Episode #82 - Three Mile Island

Sounds of the Apocalypse is finally back! Look for a new episode every Saturday once again.

1. Song: 999,999 , Artist: Nine Inch Nails , Album: The Slip (Self-Released)
2. Song: Preyer , Artist: Burmese , Album: Men (Load)
3. Song: 3.28.79 , Artist: Soporus , Album: Atómové Elektrárne (Burnt Toast Vinyl)

• Saxon Shore side project. Three of the four songs on this EP have to do with nuclear disaster, which makes this quite an appropriate choice. This one references Three Mile Island, five miles from where Soporus member Matthew Stone lived as an infant.

4. Song: Skin Turns to Glass , Artist: Nadja , Album: Skin Turns to Glass (The End)
5. Song: I Run Low , Artist: Air Conditioning , Album: Dead Rails (Load)
6. Song: Untitled , Artist: Daniel Menche , Album: Field of Skin (Soleilmoon)
7. Song: Purgatory Spiral , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Secret , Artist: Prurient , Album: The History of Aids (Hospital Productions/Armageddon Label)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #82 2008-8-16

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

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 #72 - The Red Sea

1. Song: Summon the End of Time , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Xasthur / Acid Enema (Self-Released)
2. Song: The White Sea , Artist: The Sword , Album: Gods of the Earth (Kemado)
3. Song: Corrasion , Artist: Nadja , Album: Trembled (Utech)
4. Song: In Long Rows , Artist: Prurient & Kevin Drumm , Album: All Are Guests In the House of the Lord (Hospital Productions)
5. Song: Stoned At the Taj Again , Artist: Grails , Album: Take Refuge In Clean Living (Important)
6. Song: Where Am I , Artist: Mono , Album: One Step More and You Die (Arena Rock Recordings)
7. Song: An Intimate Battering , Artist: Humanfly , Album: II (20 Buck Spin)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #72 2008-6-7

Episode #67 - River of Blood

1. Song: Celestial Crown , Artist: The Sword , Album: Age of Winters (Kemado)
2. Song: Consumed By a Dark Paranoia , Artist: Xasthur , Album: To Violate the Oblivious (Moribund)
3. Song: Gemini Becoming the Tripod , Artist: Kayo Dot , Album: Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (Robotic Empire)
4. Song: Fall , Artist: Jessica Bailiff , Album: Songs for the End of the World (Silber)
5. Song: Leper War , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Human Animal (Sub Pop)
6. Song: Trembled , Artist: Nadja , Album: Trembled (Utech)
7. Song: Transcending , Artist: Acid Enema , Album: Xasthur/Acid Enema (Self-Released)
8. Song: Station , Artist: Russian Circles , Album: Station (Suicide Squeeze)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #67 2008-5-3

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 #60 - Stillborn

1. Song: Asleep On the Forest Floor , Artist: Genghis Tron , Album: Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
2. Song: Nightmare Paint , Artist: Swarm of the Lotus , Album: The Sirens of Silence (Abacus)
3. Song: Unblessed Be , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head)
4. Song: Breakpoint , Artist: Nadja , Album: Trembled (Utech)
5. Song: Origins 2 , Artist: Rameses III , Album: Basilica (Important)
6. Song: PS I Dub Ya Forever and Ever (12" Edition Rmxed by The Posterboys of the Apocalypse and Kid606) , Artist: Kid 606 , Album: PS I Dub Ya E.P. (Force Lab)
7. Song: Projections , Artist: The Howling Wind , Album: Pestilence & Peril (Profound Lore)
8. Song: Shelter From the Ash , Artist: Six Organs of Admittance , Album: Shelter From the Ash (Drag City)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #60 2008-3-15

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 #56 - Hell's Kitchen

1. Song: Ride the Lighter , Artist: The Fucking Wrath , Album: Season of Evil (Goodfellow)
2. Song: Remember When I Didn't Say What I Wanted to Say , Artist: As the Sun Sets , Album: 8949 (Trash Art!)
3. Song: Suicide In Dark Serenity , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Suicide In Dark Serenity (Bestial Onslaught)
4. Song: Mutagen , Artist: Nadja , Album: Touched (Alien8)
5. Song: The Inevitable Conclusion , Artist: The Howling Wind , Album: Pestilence & Peril (Profound Lore)
6. Song: Acute Awareness (For Wood) , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Honky Reduction (Relapse)
7. Song: A Wet Cleaner , Artist: Vincent Gallo , Album: Buffalo 66 (Will)
8. Song: Odds On , Artist: Sightings , Album: Arrived In Gold (Load)
9. Song: Sorrow In the House , Artist: Loren Connors , Album: Hell's Kitchen Park (Family Vineyard)
10. Song: Mineral Balance , Artist: Jon Mueller , Album: Metals (Table of the Elements)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #56 2008-2-16

Episode #54 - Human Sacrifice

1. Song: Mr. Johnson , Artist: Oxbow , Album: The Narcotic Story (Hydra Head)
2. Song: On This Slab , Artist: Prurient & Kevin Drumm , Album: All Are Guests In the House of the Lord (Hospital Productions)

• Originally released as a now out-of-print cassette and updated with new artwork.

3. Song: Autosomal , Artist: Nadja , Album: Bodycage (Profound Lore)
4. Song: Spectral Hand , Artist: John Wiese , Album: Soft Punk (Troubleman Unlimited)
5. Song: Homeostatic , Artist: Jon Mueller , Album: Metals (Table of the Elements)
6. Song: Cloven Hoof , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)
7. Song: I Think We Should Just Move Towards Getting Away From All That , Artist: Noggin , Album: Inspected by Nekrase (Endsound)
8. Song: Little Girls , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
9. Song: Black Magic Rituals & Perversions: Frisson des Vampires/Zora , Artist: Electric Wizard , Album: Witchcult Today (Candlelight)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #54 2008-2-2