Aug 14 2025 - Strange Loops and Incantations

 

Mam, this is a Wendy's

Things have been a bit hellish the past few weeks. Between this radio show prep, and my normal 9-5 which has been extra busy, I'm also part of a film crew for a relatively complicated horror film. Every moment not spent at work or passively choosing music for the coming week's show is spent with production and prop planning, puppetry building, and prosthetic casting/painting. It'll be cool as fuck when it comes out, and I think we're doing some pretty incredible 70s-80s exploitation levels of depravity. Excited for people to watch and be grossed out. In the meantime...stress.

This week, I had to play some recent brutal death and slam favorites in the form of Kill Everything, a band which reps some former members of Devourment, and Putridity- Italian tech-brutallers who took a decade between releases. Both are crazy good and should scratch the itch for any fan of their respective styles. 

I also wanted to highlight some of my personal favorite bands which I feel aren't spoken about nearly enough in everyday UG metal. Darvulia, who crafted some of the most dissonant and yet groovy black metal, are almost never raised in the same conversations as bands like Ved Buens Ende or Deathspell Omega. And while it's understandable in the context of Darvulia not being nearly as overtly avant-garde as those bands, there is something about their dissonant but clean sound, their ability to slow things down and play some tilted rock music before diving back into an assault. It's all so novel and unique. A real shame we only got 3 albums from them. I also highlighted some favorites from some other bands which feel are a bit underrated - Antediluvian and their soupy primordial bizareness, and Mithras, whose cosmic death metal is unlike anyone else. 

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Artist	Song / Album	Format	Style	Timecode
Suffocation	Delusions of Mortality / Hymns from the Apocrypha	CD	Brutal Death	0:00:00
Voice Break				0:03:51
Sigh	The Knell / Scorn Defeat	CD	Old-school Symphonic Black	0:09:03
Impurity	Lucifer Spewing Blasphemies / The Lamb's Fury	Digital	Beherit Worship War Metal	0:13:19
Helwetti	Mountain of the Everburning Evil Fires / Demo Collection	CD	Ice Cold Finnish Black	0:16:02
Pungent Stench	Sputter Supper / Been Caught Buttering	Digital	Chunky Death n Roll	0:21:36
Voice Break				0:24:56
Kill Everything	Ecoriated Integumental Sludge Altar / Headless Cum Dumpster	Digital	Transgressive Slam	0:29:48
Putridity	Adipocere Retribution / Morbid Ataraxia	Digital	Techy Brutal Death	0:33:08
Darvulia	Göqkre / L'alliance des venins	CD	Off-Kilter Dissonant Black	0:36:26
Mithras	Time Never Lasts + The Last Redoubt / On Strange Loops	LP	Cosmic Tech-Death	0:42:47
Rampant	Agincourt 1415 / Rampant	Digital	Noisy Black Oi!	0:52:05
Voice Break				0:54:45
Squelette	Oraison Finale / Fin De Partie	Digital	Oi!/Post-Punk	0:59:35
Bolt Thrower	7th Offensive / Honour Valour Pride	CD	Death Metal	1:02:48
Précipice	L'étreinte de la marée de plomb / Précipice	Digital	Fuzzed Riffy Black	1:09:00
Lymphatic Phlegm	Petechial-Ecchymotic Widespread Hemorrhages (Characteristic Aspects of Meningococcemia) / Pathogenesis Infest Phlegmsepsia	CD	Atmospheric Gore	1:16:20
Voice Break				1:18:47
Pinnacle	Cyborg / Cyborg Assassin	CD	Hard Rock / Proto Punk	1:26:55
Fields of Agony	Unbearable Coveting / Rehearsal Promo	Digital	Raw UK Black	1:31:34
Dunwich	L'annuncio di Igaluk / Sul monte e il tuono	Digital	Gothic Atmospheric Hard Rock	1:35:39
Vehement	Looking For a Way Out / Born	Digital	Polish Symphonic Death	1:39:53
Antediluvian	Guardians of the Liminal / The Divine Punishment	CD	Primordial Soup Metal	1:43:16
Voice Break				1:47:34
Louis De Meester	Incantations / De Meester Alpha Recordings	LP	Scary Musique Concrete	1:53:29

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