This Toilet Tuesday (11/28/17)
It is once more Toilet Tuesday and god damn, bands, please stop putting out music. I can’t keep up. Nobody can. We’re coming up on the time of year that usually sees a slump in releases, and yet they still keep coming strong. Hans and I have highlighted a couple notable albums, but rest assured there’s plenty more below.
Corporate Death – Reborn (Misanthropic Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “In the Vastness of Time”
Really digging the energy on display here. Coming out the gate like a battering ram with sober, yet gnarly production that saves the band’s technical flourishes from drowning. They never get too tech, mind you, just enough to make you perk up and go, “Huh, I wouldn’t have thought of that,” and then it goes right back to the battering. Still effective after my tenth or so listen. 11/30/17 (Hans)
Onirism / Pure Wrath – Endless Journey (split- Throats Productions) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Listen
Don’t let that genre tag fool you; this isn’t just some spacey synths drowning out endless mopey chord droning and shrieking. Endless Journey is beautiful and melodic, with both sides offering up their own taste of grand synthesized orchestral black metal. Some may find it a bit hammy, but I couldn’t help but get swept up in the vision it presents. 12/1/17 (Spear)
Annihilation – The Undivided Wholeness of All Things (Nice To Eat You Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
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There are bands who can write a competent album within the confines of their particular genre, and then there are those who look at the genre and say, “Fuck all that.” Annihilation are distinctly and proudly part of the latter camp; while the gurgled vocals and huge, ugly riffs are certainly hallmarks of brutal death, their approach to songwriting is much more methodical and contemplative than the majority of their peers. This is slow and uncomfortable, sludgy and oftentimes dissonant, but never repetitive. Even the lyrics eschew the typical blood’n’guts in favor of spiritual musings and mysticism. In short, it’s really fucking good. 11/28/17 (Spear)
01101111011101100110111001101001 – S / 2 0 0 4 S 3 (Pathologically Explicit Recordings) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “KIC8462852”
3rd Attempt – Egocidal Path (Dark Essence Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “I’ll Do It Now”
Abominate – Diseased (Independent) [Sludge/Death Metal]
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Aldious – We Are (Village Again Association) [Power Metal]
Listen to “We Are”
Angantyr – Foragt (Northern Silence Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Foragt”
Barshasketh/Outre – Sein / Zeit (split- Third I Rex/Blut & Eisen) [Black Metal]
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Blood Oath – The Line Between (Unspeakable Axe Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Putrid Mind”
BongCauldron – Binge (APF Records) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Devil”
Branded by Pain – Give Me Strength (Independent) [Crossover Thrash]
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Chthonic – Souls of the Revolution (Ciong Zo) [Folky Melodeath]
Preview
Cień – Fate (Old Temple) [Black Metal]
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Clandestined – Ezekiel from Sodom (Via Nocturna) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Resist or Serve”
Come Back From The Dead – Caro Data Vermibus (Transcending Obscurity) [Death Metal]
Listen
Cratia – Clan of the Rock (Independent) [Glam/Heavy Metal]
Crom – When Northmen Die (Pure Legend Records) [Viking Metal]
Listen to “Shields of Gold”
Dagara – Réminiscence (Independent) [Thrashy Metalcore]
Listen to “Nil Admirari,” “Folie Ordinaire”
Deathkin – Kohti Kotiani Kaaosta (Hammerheart Records) [Black/Death Metal]
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Deavhronun – Disciples of Cain (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Vengeance of Uppsala”
Deceiving Exhort – Planet Servitude (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Defecto – Nemesis (Prime Collective) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Nemesis,” “Savage”
Deinonychus – Ode to Acts of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide (My Kingdom Music) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Weak Have Taken The Earth”
