Terminus Episode 100 - Dressed in Streams, Dogman, Grigorien

It's that time of the season again! Terminus returns with another episode but, uh, a weird one again. This time it's TDMG that's our handling some personal business, which means we have an episode featuring TBMG and Terminus intern Hyper Shaman, this time focusing on wooly and wild strains of black metal from all over the (full) spectrum. Think of this as the perverse alternative to the first guest episode featuring TDMG and HS, but instead of slam and gorenoise it's even more cryptic, inscrutable black metal. So, in essence, business as usual.

The show kicks off with the triumphant return of war elephant-riding Dressed in Streams with a new EP. The project's second record, Swaraj, was covered on the show in 2020 and ended up on TBMG's end of the year list. The new EP, while clearly part of the project's sonic lineage, presents a more biting, hot-blooded take on the style, leaning away from the subtle post-blackisms of the previous record and more fully into the brackish and insane. An obvious required listen for Terminators.

Following this is a true oddity: the debut album by Dogman, a Bosnian project which presents itself as worship of equally obscure Brazilian project Sovereign. What we have here is a truly unusual combination of Franco-Finnish consonance and panicked, alcoholic blackthrash which straddles no lines but its own. Can Dogman bridge the gap between what seem to be wildly divergent musical concepts? Listen and decide for yourself.

We conclude our evening with the debut record of Danish band Grigorien, a band which attempts to resurrect, in a sense, the totality of the second wave that does not discount advances made in more recent years. Furiously devilish and bitterly aggressive, this might have been denounced with terms like "Norsecore" in earlier years, but within the heat and extremity is a subtlety of arrangement that defies its contemporaries.

0:00:00 - Intro

0:11:16 - Dressed in Streams - लड़ाई का मैदान (“Battlefield”) (Colloquial Sound Recordings)

0:53:23 - Dogman - Alcoholic Fury & Madness (Total Death) (Independent)

1:38:50 - Grigorien - Magtens Evangelium (Signal Rex)

2:29:01 - Outro - Belëf - “Deathwind Legion” fr. Deathwind Legion (Criminal Records, 2000)

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