net label Wandering Ear. This release was recorded in Nanaimo Harbour, Vancouver Island, British Columbia over the span of a few days.

4. Song: Final Worship , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship (Load)
5. Song: You'll Miss Me At the End , Artist: One Inch of Shadow , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
6. Song: Vascillating Between Piety and Gaiety , Artist: Fürsaxa , Album: Madrigals In Duos (Time-Lag)
7. Song: Plasma Center Blues , Artist: Facedowninshit , Album: Npon (Relapse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #47 2007-12-15

Episode #21 - Judgement Day

1. Song: Universal Donor , Artist: Wether , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
2. Song: Looping Jane , Artist: Masami Akita , Album: Ikebana: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)

• Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, contributes a track to a compilation of his own Amlux album.

3. Song: Exploded Face , Artist: Kites , Album: Peace Trials (Load)
4. Song: Rotten Yellow , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Phantom Limb (Relapse)
5. Song: The Horrrors , Artist: Redglaer , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
6. Song: Blood Swamp , Artist: Sunn O))) & Boris , Album: Altar (Southern Lord)
7. Song: You Thought You Were Special, You Were Wrong , Artist: Usurp Synapse , Album: Disinformation Fix (Alone)
8. Song: Merzfrog473 , Artist: Pita , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)

• Nice harsh electronics from Pita. Love it when the bottom drops out and then the track kicks in again into high gear.

9. Song: Transmission Postmortem , Artist: Nachtmystium , Album: Demise (Autopsy Kitchen)
10. Song: Horses and Their Kin , Artist: Marissa Nadler , Album: The Saga of Mayflower May (Eclipse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #21 2007-6-16