Extreme Metal Radio
Aug 7 2025 - Incinerated, Executed, Lobotomized (in that order)
August 7, 2025 7:00pm
I signed up for a metal radio show, but my true listening habits tend to reflect maybe only 50-60% metal, the rest being a mix of a bit of everything else. Or, not everything but you know - ambient, experimental, idm, oi!, jazz, prog, art rock, cock rock, butt rock, etc etc. This show doesn't need to be some kind of accurate reflection of my taste, and frankly I find there to be some hubris in expecting that people will want to tune into hear my taste. I'm not Andy Warhol, I don't work for Vogue in the 90s, I'm not a tastemaker.
That said though, there's some kind of theme or greater sensibility I'm trying to tap into. I felt it when I used to shop at Aquarius Records (RIP). Even if there was no explicit cohesion in their selection of music (they had everything from strange low print run black metal, to random world music, to non-music oddball records), it felt like they had created a wavelength for its community to tap into. You didn't always know what you were going to get from them but you knew it would be interesting and catered to niche sensibilities. That's something like what I'd like to achieve here. But for fear of being too fruity about it, I'll stop there.
This week, Tour-de-Garde surprise published the new Runeboy album on their YT channel and it's pretty incredible stuff. Just a rough and sloppy mix of oi!, neofolk, off-key rock, sound collage, and noise. Probably the best thing I've heard this year. I peppered in some outsider black metal in the form of Trörkrvisätänsrökrëh (LLN-esque blown out stuff with goregrind vocals), Gauhaert (one-off folk metal side project from Urfaust), and Nogbold's Palace (completely enveloping and obscure raw gothic black metal). Pásmo from Czechia is a really cool contemporary band merging post-punk Soviet block sounds with heavy metal; their newest is also quickly becoming a favorite this year. Classics from Akercocke, Necromantia, and Deicide rounded things out.
Setlist:
Necromantia
Runeboy
Skuggeheim
Cauterized Torso
Akercocke
Incinerated
Sanitys Dawn
Trörkrvisätänsrökrëh
Gauhaert
Ildjarn-Nidhogg
Noctuary
Nogbold's Palace
English Dogs
Pásmo
Deicide
Sarcastic
Soulreaper
Hecate Enthroned
Death in June
Thoth
Houre
Thomas Ligotti
That said though, there's some kind of theme or greater sensibility I'm trying to tap into. I felt it when I used to shop at Aquarius Records (RIP). Even if there was no explicit cohesion in their selection of music (they had everything from strange low print run black metal, to random world music, to non-music oddball records), it felt like they had created a wavelength for its community to tap into. You didn't always know what you were going to get from them but you knew it would be interesting and catered to niche sensibilities. That's something like what I'd like to achieve here. But for fear of being too fruity about it, I'll stop there.
This week, Tour-de-Garde surprise published the new Runeboy album on their YT channel and it's pretty incredible stuff. Just a rough and sloppy mix of oi!, neofolk, off-key rock, sound collage, and noise. Probably the best thing I've heard this year. I peppered in some outsider black metal in the form of Trörkrvisätänsrökrëh (LLN-esque blown out stuff with goregrind vocals), Gauhaert (one-off folk metal side project from Urfaust), and Nogbold's Palace (completely enveloping and obscure raw gothic black metal). Pásmo from Czechia is a really cool contemporary band merging post-punk Soviet block sounds with heavy metal; their newest is also quickly becoming a favorite this year. Classics from Akercocke, Necromantia, and Deicide rounded things out.
Setlist:
Necromantia
Runeboy
Skuggeheim
Cauterized Torso
Akercocke
Incinerated
Sanitys Dawn
Trörkrvisätänsrökrëh
Gauhaert
Ildjarn-Nidhogg
Noctuary
Nogbold's Palace
English Dogs
Pásmo
Deicide
Sarcastic
Soulreaper
Hecate Enthroned
Death in June
Thoth
Houre
Thomas Ligotti