Delusional Parasitosis / Ecchymosis / Dissevered / Bleeding – Scaphism (split- New Standard Elite) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Controlled by Psychotic Impulse” (Delusional Parasitosis), “Ruthless Nasogastric Gavage” (Dissevered)
Devastatiön – Drink with the devil (Empire Records) [Thrash]
Preview
Domestikwom – A Peace That Destroys (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Roots In a Soil Not My Own”
Drakonis – The Great Miasma (Hostile Media) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Let Us Pray”
Eldamar – A Dark Forgotten Past (Northern Silence PRoductions) [Black Metal]
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Eschatos – MÆRE (Independent) [Progressive Black Metal]
The Faceless – In Becoming a Ghost (Sumerian Records) [Prog/Tech Death]
Listen to “Digging the Grave,” “Black Star”
Fhoi Myore – Per Antiquum Chaos Divina Animae Fides (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Flagellum Dei – Lord Diabolus Throne (Lusitanian Music) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Pestilent Swamps of Armageddon”
Grai – Ashes (Noizgate Records) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Donya”
Hooded Priest – The Hour Be None (I Hate) [Doom]
Preview
Human Serpent / Isolert – Everything Dies (split- Death Kvlt Productions) [Black Metal]
Inquisitor – Stigmata Me, I’m in Misery (Hammerheart Records) [Black/Thrash]
Listen to “On a Black Red Blooded Cross,” “I Am Sick, I Must Die”
Judgemental – Empires Fall (Independent) [Thrash/Groove/Mid-90’s Metallica Worship]
Listen to “Desperate Plea,” “Broken Angel”
Labyrinth Spell – Shadows and Dust (Sulphur Records) [Black Metal]
Preview
Mallediction – Impaled of the Slammering (Narcoleptica Productions) [Death Metal]
Listen
Malvento – Pneuma (Third I Rex) [Ambient Black Metal]
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Medusa’s Gaze – Rise of the Gorgon (Gorgon Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Beyond the Gallows”
Minas Morgul – Kult (Trollzorn Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Kult”
Монсальват – Ordalium (Requiem Distribution) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “In Nomine”
Monads – IVIIV (Aesthetic Death) [Funeral Doom]
Listen to “Leviathan as my Lament”
Morbid Angel – Kingdoms Disdained (Silver Lining Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Piles of Little Arms”
Review
Interview
Necrotized – Apocalypse Conception (Disembowel) [Brutal Death Metal]
Preview
The Negative Bias – Lamentation of the Chaos Omega (ATMF) [Black Metal]
Listen
Negative Symbols – EP (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Caput”
Nimrod – God of War and Chaos (Metalopolis Records) [Power/Thrash]
Noein – After the Ashes (Independent) [Groove Metal]
Listen to “Battlefield”
Nuckin’ Futs – Abyss (Blood Fire Death) [Thrash]
Listen to “Force of Will”
Operation: Mindcrime – The New Reality (Frontiers Music) [garbage]
Listen to “Wake Me Up” (CAN’T WAKE UP)
Outline – Demo 1: Fire Whiplash (Hells Headbangers) [Speed/Thrash]
Listen
The Putrefying – Consumed by Pleasure (Independent) [Tech Death]
Listen to “Consumed by Pleasure”
Rebaelliun – Bringer of War (The Last Stand) (Hammerheart Records) [Blackened Death Metal]
Listen to “War Cult Anthem”
Rebel – Krvavá růže (Smaragd Records) [Heavy Metal]
Preview
Redemptor – Arthaneum (Selfmadegod) [Disgusting Prog/Tech Death]
Listen to “Enormous, Absolute,” “Éminence Grise”
Scars of Solitude – Deformation (Inverse Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Enemy”
Seeking Obscure – Cutting Heads (Metalbolic Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Return” (Therion cover)
Silent Descent – Turn to Grey (Independent) [lolbuttz]
NO NO NO NO NO AAAHHHHHHH
Slander – Resolution Defiance (Stormspell Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “When We Die”
Trono Além Morte / Vetala – Trono Além Morte / Vetala (split- Invicta Requiem Mass III) [Black Metal]
Preview
Tyrant’s Kall – The Machine Droning Vibrant (Independent) [Doom]
Preview
Vecordious – Anthropogenic Deterioration (Independent) [Death Metal]
Preview
Violator – The Hidden Face of Death (Kill Again Records) [Thrash]
Wardomized – Forced to Eat from the Apple Tree (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen
Wolfhorde – The Great Old Ones (Inverse Records) [Folk/Melodeath]
Preview
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
