This Toilet Tuesday (5/5/20)
It’s that most Toilet of Tuesdays once more, friends. It’s a pretty good one, too- don’t let our lack of highlighted albums fool you. Take a peek at that bigger list and share some of your own picks with the comments.
Pile of Priests – Pile of Priests (Rockshots Records) [Melodeath/Thrash]
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Pile of Priests does straightforward melodic death metal better than most; while I wouldn’t say their ideas are the most novel (you can hear everything from Dissection to Arsis in there), there’s a raw vigor to their music that a lot of their peers seem to lack. I think a lot of it has to do with the production; the guitar tone has some bite, and the vocals and drums pack a lot of punch, but they all leave room for that adventurous bass to cut through and breathe. It’s hard to go wrong with this if you like melodeath. 5/8/20 (Spear)
…and Oceans – Cosmic World Mother (Season of Mist) [Symphonic Black Metal]
Listen to “The Dissolution of Mind and Matter”
Dissertation
Abart – Fötus (Independent) [Black Doom]
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Acedia Mundi – Selfhatred.Addiction (Musiko Eye) [Black Metal]
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Aposento – Conjuring the New Apocalypse (Xtreem Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Liber al Vel Legis”
The Arbiter – My Messenger (Vision of God Records) [The Kind of Thing That Gets Put Out on Vision of God Records]
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Axel Rudi Pell – Sign of the Times (Steamhammer) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Gunfire”
Basalt – Silêncio Como Respiração (Ritual Productions) [Sludge/Hardcore]
Listen to “Circumspice”
Burial – Satanic Upheaval (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Hellish Reaping Screams”
Changeling – III (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Civerous/Stygian Obsession – Heralds of Affliction (split- Pacific Threnodies) [Death Metal]
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Conflicto – Slaves to Global Capitalism (Morbid Skull Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Necessary Poor”
Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus (Blood Harvest) [Tech/Prog Death/Thrash]
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Review
Drought – Trimurti (Avantgarde Music) [Black Metal]
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End the Sun – The Emancipation of Distance (Independent) [Progressive Black Doom]
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Feral Light – Life Vapor (Hypnotic Dirge Records) [Black Metal]
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Forgotten Tomb – Nihilistic Estrangement (Agonia Records) [Black Doom]
Listen to “Nihilistic Estrangement”
Forming the Void – Reverie (Ripple Music) [Sludge/Doom]
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Göden – Beyond Darkness (Svart Recors) [Doom]
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Green Carnation – Leaves of Yesteryear (Season of Mist) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Leaves of Yesteryear”
I, Enclave – Death Contemplations (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Iron Attack! – Little Daybreaker (Independent) [Power Metal]
Ixkal – The End of the Wicked (Independent) [Melodeath/Thrash]
Katalysk – Incessant Awakening (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Indoctrination”
Kayleth – 2020 Back to Earth (Argonauta Records) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Corrupted”
The Last Seed – Revenant (Nihilistische KlangKunst) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Arise”
Lazarus Casket – Warriors of Sacrifice (Independent) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “Hate Boils”
Mean Messiah – Divine Technology (Slovak Metal Army) [Black Metal]
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Mekong Delta – Tales of a Future Past (Butler Records) [Progressive Thrash]
Listen to “A Colony of Liar Men”
Meridies – Architectonic Infinite Cube (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Moaning Silence – A Waltz into Darkness (Symmetric Records) [Gothic/Doom]
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Murder Inc./Kaar – Split (Support Underground) [Thrash]
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Naglfar – Cerecloth (Century Media) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Cerecloth”
Patrons of the Rotting Gate – Bathed in Ash (Independent) [Black/Death Metal]
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Reveler – Disembodied Excursions (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Reverber – Sect of Faceless (Punishment 18 Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Sect of Faceless”
Rising Sunset – De Mysterium Tenebris (Wormholedeath) [Symphonic Blackened Death]
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Secrets of the Moon – Black House (Prophecy Productions) [Gothic Metal]
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Sojourner – Premonitions (Napalm Records) [Melodic Black Metal]
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Torn from the Womb – Medieval Medicine (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
Warschach – Beyond the Fog (Indpendent) [Groove Metal]
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Wastewalker – Lowborn (Independent) [Tech Death]
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Winterblut – Monotot (Nihilistiche KlangKunst) [Black Metal]
Listen to “lebaendigen”
Winterfylleth – The Reckoning Dawn (Candlelight Records) [Black Metal]
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WitchUrn – The Debt (Independent) [Black Thrash]
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With the End in Mind – Tides of Fire (Avantgarde Music) [Post-Black Metal]
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Wraith – Index Case:The Quarantine Sessions... (Independent) [Black Thrash]
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Written in Gray – At War with Myself (Independent) [Heavy Metalcore]
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Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
