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26 May 2010 2 Comments

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May 2010 Playlists

BILL ADAMS
1. Kate Miller-Heidke – Curiouser
2. Iggy and The Stooges – Raw Power (four-disc deluxe edition) – Columbia Legacy
3. NoFX – Punk In Drublic – Epitaph
4. The Flatliners – Cavalcade
5. The Pack a.d. – We Kill Computers – Mint
Book: Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Film: Handsome Harry

ADRIEN BEGRAND
1. Twilight – Monument to Time End (Southern Lord)
2. The Besnard Lakes – Are the Roaring Night (Jagjaguwar)
3. Lair of the Minotaur – Evil Power (The Grind-House)
4. Watain – Lawless Darkness ()
5. Norma Jean – Meridional (Razor & Tie)
Book: Only Revolutions, by Mark Danielewski
Film: In the Loop, dir. Armando Iannucci

TATE BENGSTON
1. Cathedral – The Guessing Game ()
2. The Company Band – self-titled (Venture Capital)
3. Ludicra – The Tenant ()
4. Darkthrone – Circle the Wagons (Peaceville)
5. Tiamat – The Astral Sleep ()
Book: Hermann Hesse – The Glass Bead Game

KEITH CARMAN
1. Black Breath – Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
2. No Friends – Traditional Failures (Kiss Of Death)
3. Imperial State Electric – S/T (Psychout)
4. Sick Of It All – Based On A True Story (Century Media)
5. Hellsongs – Songs In The Key Of 666 (Aporia)
Book: Give Me Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day (Penguin)
Film/DVD: Search And Destroy: Iggy & The Stooges’ Raw Power (Warner

CARA CROSS
1. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate –
2. Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive – Deathwish
3. ISIS – Panopticon – Ipecac
4. The Crown – Deathrace King – Blade
5. Arcturus – La Masquerade Infernale – Misanthropy
Book pick: Damage Control, David Eddie with Pat Lynch

LAINA DAWES
1. Misery Index – Heirs to Theivery –
2. Howl – Full of Hell – Relapse
3. Converge – You Fail Me – Epitaph
4. Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos – Mascot
5. Destinity – XI Reasons to See – Lifefore America

GRUESOME GREG
1. Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast – Strange Hexes (indie)
2. Imaad Wasif – The Voidist (Tee Pee)
3. Dead Meadow – Three Kings (Xemu)
4. Eyehategod – Dopesick reissue (Century Media)
5. Eyehategod – In the Name of Suffering reissue (Century Media)

KYLE HARCOTT
1. THE SEQUENCE OF PRIME – Virion (self-released)
2. MENDOZZA – Cabra Noche (Reverse Records)
3. SUPERCONTINENT – Vaalbara (Saw Her Ghost Records)
4. WOODS OF YPRES – Woods III & IV (Krankenhaus/Practical Art)
5. TSJUDER – Desert Northern Hell (Season of Mist)
Book: KILLING WILLIS, Todd Bridges
Film: SURVEILLANCE by Jennifer Lynch

ROB HUGHES
1. Worm Ouroboros — s/t (Profound Lore)
2. Triptykon — Eparistera Daimones (Century Media)
3. YØGA—Megafauna (Holy Mountain)
4. Blood Cult—We Are the Cult of the Plains (Moribund)
5. Ufomammut—Idolum (Supernatural Cat)
Book: Fischer/Ain—Only Death is Real (Bazillion Points)
Film/DVD: Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg

JARED HYNES
1. Hooded Menace – Never Cross the Dead – Profound Lore
2. Cryptic Slaughter – Stream of Consciousness
3. Darkthrone – Circle the Wagons – Peaceville
4. Bathory – Blood on Ice – Black Mark
5. Black Breath – Heavy Breathing – Southern Lord

ROB KACHLUBA
1. Haken- Aquarius – Sensory
2. Hooded Menace – Fullfill the Curse – Profound Lore
3. Black Breath – Heavy Breathing – Southern Lord
4. Apostle of Solitude – Last Sunrise – Profound Lore
5. Holy Grail – Improper Burial – self-released

MATT LEWIS
1. The Ocean – Heliocentric – Metal Blade
2. Misery Index – Pulling out the nails
3. Johnny Cash – American 6 – Columbia
4. Bison BC – Dark Ages – Metal Blade
5. Baptized in Blood – Gutterbound – self-released
Film/DVD: Sons of Anarchy seasons 1 and 2


