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) 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.Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTDMG on Substackthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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 Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTDMG on Substackthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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. Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTDMG on Substackthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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) Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTDMG on Substackthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTDMG on Substackthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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) Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTDMG on Substackthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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. Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTDMG on Substackthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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* Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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 - Intro0:03:31 - 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)Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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 - Intro0:03:35 - 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)Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on Instagramthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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)Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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 - Intro0:04:09 - 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.Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

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 - Intro3:08 - Peaceville death-doom, songwriting for Winterfylleth33:22 - Bolt Thrower, Carcass52:45 - Is there an “English Sound” in black metal? (YES, but it’s not what you think)1:01:09 - Deep Purple1:06:40 - Interlude - Iron Maiden - “Blood Brothers” fr. Brave New World (EMI, 2000)1:13:54 - Fairport Convention, folk ballads, and pastoral poetry1:30:21 - Primordial, the turn towards pagan black metal1:43:22 - Drudkh / Hate Forest vs. other Slavic black metal2:14:00 - Outro - Winterfylleth - “The Insurrection,” fr. The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight, 2024)Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

On Terminus 163, we hearken back to the early days of the show with a wildly disparate lineup - two bands united only by their weirdness, and by the suddenness of their return.00:00 - Intro0:04:03 - Viscera Infest - Teratoma (Obliteration Records)Japanese brutal goregrinders break out of the psych ward with a shockingly fast and noisy reinterpretation of Death Metal - this is “full spectrum death metal” with all the insanity of the margins intact.0:46:31 - Interlude - Deranged - “Imbecile Humans/Drag Her Out to Die” fr. Plainfield Cemetery (Listenable Records, 2002)0:49:27 - Trelldom - …By the Shadows… (Prophecy Productions)Norwegian pagan black metal progenitors emerge from the nocturnal woods with, uh, saxophones? This raises two questions - 1. Does it make sense? and 2. Does it work?1:34:30 - Outro - Gaahlskagg - “Skullfuck,” fr. Erotic Funeral (No Colours Records, 2000)Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

Terminus 162 is unusually contentious, at least relative to the last few years of the show. In this episode, we both bring black metal records aimed at broad accessibility, yet staunchly refuse to enjoy each other’s picks. Terminators, choose your fighter! (And in the comments, let us know who wins which round.)00:00 - Intro0:01:41 - Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight Records)English black metal standardbearers return with their most well-rounded, ambitious record to date.0:54:54 - Interlude - Wodensthrone - “Those That Crush The Roots of Blood,” fr. Loss (Candlelight, 2009)1:05:22 - Darkmoon Warrior - Graveyard Planet (Folter Records)Das Motorrad des Teufels macht VRÖÖÖÖM!!!!1:44:46 - Outro - Galicia - “Despondent Deity,” fr. Precipice (Hessian Firm, 2022)Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com  

On Terminus 161, we bring you two short and ripping records from bands we’ve covered in the past and reference frequently, both obsessively devoted to the extremity arms race, both back with #3.0:01:45 - Pneuma Hagion - From Beyond (Everlasting Spew Records)Blasting USDM titans consolidate their sound around…. the slow parts? Rest assured, the ziggurat has never been vaster, denser, or more hungry for the blood of stars.0:44:06 - Interlude - Baphomet - “The Age of Plague,” fr. The Dead Shall Inherit (Peaceville, 1992)0:47:37 - Concrete Winds - Concrete Winds (Sepulchral Voice Records)Finnish pioneers of “music-adjacent” riffing get back to basics, grounding the white noise chaos of their last record in the driving deathrash structures of the debut.1:26:51 - Outro - Xotox - “Eisenkiller,” fr. Lichtlos (Pro Noize, 2003)Extended version recently released by Infacted Recorgodingshttps://infactedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/lichtlos-extendedTerminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

Returning from an interviewmission, Terminus is back with a couple records at least approximately located in the outlaw rock space. First up--the sophomore release of Ink & Fire which trades a bit of the debut's wild chaos for a more deliberate and precise melodic attack. Second, the debut by Ghost of Lietus, a Strix Askesis side project which augments Slavic and Hellenic black metal styles with an additional flair of traditional heavy metal and psych rock.0:00:00 - Intro 0:04:28 - Ink & Fire - Emblazoned Visions Yield Eternity (Death Prayer Records) 0:52:51 - Interlude - Odal - “Flammendes Schwert,” fr. …Wilde Kraft (Christhunt Productions, 2005) 0:58:57 - Ghost of Lietus - Dream of the Viridian King (Independent) 1:39:01 - Outro - Ildra - “Ofer hwælweg we comon,” fr. Eðelland (Sonnenrune Records, 2011)Nobly reissued by Heidens Hart.https://heidenshart.bandcamp.com/album/e-ellandTerminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

