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Terminus Episode 181 - Wormphlegm - The Album (Part 2)
Join your intrepid hosts once again as we investigate Wormphlegm's staggering second (and so far, final) release, which sees the band closing the door on torture doom with the genre's crowning triumph. 0:00:00 …
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Join your intrepid hosts once again as we investigate Wormphlegm's staggering second (and so far, final) release, which sees the band closing the door on torture doom with the genre's crowning triumph.
0:00:00 - Wormphlegm - Tomb of the Ancient King (Painiac Records, 2006)1:46:11 - Outro - Cromlech - “Cimmeria,” fr. Ascent of Kings (Hessian Firm, 2023)
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 180 - Wormphlegm - The Demo (Part 1)
In today's sluggish and tortuous installment of Terminus (though aren't they all), your hosts investigate the seminal 2001 Wormphlegm demo that launched the torture doom style and persists as a landmark …
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In today's sluggish and tortuous installment of Terminus (though aren't they all), your hosts investigate the seminal 2001 Wormphlegm demo that launched the torture doom style and persists as a landmark recording to this day.
0:00:00 - Wormphlegm - In an Excruciating Way Infested with Vermin and Violated by Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism and Desanctifying the Pious (Phlegmcum Productions, 2001)
1:27:32 - Skepticism - “The March and the Stream,” fr. Lead and Aether (Red Stream, 1998)
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[email protected]Terminus Esoterica Volume 1 - Mirkvid - The Burning Night
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 …
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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)
Terminus Episode 178 - Grave Pilgrim, Oldowan Gash
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 …
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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 - Intro0:07:07 - 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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[email protected]I Hate Video Games Episode 4 - Crimsonland - A Video Game
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. Terminus links: Terminus on …
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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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[email protected]Terminus Episode 177 - The Sexiest Rockers of '95 - Danzig and Type O Negative (Part 2)
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 …
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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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[email protected]Balaclava Books Episode 3 - Peter Sotos - Total Abuse (Part 3 - Parasite)
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 …
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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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[email protected]Terminus Episode 177 - The Sexiest Rockers of '95 - Danzig and Type O Negative (Part 1)
It's been a while, terminators- you may have suspected us of succumbing to the mainstream. Well, on this episode, perhaps we have- but with good reason. In the first half of this two-part project, The Black …
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It's been a while, terminators- you may have suspected us of succumbing to the mainstream. Well, on this episode, perhaps we have- but with good reason. In the first half of this two-part project, The Black Metal Guy presents his Greater Unified Danzig/Steele Theory, in which Peter Steele's career trajectory eerily mirrors Glenn Danzig's, and how the work of each can shine new light on the other. Join us on a tour through the early days of these artists, through The Misfits, Carnivore, Samhain, and Repulsion, as we gather our powers for reviews of some of our favorites by both in the next installment.
0:00:00 - Intro/The Greater Unified Danzig/Steele Theory
0:40:24 - Interlude - Carnivore - “Carnivore” fr. Nuclear Warriors (Independent, 1984)
0:44:02 - Step 1 - Thrashing Hardcore (Late Misfits/Carnivore)
1:14:47 - Step 2 - Weird Transitional Albums (Samhain/Slow, Deep, and Hard)
1:47:11 - Interlude - The Misfits - “Last Caress” fr. Static Age (Caroline Records, 1978/1996)
1:49:08 - Step 3 - Full Gothic Metal Arrival (Danzig/Type O Negative)
2:58:04 - Outro - Danzig - “On a Wicked Night” fr. Deth Red Sabaoth (AFM Records, 2010)
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[email protected]Terminus Omega Roundup 2025!
