Terminus Episode 11 - Ruin, Well of Night, Oncology, Life

We're back with a more eclectic show, as a palette-cleanser between last week's all black metal special, and next week's all death metal special. We lead off with a couple strong picks from the US underground -- first, the new comp from Ruin, a punkish doom-death band who are rapidly chopping their way to the top of the pile of limbs; second, a formidable debut from Well of Night, a Swedish-style black/death band with some jaw-dropping riffs and an original, distinctively American take on the tradition. Then we shift gears to Northern Ireland's Oncology, who play top-shelf brutal death without compromising on death/thrash kicks and sick pit riffs.

It's been a minute since we did a straight-up hardcore record, so we close with an in-depth review of Japanese crasher-crust veterans Life, who fuse the usual ripping, noisfvkked speed with more metallic, epic chug. The Death Metal Guy -- an avowed crust-skeptic -- grills the Black Metal Guy with some tough questions about his other favorite genre. What is "arena crust?" What's the proper role of "epic"/"melodic" parts in crust songs? And eventually, the million-dollar question -- what makes a great crust record? Prepare for Full Metal Autism... with d-beats.

 

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

13:06 - Ruin - Plague Transmissions: Vol. 2 (Blood Harvest / Horror Pain Death Gore)

44:40 - Well of Night - The Lower Planes of Self-Abstraction (Independent)

01:22:37 - Oncology - Omniversal Antigenesis (Rising Nemesis Records)

01:47:22 - Life - Ossification of Coral (Not Enough / Desolate)

02:27:27 - Autism Hour - What makes a great crust record?