This Toilet Tuesday (2/28/23)
It is time once more for new music, and this week’s selection feels mighty refreshing in the face of the last couple. Lots of variety, lots of quality, and a good time is to be had diving into this list, so let’s not put it off any longer. Tell us what gems you’re jamming in the comments below.
Witch Ripper – The Flight After the Fall (Magnetic Eye Records) [Whatever You Call Mastodon or Baroness]
The best unsigned band in Washington is back, albeit no longer unsigned, but also arguably better than ever. That genre tag will give you a pretty good idea of what to expect from this- big riff prog doom with some big emotions attached- and they bring their own unique twist to the sound. There’s some cool major key stuff going on with this that befits the album’s sci-fi concept, and it’s damn near impossible to listen to without it putting a big grin on your face. 3/3/23 (Spear)
71TonMan – Of End Times (Transcending Obscurity) [Sludge/Doom]
Аборт Мозга – Акустика (Insulation Records) [Heavy Metal/Punk]
Against Myself – Tides of Insanity (On Fire Records) [Prog/Symphonic Metal]
Agarwaen – Channel: Lunacy (Independent) [Black Metal]
Alkymenia – Meeting Before the Death (Independent) [Death Thrash/Groove Metal]
Altar of I – Human Resources (Art Gates Records) [Metalcore]
Anarcoterror – Dim Lights (Troll Trax) [Death Metal]
Arav Krishnan – Evil Thrash (Independent) [Thrash]
Arriver – Azimuth (Independent) [Post-Metal]
Aspaarn – Sacrifices in the Mist (Independent) [Dark Ambient]
At the Altar of the Horned God – Heart of Silence (I, Voidhanger Records) [Black Metal/Folk/Ambient]
Barren Heir – Died Down (Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
Bastard Sword – Bastard Sword Ι (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Bong Coffin – The End Beyond Doubt (Syrup Moose Records) [Stoner Doom]
Carcariass – Afterworld (Great Dane Records) [Heavy Metal/Death Metal]
Carrion Morbid – Nailgun Necropsy (Wormholedeath) [Death Metal]
Crime Scene – Dark Tidings (Independent) [Crossover]
Cromlech – Ascent of Kings (Hessian Firm) [Heavy/Trad Metal]
Death Divine – Serpent (Independent) [Groove Metal]
Die Like Gentlemen – Hard Truths (Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
Disminded – The Vision (Black Sunset) [Death Thrash]
Dream Upon Tombs – Palaces of Dust (Sleeping Church Records) [Melodic Black Metal]
Drowstorm – Jubokko (Independent) [Dissonant Black Metal]
Echushkya – Twilight Murmuration (Independent) [Black Metal]
Enslaved – Heimdal (Nuclear Blast) [Progressive Black Metal]
Everson Poe – Servant (Trepanation Records) [Doom Metal/Black Metal]
Fast Evil – The Old Dark Stories (Classic Metal Records) [Heavy Metal]
Fulci – Tropical Sun – The Short Movie OST (Time To Kill Records) [Death Metal]
Full of Hell/Primitive Man – Suffocating Hallucination (collab- Closed Casket Activities) [Sludge/Noise]
Galneryus – Between Dread and Valor (Warner Music) [Power Metal]
Gravekvlt – S/T (Frozen Records) [Black ‘n Roll]
Haken – Fauna (InsideOut Music) [Prog Metal]
Ice War – Bloodsucker (Independent) [Heavy/Speed Metal]
Kold – Intet mere er (Vendetta Records) [Black Metal]
Leechfeast/Nightfucker – Split (Rope or Guillotine) [Sludge/Doom]
L’Ira del Baccano – Cosmic Evoked Potentials (Subsound Records) [Instrumental Psychedelic Doom]
Lost Brethren – Dimensional Rift (Independent) [Tech Death]
Maggot Crown – Apparition of Faces (Vargheist Records) [Death Metal]
Majesties – Vast Reaches Unclaimed (20 Buck Spin) [Melodeath]
Mommy’s Lil Monsterz – Self Titled (Independent) [Deathgrind]
Morgenröthe – Hiver social (Talheim Records) [Post-Black Metal]
Munt – Pain Ouroboros (Independent) [Crust/Deathgrind]
Mural Crown – Coastal Towers (Xenoglossy Productions) [Black Metal As Heard From A Neighboring Building]
Mycelium Shroud – Mycelium Shroud (The Swamp Records) [Weird Death Doom]
Necropanther – Betrayal (Independent) [Blackened Thrash Metal]
Neobabel – Survival Strategy (Independent) [Power Metal]
Nøkian Monark – Of Things That Define Us (Independent) [Black’n’Roll]
Nymphrenia/Vanessa Funke – Lonely Suicide (split- Independent) [Gothic/Melodeath/Black Metal]
Ocean of Grief – Pale Existence (Personal Records) [Melodeath/Doom]
Opsimath – As We Gaze upon Ourselves (Independent) [Melodeath]
Reylobo – Infinito (Maldito Records) [Heavy Metal]
Riffcoven – O Caminho do Aço (Independent) [Doom]
RodtGod – Graveside Service (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Rope – Rope (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Sapere Aude – Thoughts of a Dying Vessel (Independent) [Blackened Death Metal]
Sloth Hammer – Troops of Doom (Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
Sortilège – Apocalypso (Verycords) [Symphonic Heavy Metal]
Sovver – Sovver (Independent) [Instrumental Deathcore]
Stahlsarg – Suicide of God (Cult Never Dies) [Black Metal]
Temptress – See (Metal Assault Records) [Doom]
Transgressive – Extreme Transgression (Independent) [Thrash]
Until Death Overtakes Me – Decay into Irrelevance (Independent) [Funeral Doom]
Verminoth – Grotesque Manifestation (Grand Vomit Productions) [Death Metal]
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!