Iowa Basement Tapes #377 12-11-2025

Night Listeners -

First off, thank you to everyone who came out this past Monday for the first dungeon synth show in Des Moines featuring Tyrant of Gorgon, Amon Lanc and Holy Vestige. 50+ people plus Iowa Public Radio came out and did some coverage for us. Tonight we are still in our ordinary format and we got some thrashy goodness for you.

1. Idolist - "Garden of Fear" / Idolist (Marshalltown)
2. Druids - "Dark Columns" / Spirit Compass (Des Moines)
3. Phantom Lightkeeper - "Fire Spirit" / Shore Ghosts (Cedar Rapids)
4. Dose - "Pellet Gun Shy" / Dose (Des Moines)
5. Captain Three Leg - "Creeper" / 4-Way Split (Ottumwa)
6. G.L.U.E. - "Deathwish" / pray for us now in the hour of our death (Sioux City)
7. Rue Morgue - "Tending to the Links" / Rue Morgue (Des Moines)
8. Vitam Eternam - "Prelude - the Gathering" / Blackened Dreams of Nocturn (Ottumwa)
9. Chemical Buffet - "Liquid Trilogy" / The Paperhead Tapes 1994-1996 (Des Moines)
10. True Commando - "Humiliated Son of God" / Riot Jungle II (Iowa City)
11. Holy Vestige - "Black Rainbow" / Holy Vestige (Marshalltown)
12. Basketball Divorce Court - "My Hidden Feelings are Crying Out in Pain" / What is a Man? (Iowa City)
13. James and the Jelly Biscuits - "Hurry up Santa" (Ottumwa)
14. Mainstreet Blake - "Astral Weeks" (Waterloo)
15. Scrid - "Oralice" / The Island of Misfit Toys (Iowa City)

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