While conducting a dangerous Thulean reconnaisance mission, The Black Metal Guy managed to bed down in enemy triangle black metal territory to conduct a casual interview with a rare ally: Adrian Brachmann, whose projects Níðstöng and Perkwunos we have covered in earlier episodes. While dodging fire from the remains of the Orthodox scene, your intrepid host and his frigid counterpart enjoy a talk over coffee about Adrian's projects, his future musical plans, the broader black metal scene, and, of course, a Terminus favorite: 2000's metalcore. 0:00:00 - Interview 0:57:18 - Holyarrow - "空的進軍 / March to the Sky" fr. 吾​之​榮​耀​即​吾​之​忠​誠 (Pest Productions, 2023) Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

WE LIVE... AGAIN. Terminus is back from summer break with a hot-ass episode of PURE BRUTAL DEATH METAL. To celebrate the start of Slam Boy Summer we have a four-banger of high profile records that we've been meaning to get to. First up- the sophomore record by 200 Stab Wounds- can they navigate the switch to a major metal label with their sound intact. Next up, Wormed, who attempt to bring their unique style of brutal death up to date with high profile influences. Third, the shocking return of Cephalotripsy, whose new record bears traces of the old but kicks off in a substantially different direction. And last but not least, Carnivore Diprosopus returns with a new record featuring a monster truck on the cover. That's it, that's the review. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:25 - 200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures (Metal Blade) 0:45:37 - Interlude - Watchmaker - “Failing Upwards,” fr. Erased from the Memory of Man (Willowtip, 2005) 0:47:48 - Wormed - Omegon (Season of Mist) 1:28:13 - Interlude - Dephosphorus - “Storming The Sloan Wall,” fr. Ravenous Solemnity (7 Degrees Records, 2012) 1:31:06 - Cephalotripsy - Epigenetic Neurogenesis (...Independent. Seriously.) 2:12:55 - Interlude - Corpse Carving - “Drenched in Visceral Excretions and Excrement: Aftermath of Emasculation” fr. Grotesque Goratorium: Disemboweled Gorific Feast (Despise the Sun Records, 2005) 2:14:25 - Carnivore Diprosopus - Rise of the Insurrection (Comatose Music) 2:52:38 - Outro - Amputated Genitals - “Chessman Red Monday” fr. Human Meat Gluttony (Gore and Blood Productions, 2005) Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com

As Terminus prepares for its annual summer break (jetskiing, goblin slaying, etc.), we unleash a big black metal episode focused on only the coolest of wizard music. After an opening salvo by new project Arcane Bayonet, who present an oddball take on pagan black metal laced with black and roll, we get to a triumvirate of powerful spellcasting madness. First: the new record by Sear Bliss, legendary Hungarian hedge mages whose style of black/doom/folk/melodeath is as varied and well rounded as it is atmospheric and stirring. Second: the return of Windswept, a Saenko project which seeks to fuse the martial aggression of Hate Forest with the more delicate melodic sensibility of Drudkh to surprising results. Third: the mighty return of symphonic BM sorceror Limbonic Art, who drops the orchestra for something far more lean, hungry, and ferocious.0:00:00 - Intro 0:05:24 - Arcane Bayonet - Bellicose Fields (Death Magick Collective) 0:27:02 - Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down (Hammerheart Records) 1:18:45 - Interlude - Rotting Christ - “Diastric Alchemy,” fr. Triarchy of The Lost Lovers (Century Media, 1996) 1:23:44 - Windswept - Der eine, wahre König (Primitive Reaction) 2:01:53 - Interlude 2 - Nécropole - “Immanence,” fr. Ostara (Résilience, 2015) 2:09:23 - Limbonic Art - Opus Daemonical (Kyrck Productions & Armour) 2:55:48 - Outro - Anaal Nathrakh - “Between Piss and Shit We Are Born” fr. Eschaton (Season of Mist, 2006)Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on Facebookthetrueterminus@gmail.com