Episode 42

This installment was a fucking pain in the ass to introduce to the ether, but here we are. Probably the most diverse, sonically-speaking, episode in some time, but I think you’ll enjoy its odd cohesion.

Thank you for your continued support and I am looking forward to another year of miserable sounds.

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) Barren Soil – “Commodified Neurons”
02) Cloak – “Death Scene” (03:40)
03) Prehistoric War Cult – “Raiding the Enemy Village (As Foretold by the Sacred Bones)” (06:15)
04) Vile Ritual – “Ritual Burial” (09:20)
05) Certain Sacrifice – “Second Fall” (12:25)
06) Murderous Vision – “Numb” (18:05)
07) Xmal Deutschland – “Vito” (23:50)

Side Two:

08) Straw Man Army – “The Silver Bridge” (28:00)
09) Bastard – “Tragic Insane” (30:40)
10) Malleus – “Storm of Witchcraft” (33:50)
11) Geheimnisvoll – “Venomous Sorcery Through Hidden Darkness” (38:20)
12) SS-18 – “Undead City” (43:45)
13) Bacterium – “Sorites Paradox” (49:20)

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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 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 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 30

The new year has arrived and I have a new episode for your consumption. Not much to say this month, hopefully we’re not wiped out by another mutation (or mutant…) before I can send out another missive. See you all next month and thank you for listening.

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

Side One:

01) Louse – “Idiot”
02) tile – “Walk-in Closet” (03:05) 
03) Harry Pussy – “Sick Again” (06:35)
04) Kūka’ilimoku – “Mō’ī To Be Held In Awe” (08:05)
05) svrm – “Старість” (10:30)
06) Tergum Ambulare – “Departure to the Plains Unknown” (13:45)
07) Conqueror – “Domitor Invictus” (18:50)
08) Cryptae – “Monastic Tomb” (24:35)

Side Two:

09) Goatlord – “Sacrifice” (28:20)
10) Water Torture – “Population Control” (32:03)
11) E-Saggila – “Hidden Arena” (34:00)
12) Alvar – “Confusion By” (38:40)
13) Xeno & Oaklander – “Another” (42:08)
14) The Witch Trials – “The Tazer” (45:25)
15) Sons of Perdition – “Fallout” (51:15)

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Episode 28

Welcome back, it has NOT been a while. Hopefully the cooling weather (for us in the Northern Hemisphere, at least) finds you well. This month’s installment finds me with an apparent split-personality. Side one is very heavy on metal while side two is almost solely in the vast realm of post-punk. Hopefully you don’t find it too jarring. Until next time.

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

Side One:

01) Entropy Created Consciousness – “Nights II – IX”
02) Sainte Marie des Loups – “Progéniture” (04:32)
03) Black Witchery – “Into Damnation Eternal” (10:08)
04) Cyanic – “Endless Scorn” (13:04)
05) Fleshrot – “Bubbling Cerebric Waste” (15:03)
06) Funeral Leech – “The Burden of Flesh” (17:40)
07) Blood Iscariot – “Untitled Two” (24:20)

Side Two:

08) Moral Order – “This is the Life You Must Live” (28:25)
09) Territorial Gobbing – “Moniker” (32:00)
10) Kris Baha – “Fuels the Fire” (34:35)
11) Sink – “Dream Map” (41:00)
12) Soror Dolorosa – “Trembling Androgyneous” (45:00)
13) Crux Ansata – “No Time For Lies” (50:40)

Episode 24

Hello, and welcome to the newest episode of Anxiety Eternal. This episode also happens to mark the completion of my second year on this project. I’m somewhat surprised I’ve stuck it out this long; kudos to me.

This episode is heavy on the black metal and industrial (perhaps a ‘rebellion against this oppressive heat?) and I have to admit that some of these transitions/cuts aren’t my best. I was out of town and away from music for most of June, so forgive any awkward jumps in subject. Other than that, on with the show.

