This Toilet Tuesday (6/23/20)
It’s Toilet Tuesday. You know the drill. Get your fresh new music here, folks.
Khruangbin – Mordechai (Dead Oceans) [Psychedelic Funk]
I could have combed through this list and picked some rando band to shoot the shit about but I’d doing all of us a disservice. This is the big release of the week and it fucking rips. Been spinning this on wax since Thursday annnnnnd boooooi…it’s probably the smoothest record since they dropped that amazing EP Texas Sun with Leon Bridges in February. A slick mix of African and Latin guitar, funky ass bass lines and Laura Lee’s ethereal vocals is everything you hoped and dreamed of, and you didn’t even know it. Mix 1 part Absinthe with 4 parts lemonade. Add ice and chunks of watermelon. If you cant get absinthe, use Pastis as a substitute. You now have the perfect soundtrack and drink to kick your feet up to this summer while the world burns around you. 6/26/20 (Uncle Fuck)
Fellwarden – Wreathed in Mourncloud (Eisenwald) [Black Metal]
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Fen’s The Watcher is back for another solo trees n shit black metal outing, this time inspired by countless wanderings around England’s Lake District. More traditional in it’s approach than it’s mother band, but by no means lacking in dynamics, Fellwarden offers excellent, regretful, bitter but also somber black metal of forest variety. 6/26/20 (Karhu)
Voodus – Open the Otherness (Helter Skelter Productions) [Melodic Black Metal]
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Two years ago, Voodus debuted with Into the Wild, an adventurous but traditional meloblack album. Always a fan of longer songs, Voodus’ latest consists of only two 10+ minute tracks, but they’ve always had the skill to write them as well. Riffs, moods, tempos, styles and transitions are still traded with passion, consistency and cohesion that few can rival. 6/22/20 (Karhu)
Wino – Forever Gone (Ripple Music) [Doom/Rock]
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Known best for his work in a myriad of doom metal bands, Wino Weinrich has also released several solo and duo albums, most of them acoustic. It’s been ten years since his last solo outing though, and neither of the singles reach among his better, but I’d like to believe some of the rest will. 6/26/20 (Karhu)
Purtenance – Buried Incarnation (Xtreem Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Deathbed Confession”
The classic Finnish death metal band that keeps on giving. Line-up adjustments that have made vocalist Aabeg Gautam the bassist as well, haven’t much affected the music. From riff to tone, from Harri Salo’s drumwork to Juha Aalto’s and Tero Rannikko’s solos, Buried Incarnation is all Purtenance. There’s a fair amount of diversity between “The Malicious Moon’s” catchiness, “Wrapped in Lamentation’s” melodicness and “Burial Secrecy’s” doom, which encompasses much of the record, but it’s woven to a coherent cloth, and a more fully realized version of the sound Paradox and Flame hinted at. 6/26/20 (Karhu)
Acherontas – Psychic Death – The Shattering of Perceptions (Agonia Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Psychic Death – The Shattering of Perceptions”
AlNamrood – Wala’at (Shaytan Productions) [Black/Folk Metal]
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Amun – An Absence of Presence (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Silent Giant”
Azzarok – Life Countdown (Roadie Metal) [Heavy Metal]
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Battlemaster – Ghastly, Graven & Grimoireless (Forcefield Records) [Black Thrash]
Listen to “Thaumaturgical Nonchalance”
Bell Witch/Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough: Volume I (collab- Profound Lore) [Funeral Doom]
Stop signing with this label
Black Knight – Road to Victory (Pure Steel Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Road to Victory”
Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant (InsideOut Music) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “The Tempest”
Carach Angren – Franckensteina Strataemontanus (Season of Piss) [Borderline Top-Hat Black Metal]
Listen to “Monster”
Celesterre – Earth pt. I (Independent) [Blackened Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Oceans”
Churchacide/Vulse/Crucifragment – Exhuming Cacaphony (Independent) [Black/Death Metal]
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Creature – Ex Cathedra (I, Voidhanger) [Saxy Black Metal]
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Cryfemal – Eterna oscuridad (Immortal Frost Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “El Retorno”
Dauþuz – Grubenfall 1727 (Independent) [Black Metal]
Dead Carnage – From Hell for Hate (Slovak Metal Army) [Death Metal]
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Descend – The Deviant (Aftermath Music) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Lily”
Dessiderium – Shadow Burn (Independent) [Prog Death]
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Diabolic Oath – Profane Death Exodus (Sentient Ruin) [Death Metal]
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Elusive God – The Darkest Flame (Solitude Productions) [Doom]
Listen to “To Whom Do You Pray?”
