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Typecast resource · 20

Primitive North America

Fur, Hair, Bone and Flesh + Mounds of Teeth assemble a raw, cassette-rooted survey of underground North American black metal.

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Primitive North America — an resourced listening sequence.
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resource context

A comprehensive, raw collection shaped by a cassette-era underground.

This typecast looks back to long drives and the private intensity of listening through a car cassette deck: a temporary space where loud recordings could make an unfamiliar world feel closer and more navigable.

When the engine stopped, the contrast was part of the experience. The sequence remembers the stillness that followed and the way shared listening could offer a sense of connection, direction and recognition.

Compiled for the resource by Fur, Hair, Bone and Flesh + Mounds of Teeth.

The selection draws primarily from cassette releases and documents a loose network of artists working across North America. Its title acknowledges an earlier Finnish compilation while keeping its attention on this particular regional scene.

Sequence

Track listing

Thirteen selections presented in the order preserved by the original typecast notes.

01

Bone Awl — By Ropes Through Dirt

California

02

Ancestors — I

New York

03

Grinning Death’s Head — Subhumans

Georgia

04

Haxan — Witches Oath

New York

Interlude
05

Divisions — 04

Florida

06

Arts — Thousand Wounds Of War

New York

07

Cirrhus — 01

Washington / Oregon

08

Horrid Cross — V

Florida

09

Akitsa — Affront Final

Quebec

Interlude
10

Ride At Dawn — The One Who Sleeps Beneath the Frost

Toronto

11

Furdidurke — Untitled

Washington / Oregon

12

Ash Pool — Dragged Down the Cobblestones

New York

13

Law of the Rope — Death Ballad (edit)

California

About this typecast

A route through a specific listening culture

This resource entry preserves the sequence, context and source notes so that the typecast can be revisited as a curated listening experience rather than a detached list of titles.

1. Context

A concise account of the ideas and listening conditions surrounding the selection.

2. Sequence

The full running order, including the placement of its interludes.

3. Source notes

Locations and cassette-focused origins retained where they clarify the compilation.

4. Listening link

A direct route to the resourced set for listeners who wish to hear the sequence.