This Toilet Tuesday (8/25/15)
Greetings, friends of the bowl, and welcome to another round of This Toilet Tuesday. Time passes; bands pour forth their endeavors before us, often vanishing as quickly as they appear. Some will go on to obtain some modicum of success, while most will fade into obscurity. Fewer still, however, will surge forth into the limelight and emblazon their name forever on the face of history and culture. These few, the bands presented below… well, probably aren’t going to be it, but hey, they’re pretty cool. Check ’em.
Plaguewielder – Chambers of Death (Horror Pain Gore Death) [Doom/Sludge]
Listen to “Drowned”
Luxembourg is a very small country. Bordered by other, bigger countries, it has a population of like, 5 people and probably a lot of goats. 4 out of those 5 people are in a band billed as “the only active doom/sludge band in Luxembourg.” Plaguewielder puts an excellent spin on that combination of genres, showing a serious knack for atmosphere in their music alongside doomy riffage and sludgy weight. Out of the two tracks that are available, there is a surprising range of style with this band; “Father Suicide” has an undeniable emotional tug throughout, while “Drowned” lurches by ominously. Pick this one up 8/25/15 courtesy of Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. (Stockhausen)
Ahab – The Boats of the Glen Carrig (Napalm Records) [Death/Doom]
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I don’t think I’m alone in believing Ahab’s Call of the Wretched Sea was their finest hour. The Divinity of Oceans and The Giant were both good, but didn’t quite reach the fathomless depths of their predecessor. Ahab look to rectify that with the release of The Boats of the Glenn Carrig, and while I don’t think they’ve achieved their goal, it is a solid-if-unremarkable entry in their low and slow catalogue, but perhaps your mileage will vary. The only way to find out is to click the link and submerge yourself into the sea. 8/28/15 (Leif Bearikson)
Funebria – Dekatherion: Ten Years of Hate and Pride (Satanath Records) [Blackened Death]
Listen to “Aeon of Tyranny”
Venezuelan malandros Funebria have emerged from the corruption and violence of their home country to unleash a diatribe of pure hatred for their fellow man. Dekatherion – Ten Years of Hate and Pride celebrates their decade-long career of debauchery and misanthropy in a suitably seditions black metal fashion that is unmistakably South American. Expect plenty of hurricane blasts and ear-splitting shrieks. FFO: Odosha, Krueger, Korpus Inc. 8/29/15 (W.)
Aegorton – Plaguelord (Independent) [Black Metal]
Амезарак – Diabolical Finale Mortum (Symbol of Domination) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Некромант”
Angellore – La Litanie des Cendres (Shunu Records) [Doom]
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Black Trip – Shadowline (SPV) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Berlin Model 32”
Cavern – Outsiders (Grimoire Records) [Instrumental Mastodon-y Sludge]
Listen to “Garrett,” “Outsiders”
Chaoswolf – Templo de Palabras Muertas (Symbol of Domination) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Irreverencia”
Dictator – Moreover Imagination (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Cheers With My Destiny”
Die Krupps – V – Metal Machine Music (Hollywood Records) [Industrial]
Dood – Liberating Self-Destruction (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Liberating Self-Destruction,” “Ab Insidiis Diaboli”
Embassy of Silence – Verisimilitude (Inverse Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “Hang Me High”
Excelsis – Tod u Vergäutig (Non Stop Music Records) [Folk Metal]
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Feridea – Into a Dawn (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Into a Dawn”
Five Finger Death Buttz – Got Your Dix (hahaha see what I did there) [FUCK YEAH BRO]
Kill me
Forgotten Gods – Twin Sisters (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Bad Magick”
Hammercult – Built For War (Steamhammer/SPV) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “Spoils of War”
Inmate – Tree of Life (Independent) [Metalcore]
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Jord – Solitude (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Kaeck – Stormkult (Folter Records) [Black Metal]
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Kobra and the Lotus – Words of the Prophets (Titan Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Black Velvet”
Mad Max – Thunder, Storm and Passion (Steamhammer/SPV) [Ungooglable Metal]
Mars Brigade – Progress (Independent) [Power Metal]
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MergingMoon – 怨-eN- (Orochi Records) [Metalcore]
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Monastery Dead – Black Gold Appetite (Narcoleptica Prod/Symbol of Domination) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Despairing Existence,” “Sublimation”
Moonbow – Volto del Demone (Independent) [Acoustic Bald-Faced Sabbath Worship]
Listen to “Devils Floor”
Motörhead – Bad Magic (UDR Records) [It’s Motörhead. Go buy it.]
Listen to “Thunder & Lightning”
Narbeleth – Through Blackness and Remote Places (Folter Records) [Black Metal]
Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed (Nuclear Blast) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Call to Destruction”
Pentagram – Curious Volume (Peaceville Records) [Doom]
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Putridity – Ignominious Atonement (Willowtip) [Brutal Death]
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Rifftera – Pitch Black (Inverse Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Rotten to the Core”
The Ritual Aura – Laniakea (Lacerated Enemy) [Tech Death]
Listen to “Time Lost Utopia,” “Erased in the Purge”
Shadowkiller – Until the War is Won (Pure Steel Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Survival”
Simulacrum – Sky Divided (Inverse Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Sky Divided”
Soilwork – The Ride Majestic (Nuclear Blast) [Melodeath]
Listen to “The Ride Majestic,” “Enemies In Fidelity”
Tad Morose – St. Demonius (Despotz Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Forlorn”
Throne of Malediction – Dead in Dreams (Torn Flesh Records) [Blackened Doom]
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Utter Blackness – Nimble Existence (Isolated Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Nimble Existence,” “Wandering With Broken Limbs,” “Shallow”
Vogelfrey – Sturm und Klang (Trollzorn Records) [Folk Metal]
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Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