Exocrine – Maelstrom (Unique Leader) [Tech Death]
Listen to “Maelstrom”
Falconer – From a Dying Ember (Metal Blade) [Power/Folk Metal]
Listen to “Desert Dreams,” “Kings and Queens”
Fordomth – Is, Qui Mortem Audit (Auric Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Scire”
Goblins Blade – Of Angels and Snakes (Massacre Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Utopia”
Gore Thrower – Vatican Deathfest (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Diabolical Piper”
Hagane – Episode 0 (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “WintrySky”
Inexorum – Moonlit Navigation (Gilead Media) [Melodic Blackened Death]
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Invictra – Chaos Theory (Independent) [Thrash?]
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Irae – Lurking in the Depths (Signal Rex) [Black Metal]
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Kalahari – Theia (Independent) […Powergroove?]
Listen to “Theia”
Kenziner – Phoenix (Pure Steel Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Tears of Destiny”
Lantern – Dimensions (Dark Descent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Strange Nebula”
Magick Touch – Heads Have Got to Rock’n’Roll (Edged Circle Productions) [Heavy Metal]
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Mantar – Grungetown Hooligans II (Independent) [Sludge]
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Mike LePond’s Silent Assassins – Whore of Babylon (Silver Lining Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Ides of March”
Moriendi – The Art of Dying (Black Arts Records) [Death Doom]
Ninth Circle – Echo Black (Pure Underground Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Riding the Storm”
Ofermod – Pentagrammaton (Helter Skelter Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Persisting to Die in Thee”
OHHMS – Close (Holy Roar Records) [Post-Metal/Sludge]
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Orfvs – Ceremony of Darkness (Night in Terrors Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Void Around Anima Mundi”
Pessimist – Holdout (MDD Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Holdout”
Pyrrhon – Abscess Time (Willowtip) [Hot Death Metal]
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Ravenlight – Project Genesis (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
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Revolted Masses – Rise (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Disaster Capitalism”
Ritual Flail – The Glowing Pyre-Lit Sky (Analog Ragnarok) [Black Metal/Dungeon Synth]
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Romuvos – The Baltic Crusade (Dangus Productions) [Folk Metal]
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Savage Blood – Downfall (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Savage Blood”
Serocs – Vore (Everlasting Spew) [Tech Death]
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Shed the Skin – The Forbidden Arts (Hells Headbangers) [Death Metal]
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Sinira – The Everlorn (Independent) [Melodic Black Metal]
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Stench of Profit – No Place to Hide (Lethal Scissor Records) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Controlled, Manouvered”
Stygian Crown – Stygian Crown (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Up From The Depths”
Thætas – Shrines to Absurdity (Maggot Stomp) [Tech/Brutal Death]
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Thecodontion – Supercontinent (I, Voidhanger) [Dinosaur Metal]
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They Leapt from Burning Windows – Demo 2020 (Lycaean Triune) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Ceo Dlúth”
Thunderslave – Unchain the Night (Independent) [Speed Metal]
Listen to “Maniac”
Trauerkult – Autonomy of Disrepair (Independent) [Post-Black Metal]
Listen to “Autonomy of Disrepair”
Unborn Suffer – Commit(ment to) Suicide (Selfmadegod Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Pierdolę Was”
Varus – A New Dawn (Independent) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Listen to “A New Dawn”
Vestal Claret – Vestal Claret (Independent) [Doom]
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VoidCeremony – Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel (20 Buck Spin) [Prog Death]
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VVytch – Sådant är mörkrets språk (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Kulen”
Wraith/Bastardizer – Speed Armageddon (Redefining Darkness) [Black/Speed Metal]
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Wren – Groundswells (Independent) [Sludge]
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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!
