A week off, perhaps unearned. Gotta keep my metal output quota high for my hordes of loyal listeners. My penance was getting a bit sick with a cold and buying way more music than I should have in my time in Colorado. Wax Trax and Chain Reaction were two extremely solid record stores in the Denver area. The former had a small but extremely respectable metal cd selection; picked up a metal-years English Dogs comp, a sealed 90s copy of Hecate Enthroned's second album, and a FAKE Jim Jones LP (fake as in not Jonestown, but real as in - the one in the Kenny vs Spenny episode). Chain Reaction had some great stuff too, being solely dedicated to metal and punk. Snagged cool Pungent Stench and Bethlehem shirt boots and some first issue Swans and DiJ cds.

On this week's show, I featured some French strangeness in the form of some classic LLN - a 1996 demo track from Belketre, and some brand new outsider stuff from Nuit Noire. Finland's stalwart Sargeist has an extremely solid new album, so played the finale off that one. Grenadier's epic stylings continue in their new single. I also continue to be surprised by the new online label - Part Ways with Self - which is putting out some real inspired and avant black metal; featured a new one from their label in the form of Keşf. Balancing out all the 2020s bands was some warm crackly Bathory vinyl to keep us all grounded and warmed by the Eternal Fire.

Setlist:

Belketre
Phobophilic
Nuit Noire
Weapon
Grenadier
Brutality Reigns Supreme
Purulent Remains
White Medal
Themgoroth
Tetragrammacide
Crucifier
Big Knife
Sissy Spacek
Keşf
Bathory
Eerified Catacomb
Fabricant
Ion Faith
Nacior Udun
Sargeist
Exorcist