This Toilet Tuesday (6/6/17)
Welcome once more to This Toilet Tuesday! We’ve got a solid week of new releases ahead of us, with lots of variety and lots of weird, and I’m all for both. DumpsterLung and I have picked out a couple sweet jams we think you’ll dig, and there’s a lot more to sift through below. Grab something that sounds interesting and share it!
Logic of Denial – Aftermath (Comatose Music) [Brutal/Tech Death]
Listen to “Devouring Seeds of the Apocalypse,” “Gorging on Innocence,” “Euphoric Abhorrent Synthesis”
There’s an inordinate amount of BDM albums coming out this week, and if you’ve only got time for one, then Aftermath should be your pick. It’s a rare breed of brutal death that nails both the songwriting and the production; I’d put it above the others on this list for that alone, but this is far beyond simply adequate. Logic of Denial hit you with riff after riff, never slowing for a minute, but never bringing about the fatigue that can result from this sort of audio pummeling. This is partially due to the variance in each individual song- no two sound overly similar- but if I’m going to be blunt, LoD are just write way more interesting music than the majority of their peers. Aftermath got its hooks in me early on, and they never once loosened their grip through the entirety of its run time. 6/9/17 (Spear)
Triumvir Foul – Spiritual Bloodshed (Invictus Productions) [Death Metal]
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Just over 1 year since the release of their eponymous debut, Portland’s filthiest have resurfaced from the murk to deliver unto us Spiritual Bloodshed. While the band’s debut was a malevolent offering of unhinged death metal, it had an underlying element of groove to balance out its chaotic flailing. On their sophomore however, Triumvir Foul dispense with such modulation, opting to focus purely on concentrating the turmoil, creating the utmost carnage. Vile riffing, disgusted growls, bestially thumped drums, and atonal leads attempt to throttle you at every turn, giving you the death you almost certainly deserve. FFO: Teitanblood, Heresiarch, Grave Miasma. (Lacertilian)
Klabautamann – Smaragd (Zeitgeister Music) [Progressive Black Metal]
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The album artwork, with its pretty colors and marine life- even a couple mermaid-esque beings- doesn’t look like it’d have much to do with black metal, but maybe that’s for the best. There is just as much progressive/avant-garde music here as there is black metal, with tons of softer, colorful melodies and vocal styles, as varied as the colorful creatures depicted on the album. But like the massive angler fish prominently pictured, Smaragd does have teeth. Rather than mixing all the elements of their sound together constantly, Klabautamann prefer to draw you in in with the more peaceful, delicate melodies first, not unlike the glowing lure of the angler fish, until a black metal attack lunges from out of the surrounding darkness. The entire album has kind of an ebb and flow though, never staying in one level of intensity or mood too long before switching things up. Even after a blasting section of pure black metal, things quickly calm down again. There’s a lot of variety to the sound of this album, so just check out the list of guest musicians if you’re wanting a better sense of all the various instruments that come into play throughout its course. In short, like the ocean, there’s equal parts beauty and peril. Check it out! 6/6/17 (DumpsterLung)
Adrift for Days – A Sleepless Grey (Art As Catharsis) [Doom]
Toilet ov Hell Exclusive Premiere
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Æther Realm – Tarot (Independent) [Folky Melodeath]
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Review
Anathema – The Optimist (KScope Music) [Prog]
Listen to “Springfield”
And There Will Be Blood – Obitus (Deafground Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Orphan”
Atavisma – On the Ruins of a Fallen Empire (Blood Harvest Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Shapes of Great Nothing”
Blaze of Sorrow – Astri (Eisenwald) [Folk/Black Metal]
Listen to “Empito”
Bøg – Jim (Independent) [Sludge]
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Cemetery Urn – Cemetery Urn (Hells Headbangers) [Death Metal]
Listen to “A Requiem For Servants Aflame,” “Weakened Mortals Bleed”
Cenotaph – Perverse Dehumanized Dysfunctions (Hammer Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Syndromes of Deadly Endogenous Intoxication”
Contaminated – Final Man (Blood Harvest Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Squalid Survival,” “Boneless Mass”
