This Toilet Tuesday (1/12/16)
You lie awake in your bed, sweating bullets. Sleep won’t come; the restlessness in your bowels won’t let it. You desperately need to shit, but you dare not. You fear it. Three days ago, you relentlessly taunted a friend of a friend, a self-proclaimed witch, for her belief in the supernatural. She promised to curse you, to bring your inner self to light. You laughed it off at the time, but the next time you had a bowel movement, it violently crawled its way back in. You now know what she meant: living shit. Even now you can feel it squirming in your lower intestine, daring you to try to expel it. Realizing the futility of such a gesture, you have tried to starve it, but in doing so, are starving yourself.
And so you continue to lay there in your despondency, allowing this filth to permeate your being. You don’t move for days; soon, you couldn’t even if you wanted to. You have no energy. You consider calling this witch to apologize, but your pride won’t let you. By the tenth day, you have accepted your fate. You wither away and rot from the inside out as ulcers form in your digestive tract and your blood becomes septic. You die, poisoned by your demons.
You aren’t missed.
Welcome to This Toilet Tuesday.
Morar – Wahlheim (Nebular Winter Productions) [Black Metal]
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Howling from the heart of winter, Morar beckon you to a frosty oblivion with 7 cuts of choice atmospheric black metal. The songs range from glacial-paced elegies to the frozen north to ripping tracks that blow and thrash with the fury of an unrelenting blizzard, but all of the songs are cold in both tone and instrumentation. Even the little moments of heat, like borealic synth lines or acoustic pluckings, are just fairy fires leading you further astray into snow-blindness. Too late; frozen. FFO: Windir, Satyricon, Summoning 1/15/16 (W.)
Lycus – Chasms (Relapse Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Solar Chamber,” “Obsidian Eyes”
Every so often over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself drifting back to the two preview tracks on offer from Lycus. Although the band deals in suffocating doom metal, there are enough interesting textural elements and lush details buried deep in these two long tracks to encourage repeated listens. If patience is a virtue, Lycus are surely a reward. FFO: Giant Squid, Ahab, Asunder 1/15/16 (W.)
The Lumberjack Feedback – Blackened Visions (Kaotoxin Records) [Instrumental Sludge/Doom/Post/Whatever]
Listen to “Blackened Visions”
I’ve heard tell that some of you are partial to sick riffs. If you happen to be one of those people, then this is for you. The Lumberjack Feedback have a sound that instantly reminded me of Tempel; atmospheric, cinematic, and wholly devoid of the wankery that plagues so many other instrumental acts. Fans of middle-years Mastodon and post/sludge in general should find a lot to love here. 1/15/16 (Spear)
Acerus – The Clock of Mortality (Luxinframundis Productions) [Heavy Metal]
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Augrimmer – Moth and the Moon (Northern Silence) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Listen to “The Lament of Gods”
Axel Rudi Pell – Game of Sins (SPV) [Heavy/Power Metal]
Listen to “The King of Fools”
Backstabber – Revenge (Independent) [Death Metal]
Stream
Black Vice – Rituals of the Anti-Cosmic Doctrine (Red River Family Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Ritual VII”
Bloodiest – Bloodiest (Relapse Records) [Sludge]
Listen to “Mesmerize”
Brainstorm – Scary Creatures (AFM Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “The World To See”
Caveman – Hämbyrgür (Independent) [Gorakcore]
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Cendra – Metal Punk (Xtreem Music) [Punk/Black Metal]
Chaos Synopsis/Terrordome – Intoxicunts (split- Defense Records) [Death Thrash/Crossover Thrash]
Listen to “Serpent of the Nile” (CS)
Dimitry – The Art of Complications (Independent) [Instrumental Prog]
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Dissona – Paleopneumatic (Independent) [Progressive Metal]
Listen to “Odium”
Dystopia – New Beginning (Independent) [Melodeath]
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Fifth to Infinity – Omnipotent Transdimensional Soulfire (Avantgarde Music) [Black Metal]
