Three Radikal Rekerds #24: Primitive Palrethee Philosophers

I'm in a bit of a self-indulgent mood today, and what I like to indulge in is the most raw, esoteric and utterly blasted lo-fi black metal I can conjure up from the dark mucoid warrens of the internet. As far as I'm aware two of the three following bands don't even have any sort of meaningful presence (at least at the time of posting this) on my beloved bandcamp, opting instead to crafting limited physical copies only. 

Thankfully a few choice YT channels I know such as Rites of Pestilence, Order of the Black Arts, Mão da Glória and Black Metal Promotion reupload many of these social media unfriendly masterpieces for my perusal, more often than not with the respective bands blessings.

Genre: Black Metal

Standout track: Between Her Thighs a Feast for Flies 

Shifting chaotically between old school extreme metal song-writing and the more honed "soaring evil" quality of modern black metal, this abject record is dripping with occultsploitation luridness and faux-naïve creepiness.  

Genre: Black Metal

Standout track: 424 Millones de Escombros 

Dear God! Knowing that this was a Mexican occult metal group featuring the profoundly creative weirdo known as Herxsebet, I had an inkling this was going to be a pretty crazy album. But even I was little prepared for just how balls-to-the-wall deranged this gets. This thirty-six minute long descent into a Salvator Rosa-esque pit of hissing and shrieking shadows possesses monstrously distorted vocals beyond anything I've heard in UGBM before, and many instances of string-plucking Galician melancholy that effectively compartmentalize the otherwise unrelenting quality of this record into a gallery of grotesque instances. And it's only a demo!  

Genre: Black Metal

Standout track: Returning Them To The Primitive Ways Of Old 

Ugly analog black metal, which interestingly seems to be a sun worship themed project from the mysterious Baltimore-based kvlt called The Gravelight Order, a collective of UGBM groups such as Mortevexis, Slaves to the Enchanted Fog and Vampyric Bvrial.