This Toilet Tuesday (11/22/16)
Welcome to This Toilet Tuesday! We’ve got new jams aplenty this week, a couple of which may or may not be brought to us by our fellow Toilet-goers. Link and I have picked out a few of the choicer selections for your listening pleasure, so be sure to check those out. Have at it!
Witchery – In His Infernal Majesty’s Service (Century Media Records) [Black Thrash]
Listen to “Oath Breaker,” “Nosferatu”
Witchery is a band that delivers a very refined slice of thrash metal tinted with burbling dark ink. The Swedish ones are now back with more vengeance, served in a rounded silver plate, with a nearly intact line-up. Newcomer drumming manic, Christofer Barkensjö ,injected new blood into the mix with a frenzied performance, and Angus Norder, the new vocalist, add a blackened throat to summon the dark forces to raid the Earth. The Corpse and Jensen guitar co-op mode is intact, with the razorblade riffing attack, aided by the Gentle Giant Sharlee D’Angelo with his signature stomping bass attack. All the positions are set into the deadline, Witchery is back and these two songs prove that their are still strong in their game! 11/25/16 (Link)
Nightmare – Dead Sun (AFM Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Serpentine”
Of all the AFM Records bands, Nightmare probably have the meatier and heavy guitar tone of all. The precise and powerful performance of the new vocalist Maggy Luyten tag very well with the thrash inspired riffing style, going to harsh lows and soaring highs in an instant. Every instrument crush through glass and bones and I feel that the band is on a inspiring time, pushing their power metal style to grandiose altitudes. AFM Records is killing it this year with so many cool releases for the power metalheads! 11/25/16 (Link)
Fromhell – March on Gravitation (Naturmacht Productions) [Progressive Black Metal]
Listen to “Hibernation Sun,” “Summoning Stars”
I suppose it might be a bit of stretch calling Fromhell “progressive” black metal, given how deeply their sound is rooted in the trappings of the second wave, but I feel like their use of post-black tools in a traditional black metal setting earns them the descriptor. They make extensive use of Hammond organ, soothing clean vocals, and the effects-laden clean guitar you’d expect from an outfit like Vukari, but it’s all set in the midst of powerful triumphant riffing in the vein of Havukruunu. It’s a cool sound that works surprisingly well, and I’m very much looking forward to the rest of the album. 11/26/16 (Spear)
Abigail/Lustrum – Too Wild for the Crowd (split- Eternal Death) [Black/Thrash]
Aenaon – Hypnosophy (Aural Music) [Progressive Black Metal]
Listen to “Oneirodynia”
Alcoholic Rites/Lustrum – Drunk and in Charge (split- Eternal Death) [Black/Thrash]
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Ave Tenebrae – Tandis que les parjures se meurent (M & O Music) [Black Metal]
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Battery – Martial Law (Punishment 18 Records) [Thrash]
Bloodride – Planet Alcatraz (Inverse Records) [Thrash]
Bölzer – Hero (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Black/Death Metal]
Brutai – Born (Transcend Music) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Never Change”
Burning Point – The Blaze (AFM Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Master Them All,” “Time Has Come”
Chronos – Pallid Reflection (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Blood River”
Cokegoat – Drugs and Animals (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Winter of Fear,” “Nurture”
Craving – By The Storm (Apostasy Records) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Wielder of Storms”
Cultist – Demo 2016 (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Death Requisite – Revisitation (Rottweiler Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Revisitation”
Defiant – Time Isn’t Healing (Independent) [Heavy/Power Metal]
Listen to “Time Isn’t Healing”
Diatonic – I Am the One (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “Fading”
Dischordia – Thanatopsis (Rogue Records) [Progressive Death Metal]
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Eiswerk – Kameraden des Todes (Art Gates Records) [Groove Metal]
Listen to “Trollzug I”
Entrapment – Through Realms Unseen (Pulverised Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Seeker”
Exit – Into Darkness (Art Gates Records) [Death Metal]
Feanor – We Are Heavy Metal (Massacre Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “We Are Heavy Metal”
Fetid Zombie – Epicedia (Transcending Obscurity) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Devour the Virtuous,” “Devour the Innocent”
Foetal Juice – Masters of Absurdity (Grindscene Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Grave Denied”
Frozen Realm – Solstice (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “The Endless One”
Full Scale Riot – Empower (Eulogy Records) [Hardcore]
Listen to “Game Face”
Gangrenous – Necrotic Tumor of Mankind (Rotten Cemetery Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Gévaudan – Litost (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Lord of Decay”
Gotsu-Totsu-Kotsu – 兵ドモガ夢ノ跡 (Where Warriors Once Dreamed a Dream) (Bang The Head Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “争乱ノ死地ヘ”
Krepitus – Eyes of the Soulless (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen
Lacerated and Carbonized – Narcohell (Vingança Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Narcohell”
Master of Cruelty – Archaic Visions of the Underworld (Blood Harvest)[Black/Death Metal]
Listen to “Archaic Visions of the Underworld”
Messa/Briet – Split 7″ (split- Aural Music) [Doom]
Listen to “Enoch” (Messa)
My Darkest Hate – Anger Temple (Massacre Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “You Shall Know Them”
Myhrding – 1350 (Unexploded Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “1350,” “Nordens dödsängel”
Napalm Death/Melt-Banana – Like Piss to a Sting (split- Ipecac Records) [Grindcore/Weird Grind]
Ordog – The Grand Wall (Solitude Productions) [Death/Doom]
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Paul Wardingham – Spiritual Machines (Independent) [Instrumental Prog]
Listen to “Spiritual Machines”
Poisoned by Life – Children of the Psychedelicult (Independent) [Doom]
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Primogenorum – Damned Hearts in the Abyss of Madness (Forever Plagued Records) [Black Metal]
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Raven’s Gate – Blackstar Machinery (Art Gates Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Powerlife,” “Kill The Enders”
Root – Kärgeräs – Return from Oblivion (Agonia Records) [Heavy/Black Metal]
Listen to “Life Of Demon,” “Moment Of Fright”
Science of Sleep – Hellmouth (Bastardized Recordings) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Purge”
Scorched – Echoes of Dismemberment (Unspeakable Axe Records) [Death Metal]
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Serpent – Trinity (Vic Records) [Doom]
Shroud Eater/Dead Hand – Shroud Eater/Dead Hand (split- Southern Druid Records) [Sludge/Doom]
Skelteria – Damned and Loving It (Independent) [lolbuttz]
Listen
Snøgg – Qivitoq (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Suffer Yourself – Ectoplasm (Cimmerian Shade Recordings) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “Ectoplasm”
Those Darn Gnomes – The Zodiac (Independent) [Avant-Garde Noise/Math/Jazz/What-Have-You]
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Totten Korps – Supreme Commanders of Darkness (Blood Harvest) [Death Metal]
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Violblast – Conflict (Suspiria Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Conflict”
Vore – Isolation (CNMSP) [Black Metal]
Preview
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
