Episode #56 - Hell's Kitchen

1. Song: Ride the Lighter , Artist: The Fucking Wrath , Album: Season of Evil (Goodfellow)
2. Song: Remember When I Didn't Say What I Wanted to Say , Artist: As the Sun Sets , Album: 8949 (Trash Art!)
3. Song: Suicide In Dark Serenity , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Suicide In Dark Serenity (Bestial Onslaught)
4. Song: Mutagen , Artist: Nadja , Album: Touched (Alien8)
5. Song: The Inevitable Conclusion , Artist: The Howling Wind , Album: Pestilence & Peril (Profound Lore)
6. Song: Acute Awareness (For Wood) , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Honky Reduction (Relapse)
7. Song: A Wet Cleaner , Artist: Vincent Gallo , Album: Buffalo 66 (Will)
8. Song: Odds On , Artist: Sightings , Album: Arrived In Gold (Load)
9. Song: Sorrow In the House , Artist: Loren Connors , Album: Hell's Kitchen Park (Family Vineyard)
10. Song: Mineral Balance , Artist: Jon Mueller , Album: Metals (Table of the Elements)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #56 2008-2-16

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 #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 #46 - Something Else Is Out There

1. Song: - , Artist: Burial , Album: Burial (Hyperdub)
2. Song: This Most Real of Hells , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)
3. Song: White Walls , Artist: Flies Inside the Sun , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
4. Song: Scars of E , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The First Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle (Thirsty Ear)
5. Song: Nine , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Given to the Rising (Neurot)
6. Song: Green Monster , Artist: Suicide Silence , Album: The Cleansing (Century Media)
7. Song: Gerd , Artist: Jacob Kirkegaard , Album: Eldfjall (Touch UK)
8. Song: Goodnight , Artist: Six Organs of Admittance , Album: Shelter From the Ash (Drag City)
9. Song: Little Rocket Ships , Artist: Peter Wright , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
10. Song: Support Our Troops Oh! (Black Angels Oh!) , Artist: Xiu Xiu , Album: Fabulous Muscles (5 Rue Christine)
11. Song: Stanlow , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #46 2007-12-8

Episode #45 - Terrible Things Were Happening All Around Us

1. Song: Terrible Things , Artist: Drumcorps , Album: Grist (Cock Rock Disco)
2. Song: Dead Hills 2 , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Dead Hills (Troubleman Unlimited)
3. Song: Ala , Artist: Jacob Kirkegaard , Album: Eldfjall (Touch UK)
4. Song: Decay2 [NIHILS' MAW] , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: White2 (Southern Lord)

• Features Attila Csihar of Mayhem on vocals, quoting the Srimad Bhagavatam.

5. Song: Sugar Sediment , Artist: Sightings , Album: Arrived In Gold (Load)
6. Song: The Color of the Fire , Artist: Boards of Canada , Album: Music Has the Right to Children (Matador)
7. Song: Invocation , Artist: John Zorn , Album: I.A.O. (Tzadik)
8. Song: Prayer , Artist: Burial , Album: Burial (Hyperdub)
9. Song: Le Désordre, C'est Moi , Artist: Orchid , Album: Chaos Is Me (Ebullition)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #45 2007-12-1

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 #13 - Fallout

1. Song: Bushwick , Artist: Carlos Giffoni , Album: Welcome Home (Important)
2. Song: A Necessary Mutilation , Artist: Leviathan , Album: Tentacles of Whorror (Moribund)
3. Song: Like a Drug (Sha La La) , Artist: Swans , Album: Children of God (Caroline)
4. Song: Reduction , Artist: Sightings , Album: Absolutes (Load)
5. Song: Svelte , Artist: Pedestrian Deposit , Album: Fatale (Hanson)
6. Song: Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Saule Der Singularitat , Artist: Burzum , Album: Filosofem (Feral House)

• Solo Norwegian black metal project of Varg Vikernes (born Kristian Vikernes), who originally used the psuedonym Count Grishnackh. Most notorious for the murder of his former bandmate in Mayhem, Øystein Aarseth (known by his stage name Euronymous), and the arson of several ancient Norwegian churches, both of which he is currently in prison for.

7. Song: Duel In the Deep , Artist: Lightning Bolt , Album: Wonderful Rainbow (Load)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #13 2007-4-21