This Toilet Tuesday (9/27/16)
Welcome once again to This Toilet Tuesday! You all know the drill; there’s new music and lots of it, and we’re here to help you find the stuff that doesn’t suck. There’s a surprising amount of good material out this week, though, so W. and I have taken the liberty of selecting a few that might have flown under your radar otherwise. Take a listen to these jams and hit that list below.
Deathcult – Beasts of Faith (Invictus Productions) [Death Metal]
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Look, I know all of you are just frothing at the loins for new material from a certain death metal band whose name rhymes with Snack Mix (work with me), but if you need a break from your legendary death metal meal, might I suggest the wholly deranged offering from Switzerland’s Deathcult. This is old style death metal, with grungy riffs, crusty solos, and raspy barks, but this beast has a bit of mange. There’s just something off about this record, as if the people making it just aren’t quite right in the head, and that comes out when the rhythms and riffs get a bit seasick and start vomiting all over the standard OSDM song structure. It’s rad. Give it a spin. Then go back to Snack Mix. FFO: Possessed, Necrovore, Pestilence 9/26/16 (W.)
Impure Ziggurat – Serenades of Astral Malevolence (Magister Dixit) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Summoning Oort’s semen (Crawling into the serpents’ nest)”
Despite what a track name like “Summoning Oort’s semen (Crawling into the serpents’ nest)” would have you believe, this isn’t utterly filthy war metal or grimy, cavernous death metal. No, Impure Ziggurat play an oddly tight brand of blackened death with sewage-gargling growls bashing up against riotous, even victorious tremolo riffs while precision blasts batter and blister. I was expecting to get buried in 10 feet of excrement while jamming this, but instead I got my block knocked clean off with one devastating hammer blow. FFO: Svart Crown, Necroblood, Axis of Advance 9/30/16 (W.)
Doomed – Anna (Solitude Productions) [Death/Doom]
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I like to think I’ve got a stomach for the disturbing, but the newest from Doomed makes me want to crawl under the covers and hide. Anna is very off-putting, coupling dense doom metal with a variety of creepy soundscapes. It builds its chilling atmosphere with a twisted sense of beauty, emotive leads and the occasionally sung line slithering over the tense, choking undercurrents. Give this a listen if you don’t feel like sleeping tonight. 9/26/16 (Spear)
Abigorum/Cryostasium – Unholy Ghost Liturgy (collaboration- Satanath Records) [Electronic/Black Metal]
Listen to “Last Galaxy”
The Agonist – Five (Napalm Records) [Metalcore]
Listen to “The Chain”
Akris – Your Mantis (DGRecords) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Brown”
Alcest – Kodama (Prophecy Productions) [Post-Metal]
Listen to “Oiseaux de Proie”
Algos – Amongst Monoliths (Independent) [Melodeath/Doom]
Listen to “Blessed With Weakness,” “I Am Sin”
Altar of Oblivion – Barren Grounds (Shadow Kingdom Records) [Doom/Heavy Metal]
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Antalgia – Twisted Dreams of Dark Commander (M & O Records) [Symphonic Metal]
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Ars Veneficium – The Reign of the Infernal King (Immortal Frost Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Fallen to the Realm”
As Night Falls – Embrace the Journey (Independent) [Power Metal]
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Asphyx – Incoming Death (Century Media Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Incoming Death,” “Forerunners of the Apocalypse”
Badmotorfinger – Heroes (logic(il)logic Records) [Heavy Metal]
Italian Chad Kroeger?
