Episode #37 - Darkness Eternal

1. Song: What a Horrible Night for a Curse , Artist: The Black Dahlia Murder , Album: Nocturnal (Metal Blade)
2. Song: Air Nozzles and Echoes Reset Live , Artist: Agata , Album: Spike (Tzadik)
3. Song: - , Artist: Nurse With Wound , Album: Chance Meeting On a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (United Diaries)
4. Song: La Booly Boo , Artist: Eric Copeland , Album: Hermaphrodite (Paw Tracks)

• The newest album from Eric Copeland (Black Dice, Terrestrial Tones) sounds like a mix between Terrestrial Tones' Dead Drunk, Animal Collective's poppier material (think Peacebone EP), and Black Dice's stuff just as they were transitioning from their hardcore roots into more avant territory (Miles of Smiles, Creature Comforts). This is one of the more drone-oriented tracks.

5. Song: Digital Hardcore , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
6. Song: Gd_Chck , Artist: Error , Album: Unknown
7. Song: Untitled , Artist: 16 Bitch Pile Up , Album: Bury Me Deep (Troniks)

• This is the first cut off this interesting concept(?) album.

8. Song: - , Artist: Hair Police , Album: Drawn Dead (Hanson)

• Another scuzzy untitled drone cut, this one the third track on Drawn Dead.

9. Song: Not Here / Not Now , Artist: Angels of Light , Album: We Are Him (Young God)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #37 2007-10-6

Episode #33 - Seventh Level of Hell

1. Song: Twilight Sinking , Artist: Agata , Album: Spike (Tzadik)

• Solo album from Melt Banana's guitarist on John Zorn's label. Interesting stuff.

2. Song: Black Sky , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
3. Song: - , Artist: Nurse With Wound , Album: Chance Meeting On a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (United Diaries)
4. Song: ABA , Artist: Black Dice , Album: Broken Ear Record (DFA/Astralwerks)
5. Song: It's All Blooming Now Mt. Heart Attack , Artist: Liars , Album: Drum's Not Dead (Mute)
6. Song: DfDE , Artist: O.S.T. , Album: All Tomorrow's Parties 3.0: Autechre Curated (ATP)

• Double-disc compilation of mostly electronic and experimental stuff from Autechre, Baby Ford, [Tim] Hecker, Dr. Dooom (Dr. Octagon), Earth, Public Enemy, Pita, Jim O'Rourke, and others.

7. Song: Lucifer Rising , Artist: John Zorn , Album: I.A.O. (Tzadik)
8. Song: Dopethrone , Artist: Electric Wizard , Album: Dopethrone (Music Cartel)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #33 2007-9-8

Episode #32 - Dead Air

1. Song: Lord Winter , Artist: Death In June , Album: Rose Clouds of Holocaust (NER)
2. Song: The Rite of Infernal Invocation , Artist: Gorgoroth , Album: Under the Sign of Hell (Century Media)
3. Song: Terrible Canyons of Static , Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor! , Album: Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (Kranky)
4. Song: The Tumultuous Upsurge , Artist: Nurse With Wound , Album: Homotopy to Marie (United Diaries)
5. Song: Deep In the Woods , Artist: T Cells , Album: Release the Bats: The Birthday Party as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (Three One G)

• From opener Cattle Decapitation's rendition of "Sonny's Burning" to closer Some Girls' "Release the Bats" (fitting that they would play the title track if you consider their popularity when this came out), Release the Bats is an excellent compilation tribute to The Birthday Party (Nick Cave's first band; see also: Grinderman). Only a few duds here, with highlights coming from the likes of Melt Banana ("Faint Heart"), The Chinese Stars ("The Plague", which previously aired in Episode #22), Error ("Wild World"), Celebration ("King Ink"; ex-Love Life), Kill Me Tomorrow ("Junkyard"), Daughters (see below), the aforementioned tracks from Cattle Decap and Some Girls, as well as this nauseating little ditty from T Cells that'll make your stomach swim.

6. Song: We All Die! , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: The Destroyer (Digital Hardcore)
7. Song: Humanshields , Artist: Drumcorps , Album: Rmx or Die (Kriss)
8. Song: Budapest , Artist: Poni Hoax , Album: Poni Hoax (Tigersushi)
9. Song: Marry Me (Lie Lie) , Artist: Daughters , Album: Release the Bats: The Birthday Party as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (Three One G)

• Lex does his best Danzig impression, which turned out to be stylistic foreshadowing for Daughters' 2006 album Hell Songs.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #32 2007-9-1

Episode #17 - All Your Base Are Belong To Us

1. Song: Ennio Morricone, Artist: Les Georges Leningrad , Album: Sangue Puro (Tomlab)
2. Song: Earthworks / Buried In Secret , Artist: Prurient , Album: Pleasure Ground (Load)
3. Song: The Driller , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Human Animal (Sub Pop)
4. Song: - , Artist: Nurse With Wound , Album: Chance Meeting On a Dissecting Table Of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (United Diaries)
5. Song: Incipit Tragaedia , Artist: Shub-Niggurath , Album: Les Morts Vont Vite (Musea)

• French Zeuhl band named after a fertility demon in H.P. Lovecraft's works.