1. Icarus Witch – Draw Down the Moon (Cleopatra Records)
2. Division – Control Issues (2/5 Gone Records)
3. Uriah heep – Celebration (Ear Music)
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan -Option Paralysis (Season of Mist)
5. Skeletonwitch – Worship the Witch 10″ (Prosthetic Records)

OLA MAZZUCA
1. Arckanum – Kostogher – Agonia
2. Skitliv – Skandinavisk Misantropi – Season of Mist
3. Pantera – Cowboys From Hell – Atco
4. Rimfrost – Veraldar Nagli – Season of Mist
5. Armin van Buuren – 10 Years – Armada
FILM: Il Postino, dir. by Michael Radford
BOOK: Jeanne Unbottled by Jeanne Beker

JUSTIN M NORTON
1. Howl – Full of Hell – Relapse
2. Vaeseleth – Crypt Born And Tethered To Ruin – Profound Lore
3. Ludicra-The Tenant – Profound Lore
4. Black Sabbath – S/T – Warner
5. Billy Boy Arnold – Consolidated Mojo
Book: Savage Night/Allan Guthrie
Film: Angels With Dirty Faces

LEANNE PALMERSTON
What I’m Listening to: The Nerdist Podcast and How We Decide-Jonah Lehrer (audiobook)
What I’m watching: Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Animated – The Complete Series
What I’m reading: I Am Legend, Richard Matheson


1. Haken – Aquarius – Sensory
2. Black Sabbath – Heaven & Hell – Warner
3. Hawkwind – Spirit Of The Age: Anthology 1976-1984 – Atomhenge
4. Yakuza – Of Seismic Consequence – Profound Lore
5. Rush – Hemispheres – Anthem
Televsion: AHL and NHL Playoffs (Go Hamilton Bulldogs Go!)
DVD: Porcupine Tree – Anesthetize – K-Scope

DAVE SANDERS
1. Nachtmystium – Addicts: Black Meddle Part II (Century Media)
2. Nachtmystium – Assassins: Black Meddle Part I (Century Media)
3. Watain – Lawless Darkness (Season of Mist)
4. Nick Swardson – Seriously, Who Farted? (Comedy Central Records)
5. Killing Joke – Hosannas from the Basements of Hell (Cooking Vinyl)
Book: The Pacific: Hell was an Ocean Away – Hugh Ambrose (New American Library)
Movie: L4yer Cake (Sony Pictures Classics)

JONATHAN SMITH
1. Alcest – Écailles de lune – Prophecy
2. Entombed – Left Hand Path – Earache
3. Hypocrisy – s/t – Nuclear Blast
4. Melissa Auf der Maur – Out Of Our Minds – EMI
5. Type O Negative – October Rust – Roadrunner
Book: The Backwoods, Edward Lee
Film: Silent Hill, Christophe Gans


1. Melt-Banana – Initial T. (Init)
2. Enforcer – Diamonds (Heavy Artillery)
3. Overkill – Ironbound (E1)
4. 16-17 – Gyatso (Savage Land)
5. Nails – Unsilent Death (Six Feet Under/Streetcleaner)
Book: My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies, Nancy Friday

LAURA WIEBE TAYLOR
1. Woods of Ypres – Woods IV: The Green Album – Practical Art Records
2. Porcupine Tree – XM – Lava
3. Pain – Cynic Paradise – Nuclear Blast
4. Cathedral – The Guessing Game – Nuclear Blast
5. Atlas Moth – A Glorified Peace of Blue Sky – Candlelight

ADAM WILLS
1. Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here – K-Scope
2. Type O Negative – October Rust – Roadrunner
3, Tom Waits – Discography
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Discography
5. Steve Von Till – Discography – Neurot
Movie: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

NATALIE ZED
1. Alcest – Écailles de Lune – Prophecy Productions
2. Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder God – Metal Blade
3. Borknagar – Universal – Indie Recordings/The End
4. Darkest Hour – The Eternal Return – Victory Records
5. Gwynbleidd – Nostalgia – Black Currant Records
Reading: Holding Still For As Long As Possible – Zoe Whittal
Watching: Iron Man 2, The Losers, The Last Airbender

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2 Comments »

  • Justin said:

    KSP, will your book of the month be suitable to borrow?

  • ksp said:

    justin, that book was originally released in the early 70s and it’s hilarious (if not somewhat tragic) to see the difference in gender and generational sexuality.

    some of the terminology is funny and women in the 70s really enjoyed their bestiality fantasies…

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