This Toilet Tuesday (9/20/16)
Welcome once again to This Toilet Tuesday! The floodgates have opened as the equinox approaches, leaving a steaming heap of new music on my doorstep and leaving me to clean it all up. Thankfully, W. volunteered to help clean it all up, and we found some pretty cool stuff in the mess. Check those out below, then hit that list and see if there’s anything else that deserves to be washed up and put on display.
Okkultokrati – Raspberry Dawn (Southern Lord Recordings) [Black/Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “World Peace”
“World Peace” is the sound of a mescalin-fueled bar brawl in a dusty old town in the Wild West. The jangly, jaunty, crusty punk riffs strike and slither like rattlesnakes in boots while weird little drum accents and guitar licks volley across the bar like beer bottles and bloody fists. It’s violent, but it’s also fun in a weird, psychedelic way. FFO: That one The Chariot song, Darkthrone, Plague of Carcosa 9/23/16 (W.)
Carnophage – Monument (Unique Leader Records) [Tech Death]
Listen to “At the Backside of Our Civilisation”
We have been extremely spoiled with regards to tech death this year, and it looks like that trend is going to keep up. Carnophage plays not-quite-brutal death metal along the same lines as bands like Cognizance, but what they lack in novelty they make up for in ferocity. Monuments hits hard, but it does it with finesse. 9/23/16 (Spear)
Allegaeon – Proponent for Sentience (Metal Blade Records) [Tech Death]
Listen to “All Hail Science,” “Gray Matter Mechanics,” “Proponent For Sentience III – The Extermination”
Allegaeon has long been one of my favorite bands for their focus on melody over complexity, making them stand out amongst their peers. Proponent for Sentience picks up musically where Elements of the Infinite left off and adds the considerable talents of vocalist Riley McShane to the mix. The orchestral backing from Elements is still intact and better integrated than before, and the songwriting in general seems to have been stepped up. If you like your melodeath with a side of tech (or vice versa), then this is for you. 9/23/16 (Spear)
Alastria – Dream in Shadows (Independent) [Power Metal]
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Athos – Noht Lerapot (Symbol of Domination/Lupus Niger) [Black Metal]
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Aura/Xerión – Aura/Xerión (split- Nigra Mors) [Black Metal]
Preview
Bhavachakra – Bhavachakra (Translation Loss Records) [Dissonant Black Metal]
Listen to “Kali Yuga”
Review
Celestial Crown – Rebirth (Symbol of Domination) [Gothic Metal]
Listen to “Consumed By Fire”
Chamber of Malice – Crime City Slam (One Life Crew) [Slam, probably]
Listen to “Scum City”
Charred Walls of the Damned – Creatures Watching over the Dead (Metal Blade Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “The Soulless”
Children of Perdition – Children of Perdition (Independent) [lolbuttz]
Listen
Codex – El gran devorador (Independent) [Death Metal]
Preview
Darkwell – Moloch (Massacre Records) [Gothic Metal]
Listen to “Yoshiwara”
Disfinite – Godmode (Blackened Death Records) [Death Metal]
Dysentery/Shroud – Blissful Apathy (Unleash the Underground Records) [Slam/Grind]
Listen to “Echo Chamber” (Shroud)
Dysrhythmia – The Veil of Control (Profound Lore Records) [Instrumental Progressive Metal]
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Review
Eigengrau – Verse (Hammerkrieg Productions)
Eraserhead – Remnants of Decadence (BretHard Records) [Death Metal]
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Fatalist – The Bitter End (FDA Rekotz) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Bloodfest”
Fieberwahn – Ewige Nacht (BretHard Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Ewige Nacht,” “Inquisition”
Galmet – Unlimited World (Independent) [Melodeath]
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Grim Reaper – Walking in the Shadows (Dissonance Productions) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Walking In The Shadows”
Hailstone – Epitome (BretHard Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “The Shore”
Hryre – From Mortality to Infinity (Code666 Records) [Black Metal]
Insanity Alert – Moshburger (This Charming Man Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “The Times Are A-Thrashin'”
Insomnium – Winter’s Gate (Century Media Records) [Melodeath]
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Iron Mask – Diabolica (AFM Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “All For Metal”
Lectern – Precept of Delator (Via Nocturna) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Diptych of Perked Oblation”
Kayser – IV: Beyond the Reef of Sanity (Listenable Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Asphalt and Suicide,” “I Sold My Soul”
Komatsu – Recipe for Murder One (Argonauta Records) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “So, How’s About Billy?”
Kryptos – Burn Up the Night (AFM Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Full Throttle,” “One Shot to Kill”
Lost Hours – III (Independent) [Drone/Doom]
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Mental Apraxia – Against Human Manipulation (Coyote Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Neurosis – Fires Within Fires (Neurot Recordings) [Sludge/Post-Metal]
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Nothgard – The Sinner’s Sake (NoiseArt Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Shadow Play,” “Draining Veins”
Operation: Mindcrime – Resurrection (Frontiers Music) [Hot Garbage]
Listen to “Left For Dead”
Predatory Light – Predatory Light (Invictus Productions) [Black Metal]
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Profane Order – Marked by Malice (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Reapter – Cymatics (Revalve Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Repeat”
Religious Observance – Boiling Excrement (Independent) [Sludge/Noise]
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Rifle – ‘Til Death (Craneo Negro/Grotesque Sounds) [Speed Metal]
Listen to “Recoil” (NSFW)
Ruptured Birth – Transmutant (CDN Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Saprogenic”
Sahg – Memento Mori (Indie Recordings) [Doom]
Listen to “Sanctimony”
Sectasys – Brotherhood of Chaos (Satanath Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Brotherhood of Chaos”
Seven Sins – Due Diaboli et Apocalypse (Satanath/Murdherr) [Symphonic Blackened Death]
Listen to “Mors Atra”
SickMorgue – Surgical Mutation (Coyote Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Sin of God – Aenigmata (Satanath Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Phosphorus”
Skullwinx – The Relic (Metalizer Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Attila The Hun”
Sorcier des Glaces/Ende – Le puits des morts (split- Obscure Abhorrence/Dread) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Dans l’immensité blanche de la plaine” (SdG)
Soulwound – No Peace (Inverse Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Altars of Skin”
Stheno – Liberty Crawls in Waste (EveryDayHate) [Grindcore]
Listen
Swine Overlord – Entheogenesis (Gore House Productions) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “A Delusion’s Paradise”
Symphonity – King of Persia (Limb Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “The Choice”
Torrid Husk/End – Swallow Matewan (split- Grimoire Records) [Black Metal]
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Trap Them – Crown Feral (Prosthetic Records) [Grindcore]
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Uroboros – धर्मपरिणाम (Zann’s Music) [Post-Metal]
Listen to “Silencio,” “Calma”
Usurpress – The Regal Tribe (Agonia Records) [Death Metal]
Listen
Veonity – Into the Void (Sliptrick Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “In The Void”
Vociferatus – Mortenkult (Eternal Hatred Records) [Death Metal]
Preview
Witchhelm – Dead Nights of the Moon Fear (Wyrmwood Records) [Stoner Doom]
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Wolf Counsel – Ironclad (Czar of Crickets Productions) [Doom]
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Worthless – A Portrait of Mankind (Independent) [Black Metal]
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
