Dark Entries: Goth Radio

We were back in full force this week after taking last weekend off to attend Mad Monster Party and DJ the Digital Noir show in Charlotte. I talked up how all that went, as well as discussed a slightly intense encounter in the theater during Scream 7. Oh, and we debuted a zillion new releases. Dig it! PLAYLIST * = request Rasputina - Things I'm Gonna Do (live) Hallows - Despite Those Times Geometric Vision - Stella Portion Control - Posessed Dancing Plague - Turn to Dust Never Knows Best - Something From Nothing Violent Vickie - Seratonin She Past Away - Mizantrope The Marcelas - Morbid Wumpscut - Phase Shifter Einsturzende Neubauten – Z.N.S.* Reflection Black – Wonders of Night Brides – Bad Blood Blood Relations – Watch Them Fall Selofan – I've Seen that Face Before Halfsleeper - Bread of Faith Vikowski - Dedication The Mystic Underground - Drowning The Flowers of Sacrifice – Dark Carnival Marquee Moon – Beyond the Pale The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Super Heroes

I hauled all my CD's and a healthy stack of vinyl up to the studio for this one. No theme here at all other than a nice selection of '80's and '90's goth and industrial, plus my thoughts on giving Ready or Not a rewatch. I also took a few requests. Enjoy! PLAYLIST * = request Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel Christian Death - Desperate Hell Nosferatu - The Crystal Ring Portishead - The Rip Tori Amos - God The Birthday Massacre - Blue (live) Hanzel Und Gretyl - Number 1 in Deutschland* Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Sucubbus Theatre of Tragedy - Tanz der Schatten Rammstein - Zwitter Charles Manson - Look at Your Game, Girl Spahn Ranch - Echoes of the Day The Sound - Love is Not a Ghost New Model Army - White Coats Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - West Wakes Up Switchblade Symphony - Wallflower* Super Heroines - The Beast Misfits - Hybrid Moments* Calabrese - Saturday Night of the Living Dead Diva Destruction - Heathcliffe Two Witches - Requiem* Fields of the Nephilim - Trees Come Down Skinny Puppy Worlock Celtic Frost - Visual Aggression Cinema Strange - Time

After a few weeks off due to snow and ice, it was nice to be back doing spooky tunes. We spent this episode catching up with new releases, and I discussed my thoughts on Send Help. PLAYLIST UK Decay - Battle of the Elements Feyleux - Mercury Lowsunday - You Lost Yourself Omnihell - Leeches Oh! Pierrot! - Stay the Night Satin Puppets - Tonight You Belong to Me Necro Noise - Thorns The Discussion - In the Mirror Bragolin - Not All Are Real Bat for Lashes - The Hunger The Ultimate Dreamers - Kids Alone Les Longs Adieux - Valover Omen Code - Paralyze Mesh - Exile Madeline Goldstein - Dream 2 Die (No Heaven) Diva Destruction & Vick Vapors - Forevermore Belgrado - Bezsenność Panic Priest - Empty Rooms Marthe - Married to a Grave The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction Double Feature

With our first regular show of 2026, I'm hitting you with 2 themed sets - one based on the band Lemon Kittens and another made up of '80's Russian thrash metal! There's also loads of new releases and me talking about a near car accident on the way to the studio, as well as my new "hear me out". What a weird way to start the year. PLAYLIST Specimen – The Beauty of Poison Lemon Kittens – Small Mercies Shock Headed Peters – Big One Left Hand Right Hand – Two Man Bob Danielle Dax – Here Come the Harvest Buns 62 Dead Balloons – It's January Again Magic Wands (w/ John Ashton) – Sacred Mirrors Idol Talk – Blanket of Bells Fotocrime – Plowjob Night in Athens (feat. Porceain Dancer) – Anxiety Human Image – Again Mouth Ulcers – A Perfect End Omnihell – Kurushimi Polaroid - L'uomo del sogno Elastic Skies – On the Other Hand The Violent Youth – tvesty Aria – Antichrist Коррозия Металла - Phantom мастер - Master Shah – Age of Dismay клиника – Toxicoman The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I Can Make You a Man

