Episode #21 - Judgement Day

1. Song: Universal Donor , Artist: Wether , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
2. Song: Looping Jane , Artist: Masami Akita , Album: Ikebana: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)

• Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, contributes a track to a compilation of his own Amlux album.

3. Song: Exploded Face , Artist: Kites , Album: Peace Trials (Load)
4. Song: Rotten Yellow , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Phantom Limb (Relapse)
5. Song: The Horrrors , Artist: Redglaer , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
6. Song: Blood Swamp , Artist: Sunn O))) & Boris , Album: Altar (Southern Lord)
7. Song: You Thought You Were Special, You Were Wrong , Artist: Usurp Synapse , Album: Disinformation Fix (Alone)
8. Song: Merzfrog473 , Artist: Pita , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)

• Nice harsh electronics from Pita. Love it when the bottom drops out and then the track kicks in again into high gear.

9. Song: Transmission Postmortem , Artist: Nachtmystium , Album: Demise (Autopsy Kitchen)
10. Song: Horses and Their Kin , Artist: Marissa Nadler , Album: The Saga of Mayflower May (Eclipse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #21 2007-6-16

Episode #20 - Mushroom Cloud

1. Song: Sysyphus: Part I , Artist: Pink Floyd , Album: Ummagumma (Capitol)

• Double live album from 1969. First disc features live cuts from Piper At the Gates of Dawn, such as a double-length version of "Astronomy Domine", as well as tracks that are also featured on the Live At Pompeii DVD, while the second disc showcases some of Pink Floyd's stranger numbers ("Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave and Grooving With a Pict" comes directly to mind).

2. Song: Akuma No Kuma , Artist: Sunn O))) & Boris , Album: Altar (Southern Lord)
3. Song: 5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyl:(5-Me0-DMT) , Artist: Coil , Album: Time Machines (Eskaton)
4. Song: 20[1] , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: Low On Ice (The Iceland Sessions) (Mille Plateaux)
5. Song: Zeros and Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction) , Artist: Aphex Twin , Album: 26 Mixes for Cash (Warp)
6. Song: Blood Red and True, Pt. 3 , Artist: Leviathan , Album: Tentacles of Whorror (Moribund)
7. Song: Nocturnal Poisoning , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Nocturnal Poisoning (Blood Fire Death)
8. Song: Window Skeleton , Artist: King Wheat , Album: Everyday is Halloween (Self-Released)

• Compilation curated and presented by Nursing Home.

9. Song: - , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Phantom Limb (Relapse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #20 2007-6-9

Episode #19 - The End of Everything

1. Song: The Lodge , Artist: Agalloch , Album: The Mantle (The End)
2. Song: Everything's Going On , Artist: Dead Meadow , Album: Shivering King and Others (Matador)
3. Song: Emission of the Signal , Artist: Isis , Album: Sawblade (Tortuga Recordings)

• CD-R EP made specifically for Isis' tour with Neurosis and Candiria; limited to 200 copies. Also features covers of Godflesh's "Streetcleaner" and Black Sabbath's "Hand of Doom".

4. Song: Vultures , Artist: Drumcorps , Album: Rmx or Die (Kriss)
5. Song; Wouldn't It Be Nice , Artist: The Beach Boys , Album: Pet Sounds (Capitol)
6. Song: Folded Space: Mapping Unexploded Ordinance , Artist: Combatwoundedveteran , Album: Duck Down for the Torso (No Idea)
7. Song: I Hate This Dumpster , Artist: Amps for Christ , Album: Every Eleven Seconds (5 Rue Christine)
8. Song: Lesser Animal , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Phantom Limb (Relapse)

• New Pig Destroyer album on Relapse. Not as great as Terrifyer or Prowler In the Yard, but stills kicks nonetheless. This track, along with opener "Rotten Yellow" are two of the better tracks.

9. Song: Pure II , Artist: Godflesh , Album: Pure (Earache)

• Added due to a listener recommendation.

10. Song: In Every Dream Home a Heartache , Artist: Roxy Music , Album: Wonderland: Music From the Motion Picture (Epic/Sony)

• Pretty interesting lyrics to this one - love the line "Your skin is like vinyl/The perfect companion". Oh yeah, and the song's about a blow-up doll ("Inflatable doll/My role is to serve you/Can't throw you away now/Immortal and life size/My breath is inside you/I'll dress you up daily/And keep you till death sighs").

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #19 2007-6-2

Episode #8 - The Infected

This episode is a Part Two of sorts to Episode #7. It's a pretty claustrophobic mix as a whole, there's really no room to stop for air, which I think contrasts nicely with a lot of the drone and ambience present in the last episode.

