Ex Inferis: A Heavy Metal Podcast

In these unprecedented times, can we even recall the last opportunity we could all collectively go on a good pillaging? As was embellished on ancient mystic runes by the hands of the Old Gods themselves, it all seems so “Bjorn today, gone tomorrow” right now. Nevertheless, such as the langskip was built to sever through the Baltic seas, we too must sally forward. In this week’s feature episode, Matthew, Jamie and Tom fill their mead horns to the brim and regale tales of Norse mysticism, Scandi paganism, geo-nationalism and Amon Amarth-isms. It’s that rather problematic, contrary, paradoxical, yet oddly engaging caricature of a sub-genre, Viking Metal, with all untamed confusion of sonics and symbolism in tow. From 60s counterculture to folk horror revivalism, we go from Asgard to Valhalla with this one. So put aside your great axes, lay down your historically inaccurate helmets and let us Ragnarok your world.

The boys from below take you through the best (but not always) music out there. This week's featured albums (but not limited to): Warrior Path - The Mad King Pupil Slicer - Mirrors Demiser - Through the Eternal Gate Enforced - Kill Grid Sepulcros - Transcending Obscurity Butterfly - Doorways of Time

The boys from below take you through the best (but not always) music out there. This week's featured albums (but not limited to): Vestindien - Null Paranorm - Empyrean Age of Woe - Envenom Lamp of Murmuur - Virgin Womb of Eternal Black Terror Iotunn - Access All Worlds Socioclast -Socioclast

The boys from below take you through the best (but not always) music out there. This week's featured albums (but not limited to): Keys of Orthanc - Of the Lineage of Kings Hulder - Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry Ekdikēsis - Canvas of a New Dawn Sederai Mutilation - Agony of Borneo Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning Froglord -Save The Frogs

The boys from below take you through the best (but not always) music out there. This week's featured albums (but not limited to): The Body - I've Seen All I Need to See Universally Estranged - Reared Up in Spectral Predation Melvins - Working With God Feculent - The Grotesque Arena Elegy - Dead Beast