The Purgatory Aftershow

We did another pod, this time about the quirky British death metal scene. Some real classics covered in this episode! Check it out wherever you get your pods /,,/

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Blut Aus Nord rudely inserting itself into my AOTY conversation

This video is OFFICIALLY the coolest shit

Nice, I think this might be the first time I’ve ever seen anyone reference that Fliege record. The Thing concept albums ftw! Love that album

Yeah I can get with this. More than any one album, skateboarding videos - particularly the 90s Toy Machine & Zero videos of Jamie Thomas - set the cornerstones of my musical taste for life. Sabbath, Maiden, Misfits, Slayer… The gang’s all there

Two weeks worth of Week Thing as I forgot last week.

It's list season and I'm doing some revisiting...

Album of the Two Weeks is Lamp or Murmur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy

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That scene fucking rips

This is a superb AOTY list

Yeah and this might be their best work yet!

Btw I found this looking at your Bandcamp collection haha. Thanks!!

Twilight Space Theatre, by THANATOPHOBIA 8 track album

Missed new Thanatophobia 🇷🇺🇧🇾 in March. Big mistake. This is probably my favorite contemporary brutal death metal project. Utterly pulverizing but with touches of melodicism and cosmic progginess

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lordofthesickrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/twilig...

Moronic batting from Crawley. So, so easy for Starc to just dangle it out there and let him do himself in

Zak Fucking Crawley ffs

Happy First Day of the First Test of The Ashes, to all who celebrate

This will be fun for about five minutes until the wickets start falling

This is going to be very high on my EOY list. Post-punk black metal ftw

YouTube video by PristineParts Marc Johnson - 411VM Best of #4 (1997)

90s emo in 90s skatevids was an S-tier combo

youtu.be/h444ZudKXFE?...

Week thing. Double bill of Teutonic sadness from Waldgeflüster 🇩🇪, thrash from Transgressive 🇺🇸, heavy metal dreampop from Astronoid 🇺🇸 and black metal from Auriferous Flame 🇬🇷

Elsewhere, favorites old and new

AOTW is Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork 🇬🇧 (mathcore)

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Haha I talk to you about movies and basically everything else is black metal

Rock obvs but probably more interesting filtered for Style

Shame, please post black metal stuff, we love black metal

Sage: I, by Locktender 3 track album

This won out for me in the end though there were many other wonderful contenders

locktender.bandcamp.com/album/sage-i

Oh well, nothing is for everyone!

Pupil Slicer’s great tho innit?!?

Orm is the same. That would’ve been an instant preorder but $33 shipping fml

With all the tariff craziness and ridiculous shipping these are two records that would normally preorder on day 1 but just haven’t sprung for yet. Need AOP to get a proper US distro

Happy Waldgeflüster Day to those who celebrate!

Yeah it's magical, it's gonna be pretty damn high on my list, I reckon

What a week for black metal!!! Orm 🇩🇰 , Yellow Eyes and One of Nine 🇺🇸, Robes of Snow and Unholy Altar 🇺🇸 , Aduanten 🇺🇸 and Rå 🇧🇪, plus HÆRESIS, VÅILD and Nimbifer 🇩🇪 (@vendettarecords.bsky.social)

Teardrinker 🇳🇱 for scramz EPOTY

AOTW is Barren Path - Grieving 🇺🇸🇯🇵 (Grindcore, Willowtip)

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Do you think it is as good as Intet • Altet?

I don’t, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t gonna be at or near the top of my list…

Yeah this is kewl

That Gràb is amazing and not getting enough love. I haven't listened to Amalekim... Fixing...

This looks an awful lot like the top row of my AOTY grid