Terminus Episode 48 - Këkht Aräkh, Gabestok, Chapels of Gore, Incarceration, Obsolete

On this throbbing and tumescent episode of Terminus, we bring you five bands with distinctive hybrid sounds, each drawing on a wealth of reference points that don't usually go together.

The Death Metal Guy leads off with what must be the best-selling underground (now, by accident, overground?) black metal record of all time -- that one with the dude in a cape with a flower and sword. There's a camp of people who think it's genius and authentic. There's (almost certainly) a camp of people who think it sucks and is false. But what does Terminus think? Let us consider the songs....

The Black Metal Guy replies with a strong candidate for Feel-Good Hit of The Summer -- the new one from the Korpsånd circle's Gabestok. Though black metal in spirit, Én gang rådden, altid rådden is rooted in some very different musical formats, from the nastiest beer-stained corners of punk and metal history. Even the way this band uses BM ideas is unexpected, leading to a masterfully original sound.

After the break, the Death Metal Guy brings us two new EPs. Chapels of Gore places industrial-noise methods at the service of BM aesthetics, continuing the legacy of TDMG's beloved Kembatinian Premaster. Incarceration plays really fast, high-energy blastbeat / breakdown music that sounds very modern, yet hearkens back to the days of primordial extreme metal, in that it really doesn't fit into any of the major genres.

Finally, The Black Metal Guy wraps it up with something uncharacteristically polished, a "fancy riffs" band called Obsolete. This leads us back to an old conversation about the relationship between technical death metal and thrash, and opens up into a new conversation on the difference between tech- and regular-metal song structure.

 

00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / Terminus News ft. Kult of Odium

0:13:39 - Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman (Livor Mortis)

0:59:24 - Gabestok - Én gang rådden, altid rådden (Strange Aeons Records)

1:38:32 - Interlude - Gastunk - “胎児 [Sad],” fr. Dead Song (Dogma Records, 1985) / Kuro - “No more no,” fr. Who The Helpless (Blue Jug Records, 1984)

1:44:11 - Chapels of Gore - The Venereal Shrine (Independent)

2:03:24 - Incarceration - Empiricism (Dawnbreed Records)

2:24:04 - Obsolete - Animate//Isolate (Unspeakable Axe)

3:04:29 - Outro - Martyr - "Warp Zone," fr. Warp Zone (Galy Records, 2000)

 

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