This Toilet Tuesday (12/3/24)
With face flush as you flush, you say goodbye to your proudest creation. Another gift to the Toilet gods, another offal offering that goes unheard. But wait—something stirs from septic sleep! Your dookie deposit was the cornerstone, the last piece of the puzzle. The porcelain rumbles, a most foul miasma fills the air…the loaf legion approaches. This week, we’ve got redox metabolism metal, baands with two Aas, and tanky Jesus. We’re in the dregs of the year now, but claw your way through the sediment and I’m sure you’ll find something to shake up your list enjoy. Let us know what we missed in the comments!
Sarcophagum – The Grand Arc of Madness (Nuclear Winter Records) [Blackened Death]
With The Grand Arc of Madness, Sarcophagum has distilled Ulcerate‘s frenzied drumming, the feverish haze of Suffering Hour, and gore metal’s dual vocals into an exciting (and exhausting) debut LP. Session drummer Robin Stone (Ashen Tomb, Evilyn, a zillion other bands) refuses to be locked into the blackened death tropes of constant blasting and straightforward songwriting; instead, his adventurous cymbal work and myriad rhythms seem to spark deeper creativity in his band-mates. The result is a twisting journey through despair and triumph; influences old and new; madness and a fleeting wisp of hope. -Roldy
A Thousand Sufferings/Kludde – Het Pact (Consouling Sounds) [Black / Sludge]
Aabode – Neo-Age (Godz ov War Productions) [Death / Industrial / Avant-Garde]
Aara – Eiger (Debemur Morti Productions) [Atmoblack]
Among These Ashes – Embers of Elysium (Alone Records) [Groove / Thrash / Power]
Asterise – Tale of a Wandering Soul (Inverse Records) [Symphonic Power]
Athena XIX – Everflow Part 1: Frames of Humanity (Reigning Phoenix Music) [Prog/Power]
Axioma – Live Totality (Independent) [Post-Black]
Beast in Black – Power of the Beast (Ward Records) [Power / Electronic / Heavy Metal]
Bifäz – Extinción (Producciones Tudancas) [Sludge / Doom]
Blessed Child – Crossing the Pit (Independent) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Blood Cult – We’re Gonna Take Your Soul (Witches Brew) [Black ‘n Roll]
Chainmörder – Awaken the Chaos (Independent) [Metalcore / Groove / Thrash]
Daxma – There Will Come Tomorrow (Independent) [Doom / Post-Metal]
Desert Near the End – Tides of Time (Theogonia Records) [Thrash / Melodeath / Heavy Metal]
Detest – A World Drowning in Detest (Emanzipation Productions) [Death]
Duisternis – Relapse into Submission (Independent) [Black]
Exutoire – From Apostasy to Blasphemy (MFT Records) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Fermentor – Release Me (Independent) [Instrumental / Prog Death]
Fireblood – Goatslayer (Independent) [Sludge / Southern Metal]
Full Messenger – The King Is Alive (Independent) [Heavy Metal / Hard Rock]
Futilitarian – Annihilation (Independent) [Melodeath]
Ghoulhouse – Fresh Out of Flesh (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) [Death]
Heathen Peace – Civilisation Ends Here… (Independent) [Blackened Death / Crust Punk]
Hollow Leg – Echoes (Independent) [Sludge / Doom]
Horrorborn – Illuminating Doom (Independent) [Symphonic Metalcore / Doom]
Infernal Crown – Buried in Darkness (Independent) [Meloblack / Doom]
Jaguar – Ceremonial Decay (Demon Destroyer Records) [Blackthrash]
Kronowski – Do I Need a Reason (Independent) [Groove / Modern Metal]
Leize – 40 peldaños (Maldito Records) [Hard Rock]
Mindreaper – Withering Shine (…into Oblivion) (Death Age Records) [Melodeath]
Mystery Blue – Night Demon (Massacre Records) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Neckbreakker – Within the Viscera (Independent) [Death]
Night in Gales – Shadowreaper (Apostasy Records) [Melodeath]
Nishaiar – Enat Meret (Independent) [Atmoblack / Post-Metal / Ambient]
No Cure – I Hope I Die Here (SharpTone Records) [Metalcore]
Nocte Obducta – Hammergeddon 666 – Die Katakomben Betritt Man Nicht Allein (Independent) [Black ‘N Roll]
Nolove – Nobody Can Save You (Independent) [DSBM]
Old Forest – Graveside (Soulseller Records) [Black]
Panzerchrist – Maleficium – Part 1 (Emanzipation Productions) [Blackened Death]
Phantom Excaliver – The Rising Kingdom (Avalon) [Symphonic Power]
Pillar of Light – Caldera (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Doom/ Sludge / Post-Metal]
Pokolgép – Vissza sose nézz (GrundRecords) [Power / Speed / Heavy Metal]
Sunlight – Son of the Sun (Total Metal Records) [Heavy Metal]
Tales of Blood – Breath of Repugnance (Great Dane Records) [Death]
Templar – Treacherous Beast (Jawbreaker Records) [Heavy Metal]
Tethra – Withered Heart Standing (Meuse Music Records) [Melodeath/Doom]
The Alpha Incident – The King Must Die (Independent) [Prog Metalcore]
The Malefic Grip – Virtue and Industry (Independent) [Sludge / Doom / Industrial]
Through Mists – Hellscape (Independent) [Experimental Blackened Death]
Undarlih – Torch Eater (Bleeding Heart Nihilist Productions) [Black / Doom]
Until Death Overtakes Me – Diagenesis (Aesthetic Death) [Funeral Doom]
Valdaudr – Du skal frykte (Soulseller Records) [Black]
Virtual Symmetry – Veils of Illumination (Independent) [Prog/Power]
White Tower – Night Hunters (Steel Gallery Records) [Speed / Heavy Metal]
Within Silence – The Eclipse of Worlds (Ulterium Records) [Power]
Литург – Save Us (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
