About this episode

The episode explores the impact of Thergothon's album 'Stream from the Heavens' on the Funeral Doom genre and its historical context.

This week on Riff Worship, we descend into the slowest, darkest, and heaviest corner of extreme music history to explore the birth of Funeral Doom through Thergothon’s 1994 cult classic, Stream from the Heavens! Before disbanding in 1993 and leaving the metal world behind, a group of Finnish teenagers completely rewrote the rulebook on heavy music. Fed up with the oversaturated early-'90s death metal scene, the Kaarina-based trio stripped away all speed and aggression to craft something entirely immersive, bleak, and atmospheric. Heavily influenced by the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft and a mixture of non-metal sounds—ranging from Dead Can Dance and Joy Division to dark ambient and goth rock—Thergothon channeled their angst into a frozen, monolithic vacuum of pure negative emotion. Join us as we dissect the band's brief but legendary three-year history, trace the origins of Obscure Plasma Records and Avantgarde Music, and discover how a single, 40-minute album paved the way for bands like Skepticism, Evoken, and Mournful Congregation! Recommendations: CADY - Limitations of the Human Form This Empty Flow - Magenta Skycode Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet MonumentuM - In Absentia…

People in this episode

Hosts: Austin Paulson, Dylan Adams, Justin Swindle

Topics covered

• Funeral Doom
• Extreme Music History
• Thergothon
• Heavy Music
• Cosmic Horror
• Metal Influences

Keywords

• Funeral Doom
• Thergothon
• Stream from the Heavens
• Extreme Music
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Obscure Plasma Records
• Avantgarde Music
• Metal History

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Thergothon, Obscure Plasma Records, Avantgarde Music

Books & works: Stream from the Heavens, Limitations of the Human Form, Magenta Skycode, Stormcrowfleet, In Absentia Christi, The Boats of The Glen Carrig, Metagonism

Places: Kaarina

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