Terminus Episode 15 - Prosanctus Inferi, Incantation, Imha Tarikat, Reverorum Ib Malacht

This week on Terminus, "big release" season kicks off with each of us bringing records that the other is sure to year-end. In Part 1, it's the long-awaited return of Prosanctus Inferi, and the less-awaited return of Incantation. There's some common ancestry here, via one of The Death Metal Guy's old favorites, Profanatica -- founded by three defectors from Incantation. Prosanctus starts from the Profanatica template to build fiercely disciplined and fluidly melodic extreme metal, at once "before" and "beyond" the black/death divide -- and "sword-oriented" enough for The Black Metal Guy! Incantation literally rewrites their old songs, with predictable results. TDMG walks us through a side-by-side comparison.

In Part II, we shift gears to two very, very different heirs to the anti-cosmic Satanism or chaos-Gnosticism of mid-00s Sweden. On Sternenberster ("starbursts?" "star-destroying?"), one-man project Imha Tarikat makes good on the promise of his earlier releases, flattening the cosmos with a punkish, high-T take on ultramelodic BM. This is exactly what TDMG wants in a black metal record, but he's even more impressed with the new one by Reverorum Ib Malacht, who started at the heart of the Swedish Orthodox scene, before finding their way to Catholicism. We pore over the details of this literally-frightening 90-minute masterpiece and, in this week's (somewhat abbreviated) Autism Hour, we try to puzzle through what Reverorum means by "Roman Catholic Black Metal." This starts a conversation on religion that we'll carry on in an upcoming, patrons-only episode of Terminus Prime.

00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / updates and patronage plug / rundown of bands and labels

11:12 - Prosanctus Inferi - Hypnotic Blood Art (Nuclear War Now)

48:08 - Incantation - Sect of Vile Divinities (Relapse Records)

01:10:07 - Imha Tarikat - Sternenberster (Independent)

01:49:00 - Reverorum ib Malacht - Vad Är Inte Sju Huvud? (Rubeus Obex)

02:23:21 - Autism Hour - Roman Catholic Black Metal: not as crazy as you might think...

02:46:33 - Outro - Reverorum ib Malacht - “Evangeliet går ut,” fr. Vad Är Inte Sju Huvud?

Prosanctus full-album stream on Grizzlybutts.

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