Episode #107 - Shot In the Back of the Head

1. Song: Trick or Treat , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: Every Day Is Halloween Volume II (Self-Released)
2. Song: Shining , Artist: Philip Jeck , Album: Sand (Touch)
3. Song: Kelly In the Other Room, Me In My Room , Artist: U.S. Girls , Album: Gravel Days (Chocolate Monk)
4. Song: Operator Dead...Post Abandoned , Artist: Burning Star Core , Album: Operator Dead...Post Abandoned (No Quarter)
5. Song: The Man From Nowhere , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)
6. Song: Into the Rainbow Vein , Artist: Boards of Canada , Album: The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
7. Song: Voice of Fire , Artist: Doomriders , Album: Black Thunder (Deathwish Inc.)

• Side project of Converge bassist/vocalist and Old Man Gloom guitarist/vocalist Nate Newton. Foursome that churns out dual vocal thrash metal in the vein of Converge (think "Black Cloud" or "Eagles Become Vultures"), with a few licks of stoner metal thrown in for good measure. Also features John-Robert Connors on drums (Cave In), Jebb Riley on bass and vox (There Were Wires, Disappearer), and Chris Pupecki (Cast Iron Hike) with a second guitar. Aside from this instrumental, other favorites include "Ride or Die" and skate anthem "Deathbox".

8. Song: Submersed , Artist: Leviathan , Album: The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide (Moribund)
9. Song: Wavering Radiant , Artist: Isis , Album: Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
10. Song: Giant Me On the Other Side (Loren Connors) , Artist: Mono , Album: New York Soundtracks (Temporary Residence)

• Remixes of the tracks from One Step More and You Die, which, packaged with this album, was just given the deluxe reissue treatment as a double LP. Also features tracks from Calla and Jackie-O Motherfucker, among others.

11. Song: Intermission One , Artist: Aneuretical , Album: When You Were a Kid (Afternoon)
12. Song: Shot In the Back of the Head , Artist: Moby , Album: Wait for Me (Little Idiot)

• First single off of Moby's latest album, the video of which is directed by David Lynch (Mulholland Dr., Eraserhead, Inland Empire).

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #107 2009-5-9

Episode #78 - Hangman's Noose

1. Song: Rape , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
2. Song: Arrodillate Ante la Madera y la Piedra , Artist: Orthodox , Album: Gran Poder (Southern Lord)
3. Song: Pink Shadows , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship (Load)
4. Song: Comes Another Brood , Artist: Prurient & Kevin Drumm , Album: All Are Guests In the House of the Lord (Hospital Productions)
5. Song: How Will You Learn More Successfully from Your Coach Than by Just Looking and Listening? , Artist: Chris Corsano , Album: The Young Cricketer (Hot Cars Warp)
6. Song: Auditorium , Artist: Jacob Kirkegaard , Album: 4 Rooms (Touch Tone)
7. Song: Theme, Pt. 5 , Artist: Rameses III , Album: Honey Rose (Important)
8. Song: Beneath the River , Artist: Mike Tamburo , Album: Ghosts of Marumbey (New American Folk Hero)
9. Song: Stigma , Artist: Ufomammut , Album: Idolum (Supernatural Cat)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #78 2008-7-19

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

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 #39 - Mangled Beyond Recognition

1. Song: Intro , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
2. Song: The Mangling of Tasmanian Wolves , Artist: Wolfmangler , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
3. Song: Báthory Erzsébet , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Black One (Southern Lord)

• The name for this song comes from Hungary's most infamous serial killer, Countess Erzsébet Báthory, who was accussed of torturing and killing dozens of girls and young women during the 16th and 17th centuries. She allegedly bathed in the blood of her victims in an attempt to retain her youth.

4. Song: Eletronic , Artist: Botch , Album: We Are the Romans (Hydra Head)

• Hidden electronic track at the End of We Are the Romans.

5. Song: Suicide , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: The Destroyer (Digital Hardcore)
6. Song: Black Gun Red , Artist: Kim Cascone , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
7. Song: Black Market , Artist: Snatch , Album: New York Noise, Vol. 3: Music from the New York Underground 1979-1984 (Soul Jazz)
8. Song: My Teacher , Artist: A-Frames , Album: Black Forest (Sub Pop)
9. Song: Robot Chant , Artist: Mogwai , Album: Rock Action (Matador)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #39 2007-10-20

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 #31 - Firestorm

1. Song: I Put a Spell On You , Artist: Arthur Brown , Album: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Touchwood)

• Screamin' Jay Hawkins cover.

