aOT13

Pretty self-explanatory, this one. I don’t know what’s going on climate-wise in the part of the world you live in, but here in the Northeastern US, it has snowed like a bastard for the last month, and it’s not showing any signs of letting up. I wanted to capture that feeling of winter where you’re so cold it feels like you’re never going to get warm again. The kind of cold that makes your blood move slower.

Needless to say, there’s a lot of doom.

But it’s not all downers. Occasionally winter can offer small triumphs — snow days, good soup, an extra excuse not to leave the house when you didn’t want to anyway — and there are some songs in this 13th audiObelisk Transmission that embody that idea: Scissorfight, Lords of the North, Grand Magus, but basically, I wanted this month’s podcast to sound cold. Some of these bands are here because they’re from cold places (Celtic Frost, Yearning, Candlemass), and others just sound like winter to me (Neurosis, The Awesome Machine, Anathema). Hopefully my personal seasonal associations carry over. I think they do, but I’m hardly unbiased.

Most of this stuff is pretty recent. There are a couple deeper cuts, but the majority is from the last decade at least. I didn’t realize it while I was picking out bands and albums, but 2008 features heavily for some reason. Maybe it was especially cold that year, or maybe I just listened to a lot of music that winter. Who the hell knows.

Like last month’s podcast, I hid a couple off-kilter picks toward the end. That’s where you’ll find Celtic Frost, Bathory, Enslaved, Primordial. I like the thought of changing things up to finish. All told, the podcast is 30 songs, just over three hours’ worth of material. Certainly long enough for you to revel in your wintertime malaise as I did while putting it together this afternoon. As always, I hope you enjoy.

Full tracklist is after the jump. To listen, click on the player above, follow this link, or grab the file by clicking the banner.

0:00:05-0:08:59 YOB, “Grasping Air” from The Unreal Never Lived (Metal Blade, 2005)

0:08:59-0:14:01 Anathema, “Harmonium” from A Natural Disaster (Music for Nations, 2004)

0:14:01-0:20:59 Ereb Altor, “Dark Nymph” from By Honour (I Hate, 2008)

0:20:59-0:25:20 Mammoth Volume, “Brave Manic Mover” from A Single Book of Songs (The Music Cartel, 2001)

0:25:20-0:29:37 Scissorfight, “Riverhorse” from Potential New Agent for Unconventional Warfare (Tortuga, 2002)

0:29:37-0:34:40 Revelation, “The Whisper Stream” from For the Sake of No One (Shadow Kingdom, 2009)

0:34:41-0:40:23 Candlemass, “At the Gallows End” from Nightfall (Peaceville, 1987/2007)

0:40:23:0:42:45 Yearning, “The Race” from Frore Meadow (Holy Records, 2001)

0:43:45-0:50:47 Apostle of Solitude, “Confess” from Sincerest Misery (Eyes Like Snow, 2008)

0:50:47-0:55:06 Paradise Lost, “Last Regret” from Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us (Century Media, 2009)

0:55:06-1:04:32 Jesu, “Tired of Me” from Jesu (Hydra Head, 2005)

1:04:32-1:09:28 Grand Magus, “The Shadow Knows” from Iron Will (Rise Above/Candlelight, 2008)

1:09:28-1:14:33 Hour of 13, “Naked Star” from The Ritualist (Earache, 2010/2011)

1:14:33-1:19:35 Penance, “Words Not Deeds” from Parallel Corners (Century Media, 1994)

1:19:35-1:24:39 Dozer featuring Troy Sanders, “Until Man Exists No More” from Through the Eyes of Heathens (Small Stone, 2005)

1:24:39-1:31:02 The Awesome Machine, “Eating Me Slowly” from The Soul of a Thousand Years (People Like You, 2003)

1:31:02-1:38:44 Neurosis, “Takeahnase” from Souls at Zero (Neurot, 1992/2011)

1:38:44-1:42:25 Weltraumstaunen, “Doors” from Weltraumwelt (Nasoni, 2004)

1:42:25-1:46:25 Silver Summit, “The Door” from Silver Summit (Language of Stone, 2008)

1:46:25-1:58:57 Buried at Sea, “Untitled II” from Migration (Original Sound Recordings, 2003)

1:58:57-2:07:24 Reverend Bizarre, “Council of Ten” from II: Crush the Insects (Season of Mist, 2005)

2:07:24-2:13:46 Pale Divine, “Morphia/Crimson Tears” from Crimson Tears (Shadow Kingdom, 1997/2008)

2:13:46-2:18:04 Lords of the North, “Souls Come Rising” from Lords of the North (Radio Optik, 2008)

2:18:04-2:23:00 Ichabod, “Giving up the Ghost” from 2012 (Rootsucker, 2008)

2:23:00-2:31:33 Solitude Aeturnus, “Burning” from Alone (Locomotive, 2007)

2:31:33-2:39:30 Well of Souls, “Soulless” from Well of Souls (Brainticket, 2003)

2:39:30-2:46:12 Primordial, “Traitors Gate” from To the Nameless Dead (Metal Blade, 2007)

2:46:12-2:50:11 Celtic Frost, “Procreation (Of the Wicked)” from Morbid Tales/Emperor’s Return (Noise, 1984/1988)

2:50:11-2:58:06 Bathory, “Baptised in Fire and Ice” from Hammerheart (Black Mark, 1990)

2:58:06-3:04:23 Enslaved, “Essence” from Ruun (Candlelight, 2006)

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