Eposide #84 - The Hunted

1. Song: Dia Artio , Artist: Wolves In the Throne Room , Album: Two Hunters (Southern Lord)
2. Song: Dove Instinct , Artist: Menace Ruine , Album: Cult of Ruins (Alien8)
3. Song: Element , Artist: Lustmord , Album: Other (Hydra Head)
4. Song: Docks , Artist: Pulsefear , Album: Perichoresis (Profound Lore)
5. Song: Night Swimmer , Artist: Koen Holtkamp , Album: Field Rituals (Type)
6. Song: Myth of Love , Artist: Prurient , Album: Black Vase (Load)
7. Song: East Broadway , Artist: Unsane , Album: Visqueen (Ipecac)
8. Song: Black Holes , Artist: Peter Rehberg , Album: Work for GV 2004-2008 (Editions Mego)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #84 2008-11-22

Episode #82 - Three Mile Island

Sounds of the Apocalypse is finally back! Look for a new episode every Saturday once again.

1. Song: 999,999 , Artist: Nine Inch Nails , Album: The Slip (Self-Released)
2. Song: Preyer , Artist: Burmese , Album: Men (Load)
3. Song: 3.28.79 , Artist: Soporus , Album: Atómové Elektrárne (Burnt Toast Vinyl)

• Saxon Shore side project. Three of the four songs on this EP have to do with nuclear disaster, which makes this quite an appropriate choice. This one references Three Mile Island, five miles from where Soporus member Matthew Stone lived as an infant.

4. Song: Skin Turns to Glass , Artist: Nadja , Album: Skin Turns to Glass (The End)
5. Song: I Run Low , Artist: Air Conditioning , Album: Dead Rails (Load)
6. Song: Untitled , Artist: Daniel Menche , Album: Field of Skin (Soleilmoon)
7. Song: Purgatory Spiral , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Defective Epitaph (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Secret , Artist: Prurient , Album: The History of Aids (Hospital Productions/Armageddon Label)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #82 2008-8-16

Episode #81 - Dirge for the Dead

1. Song: Stars , Artist: Antigama , Album: Resonance (Relapse)
2. Song: Straumnes , Artist: Sigur Rós , Album: Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (XL)
3. Song: The Finger On Your Temple Is the Barrel of My Raygun , Artist: Stars of the Lid , Album: And Their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky)
4. Song: Hideous Gnosis , Artist: Caïna , Album: Mourner (Profound Lore)
5. Song: Sights Not Long Gone , Artist: Sword Heaven , Album: Entrance (Load)
6. Song: Being Born Broken , Artist: Drawing Voices , Album: Drawing Voices (Hydrahead)
7. Song: Cocaine Death , Artist: Prurient , Album: Cocaine Death (Hospital Productions)
8. Song: Brok Engong (Two-Headed Serpent) , Artist: Riververb , Album: Shermstack Oven (Angel's Blood)
9. Song: Moth Wings , Artist: Tape , Album: Luminarium (Hapna)
10. Song: Burning In the Undertow of God , Artist: The Angelic Process , Album: Weighing Souls With Sand (Profound Lore)
11. Song: Perfect Sound , Artist: Televise , Album: Strings and Wires (Drifting Falling)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #81 2008-8-9

Episode #76 - Toxic Wasteland

1. Song: What Do We Mean by Coaching? , Artist: Chris Corsano , Album: The Young Cricketer (Hot Cars Warp)
2. Song: Four Floors Above the Madness We Smell Blood , Artist: Arklight , Album: Arklight / A.P.T. (MTS Tapes)
3. Song: Nightbirds , Artist: Jasper TX , Album: A Darkness (Lidar)
4. Song: Wax And Flesh , Artist: Religious Knives , Album: Remains (No Fun Productions)
5. Song: Subject , Artist: Prurient , Album: And Still, Wanting (No Fun Productions)
6. Song: Mass Mirage , Artist: Yellow Swans , Album: At All Ends (Load)
7. Song: Metal Machine Music, Part IV , Artist: Lou Reed , Album: Metal Machine Music (Buddha)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #76 2008-7-5

