Things get a little prickly on this week's episode as the boys from below discuss a heated internet tiff between two warring factions.

Poland's Batushka, once at the forefront of contemporary extreme metal now find a schism in the band and their existence in question as two member's battle it out to maintain control of the project music and identity.

What will come of such a toxic and public dispute and can there really be a winner?

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

This week's featured albums:

N'zwaa - Maha Kali

Garsdghastr -Slit Throat Requiem

Grand Magus - Wolf God

Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion

Ringworm - Death Becomes My Voice

Chevalier - Destiny Calls

Following a wholly unwarranted break, the Boys From Below return to their usual haphazard mode of transmission with extra vulgar displays of topical smut and name mispronunciations.

This week, we take umbrage with one of Heavy Metal’s most notoriously influential guitar pedals, the Boss HM-2. Since its demonic inception in 1983, this technical omnishambles is almost solely responsible for the nascent sounds of early 90s Swedish Death Metal, while its practically inaudible tone continues to beguile and disgust contemporary metal guitarists to this day.

Throughout the episode, Tom endeavours to make snide off-base remarks on the pedal’s existential merits and Matt offers up an unabridged historical timeline before giving the Boss Corporation’s bawdy baby a live test drive. Max out your EQs; it’s the only way you’re going to enjoy this one...

This week on Ex Inferis Tom and Matthew have built their strong legal teams and read up on fair use legislation in order to take you through a few snippets of their superior record collections to share some of the best music out there at the moment. From pioneering avant-garde black metal to the archaic epic metal of a bygone era (2016), Choice Cuts offers something for everyone within a very niche community.

Track List

Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire

Violet Cold - Mamihlapinatapai

Tronos - Walk Among The Dead Things

Hellripper - All Hail The Goat

Waste Of Space Orchestra - Journey To The Centre of Mass

For our third installment of Ex Inferis, Tom and Matthew explore the otherworldly history of doom drone doyens, Sunn O))).

Matthew represses the onset of IBS during the premier of the group’s latest record, Life Metal, and Tom attempts to keep abreast of metal auteurs Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson’s compendium of work.

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This week on Ex Inferis Tom and Matthew take a look at the long awaited film centring around the second wave of Norwegian Black Metal and the crimes thereof in Lords of Chaos. Arson, murder and Satan abound in Jonas Åkerlund’s divisive “trve” story when Euronymous and Varg Vikernes battle for control of The Black Circle.

The film stars Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Emory Cohen’s BMI and Sky Ferreira.

In our first episode, your hosts Tom and Matthew take a look back at a very special year in metal.

30 years have passed since the release of some hugely important records and you'll be able to find out if these have weathered as well as your hosts on this episode of Ex Inferis!