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Episode 41

Here it is, the final episode of the year 2022. No best-of’s or end-of-the-year lists* and whatnot, just the standard weirdness and general discomfort listeners can expect from this project.

This month leans heavily into the blackened and the punk side of things; so hopefully to your liking. I’m also pretty sure this might be the first episode with two tracks featuring female performers, which is pretty embarrassing if I’m being honest. Here’s hoping for more diversity in personnel for the coming year.

See you the first Wednesday of next month. 

*I always appreciate (assuming the person doesn’t have shit taste) reading a well-curated best-of list. Please do not hesitate to share yours.

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time noted in the parentheses after each track:

Side One:

01) Hold Me Down – “Faces”
02) Gnaw Their Tongues – “Nihilism; Tied Up and Burning” (04:00)
03) Fetishism – “Death is the Key” (09:15)
04) Altar of Woe – “The Flame of Truth” (15:45)
05) Begat – “Begat” (20:05)
06) Agalloch – “The Lodge” (23:50)

Side Two:

07) Swordwielder – “Out of Hades” (28:15)
08) Doldrey – “Endless Torment” (35:55)
09) Sørdïd – “Another Day” (38:35)
10) Kobra – “C.P.D.M.” (39:50)
11) Salvation – “Voices in the House” (42:45)
12) The Creatures – “Sky Train” (49:55)
13) Nathalie Stern – “Then You Talk of War” (53:00)

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Episode 40

Back to our normal state of affairs after last week’s Autumnal/Dungeon special. Hopefully you faithful listeners were sated by episode 39.5’s subterranean hums, beeps, and groans over the Halloween weekend.

Which brings us to this month’s installment depraved collection of songs. The pace is largely lurching this go-around and hopefully it’s to your liking. The blood is thickening (or congealing depending on your condition) so breakneck speed isn’t a priority. Rest your bones and drink up the misery.

See you the first Wednesday of next month. 

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time noted in the parentheses after each track:

Side One:

01) Желчь – “Tymop”
02) Grime – “Burning Down the Cross” (05:15)
03) Cavurn – “II” (08:45)
04) Superstition – “Passage of Nullification” (16:20)
05) Mortuary Drape – “Black Night” (21:00)
06) Tombs – “Golden Eyes” (25:30)

Side Two:

07) Claws of Moriis – “Worse than Hell” (28:25)
08) Weregeld – “All Fall Before Me” (32:50)
09) Ærekær – “VII” (35:05)
10) PP? – “I Am The Devil” (38:55)
11) Controlled Bleeding – “Dry Lungs” (43:20)
12) Misery Engine – “Sending The Invaders To Their Graves” (47:55)
13) Pö – “Laydo” (52:30)

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Episode 39.5

Here arrives the third installment in the annual “Samhain” episode. Once you begin this sonic journey you’ll be prepared for the darker months ahead of you. Unless, of course, you do not reside in the hemisphere in which this collection was assembled. In which case, I suppose you could utilize these sounds to cool your brow.

Hopefully this selection of songs finds you well. I tried to be more representative of the wider swath of genres I dabble within, so I may have over-shot myself. You tell me if this is incoherent. Enjoy and thank you for your support.

See you in one week for the 40th episode in our regularly scheduled malevolence.

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time noted in the parentheses after each track:

01) Trench Stench – “Fullmoon Sacrifice”
02) Aucun – “Staring from the Hollows” (01:25)
03) Blot & Bod – “Kom i hu” (03:45)
04) Innumerable Forms – “Catacombs Beneath the Frozen Sea” (05:35)
05) Geld – “The Floor” (06:25)
06) Burnt Skull – “Abduction (Lost Underground)” (07:00)
07) Human Failure – “Disassembling Morality” (08:45)
08) Raspberry Bulbs – “Interlude II” (11:15)
09) The Gault – “Ire” (13:00)
10) Witchcraft – “Bewitchment at the Avernus Gate” (15:30)
11) Aisna – “Celsclan” (16:55)
12) Gate Master – “Ritual…Declaration…” (19:05)
13) Voids of Nirvana – “Orthopraxy Abandoned” (20:35)
14) Akitsa – “Dernier souffle” (22:00)
15) Vide – “It Just Is.” (24:05)
16) Agalloch – “A Celebration for the Death of Man…” (24:50)
17) Ifernach – “↟ ↟ ↟” (27:10)

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Episode 39

The rain and the cool have returned which brings much joy to my heart. Gone (for now, at least) is the heat and the stinging brightness of Summer and in its place is a comforting chill.

Perhaps this abrupt switch in climate lead to this month’s episode being heavier on the black metal than recent installments from the hotter and sunnier months. Either way, this episode likely appeals to the “black metallers” out there. I haven’t much else to say this month. Enjoy and thank you for the support.

See you in three weeks for the third annual dungeon synth / dark ambient special.

