This Toilet Tuesday (9/13/16)
Greetings, and welcome once again to This Toilet Tuesday! I have returned from my poser-slaying sojourn, still sticky with sweat and body oil, to deliver the newest offerings from the metal world unto you. And what offerings they are! There’s a lot to be had here; we’ve picked out a few of the best, but if none of those tickles your fancy, there’s a lot more in the list below. Get at it and share your own picks!
Gatekrashör – Revenge at Midnight (Independent) [Speed Metal]
Listen to “Axecution Guaranteed”
Hail, true warriors and enemies of the false! Do you like riffs and wish you were stuck in a time portal that kept you infinitely cycling through the year 1984, when metalheads were noble and slew posers left and right, leaving their rotting corpses to pile in the alleys of Los Angeles? Then Gatekrashör is the wizard you seek. The speedy riffs, booze-soaked vocals, and pointless umlaut guarantee a good time. You’re headbanging. FFO: Angel Sword, Night Demon, Flotsam and Jetsam 9/17/16 (W.)
Aephanemer – Memento Mori (Primeval Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Unstoppable,” “The Call of the Wild”
With their upcoming second album, the French melodic death metal project Aephanemer is thriving to experiment a little bit with their tried formula. Sweet melodies are now welcoming some harsh singing, remembering the mid-melodeath moments that recall the monochromatic vocals from the Angela Gossow-era of Arch Enemy, or the Dutch band Izegrim. The evolving (and sometimes distracting) synths and keys are still on the road, but the bright riffing is sharper and clearer, compared to their debut Know Thyself. This could probably be more enjoyable than their first album, and I will definitely check it out based on these new elements showed in the two songs displayed. 9/16/16 (Link)
KYPCK – Зеро (Ranka Kustannus) [Doom]
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KYPCK is back with their fourth full-length, continuing their Russian-sung, depressed, doomed-out crusade. More groovy and less melodic than is the standard fare for bands of this kind, KYPCK sticks out like a sore thumb – fully intentionally. FFO: Kauan, Sentenced, Solstafir 9/16/16 (Karhu)
Warfather – The Grey Eminence (Greyhaze Records) [Death Metal]
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Just in case you weren’t already swamped with a massive backlog of this year’s death metal, here’s a new Warfather album to add to the pile. This is the definition of meat-and-potatoes death metal, but it’s hard to fault it when that meat is a perfect ribeye steak and the potatoes are loaded to bursting. Guitarist/vocalist Steve Tucker (you may have heard of him) continues to write lyrics as heavy as the mighty riffs, but they’re really just icing on an already delicious cake. Er, sauce on a steak. Food metaphor. 9/16/16 (Spear)
Abysmal Growls of Despair – Worst Putrid Tongue (Symbol of Domination) [Funeral Doom]
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Aeonless – Aeonless (Symbol of Domination) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “Pako (Breakout)”
Airbourne – Breakin’ Outta Hell (Spinefarm Records) [Definitely Not AC/DC]
Listen to “Breakin’ Outta Hell”
Ancient – Back to the Land of the Dead (Soulseller Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Land of the Dead,” “Death Will Die”
Ancillotti – Strike Back (Pure Steel Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Fight”
Anomalistic – Human Decimation (Reality Fade Records) [Toilet Sounds]
No, really, those snare rolls
Arx Atrata – Spiritus in Terra (Independent) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
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A|symmetry – Fragility (Independent) [Power Prog]
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Athorn – Necropolis (Dr. Music Records) [Melodeath, kinda]
Listen to “Another Day In Hell”
Barishi – Blood from the Lion’s Mouth (Season of Mist) [Post-Death Metal?]
