This Toilet Tuesday (3/24/20)
Good news: there’s a billion albums out this week to entertain you during your isolation.
Bad news: 99% of them are ass.
I exaggerate, of course, but it boggles the mind as to how dry this week feels despite the sheer volume of new releases. Maybe I just don’t like music anymore, I don’t know. Regardless, there’s a ton of stuff to sift through in search of that sweet aural ambrosia, and I’ve picked out a gem that might have flown under the radar otherwise. Let us know if you find anything else we should check out.
Mazikeen – The Solace of Death (Satanath Records) [Symphonic Black Metal]
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Mazikeen demonstrates that symphonic black metal is way more fun when performed on 7-string guitars and tech death drummer on the kit. Who knew? In any case, The Solace of Death is all I long for a fun album with some solid riffs, raw as hell vocals, and absolutely insane drumming, replete with cheesy synths. What more could you want? 3/23/20 (Spear)
Aeternam – Al Qassam (Independent) [Symphonic Folk Death]
Listen to “Al Qassam”
Aevum – Multiverse (darkTunes) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “Tair”
After the Abduction – Cracked and Bled (UKEM Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Lay and Decay”
Amnutseba – Emanatism (Iron Bonehead) [Black Metal]
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Angerot – The Divine Apostate (Redefining Darkness) [Death Metal]
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Aodon – 11069 (Willowtip) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Les rayons”
Arcada – Projections (Edged Circle Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Projections”
Autolith – Caustic Light (Hand of Death) [Sludge/Death Metal]
Listen to “Caustic Light”
Ayyur – Balkarnin (Dead Red Queen Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “I”
Balmog – Pillars of Salt (War Anthem Records) [Black Metal]
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Black Cult – Nekropola (Grimm Distribution/InsArt) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Parasite”
Black Vice – The Alchemist’s Vision (Crown and Throne) [Black Metal]
Blasphemous Degradation – Sulphuric Alchemy (Analög Ragnarök) [Black Metal]
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Candlemass – The Pendulum (Napalm Records) [Doom]
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Chronicle – Demonology (Mighty Music) [Tech Death]
Listen to “They Have Returned”
Constraint – Tides of Entropy (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “The Big (B)End”
Cran Arcanaria – The End of Nightmare (Independent) [Power Metal]
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Crypt Dagger – From Below (Dying Victims Records) [Black/Speed Metal]
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Darker Half – If You Only Knew (Massacre Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Falling”
Debilitator – Slaughter Box (Independent) [Thrash]
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Demonic Death Judge – The Trail (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
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Deranged – Deeds of Ruthless Violence (Agonia Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Disbelief – The Ground Collapses (Listenable Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Ground Collapses,” “The Waiting”
Dodenbezweerder – Vrees de toorn van de wezens verscholen achter majestueuze vleugels (Iron Bonehead) [Black Metal/Noise]
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Dyssidia – Costly Signals (Independnet) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Thrive”
Enepsigos – Wrath of Wraths (Osmose Productions) [Black Metal]
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Enzo and the Glory Ensemble – In the Name of the World Spirit (Rockshots Records) [Symphonic Prog Metal]
Listen to “Last Weep”
Errance – Fracture (Independent) [Progressive Death Metal]
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Graceless – Where Vultures Know Your Name (Raw Skullz Records) [Death Metal]
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Grim Ravine – It’s a Long Way Down, to Where You Are (Hostile Media) [Sludge/Doom]
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Halvar – Ancestral Communication (MMD Records) [Thrash]
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High Council – Ember (Via Nocturna) [Heavy Metal/Doom]
Listen to “Ember”
Illum Adora – Infernum Et Necromantium (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Intense – Songs of a Broken Future (Pure Steel Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Head Above Water”
Justify Rebellion – The Ends Justify the Means (Mighty Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Crowd Control”
Kill Ritual – The Opaque and the Divine (Dissonance Productions) [Thrash]
Listen to “Rest in Pain”
Korribann – Dogma Vastatio (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Lethal Steel – Running from the Dawn (High Roller Records) [Heavy Metal]
Lutharö – Wings of Agony (Independent) [Thrash/Heavy Metal]
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Macbeth – Gedankenwächter (Massacre Records) [Thrash/Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Gedankenwächter”
The Malice – Legions of the Dawn (Satanath Records) [Death Metal]
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Mamaleek – Come & See (The Flenser) [Flenser Stuff]
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Merged in Abyss – Attristant (Independent) [lolbuttz]
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Nekrovault – Totenzug: Festering Peregrination (Van Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Funereal Hellscapes”
Nerve Saw – Peril (Testimony Records) [Death Metal]
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Nicumo – Inertia (Inverse Records) [Gothic Metal]
Listen to “Time Won’t Heal”
Nomad – Transmogrification (Partus) (Witching Hour Productions) [Prog Death]
Listen to “In the Hands of Progression”
Nox Formulae – Drakon Darshan Satan (Dark Descent) [Black Metal]
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Perdition Temple – Sacraments of Descension (Hells Headbangers) [Blackened Death Metal]
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Rabies – Barbaric Cleansing (Hells Vomit Productions) [Thrash]
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Reactory – Collapse to Come (Iron Shield Records) [Thrash]
Scarlet Aura – Stormbreaker (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “High in the Sky”
Skyryder – Vol. 2 (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Midnight Ryder”
Smoke Mountain – Queen of Sin (Argonauta Records) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Deathproof”
Solothus – Realm of Ash and Blood (20 Buck Spin) [Death Doom]
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Stromptha – Endura Pleniluniis (Satanath Records) [Black Doom]
Listen to “Le Passage Aux Fleurs”
Subtype Zero – Ceremonious Extinction (Seeing Red Records) [Thrash]
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Synthesys – Distant Dream (Underground Symphony) [Power Metal]
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Telepathy – Burn Embrace (Svart Records) [Sludge/Post-Metal]
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Temple of Void – The World That Was (Shadow Kingdom Records) [Death Metal]
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Torchia – The Coven (Rockshots Records) [Melodeath]
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Towards Darkness – Tetrad (Solitude Productions) [Funeral Doom]
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Twitch of the Death Nerve – A Resting Place for the Wrathful (Comatose Music) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Apotropaic Scarification”
Vanish – Altered Insanity (Fastball Music) [Power Metal]
Velnias – Scion of Aether (Eisenwald) [Blackened Folk/Doom]
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Vinnum Sabbathi – Of Dimensions & Theories (LSDR Records) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “In Search of M-Theory”
Void of Sleep – Metaphora (Aural Music) [Stoner/Sludge]
Listen to “Iron Mouth”
Wake – Devouring Ruin (Translation Loss Records) [Grindy Death Metal]
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Walk Through Fire – Vår avgrund (Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Att Leva Är Att Lida”
Warp Chamber – Implements of Excruciation (Profound Lore) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Abdication of the Mind”
Welicoruss – Siberian Heathen Horde (El Puerto Records) [Symphonic Black Metal]
Listen to “Siberian Heathen Horde” (NSFW)
矢島舞依 – Hell on Earth (South to North Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Dominator”
Zakaz – Hof úr Holdi (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen
Zhora – Mortals (Hostile Media) [Sludge]
Listen to “Coke Vulture”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
