Terminus Episode 8 - Oppressive Descent, Sickening Horror, Thecodontion, Fluids

In black metal and death metal, it's always been a mark of excellence to push things to "inhuman" extremes. But what does that even mean? And why do we find beauty, truth, even inspiration, in the music of inhumanity? This week, we bring you four strong, inventive underground releases, each with its own inhuman aesthetic. Oppressive Descent (black metal) soars over WWI hellscapes on wings of elegiac, Old World song. Sickening Horror (tech death) sequences crystalline riffs at the heart of the void. Thecodontion (black/death) uses only bass and drums to channel the rumbling of tectonic plates, and the swirling of elemental force. Fluids (brutal death/grind) peels back the shiny plastic skin of our all-too-comfortable iWorld, revealing the blood and guts beneath. Towards the end of the show, in a segment we've begun to call "Autism Hour," we delve deeper into the ideas of inhumanity behind Fluids and Oppressive Descent.

If you're interested in this stuff, we suggest going back to check out the end of Episode 2, where a review of Encenathrakh spirals into our first take on the difference between DM and BM inhumanity. (Episode 2 is currently podcast-only -- coming soon to Youtube.)

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

06:40 - Oppressive Descent - Alchemy and War (Red Door Records)

51:55 - Sickening Horror - Chaos Revamped (Pathologically Explicit Recordings)

01:18:08 - Thecodontion - Supercontinent (I, Voidhanger / Repose Records)

01:43:39 - Fluids - Ignorance Exalted (Maggot Stomp)

02:17:14 - Autism Hour - inhumanity and power