Friday, August 15, 2008

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

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

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

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Episode #3 - Eightysixed

1. Song: De Vrachtwagen 1 , Artist: Flat Earth Society , Album: Isms (Ipecac)
  • Belgian progressive big band formed from the ashes of fellow Belgians X-Legged Sally and Fukkeduk. Isms is actually a compilation of tracks from four prior releases, and also features a homage to the Birthday Party in the form of "(Little) King Ink".
2. Song: Woofer Wrecker , Artist: Kid 606 , Album: Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (Ipecac)
3. Song: Dark Side of the Pink Frog , Artist: When , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed And Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
  • From a double CD compilation also featuring Boris, Sunn O))), Fennesz, [Tim] Hecker, Russell Haswell, John Wiese (see below), Gerritt (see Episode #2; also runs the Misanthropic Agenda label), House of Low Culture (a side project of Isis), Merzbow, and others that reworks Merzbow's 2001 album Frog.
4. Song: Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Christoph de Babalon Remix) , Artist: The Locust , Album: Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Gold Standard Laboratories)
  • Part of the Lab Remixes series, which also includes The Convocation Of and a !!!/Out Hud split. Features reinterpretations of "Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle", from The Locust's 1999 self-titled release whose cover art parodies Queen. Bastard Noise (member John Wiese reared his head in Episode #1 with "Batman Dracula"), Wizards of War, Sinking Body (Neil Burke of Born Against and Men's Recovery Project fame), Kid 606, and I Am Spoonbender also contribute.

5. Song: Hamburger Lady , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: D.O.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (Mute)
6. Song: Frankie Teardrop , Artist: Suicide , Album: Suicide [First Album] (Bronze)

  • ILX pitts these two tracks against each other in their forums, but they're both classics. As far as scares go, "Frankie Teardrop", a tragic tale of a disenfranchised Vietnam vet, goes the surprise route, while "Hamburger Lady" - based off a true story about a burn unit victim in Portland, Oregon - lurches along (best line: "She is burned from the waist up/...She's burned from the waist down"). Originally on TG's own Industrial Records (yes, they coined the term), D.O.A. got the Mute reissue treatment in 1993. After breaking up, TG members went on to Psychic TV (Genesis P-Orridge), Coil (Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson), and Chris & Cosey (Cosey Fanni Tutti & Chris Carter), although an album of new material slated for an early 2006 release on Mute still hasn't seen the light of day.

7. Song: Walls of Sound , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: D.O.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (Mute)
8. Song: Ripe (With Decay) , Artist: Nine Inch Nails , Album: The Fragile (Nothing / Interscope)
9. Song: Brains Out , Artist: Error , Album: Error (Epitaph)

  • Members of Error include Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion and Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato, among others. This EP also features a cover of 999's "Homicide".

10. Song: Bride of Frankenstein , Artist: Quintron , Album: The Frog Tape (Skin Graft / Rhinestone)
11. Song: The Final Chapter (In Which the Town Bares Its Teeth) , Artist: The Death of a Party , Album: The Shame of the Sweet (Double Negative)
12. Song: Black Vomit , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Black Vomit (Sub Pop)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #3 2007-2-10

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