Chant your song on northern glory…
It seems like a long week has passed for all of us in the Worm hole… don’t even ask Jim how buying a house is going, but through it all we have pulled it together for a good round of reviews AND a track premier from the new Arckanum will be airing next week.
Jim and I are proud to announce that we have added a new writer to the fold! We would like to introduce you to the talented Jake Moran. He is a fellow dweller of Northern Michigan, a friend of ours and into a lot of the same musics. For a deeper glimpse into where Jake is coming from, check out his blog Boreal Isle http://www.borealisle.blogspot.com for his passionate critiquing style and obvious love for the metal world that we all inhabit. He’s a great guy and a perfect fit in moving forward with Worm Gear. We are thrilled to have him with us and we’re sure that you’ll all grow to appreciate his literary prose. He arrives at the Worm bunker this week with reviews for Battle Dagorath and Cardinal’s Folly…
So we grow in strength and in numbers, and are eager to strike back next week. Hopefully the Satan and Arckanum interviews will be arriving soon, but in the meantime, enjoy this weeks stream of thought and our exclusive stream of “Hatarnir” from Arckanum’s excellent 8th album, Fenris Kindir.
Marty Rytkonen Playlist
Hades – …Again Shall Be
Feast Eternal – Forward Through Blood MCD
Eis – Wetterkreuz
Darkthrone – The Underground Resistance
Ablaze My Sorrow – If Emotions Still Burn
Aosoth – IV: Arrow in Heart
Angel Corpse – Hammer of Gods
Arckanum – Fenris Kindir
Unisonic – S/T
Ulver – Vargnatt
Jim Clifton Playlist
Cynic – Focus
Sarcofago – INRI
Samael – Ceremony of Opposites
Ash Borer – Demo
Infernal Conquest – Torture Campaign (demo)
Cryptopsy – None So Vile
Drudkh – Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Dark Tranquility – Skydancer
Winterfylleth – The Ghost of Heritage
Winter – Into Darkness / Eternal Frost
Jake Moran Playlist
Battle Dagorath – Cursed Storm of Ages
Panopticon – Kentucky
Seidr – For Winter Fire
Varathron – Genesis of the Unaltered Evil
The Lamp of Thoth – Portents, Omens & Dooms
Beherit – Engram
:Of the Wand & the Moon: – The Lone Descent
Rudi Arapahoe – Echoes from One to Another
Circle Takes The Square – As The Roots Undo
The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Worm Gear 
Welcome Jake! Great to see another reviewer onboard. I was getting sick of these two yokes already, wink wink….I’ll be anxious to see your take on things. I like the Engram choice there my friend! Excellent album.
Me listening to:
Kingdom – Morbid Priest Supreme Blasphemy (the shit!)
Hell United – Aura Damage
PSY – Gentleman (tehehe)
Canis Dirus – Anden Om Norr
Coffins – Advance New Album Demo
Ghoul – We Came of the Dead!!
Nocte Obducta – Umbriel (this my friends is an amazing new very avant garde piece of Dark Progessive Black Metal. Imagine mixing the first Arcturus 7″ with Pink Floyd and add in a touch of Steve Wilson and Emperor. Trust me, it works!
Portal – Seepia
Surgeon – Fjords
Owl – Owl
De Lirium’s Order – Veniversum (i don’t like progressive and or tech death, but this has to be the most fun and well written one I have ever heard. I keep listening to it over and over)
Verminous – Impious Sacrilege (new one is out and waiting!)
Eagle Twin – The Unkindness of Crows (best guitar/bass sound ever!)
Immolation – Unholy Cult
Terra Tenebrosa – The Purging (get this album!!!!! )
Time Ghoul – Vinlyl Demo release on Dark Descent (wwooowwww!)
Welcome aboard Jake! I’m with you on An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, haunting stuff…
Playlist las week:
Toxik – World Circus
Toxik – Think This
Sacred Reich – Ignorance
Sadus – Illusions
Sadus – Swallowed in Black
Sadus – A Vision of Misery
Coroner – Punishment for Decadence
Flotsam & Jetsam – Doomsday for the Deceiver
Flotsam & Jetsam – No Place for Disgrace
Kreator – Coma of Souls
Overkill – Wrecking Everything Live
Slayer – Live Undead
Exodus – Pleasures of the Flesh
Forbidden – Twisted into Form
Angel Witch – Angel Witch
Quite a lot of 80’s classics on the menu, good to still have these oldies around. \m/
What a list! Obviously we shared the same brain in the ’80s, my friend. Not a bad album on here!!
Hahaha I’m afraid in the 80’s my brain was even more juvenile than yours my friend; I’m 35 and so I was just a tad too late to really witness these classics first hand… My first major metal experience was Dynamo Open Air ’93 (on my 16th birthday!) and shortly after that Morbid Angel’s Covenant tour with Grave and Dismember. From there I went downhill (to hell!) fast…
A friend of mine in those days introduced me to 80’s NWOBHM, thrash, early Priest, Metal Church, Sanctuary, the classics… He was a bit older than me and likely HE shared your brain in the 80’s!
I love those albums with a passion though. Wish that I had been there back then with tight jeans, basketball sneakers and a fat moustache! As the the great Wino once sang: Born Too Late…
Oh man… Two more words for you: Speed Kills! (III, up next on the turntable) \m/