Terminus Episode 5 - Axis of Light, Old Corpse Road, Gravedigger, Basement Torture Killings

This deluxe 2.5 hour edition of Terminus revolves around two extended segments. For the first half, we take the excellent new records by Axis of Light and Old Corpse Road as our portals into the bleak, windswept world of Northern English black metal. Here, we return to a question raised in our first episode, on Winterfylleth and Paradise Lost - is there a UKBM sound? After a (relatively) quick look at the surprisingly strong new Gravedigger record, we follow Basement Torture Killings on their virtuosic, corpse-littered romp through grindcore, hardcore, and (melodic!) Swedish death metal. This gets us talking about how grind "works" as a genre. Finally, we follow BTK's roots back to the more "epic" strains of 00s crust and grind.

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

07:20 -- Axis of Light, Axis of Light

42:31 -- Old Corpse Road, On Ghastly Shores Lays The Wreckage Of Our Lore

01:13:30 -- Gravedigger, Fields of Blood

01:43:15 -- Basement Torture Killings, Lessons In Murder: An interactive audio course in homicide.