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

Side One

01) Throbbing Gristle – “10 Pence”
02) Two – “Untitled” (5:05)
03) Moenen of Xezbeth – “Pandemonial Curse” (7:35)
04) Berzek – “The Void’s Hymn” (12:05)
05) Isengard – “I Kamp Med Kvitekrist” (15:22)
06) Oppression – “Contre la vague” (19:55)
07) Fealty – “Submit” (23:45)
08) Filthcult – “Assassin” (25:30)

Side Two

09) Creation is Crucifixion – “The Allegory of the Algorithm 
(Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mimesis)” (28:08)
10) Profane Order – “Antichrist Abomination” (30:50)
11) Vasaeleth – “Adorned & Iridescent” (35:37)
12) Mother Destruction / Sixth Comm – “Mithras (The Wrath)” (38:58)
13) Hair Police – “Thief’s Spring” (43:12)
14) G.G.F.H. – “Sister Cathleen” (45:30)
15) LPF 12 – “Share Minds” (48:50)
16) My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – “A Daisy Chain 4 Satan
(Acid and Flowers Mix)” (50:25)

Episode 22

Greetings from Hell! Warm weather and all its disgusting acolytes (pollen, sandle-wearers, backsweat, et al) are here. I’ve been on a sobriety kick, so be forewarned of some stranger-than-usual swerves ahead. Lots of bleeps, clicks, and groans. Not much else to include here, so I’ll bid you farewell. Until we meet again.

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

Side One

01) Caged Bastard – “True Colours”
02) Morne – “Force” (3:19)
03) Kommand – “Radiation” (6:41)
04) Death Worship – “The Poisoned Chalice” (10:17)
05) Dødheimsgard – “Kronet Til Konge” (14:45)
06) Morbid Sorcery – “The Black Winds” (18:55)
07) Nox Morbum – “In Delirium” (22:15)
08) Special Interest – “A Depravity Such As This” (25:20)

Side Two

09) Martial Canterel – “Shadow Half” (28:23)
10) Executive Slacks – “So Mote It Be” (31:30)
11) Mommy – “Mommy” (35:42)
12) Horrendous 3D – “Conscience” (38:16)
13) Spine – “Rain Down” (40:06)
14) Egregore – “Astrotheology” (40:44)
15) Germfask – “000162 – Andresen, Bent B.” (43:25)
16) Directive – “Flagellation Command” (47:27)
17) Breathing Problem – “Lust” (49:35)
18) Ariel Kalma – “Casiopee” (54:20)

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Episode 20.5

Well, I decided to drop another “surprise” episode to break up the monotony of my current day-to-day and hopefully yours. We’ve entered year two of Life in Quarantine if you hadn’t noticed and most social gatherings are still largely taboo. It being my birthday shortly I would normally be slamming beers and belting out DLR at some hellhole karaoke bar. Alas, it will wait another year.

In lieu of such debauchery, I offer you, imaginary reader/listener, an extra mix for the month of nothing but cover songs. I have sworn off including covers in Anxiety Eternal episodes since they’re pretty LCD; but fuck it, it’s time for dumb fun.

I’ll be back the first Wednesday next month as usual with a new, canonical episode.

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

Side One

01) Cultes Des Ghoules – “Family of Dog (The Feast of Ghouls)” by Necromantia
02) Kommodus – “Lord of the Storms” by Emperor (6:03)
03) Black Witchery – “Demoniac” by Blasphemy (8:14)
04) Gravecoven – “Hades” by Bathory (11:01)
05) Coffins – “Bonesawer” by Pungent Stench (13:44)
06) Depressor – “Largactyl” by Amebix (17:21)
07) Wound Man – “Disease of Ease” by His Hero is Gone (20:17)
08) Reverend Bizarre – “The Gate of Nanna” by Beherit (21:51)

Side Two

09) Coil – “Tainted Love” by Gloria Jones (28:30)
10) Hateful Abandon – “Spies in the Wire” by Cabaret Voltaire (34:02)
11) Pol Pot – “Eisbär” by Grauzone (37:38)
12) Nomads – “Lucretia, My Reflection” by The Sisters of Mercy (42:21)
13) Systral – “Confide in Me” by Kylie Minogue (46:24)
14) Physique – “Life’s Hard” by Framtid (49:01)
15) Battletruk – “Ready to Fight” by Negative Approach (50:32)
16) Pollution – “Downer” by Lush (51:24)
17) Slug Guts – “Order of Death” by Public Image, Ltd. (53:53)

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