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time noted in the parentheses after each track:

Side One

01) Pa Vesh En – “A Funeral Procession”

02) Odz Manouk – “Damiens (The Regicide)”
 (04:55)
03) Chambre Froide – “Les enfants de Baal” (09:55)

04) Soldier-Tower – “Lon Laith”
 (15:45)
05) Current 93 – “Invocation of Almost”
 (19:50)
06) This Heat – “Triumph” (26:00)

Side Two

07) Stratvm Terror – “Darkgrave” (28:25)
08) Terror Cell Unit – “The Nuclear Family” (32:45)
09) Slick Son – “How to Erase Yourself” (36:30)
10) Persona – “Getting Fucked” (40:00)
11) Game – “Foundation and Empire” (43:00)
12) The Arm and Sword of a Bastard God – “Annex Wasteland” (47:25)
13) Swamp Witch – “Bayou Tomb” (52:00)

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Episode 38

Welcome back, friends. The heat is breaking and it rained all day today which places me in a superior mood for this monthly exercise. Hopefully you, the listener, find this installment to be smoother and less formulaic than the last few. I try not to fall into a pattern but no one is immune to the siren song of “That’ll do.”

That being said, I feel like this episode is very natural in its unfurling and eventual denouement. Hopefully you find it enjoyable.

See you the first Wednesday of next month.

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time noted in the parentheses after each track:

Side One:

01) Tortvred Realm – “‘Neath a Storm ov Savage Steel”

02) Waskerley Way – “Flower Show”
 (03:45)
03) Fall of Saigon – “On the Beach at Fontana”
 (07:40)
04) Twin Stumps – “Beyond the Door”
 (10:45)
05) Black Army Jacket – “Empire of Tears” (15:10)

06) Gag – “Prison Wife” (21:00)
07) Fashion Change – “Death is a Mirror 2” (22:20)

08) Arnaut Pavle – “Eat the Soil from This Grave” (24:00)

Side Two:

09) Bobak – “And the Moon” (28:20)
10) Vorde – “Hatewave” (31:35)
11) Cabinet – “Claustrophobic Dysentery Excreted From the Chiffonier” (37:55)
12) Slog – “Hidden Realities” (43:00)
13) Then Tingari – “Hungry” (47:25)
14) Dead Can Dance – “In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated” (53:10)

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Episode 37

Greetings from the beginning of Heat Death: North America.

This episode marks three years completed on this project and a tumultuous three years in general. Thanks to all who have supported over the years, I’m eager to be starting the fourth cycle of this project with the episode you’re about to hear.

I won’t drone on, other than to mention (in passing) how this episode features more “big” bands than previous episodes. It wasn’t intentional, but I felt like acknowledging it.

See you next time on the first Wednesday of the month.

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time noted in the parentheses after each track:

Side One:

01) Cronos Compulsion – “Nameless, Ageless”
02) Mortician – “Zombie Apocalypse” (02:33)
03) Damaar – “The Goatphoenix” (04:36)
04) Sulfuric Hatred – “Sickening Munitions” (09:08)
05) Varathron – “Orgasmic Nightmares of the Arch Desecrator” (12:08)
06) Illkynja – “Ég er ljósið, eldurinn og upphafið” (17:45)
07) Myrdød – “Sky Pierced by Conjured Blades of Annis” (22:27)

Side Two:

08) Ditch State – “Worn” (28:00)
09) Minimal Man – “She Was a Visitor” (31:10)
10) Innenstadtfront – “Real. Simbólico. Imaginário” (34:28)
11) 1919 – “Alien” (36:45)
12) Flipper – “Survivors of the Plague” (39:45)
13) True Radical Miracle – “Scotch For Breakfast” (44:35)
14) Sex Vid – “Communal Living I and II” (49:50)
15) Terrorist – “Insane” (54:25)

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Episode 36

This episode marks the end of the third “season” of this vanity project. I won’t pretend that anything I’ve undertook here has impacted anything of actual merit; but it’s been an interesting distraction at best, and a rote exercise that enables me to keep track of the date.

I figure now is as good a time as any other to speak the “mission statement (ugh)” of this very project into the ether. If for no other reason than my own hubris and current intoxication. The following points are only to be read by the biggest sickos as they are immaterial to your listening experience. I still feel the need to mention them.

-I do not repeat artists/groups (with exceptions for collaborations)

-I will always feature at least one (hopefully more) group or artist featuring a person of color. There’s a sea of white boys in all of the genres I highlight and they don’t need my shine. If this bothers you, then fuck off.

-I will always feature a group or artist from NYC. It was meant derisively, but “No one ‘loves’ New York like a transplant.”

All of that navel gazing aside, here is episode 36. See you the first Wednesday of next month for the start of Anxiety Eternal’s fourth year.

