Terminus Episode 1 - Winterfylleth, Horn, Kruelty, Paradise Lost

First run of a new podcast focusing on extreme metal. Today, we debate the merits of four new albums: Winterfylleth - The Reckoning Dawn; Horn - Mohngang; Kruelty - A Dying Truth; and Paradise Lost - Obsidian.

00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / record labels / one of your hosts saying "um" and "uh" a lot.

7:43 - Winterfylleth, The Reckoning Dawn: Awakening the wrath of the (Saxon? Norman?) tyrant, or burying riffs in time and dust?

41:07 - Horn, Mohngang: Leitmotifs / beautiful blast riffs / beer-hall marches (cool or not-cool?) / black metal turning into folk.

1:11:25 - Kruelty, A Dying Truth: crushing beatdowns and beastly grunts / Straight Savage Style and Coffins and Shattered Realm / when and how should a band use stock riffs? / what makes a sick beatdown/breakdown?

1:44:00 - Paradise Lost, Obsidian: Peaceville and working-man's doom / Type O Negative and Sisters of Mercy / 80s goth influence done right / strong and varied vocals / sick melodic leads

2:03:15 - End ranting: melodic death metal that doesn't suck / final album verdicts / old UK doom-death as Britain's version of Second Wave BM.