DEATH // SENTENCE

We're back after an extended hiatus, with a new episode interviewing Matt Colquhoun, author of Egress, on Repeater Books. We talk about the aftermath of Mark Fisher's death, his philosophical legacy, and we all collectively groan when Nick Land is mentioned. Music by Cult of Fire: https://cultoffire.bandcamp.com/album/nirvana and Omerta: https://ihateomerta.bandcamp.com/album/hyperviolence Give us...

We got 'em! We scored an interview with Isaac of Blood Incantation, who released what is perhaps the greatest album of the year in Hidden History of the Human Race. We talk about their evolution into proggier sounds, their ideas about history and its relation to human consciousness and we open our hearts to Mizar, King of the Stars. Give us all of your money so we can give it to Mizar on our Patre...

This is the first part of a seven-part series exploring each of the collected trade paperbacks of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles and we've got Pete (@PodsidePete) from Podside Picnic (@PodsideP) along for the wild ride. Music by Obsequiae and Ragana Support our Patreon and you will actually be an Invisible and get to hang out with cool people and shoot cops: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

Ash Grey of Venom Prison is on the line to talk about proper British things, like Brexit, Craig Charles liking your band, playing Glastonbury, rain, being terrified of America and not quite knowing what's going on. Music by REND: https://rendwithtoothandclaw.bandcamp.com/album/cast-into-their-own-night And Venom Prison: https://venomprison.bandcamp.com/album/samsara Give us money to produce relata...

Death Stranding is not a book or a metal, Bring Me The Horizon's contribution to the soundtrack notwithstanding, so why are we talking about it? Because it's Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima's first game since his acrimonious split with the Metal Gear franchise that he's been working on since 1987. It's about being a Deliveroo driver if ghosts were real and could turn you into a bomb. Music by Blind...

We're joined by Nathalie Olah to talk about her book Steal As Much As You Can, the only book ever written that will make you feel less crazy. It's primarily about the erosion of working-class culture in the UK after the 2008 financial collapse, but it's about so much more, and comes with four handy tips to improve your life and smash capitalism. Music by Vastum. Subscribe to our Patreon to learn t...

You probably know that Margaret Atwood's The Testaments won half of a Booker Prize, and you definitely know that we have Takes about that. To help us sort through the book's kind of badly handled depiction of misogyny, we have real-life misogyny expert Annie Kelly from the Q-Anon Anonymous podcast to talk about how the real-life He-man Woman Hater's club has evolved since Trump. Music by Alcest an...

We got 'em. The undisputed kings (if they believed in kings) of antifascist Black Metal, Liverpool's Dawn Ray'd. We talk with them about Mr. Blobby, the situation in Syria, castles, Tankies and more. Music by Tresspasser and Dawn Ray'd. Subscribe to our Patreon or you're a cop: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

We sit down with Hanna Jameson, author of The Last to talk about nuclear war, murder mysteries, the horror of a world without Posting, and her excellent origin story as a writer. Music by Blood Incantation: https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-history-of-the-human-race And Botanist: https://verdant-realm-botanist.bandcamp.com/ Subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Death...

We get Andy Curtis, the entirety of one-man post-post-post-Black Metal band Caïna, on the line to talk about a little of everything but a lot of high weirdness. We start in unlikely reviews in British tabloids and end up in a bizarre real-life tale of UFOs and poltergeist activity. Strap yourselves in warbrothers, warsisters and nonbinary warpersons... and keep watching the skies! Music by Caïna:...

We know what you're thinking: *another* lesbian time travel book? Well hold on, because this is a gorgeously written epistolary time-travel romance from the twin blades of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It's very good. We use it as a launch point to talk about the nature of time, memory, love and swords - and there's lots more fan service for anime fans! Music by Schammasch: https://schammasch....

We've got Jay from Crowhurst on the show for an 'interview' where we don't actually ask questions but more just hang out for an hour. It's fun though and you'll learn a bunch about noise music, cancel culture, appropriating anime symbols, whether Death's album Symbolic is good (it is), and how the weed in the UK is garbage. Music by Crowhurst: https://crowhurst.bandcamp.com/ And Country Death: htt...

