This Toilet Tuesday (5/22/18)
It’s Toilet Tuesday once more, and thank god for that. We’ve got a big pile of new releases here for you, and there’s some pretty good stuff to be found within. Hans and I picked out a couple that might catch your interest, but be sure to check the list for more.
Deathstorm – Reaping What Is Left (High Roller Records) [Thrash]
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Not a lot of new things here, but an excellent showcase of thrash. We’ve got a fair bit of Slayer going on, but I’m also reminded of Kreator, and maybe a sprinkling of Sepultura here and there. More modern references might include Hypnosia and Ripper. No anachronistically ruddy production, but not too clean, either. It feels like the album that makes you go, “If you’re into thrash, you gotta hear this.” Everything about it screams “classic.” If you’re not sold yet, come back Friday and at least check out “Unholy Lamentations”. 05/25/18 (Hans)
Micawber – Beyond the Reach of Flame (Prosthetic Records) [Death Metal]
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Micawber have been gradually growing and refining their style over the years (thing early 90’s USDM tonality filtered through the lens of modern songwriting and structure), really coming into their own on 2015’s Gods of Outer Hell. If that album defined their sound, then this one evolves it; the riffs have more variety and motion, the solos are more interesting, and the vocals hit way harder. If you’re looking for something equal parts Immolation and The Black Dahlia Murder, then get on this immediately. 5/25/18 (Spear)
69 Chambers – Machine (Massacre Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “F.Y.L.”
Abhor – Occulta Religio (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Demons Forged from the Smoke”
Aboleth – Benthos (WURMgroup) [Stoner Doom]
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A.H.P. – Forakt, hat og død (Avantgarde Music) [Black Metal]
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Architects of Chaoz – (R)Evolution (Metalville) [Heavy Metal]
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Batakazzo – Oculolinctus (Putrid Tomb Records) [Deathgrind]
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The Beast of Nod – Vampira: Disciple of Chaos (Independent) [Prog Death]
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Bleeding Through – Love Will Kill All (SharpTone Records) [Metalcore]
Listen to “Set Me Free,” “Fade Into The Ash”
Blood of Christ – Unrelenting Declivity of Anguish (Anthology IV) (CDN Records) [Death Metal]
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Candlemass – House of Doom (Napalm Records) [Doom]
Listen to “House of Doom”
Cloud – Deus Ex Machina (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
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Day of Execution – Inevitable End (Neckbreaker Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Madness Unto Death”
Dead Sleep – In the Belly of the Beast (Denomination Records) [Thrash]
Defiant – Insurrection Icon (Art Gates Records) [Death Metal]
Destinia – Metal Souls (Frontiers Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Metal Souls”
Djevelkult – Når avgrunnen åpnes (Saturnal Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Apocalypse (Hellspawn)”
Dopethrone – Transcanadian Anger (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
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Dreyelands – Stages (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Anger”
Drunk Dog – Back to Old Days (Independent) [Thrash]
Evil-Lÿn – Disciple of Steel (No Remorse Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Tengel,” “Disciple of Steel”
Extispicium – Belomancy (EEE Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “A Bluemoon Balefire”
Filii Nigrantium Infernalium – Hóstia (Osmose Productions) [Black/Heavy Metal]
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Forged in Blood – Forged in Blood (Punishment 18 Records) [Heavy Metal]
Fretting Obscurity – Flags in the Dust (Endless Winter) [Death Doom]
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In Element – Lyra (Art Gates Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Lyra”
Infrared – Saviours (Independent) [Thrash]
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Fury of Fear – Fury of Fear (Independent) [Power Metal]
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Graveborn – The Athenaeum (Independent) [Progressive Deathcore]
Listen to “The Shapeshifter”
Grave Noise – From the Cradle to the Grave (Rock-CD Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Mutant Goat”
Grind Zero – Concealed in the Shadow (Punishment 18 Records) [Death Metal]
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Home Style Surgery – Trauma Gallery (Punishment 18 Records) [Thrash]
Injector – Stone Prevails (Art Gates Records) [Thrash]
Kanseil – Fulìsche (Rockshots Records) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Densilòc”
Kess’khtak – Unwritten Rules Prevail (Art Gates Records) [Deathgrind]
Light This City – Terminal Bloom (Creator Destructor Records) [Melodeath/Metalcore]
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Limb – Saboteurs of the Sun (New Heavy Sounds) [Stoner Doom]
Lordi – Sexorcism (AFM Records) [Top Hat GWAR]
Listen to “Naked in my Cellar”
Lord Vigo – Six Must Die (No Remorse Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Doom Shall Rise”
Malauriu – Morte (Southern Hell Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Behold the Damnation”
Maestrick – Espresso Della Vita: Solare (Avalon) [Power Prog]
Majesty of Silence – Zu dunkel für das Licht (Extreme Metal Music) [Black Metal]
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Midnattsol – The Aftermath (Napalm Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “The Aftermath”
Millennial Reign – The Great Divide (Ulterium Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Break the Tide”
Mokoma – Hengen pitimet (Sakara Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Takatalvi”
Monument – Hellhound (Rock of Angels Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Attila”
Nexon – City at the Edge of Time (Independent) [Power Metal]
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Ritual Necromancy – Disinterred Horror (Dark Descent Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Command the Sigil”
Sadistik Forest – Morbid Majesties (Transcending Obscurity) [Death Metal]
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Self-Hatred – Hlubiny (Solitude Productions) [Death Doom]
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Sign of the Jackal – Breaking the Spell (Dying Victims Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Class of 1999”
Skyborne Reveries – Winter Lights (Naturmacht Productions) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
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Slaughterday – Abattoir (FDA Records) [Death Metal]
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Sobernot – Silent Conspiracy (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Vermis”
Stortregn – Emptiness Fills the Void (Non Serviam Records) [Black Melodeath]
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Striborg – Blackwave (Independent) [lolbuttz]
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Subsignal – La Muerta (Gentle Art of Music) [Prog Rock]
Listen to “La Muerta”
Sudden Death – Stillborn (Art Gates Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “The Right to Kill”
Suotana – Land of the Ending Time (Reaper Entertainment) [Blackened Melodeath]
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Supreme Carnage – Morbid Ways to Die (Redefining Darkness) [Death Metal]
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Thunderwar – Wolfpack (Lifeforce Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Circle of Runes”
Torture Rack – Malefic Humiliation (20 Buck Spin) [Death Metal]
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Traitors Gate – Fallen (No Remorse Records) [Heavy Metal]
Uada – Cult of a Dying Sun (Eisenwald) [Black Metal]
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Unflesh – Savior (Independent) [Tech Death]
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Valgrind – Blackest Horizon (Everlasting Spew Records) [Death Metal]
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Wargoat/Black Ceremonial Kult – Unapproachable Laws of the Abyss (split- Deathrune Records) [Black Metal]
Wayfarer – World’s Blood (Profound Lore Records) [Black Metal]
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Wirethrone – Wirethrone (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “I’m Still Breathing”
Witch Mountain – Witch Mountain (Svart Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Burn You Down”
Witchsorrow – Hexenhammer (Candlelight Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Demons of the Mind”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
