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Friday May 07, 2021
Friday May 07, 2021
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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Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
In this week's abominable, two-headed episode of Terminus, we bring you a maximally Terminal lineup -- first TBMG with two slabs of massive central-European mountain music, then TDMG with two barrels of thoroughly illegal uranium-plated ultradeath.
TBMG takes the first half, leading off with Odal, Thurinigan forefather (and mother!) of modern heathen black metal. Odal has always worked from the shadows, but on Welten Mutter, they step out onto center stage with a classically Black Metal maneuver: Starting from their core of fiercely focused Romantic riffing, Odal moves in two directions at once, up towards the heavens and down towards the earth.
Next up is Autarcie, whose rugged Franco-ruralist BM has as much to do with the likes of Odal as it does with any of the famous French sounds. Though Autarcie has a clear-cut aesthetic, the album itself divides into two pretty distinct sets of songs, and each of your hosts finds himself drawn to a different half. We talk minimalism vs. maximalism, different ideas of "epic," and the many meanings of "French black metal."
After the break, TDMG revs up the rusty weedwhacker with Undeciphered's Beneath The Gentle Smile. This brutal death combo features Terminus favorites Oscar Ortega (Induced, Molecular Fragmentation) and Nikhil T. (Anal Stabwound - see recent interview!), but forgoes the relative "subtlety" of their other projects for a full-frontal assault. Nevertheless, there's plenty to talk about here, including weirdly old-school breakdowns and ornate rhythmic ideas that TBMG simply can't hear.
We close out with a truly radical new project from Mexico City called Tiradero des Cadaveres ("Corpse Dump" -- holy shit). At first impact, this may sound like lo-fi, mutant "disso-death," but under the decaying flesh of modern skronk, TDMG can see cyclopean, ancient bones. TdC's raw, visceral noise attack immediately connects with TBMG, drawing some comparisons to the flagship band of "music-adjacent" metal, Concrete Winds.
00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / Terminus News ft. Cum Soaked Corpses Leaking Rectal Discharge
0:12:17 - Odal - Welten Mutter (Eisenwald)
1:01:37 - Autarcie - Apogée.Ivresse.Agonie. (Purity Through Fire)
1:49:41 - Interlude - Hirilorn - “The Legion That Will Never Fall,” fr. Legends of Evil and Eternal Death (Drakkar Productions, 1998)
2:01:40 - Undeciphered - Beneath the Gentle Smile (Amputated Vein Records)
2:46:30 - Tiradero des Cadaveres - The Glorious Entrance to the Spiritual Trance (Iron, Blood, and Death Corporation)
3:33:15 - Outro - Ares Kingdom - “A Dream of Armageddon,” fr. Return to Dust (NWN, 2006)
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Friday Apr 23, 2021
Friday Apr 23, 2021
On this throbbing and tumescent episode of Terminus, we bring you five bands with distinctive hybrid sounds, each drawing on a wealth of reference points that don't usually go together.
The Death Metal Guy leads off with what must be the best-selling underground (now, by accident, overground?) black metal record of all time -- that one with the dude in a cape with a flower and sword. There's a camp of people who think it's genius and authentic. There's (almost certainly) a camp of people who think it sucks and is false. But what does Terminus think? Let us consider the songs....
The Black Metal Guy replies with a strong candidate for Feel-Good Hit of The Summer -- the new one from the Korpsånd circle's Gabestok. Though black metal in spirit, Én gang rådden, altid rådden is rooted in some very different musical formats, from the nastiest beer-stained corners of punk and metal history. Even the way this band uses BM ideas is unexpected, leading to a masterfully original sound.
After the break, the Death Metal Guy brings us two new EPs. Chapels of Gore places industrial-noise methods at the service of BM aesthetics, continuing the legacy of TDMG's beloved Kembatinian Premaster. Incarceration plays really fast, high-energy blastbeat / breakdown music that sounds very modern, yet hearkens back to the days of primordial extreme metal, in that it really doesn't fit into any of the major genres.
Finally, The Black Metal Guy wraps it up with something uncharacteristically polished, a "fancy riffs" band called Obsolete. This leads us back to an old conversation about the relationship between technical death metal and thrash, and opens up into a new conversation on the difference between tech- and regular-metal song structure.
