This Toilet Tuesday (9/14/21)
Another Tuesday, another day I have unfortunately woken up and not simply disintegrated in my sleep. But hey, at least it’s a good week for death metal with gross dudes on the cover art, so that makes it all worth it. If nasty faces with riffs at nastiness parity aren’t your thing, that’s okay; there’s plenty of other stuff coming out too. Check out the bands Karhu and I picked and let us know what else you’re jamming this week.
Dalisay – Ang Trahedya ng Dalisay at Ketungin (Surrogate/Screaming Skull Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Karnal,” “Ang Trahedya ng Dalisay at Ketungin”
OSDM that actually sounds old-school. I’m not one to complain about such things, but it’s impossible to deny that Dalisay has a firm grasp on that late 80’s/early 90’s sound, enough that I probably could have been convinced this came out around the same time as Scream Bloody Gore or Altars of Madness had I not already known it was out this week. It’s death metal with a thrashy, “oops we made prog because our understanding of songwriting is much more tenuous than our ability to riff” thing going on, and it’s pretty sweet. 9/15/21 (Spear)
Infestment – Evulsion of Mortal Birth (Maggot Stomp) [Death Metal]
Listen to “No Human Grace”
Death metal with that desirably rotten sound. Death metal with guitars playing in harmony, but out of unison. Riffs that sound like they were cut off at the tail and edited together in a rush, leaving the bit where they loop off. And of course, indecipherable low gurgles for vocals. Or vokills as the band probably calls them. Sometimes it’s worth the while to remind yourself that Maggot Stomp sometimes releases good shit also. Infestment won’t live in your skull forever, or make your EOTY list, come season, but they’re that good shit also. 9/17/21 (Karhu)
Occulsed – Crepitation of Phlegethon (Everlasting Spew) [Death Metal]
Listen
If, on the other hand, you’d prefer your death metal all about those short, fast-to-mid paced tracks that’ll change tempo or feel out of the blue and wield sharp tremolo riffs, endless descending grooves and the idea of USDM circa early 90’s as a weapon, it is to your figurative left that you must look to find that which you will like very much indeed. For Occulsed, the latest brainchild of veterans from all too many bands, including, but not limited to, Father Befouled and Encoffination. 9/17/21 (Karhu)
.357 Homicide – Executed on Site (Vile Tapes Records) [Slam]
Listen to “Severe Latrogenesis”
Ancient Empire – Priest of Stygia (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Priest of Stygia”
Anomaly – Planet Storm (Independent) [Techy Melodeath]
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Aphrenety – Wolves of Areal (Kernkraftritter Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Favilla”
Apostolica – Haeretica Ecclesia (Scarlet Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “No More Place In Hell”
Architect of Pain – Endless River of Blood (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Mars Ultor,” “Evil Fate”
Argesh – Excommunica (Nero Corvino) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Source of Miracles”
The Ascended – The Dark (Independent) [Metalcore]
Listen to “The Dark”
Asterism – Guernica + a (Amuse Inc.) [Instrumental Shred]
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As the Sun Falls – Last Days of Light (Independent) [Melodeath]
Blazon Stone – Damnation (Stormspell Records) [Power/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Raiders of Jolly Roger”
Bloodride – Idiocracy (Great Dane Records) [Thrash]
Listen
Brainstorm – Wall of Skulls (AFM Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Glory Disappears,” “Where Ravens Fly”
Carcass – Torn Arteries (Nuclear Blast) [Melodeath]
Listen
Cogas – Unconscious Sons of the Reptile God (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen
Criminal – Sacrificio (Metal Blade) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “Zona de Sacrificio,” “Live On Your Knees”
Cyclothymic – Demo MMXI (Ainhard Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Dickless Tracy – Grave New World (Monsterbilly Records) [Deathgrind]
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Eternal Flight – SurVive (Metalapolis Records) [Power Metal]
Existentia – Calculating Failure (Independent) [Tech Death]
Listen to “Calculating Failure”
Exxperior – Escalating Conflicts (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “A.A.A”
Filtheater – Obfuscated (Vargheist Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Fog”
Forebode – The Pit of Suffering (Independent) [Stoner Doom/Sludge]
Listen to “Metal Slug”
Ghostheart Nebula – Ascension (Black Lion Records) [Funeral Doom]
Listen
Gravedäncer – Unholy Bond (Hellprod Records) [Black/Speed Metal]
Listen
Grillfeast – Part 2: Next in Line (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen (NSFW)
Heirs of Isildur – Heirs of Isildur vs Tales from Nocturnia (Independent) [Not LotR Metal, Surprisingly]
Listen
Insomnium – Argent Moon (Century Media Records) [Mellowdeath]
Listen to “The Antagonist,” “The Conjurer”
Invictra – Of Flesh, Steel, and Stone (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Scrape”
Joe Stump – Diabolical Ferocity (Lion Music) [Instrumental Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Burn It Down”
Knowledge Through Suffering – Knowledge Through Suffering (Brucia Records) [Sludge/Death Doom]
Listen to “God Alone Was Exalted on That Day”
Livløst – Symphony of Flies (Dusktone) [Black Metal]
Listen
Metalsteel – Forsaken by the Gods (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Fallen Brother”
Onryo Over October – These Wounds Are My Cathedral (BMC Productions) [Meloblack/Doom]
Listen
Oversense – Egomania (Dr. Music Records) [Whatever Kamelot Is]
Listen to “The Longing,” “Be”
Pervertor – Putrid Dominion (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Rage – Resurrection Day (Steamhammer) [Heavy/Power Metal]
Listen to “Monetary Gods”
Send More Paramedics – The Final Feast (Independent) [Thrash/Hardcore]
Shadecrown – Solitarian (Inverse Records) [Melodeath/Doom]
Listen
Sick Morgue – Festering in a Cesspool of Human Flesh (Coyote Records) [Slam]
Listen to “Festering in a Cesspool of Human Flesh”
Tales of the Old – Book of Chaos (Pride & Joy Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Beware”
Tardus Mortem – Armageddon (Emanzipation Productions) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Condemned to the Halls of Infernal Sin”
Trigger – Back to the Roots (Coyote Records) [Death Metal]
Preview
Vulvodynia – Praenuntius Infiniti (Unique Leader) [Brutal Tech Death]
Listen
Whyzdom – Of Wonders and Wars (Scarlet Records) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Notre Dame”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
