This Toilet Tuesday (9/29/26)
Piss falls from the sky
The Bowl accepts thirstily
We are soggy now
This week, we’ve got an iniquitous impetus, icy diadems, and Quake II-core. What a sodden start to the season! As rain accumulates in the streets, so too do a deluge of metal releases to whet your whistles. From symphonic tech death to the very bottom of the viking metal drinking horn, there is something for every Dumpling lodged in the shoal below.
Dissimulator – Artifice Dissolves (20 Buck Spin) [Tech Deathrash]
It takes some serious tinkering to drag thrash out of its comfort zone (read: the ’80s) and make noise in the 21st century; if your band isn’t selling out casino shows, the options seem slim: you can stall; you can pizza. Or you can weird. In 2021, the quirky
Amok – Assault into Hell (Independent) [Thrash]
Amon Amarth – The Allfather Awakens (Metal Blade Records) [Melodeath / Folk Metal]
Anima – Percipio (Independent) [Death]
Asomvel – Set Your World on Fire (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Brymir – What We Leave Behind (Napalm Records) [Symphonic Melodeath]
Catalyst Crime – Acquired Immunity (Massacre Records) [Symphonic Groove Metal]
Clegane – Ocean of Black Thoughts (Independent) [Sludge / Doom]
Crystal Throne – Chantry of Sacrifice (Independent) [Prog/Power / Heavy Metal]
Cursed to Occult – I: Suffering in a Wonderful, Horrible Life (Crawling Chaos) [Sludge / Crust Punk]
Cyadine – Violence in Measure (Hardlore Records) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Deconsekrated – The Inexorable Transcendence of Death (Nuclear Winter Records) [Death]
Dethonator – The Last Realm of Magic (Independent) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Divine Bloodline – Wintertide (Independent) [Melodeath]
Divine Martyr – Fidem (Independent) [Symphonic Heavy Metal]
Dragonfly – Laberinto (Art Gates Records) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Dumal – The Trials of Existence (Independent) [Black]
Dystopica – The Worst in Me (Pavement Entertainment) [Metalcore / Alt Metal / Heavy Metal]
Einvigi – Latent (Independent) [Post-Black]
Eoront – Песни междумирья (Independent) [Black]
Eshtadur – In Darkness All Shadows Gone (Rockshots Records) [Melodeath]
Eternal – Conspiracy of Warheads (Floga Records) [Thrash]
Exsudation – Serosanguineous (Independent) [Goregrind / Slam / Brutal Death]
Firtan – Helios (AOP Records) [Black]
Frozen Crown – The Legend of the Six Kings (Napalm Records) [Symphonic Power / Heavy Metal]
Glyph – The Pendulum Swings Yet… (Independent) [Black]
GoreSkinCoffin – Echoes from the Crypt (Independent) [Blackened Deathgrind]
Hardiesse – Tristesse vespérale (Antiq Records) [Black / Folk Metal]
Hate Beast – Humanity Redacted (Independent) [Deathrash]
Haunt – Setting Course (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Hexer – A Black Flame in Cosmic Void (Crawling Chaos) [Sludge / Doom]
Immortal Dissolver – Rotting Ashes of Winter (Centipede Abyss) [Blackened Death/Doom]
Imperious Mortality – Abyss of Uncreation (New Standard Elite) [Brutal Death]
Intestinal Sodomy – Sculpting Demented Perversities (New Standard Elite) [Brutal Death]
Lèpoka – Rebelión animal (Calaverita Records) [Folk Metal]
Mana Diagram – Aether Cross (Avalon) [Power]
Methane – Demolate (Fireflash Records) [Groove Metal]
Miss May I – No Place for Me (Solid State Records) [Metalcore]
Morbid Stench – Doom Metastasis (Nuclear Winter Records) [Death/Doom]
Moton – Evil As Fvck (Sathanas Records) [Black]
Nihilus – Borealis (Independent) [Tech Death]
No Living Witness – Aeons of Disintegration (Independent) [Symphonic Tech Death]
Nonservant – Clairvoyance Through Pain (War Productions) [Black]
Orbital Soul System – Nightwing (Independent) [Prog Melodeath]
Origin’Hell – Reign of Infamy (Grave New World) [Deathrash]
Pterosaur – Webs We Weave (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Qethaladum – Legacy (Independent) [Blackened Gothic Metal]
Quad Machine – Future (Independent) [Groove Metal]
Rană – Freamăt (Independent) [Black / Crust Punk]
Razorvoid – Into the Void (Independent) [Thrash / Crust Punk]
Resurrect – Answer to Sickness (Bereave in God Records) [Death / Hardcore]
Saturniidae – Stoner Fucking Doom (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Servant – Lux Ex Inferis (AOP Records) [Black]
Sgàile – Onwards to Embrace the Echo (These Hands Melt) [Post-Metal / Prog Rock]
Sorcery – The Immaculate Sin (Xtreem Music) [Death]
Souls of Diotima – Arcade (Independent) [Prog Groove Metal]
Spere – Blotters in Saline Water (Independent) [Blackened Doom / Ambient]
Spirit Possession – Cathedral Speech (Profound Lore Records) [Black]
Stryga – Upon Stygian Wings (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black / Crust Punk]
Taste the Floor – Aimless Bound (Selvajaria Records) [Thrash / Hardcore Punk]
The Crawling – What We Leave Behind (GrindScene Records) [Death/Doom]
Thrash Course – From Wreckage (Independent) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Twintera – Zero (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Ungraceful – Silence Between Stars (Reality Fade Records) [Brutal Death]
Urisk – Call (Vendetta Records) [Atmoblack]
Vampiric Crypt – Bounded by None, Intertwined by Thee (Independent) [Black]
Ways to the Grave – Voyager (Independent) [Prog Death]
Wraithstorm – Revenant (Fiadh Productions) [Melodeath]
Xasthur – Open to Misinterpretation (Prophecy Productions) [Black / Neofolk]
Zornheym – Descending into Madness (Noble Demon) [Symphonic Melodeath]
