Episode #113 - Burned Alive

1. Song: Belgian Wake-Up Drill , Artist: Grails , Album: Black Tar Prophecies, Vols. 1, 2, & 3 (Important)
2. Song: Rattlers Echo , Artist: Hair Police , Album: Constantly Terrified (Troubleman Unlimited)
3. Song: Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia) , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
4. Song: Requite , Artist: Pedestrian Deposit , Album: Austere (Monorail Trespassing)
5. Song: The Third Mind: Third Movement , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)
6. Song: Formal Dedications , Artist: Prefuse 73 , Album: Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Warp)
7. Song: Eye of the Witch , Artist: Josh Lay , Album: Every Day Is Halloween Volume II (Self-Released)
8. Song: Read the Book That Wrote Itself , Artist: Liars , Album: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute)
9. Song: Breathe , Hold , Artist: Conifer , Album: Crown Fire (Important)
10. Song: Vein Harvest , Artist: Disappearer , Album: The Clearing (Magic Bullet)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #113 2009-6-20

Episode #111 - Parallel Dimension

1. Song: Unholy , Artist: Sick to the Back Teeth , Album: Every Day Is Halloween Volume II (Self-Released)
2. Song: Alice , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
3. Song: Tempelhof , Artist: Julia Kent , Album: Delay (Shayo)
4. Song: Dreamon , Artist: Black Pus , Album: 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus (Diareahrama)

• Solo project of Lightning Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale.

5. Song: Ataronchronon , Artist: Boards of Canada , Album: The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
6. Song: Bridge to the Beyond , Artist: John Zorn , Album: The Gift (Tzadik)
7. Song: Not That I Am , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)
8. Song: You Didn't Break Me , Artist: Pedestrian Deposit , Album: Austere (Monorail Trespassing)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #111 2009-6-6

Episode #108 - When the Tripods Came

1. Song: No Mercy for Her , Artist: Ben Miner , Album: Every Day Is Halloween Volume II (Self-Released)
2. Song: When the Tripods Came , Artist: Burning Star Core , Album: Operator Dead...Post Abandoned (No Quarter)
3. Song: The Remains of the Day , Artist: Mono , Album: You Are There (Temporary Residence)
4. Song: Romantic Sores , Artist: Kevin Drumm , Album: Imperial Distortion (Hospital Productions)
5. Song: Secluded , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)
6. Song: Tyranny Beyond Earth (Epilogue) , Artist: The Bastard Noise , Album: Rogue Astronaut (Gravity)

• Hail to the skull, because Bastard Noise is back! W.T. Nelson and Eric Wood deliver six tracks of oscillator screeches, squeals, and squeaks that soundtrack a movie about a space mission gone horribly wrong. Possible taglines for this plot? Take a glance at the liner notes for album closer "Radioactive Sunrise" ("The worst sunrise of all") or one of the "four vivid color ultra-gloss mission report documents" (their wording) - "The Final Chapter In Space Imprisonment". Bobby Bray (The Locust) and Justin Pearson (The Locust, Some Girls, Head Wound City) provide dueling vocals on this cut.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #108 2009-5-16

Episode #107 - Shot In the Back of the Head

1. Song: Trick or Treat , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: Every Day Is Halloween Volume II (Self-Released)
2. Song: Shining , Artist: Philip Jeck , Album: Sand (Touch)
3. Song: Kelly In the Other Room, Me In My Room , Artist: U.S. Girls , Album: Gravel Days (Chocolate Monk)
4. Song: Operator Dead...Post Abandoned , Artist: Burning Star Core , Album: Operator Dead...Post Abandoned (No Quarter)
5. Song: The Man From Nowhere , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)
6. Song: Into the Rainbow Vein , Artist: Boards of Canada , Album: The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
7. Song: Voice of Fire , Artist: Doomriders , Album: Black Thunder (Deathwish Inc.)

