Episode #68 - Marked for Death

1. Song: First Memory of Pain , Artist: Prurient & Kevin Drumm , Album: All Are Guests In the House of the Lord (Hospital Productions)
2. Song: Will There Be My Soul , Artist: If Thousand , Album: Songs for the End of the World (Silber)
3. Song: Only Dogs Hear (Here) , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
4. Song: Untitled , Artist: Daniel Menche , Album: Field of Skin (Soleilmoon)

• Fifth track out of nine untitled tracks on Field of Skin.

5. Song: Bright Tomorrow , Artist: Fuck Buttons , Album: Street Horrrsing (ATP)
6. Song: Hitting the Pavement , Artist: Kevin Drumm , Album: Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
7. Song: Penitent Runes , Artist: Robedoor , Album: Rancor Keeper (Release the Bats)
8. Song: A Saucerful of Secrets , Artist: Pink Floyd , Album: A Saucerful of Secrets (Capitol)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #68 2008-5-10

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 #50 - Death Ray

1. Song: Pentascam Constellation , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: The Poacher Diaries (Relapse)

• Split album with Converge.

2. Song: Track 2 , Artist: Formication , Album: Agnosia (Dark Winter)

• Five-track (all untitled) album of minimalist ambient noise from the Dark Winter net label.

3. Song: Spirale Malax , Artist: Lard Free , Album: III / Spirale Malax (Spalax)

• Progressive French band from the '70s Lard Free (terrible band name) serves up this jazz/krautrock mess, along with the four-part "Synthetic Seasons" on their third album.

4. Song: Wash It All Away , Artist: Jesu , Album: Pale Sketches (Avalanche)

• Collection of unreleased Jesu tracks from 2000-2007 released on Jesu's own label.

5. Song: Scarlet , Artist: Unearthly Trance , Album: The Trident (Relapse)
6. Song: The Last Seed , Artist: Sightings , Album: Arrived In Gold (Load)
7. Song: Sonata Brodsky , Artist: Cave In , Album: Creative Eclipses (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Bound to the Wheel , Artist: Long Live Death , Album: Secret Eye Sampler 2005 (Secret Eye)
9. Song: Headhunter , Artist: High On Fire , Album: Death Is This Communion (Relapse)
10. Song: Mandied (Self Reborn) , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #50 2008-1-5

Episode #49 - Dressed Up Sharp In Suits of Green and Placed Upon the War Machine

1. Song: Bells Dark Above Our Heads , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
2. Song: The Electrician , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)

• Cover of The Walker Brothers.

3. Song: Your Far Church , Artist: Mouthus , Album: Saw a Halo (Load)
4. Song: Lullaby for Strangers , Artist: Traveling Bell , Album: Secret Eye Sampler 2005 (Secret Eye)

• Compilation CD of Secret Eye artists, which also features tracks from Avarus, Black Forest/Black Sea, Spires That In the Sunset Rise, Long Live Death, Larkin Grimm, Fürsaxa, and others.

5. Song: Cowboy Soundcheck , Artist: Black Dice , Album: Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
6. Song: - , Artist: Beck , Album: Stereopathic Soul Manure (Flipside)
7. Song: Put the Time Machine In Your Mouth Pt. II , Artist: Kill Me Tomorrow , Album: Skin's Getting Weird (Gold Standard Laboratories)
8. Song: Devastator / Mighty Trust Krusher , Artist: Godflesh , Album: Streetcleaner (Combat)
9. Song: The House of Feasting , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Honky Reduction (Relapse)
10. Song: Radio Ballet , Artist: Eluvium , Album: Copia (Temporary Residence)

• Soothing classical piano and string type stuff here, compared to the post-rock guitar drone material found on, say, When I Live by the Garden and the Sea.

11. Song: ...And Texas Spaceship , Artist: Boris & Merzbow , Album: Megatone (Inoxia)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #49 2007-12-29

Episode #48 - Four Horsemen

1. Song: Epilogue of a Carcrash , Artist: Orchid , Album: Chaos Is Me (Ebullition)
2. Song: Three Ring Ocean Sideshow , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
3. Song: Black & Orange , Artist: Oubliette , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
4. Song: Black Peter , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)
5. Song: Crutch Field Tongs , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Miss Machine (Relapse)
6. Song: She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone In an Empty Field , Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor! , Album: Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven! (Kranky)
7. Song: The Falling Sun , Artist: A Place to Bury Strangers , Album: A Place to Bury Strangers (Killer Pimp)
8. Song: Al-Lat , Artist: Jacob Kirkegaard , Album: Eldfjall (Touch UK)
9. Song: Bananas , Artist: Black Dice , Album: Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
10. Song: Gli Intoccabili/Gli Intoccabili (Titoli) , Artist: Ennio Morricone , Album: Crime and Dissonance (Ipecac)
11. Song: Music Box , Artist: Philip Glass , Album: Music of Candyman (Orange Mountain)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #48 2007-12-22

Episode #47 - Return to the Dark Ages

1. Song: Brain Returns to Initial State , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
2. Song: Certificate of No Effect , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)
3. Song: Edges 3 , Artist: Lance Olsen , Album: Edges: An Audio Portrait (Wandering Ear)

• Album from the field recordings net label Wandering Ear. This release was recorded in Nanaimo Harbour, Vancouver Island, British Columbia over the span of a few days.

4. Song: Final Worship , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship (Load)
5. Song: You'll Miss Me At the End , Artist: One Inch of Shadow , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
6. Song: Vascillating Between Piety and Gaiety , Artist: Fürsaxa , Album: Madrigals In Duos (Time-Lag)
7. Song: Plasma Center Blues , Artist: Facedowninshit , Album: Npon (Relapse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #47 2007-12-15

Episode #7 - A Black Wind Blows

1. Song: ...And the Gods Made Love , Artist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience , Album: Electric Ladyland (MCA)
2. Song: Stolen , Artist: Isis & Aereogramme , Album: In the Fishtank, Vol. 14: Isis & Aereogramme (In the Fishtank)
3. Song: Mauritian Giant Skink: Part I , Artist: Uton , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)

• Six-disc set with each track dedicated to a recently extinct species. Comes with an essay written by Jeff Knoch (Urdog).

4. Song: 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine:(DOET/Hecate) , Artist: Coil , Album: Time Machines (Eskaton)
5. Song: Roar of the Forest Rose to Thunder , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
6. Song: Forcefieldiamond , Artist: Forcefield, Album: Pick a Winner (Load)
7. Song: Great White Death , Artist: Whitehouse , Album: Great White Death (Come Organisation)
8. Song: A Golden Cow On the Bridge , Artist: Staalplaat Sound System , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
9. Song: Disharmonic Convergence , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Subliminal Genocide (Hydra Head)
10. Song: Omit , Artist: Ink & Dagger , Album: Ink & Dagger (New American Dream)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #7 2007-3-10