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The Untranslatable

Jan 31, 2026 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

The Great Patriotic Show

"Russia is a Sphinx. Grieving, jubilant,
and covering herself with blood
she looks, she looks, she looks at you—her slant
eyes lit with hatred and with love."

The Scythians - Aleksandr Blok (translated by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France).

Russian black metal, from the Pleskau Brethren Circle to the Murmansk scene and Blazebirth Hall.

6:00 PM		Nav' Hymn to the Cold Silence (Part 1) We Are the North...Mean Cold War... Kunsthauch 2017
6:04 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:06 PM		Old Wainds Dead Eyes of the Dark We Are the North...Mean Cold War... Kunsthauch 2017
6:11 PM		Stielas Storhett Angel of Death Expulse code666 2011
6:21 PM		Walknut Motherland Ostenvegr Graveforests and Their Shadows Militant Zone 2022
6:32 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:35 PM		Волчий Источник Забытая память прошлого Ремиссия Духа Ridge ov Dragon 2007
6:42 PM		Гнёт Ночь Молода Ночь Молода 2025
6:50 PM		Sidekut Slave Мутная Поездка с Неясной Целью Скорбный Казус Horrible Room 2020
6:52 PM		Крюкокрест Васиздас Домовина Horrible Room 2021
6:57 PM		Леший Каждый Гроб - Это Шеол - Из Кошмара В Кошмар Поганые Сны Horrible Room 2021
7:04 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:06 PM		Огильт II Без Названия Horrible Room 2022
7:13 PM		Крошка Нетопырь и Малыш Мёртвая Голова Отвар Из Небесных Лепестков Роз Волшебные Рассказы о Былом и Небывалом Horrible Room 2021
7:23 PM		Вельд Стихи О России Лунное Молоко Horrible Room 2025
7:32 PM		ЗВЁЗДНЫЙ ХРАМ II ЗВЁЗДНЫЙ ХРАМ Obscurant Visions 2024
7:42 PM		Forest Лютой Стуже Заревом Над Прахом Stellar Winter Records 1997
7:53 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:55 PM		Koldovstvo V Ni Tsarya, Ni Boga 2405648 Records DK 2021

Chat is archived.

Hello everyone! Hope you know Cyrillic for today

Will there be a quiz at the end? :)

Perhaps

DJ Jagannath! The DJ who will pulverize my remaining cannibanoid circuits. Not only do I not know Cyrillic but I have to ask a russian neighbor down da block to translate. LFG

Hey Matt! I'll try and translate on mic using Google Translate. Your russian neighbor is probably going to be very confused

Looking forward to this show since I have been down a dark dark rabbithole of late with early sludge and southern heroin bands. This is perfect.

Roff the quiz is easy you got this droggie

That's a phenomenal scene as well

droogie!

I played a bunch of them for my sludge show

I went to the Acid Bath and Eyehategod show over the summer it was sick

Those early sludgelords did not play around. Buzzov-en most notoriously.

You may dig Lord Mantis if you've not already heard them, they're a really cool blackened sludge band

that Aleksandr Blok quote is great. very honest.

DJ I'm on it! I like how you play the music that looks the darkness in the eye.

I was reading a bunch of his poetry recently, The Twelve is particularly good

EHG and Acid Bath are legendary. Nice! That EHG dude is a heavy dude.

I think I'll need to put your transliterating neighbor on speed dial Matt. :)

Ty Matt I try! Darker stuff upcoming

Roff haaaaaa! She is a hot mess but has taught me a lot about russian culture. She even got me a can of real russian kvas, like a slice of pumpernickel bread in liquid form.

This harsh January winter with heavy snow and tunnels in the snow and subzero temps is like parts of Russia for months on end.

These guys are from Murmansk so this weather is probably summer for them, lol

We gotta summon Ozzy.. For some reason Ozzy listening to bleak russian metal is reassuring in this wobbly world.

the Pleskau Brethren Circle! We going deep, I love it.

they're actually incredible, I think one of my favorite scenes currently

punk influenced raw black metal? sign me up

this is great. True howls from the void.

Ive lived in Alaska and I've seen Siberia up close from the Sea of Okhotst as far north on in it as you can go. No thanks. I bet their music is dark AF.

Roff LOL. Embrace the northern bleak winds Roff!

Indeed

alright we're into pure Cyrillic now. We need the pickles and wodka!

Mhm pretty much everything now is pure Cyrillic

hunting down copies of these songs to play was not fun lemme tell ya

we appreciate the curation, DJ!

I appreciate you guys sticking through this lol

yer the perfect sub for DJ DW! I always enjoy the dips into the darkness of the winter woods

I'm baaaaaack. I didn't know you were subbing DJ Jagannath, nice!

