This Toilet Tuesday (3/26/24)
O Faustian facility, O pandemonious privy, purge us of our malodorous mess. This week we’ve got a fecal phantom, free-range death worship, and unexplained acronym-core. The ice has truly begun to thaw, and beneath the surface, many entities stir from their hibernation. Will you greet them with me, far beneath the reach of the sun’s light?
Verwoed – The Mother (Wolves of Hades) [Sadboi Atmoblack]
It’s their first English release. It’s bleak and plodding. There’s the occasional pained cry that sounds like someone far away calling for help. The atmosphere is thick. Verwoed’s sound is like trudging through an existential swamp. If you’re looking for something to put a damper on your lovely Spring walk in the tulip garden, this will definitely do the trick. Standout Track: “The Child” -Eenzaamheid
Above Aura – Myriad Woes (War Anthem Records) [Black]
Ana – The Art of Letting Go (Eclipse Records) [Symphonic Heavy Metal]
Ascia – The Wandering Warrior (Perpetual Eclipse Productions) [Sludge / Doom]
Asterean – Sovereign (Independent) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Black Absinthe – On Earth or In Hell (Independent) [Thrash / Punk / Melodeath]
Black Phantom – Horror Paradise (Punishment 18 Records) [Heavy Metal]
Cancervo – III (Electric Valley Records) [Doom]
Carrion Vael – Cannibals Anonymous (Unique Leader Records) [Melodeath]
Chaotic Desolation – Biological Sonnet (Independent) [Death / Groove]
Child – Shitegeist (Suicide Records) [Grindcore]
Coffins – Sinister Oath (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Cryoshock – The Cold New Regime (Ablaze Productions) [Melodeath / Deathrash]
Dark Calamity – רָשָׁע (Independent) [Black / Dungeon Synth]
Dead Head – Shadow Soul (Hammerheart Records) [Deathrash]
Dragonfall – Cold Whining Road (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Duindwaler – In het Heemskerks duin (War Productions) [Black]
Emerald Cauldron – Emerald Cauldron (Independent) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Endless Loss – Traversing the Mephitic Artery (Nuclear Winter Records) [Death]
Flageladör – Culto aos Decibéis (Helldprod Records) [Speed / Thrash]
Flesh Architect – O, Ritualistique (Sacrilegio Records) [Death]
Givre – Le cloître (Eisenwald) [Black]
Glyph – Honor. Power. Glory. (Independent) [Power]
Grant National – Unprecedented Levels of Violence and Brutality (Skweeepee Records) [Stoner Rock]
Grottberg – Skenhelig (Independent) [Death / Groove]
Hate Force – Systems of Terror (Closed Casket Activities) [Death]
Home Reared Meat – Truckstop Terror (Kernkraftritter Records) [Death]
Horrifying – Dreadful Parasomnia (Veins Full of Wrath Productions) [Death]
Infection – The Cryptic Homicides (Gate of Horror Productions) [Death]
Ivory Tower – Heavy Rain (Massacre Records) [Heavy Metal]
Little Villains – Café De Stam (Independent) [Heavy Metal / Hard Rock]
Lvctvs/Suspirium/TOC666 – Todo Muere, Todo Acaba (Independent) [DSBM]
MNHG – Necare (Immortal Frost Productions) [Black ‘n’ Roll]
Majak – Restless Wicked (Cause of Deaf) [Black ‘n’ Roll / Heavy Metal]
Malphas – Portal (M-Theory Audio) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Massacred – Nemesis (Independent) [Brutal Death]
Mindistry – Doppelganger (Independent) [Symphonic / Industrial / Groove Metal]
Mordran – The Midnight Woods (Independent) [Raw/Lo-fi Black]
Mutilation Barbecue – Amalgamations of Gore (Maggot Stomp) [Death]
Nachts – Privileg (Independent) [Black]
Necroracle – Arcane Impious Sorceries (Triangulum Ignis) [Blackened Death]
Neid – Still Offensive (Time to Kill Records) [Grindcore]
Obsidian Chamber – Ein Platz am Kamin (Running Wild Productions) [Symphonic Blackened Death]
Offernat – Where Nothing Grows (Independent) [Sludge / Doom]
Painful – Nefarious Monarchy (Independent) [Symphonic Blackened Death]
Pantheon Omega – Harmonizing the Death Essence (Independent) [Symphonic Blackened Melodeath]
Post Mortal Possession – The Dead Space Between the Stars (Lord of the Sick Recordings) [Brutal Death]
Pâlefroid – L’appel (Antiq Records) [Black]
Rage – Afterlifelines (Steamhammer) [Death / Groove Metal]
Reign A.D. – The Dead, Great & Small (Independent) [Black]
Riitasointu – Pedon leikki (Naturmacht Productions) [Melodic Black]
Schundmären – Himmelskrieger (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Septage – Septic Worship (Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms) (Me Saco un Ojo Records) [Death / Goregrind]
Sepulchral Whore – The Return from a Sepulchral Rest (Excarnation Records) [Death]
Shadow Limb – Reclaim (Seeing Red Records) [Prog Sludge]
Skraeckoedlan – Vermillion Sky (Fuzzorama Records) [Psych Rock / Sludge]
Suffer – Grand Canvas of the Aesthete (Independent) [Death]
Terravore – Spiral of Downfall (Punishment 18 Records) [Thrash]
The Absence – The Absence (Listenable Insanity Records) [Melodeath]
The Quill – Wheel of Illusion (Metalville) [Stoner Rock / Doom]
The Tomb – The Valley of Despair (Great Dane Records) [Death]
Tulpa – Temple of Wounds (Folter Records) [Black Metal/Crust]
Tūth – And Unwell (Independent) [Sludge]
Ulterror – Transcendent Origins (Inverse Records) [Tech Death]
Varkensstad – Hereafter (Independent) [Thrash / Groove / Death]
Velvet Darkness – Rise (Treehouse Entertainment) [Symphonic Heavy Metal]
Vorga – Beyond the Palest Star (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Black]
Weeping Moon – Beneath the Weeping Moon (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black / Dungeon Synth]
Witchgrinder – Nothing Stays Buried (Independent) [Groove Metal]