Terminus Episode 66 - Antediluvian, กาฬพราย (Kanprai), Ruin, Anal Stabwound

TERMINUS: extreme metal podcast

It's a real hot swordboy summer for The Black Metal Guy as yet another old favorite returns for a new record, a friend submits a full-length demo, and two previously featured artists return again. This one's a deep cut for Terminus pros, with lots of returning features and refinements on old styles coming to a head in a varied and fun episode.

Starting off is Antediluvian, returning with their first record in 8 years. An old favorite of TBMG, Antediluvian's style of extreme, sprawling, and seemingly improvisational black/death is more abstract and complex than ever before. With touches of post-industrial, jazz, and ambience filtering in, you might be inclined to think this is the sound of a band becoming "experimental" (blech,) but don't worry, there's more than enough sawing war metal riffs to go around.

Next is กาฬพราย (Kanprai), previously mentioned on the show but reviewed for the first time with a Thai take on various black metal styles. The core of this music is a blend of DSBM and post-hardcore informed European styles, but with a thread of deeply textured and organic riffing ideas that expand upon basic forms in novel ways. Want something kind of like raw tapeblack but with actual musical ideas? Here you go.

After our interlude, TDMG fires up with the return of Ruin, south Californian doomdeath terrorists previously featured on the show back in 2020. Ruin's music is an unchanging, grotesque block of human flesh and granite, so don't expect a dramatic change, but rather a refinement of their core style: slow, punishing death metal about serial murder and mental illness, like a goregrind 7" accidentally played on 33.

Wrapping up the night is the new EP by Anal Stabwound, whose full length we featured earlier this year and we also interviewed a few months back. Sole member Nikhil does it again with arguably his greatest work to date, a categorical improvement in every way from his previous work which sets him up for absolute brutal death hegemony. We're at Defeated Sanity levels here, folks- where's he gonna go from here?

0:00 - Intro ft. Aburio

0:13:30 - Antediluvian - The Divine Punishment (Nuclear War Now)

0:58:33 - กาฬพราย (Kanprai) - โพธสนธยา (Bodhisandhyā)

1:32:03 - Interlude - Sterbend - “Depressing Paths Through Fullmoon Forests” fr. Dwelling Lifeless (No Colours Records, 2006) (Linked is the cassette re-release from a couple years back, CD long out of print and apparently not available digitally)

1:39:27 - Ruin - Spread Plague Death (Goat Throne Records/Nameless Grave Records)

2:18:00 - Anal Stabwound - Abstraction Bathes in Sunlight (New Standard Elite)

2:52:27 - Outro - Psyopus - “The White Light” fr. Ideas of Reference (Black Market Activities, 2004)

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