00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / Terminus News ft. Kult of Odium
0:13:39 - Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman (Livor Mortis)
0:59:24 - Gabestok - Én gang rådden, altid rådden (Strange Aeons Records)
1:38:32 - Interlude - Gastunk - “胎児 [Sad],” fr. Dead Song (Dogma Records, 1985) / Kuro - “No more no,” fr. Who The Helpless (Blue Jug Records, 1984)
1:44:11 - Chapels of Gore - The Venereal Shrine (Independent)
2:03:24 - Incarceration - Empiricism (Dawnbreed Records)
2:24:04 - Obsolete - Animate//Isolate (Unspeakable Axe)
3:04:29 - Outro - Martyr - "Warp Zone," fr. Warp Zone (Galy Records, 2000)
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Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Back on T37, we delved into the sophisticated songwriting of The Visceral Sovereign, the debut of a brutal death project named, unforgettably, "Anal Stabwound." Needless to say, The Death Metal Guy had to get in touch with sole mastermind Nikhil T., also known for his guitar and drum covers on Youtube. In an all-killer no-filler 45 minute conversation, Nikhil outlines his methodology for writing brutal death metal, discusses his journey to multi-instrumental mastery, and sheds some light on the strangely-structured internet scene at the vanguard of brutality.
00:00 - Introduction / origins of the Wound
07:38 - "It's a lot of shifting dyads" - Motivic songwriting / art of riff-construction / place of melody in BDM
16:28 - "Maybe I've played guitar way too much" - Nikhil's instrumental background / practice and learning new stuff
20:30 - Interlude - Anal Stabwound - "Demiurge of Abhorrence," fr. The Visceral Sovereign (Inherited Suffering Records, 2021)
24:24 - "A very fine balance to maintain" - technique as athleticism
26:32 - "Everyone else lives in Europe, or whatever" - remote collaboration / brutal death "combo" format
36:45 - "I don't take too much in people saying, 'Oh, this is garbage'." - brutal death and slam vs. normal death metal
44:30 - Avoiding the "riff after riff approach" - future of Anal Stabwound
47:26 - Outro - Korpse - "Molestation Condonation," fr. Insufferable Violence (Unique Leader, 2021)
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Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
In this twisted, maddening parody of a Terminus episode, we review only brutal death metal and raw pagan black metal. If you like elegant tremolo leads, immersive atmospheres, or vast, epic compositions, you are shit out of luck -- here you will find only viscous desolation and savage blades.
For once, we let The Death Metal Guy off the leash at the beginning of the show, and what does he do? Using phrases like "a lattice-work of slams",* he makes a systematic case for the artistic importance of brutal death. For you lovers of single-minded, extremely inaccessible sound, there's the Phillipine band Exerminated. Will Genesis of Genocide be the BDM album that finally sends The Black Metal Guy running for the hills? Next up, it's far more BM-positive fare from the cool dudes in Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, whose cacophonous mangle of eerie dissonance and iron snare evokes the monstrous angelic forms of Neon Genesis Evangelion (see T2 for a review of their last record).
On the second half of the show, TBMG unleashes our arsenal of short-release reviews, with:
1. A high-concept split release by Panzerwar (see T22) and Lungtoucher, centered on the clash of Saxons and Norsemen in what is now Yorkshire, northern England.
2. A promising demo from Spanish (no, Catalan!) newcomer Turment Nocturn. If you're worn out from hearing TDMG obsessively analyze complicated death metal riffs, get ready for TBMG to obsessively analyze some of the simplest riffs we've ever had on the show.
3. Finally, the booted berserkers of Doppelaxt raise their doppelaxen high above the mountain of the slain, offering red tribute to the black banner of PABM (PENNSYLVANIA BLACK METAL, that is). This band has learned the wolven mysteries of 90s Poland, but strikes with a hardcore-punkish speed that could only come from North America.
00:00 - Introductory bullshitting
0:06:14 - Exterminated - The Genesis of Genocide (Comatose Music)
0:49:34 - Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduduodenoscopy - The Rotted Plinth of Sachiel (Stillbirth Records)**
1:33:13 - Interlude - Cephalotripsy - "Consummating Omophagia," fr. Uterovaginal Insertion Of Extirpated Anomalies (Amputated Vein Records, 2007)
1:38:59 - Panzerwar / Lungtoucher - The Battle of Jórvík split (Independent)
2:23:46 - Turment Nocturn - Sense Misericordia (Narbentage / Negra Nit)
2:44:33 - Doppelaxt - Kill the Opposition (Independent / Cassettes thru to Signal Rex)
3:11:39 - Outro - Doppelaxt - “My Journey Towards Idealism,” fr. Kill The Opposition
*TDMG credits this to the excellent oldschool RYM reviewer Syncline.
