Adam has returned from his travels abroad. To inaugurate the return of System of Systems by Safety Propaganda, artist Zach Brown joins the show to discuss his work, his time at RISD, pussy, travel, Melrose Place, Vince Gilligan, ancient Greece and more.

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SOUNDTRACK:
Beat Happening "You Turn me On"
Bruno Cossano "Violent Desire"
Nation of Ulysses "Spectra Sonic Sound"
Boyd Rice "Silence is Golden"
Mgla "Groza II"
Mott the Hoople "Thunderbuck Ram"

LINKS:
Zach Brown's website
Zach Brown Instagram

Adam speaks with American harsh noise master Worth, aka William Van Gorder, who has a new record on White Centipede Noise called Sacred Violence Noise. Will recorded the album while on residency in Thailand, and throughout the conversation relays the experiences he had there and in his Southeast Asia journey more broadly. What is it like to make noise for an audience that has no fucking clue what is happening? MAGIC! Duh. Talking about Thailand and Southeast Asia leads these two artists to discussion of another shared interest: writer New Juche. Juche is also an artist who finds transcendence in beauty in abjection and decay – the decay of the Southeast Asian landscape, and the abjection in his own perverse sexual habits.

Soundtrack: Worth "Chirping Head" Deicide "Behead the Prophet" New Juche Whores of Leith "Walpurgis" Antony "Hitler in my Heart" Weak Sisters "Basement Tapes Side B"

LINKS Worth interview Worth Sacred Violence Noise Prose Nagge Worth at Ende Tymes Adam on New Juche for Apocalypse Confidential

In 1978, UK industrial and experimental music pioneers Nurse With Wound, then a collaborative effort between multiple musicians before Steven Stapleton would turn the project into his braintrust some years later, released its debut album Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella. That record, the title of which references an excerpt of Comte de Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, is one of the primary influences on all that which would later be known as industrial, experimental, or noise music from that point on.

More important than the album, however, is its liner notes. What has become known as the Nurse With Wound list was printed in the liner notes of the record: a list of over 200 avant-garde and outsider artists and groups that were influential on the development of Nurse with Wound in particular but that also can be used to historicize the avant-garde tendency in music writ large. From ground zero avant-rock like the Velvets to obscure European Jazz like Thrice Mice to pioneers of avant-garde composition like Karlheinz Stockhausen, the NWW list opens the floodgates to a new method of engagement with sound.

In this episode, the boys invite Joey from the Easy Listening podcast to journey through the NWW list with all three of them finding three artists from it that appeal to their own sensibilities.

OST Joe Potts "Airway" Robert Ashley "Automatic Writing" Chrome "SS Cygni" Le Forte Four "To the Crow" Pere Ubu "Small Was Fast" Horrific Child "Angoisse" The Decayes "Breeding in Captivity" Alvin Lucier "Bird & Person Dyning" Selten Gehorte Musik "Untitled"

LINKS: Easy Listening podcast with John Duncan NWW List NWW Brainwashed doc Steven Stapleton interview Bob Nickas on NWW

A long anticipated episode, Adam and crew delve into the history and culture of black metal, enlisting the help of metalhead Psyop Resistor. The crew explains how they came to find intrigue in the genre, and then dive into some of their favorite and most evil albums of the canon.

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SOUNDTRACK: (Psyop's pick) Vothana "Vi Muon Tra Thuo" (Adam's pick)Torgeist "Devoted to Satan" (Psyop's pick)Hate Forest "Elder Race" Boyd Rice "An Eye for an Eye" (Adam's pick) Abruptum "Feci Factum Sanguine Gladios Made Fieri Factus" (Psyop's pick)Arizmenda "Beyond the Shadows of Emptiness & Nothingness (Adam's pick) Nuit Noire "Brume Nocturne" Metallica "Bleeding Me"

LINKS: Psyop Resistor at Twitter: @sanrio_pilled Lés Legions Noires at Dennis Cooper Blog Nuit Noire interview Abruptum interview

JJ Ruiz is an Austin-based musician who has played with several punk and hardcore bands since the 2000s. With one of those bands, Naw Dude, he opened for Anal Cunt. In this episode, he relays his stories about AC's late iconic frontman and one of the greatest American performance artists of the last two decades Seth Putnam. This episode is all about Seth, an artist as important to us as Vito Acconci or Wyndham Lewis, for real.

