This Toilet Tuesday (11/29/16)
You cling tightly to the mast of your small sailboat as the storm tosses it about. It had been roiling on the horizon for some time now, but you were too far out to sea to change course. Lightning flashes directly overhead, and you wrap a rope around your forearm for added stability. Wind whips the sail above you, and you see a tear forming down its center. A massive wave crashes into your tiny ship; you scramble for purchase as it begins to capsize, but it’s futile in the deluge. Another flash of lightning briefly illuminates the horrific scene as you hit the water.
The rope around your arm has somehow tangled itself as the ship was upset, and you desperately try to free yourself before you’re pulled down into the depths. Your lungs burn, having expelled all your air with the exertion. You finally free your arm from the rigging, but you can feel your blood pumping in your temples; you don’t have much time. You place your palm near your mouth and cough up a last gasp of air, tracking the bubbles upwards. You can feel yourself fading as you swim, and you start to choke as your lungs desperately try to inhale. You lose consciousness seconds from the surface.
The deep calls. This is Toilet Tuesday.
Astral Winter – Forest of Silence (Immortal Frost Productions) [Black Metal]
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Astral Winter has a sound quite befitting of their name, coupling airy synths and choirs with icy black metal. Forest of Silence has a grand, sweeping feel to it, not unlike this year’s earlier Hyperion release with just a hint of In The Nightshade Eclipse to round out the mix. It’s big, powerful, and chilling, and has some truly impressive guitar and keyboard shredding on top of it all. More solos in black metal, please. 11/28/16 (Spear)
Abnormal Inhumane – Consuming the Infinity (New Standard Elite) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Vortex of Unending Phenomena,” “Morphogenic Asymmetry”
Few things turn a shitty mood around quite like brutal death metal, and Abnormal Inhumane know how to deliver on that front. While it probably won’t be turning quite as many heads as Krighsu or Finitude, Consuming the Infinity has everything you could want: winding, nasty riffs; relentless drumming; and some savage bass playing. It’s got brains delivered by brawn, like being beaten over the head with a physics textbook. 11/30/16 (Spear)
All My Sins – Lunar / Solar (Black Death Production) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Pod Mesecom Prastari Hrast”
Antilife – Life Is Pain (Throats Productions) [DSBM]
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Arma – Rock n’ Roll Murderers (Cianeto Discos) [Black/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Rock N’ Roll Murderers,” “Whiskey With Lemmy”
Arria Paetus – Arria Paetus (Lycaean Triune) [Black Metal]
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Ash Borer – The Irrepassable Gate (Profound Lore Records) [Black/Death Metal]
Listen to “The Irrepassable Gate,” “Lacerated Spirit”
Atropas – From Ashes (Wormholedeath/The Orchard) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Rapture”
Aureole – Aurora Borealis (Fallen Empire Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “II: Flight Over Aurora Borealis”
Bethlehem – Bethlehem (Prophecy Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Wahn schmiedet Sarg”
Black Therapy – In the Embrace of Sorrow, I Smile (Apostasy Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “In the Embrace of Sorrow, I Smile”
Bornholm – Primaeval Pantheons (Massacre Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “March of Saturn”
Borracho – Atacama (Kozmik Artifactz) [Doom]
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Cowards – Still (Throatruiner Records) [Crusty Black Metal]
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Crest of Darkness – Welcome the Dead (My Kingdom Music) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Welcome the Dead”
Crossbones – Rock the Cradle (Frontiers Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Rock the Cradle”
Dead Eyes Always Dreaming – Celestial Genocide (Independent) [Deathcore]
Listen to “Nightmare Architect”
Delirium X Tremens – Troi (Punishment 18 Records) [Folky Death Metal]
Demonic Kingdom – The Demon Tapes (Independent) [Melodeath]
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Demontage – Fire of Iniquity (Belial’s Basement Recordings) [Black/Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Possessed Graveyard Lizards,” “Untame Iniquity”
Derhead – Via (Via Nocturna) [Experimental Black Metal]
Listen to “Cenere”