• Side project of Converge bassist/vocalist and Old Man Gloom guitarist/vocalist Nate Newton. Foursome that churns out dual vocal thrash metal in the vein of Converge (think "Black Cloud" or "Eagles Become Vultures"), with a few licks of stoner metal thrown in for good measure. Also features John-Robert Connors on drums (Cave In), Jebb Riley on bass and vox (There Were Wires, Disappearer), and Chris Pupecki (Cast Iron Hike) with a second guitar. Aside from this instrumental, other favorites include "Ride or Die" and skate anthem "Deathbox".

8. Song: Submersed , Artist: Leviathan , Album: The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide (Moribund)
9. Song: Wavering Radiant , Artist: Isis , Album: Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
10. Song: Giant Me On the Other Side (Loren Connors) , Artist: Mono , Album: New York Soundtracks (Temporary Residence)

• Remixes of the tracks from One Step More and You Die, which, packaged with this album, was just given the deluxe reissue treatment as a double LP. Also features tracks from Calla and Jackie-O Motherfucker, among others.

11. Song: Intermission One , Artist: Aneuretical , Album: When You Were a Kid (Afternoon)
12. Song: Shot In the Back of the Head , Artist: Moby , Album: Wait for Me (Little Idiot)

• First single off of Moby's latest album, the video of which is directed by David Lynch (Mulholland Dr., Eraserhead, Inland Empire).

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #107 2009-5-9

Episode #106 - Panic Sets In

1. Song: Paura Nella Citta Dei Morti Viventi , Artist: Panicsville , Album: Every Day Is Halloween Volume II (Self-Released)
2. Song: Perception Is the Only Reality , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)
3. Song: Absence , Artist: Dälek , Album: Absence (Ipecac)
4. Song: Beatae Immortalitatis , Artist: Xela , Album: In Bocca Al Lupo (Type)
5. Song: It Comes In Whispers, Pt. 2 , Artist: Leviathan , Album: A Silhouette In Splinters (Moribund)
6. Song: Old Dominion , Artist: Tombs , Album: Winter Hours (Relapse)
7. Song: Black Woods , Artist: Mono , Album: Gone: A Collection of EP's 2000-2007 (Temporary Residence)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #106 2009-5-2

Episode #105 - Disemboweled

1. Song: Absinthe , Artist: Ink & Dagger , Album: Ink & Dagger (New American Dream)
2. Song: Bomber , Artist: :Zoviet*france: , Album: Recovery (Fractured Recordings)

• Cover of Motörhead.

3. Song: Traveling Over the Ocean's Skull , Artist: Leviathan , Album: A Silhouette In Splinters (Moribund)
4. Song: PreMature , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)

• Eight new tracks from Throbbing Gristle, a 2009 USA tour-only disc that in spots sounds a bit like Part Two: The Endless Not, but mostly like the live soundtrack they did for In the Shadow of the Sun at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on April 16 combined with dark ambient. Good stuff.

5. Song: Intermission Two , Artist: Aneuretical , Album: When You Were a Kid (Afternoon)
6. Song: More Blood and Guts , Artist: Kevin Drumm , Album: Imperial Distortion (Hospital Productions)
7. Song: Yearning , Artist: Mono , Album: You Are There (Temporary Residence)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #105 2009-4-25

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 #29 - Dementia

1. Song: Chrome Panthers , Artist: Ex Models , Album: Chrome Panthers (Troubleman Unlimited)
2. Song: Vow of Silence , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)
3. Song: 7-Methoxy-β-Carboline:(Telepathine) , Artist: Coil , Album: Time Machines (Eskaton)
4. Song: Invisible City , Artist: Tussle , Album: Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound)
5. Song: Decomposition , Artist: K.K. Null , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
6. Song: - , Artist: Hair Police , Album: Drawn Dead (Hanson)

• 2nd track off the album.

7. Song: Winter Vacation , Artist: John Wiese , Album: From the Lips of Lepers (Chocolate Monk)

• CD-R compilation also featuring the likes of Aaron Dilloway (Wolf Eyes), Ashtray Navigations, Skaters, Justin Meyers (Devillock/Panther Skull), Dylan Nyoukis, and more.

