This Toilet Tuesday (7/19/16)
Greetings, Toilet urchins, and welcome to another This Toilet Tuesday! The summer continues to be anything but dry with a bevy of great new music of all styles. It’s easy to get lost in all this music; for every new piece you listen to, you bookmark three for later, and by the time you’ve listened to that, there are twenty more new albums to get to, so you bookmark the new new stuff and get back to the past stuff but it’s all just piling up and you’ve barely made a dent and you don’t know where to start because you can’t remember what you’ve already listened to and oh god send help.
Anal Vomit/Ordo Caper – Culto de los Venenos (split- Dunkelheit Produktionen) [Blackened Thrash/Death Metal]
Listen to “Sendero Siniestro” (AV), “Igboddu,” “Acid Orgy” (OC)
With a name like Anal Vomit, you know you’re in for some bestial black filth of the most malicious, and unintentionally humorous, kind. Except that Anal Vomit are a typical South American Blackthrashers. And as you know, SA black/thrash is some of the most vicious. So expect raw production, bulging bass and bloodied vocals over plain, but capable Peruvian riffs. On a short release like this split the band ought to be at their best. They’ve been paired up with Ordo Caper who do deliver the bestial black filth I longed for. With Hellhammer-influenced guitar-noise and Profanatica-like mid-tempo devastation they leave no survivors behind. The only memorable feature, however, are the two vocal tracks delivering at a slightly different pace.
All in all, a regular but pleasantly nasty, blackened split. 7/18/16 (Karhu)
Svirnath – Il regno della natura (Naturmacht Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Light of the Sun”
Naturmacht Productions is a label you can trust to deliver quality. If you’re not full of atmospheric black metal, not entirely dissimilar to trees ‘n shit, the nature-hailing Italians of Svirnath would like to persuade you with a synth-laden album that doesn’t forget riffs or sound sterile. 7/23/16 (Karhu)
Defeated Sanity – Disposal of the Dead/Dharmata (Willowtip Records) [Tech/Brutal Death]
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This “split” album from Defeated Sanity is a pretty strange idea. I get it. The guys are talented musicians and wanted to show off their different influences and abilities. That’s all fine and good, but it’s pretty bizarre hearing the Dharmata material after the Disposal of the Dead songs. As you’d expect, it comes off like a mix tape of Brodequin and Cynic. Extremely open-minded listeners may enjoy both sides, but I can’t imagine most won’t feel extremely underwhelmed by the whole product after enjoying one half or the other. FFO: Dying Fetus, Embodied Torment, Orchidectomy/Atheist, later Death, fart noises 7/22/16 (W.)
Black Crown Initiate – Selves We Cannot Forgive (eOne Entertainment) [Tech Death/Progressive Metal]
Listen to “Vicious Lives,” “Selves We Cannot Forgive,” “For Red Cloud”
I’d been feeling lukewarm about Black Crown Initiate after forcing myself to try to enjoy The Wreckage of Stars a hundred times, but something changed when I heard “Vicious Lives.” I don’t know if the music has improved or if I’m just looking at it a different way now, but there’s something about it that has rekindled my interest in the band. It feels both familiar and new, grounded emotively in the past and looking aurally to the future. It’s hard to say what the full album will sound like, but these three tunes have me cautiously optimistic. 7/22/16 (Spear)
Ashaena – Calea (Loud Rage Music) [Folk/Black Metal]
Listen to “Calea,” Spirit-Sageata,” “Mos Urs”
Assignment – Closing the Circle (Massacre/Soulfood) [Power Prog]
Listen to “Genetic Slavery”
Avataria – New World Order (Recordjet) [Fedora Metal]
Listen to “The Ripper”
Azziard/Nirnaeth – Azziard/Nirnaeth (split- Kaotoxin Records) [Blackened Death Metal]
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Baptism – V: The Devil’s Fire (Season of Mist) [Black Metal]
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The Dead Goats – All of Them Witches (Testimomy Records) [Death Metal]
Deathcharge/Lo-Fi – Sanja Noise Bastards II (split- Läjä Rekords) [Black/Speed/Punk]
Dejected Mass – Dirge (Independent) [Sludge]
Listen to “Bonds of Sadness”
Demonbreed – Where Gods Come to Die (Testimony Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Vultures in the Blood Red Sky”
Denouncement Pyre – Black Sun Unbound (Hells Headbangers) [Black Metal]
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Despised Icon – Beast (Nuclear Blast Records) [Deathcore]
Listen to “Beast,” “The Aftermath,” “Bad Vibes”
Despite – Synergi (Eclipse Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Synergi”
Enigma – Stars Misaligned (Independent) [Tech Death]
Listen to “Of Vile and Bliss”
Farzad Golpayegani – Seven (Independent) [Prog Metal]
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Fimbultyr – Niddikter (Unexploded Records) [Black Metal]
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Forty Winters – Rotting Empire (Dead Truth Recordings) [Melodeath/Metalcore]
Listen to “Summoning Spirits”
Fragile Hollow – Entity (Independent) [Gothic Metal]
Hammers of Misfortune – Dead Revolution (Metal Blade Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Dead Revolution”
Harakiri for the Sky – III: Trauma (Art of Propaganda) [Post-Black Metal]
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Lethal Shöck – Evil Aggressor (Witches Brew) [Thrash]
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Mizery – Absolute Light (Flatspot Records) [Hardcore]
National Suicide – Anotheround (Scarlet Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “I Refuse to Cry”
Nifrost – Motvind (Naturmach Productions) [Black Metal]
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Nothing Lies Beyond – Fragile Reality (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Lost”
Nuke – Nuke (Hells Headbangers) [Speed Metal]
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Numenorean – Home (Season of Mist) [Post-Black/DSBM]
Listen to “Home”
Old Graves – Long Shadows (Naturmacht Productions) [Folk/Black Metal]
Listen to “Sumas,” “Slave to the Boiler that Heats the Baths”
Paragon – Dead Planet (Independent) [Deathcore]
Listen to “Dead Planet”
Periphery – III: Select Difficulty (Sumerian Records) [Prog Metal/Djent]
Listen to “The Price is Wrong”
Pestilent – Purgatory of Punishment (Transcending Records) [Slambasted]
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Profanatica – The Curling Flame of Blasphemy (Hells Headbangers) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Ordained in Bile,” “Magic & Muhr”
Psychoprism – Creation (Pure Steel Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Stained Glass”
Redeye Revival – Raise Hell, No Regrets (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Party Food”
Revocation – Great Is Our Sin (Metal Blade Records) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “Communion,” “Monolithic Ignorance,” “Crumbling Imperium”
Salem – Dark Days (Pure Steel Records) [Heavy Metal]
Salem’s Pot – Pronounce This! (RidingEasy Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Tranny Takes a Trip,” “Just For Kicks”
She Beast – Felch (Independent) [Sludgy Doom]
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Unmerciful – Ravenous Impulse (Unique Leader Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Unmerciful”
Urobilinemia – Wriggling Chrysalis of Metaphysical Grudge (Gore House Productions) [Brutal Tech Death]
Listen to “Algophobia,” “Haunting Kill”
Vanhelgd – Temple of Phobos (Pulverised Records) [Black Metal]
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Witherscape – The Northern Sanctuary (Century Media Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Wake of Infinity”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
