Terminus Episode 58 - Sxuperion, Blinding Sun, HellLight, Eisenhand

In this feverish, borderline hallucinatory episode of Terminus, your two hosts unleash an enormous and bizarre late night recording session which goes off the rails rapidly through a combination of overwork, sleep deprivation, and alcohol consumption. We started at 10 PM and ended somewhere in the wee hours, reduced to gibbering wrecks in an episode where TDMG yells at his cats, The Offspring are sampled in conjunction with Maquahuitl, and the adoption of crack cocaine as podcast performance-enhancing drug is seriously considered.

We open with Sxuperion, a project The Black Metal Guy has long and winding history with. War metal from beyond time and space, this band combines the rigor of Rites of Thy Degringolade with the analog synth-driven sounds of marginal electronic music, altogether making music unnerving, precise, and manic in its whiplike motions. Highly recommended for dedicated Terminators- this is what we dig through all those goat albums to find.

Following is the debut full-length by a supporter's project, Blinding Sun, whose raw digital production belies a truly holistic understanding of black metal from origin to modernity. Blinding Sun sounds like everything at once, from a stripped-down Taake to modern post- and emo-infused projects, but it's all wrapped together with a strikingly versatile sense of guitar technique. These are challenging, winding songs that reveal more and more on repeated listens, granting deeper understanding to the considerate listener.

After the break, we dive into TDMG's side, starting with Brazil's HellLight, a long-running funeral doom band which plays romantic and yearning music that nevertheless hews closely to the origins of the genre. Structurally bold, refreshingly minimal, and (of course) crushingly despairing, this is a record which goes a long way to rehabilitating the romantic funeral doom style in the eyes of your hosts. We'll need to dig further into this band's history and its scene- who knows how many more gems can be unearthed down south?

Finally, bloodied and broken, we stumble across the finish line with the brilliant debut record by Eisenhand, a definite contender for one of our records of the year. TDMG shyly presents it to his co-host: "Is this what you mean when you talk about metalpunk, dad?" TBMG replies, smiling: "It sure is, son. Go grab your glove; we'll listen to it while we throw the ol' ball around."

Thanks for listening, Terminators. We'll be taking a two week break for R&R and will return on the week of the 19th. Throw some posers on the barbecue and enjoy Sword Boy Summer on your own... until darkness and evil, as always, returns.

 

0:00 - Intro/News ft. Anal Stabwound

0:14:04 - Sxuperion - Auscultating Astral Monuments (Bloody Mountain Records)

0:51:46 - Blinding Sun - The Magic Mountain (Pallid Vesture - tape / Death Shadow - LP and digital)

1:38:35 - Interlude - Owl’s Blood - “Spiritual Substantial Wisdom” fr. Cold Night of Meditation (Altare Productions, 2014)

1:45:51 - HellLight - Until The Silence Embraces (Solitude Productions)

2:31:56 - Eisenhand - Fires Within (Dying Victims Productions)

3:26:54 - Outro - Morsüre - Neither Pity Nor Remorse fr. Acceleration Process (Devil’s Records, 1985) (All versions long out of print, but used copies are easy to find from private sellers.)

 

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