This Toilet Tuesday (7/2/24)
Behold: Tuesday. Things are looking bleak here in the ol’ US of A (more so than usual, anyway), and the stars have aligned to give us a suite of new releases that match the vibe. Not to say that they’re bad- quite the opposite- but that if you’re looking for feel-good jams, you might want to come back next week. Anyway, here’s music.
Liminal Shroud – Visions of Collapse (Willowtip Records) [Black Metal]
Roldy gassed this one up a bit back in his “Nucleonic Blight” premiere, but I figure a reminder is in order with its impending release. Liminal Shroud stitch together gloom and determination with immaculate musicianship, with phenomenal production to boot. An easy and hearty recommendation for anyone who likes their atmospheric music to have more substance to the actual music, if you catch my meaning.
Abysswalker – A Spire at the Gates of Heaven (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Aeons – The Ghosts of What We Knew (Sliptrick Records) [Prog Metal/core]
Aposento – No Safe Haven (Xtreem Music) [Death Metal]
Arx Atrata – A Reckoning (Independent) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Aspaarn – When Iron Meant Survival (Independent) [Black Metal]
Autumnfall – The Archaic Shadows (Independent) [Melodic Black Metal]
Black Hole Deity – Profane Geometry (Everlasting Spew Records) [Death Metal]
Bloodcross – Gravebound (Personal Records) [Black Metal]
Bloody Run – Decapitate the Tyrant (Independent) [Thrash/Grindcore]
Crucifliction – Trinity (Independent) [Thrash/Speed Metal]
Crushing Brain – Cenizas (Independent) [Thrash/Speed Metal]
Cryptic Hatred – Internal Torment (Time to Kill Records) [Death Metal]
Duel – Breakfast with Death (Heavy Psych Sounds) [Stoner Doom]
Exterminio – Favsto (Icarus Music) [Death Metal]
Haadeen – Marraskuu (Independent) [Black Metal]
Horned Almighty – Contagion Zero (Soulseller Records) [Black Metal]
Humanity’s End – Plague of Cancers (Gurgling Gore) [Death Metal]
Inerth – Hybris (Abstract Emotions) [Death/Doom/Industrial/Sludge]
Insane Desecration – Visions of Horrific Decay (Active Shooter Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Kissin’ Dynamite – Back with a Bang (Napalm Records) [Heavy Metal/Rock]
Krallice – Inorganic Rites (Independent) [Avant-garde Black Metal]
Kryptos – Decimator (AFM Records) [Heavy/Thrash]
Limbes – Liernes (Independent) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Metonic – Ghostly Ship (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Motivik – Renouncement (Roxx Records) [Thrash/Heavy Metal]
Nyktophobia – To the Stars (Apostasy Records) [Melodeath]
Octoploid – Beyond the Aeons (Reigning Phoenix Music) [Progressive Death Metal]
Of Deities and Dust – Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears (Independent) [Doom]
Old Horn Tooth – Mourning Light (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Orden Ogan – The Order of Fear (Reigning Phoenix Music) [Power Metal]
Partholón – The Ocean Pours In (Ripcord Records) [Sludge/Post-Metal]
Piah Mater – Under the Shadow of a Foreign Sun (Code666 Records) [Progressive Death Metal]
Primitive Dread – Merciless Indifference (Diehard Records) [Crossover/Thrash]
Quasidiploid – Deconstruction (Bloodcurdling Enterprise) [Avant-garde/Technical Death Metal]
Rancid Nut Sauce – The Vile Nature of Existing (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
Regicide – Resist Control (Independent) [Groove/Thrash]
Robot Monster Army – Assembly Required (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Sijjeel – Affiliation of Horrid Containment (Comatose Music) [Brutal Death Metal]
Starspawn of Cthulhu – Alienum (Independent) [Doom Metal]
Stormriders – Whispers of the Void (Independent) [Stoner Doom/Rock]
Suffering – Cult (Independent) [Black/Death Metal]
Sumac – The Keeper’s Tongue (Thrill Jockey Records) [Sludge]
Surra – Falha Crítica (Independent) [Crossover/Thrash]
Terminal Sun – All That Will Burn Is Already on Fire (Independent) [Death Metal]
Traumatomy – Triumph of Enslavement (Gore House Productions) [Slam/Brutal Death Metal]
Triddana – Breaking from the Fold (Independent) [Folk/Power Metal]
Unholy Altar – Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite (Liminal Dread Productions) [Black Metal]
Vimur – The Timeless Everpresent (Avantgarde Music) [Black Metal]
Visions of Atlantis – Pirates II – Armada (Napalm Records) [Melodic/Symphonic Power Metal]
Vulvodynia – Entabeni (Unique Leader Records) [Deathcore/Brutal Death Metal]
WarHymn – Occult Fire (Loud Rage Music) [Black Metal]