This Toilet Tuesday (10/12/21)
Another week, another Toilet Tuesday, and boy is it ever a Tuesday. While there’s definitely some good stuff on the way, I’ve forgotten what 90 percent or so of it is on account of having to hear something like five back-to-back symphonic metal bands where you can somehow smell the top hat through the music. Please end my misery by sharing the good shit in the comments below.
Noltem – Illusions in the Wake (Transcending Obscurity) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
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“Atmospheric black metal” is a descriptor I usually reserve for music that eschews riffs for… well, atmosphere, the kind of stuff that accompanies a walk through the rain-drenched bluffs overlooking the autumnal fires of the forest below as you contemplate your place in the world. Noltem, on the other hand, is very much a riff-driven atmospheric metal band that can still perfectly accompany a walk through the rain-drenched bluffs overlooking the autumnal fires of the forest below as you contemplate your place in the world. The music and guitar tone are equally warm and hazy, almost the kind of thing you’d expect from doom bands, all soaking in reverb and painfully introspective and nostalgic in feel. When the guitars do break for the more purely atmospheric bits, the drums and bass pick up in intensity, going in some incredible proggy directions. It’s no shock that a band on TSO is damn good, but even I wasn’t expecting something labeled “atmospheric black metal” to hit this hard. 10/15/21 (Spear)
Aeon – God Ends Here (Metal Blade) [Death Metal]
Listen to “God Ends Here”
The Agonist – Days Before the World Wept (Napalm Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Remnants In Time”
Alcatrazz – V (Silver Lining Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Sword of Deliverance”
Ananas/Raw Power – Land of the Rising Spaghetti (split- Pig Records) [Thrash/Hardcore]
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Autumn’s Grief – The Dead Don’t Smile (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “The Dead Don’t Smile”
Captor – Desafiando el tiempo (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Prócer”
Caradras – Schattenkönige (MDD Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Schattenkönige”
Cenotaph – Precognition to Eradicate (Coyote Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Clouds – Despărțire (Independent) [Sadboi Doom]
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Corretja – The Ancient Wisdom of Lost Generations (Independent) [Weird Melodeath]
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Crystal Coffin – The Starway Eternal (A Beast in the Field) [Melodic Black Metal]
Listen to “The Starway Eternal”
Destinity – In Continuum (Crimson Productions) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Shadows”
Devoid – Lonely Eye Movement (Frontiers Music) [Power Prog]
Listen to “Lonely Eye Movement”
Dødsdrift – Ødnis (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Fährde”
Enemy Crucifixion – No Future (Coyote Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Nails Deeper”
Extreme Cold Winter – World Exit (Hammerheart Records) [Death Doom]
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Feed the Corpses to the Pigs – This Insidious Horror (HPGD) [Death/Black/Thrash]
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Force of Darkness – Twilight of Dark Illumination (Iron Pegasus Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Retribution of the Crowned Chaos”
Frantic – Martillazo (Independent) [Thrash]
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Gallery of Ghouls – Satan’s Sludge (The Swamp Records) [Fuzzy Doom]
Listen to “Hot Rod Death Machines”
Guadaña – Erytheia (Maldito Records) [Power Metal]
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Guldan – Überfahrt (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Hate – Rugia (Metal Blade) [Blackened Death Metal]
Listen to “Rugia”
Inebrious Incarnate – Abstemious Genocide (Ultimate Massacre Productions) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Altar of Intoxication”
Lamentum – The Dark Lake (Independent) [Melodeath/Doom]
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Last Days of Eden – Butterflies (El Puerto Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “The Secret”
Leverage – Above the Beyond (Frontiers Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Emperor”
Lords of Black – Alchemy of Souls Part II (Frontiers Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “What’s Become Of Us”
Lutharö – Hiraeth (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Lost in a Soul”
Manora – Brave the Storm (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
Mortem Obscuram – Eradication of the Human Endeavor (Independent) [Deathcore]
Listen to “Eradication of the Human Endeavor”
NUR – Negative Transfer (Suicide Records) [Sludge]
Listen to “The Snake”
Rage in My Eyes – Spiral (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “And Then Came The Storm”
Rebellix – Serpent’s Kiss (Inverse Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Serpent’s Kiss”
Red Means No Mercy – Shattered (Realityfade Records) [Deathcore]
Listen to “In Absence of All Except Loss”
Rothadás – Kopár hant... az alvilág felé (Independent) [Death Doom]
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死 – Basement Wizard (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Rehash”
SkeleToon – The 1.21 Gigawatts Club (Scarlet Records) [Power Metal]
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Snakeblade – The Curse (Independent) [Melodic Black/Death Metal]
Listen to “The Red Mage’s Seduction”
Suffer the Evenue – What We Once Had (Independent) [Metalcore]
Superstatic – Glimmering Veil (Solitude Productions) [Death Doom]
Listen to “I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream”
Vampyric/Tarmblod – Allied Under Black Light (split- Independent) [Black Metal/Doots]
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Zdrajcy – Höllenritt (Independent) [Black Metal]
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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!
