This Toilet Tuesday (12/29/15)
Welcome to the final Toilet Tuesday of 2015! As this is a fairly slow week (and I’m going to be travelling as I finish writing this), I’m going to keep it short. You know the drill: good stuff below, followed by the rest of the stuff, followed by your stuff. Dig through that list and see what we might have missed.
Dendritic Arbor – Sentient Village/Obsolescent Garden (Independent) [Grindskronk]
Listen to “Keratoconus”
Dendritic Arbor already dropped one killer release this year. I would have been totally cool with them taking it easy, but no, the quintet just had to go and record another EP of scabrous, riotous chaos. If you missed Romantic Love, let me give you the skinny on Dendritic Arbor. They play mathcore, but a much more deranged version of the type proffered by The Chariot or Dillinger Escape Plan. If you press play on “Keratoconus” you’ll hear a mixture of grind, skronk, math metal, and noise. Intriguingly, though, I’m hearing a lot more black metal in this track than on anything from Romantic Love. This is audible chaos for the intrepid metal fan. FFO: Okazaki Fragments, Oblivionized, Genevieve 12/30/15 (W.)
Dawn of a Dark Age – The Six Elements, Vol.4 Air (Nemeton Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Argon Van Beethoven (1%)”
Dawn of a Dark Age caught my attention with last year’s Water for its unconventional (but effective) use of clarinet over black metal chaos. Fire, released earlier this year, saw a noticeable improvement in both production and songwriting, and Air takes it a step further. The angry parts are angrier and the jazzy parts are jazzier, and it all comes together in a package that feels much more coherent and complete than the previous two. If you like your black metal with a dash of weird, then this one is for you. 1/1/16 (Spear)
Alacrán – Siempre en la brecha (Independent) [Speed Metal]
Listen to “En la Brecha”
Axe Giant – Skull Divorce (Independent) [Doom]
Stream
Aversion to Mankind – Solve et Coagula (Maa Productions) [Black Metal]
Curse/Styggelse/WAN – Necroholic (split- Satanath Records) [Black Metal]
Stream
Darkestrah – Turan (Osmose Productions) [Folky Black Metal]
Dysnomia – Proselyte (Independent) [Thrash]
The Fading – Till Life Do Us Part (Independent) [Metalcore]
Listen to “Till Life Do Us Part”
Fasiq – Para Penjilat Korporasi (Self Mind Record) [Thrash]
Listen to “Para Penjilat Korporasi”
Ghoulish – Kalkü (Rotten Cemetery Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “La Voladora”
Graveborn – Seeds of Life (Independent) [Deathcore, but not in the way you’d expect]
Listen to “No Destination”
Gorepot – In Pot We Trust (Brutal Mind) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Strawberry Cough,” “This Is The Last Song, Please Replay”
Heathen – Heathen (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen
The Horn – The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead Volume Fifteen (Christfuck Records) [Black Metal]
Insision – Terminal Reckoning (Sevared Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Cold Air”
Jengloth – Jengloth (Brute! Productions) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Hompimpa”
Kalidia/4th Dimension – Lies’ Device/Kingdom of Thyne Illusions (split- Independent) [Power Metal]
Stream
Lascar – Absence (Independent) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Listen to “Wilderness,” “Atlas”
Matricide – Morning Star (Daemon Worship) [Black Metal]
Stream
Mattugur – Moonwand (Independent) [Doom]
Stream
Mother Witch & Dead Water Ghosts – Ruins of Faith (Domestic Genocide Records) [Doom]
Stream
Orbeth – Mentalist (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Mentalist”
Plague – Into the Abyss (Dark Noiz) [Black Metal/Industrial]
Stream
Putrified J/Domestic Terror – The Holy Landfill (split- Rising Nemeseis Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Brutaly Severed” (PJ)
Rekion – 瓦礫連鎖 (Independent) [Power Metal]
Preview
Stheno/World Downfall – Stheno/World Downfall (split- EveryDayHate) [Deathgrind]
Stream (Stheno)
Listen to “Nazi Crap,” “Play Your Role And Shut Up” (WD)
Sungod – The Food of the Gods (Depressive Illusions Records) [Doom]
Torture Inc. – Exterminating the Wretched (Independent) [Goregrind]
Witchhelm – Jötunn (Independent) [DOOOOM]
Listen to “Jötunn”
Xibalba – Ah Tza! (Nuclear War Now!) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Ah Tza!”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
