TERMINUS: extreme metal podcast

You've heard them talk about new albums no one's heard. You've heard them talk about old albums that everyone's heard. But what of the best category of all: old, brilliant records that no one's heard? Join us in the inaugural edition of TERMINUS ESOTERICA, where your hosts dig up their favorite forgotten gems in desperate need of further appraisal. Today's exhibit: early Alaskan black metal project Mirkvid's "The Burning Night," an unusual and elegant take on industrial black metal which just might be one of USBM's finest moments.

0:00:00 - Mirkvid - The Burning Night (Independent, 2002)

1:29:31 - Outro - Bound by Entrails - “Above Me, She Bleeds” fr. For Valhall’s Sorrow (Runefire Records, 2007)

In the long-awaited return of Terminus covering new music, we have a sensible, principled Terminus Episode for you: Show veterans Grave Pilgrim and Oldowan Gash sally forth from their secluded strongholds with highly anticipated records, executing on the Outlaw Rock premise in divergent but equally excellent ways.

0:00:00 - Intro

0:07:07 - Grave Pilgrim - The Pungent Wine of Pride (Death Prayer Records)

1:12:24 - Interlude - Passeisme - “Lingering Chant of Mistrust” fr. Hieratic Disarray (2026, Antiq Records)

1:18:29 - Oldowan Gash - 1000 Dreams of War (Amor Fati Productions)

2:15:25 - Outro - Satanic Warmaster - “The Burning Eyes of the Werewolf,” fr. Strength & Honour (Northern Heritage, 2001)

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In this triumphant (if bite-sized) return for I Hate Video Games, your host examines Crimsonland, an obscure early 00s twin-stick shooter that just might be the best of its genre.

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On the second part of our goth extravaganza, your hosts review two seminal records by Danzig and Type O Negative. Danzig's eponymous debut presents a fascinating take on goth rock which maintains a strident hardcore discipline, while Type O Negative's fourth shows the band at their darkest and most extreme doom metal form. Throughout it all: an exploration of how Danzig and Steele use the same DNA to produce wildly different animals.

0:00:00 - The Agnostic Front Incident

0:10:19 - Key Aesthetic Distinctions

0:25:35 - Danzig - Danzig I (Def American Recordings, 1988)

1:41:11 - Albert King - “The Hunter” fr. Born Under a Bad Sign (Stax Records, 1967)

1:43:55 - Type O Negative - World Coming Down (1999)

2:44:29 - Dishell - “Xero Tolerance” fr. Blast No. 1 - Blastbeat Tribute to Type O Negative (783punx, 2023)

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After a very long delay, Noah (aka TDMG) finishes the series on Total Abuse with a look at Parasite, the oft-forgotten closer to Peter Sotos' early period, which shows Sotos conducting media critique and cultural analysis from his own putrid perspective. Listener discretion strongly advised.

0:00:00 - Intro/Background

0:10:01 - Parasite

0:15:12 - Part One - Hypocrisy

0:29:34 - Part Two - Proxies

0:38:46 - Part Three - Pornography

0:47:08 - Part Four - Sex

0:59:21 - Part Five - Odds and Ends

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