Tamsyn Muir (@tazmuir), joins us to talk about her sci-fi-fantasy-horror-punk-core book Gideon The Ninth, the story of entitled Goth teens in a creepy space-crypt backstabbing each other over who gets to be the most immortal. It's amazing. We talk about New Zealand, Genre, Skeletons and Which Sword is Best. Music by Cloud Rat: https://cloudrat.bandcamp.com/album/do-not-let-me-off-the-cliff And Viv...

We ran out of books to do, but then Metal decided to release all of the new songs at once, so here's the first of two This Week in OUGHH episodes (the other one's on the Patreon). Music by Atlantean Kodex, Cattle Decapitation, Pharmakon, Mizmor and Liturgy.

We're joined by Bryn from Beepbeeplettuce, Left Trigger and the bands Stay Inside and Vyy to go *deep* into Dick's 1969 book Ubik, which gives us licence to talk about Hegel, Nietzsche, Sartre, Mark Fisher, Heidegger, Zen Buddhism, the philosophy of religion, Gnosticism, X-files spin-off series and Aleister Crowley. Music by Have a Nice Life: https://haveanicelife.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-worry A...

Sometimes you hear an EP so filthy, so sickening, that it can only be consumed sat atop a toilet while you commit time-theft. That EP is Putrescine's The One Reborn: anti-fascist death metal with songs about labor struggles, anti-vaxxers and Bloodborne. How could be resist? Music by Carcass and Putrescine.

Trevor from Champagne Sharks joins us to talk about Colson Whitehead's follow-up to The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys. We talk about the long legacy of hatred in America, how to talk about tragedy and the uncanny nature of the chicken quesadilla deep-friend pizza. Music by Author and Punisher: https://authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com/album/a-crude-sectioning-single

We have Morgan Giles, English translator of Yu Miri's masterful Tokyo Ueno Station, a story that is both a tearjerker and a study in understatement and subtly. Naturally, we talk about ghosts, adopting your boyfriend, the cool 9-11 and a penguin who fell in love with an anime girl. This is how you're supposed to do literary criticism. Music by Gatecreeper: https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com And Unif...

New York bay-be! I'm walking here! We had a sit-down with two of masked jazz-black-metal trio Imperial Triumphant to discuss the truly incredible music they make, their philosophy of writing what they know but giving themselves enough freedom to follow their collective muse, and the graphic novel they have released as an accompaniment to Vile Luxury, their latest album.

Pee-yoo, what is that? Oh, it's 'Reed King' (not an actual person)'s stinker FKA USA, and we're here to read it to absolute shreds with Jake Flores of stand-up comedy, podcasting and encouraging the murder of ICE agents fame. Music by Falls of Rauros: https://fallsofrauros.bandcamp.com/ See Jake on tour across the western US here: http://www.feraljokes.com/ And https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentenc...

Y'all ready to get a little weird? Erik Davis's High Weirdness explores the lives of Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson and Terrence McKenna, which means we get to explore... pretty much all of reality. If you thought the Evangelion episode was a head-scratcher then you'll need to be a post-subgenious to bend your head around this one. Music by Opeth: http://www.opeth.com/ There's more weirdness...

War on Women's Shawna Potter has taken her decades in activism and 'the scene' and made a how-to guide for not being a dick and dealing with the dick behaviour of others. It's good, and it'll help you to do good. Music by War on Women: https://waronwomen.bandcamp.com/ And Baroness: https://yourbaroness.com/

Chris Zeischegg joins us to discuss his dark, sexy, DARK kind-of-memoir-only-not Body to Job. We discuss his work, the nature of transgression, Bret Easton Ellis, indie literature, Jeffrey Epstein and Gamer Girl bathwater. Music by A Pregnant Light: https://apregnantlight.bandcamp.com/album/broken-play And Immortal Bird: https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/thrive-on-neglect Subscribe to our Patreo...

Writer and podcaster RS Benedict of Rite Gud podcast joins us to talk about death, and, FOLKS, this one gets raw as we all explore our own brushes with mortality. Music by Cerebral Rot: https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/odious-descent-into-decay And Yellow Eyes: https://yelloweyes.bandcamp.com

Will from St. Louis-based proletarian punks Redbait joins us to talk about the band's genesis in activism opposing police violence, the books that inspire them and the least appropriate songs to play over footage of 9-11. Music by Adzes: https://adzes.bandcamp.com/album/climate-capital And Redbait: https://redbait.bandcamp.com