This time around, Langdon and Eden dive face first into Samantha Hunt's heart-breaking, magical realist, water drenched "The Seas". They discuss topics like the impact of poverty on the psyche, climate change, the collective and individual trauma of the Iraq War (both of them), femininity, and unrequited love. Oh, but not before discussing yassified Melkor and Sauron fan art. You know, Death // Sentence stuff. Music played: Moon Tooth - Carry Me Home https://moontoothny.bandcamp.com/album/phototroph An Evening Redness - Black Flame at the Edge of the Desert https://transylvaniantapes.bandcamp.com/album/an-evening-redness

We have the indomitable Gretchen Felker-Martin back on the show to talk about her major-publisher debut, the first ever mainstream horror novel by a trans author, Manhunt. We talk about horror, TERFs, the sublime nature of violence, community and Community (the show). Music by Black Dresses: https://blackdresses.bandcamp.com/album/forget-your-own-face and The Body: https://thebody.bandcamp.com/album/enemy-of-love

Railed a whack book Feel real bad about it Feel like it might 'say something' about 'late capitalism' Just wanted to create 'content' to 'go viral' Had Phoebe Roy-bae from 10,000 Posts and Masters of Our Domain pods on to talk about it. Still feelin' whack tho. Music by Sunrot and Mares of Thrace

Eden is back on the solo episode grind, this time covering the beautiful, wonderous, and deco-punk "Radiance" by Catherynne M. Valente. Phantasmagoria on the moon, magnificent space voyages, ruminations on the miracle that is bread, trans-dimensional whales and more! Featured music: Dunsmuir - What Manner of Bliss? https://dunsmuir.bandcamp.com/album/dunsmuir

The best ever death metal and/or literature podcast out of three different countries is talking about John Darnielle's book Devil House, which dissects true crime, storytelling and epistemology itself while still managing to make us cry. Music by Rolo Tomassi: https://rolotomassi.bandcamp.com/album/where-myth-becomes-memory And Celeste: https://celestes.bandcamp.com/ Listen to more of the Alpha Throuple of leftist extreme metal literary podcasting on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DeathSentence

A Marxist analytical conversation about the current state of music distribution. Langdon invited RSH, a pop music critic for Billboard as well as a writer at various other venues, to discuss the rift between Spotify and Neil Young. The focus of the conversation is less on the particulars of this specific incident and more on the historical and material conditions that led to the rise of Spotify rooted in musicians not owning the means of production/distribution of their work, an issue that is only further underscored by the recent appearance of HitPiece and their deeply illegal NFT music scam based off the Spotify API. FEATURED MUSIC: King Woman - "Celestial Blues"

This time around, Langdon and Eden dive deep into the early stages of human development, the Enlightenment and our political predicament with Wengrow and Graeber's "The Dawn of Everything"! But first, they take a trip to a more recent time, looking at the rise and fall (and rise) of "dark" progressive music through the lens of Pain of Salvation's current...situation. Then the conversation turns to the folly of the Enlightenment's rigid perception of history and the meaning of a broader, more playful political imaginary for Marxists/leftists! Music played: Lasiodora - Royal Jelly (https://lasiodora.bandcamp.com/track/royal-jelly) Galaxy - Bright Stars (https://galaxyaus.bandcamp.com/track/bright-stars)

Whoa! Death // Sentence is back, baybee! And so is Gareth! Langdon is also here but Eden is not. What mysteries are revealed with this conjunction, nay, this syzygy? Why, it's the secrets of Alison Rumfitt, author of gothic-horror book "Tell Me I'm Worthless". What if there was a book so good that not only did we end our hiatus prematurely, but the show's founder came out of retirement for one last job? Tell Me I'm Worthless is a haunted house story where the house is modern England and the ghost is fascism (and the house is a house and the ghost is maybe a dead giant). It's brilliant, and we have the author with us to talk about anime, Marvel movies and the unique terror of living on the rainy TERF island. Music by Pupil Slicer: https://pupilslicer.bandcamp.com/ And Backxwash: https://backxwash.bandcamp.com/ Buy Tell Me I'm Worthless here: https://www.cipherpress.co.uk/shop/tellmeimworthless

Winged angels fight with cocky birds. Swordsmen plague the land, looking for a lark. A sailor returns, reincarnated as a soldier. Or does he? That's right, it's the fourth, and final, episode of Book of the New Sun! We did it! We actually did it. This episode wraps up what we both consider to be THE greatest series of science fiction books ever written. We'll ignore the fact that there's a fifth. And, you know, two other series which turn this whole thing in one giant epic. Ignore that. We're going on a brief hiatus to catch our breaths and we'll then be back. Until then, enjoy!

A wind blows through a cruel city. The mountains sing with rain. Ancient tyrants awaken in their holds and everywhere war and the rumors of war leap between the peaks. It's Book of the New Sun - Episode 3! It's Sword of the Lictor time baybee, as our very own multiple-Christ, the one and only (hah!) Severian comes closer and closer to more answers and, naturally, more questions. Double-headed tyrants, aliens tumbling backwards through time, and all the giant-on-torturer action that's fit to print! FEATURED MUSIC Stare - Our Ways Will Not Die https://unholyrub.bandcamp.com/album/ll