Thursday, July 31, 2008

Episode #80 - The Emergency Networks Are Taking Over

1. Song: Outro , Artist: Xasthur , Album: The Funeral of Being (Blood Fire Death)
2. Song: No Cure for the Lonely , Artist: Nadja , Album: Trembled (Utech)
3. Song: Tuesday Partly Sunny , Artist: Valet , Album: Ambient Not Not Ambient (Audio Dregs)
  • Compilation also featuring the likes of Lucky Dragons, White Rainbow, Mudboy, Yellow Swans, Wzt Hearts, Grouper, and others.

4. Song: Though the Apple Is Rotten , Artist: Prurient & Kevin Drumm , Album: All Are Guests In the House of the Lord (Hospital Productions)
5. Song: Roman Nose , Artist: Pocahaunted , Album: Hunted Gathering (Digitalis Recordings)
6. Song: Away from the Light , Artist: Nachtmystium , Album: Assassins: Black Meddle, Pt. 1 (Century Media)
7. Song: Athlantis , Artist: Eyvind Kang , Album: Athlantis (Ipecac)
8. Song: 8mmsweetbitter , Artist: Jarboe / Justin K. Broadrick , Album: J2 (The End)
9. Song: The Emergency Networks Are Taking Over , Artist: Burning Star Core , Album: Operator Dead...Post Abandoned (No Quarter)
10. Song: Do You See? , Artist: Charalambides , Album: Likeness (Kranky)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #80 2008-8-2

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Episode #74 - The Last Man On Earth

1. Song: Desolate World , Artist: Acid Enema , Album: Xasthur / Acid Enema (Self-Released)
2. Song: The Fourth Blind Wound , Artist: Leviathan , Album: Leviathan / Sapthuran (Southern Lord/Battle Kommand)
3. Song: Forestfloor 1 , Artist: KTL , Album: KTL (Editions Mego)
4. Song: Ritual Obsidian , Artist: Robedoor , Album: Shining Smoke (Long Long Chaney)
5. Song: Xavii , Artist: Russian Circles , Album: Station (Suicide Squeeze)
6. Song: III , Artist: Deathspell Omega , Album: Kenose (Southern Lord)
7. Song: Øx , Artist: Maja S.K. Ratkje , Album: River Mouth Echoes (Tzadik)
8. Song: There Died Venus , Artist: Prurient & Kevin Drumm , Album: All Are Guests In the House of the Lord (Hospital Productions)
9. Song: Outro , Artist: Nachtmystium , Album: Nachtymystium / Xasthur (Autopsy Kitchen/Shades of Death)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #74 2008-6-21

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Episode #28 - Loathing

1. Song: A Message To a Pretty , Artist: The Duke Spirit , Album: Covered In Love (Velo)
  • Four-song, digital-only EP of covers that was released only in Europe. The Duke Spirit takes on Desond Dekker's "007 (Shanty Town)" and Jessie Mae Hemphill's "I'm So Glad", as well as two cuts from Love (the other one being "A House Is Not a Motel").

2. Song: La Faulx , Artist: Univers Zero , Album: Heresie (Cuneiform)
3. Song: Your Wedding , Artist: Smog , Album: Julius Caesar (Drag City)
4. Song: Legion of Sin and Necromancy , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Nocturnal Poisoning (Blood Fire Death)
5. Song: Promise, Broken , Artist: Christoph de Babalon , Album: Love Under Will (Fischkopf Hamburg)
6. Song: Necrostuprum , Artist: Terror Organ , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
7. Song: Untitled , Artist: 16 Bitch Pile Up , Album: Bury Me Deep (Troniks)
8. Song: Gebrechlichkeit 2 , Artist: Burzum , Album: Filosofem (Feral House)
9. Song: Intro , Artist: Nachtmystium , Album: Reign of the Malicious (Regimental)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #28 2007-8-4

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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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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

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)

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Episode #18 - Total Eclipse

1. Song: The Man Comes Around , Artist: Johnny Cash , Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around (Universal)
2. Song: The Void Introduction , Artist: The Flying Luttenbachers , Album: The Void (Troubleman Unlimited)
3. Song: The History of Rape , Artist: Leviathan , Album: Tentacles of Whorror (Moribund)
4. Song: Stigmata Martyr , Artist: Angel Hair , Album: Pregnant With the Senior Class (Gravity)
  • Cover of the classic Bauhaus track.

5. Song: Nobody Gets Out Alive! , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: The Destroyer (Digital Hardcore)
6. Song: Decay , Artist: Nachtmystium , Album: Instinct: Decay (Southern Lord)
7. Song: Car Chase Terror , Artist: M83 , Album: Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute U.S.)
8. Song: Apple Tree Victim , Artist: Prurient , Album: Pleasure Ground (Load)
9. Song: Norge , Artist: Thorr's Hammer , Album: Dommedagsnatt (Southern Lord)

  • Very short-lived (six weeks) doom metal outfit from Ballard, Washington, featuring the likes of Greg Anderson (Sunn O))), Goatsnake)and Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Khanate), along with Jamie Sykes and James Hale. Seventeen year-old female exchange student Runhild Gammelsæter, handled vocals, which are sung entirely in Norwegian (Norway is Gammelsæter's native country). During their time together, the group cut a demo and this album (Norwegian for "Doomsday Night"), which was re-released in 2004 with an extra live track ("Mellom Galgene") and some rare bonus video footage.

10. Song: Mammoth , Artist: Pelican , Album: Pelican (Hydra Head)
11. Song: Paint It Black , Artist: The Rolling Stones , Album: Aftermath (ABKCO)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #18 2007-5-26

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