Terminus Episode 158 - Sear Bliss, Windswept, Limbonic Art, Arcane Bayonet
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As Terminus prepares for its annual summer break (jetskiing, goblin slaying, etc.), we unleash a big black metal episode focused on only the coolest of wizard music. After an opening salvo by new project Arcane Bayonet, who present an oddball take on pagan black metal laced with black and roll, we get to a triumvirate of powerful spellcasting madness. First: the new record by Sear Bliss, legendary Hungarian hedge mages whose style of black/doom/folk/melodeath is as varied and well rounded as it is atmospheric and stirring. Second: the return of Windswept, a Saenko project which seeks to fuse the martial aggression of Hate Forest with the more delicate melodic sensibility of Drudkh to surprising results. Third: the mighty return of symphonic BM sorceror Limbonic Art, who drops the orchestra for something far more lean, hungry, and ferocious.0:00:00 - Intro 0:05:24 - Arcane Bayonet - Bellicose Fields (Death Magick Collective) 0:27:02 - Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down (Hammerheart Records) 1:18:45 - Interlude - Rotting Christ - “Diastric Alchemy,” fr. Triarchy of The Lost Lovers (Century Media, 1996) 1:23:44 - Windswept - Der eine, wahre König (Primitive Reaction) 2:01:53 - Interlude 2 - Nécropole - “Immanence,” fr. Ostara (Résilience, 2015) 2:09:23 - Limbonic Art - Opus Daemonical (Kyrck Productions & Armour) 2:55:48 - Outro - Anaal Nathrakh - “Between Piss and Shit We Are Born” fr. Eschaton (Season of Mist, 2006)Terminus links:Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTerminus on InstagramTerminus on [email protected]
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