Episode #75 - Mass Grave

1. Song: Fanfares , Artist: Philip Jeck , Album: Sand (Touch)
2. Song: Flicker Boosters , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
3. Song: Wendigo Psychosis , Artist: Robedoor , Album: Rancor Keeper (Release the Bats)
4. Song: Jealousy , Artist: Quintron , Album: These Hands of Mine (Skin Graft)
5. Song: Incense and Rubber , Artist: Prurient , Album: And Still, Wanting (No Fun Productions)
6. Song: Our Oases , Artist: Yellow Swans , Album: At All Ends (Load)
7. Song: Lamentings / Auguries , Artist: Darsombra , Album: Eternal Jewel (Public Guilt)
8. Song: Flowers of Flesh , Artist: Nadja , Album: Touched (Alien8)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #75 2008-6-28

Episode #73 - The Inferno

1. Song: Sound of a Train , Artist: Quintron , Album: These Hands of Mine (Skin Graft)
2. Song: Satanic Black Metal In Hell , Artist: Urgehal , Album: Goat Craft Torment (Southern Lord)
3. Song: Hunted Gathering , Artist: Pocahaunted / Robedoor , Album: Hunted Gathering (Digitalis Recordings)
4. Song: An Air , Artist: Loren Connors , Album: Hell's Kitchen Park (Family Vineyard)
5. Song: Strict Ideas , Artist: Prurient , Album: And Still, Wanting (No Fun Productions)
6. Song: The Inferno , Artist: Kevin Drumm , Album: Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
7. Song: Leader of the Pack , Artist: The Shangri-Las , Album: Leader of the Pack (PSM)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #73 2008-6-14

Episode #71 - Famine

1. Song: De Profundis Mors Vas Cousumet , Artist: Abruptum , Album: Evil Genius (Southern Lord)
2. Song: Stretch the Sands , Artist: Yellow Swans , Album: At All Ends (Load)
3. Song: Beauty Hunter , Artist: Burning Star Core , Album: Challenger (Hospital Productions)
4. Song: Paralel Suns , Artist: Autechre , Album: Quaristice (Warp)
5. Song: Total Terrorism , Artist: Prurient , Album: And Still, Wanting (No Fun Productions)
6. Song: High Tower Bells for Loren Connors , Artist: R. Keenan Lawler , Album: Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 3 (Tompkins Square)
7. Song: House of the Rising Sun , Artist: The Animals , Album: Retrospective (ABKCO)
8. Song: Raptus , Artist: Electric Wizard , Album: Witchcult Today (Candlelight)
9. Song: Circle , Artist: Magik Markers , Album: Boss (Ecstatic Peace)
10. Song: Wall 4 , Artist: Daniel Menche , Album: Legions In the Walls (Trente Oiseaux)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #71 2008-5-31

Episode #70 - Concrete Boots

1. Song: Turning Point , Artist: Kevin Drumm , Album: Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
2. Song: Nice Garden/Lady's Compact , Artist: Kites , Album: Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship (Load)
3. Song: Snow , Artist: KTL , Album: KTL (Editions Mego)

• KTL (short for Kindertotenlieder) is Sunn O))) guitarist Stephen O'Malley (Khanate, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Lotus Eaters) and Peter Rehberg (Pita). Five tracks of drone and minimal electronic soundscapes here, including the four-part "Forestfloor", which is sandwiched by the opener, "Estranged" (think "bassAliens" from Sunn O)))'s White2), and this cut.

