Wrapping up extreme metal cassette week by moving away from the death/thrash and charting blacker waters. I definitely recall where I heard of Auriferous Flame, the one man black metal entity purveying in old school but decidedly anti-fascist black metal: Banger TV’s Cassette Cult – the top 10 underground releases off 2023. Mainman Ayloss is also the sonic mind behind Spectral Lore, but the music he peddles as Auriferous Flame is much more second wave worship, albeit with modern melodic flourishes, which is definitely my thing. The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers is listed as an EP with only three songs, but when your first track is an epic 15 minutes and the whole album clocks in at close to a half hour, those labels become meaningless. This thing rocks, so let quickly get into it.

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