This Toilet Tuesday (9/6/16)
Welcome to This Toilet Tuesday! As your ever-faithful guides over the ever-expanding horizon of the metal landscape, we’ve selected a couple of the best albums from this week to sink your teeth into. Check these out and then peruse that list for more; we might have glossed over something that deserves some time in the spotlight. Share your own picks in the comments!
Dwell – Innate (Blood & Ink Records) [Dissonant Hardcore]
Listen to “Scars of Grief”
Heed the call of the almighty SKRONK. “Scars of Grief” perfectly mirrors the frustration I feel at trying to write about it, with its rejection of groove in favor of math and erratic outbursts of flesh-pounding beats. There’s really nothing I can say about this that won’t be said a thousand times better by just listening to the damn thing, so go do that before my skull cracks open against this wall I’ve been pounding it against. 9/9/16 (Spear)
Infecting the Swarm – Abyss (Lacerated Enemy Records) [Brutal Tech Death]
Listen to “Obscuring the Seventh Sun,” “Spiral Fragmentation”
Though it might seem counter-intuitive, I prefer my brutal death metal to have a cleaner cut to it, maybe even with some melody in there(Unfathomable Ruination notwithstanding). Infecting the Swarm do this exactly right, with just enough nastiness to offset the overall polished feel of Abyss. There are moments of bleak melodies interspersed throughout the myriad writhing guitar riffs, and the bellowed, guttural vocals are as incomprehensibly savage as ever. It rips, and you’d be remiss to skip it. 9/9/16 (Spear)
Abductum – Behold the Man (Art Gates Productions) [Heavy/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Behold the Man”
Ayahuasca – Yin (Independent) [Speed Metal/Punk/Sludge]
Listen to “Dinosaurs,” “Mountains of Snakes”
Belenos – Kornôg (Northern Silence Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “D’an usved”
Black Funeral – Ankou and the Death Fire (Iron Bonehead/Dark Adversary) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Ankou and the Death Fire”
Colosso – Obnoxious (Independent) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Of Hollow Judgements”
CrystalMoors – The Mountain Will Forgive Us (Casus Belli Musica) [Folk/Black Metal]
Listen to “Memories,” “Over The Same Land”
Darmage – El gran titán (Rock-CD Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “El Gran Titán”
Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence (InsideOutMusic) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Stormbending”
Devoured Flesh – Feeding Frenzy (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Die No More – Destruction Complete (Independent) [Thrash]
Listen to “Save Yourself”
Dragon Eyes – Forsaken Gods (Red Emperor Records) [Power Metal]
Preview
Encephalo Swarm – Elephants Dominate The World (Independent) [Slam]
Stream
Evergreen Refuge – Anima (Auris Apothecary) [Folk/Post-Black Metal]
Preview
Evergrey – The Storm Within (AFM Records) [Dark/Prog Metal]
Listen to “Distance”
Exalt – The Shape You Took Before The Ache (New Damage/Goodfight) [Hardcore]
Listen to “Judas Wolf,” “Sacrifice to Purify,” “Worship”
Guns of Glory – Strafing Run (Pure Rock Records) [Rock]
Listen to “Running From You”
HI-GH – We Hate You (Independent) [Edgy Skeleton Memes Metal]
Listen to “We Hate You”
Hungarica – Haza és hűség – Ojczyzna i Wierność (Hammer Records) [Heavy Metal]
Preview
Inthyflesh – The Flaming Death (BlackSeed Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Blood Howling Eternity”
Iron Woods – Gods and Men (Mutilation Records) [Folk/Black Metal]
Listen to “The Time Has Come To Fight”
Kraken – Kraken VI: Sobre esta tierra (Athenea Producciones) [Heavy Metal]
Preview
Mortanius – A Voice From Beyond (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Necropanther – Necropanther (Sailor Records) [Black Thrash]
Listen to “Death Eyes,” “Machines,” “No Fate”
Oddland – Origin (Sensory Records) [Prog Metal]
Listen to “Thanatos,” “Hidden”
Омела – Хрустальная сторона (Омела) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “Хрустальная сторона”
Pain – Coming Home (Nuclear Blast Records) [Electronic/Groove Metal]
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Pentarium – Schwarzmaler (Boersma Records) [Melodeath]
Preview
Power Quest – Face the Raven (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Face the Raven”
Serious Black – Mirror World (AFM Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Castor Skies”
Serpent Crown – Incantations of Violence (Independent) [Sludge/Thrash]
Listen to “Uncertain Life Certain Death”
Stages of Decomposition – Crawl Space Burial (Gore House Productions) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Killing Under Possession”
Toter Fisch – Bottoms Up Treasure (Independent) [Folk Metal]
Trumpet the Harlot – Dark Energy (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Insect Auschwitz”
Tygers of Pan Tang – Only The Brave (Mighty Music) [Heavy Metal]
Whipstriker/Hell’s Bomber – Beyond the Empty Graves/Bombers of Hell (Contaminated Tones) [Speed/Black Metal]
Wolf’s Hunger – Bež’te živi vraćaju se mrtvi (Symbol of Domination) [Black Thrash]
Listen to “Gvozdeni puk (Kult rata)”
Wyruz – Judge and Jury (Battlegod Productions) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “Carved in Stone”
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments below!
