This Toilet Tuesday (4/19/16)
It’s Toilet Tuesday, and you know what that means: new music to gird your ear-loins with. Jom Pootersan, W, Lacertilian and I have picked out some of the choicest cuts just for you. The rest is on you; have at it!
Rostorchester – Verdorbenheit (Bergstolz) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Wes’ Gebein die Marmorsärge harren”
Initially introduced to my ears not a even a week ago, it was to my gleeful surprise to see this black metal project is releasing a brand new album (although this track has been on the Youtubes for a while). Rostorchester won’t blow you away with superb technical musicianship or originality, but their riffs are fun and the atmosphere is pleasing. It is clear the underground thrives within these gents. 4/20/16 (Jom Pootersan)
Autokrator – The Obedience to Authority (Godz ov War Productions) [Death/Doom]
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Last year, Autokrator released an uncompromising polemic against authoritarian abuse in the guise of an extreme industrial metal album. Less than a year later, the duo returns with a new album but similar approach. Extreme distortion and martial sounds are matched with mechanical, crushing death metal riffs and machine drums. I quite enjoyed the absurdly heavy, albeit single-minded self-titled release, so I look forward to hearing all of The Obedience of Authority. One thing that stands out on these first two tracks though is that the songs feature a bit more variety than those on the first album but sacrifice some of that wall of sound punch. Time will tell if that improves or lowers the quality of this release. FFO: N.K.V.D., Nihil Novi Sub Sole, Stagnant Waters 4/20/16 (W.)
Zealotry – The Last Witness (Lavadome Productions) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Cybernetic Eucharist,” “Yliaster”
The hype around these parts for Zealotry’s The Last Witness is quite high, and for good reason. As you heard on the ToH radio show yesterday, Zealotry are masters of captivating, mind-warping dissonant death metal. Don’t mistake their prowess for flashiness, though; like the other bands that occupy the upper echelons of bizarre death, they know first and foremost how to craft catchy and well-written songs. May the giant void wasps take me now! FFO: Gorguts, Artificial Brain, Nucleus 4/22/16 (W.)
Coffin Lust – Manifestation of Inner Darkness (Hells Headbangers) [Death Metal]
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Despite my penchant for cramming super-technical tunes polished to a sheen into your ears every week, sometimes I need to come down from my pristine ivory tower and roil in the muck with the rest of you peasants. Coffin Lust provides me with just the outlet for that; it’s fast, it’s filthy, and it gives no fucks (Cosigned – Lizard). It also makes for a nice change of pace hearing this style of death metal where every solo isn’t played using the Kerry King Scale™. 4/23/16 (Spear)
Reptilian – Perennial Void Traverse (Edged Circle Productions) [Death Metal]
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Late to the party here but whilst perusing Spear’s list below guess what caught my eye? Reptilian. As your resident lizard, it would most certainly be remiss of me not to investigate such a band. And I’m pretty damn glad that I did just that, as the clutch of 6 tracks laid by Norway’s Reptilian are about to hatch, unleashing an arcane evil on you unsuspecting primates. The riffing on debut album opener “Swamp” is as malicious as it is primal. The leads are fittingly demented, and the vocals sound like what you’d expect if someone had laced Chuck Schuldiner’s breakfast with a particularly potent dose of PCP. Don’t let the sludgy intro fool you, things go berserk around the 2 minute mark and from that moment on, you’ll feel as though the psychosis has manifested in your mind too, in the best possible way of course. 04/22/2016 (Lacertilian)
The 69 Eyes – Universal Monsters (Nuclear Blast Records) [Gothic Metal]
Aborted – Retrogore (Century Media Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Retrogore,” “Divine Impediment,” “Bit By Bit”
Artifact of Skulls – III: Luciferian Blasphemy (Defiled Light) [Death Metal]
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Atel – Seeking Morbid Silence (Hassweg Productions) [Depressive Black Metal]
Backdawn – I Shall Burn Your Empire (Independent) [Groove Metal]
Listen to “Call FOr War”
Batrakos – Demo II (Defiled Light) [Black Metal]
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Beastwars – The Death of All Things (Independent) [Sludge]
Listen to “Call to the Mountain,” “Black Days”
Black Citadel – Black Citadel (Defiled Light) [Black Metal]
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Blunderbuss – Resurrection (Domino Media Group) [Nu-metalcore]
Listen to “Last Day Before Resurrection”
Boudain – Way of the Hoof (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “CODA,” “Godzilla”
Braindamage – The Downfall (My Kingdom Music) [Thrash]
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Darkness Divided – Darkness Divided (Victory Records) [Metalcore]
Video Breakdown
Deathpass – Gospel of the Serpent (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Deitus – Acta Non Verba (Ulthar Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Manifest”
Destruction/Rage – The Devil Strikes Again/Second to None (split- Nuclear Blast Records) [Thrash/Speed Metal]
Dominhate – Emissaries of Morning (Lavadome Productions) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Immolation Carmen Astri”
Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree (Magnetic Eye Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Dawn,” “Aphotic Blues”
Elmsfire – Hour of the Wolf (Recordjet) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Dance with the Dead”
ETHS – Anka (Season of Mist) [Goth Groove Metal?]
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Ferium – Behind the Black Eyes (Independent) [Metalcore]
Listen to “A Journey We Had”
The Foreshadowing – Seven Heads Ten Horns (Cyclone Empire) [Doom]
Listen to “Two Horizons,” “17”
Horde of Draugar – In Death, We Are Legend (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Staving Off a Hay Death”
Incite – Oppression (Minus Head Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Stagnant,” “No Remorse”
Kattattak – Kattattak (Independent) [Stupid, Stupid Melodeath]
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Live Burial – Forced Back to Life (Dunkelheit Produktionen) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “Forced Back to Life,” “Sleep Paralysis”
Malevolentia – République (Epictural Production) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Magnus Frater Spectat Te”
Messenger – Threnodies (InsideOut Music) [Post/Prog Metal]
Listen to “Balearic Blue”
Mortal Terror – Creating Destruction (Unholy Fire Records) [Thrash]
Mortichnia – Heir to Scoria and Ash (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) [Black Metal/Sludge]
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Nocturnal Awakening – Nocturnal Awakening (Black Oak Productions) [Black Metal]
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October Tide – Winged Waltz (Agonia Records) [Melodeath/Doom]
Listen to “Swarm,” “Sleepless Sun,” “Nursed By The Cold”
Putrisect/Scorched – Final State of Existence (split- Unspeakable Axe Records) [Death Metal]
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Radux – Last Ones to Survive (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Radioactive Dawn”
Satrias – Doomsday Prophecy (Envenomed Music) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Prophecy of the End,” “Black Death”
Savage Master – With Whips and Chains (Skol/High Roller Records) [Heavy/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Ready to Sin (Into the Night)”
Sedulus – The Sleepers Awaken (Independent) [Stoner Metal]
Listen to “Sycamore”
Svoid – Storming Voices of Inner Devotion (Sun & Moon Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Never to Redeem”
Texas Hippie Coalition – Dark Side of Black (Carve Records) [the lol side of buttz]
Listen to “Rise”
This Ending – Garden of Death (Apostasy Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Blackened Shrine”
Tombstoned – II (Svart Records) [Stoner/Doom]
Warg – In the Dusk of Men (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Time Will Hide”
The Wretched End – In These Woods, from These Mountains (Indie Recordings) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Primordial Freedom”
Wytch Hazel – Prelude (Bad Omen Records) [Kinda Folky Doom]
Listen to “Wytch Hazel,” “We Will Be Strong”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