Terminus broke away from old habits in 2025 to concentrate on investigating older records and new types of content. But many of you desperately sought our sage advice on the best records of 2025, so here it is …
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Terminus broke away from old habits in 2025 to concentrate on investigating older records and new types of content. But many of you desperately sought our sage advice on the best records of 2025, so here it is: a different version of our usual yearly Omega episode. This time, your hosts tackle the project of evaluating a pretty quiet year in two different ways. TBMG provides a sampler platter of ten records with lightning round reviews, concentrating on dark heathen black metal, and TDMG provides a tight top 5 of his favorites for the year, with an emphasis on vision and ambition. Welcome to 2026, Terminators.
0:00:00 - Intro/TBMG Presents 10
1:58:59 - Interlude - Brazen Horde - “Purgation, Thy Foul Lash” fr. Behold! The Ashen Cross (Nithstang/Blackseed, 2025)
2:04:43 - TDMG’s Top 5
4:01:33 - Outro - Umulamahri - “Leaked Photo of Heaven” fr. Learning the Secrets of Acid (Ordovician Records, 2025)
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 176 - Forgotten Sons of Phoenix: Vehemence
The worm turns back in The Death Metal Guy's direction with an episode centered on Vehemence, cult melodic death metal legends from Phoenix, Arizona. Covering the band's two early 00s masterpieces, your hosts …
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The worm turns back in The Death Metal Guy's direction with an episode centered on Vehemence, cult melodic death metal legends from Phoenix, Arizona. Covering the band's two early 00s masterpieces, your hosts attempt to crack the code on how a band from the deserts of the west managed to beat every band from Gothenburg at their own game, with a uniquely American style and flair.
0:00:00 - Intro/What is Gothenburg?0:21:30 - God Was Created (Metal Blade, 2002)
1:10:42 - Interlude - Eucharist - “Into The Cosmic Sphere” fr. A Velvet Creation (Wrong Again Records, 1993)
1:15:05 - Helping the World to See (Metal Blade, 2004)
2:12:04 - Outro - Vehemence - “Murdered by the Earth” fr. Forward Without Motion (Battleground Records, 2015)
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 175 - Dawn.
After much anticipation, innumerable references on the show, and a shocking number of technical issues, we have arrived with an episode that The Black Metal Guy has been threatening for years. For those …
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After much anticipation, innumerable references on the show, and a shocking number of technical issues, we have arrived with an episode that The Black Metal Guy has been threatening for years. For those unfamiliar, Dawn is one of the finest and also one of the most underappreciated bands of the Swedish 90s melodic black/death metal scene, and one very near and dear to The Black Metal Guy's heart. Join us as we investigate the band's two full-length records and discover what makes them far more than merely another band in the established style.
0:00:00 - Intro/Background of Dawn
0:15:08 - Nær Sólen gar Niþer for Evogher (Necropolis Records, Jan 6 1994)
1:29:34 - INTERLUDE - Taake - “Hordaland doedskvad I,” fr. Hordalands doedskvad (Dark Essence, 2005)
1:37:17 - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) (Necropolis Records, May 7 1998)
3:28:47 - OUTRO - Dawn - “Incantation of Unholyness,” fr. the Apparition demo (December 1992)
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 174 - Sacramentum and the Roots of Swedish Black/Death
In the wake of the passing of Nisse Karlén into eternity, it seems only appropriate to pay tribute to a titan of extreme metal. Sacramentum's unique style of melodic black/death metal not only placed them …
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In the wake of the passing of Nisse Karlén into eternity, it seems only appropriate to pay tribute to a titan of extreme metal. Sacramentum's unique style of melodic black/death metal not only placed them directly alongside bands like Dissection and Dawn, but established melodic ideas and ambitious structural methodologies that would only take root more popularly decades later. Come with us as we take a look at their earliest material and attempt to trace their roots forward up to newer foliage.
