Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
For as long as I've known him, The Death Metal Guy has been threatening to compile the definitive history of an almost-totally-forgotten subgenre -- torture doom. A few months ago, he finally made good on those threats. In this special bonus episode, previously available only to Terminus Prime subscribers, I stand by as sounding-board and student, while TDMG talks me through the rapid rise and equally rapid fall of an insular scene he followed from within. What you'll get here isn't just a labyrinthine narrative about torture doom, but a spoken ikon of torture doom, the spirit of the music made present in words of sprawling scope and singular intent.
This is some of TDMG's finest work thus far, and certainly one of our most ambitious episodes. It's also our first foray into a new project: giving you the Terminus Alternate History of Extreme Metal in full, and building monuments for things that deserve to be remembered. TDMG is spearheading the effort, and we'll have more exciting news on that front in the coming week.
00:00 - Introduction
13:06 - Cruel progenitors - Abruptum / Black Mass of Absu / Woods of Belial
39:27 - Shadow of The Torturer - Wormphlegm / Stabat Mater / Khanate
01:12:27 - "A big year for torture doom" - Bunkur / Moss
01:42:18 - Return of The Torturer - Wormphlegm's full-length
01:53:26 - Latecomers, small projects, and other curiosities
Terminus links:
Patreon: patreon.com/terminusextrememetalpodcast
Subscribestar: subscribestar.com/terminus-extreme-metal-podcast
Podbean: thetrueterminus.podbean.com
Instagram: instagram.com/terminusextrememetal
Facebook: facebook.com/terminuspodcast
Contact: thetrueterminus@gmail.com
For as long as I've known him, The Death Metal Guy has been threatening to compile the definitive history of an almost-totally-forgotten subgenre -- torture doom. A few months ago, he finally made good on those threats. In this special bonus episode, previously available only to Terminus Prime subscribers, I stand by as sounding-board and student, while TDMG talks me through the rapid rise and equally rapid fall of an insular scene he followed from within. What you'll get here isn't just a labyrinthine narrative about torture doom, but a spoken ikon of torture doom, the spirit of the music made present in words of sprawling scope and singular intent.
This is some of TDMG's finest work thus far, and certainly one of our most ambitious episodes. It's also our first foray into a new project: giving you the Terminus Alternate History of Extreme Metal in full, and building monuments for things that deserve to be remembered. TDMG is spearheading the effort, and we'll have more exciting news on that front in the coming week.
00:00 - Introduction
13:06 - Cruel progenitors - Abruptum / Black Mass of Absu / Woods of Belial
39:27 - Shadow of The Torturer - Wormphlegm / Stabat Mater / Khanate
01:12:27 - "A big year for torture doom" - Bunkur / Moss
01:42:18 - Return of The Torturer - Wormphlegm's full-length
01:53:26 - Latecomers, small projects, and other curiosities
Terminus links:
Patreon: patreon.com/terminusextrememetalpodcast
Subscribestar: subscribestar.com/terminus-extreme-metal-podcast
Podbean: thetrueterminus.podbean.com
Instagram: instagram.com/terminusextrememetal
Facebook: facebook.com/terminuspodcast
Contact: thetrueterminus@gmail.com
