Terminus Interview - Heretical Sect

Today we've got something special for you! It just so happens that Warg from desertified black/death metal band Heretical Sect is a longtime Terminus listener, so he's come on the show to crack a few very loud beers with the boys, and give us some insight into Rapturous Flesh Consumed, out today on Gilead Media.

In this free-flowing but focused conversation, Warg talks us through the historical and religious inspiration for the ghastly Southwest landscapes of this album, and tells us how a band started as a break from real life acquired an inexorable momentum of its own. A common theme throughout is Warg's commitment to the people and places of New Mexico, especially his beloved hometown, Santa Fe. This thoroughly colors Heretical Sect's lyrical themes and music, which Warg sums up as "a focused concept in relationship to environment."

 

00:00 - Brief introduction and origins of the Sect.

06:12 - "A serial killer going crazy" - Inquisitorial terror in the Southwest.

18:26 - "I can't wait to cover myself in blood" - why "Warg" put on the gallows hood.

24:32 - The Santa Fe scene - the city, the bands, the musical infrastructure.

31:15 - Warg turns the tables -- "What genre is Heretical Sect?"

40:42 - Heretical Sect - "Degradation Temple," fr. Rapturous Flesh Consumed. We talk over the track, then open up into a discussion of the album as a whole.

01:05:30 - Parallel universe metal scenes -- underground vs.... middleground?

01:12:30 - "A focused concept in relationship to environment" -- Southwest black/death and the Pueblo distro.

01:17:30 - Outro - Dysphotic - “Aether and Chaos,” fr. The Eternal Throne (Independent, 2018)

 

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