0:00:00 - Intro
0:15:44 - Finis Malorum
0:54:30 - Interlude - Vinterland - “Still the Night is Awake” fr. Welcome My Last Chapter (No Fashion Records, 1996)
0:58:01 - Far Away From The Sun
01:51:12 - Outro - Sacramentum - “The Vision and The Voice,” fr. Far Away from The Sun (Adipocere Records, 1996)
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 173 - Paimon Gate, Pyromancer
Since the beginning of the year, your intrepid hosts have been concentrating exclusively on older, classic material- this all changes today. At least for this episode. In today's entry, we feature the …
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Since the beginning of the year, your intrepid hosts have been concentrating exclusively on older, classic material- this all changes today. At least for this episode. In today's entry, we feature the triumphant return of Paimon Gate with a new record that elaborates on their established style with more evolution than might appear at first blush, and the inaugural volley by Pyromancer, whose oppressive brand of late 80s filth brings to mind a blood-smeared and heroin-shooting take on Celtic Frost.
0:00:00 - Intro
0:02:42 - Paimon Gate - Advanced Satanic Witchcraft (Nuclear War Now)
0:58:40 - Interlude - Blood Storm - “The Atlantean Wardragon,” fr. The Atlantean Wardragon (Cacophonous Records, 1997)
1:03:51 - Pyromancer - Absolute Dominion by Fire (Adirondack Black Mass)
1:44:42 - Outro - Gravewürm - “Ancient Storms of War,” fr. Doomed to Eternity (Hell’s Headbangers)
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 172 - Prophecy of Doom and Righteous Pigs - Lost Proto-Grindcore Gems
We have to go back, bros. In today's episode of Terminus, your hosts travel back to 1990 to cover two obscure records close to their hearts, each operating in the primordial ooze of death metal, grindcore …
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We have to go back, bros. In today's episode of Terminus, your hosts travel back to 1990 to cover two obscure records close to their hearts, each operating in the primordial ooze of death metal, grindcore, thrash, and hardcore, but with completely contrasting sounds. TBMG brings to the occasion Prophecy of Doom, whose 1990 record resembles Deviated Instinct or early Bolt Thrower but with a demented industrial-stench aesthetic all their own. TDMG's plus one: Righteous Pigs, who create what sounds like modern crowdkilling hardcore out of thrash riffs and jazz drumming.
0:00:00 - Intro
0:10:51 - Prophecy of Doom - Acknowledge the Confusion Master (Deaf Records, 1990)
0:53:46 - Interlude - Sonic Violence - “Tortured (Dub)” fr. Jagd (Peaceville Records, 1990)
1:00:20 - Righteous Pigs - Stress Related (Nuclear Blast Records, 1990)
1:55:34 - Outro - Like Rats - “Bloodline” fr. Like Rats (A389 Recordings, 2012)
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 171 - Sargeist, Franco-Finnish Black Metal, and the Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune
What happens when you record an all-timer? What happens when you permanently alter the course of an entire genre of music? What happens when a set of very precise techniques enter the basic DNA of an entire …
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What happens when you record an all-timer? What happens when you permanently alter the course of an entire genre of music? What happens when a set of very precise techniques enter the basic DNA of an entire generation? On this episode, TDMG and TBMG discuss Sargeist, a band whose influence is so vast it's nearly unnoticed, taking a look at their seminal 2010 record Let the Devil In and their brand new release, Flame Within Flame. Can the band ever achieve the heights of the past? Or, more importantly: should that even be the goal?
0:00:00 - A history of Sargeist, their influence, and Franco-Finnish Black Metal
0:34:55 - Let the Devil In (Moribund Records/World Terror Committee, 2010)
1:36:06 - Interlude - Sargeist - “Let The Devil In,” fr. Let The Devil In (Moribund / WTC, 2010)
1:40:13 - Flame Within Flame (World Terror Committee, 2025)
2:35:11 - Outro - Bekhira - “The Devil and the Sorcerer” fr. L'élu du mal (Aura Mystique Productions, 2005)
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[email protected]Balaclava Books Episode 2 - Peter Sotos - Total Abuse (Part 2 - Tool.)
