This Toilet Tuesday (6/8/21)
It’s Toilet Tuesday, and we’ve got all your new music needs covered right here. Well, perhaps not all; it’s a relatively light week on account of a whole lot of NSBM releases and not much of anything else, and we don’t cover that shit here, so the list is a bit small today. Take a look and see if something tickles your fancy, and as always, let us know if there’s something we missed.
Grief Collector – En Delirium (Petrichor) [Doom]
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I’ve never heard Grief Collector’s instrumentalists’ other bands so maybe GC sounds exactly like them, but having Robert Lowe’s bitter ass for vocalist certainly tends to guide the train of thought. That is to say that several of his previous bands, doom legends each, some long before his time and no thanks to him, are evoked by Grief Collector. Named appropriately enough, GC are at their best when the try to mine the mourn on their leads, but spends much too much time with limp chugs instead. Lowe’s performance is hardly a career best, but not his worst work either and while he’s left to carry the weight here, he’s not always up to the task. Some promise, little actual delivery from Grief Collector here based on the two singles, but I’m hoping really hard they’ve ditched the chug-heavy approach elsewhere, or at least will come next time. And hopes, thoughts and prayers make the difference, right America? 6/11/21 (Karhu)
Brother Against Brother – Brother Against Brother (Frontiers Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Valley of the Kings”
Crucifixion Bell – Eternal Grip of the Nocturnal Empire (Crown & Throne) [Black Metal]
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Crypta – Echoes of the Soul (Napalm Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “From the Ashes”
Dornenreich – Du wilde Liebe sei (Prophecy Productions) [Folky Black Metal]
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Eremit – Bearer of Many Names (Transcending Obscurity) [THICK Doom]
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Exsanguination – Spectral Hymns (HPGD Productions) [Death Metal]
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Firienholt – By the Waters of Awakening (Naturmacht Productions) [Black Metal]
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General Surgery – Lay Down and Be Counted (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Effusive Opulent Decampment/Lay Down and Be Counted”
Glora Nexus – A Grand Monument to Mortality (Bhumidhuka Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Death Omnipotent, Death Omnipresent”
Hammer King – Hammer King (Napalm Records) [Heavy/Power Metal]
Listen to “Hammerschlag”
Hysterical Blindness – Salomon (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Interloper – Search Party (Nuclear Blast) [Prog/Tech Metalcore]
Listen to “Search Party”
Ironweed – The Weed (American Records) [Stoner Doom]
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Malchus – Apokalipsa (Independent) [Prog Death]
Listen to “BrońMy”
Metalwings – A Whole New Land (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “Monster in the Mirror”
MlelM – Mourning Silence (Independent) [Funeral Doom]
Listen to “A Somber Embrace”
Mother of All – Age of the Solipsist (Black Lion Records) [Melodeath]
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Narbeleth – Svmma Cvm Nox Arcana (Folter Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “A Throne Over the Seven Stars”
Path of Destiny – The Seed of All Evil (Apostasy Records) [Melodeath]
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Sepiroth – Condemned to Suffer (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Embedded Defects”
SlugWeed – Dreams (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
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TarLung – Architect (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Architect”
This Ending – Needles of Rust (Black Lion Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Needles of Rust”
Varego – Varego (Independent) [Sludge/Prog]
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Void Tripper – Dopefiend (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Burning Woods”
Winter’s Breath – Graveyard Symphonies (Via Nocturna) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Afterlife (Lady in Black II)”
Witch Cross – Angel of Death (High Roller Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Phoenix Fire”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
