DEATH // SENTENCE

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/DeathSentence

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: https://apocalypticwitchcraft.bandcamp.com/album/gentle-illness And the prog War of the Worlds soundtrack. 'Beam' your money 'up' to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

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.bandcamp.com/ maxgladstone.com amalelmohtar.com amal.substack.com You really should BUY THIS BOOK: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781534431003 https://www.waterstones.com/book/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war/amal-el-mohtar/max-gladstone/9781529405231 And SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

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: https://countrydeath.bandcamp.com/ Subscribe to our patreon, you Pig People: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

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