This Toilet Tuesday (6/19/18)
This Toilet Tuesday is upon us once more, and it’s time to indulge in your music gluttony. Hans, Hessian, and I have picked out a few tasty morsels, but feel free to pick over the table yourselves as well. It’s a pretty solid week overall, and you should find something down there to satisfy your cravings.
Hænesy – Katruzsa (Independent) [Earthen Black Metal]
Listen to “Katruzsa IV”
I generally find that this kind of forest-worshiping atmospheric black metal tends to fall on the boring side, but I gotta admit that these fellows kind of hit the nail on the head. This sounds like the perfect soundtrack for cowering amongst the trees by yourself, and the extremely sparse, peculiarly distorted vocals do give the impression that the earth itself is opening up to plead its woes to you in an exasperated hiss. Now if only I could find a black-and-white forest… 6/20/18 (Hans)
Medieval Demon – Medieval Necromancy (Hells Headbangers) [Black Metal]
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Alright, this one kinda skirts lolbuttz territory, but if you can get past the band pic and the first impression of sloppy craftsmanship, there’s some pretty fun old school black metal here. They heavily reference first wave era eastern Europe, not unlike Malokarpatan did last year, but the nature/folk influence is replaced with Satan. That includes synths that are thankfully not overbearing and create a wonderfully corny, evil atmosphere. Together with the dusty sound, this easily throws you back a good twenty years, which is incidentally the time these guys released their last album. I daresay they haven’t aged a day. 6/22/18 (Hans)
Acid Priest – Drop Out (Independent) [Stoner Punk/Heavy Metal]
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I would say that Acid Priest isn’t your dad’s heavy metal band, except that they totally are. These three hooligans effortlessly intertwine upbeat NWOBHM riffage with swinging blues licks the way Tony Iommi would have done if he ever filled in for Thin Lizzy, yet they do it with a vicious fervor that would make them welcome at any basement punk show. It’s basically BBQ rock except that the vocalist sounds like he’s burning alive. I didn’t know I needed it until I heard it, but now I need more. All hail the Acid Priest! (HessianHunter)
Arthedain – Infernal Cadence of the Desolate (Naturmacht Productions) [Melodic Black Metal]
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Arthedain’s newest arrives on an icy squall in stark contrast to the early summer heat. As with last week’s Hoth release, Infernal Cadence is of a highly melodic persuasion, though this goes in a more atmospheric direction than the former. It’s also a little more clean-cut in terms of production than much black metal (which is the norm for Naturmacht releases), but it works well with the robust vocals and multiple layers of guitar. The album does little to stray from genre conventions, but succeeds in taking the listener on a journey and providing some solid riffs along the way. 6/17/18 (Spear)
The Aftermath – Vermine (PRC Music) [Dissonant Tech Death]
Listen to “The Void,” “Bleached”
Amarok – Devoured (Translation Loss Records) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Skeleton”
Ancient Moon/Prosternatur – Secretum Secretorum (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Usella Mituti” (Prosternatur)
Anicon – Entropy Mantra (Vendetta Records) [Black Metal]
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Art of Deception – Path of Trees (Rob Mules Records) [Melodeath]
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Atomicide – Furious and Untamed (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Death/Thrash]
Listen to “Furious and Untamed”
Beriedir – The Path Beyond the Moon (Independent) [Power Prog]
Carrion – Time to Suffer (Mighty Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “In The End, There is Only Death”
Cavern – Eater (Grimoire Records) [Instrumental Sludge/Post-Metal]
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Construct of Lethe – Exiler (Everlasting Spew) [Death Metal]
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Craft – White Noise and Black Metal (Season of Mist) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Cosmic Sphere Falls,” “Darkness Falls”
Curse upon a Prayer – The Three Woes (Saturnal Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Woe! Woe! Woe!”
Deathgrave – So Real, It’s Now (Tankcrimes) [Grind]
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Demetra Sine Die – Post Glacial Rebound (Third I Rex) [Doom/Post-Metal]
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Doomed – 6 Anti-Odes to Life (Solitude Productions) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “The Doors”
Edge of Ever – We Came with the Flood (Mighty Music) [Power Metal]
Gaerea – Unsettling Whispers (Transcending Obscurity) [Black Metal]
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Hatchet – Dying to Exist (Combat Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Desire For Oppression”
Hellhound – The Oath Of Allegiance To The Kings Of Heavy Metal (Black-Listed Productions) [Thrash/Heavy Metal]
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The Heretic Order – Evil Rising (Massacre Records) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Evil Rising” (NSFW)
Impending Doom – The Sin and Doom Vol. II (eOne Music) [Flushcore]
Listen to “The Wretched and Godless”
In Chasms Deep – The Realm Between (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Death, Decay, and Magick Foul”
Khemmis – Desolation (20 Buck Spin) [Doom]
Listen to “Bloodletting,” “Isolation”
Review
King Heavy – Guardian Demons (Cruz del Sur Music) [Doom]
Listen to “Narcosis”
Krahnholm – Granting Death (COD Label/Der Schwarze Tod) [Black Metal]
Listen
Kruberablinka – The Deepest Place (Taiyo) [Heavy Metal]
Preview
Manic Outburst – Violent Agitation (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Power Struggle”
Mortuous – Through Wilderness (Tankcrimes/Carbonized) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Bitterness,” “The Dead Yet Dream”
Nordheim – Enter the Wolf (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Arise”
Onkel Tom Angelripper – Zwischen Emscher & Lippe (Steamhammer) [Thrash]
Pale – EP (Pest Productions) [Black Metal]
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Phalloplasty/Slamophiliac – This Split Sucks (CDN Records) [Suck Metal]
The Red Coil – Himalayan Demons (Argonauta Records) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Opium Smokers Room”
Ripis – Shadow Dies in Morning Light (Independent) [Bigboi Doom]
Listen to “Shadow Dies in Morning Light”
Satan’s Basement – Appeal to Your Denial (Independent) [Dirty Thrash]
Listen to “Preying for the Poor”
Sentimen Beltza – Izar basoaren hutsunean (Darkwoods) [Trees x Shit]
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Wolfen – Rise of the Lycans (Pure Steel Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Genetic Sleepers”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
