This Toilet Tuesday (7/10/18)
It’s Tuesday! Get your music here! Well, you can’t actually acquire it here, but we’ve got it all rounded up. Hans and I sifted through it all and found a few pretty sweet ones (and I’m going to second his Armory recommendation right now), so be sure to give those a listen. Otherwise, there should be plenty more in the bigger list to catch your attention.
Dire Omen – Formless Fire Embodied (Dark Descent Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Null”
Dire Omen’s last full length is one I frequently go back to despite not being into this type of stuff anymore. They play dark, twisted death metal, somewhat akin to their countrymen Paroxsihzem, Antediluvian, and Phobocosm. Dizzyingly chaotic and technical, yet somehow sounding natural at the same time. Imagine slowly getting absorbed by the gnarliest, oldest tree you’ve ever seen, its trunk scarred and its branches twisting and winding in every direction. 18/07/13 (Hans)
Barbatos/Hellripper – Barbatos/Hellripper (split- Granite Factory Records) [Black Thrash]
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If for some reason you’re still unfamiliar with Hellripper’s blazing brand of blackened thrash, here’s the perfect bite-sized introduction. If you’re not grinning when you hear James McBain’s (also active as Lord Rot) fingers fly across the fretboard, hear the pounding drums, or at least when you read the delightful song titles, then I’m sorry, but there’s bound to be something wrong with you. 18/7/8 (Hans)
Armory – The Search (High Roller Records) [Speed Metal]
Listen to “Hyperion”
Perhaps the most pleasant surprise here – before I realised just how awesomely fun the guitarwork is – is the singer. I feel I’ve heard one too many speed metal bands with one-dimensional vocalists, whereas this guy can not only sing, but transition to a Kreator-esque shriek or a falsetto scream when necessary. The sing/scream juxtaposition reminds me a wee bit of Blind Guardian’s debut. Also, the band sounds wonderfully, genuinely old school. 18/7/13 (Hans)
Future Corpse – Culture Ruins Everything Around Me (Independent) [Prog Punk]
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I initially checked out Future Corpse because their album title gave me a laugh, and it turns out they play some pretty jamming prog punk. The upbeat, bouncy nature of the preview songs combined with a heap of technical proficiency remind me more than a little of Protest the Hero in terms of feel, but maybe a little closer to the metalcore side of things. Whatever you want to call it, it rules, and I have high hopes for the final product. 7/11/18 (Spear)
Archean – Archean (Independent) [Blackened Death Metal]
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Askvald – Nachtschattenreich (Naturmacht Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen
Axegrinder – Satori (Rise Above Records) [Hardcore]
Listen to “Rain”
Balgeroth/Debauchery – In der Hölle spricht man Deutsch (Massacre Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Jenseits des Himmelstors”
Between the Buried and Me – Automata II (Sumerian Records) [Progressive Metalcore]
Black Fast – Spectre of Ruin (eOne Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Silhouette Usurper,” “Cloak of Lies”
Churchburn – None Shall Live… the Hymns of Misery (Armageddon Shop) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “The Misery Hymns”
Coffin Stench – Putrid Rotting Death (Negative Earth Records) [Death Metal]
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Crucial Rip – The Object of Infection (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Crypticus – The Nightcomers (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen
Daggra – Setsuna (Horror Pain Gore Death) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Blood Mosaic”
Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti-) [Post-Black Metal]
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Deduction of a Miscalculation – A Story Untold (Independent) [Death’n’Roll]
Listen
Destroyer Attack – Solve et Coagula (Morbid Skull Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Purification to the Internal Fire”
Dygora – Chambers of Reflection (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Lucy”
Elvenstorm – The Conjuring (Massacre Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Ritual of Summoning”
Engulf – Gold And Rust (Everlasting Spew) [Tech Death]
Listen
Firtan – Okeanos (Art of Propaganda) [Progressive Black Metal]
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Flooded Grave – Mindset (Independent) [lolbuttz]
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Goat Disciple – Wolfcult Domination (Blood Harvest Records) [really not that badass tbh metal]
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Hell Freezes Over – Speed Metal Assault (Spiritual Beast) [Speed Metal]
Heretic Execution – Chaos Aura (Kill Again Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Post End,” “Deadly Vociferations”
Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury (Gilead Media) [Weird Death]
Listen to “Swarming Opulence”
Jack Ketch – The Ashes of Vesuvius (Independent) [Progressive Death Metal]
Listen to “The Ashes of Vesuvius”
Lyijykomppania – Tietoja epäonnistumisista ja päättämättömyyksistä, tai Väkivaltaa ja vääriä lääkkeitä (Ram Disc) [Doom]
Malsanctum – Malsanctum (Iron Bonehead Productions) [spoopy doom]
Listen to “The Father”
Microcosmys/La Torture des Ténèbres – The Gods Themselves (split- Xenoglossy Productions) [Black Metal]
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Nastik – Gnostic (Independent) [Death Thrash]
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Obscura – Diluvium (Relapse Records) [Tech Death]
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Oubliette – The Passage (The Artisan Era) [Melodic Black Metal]
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Pellek – Absolute Steel (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Absolute Steel”
Plaguestorm – Eternal Throne (Helter Skelter Productions) [Black Metal]
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Psilocybin – The Marsh Chapel Experiment (Nightstrike Records) [Stoner Doom]
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Sathanas – Necrohymns (Transcending Obscurity) [Blackened Death Metal]
Listen
Sewer Trench – Optimism (WOOAAARGH) [Crust/Grind]
Listen to “Comedy”
Temple Desecration – Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos (Iron Bonehead Productions) [Blackened Death Metal]
Listen to “Blood Offering”
Tyrants of Hell – Perversion, Disease and Satanic Sleaze (Caligari Records) [Death Metal]
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Vinter – En dag som våkner (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Volcano – Darker Than Black (Metallic Core) [Power Thrash]
Preview
Windzor – Inevitable or by Chance (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Witchkiss – The Austere Curtains of Our Eyes (Argonauta Records) [Doom]
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Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
