Friday, May 9, 2008

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

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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Episode #30 - End Times

1. Song: One of These Days , Artist: Pink Floyd , Album: Meddle (Capitol)
2. Song: The Long Road To the 4th Dimension , Artist: Psyopus , Album: Ideas of Reference (Black Market Activities)
3. Song: Mantra 2 , Artist: Merzbow , Album: Merzbuddha (Important)
4. Song: The Golden Section , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
5. Song: Granny's House , Artist: Jennifer Gentle , Album: The Midnight Room (Sub Pop)
  • Recorded solo by vocalist/guitarist Marco Fasolo after drummer Alessio Gastaldello left the band, Italian group Jennifer Gentle's The Midnight Room lies in contrast to 2005's Valende - darker, spacier, even creepy at times, channeling the spirit of Syd Barrett and '60s psychedelia.

6. Song: The Jogger , Artist: Pissed Jeans , Album: Hope For Men (Sub Pop)
7. Song: Intermission , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Wolf Eyes (Hanson)
8. Song: How Is It Gonna End , Artist: Tom Waits , Album: Real Gone (Anti-)
9. Song: Otterley , Artist: Cocteau Twins , Album: Treasure (4AD)
10. Song: Weightless & Horizontal , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #30 2007-8-18

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

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

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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

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Friday, March 30, 2007

Episode #10 - Is There Anybody Out There?

1. Song: Black Sabbath , Artist: Black Sabbath , Album: Black Sabbath (Warner Bros.)
2. Song: Like Herod , Artist: Mogwai , Album: Young Team (Jetset)
3. Song: Dust , Artist: Silver Apples , Album: Silver Apples (Kapp)
4. Song: Remember (Walking In the Sand) , Artist: The Shangri-Las , Album: The Best of the Girl Groups, Vol. 1 (Rhino)
  • Shangri-Las member Mary Weiss has recently released her debut solo album more than forty years after The Shangri-Las' run of hits came to an end.

5. Song: Lyre , Artist: Tussle , Album: Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound)
6. Song: Vendetta Assassin , Artist: Dødheimsgard , Album: Supervillain Assassin (Moonfog)

  • The name of Norwegian black/avant-garde/industrial/experimental metal group Dødheimsgard, or DHG, roughly translates to "Mansion of Death" or "Realm of the Dead".

7. Song: AOTKTPA , Artist: The Locust , Album: New Erections (Anti)
8. Song: Title Music From a Clockwork Orange , Artist: Wendy Carlos , Album: A Clockwork Orange (Warner Bros.)
9. Song: Echoes , Artist: Pink Floyd , Album: Meddle (Capitol)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #10 2007-3-31

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