**TDMG accidentally says that their 2020 EP, Adoration of Decaying Innocence, was their first official release. In truth, that was a 2019 demo called, uh, Interspecies Defloration.
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Friday Apr 09, 2021
Friday Apr 09, 2021
On this regal and abundant episode of Terminus, we bring you one record in a style we talk about way too much, and three others in styles we rarely cover. Perhaps one will strike your fancy....
We begin with the return of Sielunvihollinen, standard-bearers for the stern and stomping "street" variant of Finnish black metal, and an old favorite of TBMG. This is quite distinct from the Finnblack formula, as it's been popularized abroad, and provides a good window into the deeper reaches of the Finnish underground. We give special attention to the 'hollinen's gritty heavy-metalisms, and their skill at generating variation within self-imposed parameters.
Next up, TDMG initiates our first full-length review of anything dungeon synth -- Grîmmöld's The Dying Kings of Man. We're both DS-skeptics, to say the least, but we find this strangely compelling, especially in the way it reaches into properly aggressive BM, and properly sinister dungeon drone. I'm sure many of you are connoisseurs, so we'd be curious to hear whether the strong points of this record are as unique as we take them to be, or a fixture of the burgeoning nowadays DS scene.
After the break, it's time for something completely different with TDMG's other pick, a British _____-core band called Pupil Slicer. They play extremely choppy rhythms and technically demanding skronk-leads at the tempo of grind, with a fair number of Big Pit Riffs thrown in just for kicks. It takes TDMG back to his teenage mathcore phase, but it doesn't quite land with TBMG.
Finally, in honor of TDMG's concept of "Tony Hawk Pro-Skater Soundtrack Black Metal" (coined earlier in the show), TBMG pulls a 180 nosegrab tailspin in aesthetics and brings on..... a post-black band called Sertraline. What's gotten into him??? Let's find out....
0:00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / Terminus News ft. Liquid Viscera
0:14:41 - Sielunvihollinen - Teloituskäsky (Hammer of Hate)
0:58:44 - Grîmmöld - The Dying Kings of Man (Independent)
1:35:35 - Interlude - Moon and Azure Shadow - “Age of Darkness and Frost,” fr. Age of Darkness and Frost (2020 remaster by Repose Records)
1:44:26 - Pupil Slicer - Mirrors (Prosthetic Records)
2:26:50 - Sertraline - The Streetlight Was All We Needed (Hypnotic Dirge Records)
3:15:00 - Outro - Heaven In Her Arms - "赤い夢" ("Red Dream"), fr. 黒斑の侵蝕 ("Erosion of The Black Speckle") (Ape Must Not Kill Ape, 2007)
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Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
In this (relatively) short but high-ABV episode of Terminus, we bring you a fresh bouquet of the new spring's finest flowers -- albums about death, meth, swords, and burning boats. Exhale the rot of last year, and breathe in the smoke on the wind.
To lead off, The Death Metal Guy checks in with the captains of Danish Nautical Black Metal (DNBM), Ildskaer, whose Den rædsomste nat was one of 2020's more pleasant surprises. On this new EP, they make good use of the format -- not unleashing a full broadside like they did last year, but training their batteries to a new level. There's a lot of subtlety to explore.
The Black Metal Guy follows up with a killer album-length demo from ЛЕШИЙ (or "Leshiy"), a black metal configuration of Russia's Pleskau Brethren Circle. ЛЕШИЙ play simple, direct music inspired by sounds we all know and love -- so what is it that makes them so damn good? TBMG has a few ideas, and launches into the most detailed riff analysis we've done in a while.
After 90 minutes discussing noble, martial black metal, it's time to lower the tone, and TDMG has got what you need. If what you need is 37 minutes of artfully composed brutal death metal about addiction, recovery, and the rot at the heart of middle America, that is. Metharoma's Pipe Dreams is the first thing we've covered by one of TDMG's favorite nowadays BDM auteurs, Brian Forgue (Syphilic), and features Jacob Schmidt from Defeated Sanity.