Balance Interruption – Door 218 (Satanath Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Suicidealer”
Battle Dagorath – I – Dark Dragons of the Cosmos (Avantgarde Music) [Ambient Black Metal]
Black Capricorn/Weed Priest – Black Capricorn/Weed Priest (split- Dark Hedonistic Union Records) [Stoner Doom]
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The Black Swamp – I Am (Indepenent) [Southern/Sludge]
Listen to “Purge”
Brain Damaged – Nación infecta (Symbol of Domination) [Thrash]
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Burn Down Eden – Ruins of Oblivion (7hard Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Pandemonic Overture”
Clouds Taste Satanic – Dawn of the Satanic Age (Independent) [Instrumental Doom]
Listen to “Enthroned,” “We Die We Live”
Cryfemal – D6s6nti6rro (Osmose Productions) [Black Metal]
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DunSun – Exalted Breaths of Ritualistic Ceremonies (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Dysylumn – Chaos Primordial (Egregor Records) [Blackened Death Metal]
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Earthen Ritual – Earth Verses (Independent) [Doom]
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Eastern Front – Empire (Cacaphonous Records) [Black Metal]
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Eilera – Face Your Demons (Echozone) [Symphonic Rock]
Listen to “Your Way”
Epica – The Holographic Principle (Nuclear Blast Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “Universal Death Squad,” “Edge of the Blade”
Eternal Champion – The Armor of Ire (No Remorse Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “The Armore of Ire,” “I Am The Hammer”
Eufori – Humörsvängningar (Black Lion Records) [DSBM]
Listen to “Humörsvängningar”
Evenmore – Last Ride (Independent) [Power/Folk Metal]
Listen to “The Ride Begins”
Evil Invaders – In for the Kill (Napalm Records) [Speed Metal]
Listen to “Raising Hell”
Excuse – Goddess Injustice (Shadow Kingdom/Hells Headbangers) [Thrash]
Listen to “Obsessed… With The Collapse Of Civilization”
Freya – Grim (Fast Break! Records) [Metalcore]
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From the Vastland – Chamrosh (Immortal Frost Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Chamrosh,” “I & My Serpents”
Goatflesh – Pilgrimage to Icon of Sin (Independent) [Black Metal]
Grand Massive – III (Metalville Records) [Stoner Metal]
Listen to “Deliver Me”
Helroth – I, Pagan (Art of the Night Productions) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Wiedźma”
Holy Serpent – Temples (Riding Easy Records) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Purification By Fire,” “Toward The Sands”
Howling in the Fog – Evolve (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Sunburst”
Humiliation – Honourable Discharge (Brutal Art Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “A Single Ship Action”
Infatuation of Death – Code of Impiety (Defense Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Unblessed”
KZOHH – Trilogy: Burn Out the Remains (Ashen Dominion) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Panoukla DXLII”
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Y Proffwyd Dwyll (New Heavy Sounds) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Y Proffwyd Dwyll”
Mantra – Laniakea (Finisterian Dead End) [Progressive Metal]
Listen to “Pareidolia”
Motor Mammoth – Eye of the Mammoth (Independent) [Stoner Metal]
Nangilima – Shards of Loss (Xtreem Music) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “Shards of Loss”
Negură Bunget – Zi (Prophecy Productions) [Progressive/Folk Metal]
Listen to “Tul-ni-ca-rind”
Nocrul – Khorne (Independent) [Black Metal]
MAIM KILL BURN
Noctem – Haeresis (Prosthetic Records) [Black Metal]
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Not Above Evil – Always Darkest Before (Independent) [Melodeath]
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Nuclear Aggressor – Slow Dismemberment (Punishment 18 Records) [Thrash]
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Oathbreaker – Rheia (Deathwish, Inc.) [Black Metal/Hardcore]
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Odal – Geistes Unruh (Eisenwald Tonschmiede) [Black Metal]
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Opeth – Sorceress (Moderbolaget/Nuclear Blast) [Prog Rock]
Listen to “Sorceress,” “Will O The Wisp,” “The Wilde Flowers”
Orion Child – Into the Deepest Bane of Hope (Independent) [Power Metal]
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Pestkraft – Pest (Base Records) [Black Metal]
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Rosebad – Grietas del tiempo (Rock-CD Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “El Último Tren”
Sadistic – Surrounded by Evil (Hereje Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Surrounded by Evil”
Seax – Speed Metal Mania (Independent) [Speed Metal]
Listen to “Forged by Metal”
Seremonia – Pahuuden äänet (Svart Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Kuoleman planeetta”
Simulacro – Echi dall’abisso (Third I Rex) [Black Metal]
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Skálmöld – Vögguvísur Yggdrasils (Napalm Records) [Folk Metal]
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Skiltron – Legacy of Blood (TrollZorn Records) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Highland Blood,” “The Taste of Victory”
Stonehead – Inner Demons (Kick the Flame) [Stoner Metal]
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Suicidal Tendencies – World Gone Mad (Suicidal Records) [Crossover/Thrash]
Listen to “Clap Like Ozzy”
Them – Sweet Hollow (Sweet Hollow) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Dead of Night”
Unyielding Love – The Sweat of Augury (Sentient Ruin Productions) [Grindcore]
Listen to “Ardent Shroud,” “Of Human Grease and Ash”
Veilburner – The Obscene Rite (Independent) [Weird Death Metal]
Listen to “Eucharist of the Breathing Abyss”
Vhod – Ouija Board Wormhole (Vhodwerk) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Paroxysm Paradigm”
Winterfylleth – The Dark Hereafter (Spinefarm/Candlelight) [Plants ‘n Stuff]
For real this time
Zombie Hate Brigade – Rotting Recollections (Legion Productions) [Grindcore]
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