2025 was full of so many great releases that cramming all of my favorites into one 2-hour show was not the easiest thing, but I gave it a shot. Apologies to anyone who didn't make the cut in this one episode, but you made it in my black little heart. Promise. Enjoy! PLAYLIST Society of the Silver Cross – Mourning the Night Cathedral Bells – Make Me Right For You Odonis Odonis – Hunter Madeline Goldstein – My Own Design Das Ich – Dante's Holle Lathe of Heaven – Matrix of Control Scarlet's Sinister Sister - Destroyed Silver Tears – Erica Blood Twin – No Place to Hide Bootblacks – Only You Suero & Illman – Zesck Enmioown Tenderlash – Alone and Still Candy Coffins – Perfect Like You Said Valentine Wolfe – The Witching Hour Dead Cool – Story of Another Life Tears for the Dying – Cinders Azam Ali – Hazy Gaze Aux Animaux – Void Moon Ash Code – Fire This Eternal Decay – Kiss Me I'm Dying The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction Double Feature

Here it is, folks! The last show of the year. Our annual holiday show where we inject some creep into your Christmas and horror into your holidays. Enjoy! PLAYLIST Within Temptation - Gothic Christmas Midnight Syndicate - Night of the Krampus This Asension - Carol of the Bells Les Longs Adieux - Cold Astari Nite - Leave the Winter on the Ground Bat for Lashes - Winter Fields Soho Jackal & The Exceptional Mr Hyde - The Christmas Crow Lenbanon Hanover - Hall of Ice Valentine Wolfe - If She Had Been the Mistletoe Type O Negative - Red Water (Christmas Mourning) Sorrow - The Little Drummer Boy Batzz in the Belfry - O Holy Night Sisters of Mercy - Driven Like the Snow Terminal Gods - Driving Home for Christmas Happy Fangs - All I Want for Christmas is Another Night of Halloween London After Christmas - The Christmas Song Creepy Charlie Brown Theme Song Jabberwock - Fragment 25 King Diamond - No Presents for Christmas Alien Sex Fiend - Stuff the Turkey Bea Arthur - Goodnight But Not Goodbye

We started off this one with some selections from a new compilation - Goths for Palestine Vol. II - and then spent the rest of the show catching up with new releases. I also gave my thoughts on Black Phone 2 and announced a load of shows coming up, including the Columbia Goth Nite - Tribute to Benjamin Bowling I'll be DJ'ing next weekend. Enjoy! PLAYLIST Sisters of Mercy - Body and Soul The Ghost Aura - Rituals Daniel Knutz - Cemetery of the Broken Dreams Suzi Sabotage - Sacrifice Fangs on Fur - Robber Baron Desintresse - Niets Te Zeggen Zabus - Strangers of Non-Being Bellhead - Heart Shaped Hole Hallows - Catalyst Mortal Realm - With a Heavy Heart Porcelain Dancer – The Eternal Loop The Shallow Graves – The Second Chamber Grey Gallows – Sad Wings of Destiny Ghost Enclave – Away Morwan - Все по колу, знову Ash Code - Cathedrials This Eternal Decay - Kiss Me, I'm Dying Ductape - Fine Terminal Serious - Tear You Away Godhead - Break You Down The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)

This one's a slightly shorter show than usual, but we crammed a lot in. We caught up with a lot of new releases and infused it here and there with a dash of black metal. I also said a few words about the sudden passing of a Columbia Goth fixture - Benjamin Bowling (aka DJ Bat Nuklier). He will be missed. PLAYLIST Skeletal Family – Hands on the Clock Das Ich – Menschenfeind Mayhem – Weep for Nothing Sayaka Nono – Anything Can Be Broken TR/ST – All at Once John Carpenter – Show Me Brainwasher – A1A Pretty Average – Everybody's Watching Kalte Nacht – A Rare Obsession Shadows Ground – In Eternal Coldness of the Night Gris Futuro – Juodi Žirgai Horrorpops - Miss Take The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home

