On this regal and abundant episode of Terminus, we bring you one record in a style we talk about way too much, and three others in styles we rarely cover. Perhaps one will strike your fancy....

We begin with the return of Sielunvihollinen, standard-bearers for the stern and stomping "street" variant of Finnish black metal, and an old favorite of TBMG. This is quite distinct from the Finnblack formula, as it's been popularized abroad, and provides a good window into the deeper reaches of the Finnish underground. We give special attention to the 'hollinen's gritty heavy-metalisms, and their skill at generating variation within self-imposed parameters.

Next up, TDMG initiates our first full-length review of anything dungeon synth -- Grîmmöld's The Dying Kings of Man. We're both DS-skeptics, to say the least, but we find this strangely compelling, especially in the way it reaches into properly aggressive BM, and properly sinister dungeon drone. I'm sure many of you are connoisseurs, so we'd be curious to hear whether the strong points of this record are as unique as we take them to be, or a fixture of the burgeoning nowadays DS scene.

After the break, it's time for something completely different with TDMG's other pick, a British _____-core band called Pupil Slicer. They play extremely choppy rhythms and technically demanding skronk-leads at the tempo of grind, with a fair number of Big Pit Riffs thrown in just for kicks. It takes TDMG back to his teenage mathcore phase, but it doesn't quite land with TBMG.

Finally, in honor of TDMG's concept of "Tony Hawk Pro-Skater Soundtrack Black Metal" (coined earlier in the show), TBMG pulls a 180 nosegrab tailspin in aesthetics and brings on..... a post-black band called Sertraline. What's gotten into him??? Let's find out....

0:00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / Terminus News ft. Liquid Viscera

0:14:41 - Sielunvihollinen - Teloituskäsky (Hammer of Hate)

0:58:44 - Grîmmöld - The Dying Kings of Man (Independent)

1:35:35 - Interlude - Moon and Azure Shadow - “Age of Darkness and Frost,” fr. Age of Darkness and Frost (2020 remaster by Repose Records)

1:44:26 - Pupil Slicer - Mirrors (Prosthetic Records)

2:26:50 - Sertraline - The Streetlight Was All We Needed (Hypnotic Dirge Records)

3:15:00 - Outro - Heaven In Her Arms - "赤い夢" ("Red Dream"), fr. 黒斑の侵蝕 ("Erosion of The Black Speckle") (Ape Must Not Kill Ape, 2007)

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