This Toilet Tuesday (9/30/14)
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the concept of kaiten-zushi, if not necessarily the term. It’s a type of sushi restaurant where you sit at a table next to a conveyor belt that sends around small plates of sushi, and you can grab whatever you want from it. You always eat about twenty plates, spending way too much money and too many hours on the toilet, holding your stomach in pain as guilt becomes regret. Now imagine this experience without the regret: the sushi is top-class, it’s relatively inexpensive, and you get to just stick your mouth at the end of the belt without having to go to the trouble of grabbing plates. You expect the usual raging bowel rejection, but it never comes. The stars align in the sky and you drop the perfect deuce. It’s so good you feel like you need a cigarette when you’re done. It’s a clean wipe. You stand up to flush, but can only gaze in wonder and awe at this Golden Child of food babies you have just birthed. As a pale light shines from the sky and you watch your beautiful creation ascend to the heavens, you know that everything is going to be better from now on. This week is like that perfect shit; there’s a ton of new music, it’s almost all good, and it marks the beginning of at least a few weeks of excellent releases. Plus, we get to welcome Stockhausen and Leif Bearikson to the TTT crew! So without further ado, here’s the metal. -Spear
Necroholocaust – Holocaustic Goat Metal (Iron Bonehead) [Holocaustic Goat Metal]
After almost a decade of demos and splits, Canada’s most unholy purveyors of Goat Metal are finally releasing their first full length. What is goat metal you ask? Fuck if I know, but it sounds blackened, filthy and like it’s ready to crucify your ears. Stream “Sadomasochrist” and follow the path of the goat. (Leif Bearikson)
Fuck the Facts – Abandoned (Noise Salvation) [Grindcore/Experimental]
I’m only roughly 15 years late to the Fuck the Facts party, but better late than murdered on the way there as they say. The band’s new EP, Abandoned, is 3 tracks utterly crushing chaos that will leave you utterly faceless. Stream the EP over at Exclaim while I try to get caught up on all of this fact fucking. (Leif Bearikson)
Die Choking – II (Independent) [Grindcore]
You should be aware that I like grind. Blasting, furious, brutal grind is better than most things at getting me pumped (with the exception of coffee and Manowar). I also appreciate the fact that a lot of grind is totally lacking in pretense. If you love grind, you should totally know what to expect when you press play on “Non-Yielder” by Die Choking. This is bone-breaking, bludgeoning, and brisk brutality. I wouldn’t have it any other way. (W.)
Ritual of Flesh – Splatter Grind Abortion (Rotten Roll Rex) [Goregrind]
It’s interesting listening to this track after the one by Die Choking. This is equally brutal and guttural, but there’s more a slam influence than in “Non-Yielder.” Ritual of Flesh give “Cocain Drift” a bit more room to breathe and batter, and as a result are able to inject a little more sonic diversity into their grindy concoction. Both songs are great, but if you’re a fan of “bree brees” and trash-can snares, this one may be more your speed. (W.)
Black Crown Initiate – The Wreckage of Stars (eOne Heavy) [Progressive Death Metal]
Listen to “The Great Mistake,” “Withering Waves”
Long ago, two giant landmasses named Good Songwriting and Progressive Sensibilities drifted together through Death Metal Ocean, and they collided with great force. A mountain range formed, and at the highest peak, this album awaits. Climb, stranger, and bask in what greets you there. (Stockhausen)
Temple of Void – Of Terror and the Supernatural (Naturmacht) [Blackened Death]
This debut album from doomy death metallers Temple of Void seems very promising. Monstrous vocals churn like a dark cloud over steady, yet captivating riffs that don’t overstay their welcome. The pacing of these tunes is spot on for those who like a doomy feel, but not falling asleep because of an album. (Stockhausen)
1349 – Massive Cauldron of Chaos (Season of Mist) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Cauldron”
Aghast! – All The Rage (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “All The Rage”
Alberto Rigoni – Overloaded (Nightmare Records/Lion Music) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Corruption”
Alexanred – Always Active (Inverse Records) [Industrial]
Alunah – Awakening the Forest (Napalm) [Doom]
Listen to “Heavy Bough”
Amplifier – Mystoria (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Stream
Ancestral Legacy – Terminal (Whispering Voice) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Lethe Part 1”
Ars Veneficium – The Abyss (Immortal Frost) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Abyss”
As Light Dies – The Love Album Vol I (MAA Productions) [Black Metal]
Stream
As We Draw – Mirages (physical release- Throatruiner) [Post-Metal/Hardcore]
Stream
Atkins May Project – Empire of Destruction (Gonzo Multimedia) [Heavy Metal]
Preview
Audrey Horne – Pure Heavy (Napalm) [Heavy Metal]
Stream. Ugh.
