This Toilet Tuesday (2/28/17)
Welcome to This Toilet Tuesday! New month, new music, and new Zelda makes for a happy Spear, one who is sure not to see the sun for many weeks to come. As to the music end of things, there wasn’t much that caught my eye this week, but that’s not to say there’s nothing to check out. W. and I have picked out a couple as usual, so be sure to give those a listen. Hit that list below and let us know what else needs to be heard!
Maat – Monuments Will Enslave (Aural Attack Production) [Death Metal]
Listen to “March for a Dying God”
If you, like me, haven’t really felt Nile’s recent releases, Germany’s Maat may be just the Ancient Egypt-shaped key to your hedonistic fulfillment. Although the band falls squarely within the tech death sphere, their flippant use of Phrygian scales and unexpected melodies certainly help them to stand out. Plus Thot’s full-throated yelling is perfect for meditating on the Coptic themes. If you too think Akhenaten was a heretic, give Maat a try. FFO: Nile, Crescent, Scarab 3/3/17 (W.)
The Senseless – The Buried Life (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Brutum Fulmen”
Did the new Mithras whet your appetite for majestic brutal death metal, but leave you hungry for more? Are you dying waiting for word of more Sarpanitum? Then you need to check out The Senseless. “Brutum Fulmen” is of a similar nature to the aforementioned bands (with sole member Sam Bean actually having been part of Mithras at one point), but of a somewhat different flavor. It’s hard to describe, but it sounds a little more earthbound than the others, for lack of a better word. In any case, they all fill the same need, so check it out if you were into On Strange Loops. 3/1/17 (Spear)
Ancara – Garden of Chains (Concorde Music Company) [Butt Rock]
Listen to “The End (Easier Than Love)”
Aversio Humanitatis – Longing for the Untold (Blackseed Productions) [Black/Death Metal]
Listen to “Prison of Shattered Glass,” “Advent of the Inescapable”
Bare Infinity – The Butterfly Raiser (Blackdown Music) [Melodic Metal]
Listen to “Hear Me Out”
Bear Mace – Butchering the Colossus (Independent) [Death Metal]
Blaze Bayley – Endure and Survive (Infinite Entanglement Part II) (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Endure and Survive”
Bradi Cerebri Ectomia/Methadone Abortion Clinic/Septicopyemia/Fecal Body Incorporated – Bradi Cerebri Ectomia/Methadone Abortion Clinic/Septicopyemia/Fecal Body Incorporated (split- Lord of the Sick Recordings) [Brutal Deathgrind]
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Cataleptic – Forward (Archaic Sound) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “Grave Peril”
Cirith Gorgor – Bi Den Dode Hant (Hammerheart Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Bi Den Dode Hant”
Cloak of Altering – I Reached for the Light That Drowned in Your Mouth (Gnaw Their Tongues) [Experimental Black Metal]
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Cold Fell – Irwell (Argento Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Bone Ceiling”
Creeping Fear – Onward to Apocalypse (Dolorem Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Swallowed by Death,” “Spreading Disease”
Cryptic Brood – Brain Eater (Xtreem Music) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “A Box Full of Bones”
The Day of the Beast – The Ultimate Cremation Pyre (Horror Pain Gore Death/Lost Apparitions) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Ultimate Cremation Pyre,” “Bastards of the Beast”
Desecrate the Faith – Unholy Infestation (Comatose Music) [Brutal Death Metal]
Preview
Devormity – Satir (Brutal Mind) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Darah”
Disharmony – Goddamn the Sun (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Gates of Elthon”
Doctor Livingstone – Triumphus Haeretici (Osmose Productions) [Black Metal]
Dread Sovereign – For Doom the Bell Tolls (Van Records) [Doom]
Ebola – Ⅱ (Depressive Illusions Records) [Black Metal]
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Ende – Emën Etan (Obscure Abhorrence/Dread) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Das Hexenhaus”
Ezra Brooks – Target (Barbarian Wrath) [Heavy Metal]
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Flaming Wrekage – From Flesh to Dust (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Thrown to the Wolves”
