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 #43 - Hell On Earth

1. Song: Bouncer See Bouncer... , Artist: Scott Walker , Album: Tilt (Drag City)
2. Song: Orakulum , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Oracle (Southern Lord)
3. Song: Love, Hate (Slugbaiting) , Artist: Godflesh , Album: Pure (Earache)
4. Song: - , Artist: Cephalic Carnage , Album: Xenosapien (Relapse)
5. Song: Fear and Sickness , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Given to the Rising (Neurot)
6. Song: Bela Lugosi's Dead , Artist: Nouvelle Vague , Album: Bande a Part (Justin Time)

• Cover of Bauhaus. This album is all covers, in fact, and also features versions of "The Killing Moon" (Echo & the Bunnymen), "Dancing With Myself"(Billy Idol), "Heart of Glass" (Blondie), and "Human Fly" (The Cramps), among others.

7. Song: Unanswered , Artist: Suicide Silence , Album: The Cleansing (Century Media)
8. Song: White Chalk , Artist: PJ Harvey , Album: White Chalk (Island)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #43 2007-11-17

Episode #42 - Buried Alive

1. Song: Revelations (Intro) , Artist: Suicide Silence , Album: The Cleansing (Century Media)
2. Song: Warborn , Artist: The Black Dahlia Murder , Album: Nocturnal (Metal Blade)
3. Song: Belülről Pusztít , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Oracle (Southern Lord)

• Hungarian for "destroys from the inside", "Belülről Pusztít" is from the Oracle EP, which was sold during the band's 2007 Pacific Rim tour and on the Southern Lord West Coast 777 tour. Joe Preston (Earth, Melvins, Thrones) provides the jackhammer (yes, jackhammer) on this track, although it sounds more like a drawbridge being raised and lowered, or someone being stretched out on a rack, which, coupled with the awesome album art, fits the mood of the track perfectly. These guys never cease to amaze me. The other track on the disc (the version sold at shows has an extra disc with a 45-minute live track from 2005 called "HeliO)))Sophist"), "Orakulum" is not as good but still killer.

4. Song: Dissolution III (Oversaturated Intervallic Collisions) , Artist: Earth , Album: All Tomorrow's Parties 3.0: Autechre Curated (ATP)
5. Song: Terry Shiva , Artist: Mudboy , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
6. Song: Samskeyti [Live] , Artist: Sigur Rós , Album: Hvarf / Heim (XL)
7. Song: The Opera Song , Artist: Botch , Album: Unifying Themes Redux (Excursion)

• Compilation album of songs from Botch's The Unifying Themes of Sex, Death, and Religion, as well as tracks from the John Birch Conspiracy Theory and Faction 7"s, as well as other rarities (including a cover of The B-52's' "Rock Lobster". Reissued in 2006 with an alternate cover on Hydra Head.

8. Song: Frog Remix , Artist: John Wiese , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
9. Song: Origin , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Given to the Rising (Neurot)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #42 2007-11-10

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