This Toilet Tuesday (8/8/17)
Holy hell it’s another Toilet Tuesday! Black and death metal fans (i.e. most of you) should be excited, because there’s a lot of cool stuff on the way. Highlights include Incantation, Pyrrhon, and Cormorant, but Hans and I have selected a couple gems you may have missed otherwise. Check it out!
Exoskelett – Collected Bones (Hammerheart Records) [Thrash]
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Exoskelett hark back to that primordial soup that death and thrash sprang from with their production, vocals, and some mean riffs and fast drums (“Ossuary”, “Dig Deeper”, “Void”). However, the songs are also heavily streaked with doomy occult rock (“Grind Your Bones…”, “Bloodstained”) and perhaps even a dash of post-punk (the bridge of “Buried Upside Down”, for example). As convoluted as that may sound on paper, Exoskelett coat everything in a punk-ish zero-fucks attitude and stick to a bare-bones approach to every genre they toss in, which somehow glues it all together surprisingly well. 8/11/17 (Hans)
Demon Eye – Prophecies and Lies (Soulseller Records) [Doom]
Listen to “The Waters and the Wild,” “Dying For It”
I just want to quickly point these guys out in case they’re still under anyone’s radar. Imagine earlier The Sword running into an excellent Deep Purple cover band and jamming with them in the classiest fashion. Give it a go if you dig proto-metal classics as well as recent stuff like Dunsmuir, i.e. well-done retro rock that doesn’t devolve into shtick and strikes a balance between doomy and upbeat. 8/11/17 (Hans)
Blood of Seklusion – Servants of Chaos (FDA Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Servants of Chaos”
From the Blood of Seklusion Bandcamp page: “…they are be able to spread the old spirit like an (sic) Volvo driving Elk with an intact HM-2 pedal inside his stomach.” Please ruminate on this for a moment, then jam to their sweet Dismember-style riffing. There’s nothing new to hear, but “Servants of Chaos” promises the album as a whole will be a good time. 8/11/17 (Spear)
All Out War – Give Us Extinction (Organized Crime Records) [Crossover Thrash]
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Anthropic – Anthropic (Horror Pain Gore Death) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Blacked Out”
Apparatus – Cthulhu III (Independent) [Weird Black Metal]
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Atriarch – Dead as Truth (Relapse Records) [Gothic Doom]
Listen to “Inferno,” “Void,” “Repent”
Cataphract – The Witchpower of Invisibility (Sordid Curse) [Black Metal]
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Cormorant – Diaspora (Independent) [Progressive Black Metal]
Listen to “Preserved in Ash,” “The Devourer”
Cosmic Eve – Trance Sylvania (Independent) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Trance Sylvania”
Dawn of Disease – Ascension Gate (Napalm Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Ascension Gate,” “Perimortal”
Daxma – The Head Which Becomes the Skull (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Abandoning All Hope”
Desecresy – The Mortal Horizon (Xtreem Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Amidst,” “Percussive Necromancy”
Devil Electric – Devil Electric (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Lady Velvet,” “Hypnotica”
Empyrean Throne – Chaosborne (M-Theory Audio) [Symphonic Black/Death Metal]
Listen to “And None Shall Rise,” “The Devouring Mark”
Eternal Black – Bleed the Days (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Stained Eyes on a Setting Sun,” “Bleed The Days”
Gods of Fire – Terrifying Tales for Terrible Children (Black Thirteen Recording) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “All for the Love of Satan”
Gokuraku Jodo – Ghost in the Well (Triple Vision) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Dishcounter Chrysanthemum”
Gravdal – Kadaverin (Soulseller Records) [Progressive Black Metal]
Listen to “Kadaverin”
Hell – Hell (Lower Your Head) [Sludge]
Incantation – Profane Nexus (Relapse Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Rites of the Locust,” “Messiah Nostrum”
Khmer – Larga sombra (WOOAAARGH) [Crust/Black Metal]
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Lör – In Forgotten Sleep (Independent) [Progressive Metal]
Listen to “Eidolon,” “In Forgotten Sleep”
Mirror Morionis – Our Bereavement Season (Endless Winter) [Gothic/Doom]
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Necrophobic – Pesta (Century Media Records) [Death Metal]
Nihility – Imprisoned Eternal (Rage) [Death Metal/Hardcore]
Listen to “Condemned to Exist,” “To Bleed for Conviction”
Nostoc – Ævum (Independent) [Progressive Death Metal]
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NYN – Entropy: Of Chaos and Salt (Independent) [Weird Tech Death]
Listen to “The Apory of Existence,” “The Hallway”
Φnality Blast – Sin Clear (Independent) [Power Metal]
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Pyrrhon – What Passes for Survival (Willowtip Records) [Sexy Metal]
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Shooting Guns – Flavour Country (RidingEasy Records) [Guyfiericore]
Listen to “French Safe,” “Flavour Country”
Sintoxicate – Hantu Tetek (Independent) [Thrash]
So Much for the Sun – So Much for the Sun (Independent) [Sludge]
Listen to “The Seventh Seal”
Subservience – Forest of the Impaled (Black Bow Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Beneath the Earth”
Svipdagr – To Torment the Men (War Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “To Torment the Men”
Venom Inc. – Avé (Nuclear Blast Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Avé Satanas”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
