This Toilet Tuesday (6/15/21)
We know you’re fiending for new music, so here’s a Toilet Tuesday. It’s an especially good one (or at least a well-populated one) if you’re into power metal and/or various flavors of trad metal, but most people will be spoiled for choice regardless of their particular tastes. Lots of stuff to jam, so hit that list and let us know what you’re putting on this week.
Param-Nesia – Aspect of Creation (Independent) [Melodeath]
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Melodeath with prog tendencies is almost always a good time, and based on the two preview tracks, Param-Nesia sound like they’ve got a good grasp on how to write smart riffs without sacrificing the fun factor. It’s hard to beat dark melodies at an uptempo pace, too, so this is shaping up to be a solid little EP. I could do without the tuff-guy lyrics, but that shouldn’t stymie its quality too much. 6/18/21 (Spear)
Galneryus – Union Gives Strength (Warrior Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Whatever It Takes”
I’d wager that most people with even a passing knowledge of power metal know what Galneryus are all about, and Union Gives Strength doesn’t really change anything in that regard. They’re still ridiculously over-the-top, Syu and Yuhki still (rightfully) flaunt their skill at every given opportunity, and they still riff harder than just about every other power metal band out there. The key difference is this doesn’t sound quite as harshly sterile as their past two albums, making it a fair bit easier on the ears. Highly recommended if you’re into power metal in any of its forms. 6/18/21 (Spear)
Alustrium – A Monument to Silence (Unique Leader) [Prog Death]
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Angelwings – Primordium (Pride & Joy Music) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “Fallen Angel Song”
Asidie – Monument (Independent) [Gothic Death/Doom]
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Barbarity/Paganizer – Split (Coyote Records) [Death Metal]
Blazar/Tort – Split on Your Grave (Discos Macarras) [Sludge/Doom]
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Blazon Rite – Endless Halls of Golden Totem (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
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Bloodbeat – Process of Extinction (Inverse Records) [Death Metal]
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Bolido – Against the World (Fighter Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Angel in Black and White”
Bossk – Migration (Deathwish) [Weird Doom]
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Congeria – Exitium Mentis (Independent) [Black Metal]
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The Day of the Beast – Indisputably Carnivorous (Prosthetic Records) [Black Thrash]
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Death Perception – Ashes (WormHoleDeath) [Death Metal]
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Decayed – Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons (Lusitanian Music) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Perpetual Slumber”
Demon Goat – Permanence (Independent) [Black Doom]
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Demon Incarnate – Leaves of Zaqqum (Metalville) [Doom]
Listen to “In Disguise”
Depraver/Vrenth – Split (Cavernous Records) [Black/Death/Thrash]
Stream (Depraver)
Duskmourn – Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns (Independent) [Melodic Black Metal]
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Eisregen/Goat Funeral Bitterböse – (split- Massacre Records) [Black Metal]
Entierro – El Camazotz (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
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Eonian – The Nomad (Independent) [Melodeath]
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Eye of Purgatory – The Lighthouse (Transcending Obscurity) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Lighthouse,” “Fornever to Awaken”
Fahlbtharz – Who Do We Save? (Independent) [Post-Black Metal]
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Fatal Effect – Roadkill (Independent) [Thrash]
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Fear Factory – Aggression Continuum (Nuclear Blast) [Hybrid Theory For Adults Or Something IDK]
Listen to “Fuel Injection Suicide Machine”
Felled – The Intimate Earth (Transcending Obscurity) [Black Metal]
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The Fire Source – Psychic Arsonist (Ossuaire Records) [Black Metal]
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Goat Invokation – La deformidad del primigenio caos (Independent) [War Metal]
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Heavy Temple – Lupi Amoris (Magnetic Eye Records) [Doom]
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Helloween – Helloween (Victor Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Fear of the Fallen”
Kantzai – Kantzai (Independent) [Deathcore]
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Kingfisher Sky – Rise (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Rise Up”
Lucifer’s Hammer – The Trip (High Roller Records) [Heavy Metal]
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Macabre Decay – Into Oblivion (Grind to Death Records) [Death Metal]
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Moanhand – Present Serpent (Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
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Morgarten – Cry of the Lost (Inner Wound Recordings) [Melodeath]
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Nakkeknaekker – Krig (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Nasty Surgeons – A Night in the Morgue (Base Record Production) [Deathgrind]
Listen to “A Night in the Morgue”
Neker – Slower (Time To Kill Records) [Southern Metal]
Listen to “Like There’s No Tomorrow”
Neonfly – The Future, Tonight (Noble Demon) [Power Metal]
Listen to “The Future, Tonight”
The Nightly Disease – Delicate White Sound (Naturmacht Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Delicate White Sound Pt. 1”
Omago – Decrepitus (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Oppress. – Regina Mundi (Independent) [War Metal]
Listen to “Diadem of Encrusted Discharge”
Oxblood Forge – Decimator (Independent) [Heavy Metal/Doom]
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Pharaoh – The Powers That Be (Cruz del Sur Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Lost in the Waves”
Review
Plog – Mag Mell (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
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Ravager – The Third Attack (Iron Shield Records) [Thrash]
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Reaktion – To Expect Nothing (Independent) [Thrash]
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Reinforcer – Prince of the Tribes (Scarlet Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Prince of the Tribes”
Salduie – Ambaxtos (Independent) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Salduie”
Season of Dreams – Heroes (Pride & Joy Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Heroes”
Seventh Dimension – Black Sky (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Resurgence”
Skyhex – Brave the Grave (Independent) [Thrash]
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Thorn – Crawling Worship (Gurgling Gore) [Death Doom]
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Thy Kingdom Will Burn – Thy Kingdom Will Burn (Scarlet Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Follow the Fallen”
Timo Tolkki’s Avalon – The Enigma Birth (Frontiers Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “The Fire and the Sinner”
Tortharry – Altairs of Ignorance (Metalgate) [Death Metal]
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World Eaters – Grinding Advance (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Wulver – Lune de Sang (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Zubathaa – Take a Scythe! (Independent) [Djenty Death Metal]
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Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
