This Toilet Tuesday (9/5/17)
Welcome once more to This Toilet Tuesday! This week’s offering is a bit on the compact side, but it’ll make for a nice break before September opens the floodgates and drowns us in new music. Hans and I have picked out a couple of the highlights for your enjoyment, but there are a couple more solid jams in the list below.
Mausoleum Gate – Into a Dark Divinity (Cruz del Sur Music) [Rock/Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Solomon’s Key”
If “Solomon’s Key” is any indication, Mausoleum Gate’s new effort will make their debut sound downright forward-thinking. A catchy, mournful melody comprised of the Hammond organ (which will apparently be much more prominent on this record) and guitars that have not so much as been kissed by distortion whisk you away into a realm of Blue Oyster Cult-ish proto-metal. Then the two make way for a verse that feels like stepping into a clearing in an ominous forest where some dude in a robe bids you welcome. Despite the warm sound and lacking anything close to today’s conception of heaviness, this still comes off foreboding and somewhat dark. It feels like something the older son from F Is For Family would be into. 9/8/17 (Hans)
Helpless – Debt (Holy Roar Records) [Grind/Sludge]
Listen to “Ceremony Of Innocence”
Helpless put out a rad little EP a couple years ago, driven by hideous discordant riffing and choppy rhythms. It also showcased an ability to turn on a dime into slow, creeping sludge riffs, feeling perfectly at home alongside the violent bursts of noise and outrage. Debt sounds like it will continue much in the same vein, but with much fuller production. If you like your dissonance in shorter bursts, check this one out. 9/8/17 (Spear)
Arch Enemy – Will to Power (Century Media Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “The World Is Yours,” “The Eagle Flies”
Argus – From Fields of Fire (Cruz del Sur Music) [Doom]
Stream
Assacrentis – Colossal Destruction (Anesthetize Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Human Zero”
Astaroth Omnipotence: The Infinite Darkness (CDN Records) [Blackened Melodeath]
Listen to “Unflesh”
Atrox – Monocle (Dark Essence Records) [Gothic Metal]
Listen to “Mass”
Baskerville – Opus Aeternum (Repentless) [Heavy Metal]
Preview
Blazon Stone – Down in the Dark (Stormspell Records) [Power Metal]
Listen
Cannabis Corpse – Left Hand Pass (Season of Mist) [Death Metal]
Listen to “In Dank Purity,” “Chronic Breed”
Cardinals Folly – Deranged Pagan Sons (Nine Records) [Doom]
Stream
Darkfall – At the End of Times (MDD Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Ride Through the Sky”
Depths of Kronos – From the Void (Independent) [Melodeath]
Devil’s Emissary – Demiurge Asceticism (Third Eye Temple) [Black/Death Metal]
Listen to “Black Hole Meditation”
Dr. Colossus – The Dank (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Listen to “Holy Driver”
Fatuous Rump – Propagation of the Foul (Amputated Vein Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Guillotine”
Force Majeure – The Rise of Starlit Fire (Mighty Music) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Apocalyptic Hearts”
The Great Discord – The Rabbit Hole (The Sign Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Darkest Day,” “The Red Rabbit”
Grift – Arvet (Nordvis) [Folk/Black Metal]
Listen to “Den stora tystnaden”
Hands of Orlac/The Wandering Midget – Hands of Orlac/The Wandering Midget (split- Cruz del Sur Music) [Doom]
Listen to “From Beyond the Stars” (HoO)
High Spirits – Escape! (High Roller Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Lonely Nights”
Infest – Addicted to Flesh (Defying Danger Records) [Death/Thrash]
Listen to “Hail the mother war,” “Deathrash Legion 666”
Major Kong – Brace for Impact (Independent) [Instrumental Doom]
Stream
Manilla Road – To Kill a King (Hellion Records) [Heavy Metal]
Preview
Muert – Ye Canariae Abezan (Hammerheart Records) [Black Metal]
Stream
Númenor – Chronicles from the Realms Beyond (Stormspell Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Carven Stone”
The Projectionist/Albanach ar Dheis – Frostbitten Northern Void (split- Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Auld Alliance”
The Rinn – Stories of the Green Fairy (Sliptrick Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Symphony of Light”
Sanhedrin – A Funeral for the World (Independent) [Heavy/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Demoness,” “Die Trying”
Shadowside – Shades of Humanity (Furia Music Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Alive”
Tales of Gaia – Hypernova (Fighter Records) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Keep the Dream Alive,” “My Right to Live”
Thera Roya – Masterful Universe (Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
Threshold – Legends of the Shires (Nuclear Blast Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Lost in Translation”
Twelve Boar – No Forgiveness (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Snake on a Lead”
Usnea – Portals into Futility (Relapse Records) [Funeral Doom]
Listen
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