2. Song: The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) , Artist: John Williams , Album: Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back (Sony)
3. Song: Turning Sand Into Glass , Artist: Conifer , Album: Conifer (Not Common)
4. Song: Randbient Works (Tralphaz Blue Gummy Shark Mix) , Artist: Mochipet , Album: Girls Love Breakcore (Daly City)

• Features mixes and contributions from Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers), Otto Von Schirach, and Aaron Spectre (Drumcorps), among others.

5. Song: Lypse , Artist: Excepter , Album: Alternation (5 Rue Christine)
6. Song: Vous le Saurez en Temps Voulu , Artist: Univers Zero , Album: Heresie (Cuneiform)
7. Song: Automaton , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
8. Song: Superstar , Artist: Mouse On Mars , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
9. Song: Blood From the Air , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
10. Song: Brighteyes , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #31 2007-8-25

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

Episode #16 - In Space No One Can Hear You Scream

1. Song: The Triumph of the Lazer Viking , Artist: An Albatross , Album: We Are the Lazer Viking (Ace Fu)
2. Song: Denki No Numa (Frog Voice Mix) , Artist: Ulver , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
3. Song: Cloud Melodie II , Artist: Tussle , Album: Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound)
4. Song: A Paranoid Home Companion (Intermission) , Artist: Cerberus Shoal , Album: Chaiming the Knoblessone (North East Indie)

• Just a strange, strange track.

5. Song: Unity Concepts , Artist: Mouse on Mars , Album: Idiology (Thrill Jockey)

• Can't wait for the Von Südenfed collab with Mark E. Smith. Tromatic Reflexxions comes out May 21st on Domino.

6. Song: Postludium , Artist: Gorgoroth , Album: Under the Sign of Hell (Century Media)
7. Song: Radiator , Artist: Aphex Twin , Album: Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 (Sire)
8. Song: Ghosts , Artist: Japan , Album: Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the '80s Underground (Rhino)
9. Song: Gd_Chck , Artist: Error , Album: Unknown

• Copped this song off of last.fm. If anybody knows what album it's on, let me know.

10. Song: Fitter Happier , Artist: Radiohead , Album: OK Computer (Capitol)
11. Song: Fegefeuer , Artist: Peter Frohmader , Album: Musik Aus Dem Schattenreich
12. Song: Worse , Artist: Drumcorps , Album: Grist (Cock Rock Disco)
13. Song: Drowning in Brown , Artist: Vincent Gallo , Album: Buffalo 66 (Will)
14. Song: Gay Priest (Pt. 1) , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
15. Song: Pleased With Being Alive , Artist: Christoph de Babalon , Album: Love Under Will (Fischkopf Hamburg)
16. Song: Flight of the Wounded Locust , Artist: The Locust , Album: Flight of the Wounded Locust (Gold Standard Laboratories)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #16 2007-5-12

Episode #4 - Aftermath

1. Song: Singin' In the Rain , Artist: Gene Kelly , Album: A Clockwork Orange (Warner Brothers)
2. Song: Untitled , Artist: Cornelius , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)

• Double album compilation of remixes of material from Merzbow's 2002 album Amlux. Also features tracks from Negativland, Mouse on Mars, DJ Spooky, Alec Empire (of Atari Teenage Riot), Kawabata Makoto (of Acid Mothers Temple), John Wiese, K.K. Null, and others.

3. Song: Raggsokk , Artist: Svarte Grenier , Album: Raggsokk (Type)

• Norwegian artist also known as Erik K. Skodvin, one half of the duo Deaf Center.

4. Song: *#.. , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Calculating Infinity (Hydra Head)
5. Song: Electric Love Cunt , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: God Bless America!!! (Self-Released)
6. Song: No More Air , Artist: Carlos Giffoni , Album: Arrogance (No Fun Productions)

• Giffoni curates New York's annual No Fun Fest, usually held at The Hook. This year's lineup, scheduled for May 17-20, includes Hair Police, Merzbow, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), The Rita, Keiji Haino, Aaron Dilloway (Wolf Eyes), and Giffoni himself. He's also the guitarist for Monotract, and does electronics for noise supergroup Death Unit, which also features Chris Corsano, Trevor Tremaine (of Hair Police), and Brian Sullivan (Mouthus). Catch some footage from 2006's 'Fest by buying the double disc DVD over at Load Records.

7. Song: Weekend Sex Change , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Calculating Infinity (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Outdoorsman/Indestructible , Artist: Prurient , Album: Pleasure Ground (Load)
9. Song: Cloud Melodie , Artist: Tussle , Album: Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound)
10. Song: The Dead Flag Blues: The Dead Flag Blues - (Intro)/Slow Moving Trains/ The Cowboy.../Outro , Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor! , Album: F#A#∞ (Kranky)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #4 2007-2-17