This Toilet Tuesday (9/24/24)
O Great Toilet, we lift our lids to you. Through your putrid plumbing, all stinks are possible. This week we’ve got snake recall, good boi death/doom, and too many Harry Potter references. The fecal foliage falls in a flurry, and the water is more murky than usual. Dive in at your own risk, and tell us what we missed in the comments!
Distant Dominion – Ripping Through Time (Fetzner Death Records) [Blackthrash / Death / Heavy Metal]
Ripping Through Time delivers on the promise of its name, tracing the evolution of metal from blues rock through today’s mutated mass of subgenres. From the title track’s Death worship and manic, mid-range growls (reminiscent of Jeff Walker) to the NWoBHM swagger at the heart of “We’ve Come For Your Souls,” no style is safe from assimilation. The overall impression is of a rickety wooden rollercoaster, throwing bolts with every passing car, harvesting joy and adrenaline from its passengers. Sure, if you pay close attention, the pieces could be soldered with more finesse, but the feeling that everything could collapse in a heartbeat is half the fun. Distant Dominion isn’t here to reinvent the speed metal wheel—they’re far too busy rending the fabric of space-time for our benefit. -Roldy
Abhorration – Demonolatry (Invictus Productions) [Death]
Abraded – Ethereal Emanations from Cthonic Caries (F.D.A. Records) [Deathgrind]
Adorior – Bleed on My Teeth (Dark Descent Records) [Blackened Death]
Amethyst – Throw Down the Gauntlet (No Remorse Records) [Heavy Metal]
Antioch – Antioch VII: Gates of Obliteration (Iron Shield Records) [Speed / Heavy Metal]
Arawn – Kapitola III (Smile Music) [Melodeath]
Are We Lost? – Heredity (M.U.S.I.C. Records) [Prog Metal]
Ars Veneficium – The Lurking Shadow of Death (Immortal Frost Productions) [Black]
Autumn Bride – Bedtime Stories (Independent) [Gothic Metal]
BalashToth – = Equation = (Independent) [Death]
Battlesword – (XX)V – Of Tales and Tragedies (Independent) [Melodeath]
Bewitcher – Spell Shock (Century Media Records) [Blackened Speed]
Blue Heron – Everything Fades (Blues Funeral Recordings) [Stoner Doom / Sludge]
Bottomless/Witching Altar – Graveyard Thunder (Dying Victims Productions) [Doom]
Breakdown – Divide and Konquer (Independent) [Deathrash]
Children of Nothing – Død og Oppblåst (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Convictive – Rastlos (Independent) [Melodeath]
Crypt of Reason – Stargazer (Independent) [Prog Death/Doom / Post-Metal]
Dead Sacraments – The Pale Temple and Others (Independent) [Doom]
Deceitome – S/T (Raw Skull Recordz) [Death]
Djuasa – Skälmit (Realm and Ritual) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Emasculator – The Disfigured and the Divine (New Standard Elite) [Brutal Death]
Emrei’s – Beatrice Reborn (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
Endonomos – Endonomos II – Enlightenment (Argonauta Records) [Death/Doom]
Epic Down – Days of Oblivion (Argonauta Records) [Doom]
Forsaken Rite – The Forgotten West (Independent) [Melodeath / Folk Metal]
Fâché – Violent au volant (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) [Grindcore]
Galneryus – The Stars Will Light the Way (Warner Music Japan) [Neoclassical Power]
Grava – The Great White Nothing (Aesthetic Death) [Blackened Sludge]
Grimgotts – The Time of the Wolfrider (Elevate Records) [Symphonic Power]
Grimmoon – Despairing View of Life (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Hagalas – Mentes Reae (Inverse Records) [Melodeath]
Hatskrømt – Nekromanisk (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Hellish God – The Advent of Deathless Chaos Beast (Dusktone) [Death]
Infirmum – From the Depths I Cried (Independent) [Death/Doom / Gothic Metal]
Ingurgitating Oblivion – Ontology of Nought (Willowtip Records) [Tech Death / Avant-Garde Metal]
Internal Decay – Malformation of Flesh (Independent) [Death]
Invernoir – Aimin’ for Oblivion (Aural Music) [Death/Doom / Gothic Metal]
Iron Echo – Forged in Fire (Independent) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Jaded Heart – Intuition (Massacre Records) [Heavy Metal]
K.Y.M.I. – Liha (Inverse Records) [Deathgrind]
Keitzer – Pandemonium Humanitas (F.D.A. Records) [Death]
Kotiteollisuus – Susirajalla (Johanna Kustannus) [Heavy Metal / Hard Rock]
Leviathan – Stories of Imperceptible Light (Arkeyn Steel Records) [Prog/Power]
Marche Funèbre – After the Storm (Ardua Music) [Death/Doom]
Midnight Force – Severan (Dying Victims Productions) [Trad Metal]
Munarheim – Heimkehr (Independent) [Symphonic Melodeath / Folk Metal]
Mysterivm Xarxes/Verhinderer – Split (Menschenfeind Propaganda) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Naisian – Melting Man (Independent) [Post-Metal / Sludge]
No Gods – Counterfeit//Noose Wound (Heavy and Fast Records & Distro) [Grindcore]
Objet – Objet (Independent) [Prog Metal / Hard Rock]
Oceans – Happy (Nuclear Blast) [Deathcore / Nu Metal]
Odium Humani Generis – Międzyczas (Malignant Voices) [Black]
Ophidian Memory – Carrion Lord (Independent) [Death]
Pissdeads – Грязь (Independent) [Noisecore]
Psychlona – Warped Vision (Magnetic Eye Records) [Stoner Metal / Rock]
Release the River – Virtues of the Vile (Independent) [Melodic Blackened Death / Metalcore]
Ripped to Shreds – Sanshi (Relapse Records) [Death]
Saber Tiger – Eliminated (Walküre Records) [Prog/Power]
Sathanas – Into the Nocturne (Moribund Records) [Blackened Death]
Scab Hag – Mutilated Mutations (Independent) [Death]
Serious Black – Rise of Akhenaton (AFM Records) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Sif – Aegis of the Hollowed King (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Sinner’s Blood – Dark Horizons (Frontiers Records) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Siren Oath – Loveless (Independent) [Post-Black / Alt Metal]
Soulride – Murder Act (Szataniec) [Thrash / Groove Metal]
Spite – The Third Temple (Invictus Productions) [Black]
Splattervision – SplatterVision (Independent) [Death]
Swamp Coffin – Drowning Glory (APF Records) [Sludge / Doom]
The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude (Metal Blade Records) [Melodeath]
The Flight of Sleipnir – Nature’s Cadence (Eisenwald) [Doom / Folk Metal]
The Healing Process – Themes and Variations (Independent) [Thrash]
Torrefy – Necronomisongs (Independent) [Blackthrash]
Triskelyon – Shattered Elysium (Moribund Records) [Thrash]
Turbokill – Champion (Steamhammer) [Heavy Metal]
Ultra Vomit – Ultra Vomit et le pouvoir de la puissance (Verycords) [Alt Metal]
Vicious Blade – Relentless Force (Redefining Darkness Records) [Blackthrash]
Warlock A.D. – Book II: The Valley of Vâgené (Rockshots Records) [Symphonic Power]
Warlust – Sol Invictus in Umbrae Satanae (Dying Victims Productions) [Blackthrash]
Хрен – Сказка о потерянном времени (Independent) [Melodeath / Folk Metal]