6. Song: 5 Minutes 25 Seconds , Artist: Peter Wright , Album: A Tiny Camp In the Wilderness (Distant Bombs)
7. Song: Above the Below , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)
8. Song: Untitled , Artist: The Bled , Album: Found In the Flood (Vagrant)
9. Song: American Vultures , Artist: The Blood Brothers , Album: March On Electric Children (Three One G)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #17 2007-5-19

Episode #2 - Hacked to Bits

1. Song: The Clavicle of Solomon , Artist: John Zorn , Album: I.A.O. (Tzadik)
2. Song: I Cannot Feel You as the Dogs Are Laughing and I Am Blind , Artist: Nurse With Wound , Album: Homotopy to Marie (United Diaries)
3. Song: Xualaux , Artist: Andy Puls (Neon Hunk) , Album: Pick a Winner (Load)

• Off the DVD/CD compilation on Load Records featuring Forcefield, White Mice, Pink and Brown, Lightning Bolt, Pleasurehorse, Pixeltan, Gerty Farish, and others.

4. Song: Astral Dustbin Dirge , Artist: Nurse With Wound , Album: Homotopy to Marie (United Diaries)
5. Song: bassAliens , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: White2 (Southern Lord)
6. Song: Track 01 , Artist: Gerritt , Album: Space Level Blaze (Misanthropic Agenda)

• All six tracks on Space Level Blaze are untitled. Excellent use of stereo panning on this track - and throughout the rest of the album - makes this sound like an amped-up version of Neu!'s "Super 16" (specifically those dinosaur growls in the background). Gerritt [Wittmer] has collaborated with Ginnungagap (Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) and Tim Wyskida of Khanate), Axolotl, D. Yellow Swans, and LHD, as well as helping on production of Yellow Swans' psych-noise splatterfest Psychic Secession.

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

Episode #1 - Countdown to Armageddon

1. Song: - , Artist: End. , Album: The Sounds of Disaster (Ipecac)

• Untitled last track off of The Sounds of Disaster.

2. Song: Prologue , Artist: John Carpenter , Album: The Fog (Varese Sarabande)
3. Song: Theme from "The Fog" , Artist: John Carpenter , Album: The Fog (Varese Sarabande)

• John Carpenter scores his own music for all his films, which also include the Halloween movies, Escape from New York (1981), and The Thing (1982). Tracks 2 and 3 are from the soundtrack to his 1980 film The Fog. Narration is provided by John Houseman.

4. Song: Seule , Artist: Mike Patton / John Erik Kaada , Album: Romances (Ipecac)

• Founder of Ipecac Recordings, Mike Patton has also recorded as Tomahawk and Peeping Tom, has done work with Dillinger Escape Plan, collaborated with Merzbow (as Maldoror) and the X-ecutioners, and has been in bands Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, and Fantômas.

5. Song: The Game , Artist: John Murphy & Dave Hughes , Album: Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Island)
6. Song: Grant Me the Strength , Artist: Dear Lover , Album: 4 Track Demo Recordings

• Dear Lover is the side project of Jacob Bannon, the lead singer for Converge.

7. Song: Blood Thirsty Lust (Monotonos Remix) , Artist: The Crimson Curse , Album: Blood Thirsty Lust (Coalition)

• This album also features remixes by Travis Ryan (lead singer of Cattle Decapitation), John Wiese, and Spacewürm, as well as the original version of "Blood Thirst Lust" by The Crimson Curse.

8. Song: Left in the Desert , Artist: Earth , Album: Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method (Southern Lord)
9. Song: Homotopy to Marie , Artist: Nurse with Wound , Album: Homotopy to Marie (United Diaries)

• My first experience listening to Homotopy to Marie was alone at night; needless to say it scared the crap out of me.

10. Song: Jack the Ripper , Artist: Univers Zero , Album: Heresie (Cuneiform)
11. Song: Always Crashing in the Same Car , Artist: David Bowie , Album: Low (Virgin)
12. Song: All the Pretty Little Horses , Artist: Current 93 , Album: Judas as Black Moth (Castle Music UK)
13. Song: L' Uccello con le Piume di Cristallo/L'Uccelo Con Le Piume Di Cristallo (Titoli) , Artist: Ennio Morricone , Album: Crime And Dissonance (Ipecac)
14. Song: Batman Dracula , Artist: John Wiese , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #1 2007-1-27