This one was a little bit of a Halloween Hangover. No themed sets, just catching up with a couple months worth of new releases. I also discussed some of the recent horror I've been checking out. I know we're all supposed to be moving on to those other holidays, but I am, as always, still in the Halloween mood. PLAYLIST Shadow Project - Under Your Wing Covenant - Slow Dance Devil's Starship - Kosmiczny wędrowiec Grabyourface - Everything Remains the Same Christine Plays Viola - My Redemption John Carpenter - The Haunted House Frenchy and the Punk - Not Under Your Spell Occults - Crimes (Your Sacrifice) Altar de Fey - Tower of Deceit Ratstallion - Eye Daytripper - The Alchemist Diva Destruction - Climbing Up the Walls Lebanon Hanover - My Love Tears for the Dying - Cinders Bustie - Cruel Intentions Resplandor - Tristeza The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Super Heroes

This is it, boils and ghouls - the show we count down to all year! If you're a long time listener, you know what the Retro Halloween Show is all about. We take a full day of Halloween in 1980-something and compress it down to 2 hours of radio, complete with music, commercials, morning talk shows, PSA's, you name it. This time around is a little different, as it was part of WUSC's Fall Fundraiser, which had a 1970's theme. So, it's more '70's influenced than '80's, but we dip our toes into the '80's (and maybe even a little beyond) too. Enjoy!

Had some fun with the first half of the show. It was full of some of my favorite horror soundtrack deep cuts. Honestly, I could fill an entire show of those. Then in the second hour, we got down with some new releases. PLAYLIST Tuesday Knight - Nightmare 3 Speed – Once Bitten Ian Hunter – Good Man in a Bad Time Michael Sembello - Rock Until You Drop Fastway – After Midnight Electric Youth - Modern Fears Brother Cain – Fools Shine On Intimate Strangers - Let Go Johnny Steele – Power of the Night Tahnee Cain & Tryanglz - Burnin' in the Third Degree John Carpenter – Prison Montage Sacred Hearts – Possession Simulated Beings - Dreaming Up Monsters Social Youth Cult – Close to Nothing Ghost Cop – A Shot in the Dark (Houses of Heaven Mix) 80's Express – Running Up that Hill Spiralteeth – Silver Skies The City Gates – La douleur (des mortels) The Creepshow - Halloween The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction Double Feature

We dived back into the new releases this week, including a rocking Deathrock set. I also gave my thoughts on Monster: The End Gein Story and talked up seeing Friday the 13th Part 3 on the big screen. In 3-D! PLAYLIST London After Midnight - October Heavy Rail – Looking Down on the Clouds Simulated Beings - Otherland The Arms of Someone New – The Spiral of Silence NOIR – Nothing Stays Ghost Cop – The Girl with the Terminal Stare Rosegarden Funeral Party – Blame and Burden Darkways – I Like the Night (and the Night Likes Me) Sonic Thing – Manichean Magick Knives – The Plague Omen Code – Brutal + Pure Henry Manfredini – The Eyes Have It Halfsleeper – There Goes a Shadow Azum Ali – Synesthesia Six Impossible Things - Nevermore Crush of Souls – Cult of Two Odonis Odonis – Hijacked Automatic – Don't Wanna Dance Funeral Process – Black Cat Altar de Fey – Gone Too Soon Silent Scream – Do It Right Misery Eden – Crucified The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)

