Terminus Episode 4 - Xibalba, Centinex, Odraza, Yfel 1710

Easily our most digressive, most aggressive episode yet. For the first time, both of us agree 100% on something: the new Xibalba is a masterpiece, the chugging elegy for a USA in flames. But what we can't agree on is Odraza vs. Yfel 1710. We use these two new releases to talk over the state of Polish black metal in the wake of The Mgla Effect. What are its strengths and weaknesses? Where could/should it go from here? What effect are these bands having on the BM scene at large? Eventually, one of your hosts succumbs to his ancestral curse... Full Black Metal Autism (pictured above).

00:00 -- Introductory bullshitting / rundown of bands and labels.

05:51 -- Xibalba, Anos en Infierno. Intro to Xibalba -- death metal heaviness in hardcore form / Beatdown reborn as funeral doom / Ambitious album-based composition, where individual songs only "make sense" as parts of the whole.

37:15 -- Centinex, Death in Pieces. Early Centinex - unique and underrated Swedish DM / This album - death metal trying to 90s hardcore / Centinex vs. Demonical / resentment born from love.

56:47 -- Odraza, Rzezcom. Mgla and The Mgla Effect / Odraza's place in the Polish scene / "Urban grit black metal" / Peste Noire and Lugubrum / Playful experimentalism and dynamic, "open" playing / Autistic Ranting.

1:34:45 -- Yfel 1710, Willa Wisielcow. Intro to Malignant Voices / What happened to Plaga?? / Promising use of guitar feedback in BM / more Autistic Ranting, from the other guy this time.