This Toilet Tuesday (1/21/25)
Polar vortices and hellfire are upon us; it is clear the porcelain gods grow tired of human affairs. Let us look instead to the friends and family swirling around this alabaster bowl—now more than ever, close community matters. This week, we’ve got decaying stars, pointy weather, and visceral lepidopterans. Grab the oxygen (destroyer) tank; it’s time to drill down through the frozen surface to the warm waters beneath. Let us know what we missed in the comments!
Fleshbore – Painted Paradise (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Tech Death]
Is 2K25 the year of ethereal meadowlands tech? Whether CHUGGZing along with modern death trappings (think Atræ Bilis) or channeling impish mischief (check out the riff at 3:33 into “Inadequate”), the weedle-wizards in Fleshbore are determined to carve a path through the new year. A delicate balance of fun and flashiness, along with production thicker than an ancient grimoire, sets Painted Paradise along the works of genre titans Beyond Creation and Cytotoxin—and may yet surpass them in memorability. -Roldy
Acolytes of Moros – Sphere of Adversity (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Across the Shade – Madness (Independent) [Melodeath]
Aeonist – Deus Vult (Sij MusicArt) [Black / Dungeon Synth]
Ancient Tome – The Implications of Ascendancy (Chaos Records) [Death/Doom]
Atramentum – The Wrath Within (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Avalanch – 30 aniversario (Maldito Records) [Prog/Power]
Avatarium – Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (AFM Records) [Doom / Rock]
Bonfire – Higher Ground (Frontiers Records) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Caprahed – Empire (Independent) [Doom / Punk]
Century – Sign of the Storm (Electric Assault Records) [Heavy Metal]
Chaos Control – Lost in Time (Repentless Records) [Power / Metalcore]
Clear Sky Nailstorm – Problem Solved (Kernkraftritter Records) [Thrash]
Concrete Icon – Voracious Streams (Memento Mori) [Death Metal]
Corroding Soul – Corroding Soul (Independent) [Symphonic Black]
Crown of Asteria – Rime of the Clouds (Independent) [Ambient]
Deadspawn – Bile of the Gods (Independent) [Blackened Death]
Death Cult 69 – The Way of All Flesh (Independent) [Blackened Doom]
Deep Agony – Winter Doom Metal (Independent) [Blackened Doom / Instrumental]
Descarnado – El eterno odio de las almas desterradas (Independent) [Tech Death / Deathcore]
Discordant Meditation – Tragic Creature (Independent) [Death]
Disrupted – Stinking Death (Independent) [Death]
Dolours – Perfect Perennial Melancholy (913 Group) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Dusk – Winternight (Independent) [Black]
End of Green – Twinfinity (Reaper Entertainment) [Gothic Metal / Alt Rock]
Ene – Beneath the Shadow (Hellstain Productions) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Enveiled – Death Awaits All (Independent) [Blackened Death]
Gokseong 곡성 – Whispers from the Haunted Shadows (Phase B Records) [Death]
Gormoth – Oh My Bitter Addictions (Independent) [DSBM / Ambient]
Hammer Strike – Scorched Earth (Independent) [Death / Blackthrash]
Harakiri for the Sky – Scorched Earth (AOP Records) [Post-Black]
Hellvetika – Lifespring (Independent) [Sludge / Doom]
Helveth – After the Rain (Independent) [Black]
Ice War – Feel the Steel (Hooked on Metal Records) [Heavy Metal]
Insanity Black – Locked & Loaded (Independent) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Jesse Cain – Failed Creation & Hedonic Adaptation (Independent) [Death / Groove Metal]
Karçaz – Hávamál (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Katrina – Amor vampírico (Independent) [Gothic Metal]
Labÿrinth – In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye (Frontiers Records) [Prog/Power]
Master Spy – Maze Runner (Independent) [Power]
Merzotna Potvora – Poliuvannia (Neformat Family) [Blackthrash]
Misanthropik Torment – Make Assassinations Great Again! (SelfMadeRecords L.L.C.) [Death]
Můra – Needle Cathedral (Doomentia Records) [Death/Doom]
Nemophila – Apple of My Eye (Masterworks) [Rock]
Orion Saiph – Curtain Call (Independent) [Prog Rock]
Putred – Megalit al putrefacției (Memento Mori) [Death]
Retador – Earëndel (Xtreem Music) [Deathrash]
Ringlorn – Tales of War and Magic (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Rosary – The Broken Sacrament (Nine Records) [Doom]
Sabhankra – Nocturnal Elegies (Independent) [Meloblack]
Scitalis – Maledictum (Vendetta Records) [Black]
Sinner – Pity Fate (Independent) [Blackened Death]
Sleepbomb – The Sleeping Dead (Independent) [Sludge / Doom / Post-Metal]
Slumdweller – Prequel I: Grim Desires (Anguish Machine) (Independent) [Electronic / Industrial]
Storm Kingdom – The Savage Garden (Independent) [Symphonic Death]
Sunrot – Passages (Prosthetic Records) [Sludge / Doom / Drone]
The Andronovo – Ira Diabolica (Independent) [Blackened Death]
The Archon Rift – The Arcane Chronicle (Independent) [Symphonic Tech Death / Instrumental]
The Ferrymen – Iron Will (Frontiers Records) [Heavy Metal]
The Low-End Bastard – Circus of Hate (Independent) [Death / Industrial Metal]
The Machinist – Contempt for Life (Independent) [Blackened Death / Industrial]
The Summon – Deus Vult (Independent) [Symphonic Blackened Death]
Tillhygge – De Dödas Klockspel (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Tormentor Tyrant – Excessive Escalation of Cruelty (Everlasting Spew Records) [Death]
Umbersound – If the Flies Could Sing (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Voidfallen – The Rituals of Resilience (Noble Demon) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Wretch – Visitors (Steel Gallery Records) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
À Terre – Embrasser la nuit (Independent) [Post-Hardcore / Post-Metal]
Θλίψις – Servants of Apathy (Fucking Your Creation Records) [Meloblack]
Драконья Кровь – Сражение за последнюю цитадель (Изыди Records) [Black / Dungeon Synth]
