In these unprecedented times, can we even recall the last opportunity we could all collectively go on a good pillaging? As was embellished on ancient mystic runes by the hands of the Old Gods themselves, it all seems so “Bjorn today, gone tomorrow” right now. Nevertheless, such as the langskip was built to sever through the Baltic seas, we too must sally forward.

In this week’s feature episode, Matthew, Jamie and Tom fill their mead horns to the brim and regale tales of Norse mysticism, Scandi paganism, geo-nationalism and Amon Amarth-isms. It’s that rather problematic, contrary, paradoxical, yet oddly engaging caricature of a sub-genre, Viking Metal, with all untamed confusion of sonics and symbolism in tow. From 60s counterculture to folk horror revivalism, we go from Asgard to Valhalla with this one.

So put aside your great axes, lay down your historically inaccurate helmets and let us Ragnarok your world.

The boys from below take you through the best (but not always) music out there.

This week's featured albums (but not limited to):

Warrior Path - The Mad King


Pupil Slicer - Mirrors

Demiser - Through the Eternal Gate



Enforced - Kill Grid

Sepulcros - Transcending Obscurity

Butterfly - Doorways of Time

The boys from below take you through the best (but not always) music out there.

This week's featured albums (but not limited to):

Vestindien - Null


Paranorm - Empyrean

Age of Woe - Envenom



Lamp of Murmuur - Virgin Womb of Eternal Black Terror


Iotunn - Access All Worlds

Socioclast -Socioclast

The boys from below take you through the best (but not always) music out there.

This week's featured albums (but not limited to):

Keys of Orthanc - Of the Lineage of Kings

Hulder - Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry


Ekdikēsis - Canvas of a New Dawn

Sederai Mutilation - Agony of Borneo

Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning

Froglord -Save The Frogs

The boys from below take you through the best (but not always) music out there.

This week's featured albums (but not limited to):


The Body - I've Seen All I Need to See


Universally Estranged - Reared Up in Spectral Predation


Melvins - Working With God


Feculent - The Grotesque Arena


Elegy - Dead Beast

The boys from below take you through the best (but not always) music out there.

This week's featured albums:

Crimson Void - A Requiem of Decay

Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare

Gimli, Son of Glóin - At Last; Durin's Mightiest Son Returns To The Field Of Battle With Axe In Hand And Glory In His Heart!

Divide & Dissolve - Gas Lit

Zeal & Ardor - Wake of a Nation

Cruel Hand - Dark Side of the Cage

Time. It’s a cruel mistress. The cyclical nature of our circadian rhythms. The persistent numbing of periodical cues from nature. Light. Dark. Light. Darker still. Each and every calendar month morphing into the next like the grotesquely genteel evolution of man. Is it just us, or does your endogenous clock need a good horological service?

2020 came and went like the provisional packet of Frubes issued in the lamentable free school meals scheme with the intent to feed the young minds of tomorrow but instead fed the profit margins of outsourced catering services. Blink and it was gone.

And yet, somehow, such is the insistence of time, we find ourselves in 2021. So what better way to take stock of where we’re at than by reviving a podcast no one knew they wanted or needed? Ex Inferis returns with an incoherent review of the worst year to ever call itself a year: 2020. Because even if death is but another government (mis)led daily briefing away, at least Eternal Champion released a really good record.

Yes, we’re back and less prepared than ever.

Cinema. The Silver Screen. “The most beautiful fraud in the world,” as Godard once imperiously joshed. Where art and technology coalesce to portray realities akin to that of our wildest dreams. Where the West remains Wild. Where science and fiction transport us to the outer realms of our farthest galaxies. Where our greatest fears manifest into consciousness before our very eyes and love forever triumphs over evil.

It could also be where you witness pornstars with eyeballs for nipples accidentally summon a demonic albino spider, pornstars with a penchant for stealing faces attempt to strip-dance for hours and pornstars mispronounce words such as ‘virgin’ while bathing in pools of other pornstars’ blood.

That’s right, for this episode of Ex Inferis, Matt, Tom and Jamie endure the odious hellscape of Glenn Danzig’s directorial debut, Verotika. The bois go to absolute town on the who’s, when’s, how’s and, for the love of Beelzebub, the WHY OH WHY’s of this complete career killing car crash of a movie.

Grab yourself some milk…or beer…because this is going to be worse than getting knocked out by North Side Kings and claiming it was a set-up…

You may all be familiar with the time old adage: “It’s the end of the world as we know it.” If only we spent less time listening to South of Heaven and more time listening to Michael Stipe, we may have been far better equipped to tackle this period of unending calamity.

Nonetheless, content creation must remain defiant in these end times. Suffice to say, the Bois From Below have fully sterilised their work stations to bring you Part II of their epic journey in Tolkien Metal. Tom reels of band references that would send Encyclopaedia Metallum to a 404 gateway, Matt talks about Tolkien’s racial readings and Jamie brings a book to show us (he’s still very green to this whole podcast lark...).

Stay safe, wash your hands, listen to metal!

As we expeditiously bid farewell to another decade and enter a new epoch of Our Dark Lord, we thought it best to bequeath unto Her zealot disciples a special In The Year Of Our Dark Lord...2019.

In this episode, the bois from below ruminate over band feuds, nudes and lewd dudes. Matt drinks Black Label at 9am, Tom chomps down on some Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce like a BM Sean Evans and Jamie chooses to not speak about anything other than Star Wars and Idle Hands.

In a truly halcyon year for metal, we also reflect over some of the year’s best and worst releases.

Like Code Orange, 2019 is dead. Long live 2020.