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Episode 49

I’ve returned with a new collection of depraved songs to dazzle and disappoint. This month’s episode is pretty heavy on black metal and its offshoots. At least relative to my recent output. Perhaps it’s my subconscious straining and bucking from the heat.

I’ve now officially been making song selections for strangers (at least this cohort) for four years. Thank you to all who have listened over the years. Hopefully you continue to do so as I begin year five of this project.

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

Side One:

01) Gitrog – “I Am the Tower”
02) Kaarna – “Vaskimies ja punainen kirves” (02:40)
03) Absolute Key – “Absent Doors” (08:25)
04) Grok – “Emptied Out” (13:45)
05) Maeglin – “My Father’s Father’s War” (19:05)
06) Grave Chalice – “Descending Mirror of Ascending Flesh” (22:55)

Side Two:

07) Eggs of Gomorrh – “Elation Devout” (28:20)
08) Messe Mortuaire – “Filius Diaboli” (33:40)
09) Reputdeath – “The Reek of Emptiness” (40:00)
10) Grief – “Isolation” (46:00)
11) Anti-Cimex – “Prelude E-Minor / Criminal Trap” (49:50)
12) Hüstler – “Uniform Fetish” (53:35)

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Episode 47

Another stroll down the calendar, another iteration of your least-favorite mixtape project. Does it date me that I insist on that “-tape” affix? Probably.

Lotsa punk and distortion this month. Little to be had, synth-wise; just how it goes sometimes. I found myself pleased that a number of artists I’ve long meant to include in an episode found themselves to be.

That’s all I have for this week. Thanks for the continued support and I’ll be back the first Wednesday of July.

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

Side One:

01) Young Widows – “Gift of Failure”
02) Rubber Mate – “Snuff Film” (04:15)
03) Zyanose – “Keep Yourself” (07:50)
04) Hastio – “Isengard” (09:55)
05) Ründgard – “Visions Through the Grim Tower” (13:20)
06) S.V.E.S.T. – “The Evil War” (18:55)
07) Marigold King – “Pillar of Unyielding Cruelty” (24:45)

Side Two:

08) Bestial Putrefaction – “Christ Dismemberment” (28:20)
09) Malignant Altar – “Channeling Impure Apparitions” (30:15)
10) Denial – “The Pestilent Pits of Disgrace” (35:45)
11) Celtic Frost – “Necromantical Screams” (39:45)
12) Savage Pleasure – “The Reaper’s Scythe” (45:25)
13) Leader – “Annihilus” (48:15)
14) Rema-Rema – “Feedback Song” (50:15)

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Episode 43

And we’re back on the normal schedule/cycle. This month is slightly more narrow in its total scope, but pleasing, nonetheless; Not much from the more experimental/avant garde, but engaging in their own way. The orthodox has a charm of its own, you know.

Thank you for the continued support and I will return 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) Black Candle Wax – “Hangman’s Hood”
02) Despondent Moon – “Realms of Despair” (03:20)
03) Marblebog – “A Broken Circle” (09:00)
04) Bleib Modern – “Forest” (15:10)
05) Lathe of Heaven – “Moon-Driven Sea” (19:35)
06) Arch Criminals – “Mr. Kingdom Man” (24:30)

Side Two:

07) SSSSSSS – “In Town” (28:30)
08) Neurosis – “Enemy of the Sun” (30:55)
09) Atone – “Divine Degradation” (36:00)
10) Dearth – “The Reverence of Swine” (41:55)
11) Left Cross – “Inexorable March” (46:40)
12) Terminal Filth – “Into the Stillness” (49:50)
13) Sadist – “Mask” (52:15)

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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 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 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 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 31

Welcome to another installment of isolation theatre. I’ve survived another month and have a dozen-plus tracks of depravity for your consumption. Lots of lurching rhythms in this month’s episode; hopefully you find it to your liking. Until next month, cheers.

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

Side One:

01) Caffa – “Despondency”
02) Noroth – “It Dwells Amongst Us” (03:45)
03) Potop – “Untitled” (06:33)
04) Nervous Sex – “Beast Boxer” (12:10)
05) Hallucination – “Hallucinations” (13:55)
06) Low Places – “Malcontent” (15:15)
07) Oaf – “Revenge” (17:25)
08) Black Turmoil – “-“ (20:08)
09) Hwwauoch – “Distorted Perception” (23:52)

Side Two:

10) Impetuous Ritual – “Sullen” (28:27)
11) dodenbezweerder – “Zwarte Sluiers Over Dode Gezichten” (34:40)
12) Lydia Lunch & Lucy Hamilton – “A Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, CT” (39:38)
13) The Snipers – “The Parents of God” (42:10)
14) The Soft Moon – “Total Decay” (46:25)
15) The Mall – “An Answer” (50:19)
16) Silicon Teens – “A State of Shock (Part Two)” (53:53)

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