This Toilet Tuesday (7/28/20)
It’s a Toilet Tuesday, friends. Get you some new tunes. We’ve got a couple banging death metal releases of very different flavors highlighted today, and there’s plenty more metal to be had in the list below. Let us know what else is good so I can wishlist it and revisit it six months from now.
Katalepsy – Terra Mortuus Est (Unique Leader) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Those Who Rot The Souls”
Ah, Katalepsy, you’re back. Don’t be so nervous, I’ve accepted that you’re not the band I fell in love with, that there’ll never be more David Draiman on Green Eggs and Slam songs. I’ve already forgotten The Beast of Nod, and put it behind me, and I’m now ready to love you as you are. It’s alright if you aren’t, at least “No Rest, No Peace” goes hard. 7/31/20 (Karhu)
Valgrind – Condemnation (Memento Mori Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Entangled in a World Below”
A couple of years and a label change after Lacertilian last told you to listen the rising Italian death metal force Valgrind, they’re back. Not into sci-fi this time, not by the looks of it, but with all the Morbid Angel et al -esque riffs you could ask for. Or a “comprehensive compendium of classic death metal presented in an engaging yet extremely unequivocal manner,” to put it in someone else’s words. 7/31/20 (Karhu)
Æpoch – The Scryer (Indpendent) [Prog Death/Thrash]
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Alcatrazz – Born Innocent (Silver Lining Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Polar Bear,” “London 1666”
Astral Winter – Perdition II (Immortal Frost Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen
AYA for I – Kannabis (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Barbarity – The Zymosis (Coyote Records) [Death Metal]
Listen
Bleeding Eyes – Golgotha (Go Down Records) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Confesso”
Brotthogg – The Die Is Cast (Independent) [Tech Black]
Listen
Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death Prevailed (Boris Records) [Death Metal]
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Church of the Dead – Church of the Dead (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Rat King (The Bringer of Plague)”
Crusty Old Toad – Doom Gloom and Poon (Independent) [Post-Ironic Black Metal]
Listen
Damnation Angels – Fiber of Our Being (Independent) [Symphonic/Power Metal]
Listen to “Fiber of Our Being”
Deathstorm – For Dread Shall Reign (Dying Victims Productions) [Thrash]
Listen
Dimitriy Pavlovskiy’s PowerSquad – Mysterizer (Independent) [Power Prog]
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Disavowed – Revocation of the Fallen (Brutal Mind) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “The Enlightened One”
Draconis – Anthems for an Eternal Battle (Brutal Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Anthems for an Eternal Battle”
Draghkar – At the Crossroads of Infinity (Unspeakable Axe) [Death Metal]
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Drouth – Excerpts from a Dread Liturgy (Translation Loss Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “A Drowning in Sunlight”
Dystopia A.D. – Rise of the Merciless (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Plaguebringers”
Energema – The King of the Giants (Metalism Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “The King of the Giants”
High Spirits – Hard to Stop (High Roller Records) [Heavy Metal]
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Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville (Century Media) [Literal Alpha Black Metal]
Listen to “Rotted Futures”
Insight – Neura (Australis Records) [Heavy/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Tempestad”
Kekal – Quantum Resolution (Eastbreath Records) [Progressive Black/Death Metal]
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Lüger – Cosmic Horrör (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
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Metalriff – Under my Skin (Australis Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Blood and War”
Mortum – Atlantean Ouroboros (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Mrkill – The Day of Reckoning (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Annihilation”
My Silent Wake – Damnum Per Saeculorum (Opa Loka Records) [Gothic Doom]
Listen to “Monochrome”
Old Fat Bastard and the Dirty Sphincters – 1648 (Independent) [Thrash]
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Pale Horseman – For Dust Thou Art (Independent) [Sludge]
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Purification – Perfect Doctrine (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Opium Blade”
Rotten Souls – Malignant Stigma (Independent) [Melodic Black Metal]
Sepulchral Curse – Only Ashes Remain (Transcending Obscurity) [Death Metal]
Listen
Soulrot – Victims of Spiritual Warfare (Memento Mori Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “God Forsaken”
Starblind – Black Bubbling Ooze (Pure Steel Records) [Heavy/Power Metal]
Listen to “The Young Man”
Stormzone – Ignite the Machine (Metalopolis Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Tolling of the Bell”
Timōrātus – My Life in a Mediocre Metal Band (Independent) [Hittingalittletooclosetohomecore]
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Unlucky Morpheus – Unfinished (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Unending Sorceress”
Veil of Delusions – Untold Dimensions (Independent) [Symphonic Death Metal]
Listen to “Over the Edge,” “Prisoner”
Warkings – Revenge (Napalm Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Warriors”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!