Darkstorm – The Oath of Fire (Putrid Cult) [Black Metal]
Preview
Dawn of Ashes – Daemonolatry Gnosis (Metropolis Records) [Symphonic Black Metal]
Listen to “Guardians”
Descend into Despair – Synaptic Veil (Loud Rage Music) [Funeral Doom]
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Destructor – Decibel Casualties (Pure Steel Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Restore Chaos”
Displeased Disfigurement – Origin of Abhorrence (CDN Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Malignant Misery”
Endocranial – In Presence of Total Absence (Amputated Vein Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Novus Ordo Seclorum”
Enragement – Burned, Barren, Bloodstained (Inverse Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Blood for the Sun God”
A Flourishing Scourge – A Flourishing Scourge (Independent) [Blackened Death Metal]
Listen to “Tidal Waves”
Foscor – Les irreals visions (Season of Mist) [Progressive Metal]
Listen to “Instants,” “Ciutat Tràgica,” “Altars”
Human Barbecue – Basement Butchery (Ghastly Music) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Basement Butchery”
Infernal Angels/Catechon/Ad Noctem Funeriis – Italian Black Metal Assault (split- Adimere Records) [Black Metal]
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Lythronax – Monolith (Independent) [Deathcore]
Listen to “Monolith”
Maim – Ornaments of Severity (Soulseller Records) [Death Metal]
Preview
Malamorte – Satan Goes to Heaven to Destroy the Kingdom of God (Pure Steel Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Blasphemies for the Horned God”
Merrimack – Omegaphilia (Season of Mist) [Black Metal]
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Necrot – Blood Offerings (Tankcrimes) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Blade,” “Shadows and Light,” “Empty Hands”
Nostrum – Internal Tomb (Transylvanian Tapes) [Black/Death/Doom]
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Occvlta – Night Without End (Electric Assault/Dying Victims) [Black Metal]
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Putrefaction – Promo 2017 (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
Rampancy – The Sublime Conquest of Nothing (WitchCult Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Thy Kingdom”
Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite (Prosthetic Records) [Progressive Black Metal]
Preview
Selbst – Selbst (Sun & Moon Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Despised and Forgotten”
Self Harm – Absolut Kaos (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Venom Lust”
Seventh Circle – Voluntary Torture (Soaked in Torment) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Godless”
Shadows Hell – O Palácio de Fogo… Eu Defendo o Trono Obscuro (Corvo Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “O Palácio de Fogo… Eu Defendo o Trono Obscuro”
Solbrud – Vemod (Indisciplinarian/Vendetta) [Black Metal]
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Space Witch – Arcanum (HeviSike Records) [Doom]
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Suffocation – …of the Dark Light (Nuclear Blast Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Your Last Breaths,” “Return to the Abyss”
Suicidal Causticity – The Human Touch (Amputated Vein Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Diamond Grinder Spring”
SunSpell/Suadade – From the Mist… We Are but Dust (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Consumed by Emptiness,” “Black Death”
Swine Soul/Ruins of Unlight – Two Tyrants of Terror (split- Narbentage Produktionen) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Two Tyrants of Terror”
Svartsyn – In Death (Agonia Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Seven Headed Snake”
Throneum/Morbid Yell – Communion with Mephistopheles/Razored Flesh Conjuration (split- Arcula Mystica) [Black Metal]
Valor – Arrogance: The Fall (Pitch Black Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Arrogant Fall”
Vigilance – Hammer of Satan’s Vengeance (Dying Victims Records) [Black/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Legion Kondor”
Walpyrgus – Walpyrgus Nights (Cruz del Sur Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Lauralone”
White Skull – Will of the Strong (Dragonheart Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Will of the Strong,” “Lady of Hope”
The White Swan – The White (Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “North Carolina”
The Wild Hunt – Songs of the Skald (Independent) [Black/Death Metal]
Wolfsgrey – You Don’t Hurt Me (Sun & Moon Records) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “A nagybányai”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