TDMG returns with the (somehow) highly anticipated second installment of Balaclava Books, and the second installment of his investigation into Peter Sotos' Total Abuse. This time, we take a look at Tool, the …
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TDMG returns with the (somehow) highly anticipated second installment of Balaclava Books, and the second installment of his investigation into Peter Sotos' Total Abuse. This time, we take a look at Tool, the notorious eight-part work which displays Peter Sotos finding his footing in his own style and plumbing ever-deeper depths of human despair and cruelty. Listener discretion strongly advised.
0:00:00 - Intro
0:11:33 - Tool. and Total Abuse
0:19:30 - One (Quality Time)
0:38:36 - Five
0:56:06 - Two and Three
1:11:36 - Six and Seven
1:21:31 - Four and Eight
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 170 - Enmity, Last Days of Humanity, and a Brief Tour of Brutal Noisedeath
Thought we were dead? You fucking wish! Terminus is back with a hot one long in the making, where your hosts take a look at the seminal mid-00s work of Enmity and Last Days of Humanity while drawing out broader …
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Thought we were dead? You fucking wish! Terminus is back with a hot one long in the making, where your hosts take a look at the seminal mid-00s work of Enmity and Last Days of Humanity while drawing out broader ideas of brutal death metal's proximity to noise. If black metal without heavy metal gets you Blazebirth Hall, what happens when a similar concept is applied to death metal? Only the most extreme music ever made. After the reviews, stick around for a guided tour of some of TDMG's favorite obscurities from this scene and beyond.
0:00:00 - Intro/A Conception of Noisedeath
0:14:58 - Enmity - Illuminations of Vile Engorgement (Permeated Records, 2005)
0:59:54 - Interlude - Intestinal Engorgement - “Fetal Extraction Anal” fr. Putrefying Consumption of Dismemberment (Amputated Vein Records, 2022)
1:02:53 - Last Days of Humanity - Putrefaction in Progress (Bones Brigade, 2006)
1:40:12 - Interlude - Foetopsy - “Spilling of Blood and Urine Into the Body Cavity” fr. Dyspartum (Barbarian Records, 2003)
1:41:28 - Other fascinating records
2:11:40 - Outro - Masturbation - “Gutted and Incinerated In the Insanity of Your Thoughts” fr. Putrified Vaginal Infibulation (Brutalized Records, 2006)
Terminus Episode 169 - BOLT THROWER - Realm of Chaos and The IVth Crusade
What, you want a cute little description of the episode? It's BOLT THROWER. 0:00:00 - Intro / a brief history of Bolt Thrower and stenchcore 0:38:48 - Realm of Chaos (Slaves to Darkness) (Earache Records, 1989) …
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What, you want a cute little description of the episode? It's BOLT THROWER.
0:00:00 - Intro / a brief history of Bolt Thrower and stenchcore0:38:48 - Realm of Chaos (Slaves to Darkness) (Earache Records, 1989)
1:43:49 - Interlude - Bolt Thrower - “World Eater 94” fr. Who Dares Wins (Earache Records, 1998)
1:49:57 - The IVth Crusade (Earache Records, 1992)
3:16:28 - Just Before Dawn - “The Gulf of Tonkin” fr. A War Too Far (Raw Skull Recordz, 2023)
HERESY CORRECTIVE: In a moment of warp-tainted hubris, TBMG misidentifies the Space Marine chapter on the cover of WH40K 1st Edition. It is the CRIMSON Fists, NOT the Imperial Fists. The Inquisition has been notified.
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Balaclava Books Episode 1 - Peter Sotos - Total Abuse (Part 1 - Pure)
In the inaugural episode of a new series on extreme literature, TDMG explores the earliest work by the infamous Peter Sotos, plunging headlong into the most perverse incarnation of so-called "true crime" …
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In the inaugural episode of a new series on extreme literature, TDMG explores the earliest work by the infamous Peter Sotos, plunging headlong into the most perverse incarnation of so-called "true crime" writing in the beginning of an effort to explore the real power within one of the world's most scorned authors. Listener discretion strongly advised.
