This Toilet Tuesday (7/24/18)
Welcome once again to that most magical day of the week, This Toilet Tuesday! And it’s a gross one today; lots of black and death metal is landing this week, and a fair amount of it is worth a listen. As usual, Hans and I have a couple particularly greasy jewels for you to check out that might strike your fancy. Get you some jams.
Bloodsoaked Necrovoid – Demo 1 (Caligari Records) [Cave Death]
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With a name like Bloodsoaked Necrovoid, you know you’re in for either some kvlt as fvkk black metal tracked on a Nokia 3310 mic or filthy death metal that sounds like it was conceived, written, and recorded in a septic tank. It’s the latter in this case; musically speaking, there are strong odors of Incantation and Grave Upheaval throughout the demo’s short run. Tonally speaking, it sounds like they managed to actually craft amps out of shit. Certainly not for everyone, but it’s great if you want something short and unabashedly disgusting. 7/24/18 (Spear)
Shed the Skin – We of Scorn (Hells Headbangers) [Melodeath Metal]
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With the amount of dull, trite melodic death metal floating around still stuck in 2004, it’s nice to hear some every now and then that doesn’t skimp on the “death” part. Shed the Skin is just such a band, delivering their brand of melodic but beefy death metal with the same fervor as bands like Carcass and Pile of Priests. In terms of sound, it’s pretty unique; it feels like a new take on an old sound, something more than an homage to the past. It’s hard to put into words, so give it a listen and see what I mean. 7/27/18 (Spear)
Cancer – Into the Heartless Silence (Throats Productions) [DSBM]
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This is a far cry from what I imagine when I hear the term DSBM. No murky, navel-gazing meanderings from a despondent basement dweller; instead, Cancer seem to come with a more worldly perspective, informed by the coldness and dissonance of the outside world. Starting with that foundation, they seek out the melancholy and darkness that hides in the folds of everyday life, and proceed to explore those folds like a tongue feeling for a missing tooth. While the result is mostly sad, the sadness is expressed more in an atmospheric, dare I say blackgaze-ish feeling that juxtaposes a cold “outside” with a wistful warmth found “inside.” 7/28/18 (Hans)
Ancient Empire – Eternal Soldier (Stormspell Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Eternal Soldier”
Atavisma – The Chthonic Rituals (Memento Mori) [Death Metal]
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Axis of Despair – Contempt for Man (Southern Lord Recordings) [Grindcore]
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Black Howling – Return of Primordial Stillness (Signal Rex) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Celetial Syntropy”
Black Leather – Over Death (Independent) [UGH!]
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Blasphemous – Emerging Through Fire (HPGD) [Black/Death Metal]
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Bonjour Tristesse – Your Ultimate Urban Nightmare (Lifeforce Records) [Black Metal]
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Candelabrum – Portals (Altare Productions) [Black Metal]
Chris Caffery – The Jester’s Court (Metalville Records) [Heavy Metal]
ColdWorld – Interludium (Independent) [Dark Ambient]
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ColdWorld – Nostalgia (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Connate Exasperation – Delusional Primacy (Sleaszy Rider Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Subsistence of the Bygone”
Decline of the I – Escape (Agonia Records) [Prog/Post-Black Metal]
Listen to “Je Pense Donc Je Fuis”
Dee Snider – For the Love of Metal (Napalm Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Tomorrow’s No Concern”
Degrave – Degrave (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “All You Need”
Derdian – DNA (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Red and White”
Draghkar – The Endless Howling Abyss (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Drawn and Quartered – The One Who Lurks (Krucyator Productions) [Death Metal]
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Eroded – Necropath (FDA Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Eternal Warspate”
Faithxtractor – Proverbial Lambs to the Ultimate Slaughter (Hells Headbangers) [Death Metal]
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Gravewards – Ruinous Ensoulment (Unspeakable Axe Records) [Death Metal]
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Iluntze – Antzinako Oihartzunak (Darkwoods) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Listen to “Goiztiri”
Imber Luminis – Contrasts (Naturmacht Productions) [Post-Black Metal]
Listen to “Le Voyage pt II”
Infernal Execrator – Obsolete Ordinance (Pulverised Records) [Black Metal]
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Michael Romeo – War of the Worlds / Pt. 1 (Mascot Label Group) [Other Symphony X]
Listen to “Fear the Unknown,” “Djinn”
Nocratai – Tormento (Grimm Distribution) [Industrial Black Metal]
Listen to “La Danza Della Morte”
Oh. – Metallia (Independent) [Instrumental Prog]
Listen to “Bee”
Onda Makter – Mardrömmars värsta mänsklighet (Fólkvangr Records) [Black Metal]
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Porno State – Evil Land (Head Crashe) [Thrash]
Proxillian – Redemption (7hard Records) [“Power” Metal]
Listen to “Candleflame”
Redemption – Long Night’s Journey into Day (Metal Blade Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Little Men”
She Ate a Scorpion – Resuscitate (Independent) [Weird Brutal Death]
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Sofisticator – At Whores with Satan (EBM Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Twisted Into Porn”
Storrsson – Celtic Legends Volume 1 (Adapt Metal Records) [Heavy Metal]
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Thou – Rhea Sylvia (Deathwish Inc) [Droning Sludge]
Listen to “The Only Law”
Trigger – The Harbor (Independent) [Prog Metal]
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Tunjum – Deidades del inframundo (Dunkelheit Produktionen) [Death Metal]
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Twilight Fauna – Where Birds Sing My Name (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Ultra-Violence – Operation Misdirection (Spinefarm Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Cadaver Decomposition Island”
Viikate – Tuulenhuuhtomat (Ranka Recordings) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Tuulenhuuhtomat”
Zidiz/Fullmoon Sacrifice – Venomous Sound (split- Analog Overdose Records) [Speed Metal]
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