Good morning TAndy hope you had a good nap

This isn't one you want to miss

I'm out for a birthday party today, no naps heheh

Oh idk why I thought you said you're asleep around this time

Normally yeah, but I had other plans today

I'm getting the salted herring and potatoes ready @matt

Gotcha, glad you can be here

TAndy DJ Jagannath is taking us right into the gotdamn vortex, I recommend an uplifting sativa with pineapple terps

TAndy what!! the Rotterdam Special! Yum

I can't smoke it right now but I got some good stuff yesterday. I might try it out tomorrow >:)

Aculpoco Gold >:))

TAndy nice. Salt herring and potatoes is dutch af!

TAndy classic strain! Leeeeeegendarrryyyy.

I always associated it with Poland tbh

This is sick af btw. The party is loud and annoying, this music is just loud. Gotta get louder though

that too LOL

The Dutch do eat like they're still under occupation in WW2

DJ Jagannath LOLOLOLOL true

HAHAHA

I'll try my best to drown out the birthday party TAndy

Pleskau Brethren Circle to the rescue

Don't ask a Dutchman for a favor, you'll get a tikkie or two.

Yeah that's absurd. I had a dutch online friend and he said that it is way too common

Northern Europeans, what can you do

Scandinavians are pretty bad with that, I remember reading about how people won't offer you food at their house if you're there during a meal? Wild

LOLOLLOL true

I remember a buddy of mine went there a few years ago for a recent edition of Thunderdome and a wastoid offered him special k on the train LOL

TAndy haaaaaa!!

Horrible Room is a great record label name

I imagine some of these wonderful bands wearing ski masks while playing live and having scary shows in a good way

or perhaps the tried & true corpsepaint

a lot more Horrible Room coming up, theyre the Pleskau guys' label

I like how its just a couple of guys out there with a ton of different projects

I don't think corpsepaint is their aesthetic really

Ski masks for sure. Check out the previous album's cover lol

Kids these days call the ski mask a sheisty

haaaaaa! huwhat. kids these days.

I bought a skimask for $2 on the rapid transit in Atlanta once. They sold all kindsa things, booze, tasers, it was wild.

some nice bell-riding from the drumma of 6:57 pm band

Omg Matt I found a perfect meme on Instagram I gotta upload rq

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSq2NnAdUdtUQ7a8818ZGjJh-DXbppqItg3Iw&s

https://imgur.com/a/cumEDlV

@Matt I love that part of that song, yeah. Leshiy does a lot of that

haaaaaaaaaa the mighty Gutalax!

This band is another highlight for me out of Pleskau

DJ have you listened to much Clan Destine Records? They have some edgy and super dark stuff on the bandcamp https://clandestinerecords.bandcamp.com/

Not sure if I have. These album covers are killing me though lmao

Clan Destine dont mess around LOL. Some good witch house and witch metal stuff, nutty DJ mixes.

Hey DJ you ever think of delving into some dungeonsynth for a future show?

I'm not familiar with the genre actually, I know theres a good overlap with black metal but I've personally never really looked into it

But that might be a cool idea

TAndy good idea. There are even some dungeon lords in NJ operating. Ranseur is NJ goblin dungeon synth I think.

nice dirty guitar riff here

always in minor mode for that slavic sadness

slavic sadness would be a great dsbm band name

I never dove too far into it myself, I really enjoyed what I did hear though. A former DJ, PAX, used to play it a lot in their last couple of seasons on the station.

Probably cathartic for a lot of these bands to go mano a mano with the howling void.

Haha for sure Matt. I'll take a look TAndy, I need new genres to get into

Lately been on a dark americana kick

First time hearing about dark Americana haha

gothic country seems to be the officialish name

DJ, there's a ukraine band called Stoned Jesus you might like. "I am the Mountain" has the longest scream on a song, or close to it. (I know a Mr Bungle song has a superlong scream.)

I love Antic Clay, not just because its quoting Blood Meridian

"red grass, black pasture" is some dark stuff

Will check it out Matt! My favorite screams have to be Peste Noire on Sanie de Siecles

DJ the band Earth has an album wholly inspired by Blood Meridian, called Hex, it really captures the novel

I know! I played it for my Blood Meridian themed show

DJ nice!!

DJ, many thanks for two hours of brutal honesty, it felt very good. I enjoyed your excellent tour of the PBC and the howling voids of mother russia!

Thank you for the show!

Safety first!

Thanks for listening! See yall Tuesday, hopefully, for some cool polyrhythms

Thank you, DJJG

what time Tuesday, DJ?

8-11 pm! Cohost with Turshu

💥