This Toilet Tuesday (8/28/18)
It is Toilet Tuesday, my dudes. Time to get some sweet new releases in your ears. Hans and Karhu have a couple particularly solid suggestions for you today, but there’s more to be had in the bulk list below. Pick out your favorites and join me in zoning out for the rest of the day.
Majestic Mass – Savage Empire of Death (Caligari Records) [Black/Heavy Metal]
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Between the clattering drums and the ghoulish, blackened vocals, melodies and riffs keep seeping through that elevate these Danish noisemongers above mere basement second wave worship. “Sanguine Dreams of Lust” swaggers along with a grooving doom rock riff; “Chaos Delight” shifts between near-DSBM trudgery and a driving, triumphant chorus; “Majestic Mass” itself muses how early Misfits may have fared as a doom band, complete with roar-along chorus. The means are primitive, but with a steady, mid-tempo stomp, they get a lot of mileage out of them. 8/31/18 (Hans)
Panzer Squad – Ruins (Testimony Records) [Thrash]
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Hearing that name, you may be forgiven for expecting bland mid-00’s war-themed revival thrash. What you get instead is excellent early-10’s war-themed worship of the golden (i.e. earliest) days of German thrash. Don’t expect a lo-fi affair or sloppy playing though; Panzer Squad channel the Teutonic Three with clear, tight sound, all while keeping an attitude that feels like they’d still be welcome at a punk show. 8/31/18 (Hans)
Kommandant – Blood Eel (ATMF Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Blood Eel”
Kommandant continue on their chosen path of swarming, dissonant guitars, martial beat and a disdain for civilization’s silent slog. Their message conveyed through nigh-industrial black metal, colored with caustic death metal. Though amidst the pummeling blastbeats and horrific dirges lie seemingly less of the percussions that branded much of Architects, Kommandant hasn’t lost one bit of their bite. 9/1/18 (Bearboi)
Arabian Death Mask – Mortuary Breath (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Beyond the Black – Heart of the Hurricane (Napalm Records) [Butt Metal]
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The Breathing Process – Samsara (Independent) [Deathcore]
Listen to “Supervoid”
Carnage – Inevitable Deliverance (Coyote Records) [Death Metal]
Cast the Stone – Empyrean Atrophy (Agonia Records) [Death Metal]
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Cemetery Lights – The Church on the Island (Nuclear War Now!) [lolbuttz]
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Circles – The Last One (Season of Mist) [Prog]
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Circus of Fools – REX (Bleeding Nose Records) [Gothic/Melodeath]
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Смута – Время беды (Soundage Productions) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Русский бунт”
Concrete Age – The Roots of the Concrete Age (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “God of War”
Dedth – I Am Communist (Narcoleptica Productions) [Death Metal]
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Dehumanize – Malum, Scelesto, Ferox (Vision of God Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Descent – Towers of Grandiosity (Redefining Darkness) [Death Metal]
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Expulsed – Kingdom of Desolation (Reality Fade) [Brutal Death]
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Grausamkeit – Der Triumph des Todes (Narbentage Produktionen) [Black Metal]
Listen to “II”
Helion Prime – Terror of the Cybernetic Space Monster (AFM Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Silent Skies”
Hellish – The Spectre of Lonely Souls (Unspeakable Axe) [Black Thrash]
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Hespera – In Absence (Seeing Red Records) [The Other Soilwork]
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Insignium – Infamie und Urgewalt – Wenn Altes sich erhebt (Apostasy Records) [Melodic Black Metal]
Iskald – Innhøstinga (Indie Recordings) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Atrocious Horror”
Jahve – Still, All Quiet (War Against Yourself) [Black Metal]
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Karmian – Surgere et Cadere (Independent) [Melodeath]
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KEN Mode – Loved (Season of Mist) [Hardcore]
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Kraków – Minus (Karisma/Dark Essence) [Dirty Post-Metal]
Listen to “Black Wandering Sun”
Madmans Esprit – 무의식의 의식화 (Independent) [Gothic Black Metal]
Listen to “You Don’t Allow Me”
Maligner – Attraction to Annihilation (Blood Harvest) [Thrash]
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Mamaleek – Out of Time (The Flenser) [Some Weird Flenser Shit]
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Medicine Noose/Spewn – Medicine Noose/Spewn (split- Heavenly Vault) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Ape Priest”
Nachtlieder – Lynx (Nigredo Records) [Black Metal]
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Odium Aeterna/Sands in Darkness/Shrine ov Belial/Goatswarth/Die Wounded Beyond the Flesh
Omnium Gatherum – The Burning Cold (Century Media Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Gods Go First”
Palm – To Live Is to Die, to Die Is to Live (EVP Recordings) [Hardcore/Thrash]
Listen to “Ongaku”
Raw – The Persecute Heinous (Brutal Mind) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Rithiya Henry Khiev – Eviscerated Realm (Independent) [Instrumental Prog]
Sadness – Rain (Independent) [Blackgaze]
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Saint Breaker – Cruel Humanity (Dirty Needle Records) [Death Thrash]
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The Secret – Lux Tenebris (Southern Lord) [Blackened Death Metal]
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Sex Messiah – Eastern Cult of Sodomy (Nuclear War Now!) [Black Metal/Crossover]
Listen to “Drawing Closer to Sex Messiah”
Spirit Division – Forgotten Planet (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
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Theudho – De roep van het woud (Heidens Hart Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Saksenslacht”
Thou – Magus (Sacred Bones Records) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “The Changeling Prince”
Throat – Bareback (Svart Records) [Don’t Google This At Work Metal]
U.D.O. – Steelfactory (AFM Records) [Marge Metal]
Listen to “Rising High”
Voivod – Always Moving (Century Media Records) [Weird Thrash]
When Ashes Are Rising – The Light of a Thousand Sparks (Mark My Words Records) [Metalcore]
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Wulfpack – War Ain’t Over! (Violent Creek Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Mr. Shitface”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
