This Toilet Tuesday (8/11/15)
Bow before the porcelain throne on This Toilet Tuesday. Like a $1 gas station egg sandwich, the releases this week have left me feeling pretty uninspired, so no grandiose tale of painful bowel movements. However, like the messy aftermath of said sandwich, some bits came through undigested. W. and I have plucked them from the tepid muck (barehanded, by the way) and present them for you here. Don’t forget to hit the list below, too; you might catch something I missed.
Creeping – Revenant (Daemon Worship) [Death/Doom]
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Creeping put a welcome spin on doom tropes, setting a high bar for heaviness in the process. Not content to simply hold single notes for absurd periods in order to generate gravity, the band actually speeds up their doom metal attack to bring you some utterly stampeding riffs. Songs on Revenant vary from slow to mid-paced, but the changes in rhythm really add a sense of urgency and foreboding to the album. When the band actually does slow down the assault, the effect is like suddenly dropping into a bottomless pit and bouncing off the walls for all eternity. Cavernous vocals and malevolent whispers only add to the alarming atmosphere and make the fall that much more uncomfortable. FFO: House of Capricorn, Ulcerate, Asphyxiate 8/10/15 (W.)
Dalkhu – Descend… Into Nothingness (Satanath Records) [Blackened Death]
Listen to “E.N.N.F.” “The Fireborn”
Dissonance, meet melody. Brutality, meet emotion. W., meet your new obsession. Slovenia’s Dalkhu have released a beautiful collage of some of the best elements of metal, and you simply have to hear it. The song construction is erudite without ever overpowering. The vocals are guttural while still providing a certain degree of feeling to the overall affair. The riffs themselves are immense and combative like warring Titans, yet they are given a certain warmth and levity by the lithe, melodic solos. It may seem strange to release the final track as the advanced single, but if “E.N.N.F.” is anything to judge the remainder of Descend… into Nothingness by, Dalkhu are poised to take you on a journey equal parts soulful and scarring. FFO: Krallice, Abusiveness, Desolate Shrines 8/15/15 (W.)
Stryvigor – До прірви холоду (Svarga/Fimbulvinter) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Eye of the Storm”
Sometimes, I like my black metal to sound just as pissed as my death or thrash. Stryvigor deliver the anger in spades, due in large part to the vocalist’s Nergalesque delivery. The artwork for the “Eye of the Storm-” a dragon emblem behind a snowstorm- single fits perfectly; they hit with the force of a blizzard. On fire. 8/13/15 (Spear)
9MM – Nitro Killers (Rodeostar) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Nitro Killers”
Advent Sorrow – As All Light Leaves Her (Independent) [DSBM]
Listen to “Absolute Perpetual Death”
Antagonist Zero – No Tears (Inverse Records) [Death/Doom]
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Antropofago – Æra Dementiæ (Kaotoxin) [Brutal/Tech Death]
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Bonehunter – Evil Triumphs Again (Hell’s Headbangers) [Black Thrash]
Listen to “Succubus”
Dark Witch – The Circle of Blood (Arthorium Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Wild Heart”
Deathwhite – Solitary Martyr (Independent) [Dark Metal]
Listen to “Suffer Abandonment”
Destinia – Anecdote of the Queens (King Records) [Power Metal]
Diabolus Arcanium – Path of Ascension (Transcending Obscurity) [Symphonic Black Metal]
Listen to “Of Fire and Ashes”
Dreadnought – Bridging Realms (Sailor Records) [Black/Doom/Spacey Post-Metal]
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Eisregen – Marschmusik (Massacre Records) [Death Metal]
Funerary/Ooze – Split (Midnite Collective) [Sludge]
Listen to “Targeted” (Ooze)
Hatecrowned – Newborn Serpent (Satanath Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Infest and Conquer”
LvxCælis – The Watchers (Lemech Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Watcher”
Majestic Downfall – …When Dead (Pulverised Records) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “The Brick, The Concrete”
Myocardial Infarction – Cannibalistic Gore of Grotesque (Bloodcurdling Enterprise) [Slam]
Listen to “Undying Mutiny”
Nashorn – Echoes of War (Metal Music Austria) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “The Crucial Attack”
Omnizide – Nekromantik (Carnal Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Nekromantik”
Pyogenesis – A Century in the Curse of Time (AFM Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Lifeless”
Saltatio Mortis – Zirkus Zeitgeist (Napalm Records) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Wo sind die Clowns?”
Sectorial – We Are the Titan’s Rising Ashes (Noizr Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Autumn Silence is Covered with Ice”
Soulfly – Archangel (Nuclear Blast) [Groove Metal]
Listen to “Sodomites”
Sucking Leech – Common Sense (Independent) [Grindcore]
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Terader – Fear Sons (Cañamon Records) [Melodeath]
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Terror Cósmico – Devorador de sueños (Concreto Records) [Sludge]
Listen to “Baku”
Thurm – Thurm (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Truculency – Memetic Pandemic (Amputated Vein Records) [Brutal Death]
Listen to “Auto-De-Fe'”
Tyrant of Death – Ion Legacy (Independent) [Djent]
White Hornet – White Hornet (High Roller Records) [Heavy Metal]
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
