Horns at the ready as we smash out the year end with a post hardcore session from returning guest Damian B (Khost). Either side of that we’ve some death metal, industrial and metalcore cuts to unleash from Employed to Serve, Nile, Babymetal, Vastum, Vltimas, Oathbreaker, Deafheaven, and Godflesh.

DARKFLOOR
Liturgy – Vitriol [Thrill Jockey]
Babymetal – IN THE NAME OF [Babymetal Records]
Vastum – Abscess Inside Us [20 Buck Spin]
Godflesh – Tiny Tears (Peel session) [Earache]
Shapednoise – CRx Aureal [Numbers.]
Deafheaven – Black Brick [Anti.]
Kollaps – Fleshflower [Cold Spring Records]
Egg Hunt – We All Fall Down [Dischord Records]
Vltimas – Something Wicked Marches In [Season Of Mist]
Employed to Serve – Beneath It All [Spinefarm Records]
Northlane – Details Matter [UNFD]
Nile – We Are Cursed [Nuclear Blast]
Oathbreaker – Needles in Your Skin [Deathwish]

DAMIAN B
Orchid – A Visit From Dr. Goodsex [Ebullition Records]
Ten Grand – I Will Seriously Pay You to Shut Up [Southern Records]
Twelve Hour Turn – How to Build [No Idea Records]
Sleepytime Trio – I’m Not a Spy [Lovitt Records]
Ampere – We Live Like Lost Children [Ebullition Records]
The Red Scare – Automate Insection [Hand Held Heart]
This Machine Kills – Cracking The Mask [Ebullition Records]
(interlude)
Ampere – Woodlawn [Ebullition Records]
Sleepytime Trio – Jesus Extract (live) [Lovitt Records]
Ampere – A Letter to a friend [White]
Portraits of Past – The Control Freak [Ebullition Records]
Funeral Diner – What Was Said [Alone Records]
Wolves – 12 [Clean Plate Records]
Ampere – Flightless [No Idea Records]
Orchid – Tigers [Ebullition Records]
Portraits of Past – Kqed Equals Volvo [Ebullition Records]
Unwound – Below the Salt [Kill Rock Stars]
Orchid – Impersonating Martin Rev [Ebullition Records]

DARKFLOOR
Radiohead – Melatonin [Capitol Records]
While She Sleeps – Anti-Social [Spinefarm Records]
Meat Beat Manifesto – 99% [Play It Again Sam Records]
Serpent Column – Ausweg [Mystískaos]

Featured Guest

For the last session of the year, and indeed the decade I welcome back to Mantis Radio – Damian B. One half of doom band Khost and solo industrial project Carthage.

He was our featured guest on show 195 (December 2015) and for the latter half of this year has been rediscovering his love for post-hardcore and screamo. His session then is a mixtape of his favourites of this sound – from the late 90s to the early noughties.

Shouts going out to Will Killingsworth, Andy Irritant, Lisa Ebullution, Trond, and Feral Steve.