1. Song: (Intro) Engineering a Pill Frenzy , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope (Relapse)
2. Song: Saddest , Artist: Drumcorps , Album: Cock Rock Disco 2006 (Cock Rock Disco)

• Grindcore mash-up, for lack of a better term, of Converge's "The Saddest Day" condensed to about a minute-thirty (from around seven minutes), so you can imagine how insane this shit is. Apparently Drumcorps, also known as Aaron Spectre, does whole albums of this stuff, combining breakcore with grindcore and blast beats. His 2006 album Grist, also pulls material from Botch, Pig Destroyer, and Cave In, and this song is also on a free Cock Rock Disco sampler available for download at their website. I may have to pick this album up.

3. Song: Untitled , Artist: The Pervatrons , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)
4. Song: A .45 Caliber Defibrillator, a Prototype of Sorts , Artist: Found Dead Hanging , Album: BMA Vs Metal Blade Vs Robotic Empire Sampler 2004 (Black Market Activities / Metal Blade / Robotic Empire)
5. Song: About a Plane Crash , Artist: Suicide Silence , Album: Suicide Silence (Third Degree)
6. Song: Imogen's Puzzle , Artist: Psyopus , Album: Ideas of Reference (Metal Blade)
7. Song: Horror Theme Song , Artist: Suicide Note , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)
8. Song: - , Artist: Merzbow , Album: Merzbuta (Important)

• Not to be confused with the album Merzbuddha, also on Important Records.

9. Song: You Can't Help Me , Artist: Pedestrian Deposit , Album: Fatale (Hanson)

• Interesting album, this one. Four tracks that alternate between harsh noise ala John Wiese and ambient, melodic interludes.

10. Song: The White Mice , Artist: White Mice , Album: ASSPhiXXXEATATESHUN (Load)
11. Song: Descent to Mimas , Artist: Bastard Noise , Album: Descent to Mimas (Ground Fault)
12. Song: Untitled , Artist: Last Remaining Pinnacle , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)
13. Song: Woe is the Contagion , Artist: Twilight , Album: Twilight (Southern Lord)
14. Song: Jones From Indiana , Artist: Daughters , Album: Canada Songs (Robotic Empire)
15. Song: Willie Loman , Artist: Ed Gein , Album: Ed Gein (Hex)

• I actually pulled this from the long out-of-print self-titled three-song demo CD (self-released I'd imagine), although it's also available on the LP version (along with the other two demo tracks) of It's a Shame That a Family Can Be Torn Apart by Something as Simple as a Pack of Wild Dogs on Hex Records.

16. Song: On Top , Artist: Whitehouse , Album: Birthdeath Experience (Come Organisation)
17. Song: Born Different , Artist: Usurp Synapse , Album: Disinformation Fix (Alone)

• From the double-CD discography. These guys reformed in July 2004 to record new material, and are currently in the process of mixing and finishing vocals for their next album, titled Vile Contamina.

18. Song: (The Pipes) , Artist: Excepter , Album: Alternation (5 Rue Christine)
19. Song: SGNL>02 , Artist: Isis , Album: Celestial (Escape Artist)
20. Song: Intro , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Terrifyer (Relapse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #8 2007-3-17

Episode #6 - Burn

1. Song: The Wondrous Boat Ride , Artist: Unknown , Album: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (MCA)
2. Song: No Heroes , Artist: Converge , Album: No Heroes (Epitaph)
3. Song: O))) Bow 1 , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Flight of the Behemoth (Southern Lord)

• Featuring Merzbow.

4. Song: Psychic Secession , Artist: Yellow Swans , Album: Psychic Secession (Load)
5. Song: Evil Wave Form , Artist: Boris , Album: Dronevil: Final (Inoxia)

• Originally issued via Misanthropic Agenda, Dronevil: Final was re-released as an expanded (one additional track on each disc) double CD on Inoxia. The intended concept is that while each disc can stand by itself, you should play them simultaneously on two different stereo systems to achieve the intended results.

6. Song: In the Reflection , Artist: Flying Canyon , Album: Flying Canyon (Soft Abuse)

• R.I.P. Cayce Lindner.

7. Song: Burn the Flames , Artist: Roky Erickson , Album: I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology (Shout Factory)
8. Song: Sound Holes , Artist: Double Leopards , Album: Halve Maen (Eclipse)
9. Song: - , Artist: Isis , Album: Oceanic (Ipecac)
10. Song: Hyperviolet , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Prowler In the Yard (Relapse)
11. Song: Strangler In the Night , Artist: Albert DeSalvo , Album: Unknown (Astor)

• Reference to the Boston Strangler.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #6 2007-3-3