This Toilet Tuesday (12/16/25)
O Chaplain ov Constipation, O Unholy See(t), Thy waters grow shallow, with few bergy bits to cling to. This week, we’ve got a zombie door, emetophobic nightmare fuel, and NO, THIS IS APATRA. My dumplings, even as the last few weeks ov 2K25 dribble into your undies, know there are treasures best unflushed. As always, let us know what we missed in the comments!
Pythonic – Decomposition (Independent) [Metalcore / Death / Groove Metal]
I’m not sure why, but Canada has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to bands grafting groovy metalcore onto their sound: Neck of the Woods, Truent, Apollyon (RIP), and The Hallowed Catharsis come to mind, with Pythonic joining the ranks with their new EP. Preview tracks “Guiltfeeder” and “Liturgy” fuse punchy, hardcore drumming with melodic tremolo riffs for a sound that’s both comfortably nostalgic and aggressive enough to appease listeners who usually shun melodeath. Vocalists Morgan Warriner and Vincent Kohut trade mid-ranged barks and metalcore shrieks with aplomb (there are some impactful instances of layering as well), and there’s even a dispassionate spoken word segment (“Liturgy”) that’s equal parts Vastum weirdness and tough-guy hardcore. I cordially invite you to a clobbering when Decomposition releases this Friday. -Roldy
A Circle of Crows – When a Split Becomes a Schism (Independent) [Melo Blackened Death]
Apatra – Reign in Brown (Independent) [Deathrash]
Bloedmaan – Vampyric War in Blood (Immortal Frost Productions) [Black]
Chaos over Cosmos – The Hypercosmic Paradox (Independent) [Tech Death]
Consumer – Consumer Society (Independent) [Thrash]
Crucifixor – Enalteciendo los antiguos principios de la rebelión (Iron, Blood and Death Corporation) [Blackened Death]
Dead Sun – This Life Is a Grave (Emanzipation Productions) [Death / RJCU]
Demolition – 4 Sniper Eyes (Duel Records) [Crossover Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Destruidor – Possessed by Evil (Independent) [Blackened Speed]
Esoteric Rites – II (Independent) [Symphonic Black]
Fullmoon Rite – Ad Lucifer Aeternum Gloriam (Independent) [Symphonic Black]
Funeral Vomit – Upheaval of Necromancy (Xtreem Music) [Death]
Hexagraf – Walsen van hoop (Void Wanderer Productions) [Symphonic Blackened Doom]
Inerte – Singulier (Independent) [Blackened Death]
Isua – II (Independent) [Sludge / Doom]
Korpsesoturi – Tahtoisin kuolla (Independent) [Death]
Lost in Existence – Atonement (Art Gates Records) [Metalcore]
Lychgate – Precipice (Debemur Morti Productions) [Avant-garde Blackened Doom]
Melancholie – Winterkronieken (Naturmacht Productions) [Atmoblack / Ambient]
Midnight Fortress – Midnight Fortress (Independent) [Speed / Heavy Metal / Hard Rock]
Necrophagea – Regurgitacion de Postema (Sewage Nation Records) [Brutal Death / Goregrind]
Nemorous – What Remains When Hope Has Failed (Bindrune Recordings) [Atmoblack]
Niovel – Letters to the Other Side (Independent) [Symphonic Power / Heavy Metal]
Overused – Faith (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Parasitic Vermivore – Boiled in Bongwater (Documenting Reality Records) [Goregrind]
Penetrator Hammer – War Is from Shadows (Iron, Blood and Death Corporation) [Blackthrash]
Reign of Fear – Maraviglia (Independent) [Metalcore / Death / Groove Metal ]
Scheitan – Wine for a Tormented Soul (The Circle Music) [Gothic Metal]
Sex Machineguns – Heavy Metal Commander (Anchor Records) [Power / Speed / Heavy Metal]
Streams of Blood – Vermaledeit (The Hidden Art) [Black]
Taedifer – Indivinus (Archaic Sound) [Death]
The Losts – Venom Within (Inverse Records) [Blackened Heavy Metal]
Trigger – The Waking Beast (Coyote Records) [Death]
Túmulo – Evangelho do Canhoto (Caverna Abismal Records) [Blackened Speed]
Unarmed Crowd – Ritual of Grief (Repentless Records) [Metalcore / Melodeath]
Vatikan – Gefallene Nephilim (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Vomitvsanctvs – Eaten by Maggots (Independent) [Deathrash]
WoodMoon – Snowmoon (Independent) [Dungeon Synth]
兀突骨 – 不死 (Immortality) (Bang the Head Records) [Death / Folk Metal]
