Terminus Episode 50 - Hanternoz, And Beyond The Sun, The Moon..., Genune, Clandestine Blaze

In this bold and haughty episode of Terminus, we bring you two strong new entries in the field of Medieval / folkloric black metal, continue tracking the development of the post-black niche, and reevaluate the legacy of a mainstay of 00s kvlt BM.

The Black Metal Guy draws first blood with Hanternoz, the brutal folkblack collaboration of Hyvermor (Vehemence; founder of the Antiq label) and Sparda (Créatures, Cataèdes), focused on the history and folklore of their native Loire river valley. Though Hanternoz clearly fits into the "chivalric" style of France, this music draws more heavily on folk instrumentation (flute, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipe), and strides ahead at a steady pace, as if marching on foot beside the horses, or dancing at a Mayday fair.

Mirroring these diurnal songs of the stout yeomanry, we have shrill cries and eerie music from the midnight forest, courtesy of Russia's And Beyond The Sun, The Moon.... Here, we talk over this band's clever, theatrical song structures, and compare influences from  English and Slavic strains of symphonic BM.

On the second half of the show, The Death Metal Guy returns us to our longstanding investigation of that most divisive subgenre, postblack. Listening to Inert & Unerring, the second full-length from Romania's Genune, it becomes clear that post-black has almost entirely detached itself from black metal. It faces two possible fates -- will it become a self-sustaining genre with its own parameters, or find its true calling in a return to rock music?

We close out the show by taking another listen to a band neither one of us has really listened to, in over a decade -- Mikko Aspa's Clandestine Blaze. This prolific project has become a fixture, even a standard-bearer, of the modern underground, but back in the day we couldn't really get into it. Many recommendations-from-friends later, we check out Secrets of Laceration. YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT....

 

00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / Terminus News ft. Active Shooter and Spectral Domination

0:17:47 - Hanternoz - Au Fleuve de Loire (Antiq)

1:05:22 - And Beyond The Sun, The Moon... (А ЗА СОЛНЦЕМ ЛУНА... / A Za Solncem Luna)

1:49:08 - Interlude - Valhom - "The Infinite Dream," fr. Desolation (Ars Magna Recordings, 2005)

1:54:51 - Genune - Inert & Unerring (Loud Rage Music)

2:30:35 - Clandestine Blaze - Secrets of Laceration (Northern Heritage)

3:12:21 - Outro - Neidhart von Reuental - “Mayenzeit One Neidt,” fr. Neidhart von Reuental, perf. by Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg.

 

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