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SOUNDTRACK: Anal Cunt "Grateful Dead" Shit Scum "Brady Bunch Massacre" Full Blown A.I.D.S. "It's all Fake" Anal Cunt "Art Fag (Live)" Executioner "War Machine" Anal Cunt "Fuck Yeah"

LINKS: Seth Putnam interview 'Slave to the Grind' documentary Anal Cunt live in 2007 Seth interviewed by Hellbound Seth interviewed by Chronicles of Chaos

Writer, Hyperidean Press publisher, and Adam's editor Udith Dematagoda joins the show once more. This time we're discussing the cultural resonance of Fight Club over 25 years down the line, and the importance of revolutionary violence to the masculine psyche. Other topics include the mindblowing year for American indie film that was 1999, Ukraine, why BAP is the Rob Halford of pseudo-philosophy, and some other shit.

SOUNDTRACK:
Los Llamarada "Gone Gone Cold"  Blod "Raw Meat Perfume" Arditi "Legionnaires" Clandestine Blaze "Chambers"   Negative Approach "Ready to Fight"  

LINKS:
Follow Udith at Twitter: @Udematagoda Hyperidean Press Anti-Cringe, by Udith

Writer and co-host of the Art of Darkness podcast Brad Kelly is here. Brad's writing plays with the genre of sci-fi and pushes it to the outer realms of the weird, as evinced by his latest novel 'House of Sleep' from 2021. Here we discuss that novel, sci-fi, Phillip K. Dick, and more, as well as the opioid epidemic, Jim Jones and the People's Temple and Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic.

Soundtrack:
Plastikman "Outbak"
Circle X "Current"
Bobby Beausoleil "Hellion Rebellion" 
KMD "What a Nigga Know"
Intolitarian "Allegiance to the Self"
Elvis Presley "Unchained Melody (Live)"

LINKS: Brad at Twitter: @bradkelly
Buy Brad's House of Sleep
Brad Kelly
Art of Darkness podcast
Adam on Art of Darkness discussing Burroughs and Anna Kavan
Adam on Art of Darkness discussing Artaud

Adam and Will are joined by New York-based artist and tattooer Will Sheldon. Will discusses his work with us: paintings and drawings of fantastical and fairy tale imagery but with a uniquely troubling and dark iteration fitting for our times. Will is also a tattooer and in contra to others working between the art world and tattoo culture (others typically tend to make clear distinction between the craft of tattooing and high art OR end up making tattooish art work) manages to create a clear communicative language between art and tattoos. We discuss this idiosyncrasy, Will's recent exhibitions, Will's recent collaborative book with British writer Charlie Fox, Hans Bellmer, and a shared appreciation for manga artist and filmmaker Hideshi Hino and Charlie Sheen's issues with Hino. Enjoy.

SOUNDTRACK: 
Liquor Store "Pumpin with Red Rocks" 
New York Dolls "Personality Crisis" (live) 
Dayblygu "Fanzine" 
Anal Cunt "Grateful Dead" 
Psychedelic Speed Freaks "Redline" 

LINKS:
Will Sheldon at Instagram: @willsheldon 
Will Sheldon interview
Will Sheldon and Charlie Fox 'Zoe' 
Charlie Sheen thought 'Guinea Pig' was snuff
Hideshi Hino

In this episode, Adam and Will are joined by the writers and co-hosts of the Agitator podcast, J. David Osborne and Kelby Losack. Both of these honorable men have new book projects out. Kelby's new novel is 'Letting out the Devils'. And David's new book is a hallucinatory essay called 'You Pray for Dry Weather at the Sight of the Sun'. We discuss those new works, video games, Cronenberg, cooming, and more.

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Soundtrack:
Angry Samoans "Wild Hog Rhyde" 
Archie Shepp "Abstract"
Zoviet France "Gesture, Signal, Threat" 
ВѢНА "Коколь МакГ"
The Mentors "Judgement Day" 

LINKS:
J David Osborne at Twitter: @brbjdo 
Kelby Losack at Twitter: @HeathenishKid 
Agitator podcast
Kelby Losack 'Letting out the Devils'
Adam on 'Crimes of the Future'