The Vampire Variety Show - GothCast Live!

This time Cameron and Dr.Sanders finish their retrospective on The Sisters of Mercy. This shows the ups and downs of the band as they release Floodland, Vision Thing, and make some weighty promises as time marches on. We seek to answer the question...why is there still no new album in 2026?Timestamps: 00:00 Intro and Summary of Part 1 9:22 Floodland [1987] 36:34 Vision Thing [1990] 51:03 Some Girls Wander by Mistake and A Slight Case of Overbombing 53:28 1990's continued to 2026

It's time to revisit one the best known goth bands of all time...The Sisters of Mercy. I previously covered them about 10 years ago and thought it would be interesting to take a fresh look at a band with a legacy unlike many others. Led by Andrew Eldritch with the assistance of both man and machine, it's a journey both unique and winding as the creative control and rockstar lifestyles shape the way they interact with the world. Cameron and I take a look at their formation and up to the release of First and Last and Always in 1985 with a little bit of the continuing history.Our new intro and outro song is "Boris Karloff's Alive" from the Gremlins E.P. by Dr.Sanders.Timestamps:00:00 The Amazing Intro and Episode Breakdown10:22 Band History & Early Releases33:00 First and Last and Always59:28 Wake1:03:49 The Sisterhood - Gift

This weeks subject is spooky cartoons. It was a backup topic as Cameron and Noah ending up being preoccupied this week. I sorta went in and out of the subject as the show went on and took some comments from the audience. So it's a kinda strange episode as far as structure. It's a bit of a ramble. Hope you enjoy regardless. 

It's finally time for GothCast to cover David Bowie. One of the most influential and unique artists of all time, Bowie's career was truly unusual. Today we break down the beginnings of his life and his first two albums from the 1960's....both called David Bowie.This was recorded during one of our GothCast Live! streams on YouTube. 

With this episode we hope to celebrate the late director David Lynch. He created some of the most beautiful and haunting images to ever grace the screen as well as an eclectic blend of different art and music. Take this trip with us to the mysterious and entrancing world of David Lynch. This was recorded during one our GothCast Live! livestreams on YouTube.

This is the first episode recorded in a new format we're calling GothCast Live! We recorded it as a livestream on my YouTube channel [the video versions are posted on there]. We're still working on this so think of this one as the pilot episode for the new format. Hopefully it satiates the desire for more GothCast.This time it's all about Vampires and our favorite versions of the creatures of the night. Stay tuned for updates on this new adventure. 

The Cure finally released a new album! Let's take a look at what the band have been up to for the past 16 years and then examine each song on 2024's Songs of a Lost World. 

Donny and Noah tackle a group of "new" individuals. It's the 80's supergroup known as The Lords of the New Church. A mashup of The Dead Boys and The Damned with a touch of glam. Who knows what they'll discover in this decade spanning retrospective! They cover the debut album, Is Nothing Sacred?, The Method To Our Madness, and Hang On.

This reunion episode brings back Robbie Gore as the original GothCast duo break down some lesser talked about albums from the Valor Kand era of Christian Death. It's one of the more interesting eras of the group as two competing versions of the band were releasing material sometimes within the same year. They cover the albums Insanus, Ultio, Proditio, Misericordiaque (1990), Sexy Death God (1994), Prophecies (1996), and well...one more from 1998. This one gets a little strange, but that's nothing new to this podcast.

It's time to rock with death again as Dr.Sanders and Cameron tackle Danzig's project after the Misfits and before his solo band Danzig. A much beloved, but sometimes overlooked era with tons of reverb and songs that sometimes sound like they could be the theme to an 80's slasher movie. You don't have to wait for "November" to come this year because this episode is "Final-ly Descending" to the podcast world. They take a look at Initium (1984), Unholy Passion (1985), Samhain III: November-Coming-Fire (1986), and Final Descent (1990).