Finally, we close out with a new Terminus favorite -- the rumbling, primordial black/death of Poland's Upon The Altar. TBMG is proud of his find, but he hands off the wheel to TDMG, our resident expert on all things Paul Ledney. You could think of this review as a tour through UTA's armory of arcane riffs: riffs that are only one note, riffs played over and over, riffs written by the drummer, and at last, the mighty Riff Where Nothing Happens Very Specifically.
0:00:00 - Introductory bullshitting
0:11:52 - Ildskaer - Paa dækket kalder de døde (Independent)
0:43:46 - ЛЕШИЙ (Leshiy) - ПОГАНЫЕ СНЫ (Horrible Room)
1:16:25 - Interlude - Bekhira - “The Devil and The Sorcerer,” L’Elu du Mal (Aura Mystique Productions, 2005)
1:21:05 - Metharoma - Pipe Dreams (Through the Alley) (New Standard Elite)
1:56:16 - Upon the Altar - Absit Ab Ordine Luminis (Putrid Cult)
2:34:08 - Outro - Demoncy - "Joined In Darkness," fr. Joined in Darkness (Baphomet Records, 1999 / reissues by NWN)
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Thursday Mar 25, 2021
Thursday Mar 25, 2021
On this megalithic episode of Terminus, we finally bring you a well-balanced roster -- two black metal bands and two death met- ok, sorry, one is basically deathcore, but it's not like the other deathcores, we promise.
The Black Metal Guy leads off with one of the final works of Lam -- Unseen Forest Patriot, recorded under the battle-mask of Zarabanda Moon. Most of you are familiar with Lam's projects Sanguine Eagle and Hand of Glory, and many are still feeling his loss. We begin with some background on his black circle, The House of First Light, and some thoughts on his personal legacy. Then we review the record. Terminus will release a proper memorial to Lam in coming months.
Next, The Death Metal Guy introduces Kaal Akuma, a Bangladeshi band whose pummeling death metal taps into the same eldritch forces as black metal. As TDMG points out, this is what "atmospheric / cavernous" death metal should be, and it really hits home with TBMG. Together we sperg over Kaal Akuma's mastery of folkish melody and their wild, intuitive playing, and do some speculation on the essence of subcontinental death/black metal.
After the break, TDMG comes in for round two with Sarkrista, a Finno-Germanic (like, literally from Finland and moved to Germany) black metal band who epitomize everything TDMG loves about the modern, melodic Sargeistian sound. You can imagine how this goes over with TBMG..... We discuss.
Finally, TBMG throws a curveball in the form of Humanity's Last Breath, a Swedish band playing a bleak, inorganic hybrid of "downtempo" and Orthodox BM. HLB has won a lot of respect in the hardcore scene, and it's time we found out what all the fuss is about. We were expecting some sick beatdowns w/ downtuned riffs over blastbeasts, but we got something far more original and challenging. This is another case of "core" bands setting the pace in the extremity arms race -- grit your teeth and turn it up.
00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / Terminus News ft. Transgressor (reissue) and Reaver (ft. mem. of Draghkar and Azath)
19:48 - Zarabanda Moon - Unseen Forest Patriot (Livor Mortis / Unseen Forest Patriot)
01:04:48 - Kaal Akuma - In the Mouth of Madness (Dunkelheit Produktionen)
01:44:53 - Interlude - Adversarial - "Cursed Blades Cast Upon The Slavescum of Christ," fr. Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of Nihilism (Dark Descent, 2015)
1:49:52 - Sarkrista - Sworn to Profound Heresy (Purity Through Fire)*
2:38:40 - Humanity's Last Breath - Välde (Unique Leader)
3:29:25 - Outro - Sovereign - “Dogman I,” fr. Dogman (Devil’s Child Records, 2008)
*Correction: Sarkrista is native to Germany -- they did not relocate there fr. Finland.
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Friday Mar 19, 2021
Friday Mar 19, 2021
On this auspicious, equinoctial episode of Terminus, your hosts battle through Sunday-night braindeath to bring you.... the show, featuring three bands that gravitate towards slower tempos without being "doom," and one band with lots of punk beats and songs about owls.