0:00:00 - Peter Sotos
0:19:50 - Total Abuse
0:28:41 - Pure
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[email protected]I Hate Video Games Episode 3 - Peggle - I Have No Balls and I Must Peg
On the newest episode of I Hate Video Games and Never Play Them, your host tackles a game almost universally played but rarely taken seriously: Peggle, the physics puzzler that marks the apex of Popcap Games …
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On the newest episode of I Hate Video Games and Never Play Them, your host tackles a game almost universally played but rarely taken seriously: Peggle, the physics puzzler that marks the apex of Popcap Games- and maybe casual games as a whole.
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 168 - Aborym and the Legacy of Industrial Black Metal
A spectre is haunting black metal- that of the industrial black metal style of the late 90s and early 00s. Foremost among that cadre is Aborym, Italian stallions of legend now forgotten in the revised zeitgeist …
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A spectre is haunting black metal- that of the industrial black metal style of the late 90s and early 00s. Foremost among that cadre is Aborym, Italian stallions of legend now forgotten in the revised zeitgeist of 2025. Join your hosts as we examine Aborym's first and third records, discovering that not only are they not just "an industrial black metal band," but that they actually created some of the best and most forward-thinking extreme metal of the era. What, are you "too cool" for The Matrix now?
0:00:00 - Kali Yuga Bizarre (Scarlet Records, 1999)0:56:06 - Interlude - Coil - “Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)” fr. Horse Rotorvator (Force & Form, 1986)
1:02:29 - With No Human Intervention (Code666 Records, 2003)
1:45:42 - Outro - Project Deviate - “Not My Kind” fr. Not My Kind/Flash! (Fusion Records, 2006)
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[email protected]I Hate Video Games Episode 2 - A Short Hike
On the new bite-sized episode of I Hate Video Games and Never Play Them, your host takes a look at A Short Hike, a tiny game about a little bird on a medium-sized adventure with big pixels. Terminus links …
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On the new bite-sized episode of I Hate Video Games and Never Play Them, your host takes a look at A Short Hike, a tiny game about a little bird on a medium-sized adventure with big pixels.
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 167 - Niden Div. 187
In 2025's first assault, the plucky doughboys at Terminus investigate an obscure gem of 90s black metal: Niden Div. 187. Best known for featuring members of a host of Swedish death metal bands, the project …
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In 2025's first assault, the plucky doughboys at Terminus investigate an obscure gem of 90s black metal: Niden Div. 187. Best known for featuring members of a host of Swedish death metal bands, the project stands on its own as a truly remarkable artifact of the era, far ahead of its time in melody and experimental structures. Sit back, relax, and enjoy an episode longer than the band's entire discography.
0:00:00 - Intro
0:06:28 - Niden Div. 187
1:21:45 - Outro - Zyklon-B - “Mental Orgasm” fr. Blood Must be Shed (Malicious Records, 1995)
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[email protected]I Hate Video Games Episode 1 - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
For the first volley of non-musical content, The Death Metal Guy starts a new program: I Hate Video Games and Never Play Them, a series of deep dive, essayistic critiques of games in the style you know and …
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For the first volley of non-musical content, The Death Metal Guy starts a new program: I Hate Video Games and Never Play Them, a series of deep dive, essayistic critiques of games in the style you know and (hopefully) love. This time, he takes a look at Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, a 2017 third person action/puzzle game from Ninja Theory best known for its deep themes and striking presentation- but does it live up to the hype? Listen and find out. But also, no.
