This Toilet Tuesday (7/29/25)
Upper Decker Deity, receive the bellowing of our fanfare most malodorous. This week, we’ve got Lingchi for wimps, CRUNGUS, and a filthy Lepidopteran. The list below may be short and stout, but as in life, not every offering is a bowl-curling anaconda; there are shining kernels aplenty for those willing to do their doodoo diligence. As always, let us know what we missed below!
Centuries of Decay – A Monument to Oblivion (Independent) [Prog Death]
A Monument to Oblivion occupies a space somewhere between Opeth and Atræ Bilis: extended-range dissodeath segments (with an emphasis on syncopation) burst from moments of quiet contemplation without disrupting the trajectory of each track. We’re left wondering what stylistic shifts await, but never why they happen, as each post-metal crescendo or abrupt pause serves to engage listeners. “To Dust”‘s latter half slowly builds from a barebones groove, adding layers of cymbal fills and clean vocals until its foundations begin to strain under the pressure; after a momentary lull, an off-kilter breakdown (replete with gnarly gutturals) comes as catharsis rather than an afterthought. From deathcore hammer blasts to melodeath melodrama, many genres have lent their chisels to this monument; I suspect both the curious and curmudgeonly will remember the name Centuries of Decay soon enough. -Roldy
A Thousand Papercuts – Interior Depravity (Independent) [Metalcore]
Anchorite – Realm of Ruin (Personal Records) [Doom / Heavy Metal]
Ancient Malice – Accept the Vile Gifts of the Dead (Independent) [Deathgrind]
Ancient Torment – Follow the Echo of Curses (Eternal Death) [Black]
Barbarous – Initium Mors (Creator-Destructor Records) [Death]
Bengal Tigers – Cry Havoc (Iron Shield Records) [Heavy Metal]
Call of Charon – Tales of Tragedy (Massacre Records) [Melodeath / Metalcore]
Creatvre – Toujours humain (I, Voidhanger Records) [Experimental Black]
Crungus – Hollow (WormHoleDeath) [Blackened Death]
Destrypse/Rotgod – Italian Grinding Noise (Sasso Production Records) [Grindcore]
Epitomectomy – Morbid Obsessions (Vile Tapes Records) [Brutal Death / Slam]
Ethereal War – Man Proposes, God Disposes… (Independent) [Black]
Final Error – Daemonium in Nobis (Independent) [Deathrash]
Gam – Iron Gauntlet (Independent) [Blackened Death]
Harvested – Dysthymia (Independent) [Death]
Hedonist – Scapulimancy (Southern Lord Recordings) [Death]
Insônia sem Fim – Lone Warrior on the Brink of Death (Independent) [DSBM / Dungeon Synth]
Kayo Dot – Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason (Prophecy Productions) [Avant-Garde Metal]
Knowing the Future – N E W F V t V R E (Independent) [Progressive Death / Instrumental]
Krüppler – Blutrausch (Independent) [Blackened Speed]
Oni – Genesis, Pt II (Ironshore Records) [Metalcore / Djent / Alt Metal]
Plasmodulated – An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell (Dawnbreed Records) [Death]
Sallow Moth – Mossbane Lantern (I, Voidhanger Records) [Prog Death]
Sea Mosquito – Majestas (I, Voidhanger Records) [Experimental Black]
Sursum Corda – Métodos de tortura (WP and RO Productions) [Death]
Tar Pit – Scrying the Angel Gate (Independent) [Doom]
Terrordome – Plagued with Violence (Independent) [Death / Crossover Thrash]
Under Cold Sun – White Silence (Base Record Production) [Deathrash]
Vaegon – Ciphers from the Void (Independent) [Tech Death / Deathcore]
Vertebra – The Same (Xtreem Music) [Death]
Victim of Fire – The Old Lie (Human Future Records) [Melodeath / Crust]
Wailing Banshee – Worlds Apart (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
When Man Meets His Maker – The Hell in Heaven (Skepsis Recordings) [Melodeath / Deathcore]
