Workin Music

June 20, 2009

Some new bands, some old faves have been warming up the stereo speakers. No updates in a while, you wonder? Well, since the old laptop's sound card gave up the ghost, it's been a severely limited playlist since a lot of my CDs are still packed away in some dusty box in the garage, and without the laptop, my college radio listenin' and Live365 perusal of the goth & industrial stations has been curtailed. Things are back to normal this week with the arrival of the new external sound card, so here's what I've been writing like a fiend to:

1) Strong, by Nadia Sohaei

2) Digital Terror by X-RX (these guys can really get you pounding the keyboard like Beethoven on steroids. Consider yourself warned.)

3) Undone, by Rotersand

4) Urnensand, by Reaper

5) Enemy List by S.A.M.

6) In the Arms of Eternity by Die Sektor

7) No Pulse by Glis

8) Return by The Cruxshadows

9) Bring Me Violence by Tactical Sect

10) Echelot by Stahlschlag  (These guys remind me a little of X-RX, in that this song is the kind of track you want playing when you hook up with a chick wearing black lipstick at the club, she doesn't care if you put another rip in her fishnets, and you start dancing to it...but wind up with your tongue down her throat at about the 2:07 mark against the wall. You know...)

November 15, 2008

With work kickin' my ass for the past several weeks, this is what's been cranked pretty much non-stop while I pound through the third draft of my novel and deal with some other creative hassles that have been a pain in the ass for no good reason. Obviously, you can't simply put ten tunes on shuffle, but these bands have been infusing my stereo with life for the past couple of weeks, so if you haven't heard of the tracks or aren't familiar with the bands, track 'em down. Most of this is pretty heavy stuff, but not all of it. Enjoy.

1) Suicide Commando: Sterbehilfe

2) Leatherstrip: Japanese Bodies

3) Static-X: Destroyer

4) Blind Guardian: Valhalla

5) Suicide Commando: See You In Hell

6) Combichrist: Like to Thank My Friends/Enjoy the Abuse (live versions, which go together real well)

7) The Invincible Spirit: Push

8) Wumpscut: Die In Winter

9) Velvet Acid Christ: Collapsed

10) Death In June: She Said Destroy

February 8, 2008

While working on a fiction piece that is clearly turning into a novel, these tunes have repeatedly been appearing on various Live365.com stations devoted to goth, industrial, synthpop and alternative. Without further ado, some of my recent backdrop tracks:

1) Ride A White Horse by Goldfrapp

2) I'm Falling by MINISTRY

3) Everything Counts by Depeche Mode

4) Assimilate by Skinny Puppy

5) Forever by Blutengel

6) Machine by Theatre of Tragedy

7) Sing a Song by Clan of Xymox

8) Red over White by Siouxsie Sioux

9) Madman's Dream by Assemblage 23

10) Contradictive by Diorama

On a side note, several updates back, I mistakenly attributed the song Destillate to Funker Vogt. My bad, the correct artist is Das Ich. Ahhh...those crazy Germans...

January 16, 2008

Feel bad about not updating this for a while, but I'd also been listening to a lot of older stuff in near-constant rotation. Since I am now working on a slew of new things, here is what is pounding out of the speakers at any given moment here at the Chanting Monks compound.

1) Sweet by Switchblade Symphony

2) Simple Man by Shinedown

3) Former Self by Icon of Coil

4) Lesbian Vampires from Outer Space by Scary Bitches

5) Legion by VNV Nation

6) Call the Ships to Port by Covenant

7) Pretend We're Dead by L7

8) So What? by Ministry

9) ) Nonstop Violence by Apoptygma Berserk

10) Touch by Wolfsheim

August 22

Got a bucket of freelances dumped into my lap this week, so Live365 has been pounding out the tunes while I knock 'em down and bang 'em out. When it rains, it pours, and in terms of putting aside personal writing for a few days for some for-dough work, it can keep raining until October for all I care. Here's what's been backdropping the last 12,000-14,000 words of payin' prose.

1) Winter Again by Sara Noxx

2) Advance by Diorama

3) Remorse by Bella Morte

4) Navigator by Blutengel

5) Europe in Dust by Eurocide

6) Do Ya' Think I'm Sexy by Revolting Cocks

7) Maiden by Wumpscut

8) Deep Red by Apoptygma Berserk

9) Distillat by Funker Vogt

10) Your Hands on My Skin by De/Vision

August 9, 2007

Visions of Sarah is one of the potential titles I've come up with for my ghost story script, which I have been working on every waking moment for the past week. With the final (or so I hope) rewrite almost done, this is what has been sizzling my speakers.


1) Your Roses Will Burn by The Wounded
2) Under Deck by Funker Vogt
3) Sex on Wheelz by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
4) Still by Bella Morte
5) Colder and Colder by Sara Noxx
6) Assimilate by Skinny Puppy
7) Nemesis by Shriekback
8) Resurrection Mary by Ex Voto
9) Hollow by Drowning Season
10) E Minor by Diorama

May 15, 2007

Down the stretch run on The Bunker, this is some of the music that's been a constant backdrop to a seemingly never-ending workload. Still, these tunes make it go a little easier, if not faster.

1) Bodies by Drowning Pool
2) Hell Bent For Leather by Judas Priest
3) Fuck The Pain Away by Peaches
4) Last Forever by Cruxshadows
5) Call of the West by Wall Of Voodoo
6) The Curse of Millhaven by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
7) Run Like A Villain by Iggy Pop
8) The Man Who Sold The World by David Bowie
9) Guns of Brixton by Nouvelle Vague
10) Destroy Everything You Touch by Ladytron

March 17, 2007

Lotta up tempo stuff has been pouring out of my speakers the past two weeks. Here's a sampling of the tracks that have been the backdrop for a frenzy of new writing, including the prose version of the story: No Playtime For Amy, originally illustrated by Mike Koneful in the first issue of the Gory Lori comic.

1. Marilyn, My Bitterness by The Cruxshadows
2. This Shit Will Fuck You Up by Combichrist
3. Relics by Bella Morte
4. I Sit On Acid by The Lords of Acid
5. Last Forever by The Cruxshadows
6. Headin' Out To The Highway by Judas Priest
7. Something Good by Utah Saints
8. This Is New York by Sander Kleinenberg
9. MORE by Sisters of Mercy
10. Techno Man by And One