Terminus Omega Roundup 2025!

About this episode

The episode evaluates the best records of 2025 with a focus on dark heathen black metal and a top 5 favorites list.

Terminus broke away from old habits in 2025 to concentrate on investigating older records and new types of content. But many of you desperately sought our sage advice on the best records of 2025, so here it is: a different version of our usual yearly Omega episode. This time, your hosts tackle the project of evaluating a pretty quiet year in two different ways. TBMG provides a sampler platter of ten records with lightning round reviews, concentrating on dark heathen black metal, and TDMG provides a tight top 5 of his favorites for the year, with an emphasis on vision and ambition. Welcome to 2026, Terminators. 0:00:00 - Intro/TBMG Presents 10 1:58:59 - Interlude - Brazen Horde - “Purgation, Thy Foul Lash” fr. Behold! The Ashen Cross (Nithstang/Blackseed, 2025) 2:04:43 - TDMG’s Top 5 4:01:33 - Outro - Umulamahri - “Leaked Photo of Heaven” fr. Learning the Secrets of Acid (Ordovician Records, 2025) Terminus on YoutubeTerminus on PatreonTDMG on Substackthetrueterminus@gmail.com

People in this episode

Hosts: TBMG, TDMG

Topics covered

• extreme metal
• album reviews
• black metal
• music analysis
• 2025 recap

Keywords

• 2025 music
• black metal
• album reviews
• extreme metal
• music podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ordovician Records, Nithstang, Blackseed

Books & works: Behold! The Ashen Cross, Learning the Secrets of Acid

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