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time noted in the parentheses after each track:

Side One:

01) Basic Scream – “Springtime”

02) Kommunity FK – “Tribulations” (04:30)

03) Reeking Nightshade – “The Stars Trace Our Paths”
 (07:48)
04) Beherit – “Witchcraft”
 (14:20)
05) Arkan Azid – “666 Blackholes of Triumph”
 (17:05)
06) Subterranean – “Vengeance We Shall Strike” (20:05)

07) Burial Hex – “Malkuth Rant” (25:08)

Side Two:

08) Squelch Chamber – “Jesus is a Junkman” (28:38)
09) Talk Show – “Night (Renewed By Fire)” (30:26)
10) Musta Paraati – “Hyvää Yötä” (33:44)
11) Grave New World – “God Breathed His Last in Agony” (36:58)
12) Tower 7 – “Delusion of Enlightenment” (41:35)
13) Ire – “Memorial” (44:20)
14) Nightfucker – “Worthless Spirit” (49:42)

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Episode 35

Four weeks have past and I’ve returned with a new collection of songs to sully your day (month?).

June’s chapter finds itself heavy on the slower scale of tempos as a general pace. A few sections reach rollicking heights, but this is largely a lurch. Hopefully this is to your liking. Coincidentally there’s a strong Canadian contingency this month, so cheers to my neighbors to the North.

So without further ado, I’ll bid you adieu. Thanks for the support and we’ll cross paths again the first Wednesday next month when the weather’s even worse.

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time noted in the parentheses after each track:

Side One:

01) Nature Nvoke – “Tears”
02) Rivière de Corps – “Génération Perdue” (03:00)
03) Black Bile – “Ray of Blight” (07:28)
04) Decoherence – “Unitarity Violation” (11:45)
05) Brulvahnatu – “The Book of Forgotten Places” (17:50)
06) Skjult – “Lvcifer Hominum Ritual” (21:40)

Side Two:

07) Shrouded Infinity – “Through Caverns Unknown” (28:10)
08) Cerebral Rot – “Odious Descent Into Decay” (32:12)
09) Ritual Warfare – “Repulsive Addiction” (38:18)
10) Munifex – “Images of Industry” (41:21)
11) Battery Humans – “Progress” (43:45)
12) Seized – “Farewell” (47:25)
13) Cavity – “On the Lam” (50:24)

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Episode 34

I have returned with nearly an hour’s worth of filth and depravity. Not a great deal of variety ( genre-wise, at least) on this month’s episode, but there are some real gems in here. Those unfamiliar or perhaps even averse to more experimental sounds, steel yourself as you’re likely familiar with the artists’ other work. Namely Uniform, Intensive Care, Endless Blockade, et al. Other than that, I don’t have much to report; I’ll let the sounds do the work.

Thank you as always for any and all support and I’ll see you the first Wednesday of next month.

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time noted in the parentheses after each track:

Side One:

01) Devil City Cult – “Big Bad Wolves”
02) Tundra – “Hate” (03:00)
03) Jewel Throne – “Temple of Evil and Necromansy” (07:05)
04) Pig’s Blood – “A Flock Slaughtered (Unfettered Maniacs)” (11:50)
05) Vile Command – “Lesser Than a Still” (15:05)
06) Leechmilk – “Imbalance” (17:30)
07) Class Traitor – “Spaceless” (22:00)

Side Two:

08) Miscarriage – “III” (27:55)
09) Gall + Tooth Decay – “Illusive Silence” (34:28)
10) Michael Berdan – “Jesus Wept” (37:30)
11) G 7 – “Fataler Krieg” (41:55)
12) Skinny Puppy – “First Aid” (45:30)
13) Andrew Nolan – “Already Seen” (49:45)
14) Conway the Machine, ft. DJ Muggs – “Black Spoons” (53:49)

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Episode 33

Back to our normal programming with another installment in the books. Heavy on the black metal this month, perhaps due to my realm of the Earth transitioning to Spring time. Who knows. Until next month, this is your faithful selector signing off for the month.

The artists and their respective tracks are as follows with each track time  noted in the parentheses after each track:

Side One:

01) Cursed – “Friends in the Music Business”
02) Terrible – “Awaits Us All” (04:29)
03) Autopsy – “Critical Madness” (09:12)
04) Evulse – “Agoraphobia” (13:40)
05) Blasphamagoatachrist – “Fire Demons of Blokula” (16:03)
06) Medieval Demon – “Invisible Black Magic Ritual”(18:55)
07) Burier – “The Taste of Iron” (24:08)

Side Two:

08) Cultes Des Ghoules – “Serpent’s Curse Burns The Wound Of Christ” (28:15)
09) Voids of Nirvana – “An Alluring Curse Upon The Thief’s Jewels” (34:00)
10) Hollow Phobos – “The Sirens of Rho-Gamma” (38:15)
11) 8 Hour Animal – “Oblivs” (41:03)
12) Moor Mother – “Nois Bois” (46:00)
13) Røsenkøpf – “Heed” (47:40)
14) Night Sins – “Hot Dose” (53:12)

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