Terminus Episode 24 - K.V.N.T. Kolektiv, Goratory, Yersin, They Came From Visions, Dressed In Streams

At last, your daylong wait is rewarded with this sprawling and eclectic episode of Terminus. Today, we review not four, but *5* goddamn records back to back. We warm up with a special "Terminus reacts" segment on the new compilation of noise, industrial, and minimalist black metal by K.V.N.T. Kolektiv, longtime supporters of the show. Then, in a rare change of the marching order, The Death Metal Guy takes the helm for the leadoff band, Boston's Goratory. You'll hear TDMG introduce TBMG to the finer points of dizzying technical brutal death -- with some wild melodic riffs thrown in -- and explain what "New England death metal" even is. We roll on to the debut LP of Yersin, newcomers from England's savage North whose  sound is difficult to pin down: Is it polished, catchy blackgrind? Is it the infamous "arena crust?" Is it beatdown with Immortal riffs? And where should they go from here?

In the second half, we return to the "post-Slav" territory we started mapping out in Episode 23, with a rather disputatious review of Toadeater. The Death Metal Guy once more begins with They Came From Visions, an interesting Ukrainian outfit that folds the post-black tendency back into the darker, storming side of their native sound. We talk over the skillful, forward-thinking songwriting, which allows this band to evoke some unexpected moods. Finally, The Black Metal Guy introduces a project that many of our fans will really dig, but may have passed over for subcultural reasons -- Dressed In Streams, an American tribute to Indian revolutionaries that blends wild Indo-Slavic melody with rhythmic modern hardcore bite. Whatever our gripes about the presentation, the songwriting speaks for itself.

 

00:00 - Introductory bullshitting

05:00 - Terminus reacts to K.V.N.T. Kolektiv - Kovid 666 - K.V.N.T. Compilation 2020 (Kvnt Kolektiv)

26:52 - Rundown of bands and labels

31:52 - Goratory - Sour Grapes (Everlasting Spew Records)

01:10:14 - Yersin - Guilt (Independent)

01:48:37 - Interlude - Stormcrow - "Dead Dreams," fr. Stormcrow / Sanctum split (No Options, LP; 20 Buck Spin, CD). Available on the Stormcrow legacy Bandcamp.

01:56:35 - They Came From Visions - Cloak of Darkness, Dagger of Night (Bloodred Distribution)

02:33:04 - Dressed in Streams - Swaraj: or, “Self Rule” (Colloquial Sound Recordings)*

03:17:24 - Outro - Reek of The Unzen Gas Fumes - "Dehumanizing Cesspool for Future of Humanity," fr. Reek of The Unzen Gas Fumes LP (GoatowaRex). Goatowa is now distributed by Ajna Offensive, but looks like they're already sold out. Honestly I have no idea where to find this.

 

*The Indian band whose name I totally mangle is Aparthiva Raktadhara, members of the Kolkata Inner Order along with Tetragrammacide and Kapala. Here's their excellent demo, and here's their extremely NSFW video, ft. real contemporary paganism -- not exactly a Heilung music video, is it?

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