This Toilet Tuesday (10/20/15)
Welcome, sweet toilet bros, to another round of This Toilet Tuesday! With Halloween just over the horizon, the flow of new releases has picked up exponentially, because it’s apparently still cool to put out your devil music then. That also means I’ll be delving into the sewers a little earlier than usual so not one of these turds passes me by. In the meantime, check out our picks below and share yours in the comments!
Avatarium – The Girl With the Raven Mask (Nuclear Blast) [Doom]
Listen to “The Girl With the Raven Mask”
This is music that reeks of grass, raindrops and a thin tobacco smell. Leif Edling, of Candlemass fame, and his new company made it again: rock-fueled gasoline bassy melodic lines, accompanied with the dangerous absurdist lyrics and the cynical attitude of Jennie’s wonderful voice. The main hook of Avatarium is their stylish blending of their different influences of both retro and modern doom muses into one single package that distill a great musical accomplishment. 10/23/15 (Link)
Drowning Horse – Sheltering Sky (Art As Catharsis Records) [Drone/Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Echoes,” “The Barrow Stones”
The first of the two Drowning Horse tracks available from Sheltering Sky, “Echoes”, starts off with a droning clean-guitar that makes you think this song is about to go somewhere very different. The chords then bleed into a muddy roar that when paired against continued droning of the guitar creates an exceptionally menacing atmosphere that builds in tone and force as the percussion slowly comes to un-life like a zombie rising from the blighted earth. The next track continues on with the menacing march to oblivion, staying low and slow on the back of a burdened riff. FFO: The Sun Through a Telescope, Whitehorse, Indian 10/22/15 (W.)
Enshine – Singularity (Naturmacht/Rain Without End) [Death/Doom]
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Enshine are a bit of an enigma to me. On Singularity, they take three things I normally can’t stand- doom, groove metal, and Gothic metal of all things- and mix them together in a way that hits all the right buttons for me. It helps that the slower parts remind me somewhat of labelmates Exgenesis’ output from earlier this year, but they feel more reserved than that. There are a couple solid headbangers here, too, with minimalist groove riffs setting a foundation for an atmosphere composed of ethereal synths and lead guitars drenched in reverb. 10/18/15 (Spear)
The Abiotx – Liquid Damage (Drunk With Power) [Crossover/Thrash]
Abrin – Возврата нет (Fono Ltd) [Thrash/Heavy Metal]
Amberian Dawn – Innuendo (Napalm Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Fame & Gloria,” “The Court of Mirror Hall”
Aosoth – IV (Agonia Records) [Black Metal]
Asylum Pyre – Spirited Away (Massacre Records) [Gothic Metal]
Listen to “Only Your Soul”
Bauda – Sporelights (Temple of Torturous) [Post-Metal]
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Belzebong – Greenferno (Emetic Records) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Diabolical Dopenosis”
Casbah – Reach Out (Bang the Head Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Unsung Heroes (Song for the Heroes)”
Concrete – Chambers of Afterlife (Rebirth the Metal Productions) [Death Metal]
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Corpse Grinder – Perpetual Purgatory (Kill Again Records) [Metal to Kill Bastard Posers, Apparently]
Listen to “Marching to the Grave”
Corpse Molester Cult – Benedictus Perverticus (Apostasy Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Raped by Seven Zombies”
Corrections House – Know How to Carry a Whip (Neurot Recordings) [Drone/Doom]
A Dream of Poe – An Infinity Emerged (Solitude Productions) [Gothic/Doom]
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Erdh – Sideremesis (Apathia Records) [Electronic]
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Exquisite Ending – The Rite of Misanthropism Psalms V-IX (Hibernacula Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Psalm V: Accursed Be Thy Kingsmen”
Fallen Arise – Adeline (Rock of Angels Records) [Top Hat Metal]
Listen to “White Crystal Angel”
Grave Desecration/Vlad/Putrid/Diabolous666 – Impious Noise Massacre (split- Pentagram Records) [Black Metal]
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Grilled Human Brain – Horrific Subjugation (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Horrific Subjugation”
Hades Almighty – Pyre Era, Black! (Dark Essence Records) [Viking Metal]
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Havukruunu – Havulinnaan (Naturmacht/Rain Without End) [Black Metal]
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Heaviest – Nowhere (Power Prog Records) [Butt Metal]
Listen to “Nowhere”
Hybrid Nightmares – The Fourth Age (Independent) [Black Metal]
Infected Omnipotence – Spawning a Dystopian Breed (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Illumination Through Insertion”
Kauan – Sorni Nai (Blood Music) [Post/Doom]
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Mansion – Altar Sermon (Svart Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Altar Sermon”
Moloken – All Is Left to See (Temple of Torturous) [Sludge]
Listen to “I Dig Deeper,” “Subliminal Hymns”
Mono/The Ocean – Transcendental (split- Pelagic Records) [Post-Metal]
Listen to “The Quiet Observer” (The Ocean)
Mörbid Vomit – Doctrine of Violence (Ranka Kustannus) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Beaten From Belief”
Nameless One – 黎明を告ぐ者 ～Teller of the Genesis～ (Stay Gold) [Melodeath]
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Odetosun – The Dark Dunes of Titan (Indpendent) [Progressive Death Metal]
Listen to “Machine Horizon”
Onirik – Casket Dream Veneration (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Reverent to the Flames”
Pakistuf – Nature (Independent) [Black Metal]
Reverence – Gods of War (Avalon) [Heavy Metal]
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Selvans – Lupercalia (Avantgarde Music) [Folky Black Metal]
Listen to “O Clitumne!”
Thulnar – Nightfall in Theros (Independent) [Melodeath]
LO! ‘TIS THE MIDI CLARION OF A MIGHTY WARRIOR!
Thybreath – Where the Gods Fall (Rock-CD Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “No Redemption”
Troma Tumor – Troma Tumor (Thanatology Productions) [Brutal Death]
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Upon Shadows – Between the Southern Cross & The Northern Star (Independent) [Synth-Heavy Black Metal]
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Ureas – The Black Heart Album (Hänsel&Gretel) [lolbuttz]
Sweet Jesus
Varathron – The Confessional of the Black Penitents (Agonia Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Sinister Recollections”
Vehemence – Forward Without Motion (Battleground Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “I Don’t Want To Look Inside”
Vhöl – Deeper than Sky (Profound Lore Records) [Crust/Black Metal]
Listen to “The Desolate Damned,” “Red Chaos”
Weeping Silence – Opus IV Oblivion (Massacre Records) [Doom]
Wolf Spider – V (Metal Mind Productions) [Thrash]
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