Aversion to Mankind – Between Scylla and Charybdis (Independent) [Black Metal]
Bahal – Shahat (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “La Città Silenziosa”
Black Autumn – Losing The Sun (Naturmacht) [Black Metal]
Listen to “St. Elm’s Fire”
Blast Off – World of Lies (Suspiria Records) [Thrash]
Preview
Bulletbelt – Rise of the Banshee (Headless Horseman) [Black Thrash]
Stream
Capsize – The Angst in My Veins (Equal Vision Records) [Hardcore]
Stream
Come the Dawn – Light of the World (Sumerian) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Worlds Collide (As it Ends Tonight)”
Deimos – Beyond (Revalve Records) [Heavy/Power Metal]
Listen to “Alive”
Destroying Divinity – Hollow Dominion (Lavadome) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Burning Divine Domination”
Drakkar – Once Upon a Time… in Hell! (Spinal Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Lost”
Edgeflame – Load Another Bullet (Chopper Production) [Thrash]
Preview
Electric Wizard – Time to Die (Spinefarm) [Stoner Doom]
Stream
Enchant – The Great Divide (Inside Out) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Within An Inch”
Excel – Split Image (reissue- Southern Lord) [Crossover Thrash]
Stream
Execration – Morbid Dimensions (Hell’s Headbangers) [Progressive Death Metal]
Listen to “Morbid Dimensions”
Falls of Rauros – Believe in No Coming Shore (Bindrune) [Folk/Black Metal]
Stream
Great Vast Forest – The Years of Cold Winter and Darkness (Independent) [Black Metal]
Guineapig – Bacteria (Rotten Roll Rex) [Goregrind]
Listen to “Project Sunshine”
Household – With or Without (Blood & Ink) [Hardcore]
Listen to “Purpose”
Howling – Tear the Screams from Your Throat (Razorback) [Black Thrash]
Stream
Igzordium – IV (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Beyond the Ishtar Gate”
Internal Bleeding – Imperium (Unique Leader) [Slam Jamz]
Listen to “The Pageantry of Savagery”
Khold – Til Endes (Peaceville) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Til Endes”
Kneel Before None – Carnal Disfigurement (Independent) [Deathcore]
Preview
Kreyskull – Tower Witch (Inverse Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Man Who Lived Before”
Laika – Somnia (Filth Regime) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Escalation of Terror,” “The Immortal”
The Matador – Death Country (Independent) [Hardcore]
Listen to “Death Country”
Memest – Bastards and Liars (Discos Macarras) [Doom]
Listen to “Bastards and Liars”
Moanaa – Descent (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Repulsive,” “Away”
Morlich – Tempest (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Decay”
Mothwind – In the Clutches of the Novae (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Sunbender”
Nadiwrath/Preteen Deathfuk – Throne of Desecration (Hidden Marly) [Punk/Black Metal]
Listen to “Pathetic Human Stains,” “Prisoners of Flesh”
Nebrus – Blackera (Independent) [Black Metal]
Preview
Nightbringer – Ego Dominus Tuus (Season of Mist) [Black Metal]
Stream
Nocturnal Sacrifice – Igne In Tenebris (Cold Raw Records) [Black Metal]
Stream
Northern Oak – Of Roots and Flesh (Independent) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Marston Moor,” “Gaia”
Ocram – Praeludium (CD release- Independent) [Black Metal]
Preview
Overcharge – Accelerate (Unspeakable Axe) [D-Beat]
Stream
Plateau Sigma – The True Shape of Eskatos (Beyond…) [Funeral Doom]
Listen to “Satyriasis and The Autumn Ends”
Pray for Mercy – In Absentia (Eternal Hatred) [Deathcore]
Listen to Anexo III: Invocação
Seduced – The Proclamation (Independent) [Death Metal]
Stream
Sempiternal Dusk – Sempiternal Dusk (physical release- Dark Descent) [Death/Doom]
Stream
Sick Of It All – The Last Act of Defiance (Century Media) [Hardcore]
Listen to “Road Less Travelled”
Silent Knight – Luna Momento (Independent) [Black Metal]
Silent Wood – III – Autumn’s Light (Independent) [Atmospheric Black/Doom]
The Stone – Nekroza (Folter Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Nekroza”
Threshold – For the Journey (Nuclear Blast) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Watchtower on the Moon”
Voice of the Soul – Catacombs (Independent) [Death Metal]
Stream
Vorde – Vorde (Fallen Empire) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Hatewave,” “Transformation of the Vessel”
Warmen – First of the Five Elements (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “The Race”
Whisper of Death – Noise of Obstinacy (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Desossage”
White Empress – Rise of the Empress (Peaceville) [Extreme Symphonic Metal]
Listen to “Darkness Encroaching”
Witch Mountain – Mobile of Angels (Profound Lore) [Doom]
Stream
Woodtemple – Forgotten Pride (Sacrilege) [Pagan/Folk Metal]
Listen to “Forgotten Pride”
Wraiths – Hollow (Ghost Music/Artery) [Deathcore]
Listen
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
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