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 Vivian Girls: https://viviangirlsnyc.bandcamp.com/album/memory We have our own space-crypt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

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 And Vyy: https://vyyy.bandcamp.com/releases

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 Uniform & The Body: https://uniformthebody.bandcamp.com/ Support us on Patreon for more episodes: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

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/DeathSentence

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 on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

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/