This Toilet Tuesday (8/21/18)
Good morning Toilet friends, and welcome again to This Toilet Tuesday. This week’s list is pretty short, but as seems to be the norm for such lists, it’s more good than bad. Karhu, Hans, and I have picked out a few of the more noteworthy ones, but you don’t want to skip the full list. Take a look down below and tell everyone what else we should be looking forward to.
Mantar – The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze (Nuclear Blast Records) [Sludge]
Listen to “Age of the Absurd,” “Seek + Forget”
If these singles are anything to go by, Mantar hasn’t started trifling with their formula. The drum and guitar duo vomit feedback-heavy sludge riffs with a straight up charred black metal edge to them, interspersing them with hoarse but sticky vocal hooks and doomed out passages. An additional thought has maybe been given to the atmospheric side of it all, but that’s a maybe. What they do is so strongly embodied in them and only them, you can’t help but to hope they’d move around a bit more, but Mantar is as Mantar does. And Mantar riffs. 8/24/18 (Karhu)
Lords of the Trident – Shadows from the Past (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Death Dealer”
Oh glory be, some new power metal that actually lives up to its genre tag’s lofty intimations. Lords of the Trident epitomize the spirit of USPM on “Death Dealer,” with fast and exciting riffs, strong tenor vocals, and a healthy dose of fantasy nerdery. This particular song isn’t super innovative, but even if the rest of the album follows suit, it promises to be a hell of a lot of fun. 8/24/18 (Spear)
Septekh – Pilgrim (Mighty Music) [Black Thrash]
Listen to “Damned”
Immensely fun thrash with sharp riffing and a simple structure; catchy verse, even catchier chorus, bridge, solo, done. No tricks, no experiments, just d-beats and satisfaction. Sometimes that’s all it takes. FFO Hellripper, Bonehunter 8/24/18 (Hans)
Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog (BMG) [Grunge]
Listen to “So Far Under”
Altars – s/t (Sentient Ruin) [Deathgrind]
Listen
Ancestors – Suspended in Reflections (Pelagic Records) [Doom]
Listen
Asterism – Ignition (Tokuma Japan) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Blaze”
Bride – Snake Eyes (Retroactive Records) [Hard Rock]
Listen to “Famous When I’m Dead”
Crawl – Rituals (Transcending Obscurity) [Death Metal]
Listen
Dark Millennium – Where Oceans Collide (Massacre Records) [Disappointment]
Listen to “Lovers Die”
Dauþuz – Des Zwerges Fluch (Naturmacht Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen
Debridement – Drowning in a Cesspool of Malform and Malady (Rotten Roll Rex) [Brutal Death/Goregrind]
Listen
Diabolos Dust – The Reaper Returns (Massacre Records) [Siqq Skeleton Metal]
Listen to “Dust”
Eunomia – The Chronicles of Eunomia Part I (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Last Stand”
Furze – The Presence… (Polytriad Fingerprints) [???]
Listen to “The Presence…”
Hopelezz – Stories of a War Long Forgotten (Massacre Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “War Long Forgotten”
Jesus Piece – Only Self (Southern Lord Records) [Metalcore]
Listen
The Killing – …y muerte para todos (Cumpa Records) [Death Metal]
Lord – Desperation Finds Hunger in All Men (Heavy Hound) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Mutilation Rites”
Manes – Slow Motion Death Sequence (Debemur Morti Productions) [Experimental Prog/Post-Metal]
Listen
Mob Rules – Beast Reborn (Steamhammer) [Heavy/Power Metal]
Listen to “Ghost of a Chance”
Ploughshare – In Offal, Salvation (Impure Sounds) [Black/Death/Doom]
Listen to “Flesh Cleft Upon Writhing Altars”
Psykopath – Primal Instinct (Loyal Blood Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Armageddon”
Shotgun Rodeo – By Hook or by Crook (Mighty Music) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Fort Knox”
Stillbirth – Annihilation of Mankind (Unique Leader Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Psychological Manipulation”
Subtype Zero – The Astral Awakening (Seeing Red Records) [Thrash]
Listen
Ulven – Death Rites upon a Winged Crusade (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen
Velatria – Before the Moon (Black-Listed Records) [Power Metal]
Preview
Vials of Wrath – Ataraxia (Independent) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Stream
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