Fleshdoll – Hearts of Darkness (Great Dane Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Silent Faces of Stone”
Gorephilia – Severed Monolith (Dark Descent Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Ravenous Storm,” “Return to Dark Space”
Review
Gorthaur – Om Cmapцeв (Independent) [Black Metal]
Stream
Goya – Harvester of Bongloads (Opoponax Records) [Sludge/Doom]
Haeresian – Haeresian (Independent) [Power Metal]
Preview
Hellish – Grimoire (Unspeakable Axe Records) [Death/Speed Metal]
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Hollow Leg – Murder (Argonauta Records) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Raven”
Hordes of the Black Cross/Funeral Moon – Hordes of the Black Cross/Funeral Moon (split- Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Hunter’s Oath” (HotBC), “Reject/Extinct” (Funeral Moon)
Keiser – The Succubus (Independent) [Blackened Thrash]
Listen to “Pandemic Herb”
Культура Курения/Regnmoln – Культура Курения/Regnmoln (split- Pest Productions) [Post-Punk/DSBM]
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Light of the Morning Star – Nocta (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Gothic Metal]
Listen
Review
Lux Perpetua – The Curse of the Iron King (Underground Symphony) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Curse of the Iron King”
Majesty – Rebels (NoiseArt Records) [Revolution X – The Band]
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Mindful of Pripyat/Stench of Profit – New Doomsday Orchestration (split- Everlasting Spew) [Deathgrind]
Listen
MotherSloth – Moon Omen (Argonauta Records) [Doom]
Nornír – Urd (Northern Silence Productions) [Black Metal]
Stream
Norrsköld – Withering Virtue – The Second Chapter (Rexius Records) [Folky Melodeath]
Preview
Nox Vorago – Al Chem (Independent) [Symphonic Death Metal]
Listen to “At the Feet of Ereshkigal”
Patria – Magna Adversia (Soulseller Records) [Black Metal]
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Plague Phalanx – Iniquitous Eugenics (Independent) [War Metal]
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Plagues – The Great Dark Devotion (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Ascension,” “Hell”
Rozamov – This Mortal Road (Battleground/Dullest) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “This Mortal Road”
Ruiza – One (God Child Records) [Powerish Metal]
Preview
Sewercide/Cemetery Filth – Sewercide/Cemetery Filth (split- Unspeakable Axe Records) [Death Metal]
Stream | TovH Interview
SkeleToon – Ticking Clock (Revalve Records) [The Powerest Metal]
Listen to “Ticking Clock”
Skulled – Eat Thrash (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Eat Thrash”
Solitary – The Diseased Heart of Society (Ukem Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Unidentified”
Soziedad Alkoholika – Sistema antisocial (Maldito Records) [Crossover Thrash]
Listen to “No Olvidamos, 3 de marzo”
The Sun Through a Telescope – Black Hole Smile (Independent) [Drone/Doom]
Listen
Svart Crown – Abreaction (Century Media Records) [Progressive Black/Death]
Listen to “Khimba Rites”
Svartstorm – Иллюзия выбора (Requiem Distribution) [Heavy Metal]
Preview
Swamp Devil – Pioneers (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Banner,” “Monster”
Thrash Bombz – Master of the Dead (Iron Shield Records) [Thrash/Speed Metal]
Listen to “The Avenger”
Torturized – Omnivore (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Omnivore”
Uzômi – A Revolta do Boêmio (Independent) [Crossover Thrash]
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Vernent/Suicidal Forest/Mount Depression – Vernent/Suicidal Forest/Mount Depression (split- Cvlminis) [Black Metal]
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Vomitous Mass – Promo 2017 (Lord of the Sick Recordings) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Immaculate Punishment”
Witchstone – Mortal Fear of Infinty (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “The Voidmouth”
Within the Ruins – Halfway Human (eOne Music) [Deathcore]
Listen to “Objective Reality”
Wolfheart – Tyhjyys (Spinefarm Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Boneyard,” “The Flood”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
