This Toilet Tuesday (1/7/25)
A new year begins; like some great fecal phoenix, the Bowl’s infernal plumbing rises from the ashes of 2K24. This week, we’ve got sXe farming vehicles, depressed devils, and Conan-core. Before you’re swept away in the deluge of fresh tunes sure to begin later this month, take a relaxed dip in these relatively shallow waters. As always, let us know what we missed in the comments!
Slaughtersun – Black Marrow (Independent) [Prog Death]
The production on Slaughtersun’s debut EP is quite idiosyncratic; there’s a warm, fuzzed-out tone that creates a disorienting levity throughout when combined with the violence of the compositions. From “Black Marrow”‘s upbeat deathrash to the discordant deluge of “Ready Cell Awaits,” myriad sub-genres interwine in each track; even with its compact runtime, listeners will need multiple spins to make sense of the maelstrom. Dense; maniacal; intriguing—this is interesting death for interesting times. -Roldy
Alltid Allena – Opus Melancholia (Independent) [Post-Black]
Ancient Ritual – Ars Goetia (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Anfitrite – Clitemnestra (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
Baptiste Brun – Elevatio (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Bergthron – Neu Asen Land (Trollzorn Records) [Atmoblack]
Beriedir – Liminal Spaces (Rockshots Records) [Prog/Power]
Diabol – Graveyard Backtery (Independent) [Blackthrash]
Dominance/Yfel 1710 – Zakon Nienawiści (Societas Metal Cartel) [Black]
Dreadnaught – Shutdown in a Heartbeat (Independent) [Alt Metal / Hard Rock]
Elyose – Évidence (Independent) [Groove Metal / Electronic]
Ex Deo – Year of the Four Emperors (Reigning Phoenix Music) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Faithxtractor – Loathing & the Noose (Redefining Darkness Records) [Death/Doom]
Garden of Stone – The Grave Mistake (Inverse Records) [Melodeath / Metalcore]
Grafjammer – De tyfus, de teerling (Folter Records) [Black]
Harvst – Mahlstrom (Onism Productions) [Black]
Illithocyte – Échos D’un Monde Brisé Qui Refuse De Mourir (Independent) [Atmoblack / Dungeon Synth]
Insônia Sem Fim – Sanatorium Of Solitude (Independent) [DSBM]
Karçaz – Black Metal Will Burn Your Soul (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Leegte – Finis (Independent) [Black]
Malkavian – Delusion (L’Ordalie Noire) [Post-Death]
Membrane – Deathly Silence (Blind Prod) [Sludge / Post-Metal]
Moonthoth – Czarnonoc (Independent) [Atmoblack]
Morkerod – Prosperity (Independent) [Black]
Mourn the Light – The Magic Is Calling (Independent) [Doom / Heavy Metal]
Obscure Sphinx – Emovere (Independent) [Sludge / Doom / Post-Metal]
Pale – Our Hearts In Your Heaven (Tokyo Jupiter Records) [Post-Black]
Plaguewielder – In Dust & Ash (Independent) [Blackened Sludge]
Raging Fate – Mutiny (Stormspell Records) [Trad Metal]
Sandbreaker – Revelations Of The Sand (Independent) [Stoner Death/Doom]
Satan’s Sigh – Impaled Nazareno (Murder Records) [Blackened Death]
Silent Deep Ocean – In Dark Eternity (Independent) [Death/Doom / Gothic Metal]
The Cimmerian – An Age Undreamed Of (Independent) [Sludge / Doom]
The Halo Effect – March Of The Unheard (Nuclear Blast) [Melodeath]
The Obsidian Resurrection – As Darkness Falls (Independent) [Symphonic Blackened Death]
Wyatt E. – Zamāru Ultu Qereb Ziqquratu Part 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds) [Doom / Drone]
Μνήμα – Drowned in Hallucinogenic Visions (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black / Noise]
