This Toilet Tuesday (6/4/19)
It’s Toilet Tuesday once more, and we have a pile of new music here for you. While there aren’t a ton of albums releasing this week, there’s an inordinate amount of good stuff, certainly enough to keep you occupied. Karhu and Hans have picked out a couple choice cuts, but there’s more in the list below. As always, let us know if there’s anything we missed.
Misanthropic Rage – Towards the Greyscale Aphorysm (Godz ov War Productions) [Weird Angery Black Metal]
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Not particularly “out there” in terms of its building blocks, which are largely familiar black and death metal elements, but the resulting concoction is not too conventional. The way they treat black metal is perhaps comparable to Anaal Nathrakh’s later records; “modern-sounding” elements like that snare-only beat in “Nothing but Rage” and the nigh-operatic cleans sprinkled throughout certainly reminded me of those guys. All in all, it’s interesting enough to hold the attention (even throughout the long, doomy track), but for a full record, it might need more surprising twists here and there. 6/6/19 (Hans)
Vulture – Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves (Metal Blade) [Heavy/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Stainless Glare,” “Murderous Militia,” “Beyond the Blade”
If you like your speed metal rowdy but clean, with a clear but punchy production, closer to thrash than trad metal but with a melodic punch and topped with piano intros and mid-tempo tracks, Vulture’s sophomore is easily your best bet this week. 6/7/19 (KARHU)
Coffins/Second to None – Nine Cocoons of Dens to F (split- HPGD) [Death Doom]
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Coffins is the best damn leadweight death/doom bands that exclusively deals in riffs that sound like you’re getting over the head with a hammer, and nobody asked your opinion – you’re going to sit down, you’re going to get hammered, and you’re going to like it. Again, and again. Second To None, are, in fact, Second To Some, some being Coffins, but they’re a very good afterparty. 6/7/19 (KARHU)
Barbarian – To No God Shall I Kneel (Hells Headbangers) [Black/Speed Metal]
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Barbarian’s brand of blackened trad metal keeps getting better, and to the point where they sound like few other bands. It’s got all the rowdiness and fun of your regular black/thrash act, but thrice the riffs and manyfold the Manilla Road. 6/7/19 (KARHU)
All Hell – The Witch’s Grail (Prosthetic Records) [Black Thrash]
Listen to “Sorcery and Sanctity”
Antheology – Rusty by Faith (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Avavago – Tyrant (Blood & Brutality Records) [Death & Roll]
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Consummation – The Great Solar Hunter (Profound Lore) [Black Metal]
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Daemoni – Black Tyrant (Goathorned Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Abstersion’s Rite”
Degrees of Truth – Time Travel Artifact (Independent) [Symphonic Prog Metal]
Listen to “Long Way, Silk Road”
Diviner – Realms of Time (Ulterium Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Heaven Falls”
Drowse – Light Mirror (The Flenser) [Definitely The Flenser]
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Embrace of Disharmony – De Rervm Natvra (My Kingdom Music) [Prog Metal]
Enthroned – Cold Black Suns (Season of Mist) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Silent Redemption”
Eternal Rest – The Picture of Hatred (Gore House Productions) [Death Metal]
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Fetid – Steeping Corporeal Mess (20 Buck Spin) [Death Metal]
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Podcast
Firespawn – Abominate (Century Media Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Great One,” “The Hunter”
Flooded Tomb – Compendium (Independent) [Sludgy Doom]
Listen to “Gaillardia Bloom”
Goat Thron – Infernale et Diabolicum Violentiam Barbarum (Heerwegen Tod Production) [Black Metal/Dark Ambient]
Gravefields – Embrace the Void (Redefining Darkness) [Death Metal]
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Hellrazer – Bonecrusher (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Hereza – Death Metal Drunks (Godz ov War Productions) [Death Metal]
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The Hÿss – Hound (Independent) [Stoner Punk?]
Listen to “Gold Tooth Ding”
Infernal Conjuration – Infernale Metallum Mortis (Iron Bonehead) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Necrolatria (a Lost Muertos Blasfemos)”
Kingdom – Rotting Carcass Arise upon the Burial Mound (Godz ov War Productions) [Death Metal]
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Klynt – This Is Revenge (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Berserk Prayer”
Mutilate – Contagium (Iron Bonehead) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Vile and Disgusting”
Nebula – Holy Shit (Heavy Psych Sounds) [Doom]
Listen to “Witching Hour”
Nevalra – Conjure the Storm (M-Theory Audio) [Blackened Melodeath]
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No One Gets Out Alive – Die like the Rest (Rotten Roll Rex) [Banjo Slam]
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Orphalis – The Approaching Darkness (Rising Nemesis Records) [Brutal Tech Death]
Listen to “The Stench of Human Failure,” “The Futility of Existence”
Pelican – Nighttime Stories (Southern Lord) [Sludge/Post-Metal]
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Plasma – Ethical Waste (Rotten Roll Rex) [Maximum Toilet Vox]
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Qayin Regis – Doctrine (Blackseed Productions) [Blackened Death Metal]
Listen to “Neenia ataecina”
The Rods – Brotherhood of Metal (Steamhammer) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Louder Than Loud”
Sardonic Wrath – Opposites Abstract (Independent) [lolbuttz]
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死んだ細胞の塊 – Saibogu (Obliteration Records) [Skronky Brutal Death]
Listen to “細胞具”
Snøgg – Chhinnamasta (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Y (Ddraig Goch)”
Varg – Wolfszeit II (Napalm Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Das alte Feuer”
Vault Dweller – Existence at a Distance (HPGD) [Deathgrind]
Listen to “Bad Gateway”
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Violés par les Cygnes – I (AHPN Records) [Noise/Black Metal]
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Wykan – Brigid: Of the Night (Independent) [Black/Doom]
Listen to “Imbolc (The Cleansing)”
Xentrix – Bury the Pain (Listenable Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Bleeding Out”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
