TERMINUS: extreme metal podcast

In this triumphant (if bite-sized) return for I Hate Video Games, your host examines Crimsonland, an obscure early 00s twin-stick shooter that just might be the best of its genre.

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On the second part of our goth extravaganza, your hosts review two seminal records by Danzig and Type O Negative. Danzig's eponymous debut presents a fascinating take on goth rock which maintains a strident hardcore discipline, while Type O Negative's fourth shows the band at their darkest and most extreme doom metal form. Throughout it all: an exploration of how Danzig and Steele use the same DNA to produce wildly different animals.

0:00:00 - The Agnostic Front Incident

0:10:19 - Key Aesthetic Distinctions

0:25:35 - Danzig - Danzig I (Def American Recordings, 1988)

1:41:11 - Albert King - “The Hunter” fr. Born Under a Bad Sign (Stax Records, 1967)

1:43:55 - Type O Negative - World Coming Down (1999)

2:44:29 - Dishell - “Xero Tolerance” fr. Blast No. 1 - Blastbeat Tribute to Type O Negative (783punx, 2023)

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After a very long delay, Noah (aka TDMG) finishes the series on Total Abuse with a look at Parasite, the oft-forgotten closer to Peter Sotos' early period, which shows Sotos conducting media critique and cultural analysis from his own putrid perspective. Listener discretion strongly advised.

0:00:00 - Intro/Background

0:10:01 - Parasite

0:15:12 - Part One - Hypocrisy

0:29:34 - Part Two - Proxies

0:38:46 - Part Three - Pornography

0:47:08 - Part Four - Sex

0:59:21 - Part Five - Odds and Ends

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It's been a while, terminators- you may have suspected us of succumbing to the mainstream. Well, on this episode, perhaps we have- but with good reason. In the first half of this two-part project, The Black Metal Guy presents his Greater Unified Danzig/Steele Theory, in which Peter Steele's career trajectory eerily mirrors Glenn Danzig's, and how the work of each can shine new light on the other. Join us on a tour through the early days of these artists, through The Misfits, Carnivore, Samhain, and Repulsion, as we gather our powers for reviews of some of our favorites by both in the next installment.

0:00:00 - Intro/The Greater Unified Danzig/Steele Theory

0:40:24 - Interlude - Carnivore - “Carnivore” fr. Nuclear Warriors (Independent, 1984)

0:44:02 - Step 1 - Thrashing Hardcore (Late Misfits/Carnivore)

1:14:47 - Step 2 - Weird Transitional Albums (Samhain/Slow, Deep, and Hard)

1:47:11 - Interlude - The Misfits - “Last Caress” fr. Static Age (Caroline Records, 1978/1996)

1:49:08 - Step 3 - Full Gothic Metal Arrival (Danzig/Type O Negative)

2:58:04 - Outro - Danzig - “On a Wicked Night” fr. Deth Red Sabaoth (AFM Records, 2010)

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Terminus broke away from old habits in 2025 to concentrate on investigating older records and new types of content. But many of you desperately sought our sage advice on the best records of 2025, so here it is: a different version of our usual yearly Omega episode. This time, your hosts tackle the project of evaluating a pretty quiet year in two different ways. TBMG provides a sampler platter of ten records with lightning round reviews, concentrating on dark heathen black metal, and TDMG provides a tight top 5 of his favorites for the year, with an emphasis on vision and ambition. Welcome to 2026, Terminators.

0:00:00 - Intro/TBMG Presents 10

1:58:59 - Interlude - Brazen Horde - “Purgation, Thy Foul Lash” fr. Behold! The Ashen Cross (Nithstang/Blackseed, 2025)

2:04:43 - TDMG’s Top 5

4:01:33 - Outro - Umulamahri - “Leaked Photo of Heaven” fr. Learning the Secrets of Acid (Ordovician Records, 2025)

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