To ring in Halloween, I played two hours of black metal yesterday on Radio Heart. The EVR studio opens out directly on First Avenue, so I got quite a few trick-or-treaters as well, and had to juggle candy distribution with DJing. Per my taste, most of the tracks landed on the weirder spectrum of things, bands like Dead Reptile Shrine, Aluk Todolo, Ahulabrum, Acid Enema, and others. I also played Pyha, super dark and dense midi metal by a Korean 14 year old, a track from Triangulum & Tzalemoth who claim to have recorded their album in the woods of northern Michigan “using a minimalist setup consisting of a snare drum, carved pine branches as drum sticks, a portable 5 watt battery powered amplifier and a mini-cassette recorder” and Thorr’s Hammer lead singer Runhild Gammelsaeter‘s solo album Amplicon which is creeeeeepy and also kind of terrible.
Read the full playlist here.
Listen to the show here.
