Terminus Episode 124 - Nécropole, Heresie, Smallpox Aroma
Published 2023-04-24
Over in Europe, though, things are different, starting with the return of the mighty Nécropole (sure, it was released in the last week of 2022, but who's counting?) The half decade since the band's debut record has tempered the style into something colder and more remote but no less ferocious and mystical. Nécropole finds a fine midpoint between the more technical work seen by Orthodox-influenced artists and the chivalric storming of the Antiq bands, making for a record kingly in its disposition but wolflike in its execution.
On the other side is Heresie, a young band reaching toward the traditions of French black metal ruralism but with the added bite of early Graveland and some of the meanest edges of the second wave. Deliberately primitive songs thrive on the high contrast of bloodthirsty aggression and aching longing while bass guitar freely floats around the stark, rewilded soundscape. Heresie finds itself in a strange place, somewhere between Pagan Hellfire and primitive CDr black metal of the 00s, but presents itself with a clarity of vision very few can achieve.
0:00:00 - Intro/Smallpox Aroma - Festering Embryos of Logical Corruption (Inhuman Assault Productions)
0:14:30 - Nécropole - Yoga (Northern Heritage)
1:11:57 - Interlude - Lutomysl - “Без вогню провідної зорі (Without the Light of the Guiding Star)” fr. Ecce Homo (2018, Drakkar Productions)
1:18:03 - Heresie - Heresie (France Black Death Grind)
2:01:42 - Outro - Graveland - “The Dark Battlefield” fr. Thousand Swords (Lethal Records, 1995)
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All Comments (5)
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Very cool podcast! Concerning Nécropole, it is worth mentioning that Amertume has a ''post black-metal/post punk'' side project called Tέλος which came up in 2019 after Solarité release. It seems that some more rockish/ post punk influences if I may say have been mixed and incorporated in ''Yoga''. I assume that the switch of language from french to english could be also motivated by those new influences. Caverne was more conceptualised as an intimate ''pagan black metal'' project with a mix of different influences (french NSBM scenes from Toulon, Burzum, some other pagan bands...) whereas Nécropole originally was a band project where the different members left progressively making Amertume the unique captain of the ship. I am glad that french bm scene is getting the recognition it deserves and I believe Amertume is one of the best musician and composer we have at the moment on this scene.
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👍🏻🍻
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The Nécropole album is very french while still being full spectrum and global. The album really immediately reminded me of Let the Devil in, that mostly has to do with what TBMG said about this album being “delicate, self-contained, noble stronghold”. I think you can obviously extended that imagery to Let the Devil In. But of course like Tdmg mentioned the slavic streak is present. This might be a top five year end list album for me. It’s literally everything I want in a black metal record, at least these days.
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gotta love when you guys open it up with penis slapping in various countries
