This Toilet Tuesday (11/3/15)
This Toilet Tuesday: bringing you all the metal since 2014. ALL OF IT. Let’s cut straight to the chase; there’s a ton of music out this week, and there’s a lot of good stuff you’re inevitably never going to have time to listen to. Karhu, W, and I have picked out our favorites for the week; now it’s your turn. Give those bands we might have missed the attention they deserve and share them below!
Police State – Mind Collapse (Grimoire Records) [Grindcore]
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Grind purists rejoice! Police State bring the punky, d-beat clatter your crusty little hearts crave. Mind Collapse is chock-full of nasty little songs just below the minute mark to give you amphetamine junkies your fix, with each tune screeching from anti-religious polemic to juddering bounce to breakneck buzz-saw riffs in a matter of seconds. Prepare your butt to be chopped off. FFO: Vulture Locust, BRUCEXCAMPBELL, Yattai 11/6/15 (W.)
Worthless – Grim Catharsis (Ranka Kustannus) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Mental Hammer”
‘Tis my first touch with Worthless. One thing that I found out right away is that they don’t quite live up to their name; on the contrary, I feel this band will make a worthy addition to my collection. Their brand of Bathory-esque death metal with a little melancholy on the side seems most fitting to the casual mood I find myself in these days, and I must encourage you to try this very same treatment. You won’t find yourself any happier, but at least the gloom is darn much more bearable (pun intended). 11/6/15 (Nordling Rites ov Karhu)
Breitenhold – The Inn of Sorrowing Souls (Stormspell Records) [Speed Metal]
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When a band’s record label describes themselves as “old farts stuck in the 80’s and proud of it,” it doesn’t make me hopeful. That’s almost always a sign that you’re going to get some half-assed Motley Crüe or Gary Moore knockoff band. Well, apparently the guys at Stormspell are stuck in the fun part of the 80’s, because holy hell does Breitenhold deliver the goods. These guys play top-tier speed/power/thrash/whatever with a healthy dose of Blind Guardian worship. The vocals are pretty typical speed metal (read: falsetto for days), which I’m sure will be a turnoff for some, but you’re missing out on a fun album if you let that get in the way. Grab a beer and your favorite longsword and get ready to slay some posers. 11/1/15 (Spear)
Abysmal Grief – Strange Rites of Evil (Elektro Plasma Musik) [Doom]
Austaras – Prisoner of Sunlight (Independent) [Post-Black Metal]
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Blazon Stone – No Sign of Glory (Stormspell Records) [Power Metal]
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Blynd – Liber Sum (Pitch Black Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Al-Kimiya”
Bodyfarm – Battle Breed (Cyclone Empire Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Dark Age”
Chastain – We Bleed Metal (Leviathan Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “All Hail the King”
Christ Agony – Black Blood (Witching Hour Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Coronation”
Cloven Altar – Demon of the Night (Stormspell Records) [Power Metal]
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Comatose – Thy Mighty Conquest (Dethrone Records) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Thy Mighty Conquest”
Cross Vault – The All-Consuming (Northern Silence Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Revocable Loss”
Cvltist – Demo I (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Dark Moor – Project X (Scarlet Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Gabriel”
Desecresy – Stoic Death (Xtreem Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Abolition of Mind”
Devil You Know – They Bleed Red (Nuclear Blast) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Stay of Execution”
Down Among the Dead Men – Exterminate! Annihilate! Destroy! (Cyclone Empire Records) [Death Metal]
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Dying Empire – Dystopia (Independent) [Melodeath]
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Eldritch – Underlying Issues (Scarlet Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Changing Blood”
Et Cetera – Nowhere (Independent) [Depressive Black Metal]
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Extirpation – Wings of Decadence (Nightbreaker Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Sick Life,” “Daily Struggle”
Extreme Noise Terror – Extreme Noise Terror (Willowtip Records) [Deathgrind]
Helmsplitter/The Communion – Great Violence and Hidden Depths (Horror Pain Gore Death) [Death Metal]
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Horn – Feldpost (Northern Silence Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Wache Schreibt…”
Khmer/Livstid – Khmer/Livstid (split- Halo of Flies) [Black Metal/Crust]
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Kill Confirmed – Hell in a Cell (Independent) [Metalcore]
Listen to “Whiskey and Nicotine”
Magistarium – 5,55 Till The End Of Days (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “5,55 Till The End Of Days”
Mammoth Storm – Fornjot (Napalm Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Fornjot”
Manticore/Ritual Slaughter – Depraved Sacraments (Tridroid Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Sworn to Profanation” (Ritual Slaughter)
Melkor – Chaos Chronicles (Rock-CD Records) [Heavy Metal]
Nahum – And The Chaos Has Begun (Independent) [Death/Thrash]
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Nhor – Momenta Quintae Essentiae (Prophecy Productions) [Folk/Black/Doom]
Listen to “Nosce Te Ipsum”
Niezgal – Statut (Thou Shalt Kill Records) [Black Metal]
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Nucleus Torn – Neon Light Eternal (Prophecy Productions) [Progressive/Folk Metal]
Listen to “A Declaration of Mistrust”
Panphage/Jarnvidr – Gøthalandom (split- Ætergap Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Hagalaz Automat” (Panphage)
Reckless Manslaughter/Witchtower – Reckless Manslaughter/Witchtower (split- Independent) [Death Metal]
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Revenge – The Omega (Sepsis Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Reverence – Gods of War (Razar Ice Records) [Power Metal]
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Rocka Rollas – Pagan Ritual (Stormspell Records) [Power Metal]
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Sergeant Thunderhoof – Ride the Hoof (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “When Time Stood Still”
Shooting Guns/Zaum – Himalaya to Mesopotamia (Sunmask Records) [Doom]
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Sunpocrisy – Eyegasm, Hallelujah! (Drown Within Records) [Prog Metal]
Supreme Carnage – Sentenced By The Cross (Bret Hard Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Sentenced By The Cross”
Tyrants of Hell – Haggard and Rotten (Wohrt Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Haggard and Rotten”
Vanden Plas – Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld II (Frontiers Music) [Power Metal]
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Vastum – Hole Below (20 Buck Spin) [Death Metal]
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Wintercold – Invoke the Ancient Beast (Satanica) [Black Metal]
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Zombieslut – Undead Commando (Rotten Roll Rex) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