This was another week of dragging out the old CD notebooks to play a show full of '80's and '90's classics. I was also joined on the mic by 2 newbies in training. Enjoy! PLAYLIST Clan of Xymox - Stranger (live) Specimen - Hex Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow Wendy The Glove - Like An Animal Siouxsie and the Banshees - Monitor Psychic TV - God Star Christopher Walken - The Raven Lycia - A Presence in the Woods Front Line Assembly - Surface Patterns In Strict Confidence - Stripped Cruxshadows - Eurydice (don't follow) Petals & Thorns - This Wilting Rose Portishead - The Rip Calabrese - Saturday Night of the Living Dead Christian Death - Spiritual Cramp VINYL SET Warlock - I Rule the Ruins Anthem - Turn Back to the Night Necropolis - The Future Holds the Past Celtic Frost - Visual Aggression The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Over at the Frankenstein Place

In this one, we took a break from the usual format of themed sets and new releases. Instead, I drug all of my CD notebooks and some vinyl up to the studio and we did things old school. Nothing but '80's and '90's era Goth! I was also joined in the studio by Sebastian, a baby DJ in training who hopped on the mic a little bit. Enjoy! PLAYLIST Bauhaus - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (live) Sisters of Mercy - Under the Gun Mephisto Walz - Umbrea Fear Cult - Witch Hunt Switchblade Symphony - Wallflower Christian Death - Skeletal Kiss Deadsy - Gramercy Park Rasputina - Hunter's Kiss Nosferatu - Inside the Devil Siouxsie and the Banshes - Lands End Virgin Prunes - Caucasian Walk (live) Christian Death - Die With You Charles Manson - Big Iron Door Cinema Strange - Greensward Grey Corpus Delecti - Absent Friend Sex Gang Children - Sebastiane Skinny Puppy - Amnesia Wumpscut - Hang Him Higher Joy Division - Disorder 45 Grave - Evil The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Dammit Janet

I crammed a lot into this one: New releases, shoegaze, darkwave, doom metal, and I spent quite a while nerding out about seeing and meeting THE Britta Phillips! Yes, the singing voice of Jem from Jem and the Holograms! PLAYLIST * = request Mephisto Walz - In the Room that Love Exits Android Lust - The Damned Frayle - Heretic Terminal Serious - Sewn Eyelids Einsturzende Neubauten - Wie Longe Noch?* Ghost Enclave - Toten Danse The Devil & The Universe - Something Wicked (feat. Zsud) Ash Code - Tear You Down Danser La Nuit - Grateful Daylight Endelos - The Line The Eternal Decay - Everything Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Fitful Lycia - Ionia Cranes - Sun and Sky Chapterhouse - Precious One Lowsunday - For a Moment The Frozen Autumn - Is Everything Real? Black Hole - Bells of Death Demon Lung - Paraidolia Witch - Hand of Glory Gaah's Wyrd - And the Now The Rocky Horror PIcture Show - Over at the Frankenstein Place

We crammed so much into one little episode with this one: A tribute set to both Brent Hinds and Tobe Hooper (R.I.P), some black metal drama, and a load of new releases. Enjoy! PLAYLIST Switchblade Symphony - Clown French Police – Libra Sexsomnia – Forbidden (feat. Marita Volodina) Vioflesh – Drizzle Aux Animaux – Void Moon Das Ich – Lazarus Losses – Computer Eye Vestigios de Luna – Bad Rusita Lilinanna – Cold Heart Some Days Are Darker - Devotion Dead Cool – Story of Another Life John Carpenter – Season of the Witch Legend of the Seagullmen – The Curse of the Red Tide Mastodon – The Czar Skinny Puppy – Chainsaw Cradle of Filth – Scorched Earth Erotica Klabautamann - The Dying Night A Forest of Stars – Raven's Eye View Vlad Tepes - Wladimir's March / Massacre Song From The Devastated Lands The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction Double Feature

