This Toilet Tuesday (5/9/23)
What’s that? I can’t hear you over the tinnitus mÿztikal kôkhleal svsvrrātionz caused by all the raw black metal released this week. Elsewhere in the bowl, the blackened death sounds of spring are in bloom, and symphonic elements cozied up to a plethora of subgenres. The water’s getting septic, so you might as well swim!
Cronos Compulsion – Malicious Regression (Caligari Records) [Death]
Judging by the album art, ape #2 has just come into contact with this massive SLAB of death metal and obtained a single cerebral wrinkle—just enough to figure out how to pick up a rock and crowdkill his fellow simian. Malicious Regression is trog death at its simplest, and you’ll only need two things to enjoy it: a head to bang, and a comically large wooden club to bang other heads with. After all, what is a malicious regression if not a return to monke? -Roldy
Aelvica – Lichdragons Spewing Gloom (Independent) [Symphonic Blackened Death]
Alastor – Gates of Darkness (Haloran Records) [Black/Thrash]
Alconaut – Endless Skies (Independent) [Sludge / Stoner Rock]
Ascended Dead – Evenfall of the Apocalypse (20 Buck Spin) [Blackened Death]
Averlanche – Arctic Atlas (JVR Agency) [Symphonic / Heavy]
AxMinister – vir fortis (Independent) [Thrash / Heavy]
Battle Born – Blood, Fire, Magic and Steel (Prosthetic Records) [Symphonic Power / Thrash / Electronic]
Blacnk/Celestial Shadows – Black & Fetid (Rassilon Records) [Black]
Booby Trap – The End of Time (Firecum Records) [Thrash]
Burial Clouds – Last Days of a Dying World (Church Road Records) [Psychedelic Doom]
Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (Metal Blade Records) [Deathgrind]
Chained To the Bottom of the Ocean – Obsession Destruction (Independent) [Doom / Sludge]
Channel the Animal – Read and Follow All Warnings Before Use (Independent) [Prog Death]
Chronogoria – Fragments of a Dream (Independent) [Melodeath]
Corpsetalk – XII: Необратимость (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi BM / Ambient]
Dark Shadow – Chapter One (Great Ocean Road) [Symphonic Power / Melodeath]
Daughters of Sophia – ソフィアの娘たち (A Sad Sadness Song) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Dead Shape Figure – The Sworn Book (Rolling Records) [Symphonic Groove]
DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Vol. II (Napalm Records) [Groove / Metalcore]
Dolchstoß – Entartete Kunst (Kellerassel Records) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Emphasis – Lazaret (Geenger Records) [Post-Metal]
Esoctrilihum – Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac (I, Voidhanger Records) [Psychedelic Black]
Exitium – Imperitous March For Abysmal Glory (Time To Kill Records) [Blackened Death]
Forced Hand – War (Independent) [Death / Groove]
Fortunato – From High Above (Rock City Music Label) [Symphonic Heavy]
Genophobic Perversion – Malodorous Emanations (Cursed Oath Records) [Goregrind]
Gha’agsheblah – The Occult Bestiary (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Godsnake – Eye for an Eye (Massacre Records) [Thrash / Groove]
Gonemage – Astral Corridors (Independent) [Blackened Death / Chiptune]
Hex A.D. – Delightful Sharp Edges (Fresh Tea Records) [Doom / Prog Rock]
Hollowed – Soulkiller (Independent) [Deathrash]
Human Abomination – Dismal Foreshadowing (Independent) [Deathgrind]
Ifryt – Płuca (Godz ov War Productions) [Prog Black]
Iron Buddha – Raze//Repose (Independent) [Sludge]
Kneipenterroristen – Infiziert (Rude Records) [Heavy / Thrash]
L’Homme Absurde – Stranger (Soundage Productions) [Doom / Post-Metal]
Miriah – Conditions Red (Heaven and Hell Records) [Speed / Heavy]
Mission in Black – Profit Reigns Supreme (El Puerto Records) [Melodeath]
Mondnacht – Natura ingens est (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Moonreich – Amer (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions) [Blackened Death]
Noirum – Pusťte netvora do otvora (Independent) [Kitchen Sink]
Non Est Deus – Legacy (Noisebringer Records) [Blackened Death]
Ocean Districts – Phantom Islands (Independent) [Post-Metal / Instrumental]
Omnerod – The Amensal Rise (Independent) [Prog Death]
Parity Boot – Fast Forward (Independent) [Industrial / Symphonic / Thrash]
Profeci – Ubóstwo (Godz ov War Productions) [Black]
Pronostic – Chaotic Upheaval (Independent) [Symphonic Melodeath / Tech Death]
Quasarborn – Novo oružje protiv bola (Independent) [Tech Thrash]
ScreaMachine – Church of the Scream (Frontiers Records) [Thrash]
Subterfuge – Philosopher (Pure Steel Publishing) [Prog Death]
Thanatomass – Hades (LVX MorgenStern) [Blackened Death]
The Troops of Doom – Prelude to Blasphemy (Alma Mater Records) [Deathrash]
They Watch Us From the Moon – Cosmic Chronicles, Act I: The Ascension (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Unmaker – Limb From Limb (Independent) [Deathrash]
Usnea – Bathed in Light (Translation Loss Records) [Death/Doom]
Veil of Maya – [M]other (Sumerian Records) [Djent / Groove]
Veriluola – Cascades of Crimson Cruor (Nameless Grave Records) [Blackened Death]
Wilczyca – Magija (Godz ov War Productions) [Blackened Doom / Death]
Worth – S/T (WormHoleDeath) [Melodeath]
Wounded Not Dead – The Alchemist (LA Riots Survivor Records) [Deathrash]
Zwiespalt – Persistenz (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
