This Toilet TuWednesday (11/13/24)
Nitchy (or whatever) once said: “…when you gaze long into the Bowl, the Bowl gazes also into you.” On this chill November morning, in these most cursed and interesting times, I find the swirling depths a welcome reprieve from the cruelty of the world at large. This week, we’ve got menu metal, pulverized pachyderms, and a non-zero number of spiders. If you should go skating on the thin ice of the Toilet, beware the depths below, for there are many releases lurking in the bilgewater. Let us know what we missed in the comments!
Oriska – S/T (Init Records) [Blackened Sludge / Doom / Post-Metal]
The preview track “Bismuth” wastes no time diving into unsettling atmosphere—a bowed cello and creaking dissonance announce that, while there may not be much fun ahead, the music will be dense and impactful. With a grinding of tectonic plates, the song ruptures into blackened sludge riffing and scraping skramz vocals, never losing its sense of despondency, even as grandiose post-metal leads add a hint of color to the charred landscape. In the vein of bands like Grayceon and Weeping Sores, Oriska utilizes stringed instruments both in adding texture in a supporting role, and in moments crafted specifically to emphasize their beauty. These forlorn Fargo fellas are onto something with this debut, and if the rest of the tracks hit this hard, I’m looking forward to being absolutely pancaked on Friday. -Roldy
A la Carte – Born to Entertain (Independent) [Death]
Acheron’s Reticuli – Obscurity About the 4-Dimensional World (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Apocalypse – Pandæmonium (MiMo Sound Records & Publishing) [Melodeath]
Apocryphal – Facing the End (The Circle Music) [Melodeath]
Ardente – La nuit éternelle (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Arkenath – S/T (Independent) [Death]
Bed of Roaches/Genophobic Perversion – Katsaridaphobic Perversion (Independent) [Gorenoise]
Black Widow Killers – The Soulless (Independent) [Hard Rock / Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Burial Oath – The Cycles of Suffering (Redefining Darkness Records) [Blackened Death]
Dark Lord – Hatred Simmers in Black Era (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Deadbody/Tribal Gaze – Split (Dead Body side / Tribal Gaze side)(Closed Casket Activities) [Deathgrind | Death]
Deprecation – Infected by Sexuality (Inherited Suffering Records) [Brutal Death / Slam]
Despoil – Summon Your Hate (Independent) [Death]
Doubting Thompson – Lizard Brain Directives (Sliptrick Records) [Crossover Thrash]
Eddysss – Mirage Island (Independent) [Instrumental / Prog Rock]
Empires of Eden – Guardians of Time (Massacre Records) [Thrash / Power / Heavy Metal]
Faüst – Death Galore (Doomentia Records) [Deathrash / Crust Punk]
Flaahgra – Plant-Based Anatomy (Independent) [Brutal Death / Tech Slam]
Forja – Món oblidat (Independent) [Melodeath / Power / Folk Metal]
Fupa Goddess/Surgery – GoreSplit (Independent) [Goregrind]
Gallóglaigh – Fall of Eternity’s Throne (Independent) [Blackened Death]
Gauntlet Rule – After the Kill (Fighter Records) [Trad Metal]
Hoarding Corpses – Hoarding Corpses (Independent) [Death / Hardcore]
Hrad – Leaving the Ancient Times Behind (Independent) [Atmoblack / Dungeon Synth]
Interceptor – Goats City Parano (Bad Look Records) [Crossover Thrash]
Internal Decay – Malformation of Flesh (Independent) [Death]
Kromlek – III-III & Upphaf (Trollzorn Records) [Black / Folk Metal]
Les Cinq/Ospa 1959/Rapière – Split (Regolith Records) [DSBM / Post-Black / Post-Hardcore]
Lurking Terror – A World in Darkness (M-Theory Audio) [Death]
Lying Figures – Inheritance (Meuse Music Records) [Melodic Death/Doom]
Mammoth Grinder – Undying Spectral Resonance (Relapse Records) [Death / Crust Punk]
Marcel Verand Memorias de un Despertar – Ira & Traición (Independent) [Prog/Power]
Monolithe – Black Hole District (Hammerheart Records) [Melodic Death/Doom]
Nekus – Death Apophenia (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) [Death/Doom]
Objector – Slave New World (Socks and Sandals Media) [Thrash]
Ohen – Whispering Lies (Independent) [Symphonic Black Metal]
Opus Irae – Into the Endless Night (Endtime Productions) [Symphonic Black]
Ordinul Negru – Dodekatemoria (Loud Rage Music) [Black]
Phyllomedusa – Augmentation of a Neck (2024) (Hypyractyv Larynx Frogquencies) [Gorenoise] [WARNING – LOUD!]
Primal Code – Opaque Fixation (Relapse Records) [Death / Sludge]
Scarecrow – Scarecrow III (Independent) [Prog Doom / Heavy Metal]
Sergeant Thunderhoof – The Ghost of Badon Hill (A Pale Wizard) [Psych Doom]
Spider God – Possess the Devil (Repose Records) [Meloblack]
Stac Pollaidh – Penance is Futile (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Starchaser – Into the Great Unknown (Frontiers Records) [Symphonic Heavy Metal]
Succumbence – S/T (Fifth Funeral Records) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black] [WARNING – LOUD!]
Super Monster Party – Rage Quit (Independent) [Prog Metal]
Synthwailer – Cruciform (Independent) [Symphonic Power / Heavy Metal]
The Foreshadowing – New Wave Order (Lifeforce Records) [Doom / Gothic Metal]
The Mosaic Window – Hemasanctum (Willowtip Records) [Melodic Blackened Death]
Thermite Burns – Forcing Starlight (Independent) [Blackened Death]
Thrash Compactor – S/T (Independent) [Thrash / Groove Metal]
Thunder and Lightning – Of Wrath and Ruin (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
Time Lurker – Emprise (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions) [Atmoblack]
Toxaemia – Rejected Souls of Kerberus (Emanzipation Productions) [Death]
Trollcave – Adoration of the Abyssal Trespasser (Me Saco un Ojo Records) [Death / Funeral Doom]
Trąd – A világ magadra hagy téged (Independent) [Black]
Tvmvlo – Portals of Terror (Doomed Records) [Death]
Veilburner – The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Avant-Garde Blackened Death]
Violent Definition – Progressive Obsoletion (I Hate Records) [Thrash]
Viscerous – Eviscerate (Independent) [Thrash / Groove Metal]
Warfarer – A Tale Beyond the Pale (Inverse Records) [Melodeath / Folk Metal]
Worm Shepherd – Hunger (Unique Leader Records) [Symphonic Deathcore]