In this one, we spent the first hour catching up with new releases. And in the second hour, we worked in a themed set made up of Domino Monet's musical projects, as well as a set derived from some cool Czech and Slavic Goth comps. I also discussed Weapons and Season 2 of Wednesday. Dig it! PLAYLIST * = request Night of the Living Dead - Passage to Normal Frayle - Summertime Sadness Sharon Van Etten - Afterlife VAZUM - Pretty Brutal Low Knife - I'm Lost Madeline Goldstein - Apogee Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons - The Poet* Corbeau Hangs - Ill Intents Blood Twin - Was it a Dream? Bootblacks - Forbidden Flames John Carpenter - Michael's Legend DOMINO MONET SET Trance to the Moon - Fire Within Glass Nyx Division - Reckless Dark Time Rift - The Hunter Hadean - Vengeance Now Over - Death of Autonomy CZECH AND SLOVAK GOTH SET Isiolia - Frozen CosmoBrigade - Chained to Grief Scarlet's Sinister Sister - Destroyed Cathedral in Flames - The Gate The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Sweet Tansvestite

Sadly, the godfather of metal, Ozzy Osbourne, left us this week, so we spent the first part of the show doing an extended tribute to him. We also worked in some new releases and a vinyl set. Dig it. PLAYLIST Night of the Demons – Main Theme OZZY TRIBUTE SET Molchat Doma – Heaven and Hell Sopor Aeternus – Paranoid Zola Jesus – Changes Type O Negative – Black Sabbath Thou - Supernaut Firelord – Children of the Grave Nightsweat – Succubus Like What – Dark is the Night Necrotekk – Failed Communication Bliss My Heart – Sinner Sinner John Carpenter – Michael Kills Again Slow Danse with the Dead – I Prefer to be Alone Porcelain Dancer – Poison Cloud Corpus Delecti – Room 36 Grizz feat. Diva Destruction – Come Alive VINYL SET Adrien Belew – Portrait of Margaret Strawberry Switchblade – Since Yesterday 9353 – Spooky Room Joy Division – Shadow Play Atrophy – Urban Decay The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Super Heroes

The first hour of the show, we worked in a mix of new and slightly older releases. And in the second, since the French Post-Punk set went so well the week before, we included a German one this time. And we finished with some vinyl. Dig it! PLAYLIST Faith and the Muse - The Hand of Man Darkways - Fading Time Social Union - Waiting for Red Anders Manga - Gloom Black Rose Moves - Lips Taste Blood Witch of the Vale - 100 Ways to Leave (Kontravoid Remix) The Church - Shadow Cabinet Wall - Shimmer of Fact Drahla - Gilded Cloud The Maggie Pills - Goths of Disgrace Nyx Division - Featherless John Carpenter - Michael Kills Again Screams for Tina - Judgement Day GERMAN POST-PUNK SET Malaria! - Eifersucht German Bot - In Meinen Traumen Angst4 - Schwarz/Weis Leningrad Sandwich - Deadline Die Arzte - Eva Braun VINYL SET Alien Sex Fiend - Everybody's Dream Lords of the New Church - Open Your Eyes King Crimson - Epitaph Borghesia - No Hope No Fear Necrophagia - Young Burial The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)

In this one, we spent the first hour catching up with loads of Metropolis Records artists, and later worked in a French Post-Punk set. And we finished strong with some vinyl, all despite my voice being nearly gone. Enjoy! PLAYLIST Killing Joke - America Night Ritualz – Make Me Feel Magic Wands – Moonshadow Principe Valiente – I Am You (Bootblacks Remix) Peter Murphy – Hot Roy Frayle – Walking Wounded Paradox Obscur – Lose this Feeling Mari Kattman – Amenia Then Comes Silence – We Only Have So Long Bill Leeb – Neuromotive (Stacks Mix by Rhys Fuber) The Legendary Pink Dots – Choose Premium: First Prize Dawn of Ashes – Faith Desecration Gestalt – Movi Mundi Epitaphe – L'ecume de Mes Regrets Marquis de Sade – Conrad Veidt TANIT – Can An Actor Bleed? Jad Wio – Cellar Dance The Grapes of Wrath – Seems Like Fate The Sound – Total Recall Goblin - Roller Social Distortion – Lude Boy Rabid – Led to the Gallows The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Over at the Frankenstein Place