This Toilet Tuesday (8/20/24)
O dolorous depths ov Toilet, deliver us from the doldrums of daily life. This week we’ve got C.S. Lewis-core, pyramid shid, and an old-growth forest. The summer drought of releases seems to be in the rear-end view, and the Great Constipation of Metal-Archives is fit to burst. Let’s wade around one last time before the deluge; tell us what we missed in the comments!
Demiser – Slave to the Scythe (Blacklight Media) [Blackthrash]
My Honda Civic göat-drawn chariot has been running on sulfuric fumes for most of 2024, with few blackthrash releases standing out in this crowded field; though all the devils are here, it took the keen scythe of Demiser to harvest my soul. With influences ranging from crust punk to the anthemic melodies of Skeletonwitch‘s Beyond the Permafrost, the band has remembered to practice the cardinal sin of the black arts: fun. The kinetic energy of tracks like “Hell is Full of Fire” is further elevated by gang vocals and melodic shredding that are sure to possess the faculties of any within earshot of this raucous ritual. Blasphemy abounds; libations pour like blood; a flash of teeth in the darkness betrays a smile. -Roldy
Akbal – OMNIA I (Independent) [Death]
All for Metal – Gods of Metal (Year of the Dragon) (Reigning Phoenix Music) [Heavy Metal]
Ar’lyxkq’wr – Vwn’yv´rl (Centipede Abyss) [Experimental Blackened Death]
Black Birch – S/T (Independent) [Black]
Black Raptus – Like a Sharp Blade (Independent) [Black]
Bred for Slaughter – Kill for Satan (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) [Deathgrind]
Buryfication – Gallows Rise (Kvlt und Kaos Productions) [Death]
Carmeria – Tragédie d’amour (Independent) [Symphonic Power]
Ceuthonymus – Winter’s Frozen Vein (Independent) [Black]
Daida Laida – Parallel (Walküre Records) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Dawn Treader – Bloom & Decay (Liminal Dread Productions) [Blackgaze]
Deadscape – State of Decline (Miracle of Bravery Records) [Melodeath]
Difuntor – Edifying the Pain’s Candles in Death Congregation (Headbanger’s Behavior) [Death]
Dr. K & the Gore Cession – Dig Out the Dead (Independent) [Death]
Endless Chain – Agony (Independent) [Melodeath / Gothic Metal]
Exorency – Mortal Vision (Independent) [Death]
Faceless Empress – The Escapist (Independent) [Stoner Metal]
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Opera (Nuclear Blast) [Symphonic Death]
Fostermother – Echo Manor (Ripple Music) [Psych Doom]
Frakture – Subyugamentes (Demons Records) [Thrash]
Furnace – Trojan Hearse (Obelisk Polaris Productions) [Death]
Generation of Vipers – Guilt Shrine (Translation Loss Records) [Prog Sludge / Post-Hardcore]
Gyves – Inhuman Icons – Those of Another World (Independent) [Atmoblack]
Har – Cursed Creation (Dark Descent Records) [Blackened Death]
Helvetestromb/Santet – For All That Is Truly Evil (Masters of Kaos Productions) [Blackthrash / Crust Punk]
Morgue Terror – Violent and Murderous Thoughts (Independent) [Death]
Necrophobia – Kurukshetra (Blood Moon Records) [Raw/Lo-Fi Blackened Death]
Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All (Napalm Records) [Brutal Tech Death / Sorcerers of Ra, The Chosen of Amun, Keepers of the Lunar Cycle, Whose Hands are Able,
Whose Tongues are Mighty in Speech, Authors of the Works of Knowledge, Writers of the Ancient Wisdom, Masters of the Words of Power]
Paralydium – Universe Calls (Frontiers Records) [Prog Metal]
Peine Kapital/Stain – Split (Independent) [Sludge / Doom]
Perpetual Legacy – Teodrama (Enhakkore Records) [Symphonic Power]
Primordial Woods – Icore (Independent) [Atmoblack]
Sapientia Diaboli – I ov the Darkness (Independent) [Black]
Siege Perilous – Creation’s Call (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Simone Simons – Vermillion (Nuclear Blast) [Symphonic Metal]
Spectral Wound – Songs of Blood and Mire (Profound Lore Records) [Black]
Surtalog – Ragnarök – Schicksal der Götter, Tod der Menschen und Ende der Welten (Independent) [Meloblack]
Vergeblichkeit – Was hängt der späten Jugend an? (Running Wild Productions) [Black / Gothic Metal]
Vokun’Rok – Praeterita Visione (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Vomitrot – Emetic Imprecations (Personal Records) [Death]
Within the Ruins – Phenomena II (MNRK Heavy) [Prog Metalcore]