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[email protected]Terminus Omega 2024
GENTLEMEN... BEHOLD! The Terminus Omega 2024 livestream is now mirrored here for your podcast listening pleasure. Join TBMG, TDMG, and harried Terminus intern Hyper Shaman as we go through the highlights of the …
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GENTLEMEN... BEHOLD! The Terminus Omega 2024 livestream is now mirrored here for your podcast listening pleasure. Join TBMG, TDMG, and harried Terminus intern Hyper Shaman as we go through the highlights of the year with helpful input from our... adoring(?) audience. This one was a great time and we hope those of you who don't typically listen on Youtube will enjoy listening as much as we did streaming. For those who weren't there: 2025 will feature some big but positive changes for Terminus, featuring all sorts of new forms of content that will lead us boldly into the second half of the decade. As always, thanks for listening.
BIG THINGS COMING *china cymbal crashes ominously*
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 166 - Defeated Sanity, Ingurgitating Oblivion
In this titanic, tumultuous episode of Terminus, we have the rare pleasure of covering two bands that complement each other perfectly. First up, it’s jazzy brutal death from Germany. Second, it’s German …
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In this titanic, tumultuous episode of Terminus, we have the rare pleasure of covering two bands that complement each other perfectly. First up, it’s jazzy brutal death from Germany. Second, it’s German brutal-deathy jazz, or…. something? Both bands feature legendary German drummer Lille Gruber, on legendary German drums. Both records are insanely good. We had a lot of fun with this one, and we hope you do, too.
0:00:00 - Intro
0:03:31 - Defeated Sanity - Chronicles of Lunacy (Season of Mist)
0:44:51 - Interlude - Repudilation - “Decimation,” fr. Purging of Impurity (Numb Cum Productions, 1996)
0:48:16 - Ingurgitating Oblivion - Ontology of Nought (Willowtip Records)
1:32:06 - Outro - Disillusion - “And the Mirror Cracked,” fr. Back to Times of Splendor (Metal Blade Records, 2004)
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[email protected]Terminus Episode 165 - Blackdeath, Old Wainds
This season, give thanks for the only thing in your life that truly matters - Terminus: Extreme Metal Podcast. In this great and terrible new episode, your hosts investigate new records from two esoteric …
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This season, give thanks for the only thing in your life that truly matters - Terminus: Extreme Metal Podcast. In this great and terrible new episode, your hosts investigate new records from two esoteric enclaves of Russian black metal. You know we’re obsessed with this shit. So are you. Buckle up.
00:00 - Intro
0:03:35 - Blackdeath - Mortui Incedere Possunt (End All Life Productions / NoEvDia)
Mad kappelmeisters of St. Petersburg wring jagged melodies from demon-addled fiddles. With ingenious full-band songwriting and a strangely compelling slantwise take on Orthodox black metal, this may be their finest record yet.
0:55:05 - Interlude - Bethlehem - “Second Coming” fr. Dark Metal (Adipocere Records, 1994)
1:01:05 - Old Wainds - Stormheart (Darkness Shall Rise Productions)
Murmansk tundra shamans emerge from the murk with storming Slavonic riffage, savage stomps, and maybe even a few forbidden heavy metal kicks.
1:51:37 - Outro - Runes of Dianceht - “In The War,” fr. the Runes of Dianceht demo (Independent, 1996)
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Terminus Episode 164 - Deadform, Barathrum, Keroeis
TDMG has returned after withstanding the wrath of nature with shotgun and Miller High Life in hand just in time for an episode of punishing midpaced crunch courtesy of TBMG. After a mini-review of Keroeis, a …
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TDMG has returned after withstanding the wrath of nature with shotgun and Miller High Life in hand just in time for an episode of punishing midpaced crunch courtesy of TBMG. After a mini-review of Keroeis, a project by associates of TDMG which plays around the edges of older USBM ala Black Funeral with updates from the orthodox scene, we move toward more minimal territory. Deadform: stenchcore supergroup dwelling in the realms of noisy, nihilistic sludge. Barathrum: long-running Finnish legends update their traditionally Beheretish style of black metal with thrashing tempos and more acrobatic guitars.
