This Toilet Tuesday (10/13/15)
You awake in a cold sweat to your own scream. Looking around you see nothing but blackness. There; your clock. You’re still in your room. Another nightmare has disturbed your rest. The news of this so-called “Bathroom Killer” has you rattled; four bodies in the past two weeks have turned up, each in the bathrooms of their homes, each split open with their organs removed. All of them have been in your neighborhood. Still nervous, you get up and check your doors and windows. All locked, all secured. Nobody can get in without you hearing; it should be safe to go to the bathroom before heading back to sleep.
You begin to relax when you take a seat on your toilet. Your bathroom doesn’t have any windows, so it’s not like anyone can break in there anyway. As you begin to pee, a loud “bloop” from underneath you startles you from your zen moment. Weird, but not unexpected; there’s some construction on the pipeline further down the street, so it probably has something to do with that. Another, louder one comes and you jump a bit. Then another, and another. You start to rise, but you never make it up. Something bursts forth from the drain below you, forcing its way into your anus, winding through your innards and bursting out your chest. You watch in horror as a blood-drenched tentacle slides back into the gaping hole in your torso, a circular mouth with rows of razor-sharp teeth at its end. Before you fade to black, you feel it latch onto something inside as it begins drinking you from the inside out.
Fear what lies beneath. This is Toilet Tuesday.
Yautja – Songs of Lament (Forcefield Records) [Sludgegrind]
Listen to “Breed Regret”
Yautja are named for the sedulous alien hunters from the Predator franchise. It’s a fitting moniker, as the band approach their prey (our ears) with a masterful precision and brutal ruthlessness befitting those xeno trophy collectors. Songs of Lament is a harrowing hunt through swampy jungle and muddy bog, and you’re likely to be nothing more than so much splattered viscera by the triumphant end of this EP. FFO: Oblivionized, Dendritic Arbor, Great Falls 10/13/15 (W.)
Centvrion – V (SG Records) [Thrash/Heavy Metal]
Preview
I haven’t heard enough of V to tell you if Centvrion measure up to the hype created by the teaser trailer, but if the full length sounds anything like this one minute snippet, this is going to be some high-octane, dong-swingin’ speed metal sure to please the true warriors in the hall. Prepare your neck. FFO: Night Demon, Visigoth, Liege Lord 10/16/15 (W.)
Gorod – A Maze of Recycled Creeds (Listenable Records) [Smooth Jazz]
Listen to “Temple to The Art-God”
With their followup to 2012’s A Perfect Absolution, Gorod seek to cement their status as the world’s preeminent jazz fusion quintet. “Temple to The Art-God” seamlessly blends the melodic sensibilities of hard bop pioneer Art Blakey with the unmatched virtuosity of John Coltrane and brings them to the 21st century with a splash of rock influence. If the rich block chords, smooth modal fills, and crooning that would entrance even Kenny G are any indication, this will be an album worthy of any jazz enthusiast’s time. 10/16/15 (Spear)
All Hell – The Red Sect (HPGD) [Black Metal]
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Aosoth/Order of Orias – Aosoth/Order of Orias (split- WTC Productions) [Black Metal]
Atomwinter – Iron Flesh (Black Skull Records) [Death Metal]
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Blackhorned – Lost Souls of Mental Famine (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Black Tide – Chasing Shadows (Pavement Records) [Wasted Potential]
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Brakk – Effect…Caffeine (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Bittersweet Defeat”
Caligula’s Horse – Bloom (Inside Out Music) [Progressive Metal]
Listen to “Marigold”
Cape of Bats – Violent Occultism (Broken Limbs Recordings) [Black Metal/Punk]
Chalice ‘n’ Crown – Confession (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
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Circle II Circle – Reign of Darkness (earMUSIC) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Ghost of the Devil,” “Victim of the Night”
Coheed and Cambria – The Color Before The Sun (300 Enertainment) [Alt Rock]
Listen to “You Got Spirit, Kid”
Corpspazm – Corpspazm (Broken Limbs Recordings) [Black Metal/Crust]
Crimson Day – Order of the Shadows (Iron Shield Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “And Then Came Death,” “Lies About Paradise”
Cult of Occult – Five Degrees of Insanity (Deadlight Entertainment) [Sludge]
Listen to “Alcoholic”
Enfeeble – Momentum of Tranquility (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Middle of Nowhere”
Episcopal Holocaust – Fuck Your God (Goetic Records) [Black Metal]
Evertrapped – Under the Deep (Hellstorm Recordz) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Underneath the Deep”
Housebreaking – Against All Odds (Bakerteam Records) [Groove Metal]
Listen to “Blood Red”
Ildverden – Темніч чорна йде за мною (Satanath/Pagan Flames Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Очі мертвої луни”
Ivanhoe – 7 Days (Massacre Records) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Overrun”
Lowburn – Doomsayer (Argonauta Records) [Doom]
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M.A.I.M. – Manere Ombre Briscole (Nadir Music) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Quest for Perfection”
Melted Space – The Great Lie (Sensory Records) [Symphonic Metal]
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Mindless Sinner – The New Messiah (Pure Steel Records) [Heavy Metal]
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Mindpatrol – The Marble Fall (M&O Music) [Melodeath]
Listen to “A Marble Throne”
Mortal Torment – Cleaver Redemption (Gore House Productions) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “A Million Skulls to Bludgeon”
Murashita – Inescapable Damnation (Independent) [Death/Thrash]
Listen to “Inescapable Damnation,” “Retribution”
Panopticon – Autumn Eternal (Bindrune/Nordvis) [Black Metal With Feels]
Listen to “Autumn Eternal”
Pathogen/Deathevoker – Consecrated in Morbidity (split- Old Temple) [Death Metal]
Listen
Propaganda – The Mask of Sanity (Brute! Productions) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen
Recitation – Carrion (Indisciplinarian) [Sludge]
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Sadist – Hyaena (Scarlet Records) [Progressive Death Metal]
Listen to “The Lonely Mountain”
Sailing to Nowhere – To the Unknown (Scarlet/Bakerteam Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Sailing to Nowhere”
Saturnian Mist/IC Rex – Liber Saturni- Apochryphon of Saturnian Rex (split- Saturnal Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Valonkantajan Kivi” (IC Rex)
Saxon – Battering Ram (UDR Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Battering Ram”
Scavenger – Rise of the Scarab (7hard Records) [Heavy Metal]
Preview
Setesh – This Demon Haunted World (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Beneath a Bleeding Sky”
Slaughtered Existence – Total Death (Independent) [Blackened Death/Thrash]
So Hideous – Laurestine (Independent) [Post-Metal]
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Sorrowful Angels – Remedie (Roar Records) [Dark Metal]
Listen to “Shatterbox”
This Gift Is a Curse – All Hail the Swinelord (Season of Mist) [Black Metal/Hardcore]
Listen to “Swinelord”
Thy Catafalque – Sgùrr (Season of Mist) [Avant-garde Metal]
Listen to “Alföldi Kozmosz”
Tranquillizer – Des Endes Anfang (Metal Guardian/Bloodline Productions) [Black Metal]
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Void of Sleep – New World Order (Aural Music) [Progressive Sludge]
Listen to “Hidden Revelations”
Voodoo Hill – Waterfall (Frontiers Music Srl) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Waterfall”
葬尸湖 – 孤雁 / Gu Yan (Pest Productions) [DSBM]
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