8. Song: I'm Insane , Artist: Sonic Youth , Album: Bad Moon Rising (DGC)
9. Song: Chemical Wedding , Artist: Double Leopards , Album: A Hole is True (Troubleman Unlimited)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #29 2007-8-11

Episode #27 - Black Hole

1. Song: Foetal Castro , Artist: White Mice , Album: BLasssTPhlEgMEICE (Load)
2. Song: Mantra 1 , Artist: Merzbow , Album: Merzbuddha (Important)
3. Song: Sweet Dreams (Of You) , Artist: Patsy Cline , Album: The Departed (Warner Sunset)
4. Song: Surrender , Artist: Suicide , Album: A Way of Life (Wax Trax!)

• I always imagine this track as '50s prom song.

5. Song: Lyre Liar , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)
6. Song: The Black Pope , Artist: No Neck Blues Band , Album: Qvaris (5 Rue Christine)
7. Song: Creeping Hand , Artist: Landed , Album: The Summertime Comp (Kordova Milk Bar)

• Live track with some fucked jazz drumming/hip-hop beats/saxophone. First release for Kordova Milk Bar Records, - put out as a benefit to raise money to send inner-city kids to camp based on a sliding scale - which also features contributions from the likes of Usurp Synapse, Thursday, Racebannon, Knives and Greenwater, The Assistant (ex You and I), Pg. 99, The Scarlet Letter, and others.

8. Song: Herald , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
9. Song: Ten Cents , Artist: Converge , Album: When Forever Comes Crashing (Equal Vision)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #27 2007-7-28

Episode #22 - Extinction

1. Song: First Scream , Artist: With Love , Album: A Great Circle (Gold Standard Laboratories)

• Really neat combo CD/DVD from this Italian band. No break between tracks, which, along with the film (which has the album as its soundtrack), makes this seem like some sort of concept album.

2. Song: Sewercide , Artist: White Mice , Album: BLasssTPhlEgMEICE (Load)
3. Song: Theme from the Godfather , Artist: The Professionals , Album: Belize City Boil-Up (Numero Group)
4. Song: The Plague , Artist: The Chinese Stars , Album: Release the Bats: The Birthday Party As Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (Three One G)

• Compilation of Birthday Party covers, as the album title suggests. Also features Ex-Models, Les Georges Leningrad, Some Girls, Cattle Decapitation, Error, T-Cells, Daughters (with Lex doing his best Glenn Danzig interpretation), and others. Pretty excellent stuff, and comes on blood-spattered vinyl to boot if you pick up the LP version.

5. Song: Separated , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)
6. Song: Open Body , Artist: Hair Police , Album: Obedience Cuts (Freedom From)
7. Song: Old Year , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Froggie Bee-Baa , Artist: Boris , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed and Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)
9. Song: Surf Rider , Artist: The Lively Ones , Album: Pulp Fiction (MCA)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #22 2007-6-23

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 #15 - They Only Come Out at Night

1. Song: Dark Night , Artist: The Blasters , Album: From Dusk Till Dawn (Sony)
2. Song: Loose , Artist: Boris , Album: Dronevil: Final (Inoxia)
3. Song: Bela Lugosi's Dead , Artist: Bauhaus , Album: Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground (Rhino)

• Four-disc boxed set on the excellent Rhino label. Also includes tracks by Dinosaur Jr., Throbbing Gristle, R.E.M., Depeche Mode, Ministry, Bad Brains, Jane's Addiction, Cocteau Twins, Butthole Surfers, Dead Kennedys, Mission of Burma, New Order, Black Flag, and many more.

