Terminus Episode 20 - Slavland, Khors, Cranial Contamination, Forgotten Tomb (Chile)

In this festive 20th episode of Terminus, each one of us leans into his personal subgenre specialties and finds a year-end pick! We warm up by hopping on the "Six Feet Under 'Zodiac' reaction video" trend, and keep the loose and riffy vibe going throughout.

In Part I, The Black Metal Guy leads us through the majestic golden fields of Slavonic Heathen Black Metal, and - as always - we sort the wheat from the chaff. First, Polish master Slavland returns from four years in the wild with a set of passionate folk-black battle songs, freely ranging from "peasant wedding brawl" to "charge of the winged hussars." This project is an old favorite of both your hosts, and we find plenty to sperg about. Second, Ukrainian mainstays Khors dramatically revamp their sound, embracing the latent pop tendencies of their scene and coming up with something pretty original – but is it good?

In Part II, The Death Metal Guy takes us to two extreme opposite ends of nowadays DM. Cranial Contamination follow in the footsteps of their fellow Englishmen (and Englishlady!) in Bolt Thrower, but without cloning their style -- for in the grim darkness of the 2.1st Millenium, there is only fully automatic, grenade-launching slam. And to wrap things up, TDMG unearths a deeply obscure debut LP by a band called Forgotten Tomb. No, not that Forgotten Tomb! (For them, see Terminus Ep. 3.) It's Forgotten Tomb from Chile, a one-man project playing ultraprimitive, artistically advanced 80s death that goes far beyond the usual old-school fetish.

00:00 - Introductory bullshitting

07:00 - Six Feet Under, "Zodiac" - Autists react!!!

13:12 - Rundown of bands and labels

20:51 - Slavland - Stal Biała, Krew Czerwona (Eastside)

01:02:07 - Khors - Where The Word Acquires Eternity (Ashen Dominion)

01:34:54 - Interlude - "Jet Black Metal Art," Lutomysl (Лютомысл), fr. Catharsis (Катарсис), reissued by Drakkar.

01:41:34 - Cranial Contamination - Into the Warp (Realityfade Records)

02:19:12 - Forgotten Tomb (Chile) - Death is Just Another Path (Cadaverismo)

02:55:50 - Outro - "Nuclear Spear," Veriluola, fr. new S/T demo, self-released on Bandcamp!

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