Devastation Inc. – No Way for Salvation (Earthquake Terror Noise) [Thrash]
Listen to “Fast As A Fuckin’ Bullet”
Dom Dracul – Cold Grave (Sun & Moon Records) [Black Metal]
Dom Dracul – Devil Dedication (Sun & Moon Records) [Black Metal]
FamishGod – Roots of Darkness (Xtreem Music) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “Abyss of the Underworld,” “Lost Language of the Dead”
Feral – From the Mortuary (Cyclone Empire) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Reborn in the Morgue”
Gerogot – Cruelty Vomit of Hatred (Groupies Music) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Rotten Flesh Barbarism”
Grímsvötn – Black Metal From English Shores (Cvlminis) [Black Metal]
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Gymir – Weder Sein noch Schein (Independent) [Black Metal]
Khaospath – …for the Devil Speaks the Truth (Immortal Frost Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Lunacy Triumphant in Walking Sleep”
Killin’ Kind – Dying Earth (Underground Symphony) [Heavy Metal]
Krullur – …Failure to Comply (Horror Pain Gore Death) [Thrash]
Listen to “Blown To Oblivion”
Lago/Calm Hatchery – Lago/Calm Hatchery (split- Selfmadegod) [Death Metal]
Maladie – Symptoms (Apostasy Records) [Black Metal]
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Morbid Panzer – Only the Total Death (Into Dungeons Records) [Black/Thrash]
Listen to “Necroreaper”
Naberus – The Lost Reveries (Eclipse Records) [Metalcore]
Listen to “Drones”
Nails/Full of Hell – Nails/Full of Hell (split- Closed Casket Activities) [Grindcore/Powerviolence/Noise]
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Nödutgång:Självmord – Mourning Poems (Throats Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “You’re Sleeping, I’m Dying (4 a.m)”
No More Fear – Malamente (Memorial Records) [Melodeath, allegedly]
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Nyctophilia – Death Shall Embrace My Corpse Among These Woods (Cvlminis) [Black Metal]
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Obscure Evil – Void Fumes (Unspeakable Axe Records) [Black Metal]
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Onmyo-za – 迦陵頻伽 (King Records) [Folk/Power Metal]
Listen to “愛する者よ、死に候え”
Oskoreien – All Too Human (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Green & Maroon,” “My Flesh Is But a Vessel”
Panteon – Quasar (Thou Shalt Kill! Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Elements of Evil,” “Into the Obscure”
Pitch Black Process – Derin (Ellefson Music Productions) [Melodic Metal]
Listen to “Halil İbrahim Sofrası”
Porta Infernum – Inter Peccata Luxuriae Infernalis (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Primitive – Negro Metal da Morte (Cianeto Discos) [Black/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Negro Metal da Morte”
Ranger – Speed & Violence (Spinefarm Records) [Speed Metal]
Revel in Flesh – Emissary of All Plagues (Cyclone Empire) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Emissary of All Plagues”
Sacred Leather – Cassette 2016 (Independent) [Speed Metal]
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Sarkom – Anti-Cosmic Art (Karisma Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Mind-abscess”
Sazernyst – Worshipping the Ancient Fears of God (Independent) [Black Metal]
Scum – Garden of Shadows (Blood Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Golden Seeds”
Skinflint – Chief of the Ghosts (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Ram of Fire”
Skywings – Wings Wind (Studio Medras) [Power Metal]
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Sound Storm – Vertigo (Rockshots Music) [Symphonic Power Metal]
Listen to “The Dragonfly”
Suicide Forest/A.V.D.L – Depression of Ruins (split- Wolfmond Production) [Electronic Black/Death Metal]
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Tarnkappe – Winterwaker (Hammerheart Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Bodemkruiper”
Tridentifer – Left to Rot (Voodoo Chamber Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Into Eternal Flames”
Ultha – Converging Sins (Vendetta Records) [Black Metal]
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Wintercold – Demonic Possession (Cvlminis) [Doom/Black Metal]
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Witchmaster/Voidhanger – Razing the Shrines of Optimism (split- Third Eye Temple) [Black/Thrash]
With Ink Instead of Blood – Ars Goetia / Godless Apparitions (Independent) [Death Metal/Deathcore]
Listen to “Sitri: Unholy Desecration”
Wretched Soul – The Ghost Road (UKEM Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “War Wolf”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
