This Toilet Tuesday (1/16/24)
O regal receptacle, o bone-white throne, rid mine abode of the funk of filth. This week we’ve got undead Mustela metal, amphibianoise, and truly unpleasant boomer shid. The bowl is filling up quite nicely this year; soon enough, we’ll need more than just our galoshes to wade into the WC waters! Ignore the “no diving” signs, I’m sure you’ll be fine.
Lord Dying – Clandestine Transcendence (MNRK Heavy) [Sludge / Death Metal]
I thought I’d never budge on sludge, but lately I’ve been enjoying the murk—and Lord Dying’s latest LP promises to continue this trend into the fledgling year. From the first moment of single “I AM NOTHING I AM EVERYTHING,” the band’s penchant for spectacle rears its head; isolated drums pulverize like an Acme crate to the cranium, leaving listeners malleable to whatever else Lord Dying throws their way. As burly hardcore gives way to grind with curious ease, and a playful stoner riff bogarts the song’s midsection, I find myself wondering how these disparate moods fit together so smoothly in such a modest (5-minute) runtime. But Lord Dying are careful of their secrets—before I can make any sense of things, an overwhelming spasm of violence brings the song to a close. Sans wrinkles, the only question I have left is how many more replays ’til I have to pay? -Roldy
A Baptism By Fire – The Dream Nightmare (Independent) [Prog/Power]
Abhoria – Depths (Prosthetic Records) [Blackened Death]
Advocacy – The Path of Decoherence (Target Group) [Prog Metal]
Andracca – To Bare the Weight of Death (Vendetta Records) [Black]
Boundless Chaos – Sinister Upheaval (Dying Victims Productions) [Deathrash]
CobraKill – Serpent’s Kiss (Frontiers Records) [Heavy Metal]
Cold in Berlin – The Body Is The Wound (New Heavy Sounds) [Doom / Alt Metal]
Dark Oath – Ages of Man (Independent) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Distances – Abstruse (Independent) [Sludge / Post-Metal]
Drakon – Светопреставление (Sleaszy Rider Records) [Meloblack / Folk Metal]
El Reno Renardo – Regreso al metalverso (Maldito Records) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Eternal Conflict – Spark of War, Pt. 2 (Independent) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Goddessless – this is a cry for help (Independent) [8-Bit / Sludge / Groove Metal]
Gothic – Underground (Loud Rage Music) [Gothic Doom]
Holy Dragons – Fortress (Pitch Black Records) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Incult – The Burnt Offering (Independent) [Death]
Lándevir – Un viaje en el tiempo (Maldito Records) [Folk Metal]
Malist – Of Scorched Earth (Avantgarde Music) [Melodic Blackened Death]
Master – Saints Dispelled (Hammerheart Records) [Deathrash]
Maut – Veil of Sorrow (Rotting Sun Records) [DSBM]
Mental Destruction – Road of Redemption (Independent) [Thrash]
Metalite – Expedition One (AFM Records) [Power]
Methedrine – No Solution, No Salvation (Time to Kill Records) [Crossover Thrash]
Necro Weasel – A Brave New World (Foxhole Productions) [Crossover Thrash]
Nemophila – Evolve (Masterworks) [Metalcore]
Phyllomedusa – Extinction (Hypyractyv Larynx Frogquencies) [Gorenoise]
Pirate Hymn – Explorer (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Rail Rage – Wolves Among Sheep (Independent) [Thrash]
Resin Tomb – Cerebral Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Sludge / Death Metal]
Ribspreader – Reap Humanity (Xtreem Music) [Death]
Sardonic Witchery – Barbaric Evil Power (War March Records) [Black]
Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining Music) [NWoBHM]
Sgàile – Traverse the Bealach (Avantgarde Music) [Post-Metal]
Sovereign – Altered Realities (Dark Descent Records) [Death]
The Bloody Earth – Crnoslovlje (Crnoslovlje) [Death/Doom]
Upon Stone – Dead Mother Moon (Century Media Records) [Melodeath]
Voltumna – For Death Is Fate (Independent) [Blackened Death]
Xion – Between Shadows and Gods (Dalapop) [Thrash]
罪號人~Zygote~ – 罪獄徒 -Sinners (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