0:00:00 - Intro / Keroeis - Priestess Emanations (Independent)
0:24:35 - Deadform - Entrenched in Hell (Tankcrimes)
1:06:00 - Interlude - Skaven - “Plague Wind” fr. Skaven/Dystopia (Life Is Abuse, 1996)
1:10:20 - Barathrum - Überkill (Hammer of Hate)
1:56:47 - Outro - Goatlord - “Chicken Dance” fr. Reflections of the Solstice (Turbo Music, 1991)
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Terminus Episode 163.5 - Auld Ridge
As The Death Metal Guy recovers from the tumult of hurricane season, I call upon our bold young comrade Hyper Shaman to fill TDMG’s capacious, plutonium-toed boots. Our aim? Get caught up on GLORIOUS PAGAN …
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As The Death Metal Guy recovers from the tumult of hurricane season, I call upon our bold young comrade Hyper Shaman to fill TDMG’s capacious, plutonium-toed boots. Our aim? Get caught up on GLORIOUS PAGAN BLACK METAL.
This episode began as a normal two-record show, but due to time constraints, and the sheer scale of the work at hand, it became a standalone review of the new album by Auld Ridge. Here, O.W.G.A. steps out of the shadows and takes a fighting stance, reworking his symphonic style around a core of raging, racing folk melody. You can probably guess how we feel about this one.
00:00 - Intro
0:04:09 - Auld Ridge - For Death and Glory, to the Gods I Cry (The Hermetic Order of Ytene / Dark Adversary / Amor Fati)
1:00:52 - Outro: Gorgoroth - “Profetens Åpenbaring,” fr. Under The Sign of Hell (Malicious Records, 1997)
Note 1: The “Krig”-based riff isn’t on Consanguineous, it’s here, in the middle of Track 5 (“Ar Cricinagneth, An Agen Albannu Tu Telyr”).
Note 2: I forgot to mention Auld Ridge’s possible debt to Panphage, a forgotten legend of 2010s BM. The resemblance is especially strong on Track 4 (“Henmaen…..”) - a phrase from Panphage's Drengskapr crops up at 48:00, just as my sample ends.
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Terminus Interview - Chris Naughton (Winterfylleth)
Terminators, thank you for your patience. After a couple weeks’ delay, for which TDMG has a good excuse (two fucking hurricanes) and I have none, we’re back! Or rather, I’m back, with a big interview. A couple …
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Terminators, thank you for your patience. After a couple weeks’ delay, for which TDMG has a good excuse (two fucking hurricanes) and I have none, we’re back! Or rather, I’m back, with a big interview.
A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Naughton, frontman of Winterfylleth and pioneer of modern pagan black metal. I asked him to draw up a list of five quintessentially English bands/scenes that fed into the Winterfylleth sound. These serve as touchstones for a conversation ranging from details of guitar technique to lyrical source texts to obscure distro history.
On the show, we’ve often characterized Winterfylleth as a kind of tricky folk-cultural transplant project, “English Slavblack.” Talking with Chris led me to revise this portrait: Much of what I attributed to the influence of Ukrainian bands has older roots in Chris’s native soil, in styles I hadn’t necessarily expected. As for the question of English black metal, Chris has a thoughtful answer, a robust rebuttal to the old saw that “there's no such thing as 'English' culture."
00:00 - Intro
3:08 - Peaceville death-doom, songwriting for Winterfylleth
33:22 - Bolt Thrower, Carcass
52:45 - Is there an “English Sound” in black metal? (YES, but it’s not what you think)
1:01:09 - Deep Purple
1:06:40 - Interlude - Iron Maiden - “Blood Brothers” fr. Brave New World (EMI, 2000)
1:13:54 - Fairport Convention, folk ballads, and pastoral poetry
1:30:21 - Primordial, the turn towards pagan black metal
1:43:22 - Drudkh / Hate Forest vs. other Slavic black metal
2:14:00 - Outro - Winterfylleth - “The Insurrection,” fr. The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight, 2024)
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