This Toilet Tuesday (6/3/25)
O Deity ov Dookies, O Vile Vessel, suffer us as we soil Thy basin. This week, we’ve got skirmishing serpents, Brock Samson‘s upset tummy, and regal Psittaciformes. The Bowl is as a tidal pool this time around—the water is low, but each magnificent specimen awaits within arm’s reach. Scoop up something new and let us know what we missed in the comments!
Bear Mace – Slaves of the Wolf (Independent) [Death]
It’s been 5 years since the ursine mallet last fell upon simian skulls; in this time, the band hibernated, dreamt up ways to play new songs in an old genre, and didn’t squander a single nerve impulse on such trivial concepts as “nuance” and “evolution.” (Thank goodness.) The stench of Death is strong throughout—check the guest appearance from Kam Lee in the forthcoming “Captured and Consumed”—and we can only assume many bolts were thrown during the recording of Slaves of the Wolf. Those in search of novelty will leave hungry, but any craving gravelly gutturals and no-frills OSDM (replete with a fittingly desiccated mix from Damian Herring) will need to find a cave of their own to sleep off their gluttony. -Roldy
Anna KiaRa – Symphony of Rage (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
Autumn Nostalgie – Metanoia (Northern Silence Productions) [Post-Black]
Battlesnake – Dawn of the Exultants and the Hunt for the Shepherd (Independent) [Prog/Power / Heavy Metal]
Belenos – Egor (Northern Silence Productions) [Symphonic Black]
Białywilk – Wniebowstąpienie (Fiadh Productions) [Black]
Dahuz – Cineres Mundi (Independent) [Sludge / Doom]
Darkenhöld – Le fléau du rocher (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions) [Black]
Dawn of Ashes – Infecting the Scars (Metropolis Records) [EBM / Aggrotech / Industrial Metal]
Devs Mortvorvm – The Oldest Crypt (Apocalyptic Productions) [Death/Doom]
Dissonant Seepage – Dystopian Putrescence (Comatose Music) [Brutal Death]
Dramanduhr – Vertuhn (Broken Bones Promotion & Productions) [Prog Metal]
Gormoth – Grief Is My Kingdom (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Gruesome – Silent Echoes (Relapse Records) [Death, OBVIOUSLY]
Hellfox – Human Gravity (Rockshots Records) [Melodeath / Gothic Metal]
HolyRoller – Rat King (Ripple Music) [Psych Doom]
Infamie – Of Sulphur and Pestilence (Crypt of Dr. Gore) [Death]
Iätön – Portit Pohjolan (Korpituli Productions) [Black]
Katatonia – Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State (Napalm Records) [Alt Metal]
Kill Frenzy – The New Blasphemy (Independent) [Thrash]
King Parrot – A Young Person’s Guide To (Housecore Records) [Grindcore]
MoldEra – Colonize (Argonauta Records) [Sludge / Stoner Doom]
Mourning Scars – Pyromancer (Spreadfinger Recordings) [Heavy Metal]
Nemus Anima – Rivers Flow Red (Independent) [Melodic Blackened Death]
Ninth Circle – Anthem of the Immortal (Fighter Records) [Heavy Metal]
Nolove – Przebaczenie (Independent) [DSBM / Post-Rock]
Obediencia Cero – Mundo caos (Independent) [Thrash]
Obsidian Scapes – Death Chants Echo from Aphotic Void (Darkness Shall Rise Productions) [Death/Doom]
Ophiolatry – Serpent’s Verdict (WormHoleDeath) [Blackened Death]
Phase Transition – In Search of Being (Independent) [Groove / Prog Metal]
Putrescent – Darkness Embraced (Rotted Life Records) [Death]
Refusal – Venomous Human Concept (Time to Kill Records) [Death]
Silius – Beneath the Flesh (Running Wild Productions) [Thrash]
Sin Deliverance – Universe of Nightmares (Lacerated Enemy Records) [Symphonic Tech Deathcore]
Somnvs Mortis – Onírica evocación de las auras condenadas (Oratorivm Records) [Black]
Thomas Carlsen’s Transmission – Clockwork Sky (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Toxik Volcano – Kaos Dwells Within the Magma Chamber (Rassilon Records) [Death]
Trucizna – Devil’s Glory Among Us (Under the Sign of Garazel Productions) [Blackened Death]
Volbeat – God of Angels Trust (Vertigo Records) [Groove Metal / Hard Rock]
Waste Cult – Blame (Aesthetic Death) [Sludge / Doom]
Woodhawk – Love Finds a Way (Independent) [Stoner Metal / Hard Rock]
