When I see cool (but seemingly incongruous) words slapped together in a metal song title, a Pavlovian response occurs, consisting of two parts: 1) the thought that this is certainly tech or brutal death, and 2) my brain drooling out my ear canal*. Once in a while, a particularly evocative pair warrants deeper reflection: What exactly is a nucleonic blight? It seems to imply a disease at the atomic level, a defect in the core of all matter. Maybe the very existence of nucleons is a plague on serene nothingness. Thinking in this direction, we quickly arrive at nihilism, a … Continue reading Track Premiere: Liminal Shroud – “Nucleonic Blight”