Terminus Episode 13 - Induced, Siege Column, Disavowed, Mortum

After last week's wall-to-wall death metal special, we return to our normal BM/DM balance, but with a BM slant. This time, we've placed our featured bands first (Induced) and last (Mortum) on our lineup. Induced's ultra-brutal, drum-driven "mecha-death" is so stripped-down and abstract that it's got a lot in common with the lunatic fringes of black/war metal. This section gives us a chance to build on our notion of "music-adjacent" extremity, with some help from Finland's Concrete Winds.

Mortum's rugged, mountainous Atlantean Ouroboros sparks an extended conversation (and/or autistic rant) on how to make authentically American-sounding black metal. This section doubles as a guide to some of the best USBM projects currently going. Between these two longer segments, The Black Metal Guy and The Death Metal Guy review new records that are solidly in their respective wheelhouses, but come in for some substantial (constructive) criticism.

00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / rundown of bands and labels

10:21 - Induced - Coproporeal (New Standard Elite)

39:31 - "Music-adjacent" riffing - Induced and Concrete Winds' Primitive Force

48:45 - Siege Column - Darkside Legions (Nuclear War Now)

01:17:10 - Disavowed - Revocation of the Fallen (Brutal Mind)

01:39:41 - Mortum - Atlantean Ouroboros (Independent / Folkvangr)

02:31:51 - Outro - Mi'Gauss - "Open Fire," fr. Open Season