This Toilet Tuesday (11/13/18)
It’s Toilet Tuesday! And that’s my enthusiasm quota met for the week. At least there’s plenty of solid new albums out the next few days, just in time for the impending AotY season (or to just ignore completely). Share your picks for the week in the comments, or whatever other sweet tunes you’ve been jamming lately.
The Great Sabatini – Goodbye Audio (Ancient Temple Recordings) [Sludge]
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While both songs open with pretty straightforward riffs, it doesn’t take long before they become much more angular and prickly as the band’s noise rock influence comes in. “You’re Gonna Die” eventually does settle for a more typical sludge tempo and a repetitive approach, but doesn’t lose the sense of unease that “Still Life…” creates with its jolting rhythm and glaring guitar. To this they add an intense, commanding vocal performance. 11/16/18 (Hans)
Death Vanish – Cold Hammer of Melancholy (Eternal Death) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Solipsism and Antichrist”
Extremely reductive, doomy black metal that’s absolutely drowning in distortion. It does get a little too mind-numbing at some point, but the “warped tape found in the woods” vibe that they’re going for is still appealing to me. 11/16/18 (Hans)
portrayal of guilt – Let Pain Be Your Guide (Gilead Media) [Hardcore/Powerviolence]
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portrayl of guilt ask the question, “What would happen if you took hardcore and mixed in post-metal and puking sounds?” It should come as little surprise that it’s as nasty as it sounds; it’s fast and dirty, as vile as it is violent, and many other vi-words on top of that I’m sure. The substantial difference between the two tracks up right now promises more variety than is typically on display for hardcore bands, so this will be one to watch. 11/16/18 (Spear)
A God or an Other – Chaotic Symbiosis (Independent) [Post-Black Metal]
Alunah – Amber & Gold (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Amber & Gold”
Ancst – Abolitionist (Lifeforce Records) [Crust/Black Metal]
Listen to “Vicious Cyle”
Ария – Проклятье морей (M2BA) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Варяг”
Armed Ark – Rewrite Your Story (Independent) [Thrash]
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Artillery – The Face of Fear (Metal Blade) [Thrash]
Listen to “The Face of Fear”
Automaton – Talos (Sound Effect Records) [Stoner Doom]
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Barbarian Hermit – Solitude and Savagery (APF Records) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Reawaken”
Baring Teeth – Transitive Savagery (Translation Loss Records) [Dissonant Death Metal]
Listen to “Transitive Savagery”
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Black Oath – Behold the Abyss (High Roller Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Chants of Aradia”
Chrome Division – One Last Ride (Nuclear Blast) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “One Last Ride”
Deceased – Ghostly White (Hells Headbangers) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Germ of Distorted Lore”
Deviated Instinct – Husk (Terminal Filth Records) [Crust/Death Metal]
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Divine Ascension – The Uncovering (ViciSolum Productions) [Power Prog]
Listen to “Evermore”
Dødknell – K.I.L.L. (Impure Sounds) [Black Metal]
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Dysphotic – The Eternal Throne (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Abyssal Plain”
Esben and the Witch – Nowhere (Season of Mist) [Post-Metal]
Listen to “Dull Gret”, “The Unspoiled”
Fabulous Desaster – Off with Their Heads (Black Sunset) [Thrash]
Listen to “The Revenge of the Mighty Alouatta”
Fall and Resist – Fading Cinders (Independent) [Discount Trivium]
Listen to “Severity”
Flashback of Anger – Shades (IceWarrior Records) [Power Prog]
Listen to “Numbers”
Fornace – Deep Melancholic Wrath (Paragon Records) [Black Metal]
Frozen Moon – Legend of East Dan (Pest Productions) [Folk/Black Metal]
Listen to “Abuka I – Sacrifice 阿布卡壹·祭天”
Funeral Chic – Superstition (Prosthetic Records) [Black Metal/Hardcore]
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Grin – Gnosis (Deformeathing Production) [Groove Metal]
Listen to “Even For A Moment”
Hamen – Unreflected Mirror (Independent) [Symphonic Power Metal]
Preview
JT Ripper – Gathering of the Insane (I Hate Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Nightstalker”
Karg – Dornenvögel (Art of Propaganda) [Ambient Black Metal]
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Kever – Primordial Offerings (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Back from the Netherworld”
Korpsesoturi – Malus Corpus (Rotted Life Records) [Death Metal]
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Laceration – Imitation (Rotted Life Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Imitation”
Lutharö – Unleash the Beast (Independent) [Melodeath/Power Metal]
Listen to “Unleash the Beast”
Mass Casualty Incident – Desecrate Your Flesh (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Stench of Decay”
Mentor – Cults, Crypts and Corpses (Pagan Records) [Hardcore]
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Mindforce – Excalibur (Triple B Records) [Crossover Thrash]
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Nakkiga – Agurraren Harkaitza (Damnatio Ad Bestias) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Agurraren Harkaitza”
Opera IX – The Gospel (Dusktone) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Gospel”
Organic – Carved in Flesh (Testimony Records) [Death Metal]
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Post Mortal Possession – Perpetual Descent (Lord of the Sick) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Psychoneurosis – The Fall of Humanity (Selfmadegod) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Brexshit”
Ravaged Spleen Outburst – The Church of Anemia (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen
Saboter – Architects of Evil (No Remorse Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “The Temple of R’lyeh”
Sacrificium Carmen – Hermetica (Saturnal Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Kaitselmuksen tähti”
Secret Mutilation – Heartless Existence (Rotten Music) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Breeding Horror”
Sigh – Heir to Despair (Spinefarm Records) [Some Weird Shit]
Listen to “Homo Homini Lupus”
Slegest – Introvert (Dark Essence Records) [Black Metal]
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Steorrah – The Altstadt Abyss (Fastball Music) [Progressive Death Metal]
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Suidakra – Cimbric Yarns (AFM Records) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Snakehenge”
Titan – Forced Worship (Independent) [Black/Death/Thrash]
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TrollWar – Oath of the Storm (Independent) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Summoning”
Vardan / Triebtat – split (War Against Yourself) [DSBM]
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Virgin Snatch – Vote Is a Bullet (Mystic Production) [Thrash]
Listen to “Ineffective Grand Gestures”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
