This Toilet Tuesday (6/2/26)
Great Toilet Below
Brimstone Crust Upon Thy Rim
Flush Away All Hope
This week, we’ve got persecutory delusions, baby surgery, and gorgon grudges. It’s apparently time for crossover thrash as we approach the border with summer, but varied vittles await in the myriad genres below. As always, let us know what we missed in the comments!
Urzah – A Tranquil Void (APF Records) [Sludge / Metalcore / Post-Metal]
I’m far from a sludge aficionado, but Urzah’s tar—viscous, vicious, and delicious—is welcome on these feathers. When the jagged, staccato riffing and claustrophobic weight threaten to abrade listeners into powder, a propulsive groove or interlude is never far, maintaining momentum for the album’s duration. Influences from metalcore breakdowns (“The Call Beneath”) to pitch-black chords and post-metal leads (“Infernal Star I”) punch through the LP’s oppressive tones without revealing seams in the songwriting. This Friday, I implore you: carve out some time and find A Tranquil Void of your own, settle in, and let this artisanal ooze coat your corpus. -Roldy
Alunah/Samavayo – Embers of Belief (Heavy Psych Sounds Records) [Doom / Stoner Rock]
Am I in Trouble? – Facets (Shift+Ctrl Music) [Avant-garde Metal / Various]
Argahal – The Path of the Lonely Man (Independent) [DSBM]
Art|Est – Evil Embodiment (Independent) [Death]
Assi Assassin – Exit Wound (Independent) [Crossover Thrash]
Baalzagoth – No God, No Savior (Putrid Cult) [Blackened Death]
Bedlam Royals – The Gap (Independent) [Sludge / Post-Metal]
Belushi Speed Ball – Toxic Waste Was Everywhere in the ’80s (Independent) [Crossover Thrash]
Black Glow – Waves and Mirrors – Mirrors and Waves (Independent) [Doomgaze]
Blood Incantation – All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Century Media Records) [Death Metal / BICU]
BloodRitual – …and Hell Came with ‘Em (Independent) [Crossover Thrash]
Bloody Falls – IV (Art Gates Records) [Melodeath / Groove Metal]
Callous Faulter – S/T (Gutter Prince Cabal) [Blackened Death / Post-Metal]
Chullachaqui – Epiphanic Perdition (Independent) [Death/Doom / Post-Metal]
Cyhra – Requiem for a Pipe Dream (Reigning Phoenix Music) [Groove Metal / Hard Rock]
Dead Void – Cranial Devastation (Me Saco un Ojo Records) [Death/Doom]
Diabolic Oath – Unholy Barbaric Hymns (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) [Blackened Death]
Dissentient – Black Galactic (Independent) [Prog Death]
Ditheist – Cosmic Liar (Independent) [Death]
Edoma – Гимны ледяного царства (Svanrenne Music) [Blackened Death]
Embryonic Autopsy – Rise of the Mutated (Massacre Records) [Death/Doom]
Enevelde/Gjendød – Elegier fra avgrunnen (Terratur Possessions) [Black]
Evergrey – Architects of a New Weave (Napalm Records) [Prog/Power]
Godless – Adversus Parousia (Nuclear Winter Records) [Death]
Gravety – Of Cults and Chaos (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Grohiik – Subconscious: No, I’m Not a Human (Independent) [Post-Black]
Hacksaw Tracheotomy – Tome of Diabolical Torments, Vol. 1 (Independent) [Slam / Brutal Death]
Headhunter D.C. – Rise of the Damned… (Mutilation Productions) [Death]
In a Forest Dark – To a God Unknown (Independent) [Doom / Gothic Metal]
Iron Kingdom – Shadows and Dust (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Katarsys – Devastation of an Entity (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Kybalion – Make the World Bleed (Non Serviam Records) [Black]
Larve – Noise from Beyond (Remparts Productions) [Black]
Ligist – Tulpa (Crimson Reign Records) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black / Dungeon Synth]
Lucrecia – Sedm hříchů (Independent) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Magefa – Legion (Independent) [Death]
Medusa’s Wrath – The Seventh Plague of Babylon (Sleaszy Rider Records) [Heavy Metal]
Melodius Deite – Voiceless Sonneteer (Independent) [Prog/Power]
Mental Funeral – II (Third Eye Temple) [Death/Doom]
Midnight Rider – Limited Infinity (Massacre Records) [Heavy Metal]
Morbid Enema – Hurra Doof (Independent) [Deathgrind]
Nachtheem – Waan van de leegte (Terratur Possessions) [Black]
Nights of Malice – Chaos Exordium (Bleeding Art Collective) [Deathcore]
Orbital Gate/Vault – New Vegas Gangster Slam (Independent) [Slam / Brutal Death]
Pyromania – Satanic Violence (Independent) [Blackthrash / Heavy Metal]
Raat – Abstraction (Independent) [Post-Black]
Revolting – Supernatural Anthems (Xtreem Music) [Death / RJCU]
Riler – Salvaje Agresión (Metal Pamplona Producciones) [Thrash]
Rotten Tomb – Vestiges of Tortured Souls (Nuclear Winter Records) [Death]
Scumsik – Lobotomy (MG Studios) [Groove Metal]
Sleepbomb – Songs in the Key of Conan (Koolarrow Records) [Doom / Post-Metal / Instrumental]
Soulers – The Tormented Bards Division (Independent) [Doom / Drone]
Space Parasites – Make Me Evil (Fetzner Death Records) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Suicide Forest – World of Decay (Independent) [DSBM / Ambient]
Sunderwood – Scorched and Submerged (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Suremad – Memento Mori (Independent) [Black]
TTK – Племя зверя (Independent) [Groove Metal]
The Conquering – Guillotine (Independent) [Black / Folk Metal]
Thorium – Suburban Rot (Independent) [Death]
Together to the Stars – Iridescence (Independent) [Post-Black]
Tommy Concrete – Sustained Beating (Independent) [Prog Punk]
Unlucky Morpheus – Gate of Hell (Fabtone Inc.) [Symphonic Power]
Urkraft – Naturens skrik (Dusktone) [Atmoblack]
Vølus – Grim Dark Execution (Vargheist Records) [Blackened Death]
W.M.D. – Against All Warnings (Independent) [Thrash]
Xenosis – Hermetic Transmutation (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Prog Death]
