This Toilet Tuesday (8/1/23)
O consumer of odorous offerings, today we bestow upon ye but a scant scattering of scat. This week we’ve got some Lazy River doom, dasharez0ne thrash u can lisen too, and one truly shiddy deathgrind split. Join us in the swirl, for all are welcome in the unholy bowl.
Besta – Terra Em Desapego (Lifeforce Records) [Deathgrind]
Up to this point in their decade-long history, Besta hadn’t written a song breaching the 3-minute mark; in this sense, Terra Em Desapego (“Land of Detachment”) is a fitting title as they distance themselves from the short outcries of grind. Maybe the singles are outliers (at 5 and 6 minutes respectively)? We’ll know on Friday, but I can’t think that far ahead as they’ve sandpapered (coarse grit) my brain to a high polish.
From melodic Carcassian leads to slithering, palm-muted trem picking, there are a smattering of ideas in each track, but the band avoids the riff salad pitfall with clever transitions that bridge styles with ease. As an owl with a kink for clinks, I must also point out drummer Paulo Lafaia’s excellent cymbal work (and overall solid performance) throughout. -Roldy
An Autumn For Crippled Children – Closure (Prosthetic Records) [Atmoblack]
Aprilmist – Homesick (Independent) [Atmoblack]
Architects of Dissonance – Totenkvlt (Rising Nemesis Records) [Death / Slam]
Balrogath – We Bring Calamity (Independent) [Melodeath]
Blight House – Blight The Way (Syrup Moose Records) [Gross Deathgrind]
Bloody Bomb – selftitled2 (Independent) [Grindcore]
Burning Sun – Wake of Ashes (Stormspell Records) [Speed / Power]
Chaos Descent – The Blurry End of an Era (Fetzner Death Records) [Death]
Crown Solace – Animus (Independent) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Crypta – Shades of Sorrow (Napalm Records) [Death]
Dark Sky – Signs of the Time (Metalapolis Records) [Hard Rock / Heavy Metal]
Decapitados – Presagio de aurora (Metalapolis Records) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Digest!/Feaces Christ – Necrotizing Progress (Rebirth the Metal Productions) [Deathgrind]
Djinn and Miskatonic – Paleo (Independent) [Sludge / Doom]
Drune – Drown (Independent) [Doom / Sludge]
Dun Ringill – Where The Old Gods Play – Act 1 (The Sign Records) [Folk Doom]
Dymna Lotva – Зямля Пад Чорнымі Крыламі: Кроў (The Land Under The Black Wings: Blood) (Prophecy Productions) [Doom / Post-Metal]
Eminentia Tenebris – Rise of a New Kingdom (Antiq Records) [Meloblack]
Hallucinate – From the Bowels of the Earth (Caligari Records) [Death / Sludge]
Icon of Sin – Legends (Frontiers Records) [Heavy Metal]
Induction – The Power of Power (Atomic Fire Records) [Symphonic Power Metal]
Körgull the Exterminator – Built to Kill (Xtreem Music) [Blackened Death]
Lightning Strikes Across the Sky – Eidgenossen (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Nox Eternus – Eternal Night (Independent) [Blackened Death]
Old Skin – V/H/Death (Independent) [Sludge / Death]
Prayer for the Masses – Best Trip Is Death (Prokaza Records) [Doom]
Sacrodeath – Engendro del caos (Adirondack Black Mass) [Deathrash]
Singra – A Casa Assombrada (Independent) [Post-Metal]
Skeleton – Our Way (Independent) [Thrash]
Sulphuric Death – Immersed into Eternal Fire (Apocalyptic Productions) [Blackened Death]
The Crawling – All of This for Nothing (GrindScene Records) [Death/Doom / Black]
Thumos – Musica Universalis (Independent) [Post-Metal]
Tumulation – Haunted Funeral Creations (Hammerheart Records) [Death/Doom]
Underkript – Fables (Independent) [Metalcore]
Voidclaw – Transmissions from a Neanderthal Space Age (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Warhawk – Dambuster (Cimex Records) [Heavy Metal]
Yuri Fulone – Descobridores (Classic Metal Records) [Symphonic Heavy Metal]