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Funeral Ghoul – Under The Forest (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Girlzeroth – Kingdom Warrior (PlatD Development) [Death Metal]
Preview
Gort – Pestiferous Worms Miasma (Lupus Niger Productions) [Black Metal]
Grave Cross – Nothing But The Night (Stormspell Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Nothing But The Night”
Hellcrust – Kalamaut (Armstretch Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Bingkai Bingkai”
Hordak – Padre (Casus Belli Musica) [Folk/Black Metal]
Stream
Hostium – The Bloodwine of Satan (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Bloodwine Chalice”
Humanitas Error Est – Human Pathomorphism (Satanath/Black Plague Records) [Black Metal]
Stream
Imperfect Souls – Necro Bestial (Indpendent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Necro Bestial”
Just Before Dawn – The Dead And Those About To Die! (Chaos Records) [Death Metal]
Stream
Lucifugus – Aphel (Narbentage Produktionen) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Return to the 7th Throne”
Lunarsapian – A Slow, Painful Life (Blackened Death Records) [Drone/Doom]
Memorain – Duality of Man (Rock of Angels Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “The Last of Light”
Mothership – Live over Freak Valley (live album- Ripple Music) [Doom]
Listen to “Serpents Throne”
Natanas – Eram Numquam Amicum Vestrum (Cvlminis) [Doom/Black Metal]
Let us revel in the majesty of this cover art
Nocturne – Nocturne (Unlight Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Into the Great Below”
Norhod – Voices From The Ocean (Wormholedeath Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “Bleeding Path”
Old Forest – Dagian (Avantgarde Music) [Black Metal]
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Pensées Nocturnes – À boire et à manger (Independent) [Avant-garde Blackish Metal]
Listen
Plutonium – Born Again Misanthrope (Independent) [Industrial Black Metal]
Listen to “Born Again Misanthrope”
Pox Vobiscum – In Nomine Party ... (Independent) [Thrash]
Stream
Raw – Battalion of Demons (MDD Records) [Death Thrash]
Preview
Reapers Riddle – The End Is Nigh (Independent) [Rock/Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Welcome to the Wasteland”
Rhapsody of Fire – Into the Legend (AFM Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Into the Legend”
Rot Remains – Evisceration of the Mind (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Obscure Flag”
Sacrocurse – Destroying Chapels (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Total Devastation”
Sardonic Wrath – Into the Infernal (Independent) [Black Metal]
Scream Maker – Back Against the World (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Far Away”
Sepultus Est – En el marmoreo laberinto donde sueñan los muertos (GS Productions) [Funeral Doom]
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Shadow Moon/Behalf Fiend/Aeternus Odium/Profanus Infernalis – União Satânica- 1º Ato (United Spreading the Ancient Evil Kult Prod) [Black Metal]
Shadow Of Intent – Primordial (Independent) [Tech Death]
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Silent Kingdom/Atra Hora – Час Безмолвия (Darknagar Records) [Black Metal]
Sol – The Storm Bells Chime (Avantgarde Music) [Atmospheric Doom/Black Metal]
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Spinebreaker – Ice Grave (Creator-Destructor Records) [Death Metal/Hardcore]
Listen to “River of Pain”
Suppressive Fire – Bedlam (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “The Hellwraith”
Tagarot – Veleda’s Prophecy (Independent) [Folk Metal]
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Third Sovereign – Perversion Swallowing Sanity (Transcending Obscurity) [Death Metal]
Listen
Ulfrinn/Vore – Ulfrinn/Vore (split- Independent) [Black Metal]
Varg – Das Ende aller Lügen (Napalm Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Das Ende Aller Lügen”
Virvel av Morkerhatet – Metamorphopsia (Avantgarde Music) [Black Metal]
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War Atrocities/Whipstriker – Struck by Warwhip (split- Witches Brew) [Black Thrash]
Witchcraft – Nucleus (Nuclear Blast Records) [Rock]
Listen to “The Outcast”
Witte Wieven – Silhouettes of an Imprisoned Mind (Independent) [Black 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!