The Black Metal Guy leads off with that one, the self-titled debut from Vermont's Strix Askesis. This is stompy, jangly pagan BM shot through with a surprising range of non-metal influences, to the point it may not even be metal anymore -- in other words, it's American outlaw rock. Oh, and since he totally forgot to mention it on the show, TBMG (who writes these descriptions) would like to add that the greatest of those non-metal influences has gotta be Sonic Youth, esp. songs like "Stereo Sanctity" and "Cross The Breeze." If you dig wild, earthy, life-affirming music you'll love this -- and you won't have heard anything quite like it.
Next, in accordance with our Party-mandated quota for Eastern-bloc black metal, TDMG brings us Russia's Malist. This one is hard to pin down. On the one hand, it's polished and melodic. On the other hand, it's brooding and burly. If you've been following our long-running conversation / debate about the "Mgla effect" in modern BM, and the overall turn toward more immediately catchy riffing, this is a crucial one.
TDMG continues his run with a great new find, also from Eastern Europe -- the Polish death metal band Incertus. You could say Incertus play "old school death metal," but from an alternate timeline in 1985. This one is better heard than described, but suffice to say it hits on both levels -- crushing / guttural and cryptic / melodic. Incertus has a wonderfully imaginative vision of what death metal could still be, encapsulated by their improbable choice of a cover track....
Finally, TBMG decides it's time we had a talk - a talk about the new Ruins of Beverast, that is. Since you're all familiar with the monumental works of Alexander von Meilenwald, we take a freer approach with this one. It's less a sample-based review, more a rolling conversation where the new record leads us to thoughts on TRoB as a whole, and vice versa. So pour yourself a Scotch or doppelbock, light your ancestral tobacco pipe, and get ready to pensively stroke your beard / goatee / chiseled jawline, sometimes starting up from your richly-upholstered armchair to shout your disagreement, other times turned away toward the rain-spattered window, lost in eerily familiar dreams of megaliths in snow....
00:00 - Introductory bullshitting / rundown of bands and labels
0:05:18 - Strix Askesis - Strix Askesis (Independent)
0:57:22 - Malist - Karst Relict (Northern Silence Productions)
1:36:11 - Interlude - Dark Tranquility - "Unfurled by Dawn," fr. A Moonclad Reflection (Slaughter Records, 1992). This EP is an ancient artifact, but it's included on this comp, and you can buy other early DT directly from the band.
1:43:28 - Incertus - Predestination to Damnation (Defense Records)
2:17:10 - The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires (Ván Records)
2:52:08 - Outro - The Ruins of Beverast - "50 Forts Along the Rhine," fr. Rain Upon The Impure (Ván Records, 2006)
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Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Back on T37 we got all fired up about Returned to Life, the long-awaited return to life of Victoria, BC's Altered Dead. Now, the complete lineup of Mic (guitars/vox) and Julian (drums/vox) joins The Death Metal Guy for a Terminus interview as chill as it is high-spirited. TDMG and guests are very much on the same wavelength, so after a few brief formalities, it's onward to the ins and outs of songwriting, sound quality, and the creative dynamics of actually playing in a band.
If you're new to death metal, this has got everything you need to know to start your own band, and maybe steal one of the setups they tried before nailing the sound on the new record. But along with all that juicy detail, you'll hear these two old friends just riffing, which gives a far more "three-dimensional" feel than you could get in a one-on-one interview. Mic says what is probably the funniest thing ever said on this show (involves Bolt Thrower), and by the end, you'll feel like you've just spent a dimly-recollected weekend on the Victoria metalpunk scene (hangover and head injury not included).
00:00 - Introductions / two-man death metal?? / evolution of the sound
10:33 - "It's gotta roll forward always" - What makes an Altered Dead song? / riffwriting vs. soloing vs. jamming
27:22 - Interlude - Altered Dead - "Mental Suicide," fr. Returned to Life (2021)
32:07 - "I'm not gonna ask you the 'what are your influences question,' but...." - 80s roots / Victoria crust and grindcore / 00s and nowadays OSDM
41:16 - "You could just fucking die!" - mystical ticket stub / perils of Green Jelly / extreme metal in 90s console games.
48:20 - "Might as well use this too!" - 8-string guitar / recording / amps and cabs.... real gear hours
55:45 - "I listen to extreme metal everyday" - is there such a thing as death metal fatigue? / non-metal favorites
58:03 - "It's a bit surprising actually" - Altered Dead come to terms with fame and fortune.
01:01:34 - Outro - Ceremonial Bloodbath - "Primitive," fr. The Tides of Blood (2020)
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