This Toilet Tuesday (2/18/25)
Windswept, sandblasted Bowl, the dagger winds doth chap the posteriors ov thy many acolytes. Yet we endure, surely as we offer thee ordure. This week, we’ve got elk-core, a severe case of un-wet, and a devastating bowel evacuation. Scour the depths below, and let us know what you found deep in the sediment!
Abduction – Existentialismus (Candlelight Records) [Black]
Once Existentialismus finds its way to your ears, there’s no way to ward off the curse. Abduction’s black metal is rife with bleak melodies more unsettling than soothing—the musical equivalent of shattering a mirror after a black cat races between your legs. Whether dabbling in black ‘n roll (“Blau ist die Farbe de Ewigkeit”) or melodic doom replete with layered clean vocals (“Razors of Occam”), the band evokes a palpable sense of dread that’s as compelling as it is repulsive. Remember to throw some salt over your shoulder with every listen! -Roldy
Across the Swarm – Invisible Threads (Time to Kill Records) [Death]
Airforce – Acts of Madness (RPM ROAR) [Heavy Metal]
Aitheer – The Serpent (Rockshots Records) [Prog Metal / Hard Rock]
Antlers – Hypothermia (Independent) [Symphonic Black / Metalcore / Instrumental]
Armory – Black Star (Dying Victims Productions) [Speed / Thrash]
Blodkarsk – Stupmorke (War Productions) [Black]
Bloodfeast Ritual/Necronomicon Ex Mortis – You’ve Got Red on You (Independent) [Death]
Bong-Ra – Black Noise (Debemur Morti Productions) [Industrial Black]
Caballero – S/T (Gates of Hell Records) [Heavy Metal]
Claymorean – Eternal Curse (Stormspell Records) [Heavy Metal]
Cross Bringer – Healismus Aeternus (Silent Pendulum Records) [Black]
Culak – Wayfarer (Independent) [Doom / Post-Black]
Debridement – Mutation (Rotten Music) [Slam / Brutal Death]
Defiled Serenity – Within the Slumber of the Mind (Inverse Records) [Melodeath]
Dehydrated – Victim (Bizarre Leprous Production) [Death]
Enbound – Set It Free (Embrace the Fear) [Power]
Exision – Uhreina ajassa (Inverse Records) [Groove / Thrash / Metalcore]
Fractured Insanity – Age of Manipulation (Xtreem Music) [Blackened Death]
Godofe Keios – Promaneta (Meia do Phoder e Crónicas Adjacentes) (Independent) [Folk Metal]
Gràb – Kremess (Prophecy Productions) [Black]
High Moonlight – Lycans (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Hirax – Faster than Death (Doomentia Records) [Crossover Thrash]
Homeskin – Soul Washed Bleach (Independent) [Prog Black / Grindcore]
Horizon Ignited – Tides (Reaper Entertainment) [Melodeath / Metalcore]
Incantvm – Maleficia (My Kingdom Music) [Black / Folk Metal]
Indian Nightmare – Banished into Endless Chaos (High Roller Records) [Speed / Heavy Metal / Punk]
Killswitch Engage – This Consequence (Metal Blade Records) [Metalcore]
Køldbrynger – Gaia – Geschändet und Verdammt (Germanitas Othala Klangschmiede) [Black]
Lord of the Void – TON 618 (Independent) [Death/Doom / Sludge]
Magnadur – Beautiful Nightmare (Sliptrick Records) [Melodeath / Experimental]
Matalobos – Phantasmagoria: Hexed Lands (Concreto Records) [Melodeath/Doom]
Mean Mistreater – Do or Die (Dying Victims Productions) [Heavy Metal / Punk]
Misanthrope – Death Ascent (Holy Records) [Melodeath]
Mitochondrial Sun – Machine Dialectics (Independent) [Electronic / Ambient]
Monolith – Magnum Opus (Independent) [Thrash]
Morax – The Amulet (High Roller Records) [Heavy Metal]
Nachtblut – Todschick (Independent) [Gothic Metal]
Nachtschatten – Polaris (Bleeding Nose Records) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Necrovision – The Gouging Process (Iron Fortress Records) [Death]
Omega Purge – The Last Monarch’s Fall (Independent) [Melodeath]
Pissgrave – Malignant Worthlessness (Profound Lore Records) [Death]
Räum – Emperor of the Sun (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions) [Black]
Sarkom – Exceed in2 Chaos (Dusktone) [Black]
Seventh Station – On Shoulders of Giants (Layered Reality Productions) [Prog Metal]
Sin of God – Blood Bound (Independent) [Tech Death / Grindcore]
Sinner Rage – Powerstrike (Dying Victims Productions) [Heavy Metal]
Taste of Doom – Para Bellum (Independent) [Thrash]
To Obey a Tyrant – Frigore Inferni (Seek & Strike) [Symphonic Deathcore]
Trhä – ∫um’ad∂ejja ∫ervaj (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Twins Crew – Chapter IV (Scarlet Records) [Heavy Power]
Valcata – Nightmares & Promises: The Forgotten Demos (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
Voidfallen – The Rituals of Resilience (Noble Demon) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Vrain – 銀翼 ～白銀のファンタジア～ (Independent) [Power]
Vultures Vengeance – Dust Age (High Roller Records) [Heavy Metal]
Wrekmeister Harmonies – Flowers in the Spring (Thrill Jockey Records) [Drone / Ambient]
Wren – Black Rain Falls (Church Road Records) [Sludge]
