Show Notes
Terminators, thank you for your patience. After a couple weeks’ delay, for which TDMG has a good excuse (two fucking hurricanes) and I have none, we’re back! Or rather, I’m back, with a big interview.A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Naughton, frontman of Winterfylleth and pioneer of modern pagan black metal. I asked him to draw up a list of five quintessentially English bands/scenes that fed into the Winterfylleth sound. These serve as touchstones for a conversation ranging from details of guitar technique to lyrical source texts to obscure distro history.On the show, we’ve often characterized Winterfylleth as a kind of tricky folk-cultural transplant project, “English Slavblack.” Talking with Chris led me to revise this portrait: Much of what I attributed to the influence of Ukrainian bands has older roots in Chris’s native soil, in styles I hadn’t necessarily expected. As for the question of English black metal, Chris has a thoughtful answer, a robust rebuttal to the old saw that “there's no such thing as 'English' culture."00:00 - Intro3:08 - Peaceville death-doom, songwriting for Winterfylleth33:22 - Bolt Thrower, Carcass52:45 - Is there an “English Sound” in black metal? (YES, but it’s not what you think)1:01:09 - Deep Purple1:06:40 - Interlude - Iron Maiden - “Blood Brothers” fr. Brave New World (EMI, 2000)1:13:54 - Fairport Convention, folk ballads, and pastoral poetry1:30:21 - Primordial, the turn towards pagan black metal1:43:22 - Drudkh / Hate Forest vs. other Slavic black metal2:14:00 - Outro - Winterfylleth - “The Insurrection,” fr. The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight, 2024)Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on [email protected]
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