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Велиар – Сквозь века (Symbol of Domination/The Ritual) [Symphonic Death Metal]
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Beyond Our Galaxy/Erase – Necrology/Easy Riders (split- Alone Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Easy Riders” (Erase)
Brujeria – Pocho Aztlan (Nuclear Blast Records) [Deathgrind]
Listen to “No Aceptan Imitaciones”
Cage of Creation – Into Nowhere (Devoted Art Propaganda) [Progressive Black Metal]
Listen to “IV,” “VI”
Cara Neir/Wildspeaker – Guilt and His Reflection (split- Broken Limbs Recordings) [Post-Black/Grind/Sludge]
Listen to “The View Through This Fog” (CN), “First Taste of Flesh” (Wildspeaker)
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Cerebral Fix – Disaster of Reality (Xtreem Music) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “Crucified World,” “Never Say Never Again”
Chariots of the Gods – Ages Unsung (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Into Oblivion”
Confusion Master – Witch Pollution (WIFAGENA Records) [Doom]
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Cult of Fire – Life, Sex and Death (Beyond Eyes) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Death”
Dead End – Reborn from the Ancient Grave (Vic Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Nails of the Martyr”
De Sad – Генератор запрещённых наслаждений (More Hate/Dark Front/Grotesque) [Death/Thrash]
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Devenial Verdict – Soulthirst (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Drudkh/Grift – Betrayed by the Sun/Hägringar (Season of Mist/Nordvis) [Black Metal]
Stream (Drudkh)
Listen to “Källan” (Grift)
Finsterforst – #YØLØ (Napalm Records) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Auf Die Zwölf”
Funeral Storm/Celestial Rite – Funeral Rite (split- Iron Bonehead) [Black Metal]
Heaven Shall Burn – Wanderer (Century Media Records) [Metalcore]
Listen to “Downshifter”
Hellgoat – Eden in Flames (Boris Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Inner Sanctum Ablaze”
High Spirits – Motivator (Professor Black) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Take Me Home”
Inanimate Existence – Calling from a Dream (Unique Leader Records) [Progressive/Tech Death]
Listen to “Calling From a Dream,” “Pulse of the Mountain’s Heart”
In Obscurity Revealed – Grim Fumes of Revelation (Blood Harvest Records) [Blackened Death Metal]
Listen to “Varcolaci”
In the Woods… – Pure (Debemur Morti Productions) [Progressive Metal]
Listen
Iron Fire – Among the Dead (Crime Records) [Power/Thrash]
Listen to “Tornado of Sickness”
Itnuveth – Enchantments (Base Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Escape”
Johansson & Speckmann – Edge of the Abyss (Soulseller Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Perpetuate the Lie”
Lair – Icons of the Impure (Ledo Takas Records) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Black Maelstrom”
Lordi – Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy) (AFM Records) [The Culmination of Human Atrocity]
Video Breakdown
Mammoth – High Friends in Low Places (Independent) [Stoner Metal]
Listen to “Rise River,” “Upon the Gilded Glass”
Mare Cognitum – Luminiferous Aether (I, Voidhanger) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
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Mares of Diomedes/Dreich – Mares of Diomedes/Dreich (split- Heavy Earth Records) [Doom/Sludge]
Stream (MoD)
Listen to “Blood Mortar” (Dreich)
Moanaa – Passage (Arachnophobia Records) [Post-Metal]
Listen
Morbidly Depraved – Incendiary (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “King of Kings”
Morbosatan – The Last Sacrifice (Blood Harvest Records) [Blackened Death Metal]
Listen to “La Bestia Apocalìptica”
Narnia – Narnia (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Messengers”
Negative Thought Process – Methylene Butterfly (Hibernacula Records) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Masocutter”
Nukem – The Unholy Trinity (Sleaszy Rider Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Evelyn’s Awakening”
Obscure Sphinx – Epitaphs (Independent) [Sludge/Post-Metal]
Listen to “Nothing Left”
qip – Ephemeral Substrates (Arachnophobia Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “This place is a tomb”
Re-Armed – The Era of Precarity (Saarni Records) [Death/Thrash]
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Reabilitator – Social Programming (Metal Race) [Thrash]
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Rednote – Born Days In Continuum Part 1: Unity (Independent) [Nu Metal]
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Sauron – Wara! (Witching Hour Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Pergrubia (chwała obrońcom prawiary)”
Schandmaul – Leuchtfeuer (We Love Music) [Folk Metal]
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Sea of Bones/Ramlord – Sea of Bones/Ramlord (split- Broken Limbs Recordings) [Sludge/Doom/Black Metal]
Serpent Ascending – Aṇaṅku (I, Voidhanger) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Entrance”
Serpent Crown – Incantations of Vengeance (Independent) [Thrash]
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Shokran – Exodus (Independent) [Prog/Djent]
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State of Mine – Devil In Disguise (Independent) [Butt Metal]
Listen to “Curtain Call”
Sumerlands – Sumerlands (Relapse Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Seventh Seal,” “The Guardian”
Taiga – Sky (Symbol of Domination/United By Chaos) [DSBM]
Listen to “Небо ещё не погибло”
Temperance – The Earth Embraces Us All (Scarlet Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Revolution”
Theropoda – Psychonautic Chaos (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Ismael”
Thy Catafalque – Meta (Season of Mist) [Progressive Metal]
Listen to “Mezolit,” “Sirály”
Vimur – Exegesis (Boris Records) [Black Metal]
Virvum – Illuminance (Independent) [Progressive/Tech Death]
Listen to “Illuminance,” “Ad Rigorem,” “Tentacles of the Sun”
Witchunter – Back on the Hunt (Blasphemous Art Productions) [Speed Metal]
Listen to “Nightmare”
World Controller – Apocalypse (Blackened Death Records) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “Epsilon Minus”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
