Terminus Review and Interview - A Pregnant Light’s ”Broken Play” and interview with Damian Master

2021-07-01

Long ago on Terminus episode 24 we reviewed a record called "Swaraj: or, "Self Rule"," by Dressed in Streams. Little did we know this would start a long-running relationship with the mastermind behind Colloquial Sound Recordings, Damian Master, whose enthusiastic response to that review culminates in this unusual episode of Terminus. In a first for the podcast, The Black Metal Guy presents a deeply personal and probing review of A Pregnant Light's "Broken Play" on the second anniversary of that record's release. Digging down into the musical, emotional, and philosophical qualities of the record, The Black Metal Guy analyzes the structural content of the music while also tracing the connections between black metal, the self, and the characters that exist between both.

Following this is a sprawling interview with Damian Master, the individual behind both A Pregnant Light and Colloquial Sound Recordings. Equal parts hilarious and nakedly honest, Damian discusses at length his own musical sojourns, musical culture and industry at large, and his ever-evolving relationship with his own craft. Damian is a man possessed by both intense personal will and a wry sense of realism, making for what is undoubtedly one of the finest interviews on Terminus so far.

0:00 - Review: A Pregnant Light's "Broken Play"

01:09:59 - Interlude - Aksumite - “Bestial Lust (Bitch),” fr. The Dark Saint of Stockholm (a salacious three-way split by Colloquial Sound Recordings, 2021)

1:12:39 - Intro, church camp black metal, early history

1:32:00 - Playing live, full band challenges, metal and hardcore fashion, freezer jeans

1:43:46 - Purple metal, the second wave, record store woes

1:58:03 - Colloquial Sound Recordings, youth culture, modern music listening habits, Bandcamp and music industry

2:42:24 - APL’s future, music outside the artist, Yeats, conclusion

3:06:05 - Outro - “Heart-Shaped Apple,” fr. I Licked It, Now It’s Mine (Colloquial Sound Recordings, 2021)

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