This Toilet Tuesday (4/28/15)
Greetings and welcome to another round of new releases! I’ve decided to spare you tales of gory shits today, so you’re safe to eat while reading this. This has been an excellent year thus far for metal, and this week does not disappoint. As usual, the Toilet faithful (now with 100% more Link Leonhart!) have gathered their picks for you to ruthlessly pick apart in the comments get you through the long week ahead. Enjoy!
Öxxö Xööx – Nämïdäë (Blood Music) [Dark Metal]
Listen to “Äbÿm”
Öxxö Xööx, everybody’s favorite extravagant, flamboyant, avant-doom band is here again. And damn, does Nämïdäë sound good. Black metal, sympho-electronic gothica and harpischords are combined to a damn near flawless masterpiece once again and Rïcïnn is still the only operatic metal vocalist who doesn’t suck and blow at the same time. (Karhu)
Monolord – Vænir (Riding Easy Records) [Doom]
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I always thought that Doom Metal is one of the hardest style to pull off in a good fashion. Monolord are Swedish maestros of the fuzz magic and they Doom and gloom in the right way. The music is introspective, with a high emphasis of a muddy and liquid atmosphere. The compositions are long, but it’s a pleasant ride. There’s crunchy bass sided with straight-forward drumming, accompanying the ethereal voice and the monolithic riffs. Think of this record as a lonely journey in a mythical oceanic city to discover your own self. I know this will be in a couple of doom year-end lists, because this is quality music. (Link Leonhart)
Atara – The Worst is Yet to Come (MoodisordeR Prod) [Blackgrind]
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Do you remember watching Fantasia as a kid and getting scared crapless by the Chernabog demon during the Night on Bald Mountain sequence? Okay, picture that demon, but a lot faster and totally swoll. Now picture him rampaging through your home town, crushing everything under foot as he punches into buildings and unleashes hordes of skeletons to flay the skins of the living. This is the sound Atara conjures on The Worst Is Yet to Come. FFO: Bastard Feast, Anaal Nathrakh, Cara Neir (W.)
Blurring – Blurring (Independent) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Terminus and the Wing,” “The Devil I Know”
Skronk skronk. Blast blast blast. Atmospheric riff. Skronk. Blast blast. Crunch crunch crunch. Shriek shriek. Rinse. Repeat. Oh, Danny Lilker is involved too. FFO: Piss Vortex, Oblivionized, God Mother (W.)
Bell Witch – Four Phantoms (Profound Lore) [Doom]
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I always thought Bell Witch’s debut album, Longing, was overlooked a bit by doom enthusiasts. It wasn’t a perfect album by any means as it seemed to get lost within itself and ramble a bit, but it showed promise. Their follow up, Four Phantoms, delivers on that promise and then some. It might be a bit strange to call an album with two 20 minute tracks “focused”, but it certainly feels that way. Every whisper, every wail, and every bombast feels like it was painstakingly arranged for maximum sorrow and listener attention. If you like your doom glacial and depressing, here is your album of the year. (Leif Bearikson)
Dawn of Azazel – The Tides of Damocles (Independent) [Death Metal]
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If you like your death metal chaotic and violent, then this is your album. The Tides of Damocles is incredibly punishing, tying you to the breaking wheel and pummeling you with a flurry of harsh chords and blastbeats. The slow sections offer no reprieve, only serving to amplify the madness. It’s torturous, and you will be addicted. (Spear)
Abgotter – Rebeligion (Sickness Production) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Such As Illusion”
Analepsy – Dehumanization by Supremacy (Rotten Cemetery Records) [Brutal Death]
Listen to “Genetic Mutations”
Atomik Destruktor – Unnatural Disorder (Helldprod Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Comatose,” “Unnatural Disorder”
Barzakh/Goresluts/Horrific Disease/Savage Deity/Shadowmirth/Suicidal – 6 Ways of Hell (Satanath Records) [Black Metal]
Listen
Blastomycosis – Covered in Flies and Afterbirth (Independent) [Brutal Death]
Listen to “Covered in Flies and Afterbirth”
