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Interview with Danish thrashers TERMINALIST

From Denmark, with riffs! Terminalist pushes the speedometer with their new album The Great Acceleration. Terminalist bring a frantic fusion of thrash metal and philosophy in their sound, and lots of quicky riffs too. Terminalist guitarist and vocalist Emil Hansen goes One On One With The GRIM-1 in this email interview.   What's your favorite song off the new album, and why?   Well, all of the songs are favourites but if I am to choose one, it would be ‘Terminal Dispatch’ which I believe is a total thrash banger. Or our progressive, blackened death/thrash opus, ‘The Invention of the Shipwreck’ with lyrics based directly on the philosophy of French thinker Paul Virilio who says that the invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck. It’s a magnificent quote highlighting the destruction of our technological bearings and I think the track delivers a similar sense of grandiosity.   The Great Acceleration by Terminalist Was there a moment when you decided to...

Interview with Jake from BOOK OF WYRMS

We're all Wyrm food in the end, or something. Whatever. Until then, Richmond's Book Of Wyrms is here to indulge you with a mind-expanding new album, Occult New Age . GRIM fact: Necrosexual and friends were set to play a show with Book Of Wyrms in May of 2020, but the great menopause shut everything down before we could announce it. The one that got away! Book Of Wyrms new album soars across a galaxy of sounds, with bass-line driven hooks, and synthesizer heavy psych rock. "Hollergoblin," for example, rollicks with a catchy bass part that sounds like Blur or Radiohead at their most potent.   The power couple at the core of this four piece is bassist Jake "Jay" Lindsey  and vocalist Sarah Moore Lindsay, whose ethereal vocals sing the cosmic sonnets of Occult New Age  like the second coming of Kate Bush.  Jake Lindsey from Book Of Wyrms goes One On One with the GRIM-1 in this email interview below.  What's one song everyone should drop their shit to list...