This Toilet Tuesday (8/4/20)
It’s new music time, friends, and it’s a pretty slow week that’s propped up by a handful of very promising releases in my opinion. Hans and Karhu have highlighted a couple of them for you to check out, but there are probably a few others that deserve our attention as well. Let us know in the comments what you’re jamming this week.
Faceless Burial – Speciation (Dark Descent / Me Saco Un Ojo) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Ravished to the Unknown”
Haven’t paid much attention to these Aussies so far, but now may be the time. “Forward-thinking/backward-looking death metal,” says the promo text, and that’s not the hogwash you might take it for. Roots firmly planted in OSDM soil, the branches reach ambitiously into tech territory, and aren’t afraid to be swayed hither and thither by creative drumming and adventurous composition. And if you’re among those who bemoan Ulcerate’s lack of riffs, let the last two minutes (roughly) of the preview track show you an alternative. Very curious about the full album. 8/07/20 (Hans)
Astriferous – The Lower Levels of Sentience (Me Saco Un Ojo/Pulverised) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Myriad of Grotesquerie”
Umbra Conscientia dropped their criminally underrated debut late last year, and with one third of the band in their pocket, Astiferous is willing to pave the way for a hat trick. If you’re looking for some death metal that’s well balanced between twisting tremolo riffs, chunky bass work and malevolence of the doom kind, complimented by an equally balanced mix, Astriferous’s upcoming EP should be on the shortlist for the most underrated label debut of 2020. 8/7/20 (Karhu)
Selbst – Relatos de angustia (Debemur Morti Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen
Having relocated from Venezuela to Chile within the ten years since their founding, Selbst’s black metal is of an even more international strain. Embracing the Icelandic vein of dissonance and the expansive leads of the French scene, imbued with the rigid rhythmic structure of the Norsks, the two songs presented whirl and curl and (help, how do I end this thing? Just listen to it already). 8/7/20
Adversarius – In Nomine Draconis Inferni (Void Wanderer Productions) [Black Metal]
Stream
Angel Morgue – In the Morgue of Angels (Redefining Darkness) [Death Metal]
Listen
Atria – Reincarnation (Independent) [Deathcore]
Listen to “Reincarnation”
Avatar – Hunter Gatherer (eOne Heavy) [Metalcore]
Listen
The Azukiwashers – Sirarponcaca (Independent) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Nakaochi Robo”
Black Crown Initiate – Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape (Century Media) [Progressive Death Metal]
Listen to “Sun of War,” “Holy Silence”
Burn Ritual – The Void (Forbidden Place/Kozmik Artifactz) [Stoner Doom]
Listen
Cryptic Shift/Replicant/Inoculation/Astral Tomb – Chasm of Aeons (split- Desert Wasteland/Heavenly Body) [Death Metal]
Stream
Decarabion – Bastard Son of Divinity (Unmatched Brutality Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Stream
Deep Purple – Whoosh! (earMusic) [JJDcore]
Listen to “Throw My Bones”
Deterior – An Offering (Independent) [Sludge]
Listen to “Deserters”
Druknroll – Freakingface (Metal Scrap Records) [Melodeath]
Listen
Elimination – Of Gods and Beasts (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “In the Name of Violence”
Endless Sedition – Perpetual Sedition (La Cripta Metal Shop) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Perpetual Sedition”
Gospod – Deceased (Independent) [Buttushka]
Stream
Gutrectomy – Slaughter the Innocent (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Slaughter the Innocent”
Hecate – In Nomine Artem Blackium (Independent) [Black Metal]
Howling Giant/Sergeant Thunderhoof – Turned to Stone, Chapter 2: Masamune & Muramasa (Ripple Music) [Psychedelic Rock/Doom]
Listen
Infernal Trench – Warned (Independent) [Shitty Black Metal]
Stream
Iōhannēs – In Mourning Past (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “A Stupid Dream”
KiaRa – Storyteller (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
Magec – Ethereal Link (Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Red Stone”
Megalith Levitation/Dekonstruktor – split (Aesthetic Death) [Stoner Doom]
Megascavenger – Songs in the Key of Madness (Xtreem Music) [Death Metal]
Listen
Messiah Fatal – Grotesque Symbols – Darken Universe (High Roller Records) [Death Metal]
Preview
Ninth Realm – All Hail Treachery (Independent) [Death Metal]
Stream
Nyktophobia – What Lasts Forever (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen
Old Coven – Necro-Magick (Death Arisen) (Necruz Records) [Black Metal]
Stream
Onslaught – Generation Antichrist (AFM Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Religiousuicide”
Onyxhead – A Crimson Sermon (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen
Orbit Culture – Nija (Seek & Strike) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “Open Eye”
Phantasmagore/Fleshrot – Twisted Visions of Abominations (split- Dark Recollections Productions) [Death Metal]
Sanity Control – War on Life (Seeing Red Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “War on Life”
Scars – Predatory (Brutal Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Predatory”
Selenseas – The Outer Limits (Rockshots Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “The Milky Way”
Sibireal – Blood Color Sky (GrimmDistribution) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Way of Ego”
Steve Von Till – No Wilderness Deep Enough (Neurot Recordings) [Folk]
Listen
Stillbirth – Revive the Throne (Unique Leader) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen
Texas Murder Crew – Everyone’s Last Breath (Comatose Music) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Curse of Humanity”
Tezza F. – The Guardian Rises II (Independent) [Power Metal]
Stream
Tok Yathraa – Chapter: Manananggal (Old Metal Rites) [Black’n’Roll]
Listen to “She’s A Ruthless Creature”
Viharukous – Sota elämää vastaan (Independent) [Black Metal]
Wintaar – Streams of the Paleghosts (Independent) [Black Metal]
Stream
Winter’s End – Into the Sea (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “Empty Page”
Yanomamö – No Sympathy for a Rat (Independent) [Pete Buttigieg Metal]
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
