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 #52 - Drums of War

1. Song: Trace Essential , Artist: Jon Mueller , Album: Metals (Table of the Elements)

• Three long tracks of tribal drumming and impending doom from Jon Mueller (Pele, Telecognac, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Raccoons). The name of the albums says it all. Love the buildup and silences between drum hits on the opening track, and the fade into nothingness at the end. Perfect for the end of the world.

2. Song: Tomorrow Is So Far Away , Artist: Chromatics , Album: Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)
3. Song: Whereweleftoff (Fortune Cookie Rmx by Atom) , Artist: Kid 606 , Album: PS I Dub Ya E.P. (Force Lab)
4. Song: After Nature , Artist: Eluvium , Album: Copia (Temporary Residence)
5. Song: Protect Me You , Artist: Sonic Youth , Album: Confusion Is Sex (SST)
6. Song: You Thought I Was Dead , Artist: Videohippos , Album: Unbeast the Leash (Monitor)
7. Song: Meditations In B Part V & VI , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Hate Rock Trio , Artist: HTRK , Album: Nostalgia (Fire)
9. Song: Cold , Artist: The Cure , Album: Pornography (Elektra)
10. Song: Cleanse , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Enemy of the Sun (Alternative Tentacles)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #52 2008-1-19

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 #46 - Something Else Is Out There

1. Song: - , Artist: Burial , Album: Burial (Hyperdub)
2. Song: This Most Real of Hells , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)
3. Song: White Walls , Artist: Flies Inside the Sun , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
4. Song: Scars of E , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The First Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle (Thirsty Ear)
5. Song: Nine , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Given to the Rising (Neurot)
6. Song: Green Monster , Artist: Suicide Silence , Album: The Cleansing (Century Media)
7. Song: Gerd , Artist: Jacob Kirkegaard , Album: Eldfjall (Touch UK)
8. Song: Goodnight , Artist: Six Organs of Admittance , Album: Shelter From the Ash (Drag City)
9. Song: Little Rocket Ships , Artist: Peter Wright , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
10. Song: Support Our Troops Oh! (Black Angels Oh!) , Artist: Xiu Xiu , Album: Fabulous Muscles (5 Rue Christine)
11. Song: Stanlow , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #46 2007-12-8

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 #43 - Hell On Earth

1. Song: Bouncer See Bouncer... , Artist: Scott Walker , Album: Tilt (Drag City)
2. Song: Orakulum , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Oracle (Southern Lord)
3. Song: Love, Hate (Slugbaiting) , Artist: Godflesh , Album: Pure (Earache)
4. Song: - , Artist: Cephalic Carnage , Album: Xenosapien (Relapse)
5. Song: Fear and Sickness , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Given to the Rising (Neurot)
6. Song: Bela Lugosi's Dead , Artist: Nouvelle Vague , Album: Bande a Part (Justin Time)

• Cover of Bauhaus. This album is all covers, in fact, and also features versions of "The Killing Moon" (Echo & the Bunnymen), "Dancing With Myself"(Billy Idol), "Heart of Glass" (Blondie), and "Human Fly" (The Cramps), among others.

7. Song: Unanswered , Artist: Suicide Silence , Album: The Cleansing (Century Media)
8. Song: White Chalk , Artist: PJ Harvey , Album: White Chalk (Island)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #43 2007-11-17

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