This Toilet Tuesday (8/11/20)
Toilet Tuesday time, friends. We’ve gathered up as much new music as we could find this week, and while not much stuck out to me this week, Karhu’s got a couple to talk about. Give those blurbs a read and check out that list below.
Primitive Man – Immersion (Relapse Records) [Sludge/Doom/Drone]
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Having been responsible for some of the most hideous sludge ever collected on tape, Primitive Man seems set focusing on the former part strictly for immersion. The promo elaborates on how the record builds and builds up on tension, but that just isn’t true. I’m not saying there isn’t tension, because there is, but that’s all there is. All tension, all the time, no release, no buildup, no climax, no explosion. A static wall of tension and noise, unmovable, irredeemable. The drums hit now and then, but there’s no beat, no movement, only a percussive noise and the same goes for the bass, while the guitars are set on producing a wall of distortion owing more to McCarthy’s solo noise work than Primitive Man’s past sludge albums. As if an attempt to insult, “Menacing” briefly recalls how the band used to, in fact, groove, proceeds to groove for a few seconds, and returns to it’s existence as a very narrow adaptation of anxiety. Depending on your take, Immersion might be the best, or most fruitless Primitive Man. 8/14/20 (Karhu)
Bear Mace – Charred Field of Slaughter (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Hibernation – Destroyed by Bears”
Yeah, Bolt Thrower were pretty great, weren’t they. Mark “Crossbow Death” Sugar of Trials/High Spirits/Black Sites fame, and his band of merry men in tights (Infidel Castro & Fucking Death, do you think they’re being serious) think so too. I guess Bear Mace aren’t all about Bolt Thrower though, so after the spot on impression in the beginning, they incorporate more thrash riffs and a whole slew of boneheadedness in their fun. I tell you, these songs don’t have a university degree in cultural studies. But incorporating ideas from outside the BT-box, and having no hardcore influence to eat up all their riffs (looking at you, Kommand), Charred Field might just be the most inspired and best damn BT-death album you’ll hear all week. 8/14/20 (Karhu)
哀豔 – 我想要忘掉我們的記憶 (Independent) [DSBM]
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Apostasy – The Unknown Path (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Ash Slater – UnManifest (Independent) [Instrumental Prog Metal]
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Awake by Design – Awake by Design (Independent) [Power Metal]
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Behind the Horror – Burn Up This Truth (Independent) [Prog/Thrash]
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Blasphemous Putrefaction – Prelude to Perversion (Dunkelheit Produktionen) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Necromantic”
Bull Elephant – Created from Death (Independent) [Prog Doom]
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Cancer – Opioid (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Depths IV: Summit’s Delusion”
Chrome Ghost – Married. Buried. (Independent) [Sludge/Post-Metal]
Listen to “All Apologies”
DeathCave – Smoking Mountain (Satanik Royalty Records) [Sludge]
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Decoherence – Unitarity (Sentient Ruin) [Black Metal]
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Desolate Dreams – Coalescence (Independent) [Instrumental Prog Metal]
Listen to “Epilogue”
Dozethrone – As the Idols Fall (Independent) [Stoner Doom/Sludge]
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Exitium Sui – The Sinister Business of Selling Hope (Indepenent) [Black/Death/Doom]
Listen to “Into the Molten Jaws of Death”
Expendiency – Disobedience (Rising Nemesis Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Fange – Poigne (Throatruiner Records) [Sludge/Noise]
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Fermentor – Continuance (Independent) [Instrumental Death/Thrash]
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Garden of Eyes – Altar of Despair (Cryptic Blood Records) [Death Metal]
Genophobic Perversion – Rabid Purification (Independent) [Brutal Death/Goregrind]
Listen to “Rabid Purification”
Great Cold Emptiness – Death Gifted a Bouquet (Flowing Downward) [Black Doom]
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Havukruunu – Uinuos syömein sota (Naturmacht Productions) [Black Metal]
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Ingested – Where Only Gods May Tread (Unique Leader) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Laere – Solve (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Mosh-Pit Justice – The Fifth of Doom (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “My Transgressions”
Murdock 13 – Meredith (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Dressed in Plastic”
Nug – Alter Ego (Willowtip) [Dank Metal]
Listen to “Beast”
Ov Shadows – I djävulens avbild (Hypnotic Dirge Records) [Black Metal]
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Paganizer – Bullets Reign (Metal Bastard Enterprises) [Death Metal]
Pagan Rites – Absurd End of the World I (Iron, Blood, and Death Corporation) [Blackened Death Metal]
Listen to “Season of Blasphemy”
Précipices – L’entéléchie du malheur (Independent) [Post-Black Metal]
Listen to “L’inextricable vacuité de l’être”
Rituals – Invicta (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Oracle”
Seep – Souvenirs of a Necrosadist (Gurgling Gore) [Death Doom]
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Terra Atlantica – Age of Steam (Pride & Joy Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Age of Steam,” “Forces of the Oceans, Unite!”
This Is Endless – Formations Of A World Below (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Damned and the Weak”
Ton – Ashes Where They Stood (Ungoldy Ruins Productions) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Judgement”
Traumatic Noise – Abyss of the Masses (Putrid Tomb Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Abyss of the Masses”
Virus – Evilution Apocalypse (Combat Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Evilution Apocalypse”
Visceral Violation – Carnival Cannibal (HPGD Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Votov – I.X.X.I (CDN Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Celf”
Winterhearth – Riverbed Empire (Still Heavy Productions) [Black Thrash]
Within Destruction – Yōkai (Independent) [Deathcore]
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Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