Cain’s Offering – Stormcrow (Frontiers Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Stormcrow”
Can of Worms – Kult of Nuke (Great Dane Records) [Death Thrash]
Listen
Disrepute – C9H13NO3 (Defying Danger) [Death Metal]
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Djevel – Saa Raa og Kald (Aftermath Music) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Vaar Forbannede Jord”
Dormin – To Foreign Skies (Revalve Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Neon”
Drown in Blood – Addicted to Murder (Earthquake Terror Noise) [Death Metal]
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Endlight – The Treacherous Fall (Independent) [Deathro Tull]
Listen to “In the Land of Dying Trees”
Fister – IV (Grimoire Cassette Cvlture/Crown and Throne, Ltd.) [Doom]
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Glittertind -Blåne for blåne (Indie Recordings) [Mumfordandsonscore]
Listen to “Høyr Min Song”
Godsized – Heavy Lies the Crown (Metalville Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Saving You”
Grá/Gnosis of the Witch – Grá/Gnosis of the Witch (Iron Bonehead) [Black Metal]
Grotesque Orchestra – Delusions of Grandeur (Independent) [Symphonic Black Metal]
Listen to “Nevytske Castle,” “Poplars in the Storm Orchestra”
Hero’s Fate – Human Tides: Cosmos Ex Chaos (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen
Human Decay – Cleptocrazia (Sliptrick Records) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “Tzar”
Infinite Defilement – Destroyer of all Things (Rotten Music) [Brutal Death]
Listen to “Remnants of What Was”
Israthoum – Antru Kald (Daemon Worship) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Deathmasks Inheritor”
Kantation – Nephilim (Independent) [Heavy/Power Metal]
Listen to “Power and the Glory” (Saxon cover)
Kommandant – The Architects of Extermination (ATMF)
Listen to “And Nation Shall Rise Against Nation”
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Korpiklaani – Noita (Nuclear Blast) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Lempo”
Kroda – Ginnungagap Ginnungagaldr Ginnungakaos (Purity Through Fire) [Black Metal]
Preview
Mefitic – Woes of Mortal Devotion (Nuclear War Now!) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Eroding the Oblates of the Lord”
Necrocult – For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory (Satanath Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Mind’s Pantheon”
Necrosy – Perdition (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Ninkharsag – Blood of Celestial Kings (Candlelight Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Essential Salts of Human Dust”
Ninmah – Ninmah (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “The Fall of Uruk”
Orizen – Of Life, Death, & Salvation (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “About Death”
Ósserp – Sang i Sutge (Kremón Records) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Clot O Carner”
Ostrov – Convergence (Independent) [Doom]
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Paganland – Fatherland (Svarga) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Voice of the Carpathians”
Primigenium/Aversio Humanitatis – Primigenium/Aversio Humanitatis (BlackSeed Productions) [Black Metal]
Preview
Project Pain – Thrashed to Kill (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Sent Off To Die”
Radioactive Vomit – Ratsflesh (Iron Bonehead) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Pestis Malevolus”
Saturnian Mist – Chaos Magick (Candlelight Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The True Law”
Solus – Solus (Satanath/Dark East) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Listen to “Path of Wisdom”
Stryvigor – Forgotten by Ages (Nebulous Winter) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Героям”
Tirin Kôr – Intimidation (Human to Dust) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Entropy”
Trauma/Offence – Craving For…/Holy Vermin (Deformeathing) [Death Metal]
Ultra-Violence – Deflect the Flow (Candlelight Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Lost in Decay”
Unhallowed – Enter Damnation (Metal Music Austria) [Blackened Death]
Listen to “Dawnbringer”
Warsickness – Stary Drunk in Hell (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “In Beer We Trust”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
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