Terminus Episode 29 - Pneuma Hagion, Goatpenis, Black Horizon Ancient Belial, Inquisition

It's almost Thanksgiving in the USA, and to celebrate we've brought you a rich bounty of big new releases! If you listen exclusively for the cryptic demos, don't worry -- we've got one of those for you, too.

The Death Metal Guy fires up the festivities with something that knocked us both on our asses. If the somnabulant haze of 2013 gave us Sunbather (lmao), the miasmal tempest of 2020 could only give us.... Voidgazer. On this supermassively dense, furiously grinding record, Pneuma Hagion seriously up the brutality wars, fulfilling an ancient Terminus prophecy regarding the future of death metal.

The only way to follow this is with something just as insane, and The Black Metal Guy does his damnedest with the return of Brazil's one and only powerlifting flamethrower death squad, GOATPENIS. We compare new tracks side-by-side with their old work, and try to figure out the secret of their unhinged energy.

And then, for something completely different, as The Death Metal Guy introduces us to Black Horizon Ancient Belial, a new necro-symphonic BM project from Japan. BHAB fires off blistering mid-90s Swedish riffs over song structures that sprawl like ruined cathedrals.... but might have something to do with hardcore?

Finally, we get to the thing you've all been waiting for: "what Terminus thinks of the new Inquisition record." Here, we lose all discipline, and a simple album review rapidly snowballs into an energetic back-and-forth on Inquisition's work thus far, their abiding influence by hard rock, and their central place in the canon of American black metal. Sick ultra-kvlt namedrops include AC/DC, Blink-182, and, uh, Bruce Springsteen?

 

00:00 - Introductory bullshitting

01:13 - Terminus News ft. Azanul (Heidens Hart) and Zygote (Sunshine Ward).*

17:10 - Rundown of bands and labels

21:02 - Pneuma Hagion - Voidgazer (Nuclear War Now)

01:00:32 - Goatpenis - Decapitation Philosophy (Nuclear War Now)

01:36:00 - Interlude - Truppensturm - "Gustav, the Great," fr. Salute to The Iron Emperors (Van Records, 2010)

01:41:52 - Black Horizon Ancient Belial - A Winter Dead Wandering Forever (Under the Fog Records / Victim Records)

02:25:00 - Inquisition - Black Mass for a Mass Grave (Agonia)

03:03:45 - Outro - Arkha Sva - "49 Evil Spirits," fr. Gloria Satanae (Aura Mystique, 2007)

*TBMG accidentally says "Sunlight Ward" on air.

 

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