4. Song: Child , Artist: Loren Connors , Album: Hell's Kitchen Park (Family Vineyard)
5. Song: Immortelle and Paper Caravelle , Artist: Kayo Dot , Album: Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (Robotic Empire)
6. Song: For the Loss , Artist: Marc Gartman , Album: Songs for the End of the World (Silber)
7. Song: Organs , Artist: Microphones , Album: It Was Hot So We Stayed In the Water (K)
8. Song: Empty Temple , Artist: Robedoor , Album: Rancor Keeper (Release the Bats)
9. Song: Tied to Stone , Artist: Prurient , Album: Adam Tied to Stone (Blossoming Noise)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #70 2008-5-24

Episode #69 - I Woke Up This Morning To Find Myself Drawn Dead

1. Song: Endlessly Making An End of Things , Artist: Yellow Swans , Album: At All Ends (Load)
2. Song: Cloudy , Artist: Kevin Drumm , Album: Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
3. Song: Memory Repeating , Artist: Prurient , Album: And Still, Wanting (No Fun Productions)
4. Song: Fried Eagle Mind , Artist: Sunn O))) & Boris , Album: Altar (Southern Lord)
5. Song: Untitled , Artist: Daniel Menche , Album: Field of Skin (Soleilmoon)

• Second track on the album.

6. Song: A Speeding Car , Artist: Mono , Album: One Step More and You Die (Arena Rock Recordings)
7. Song: Abyss Whisperer , Artist: Robedoor , Album: Rancor Keeper (Release the Bats)
8. Song: - , Artist: Sonic Youth , Album: Bad Moon Rising (DGC)

• Untitled track at the end of the album.

9. Song: Silence , Artist: Portishead , Album: Third (Mercury/Island)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #69 2008-5-17

Episode #55 - So Dark the Con of Man

1. Song: Avalanche, Artist: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds , Album: From Here to Eternity (Mute / Elektra)
2. Song: 41st Century Splendid Man , Artist: Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. , Album: 41st Century Splendid Man (Tumult)
3. Song: Ouroboros Is Broken , Artist: Earth , Album: Hibernaculum (Southern Lord)
4. Song: Listened On , Artist: Lightning Dust , Album: Lightning Dust (Jagjaguwar)
5. Song: Southaven , Artist: The Howling Wind , Album: Pestilence & Peril (Profound Lore)

• Black metal side project of Ryan Lipynsky (ex-Thralldoom), vocalist and guitarist for NYC-based doom trio Unearthly Trance.

6. Song: Fever , Artist: Bloody Panda , Album: Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda (Holy Roar)
7. Song: Lust End , Artist: Prurient , Album: And Still, Wanting (No Fun Productions)
8. Song: Doomed by Howling Winds , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Xasthur (Maxo)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #55 2008-2-9

Episode #18 - Total Eclipse

1. Song: The Man Comes Around , Artist: Johnny Cash , Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around (Universal)
2. Song: The Void Introduction , Artist: The Flying Luttenbachers , Album: The Void (Troubleman Unlimited)
3. Song: The History of Rape , Artist: Leviathan , Album: Tentacles of Whorror (Moribund)
4. Song: Stigmata Martyr , Artist: Angel Hair , Album: Pregnant With the Senior Class (Gravity)

• Cover of the classic Bauhaus track.

5. Song: Nobody Gets Out Alive! , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: The Destroyer (Digital Hardcore)
6. Song: Decay , Artist: Nachtmystium , Album: Instinct: Decay (Southern Lord)
7. Song: Car Chase Terror , Artist: M83 , Album: Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute U.S.)
8. Song: Apple Tree Victim , Artist: Prurient , Album: Pleasure Ground (Load)
9. Song: Norge , Artist: Thorr's Hammer , Album: Dommedagsnatt (Southern Lord)

• Very short-lived (six weeks) doom metal outfit from Ballard, Washington, featuring the likes of Greg Anderson (Sunn O))), Goatsnake)and Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Khanate), along with Jamie Sykes and James Hale. Seventeen year-old female exchange student Runhild Gammelsæter, handled vocals, which are sung entirely in Norwegian (Norway is Gammelsæter's native country). During their time together, the group cut a demo and this album (Norwegian for "Doomsday Night"), which was re-released in 2004 with an extra live track ("Mellom Galgene") and some rare bonus video footage.

