March 2025 - Subterranean Classics

March 29, 2025

It's been a while friends, I wasn't expecting to upload anything until the move but why not? This here is a mix set of classic tunes that I hold dear to my heart during my youth. I believe the newest songs here are by Cursed Moon and Cemetery Echo which released his album almost 10 years ago (Cursed Moon). Sal Hellraizer, you somehow you are reading this, please come back. You make such excellent music and I as a fan and others are dying for a follow up LP.

Three portions as always, the goth portion of the mix consists of classics from the 90's to early to mid 00's. Such classics as Bella Morte, Switchblade Symphony, Christian Death and many others who I found through a compilation original from Hot Topic, this was back than when the store sold goth, industrial and metal merch mainly. Cleopatra Records would dump a compilation CD every other month and it was a great way to find bands back then. I added Tiamat onto the goth portion, I know what purist would say, "tHeY aRen'T GoTh!!". Well, technically the band has gone through so many genre shifts from black metal, death metal, darkwave to goth rock and gothic metal. You can't just stick them to one category. Not to mention you can't deny that with their hit album A Deeper Kind of Slumber sounded like Pink Floyd goes goth. And of course I had to add Element's club hit, The Sound of Angels which was thrown in every other compilation. Funny enough, nobody could really find any other song from them aside from this one here back then. Their band name didn't help either unless you knew exactly what you were looking for.

The Industrial portion includes an SPF 1000 demo version of their hit track Haunted House which also appeared on the album Witch Hunt, this version is slightly altered so you can only hear it here! The Electric Hellfire Club are included here who are also going a reunion set in October so don't miss that if you are in the Florida area. One of my ultimate favorite is Razed in Black who recently came back from retirement and here is wishing for new material, they are amazing.

Closing off with metal end set, we start off with Samael who I saw back in 1999 at Club Medusa here in Laredo, Texas. They were touring with Dimmu Borgir and Monstrosity. I remember them being heavily promoted by I believe it was Energy 98 radio station's metal block which you could only hear somewhere between 1 to 3am. Funny story, the dj at the time ran off with the money as the bands hunted him down. I don't know whether they got their money back or not. I just know that the metal block was dead after that considering the dj was fired for that whole ordeal. Another track hit was from Cradle of Filth who got heavy rotation at the time from the station. This was also the album they shot them into the mainstream before Midian came along which exposed them to the masses on a grand scale thanks to Mtv.