4. Song: If You're a Wizard, Then Why Do You Wear Glasses? , Artist: Liars , Album: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute)
5. Song: Greasy Spoon , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)

• First album from Throbbing Gristle in over 20 years. The new album is a mixed affair, akin more to 20 Jazz Funk Greats than any of the Report albums. Most noticeable are the clean production values and Genesis P-Orridge's attempts to actually sing, where he falls flat most of the time, except on "Lyre Liar". All in all, kind of so-so; I'm just glad it's not an absolute stinkbomb, although the cover art is terrible. Tracks like this one, along with the opener "Vow of Silence", are great though.

6. Song: Lynch , Artist: Dälek , Album: Abandoned Language (Ipecac)
7. Song: Danse Macabre , Artist: Celtic Frost , Album: Morbid Tales (Metal Blade)
8. Song: The Crossing , Artist: Amps for Christ , Album: Every Eleven Seconds (5 Rue Christine) 9: Song: Lily, Henry, and The Willow Trees , Artist: Marissa Nadler , Album: The Saga of Mayflower May (Eclipse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #15 2007-5-5

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 #3 - Eightysixed

1. Song: De Vrachtwagen 1 , Artist: Flat Earth Society , Album: Isms (Ipecac)

• Belgian progressive big band formed from the ashes of fellow Belgians X-Legged Sally and Fukkeduk. Isms is actually a compilation of tracks from four prior releases, and also features a homage to the Birthday Party in the form of "(Little) King Ink".

2. Song: Woofer Wrecker , Artist: Kid 606 , Album: Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (Ipecac)
3. Song: Dark Side of the Pink Frog , Artist: When , Album: Merzbow - Frog: Remixed And Revisited (Misanthropic Agenda)

• From a double CD compilation also featuring Boris, Sunn O))), Fennesz, [Tim] Hecker, Russell Haswell, John Wiese (see below), Gerritt (see Episode #2; also runs the Misanthropic Agenda label), House of Low Culture (a side project of Isis), Merzbow, and others that reworks Merzbow's 2001 album Frog.

4. Song: Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Christoph de Babalon Remix) , Artist: The Locust , Album: Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Gold Standard Laboratories)

• Part of the Lab Remixes series, which also includes The Convocation Of and a !!!/Out Hud split. Features reinterpretations of "Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle", from The Locust's 1999 self-titled release whose cover art parodies Queen. Bastard Noise (member John Wiese reared his head in Episode #1 with "Batman Dracula"), Wizards of War, Sinking Body (Neil Burke of Born Against and Men's Recovery Project fame), Kid 606, and I Am Spoonbender also contribute.

5. Song: Hamburger Lady , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: D.O.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (Mute)
6. Song: Frankie Teardrop , Artist: Suicide , Album: Suicide [First Album] (Bronze)

• ILX pitts these two tracks against each other in their forums, but they're both classics. As far as scares go, "Frankie Teardrop", a tragic tale of a disenfranchised Vietnam vet, goes the surprise route, while "Hamburger Lady" - based off a true story about a burn unit victim in Portland, Oregon - lurches along (best line: "She is burned from the waist up/...She's burned from the waist down"). Originally on TG's own Industrial Records (yes, they coined the term), D.O.A. got the Mute reissue treatment in 1993. After breaking up, TG members went on to Psychic TV (Genesis P-Orridge), Coil (Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson), and Chris & Cosey (Cosey Fanni Tutti & Chris Carter), although an album of new material slated for an early 2006 release on Mute still hasn't seen the light of day.

7. Song: Walls of Sound , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: D.O.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (Mute)
8. Song: Ripe (With Decay) , Artist: Nine Inch Nails , Album: The Fragile (Nothing / Interscope)
9. Song: Brains Out , Artist: Error , Album: Error (Epitaph)

• Members of Error include Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion and Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato, among others. This EP also features a cover of 999's "Homicide".

10. Song: Bride of Frankenstein , Artist: Quintron , Album: The Frog Tape (Skin Graft / Rhinestone)
11. Song: The Final Chapter (In Which the Town Bares Its Teeth) , Artist: The Death of a Party , Album: The Shame of the Sweet (Double Negative)
12. Song: Black Vomit , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Black Vomit (Sub Pop)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #3 2007-2-10