10. Song: Mammoth , Artist: Pelican , Album: Pelican (Hydra Head)
11. Song: Paint It Black , Artist: The Rolling Stones , Album: Aftermath (ABKCO)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #18 2007-5-26

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 #9 - Jealousy

I would call this Part Three of the Episode #7 - #9 trifecta. The title and subject matter pretty much explains it all, although I'd also give this episode an alternate title in the vein of "Man Turns Against Himself" or "The Ugly Side of Human Nature".

1. Song: Ripper Territory , Artist: Whitehouse , Album: Dedicated To Peter Kürten: Sadist And Mass Slayer (Come Organisation)

• Peter Kürten, also known as the Vampire of Düsseldorf, was a German serial killer known for committing a series of sex crimes, assaults, and murders against adults and children.

2. Song: Be My Baby , Artist: The Ronettes , Album: Best of the Ronettes (EMI)
3. Song: The Rat , Artist: Vampire Can't, Album: Key Cutter (Load)
4. Song: Very Friendly , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The First Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle (Thirsty Ear)

• Of all the Report albums TG released, First Annual Report, was actually the last of the three (coming after Second Annual Report and Third and Final Report). "Very Friendly" details the events of the Moors Murders, with specific mention of Edward Evans, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's fifth and final victim. What makes this track so effective (read: creepy) is not only the subject matter, but Genesis's somewhat cartoonish vocal delivery, which upon hearing you can't help but laugh nervously.

5. Song: 96 Tears , Artist: ? and the Mysterians , Album: 96 Tears (Cameo)

• This band's only major hit. Also covered by Suicide, Aretha Franklin, The Modern Lovers, The Stranglers, Primal Scream, and a host of others.

6. Song: Military Road , Artist: Prurient , Album: Pleasure Ground (Load)

• Actually the only Prurient album I can enjoy, let alone listen to from start to finish, probably due to the fact that Fernow does a great job of spacing and pacing, as opposed to the denseness of a lot of his other albums. It's not like he doesn't make an attempt to drive away any and all potential listeners on this album though: opener "Military Road" starts off with about a minute long squall of high-pitched feedback (think Whitehouse). Excellent lyrics for this track too: "Will you miss the abuse / The intimate violence / The parade of bruises / The badge of punishment?"

7. Song: I Only Have Eyes For You , Artist: The Flamingos , Album: American Graffiti (MCA)

• I reckon people either see this as a love song, which was probably it's intention, or a creepy stalker song. I'm betting on the latter.

8. Song: No Remorse (I Wanna Die) , Artist: Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot , Album: Spawn: The Album (Sony)

• Great comic book, excellent animated series (from what I hear), terrible, terrible movie. The soundtrack is decent though, with the best tracks being this one, plust the ones from Marilyn Manson & Sneaker Pimps, Orbital & Kirk Hammett, and Filter & The Crystal Method.

9. Song: Bathed In Orange , Artist: Ed Gein , Album: Ed Gein (Hex)

• See Episode #8 for more info on this one. Samples from both tracks are courtesy of Friday the 13th. The namesake of this group served as the basis for classic movie villians Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Norman Bates (Psycho), and Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs).

10. Song: Got To Get You Into My Life , Artist: Daniel Johnston , Album: 1990 (Shimmy Disc)

• Daniel Johnston turns this Beatles track into something that mirrors the moods of other tracks in this episode from The Flamingos and Throbbing Gristle. Really brilliant.

11. Song: How To Get Away With Murder In a P.C. Society , Artist: Sloth , Album: Songs of the Dead II: Idle Hands (And Here My Troubles Began)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #9 2007-3-24

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