This Toilet Twosday (2/2/23)
Alright, I’m over it. There’s too much goddamn music this year already, and we’re barely a month in. I’m declaring a moratorium on metal releases until we’ve listened to everything that’s already out. That said, in the event that everyone ignores me for some reason, we’ll continue rounding up new albums and shitting them out into these lists.
Soulmass – Let Us Pray (Independent) [Death Doom]
Bloodborne continues to play the muse for metal nerds with a love of nasty riffs and eldritch horror. Soulmass is hardly a newcomer on the scene; they’ve been at this for just about a decade at this point, and the experience shows, with Let Us Pray being some of their most finely crafted material to date. Maybe that’s just my pro-Bloodborne bias coming through, but it feels nastier, spookier, darker than before. Either way, my Pthumeru Chalice runneth over with riffs, and death metalheads will want to check this out regardless of the lyrical source material. 2/3/23 (Spear)
ACOD – Cryptic Curse (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions) [Melodic Blackened Death]
Act of Impalement – Infernal Ordinance (Caligari Records) [Death Doom]
Aelvica – Aelvica Amaranthine (Independent) [Meloblack]
Alabama Kush – Manus Dextra (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Alcoholica – F.E.A.R. (Independent) [Thrash Metal]
All Out War – Celestial Rot (Translation Loss Records) [Hardcore]
Annos Cinere – The Path to Descend Inside (Independent) [Raw Black Metal]
Archbeheth – Graveyard Stories (Independent) [Black Metal]
Armstrong Gun – Struck with Steel (Independent) [Rock/Heavy Metal]
Black Mold – The Unnatural Red Glow of the Night (Hellprod Records) [Black Metal/Punk]
Black Water Sunset – Engraved Spectral Aeons (Independent) [Melodeath]
Blackwülf – Thieves and Liars (Ripple Music) [Stoner Doom/Rock]
Blut – Covers (Independent) [Drone/Doom]
Boiled Angel – To Kill For Creed (Independent) [Brutal Death]
Calderum – Lord Cramridor (Death Prayer Records) [Black Metal/Dungeon Synth]
Carathis – The Moonstone Temple (Independent) [Raw Black Metal/Dungeon Synth]
Clouds Taste Satanic – Tales of Demonic Possession (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Coffin Nail – The Hanged Man (Independent) [Blackgrind]
Collapsor – Collapsor (Independent) [Crossover/Grind]
Conspiracy of Zero – Ahthos Arouris (Independent) [Prog Death]
Daemonian – The Frost Specter’s Wrath (Independent) [Melodic Black Metal]
Dead Sun – Soul Diseased (Xtreem Music) [Death Metal]
Death Feast – Risen from the Tomb (Larvae Records) [Black Thrash]
Death Reapers – The New Beginning (Independent) [Melodeath]
Dewichor – Ritual (Independent) [Melodic Black Metal]
Drüben – Volden er naturens mejsel (Independent) [Black Metal]
Elderseer – Drown in the Shallowness (Independent) [Death/Doom]
The Faith Hills Have Eyes – The Riffth Element (Independent) [Everythingcore]
Falaise – After All This Time (Flowing Downward) [Atmospheric/Post-Black Metal]
Forever Autumn – Crowned in Skulls (Independent) [Wobbly Neofolk]
Godiva – Hubris (Independent) [lolbuttz]
Grimorium Mendacium – What Do We Know of Horror & Torment (Golden Serpent Records) [Black Metal]
Guthravir – Which Shall Be Hereafter Upon the Earth (Independent) [DSBM]
Hell Inc. – Hybris (Independent) [Groove Metal]
Hemisphaerium – Thagirion (Independent) [Death Metal]
Infectos – Parasitic Transmutation of Psychopathy (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
Irrseele – Wahn & Wehmut (Independent) [Black Metal]
Isaac Palón – Andrómeda (Independent) [Heavy Metal]
It Is Dead/Void Me – Split (Fiadh Productions) [Black Metal/Crust]
Lolth – Black Canticles (Cult of Oblivion Recordings) [Raw Black Metal/Dungeon Synth]
Mauser – Mordrake (Independent) [Thrash]
Memoriam – Rise to Power (Reaper Entertainment) [Death Metal]
Misothronos – Unimaginable Darkness (Independent) [Blackened Death Metal]
Mur.Doc 104 – The Undying (Independent) [Thrash Metal]
Necrotic Divinity – Death Ritual (Independent) [Death Metal]
Ninth Circle – Dis, Emerge (Independent) [Black Metal/Punk]
Norbit – Asylum (Independent) [Death Metal]
Nothing Sacred – Leviathan (Rockshots Records) [Speed Metal]
Ophiocordyceps – Anthropocene (Ghastly Music) [Brutal Death]
Order 227 – Rattenkrieg (Independent) [Death Metal]
Osiah – Chronos (Unique Leader Records) [Tech Deathcore]
Palace of Worms – Cabal (Acephale Winter Productions) [Prog Black]
Red Soil – S/T (Independent) [Groove Metal]
Rexoria – Imperial Dawn (Black Lodge Records) [Heavy Metal]
Rotting Demise – My Whole Wrath (Independent) [Death Metal]
Shinagawalove – Vortex (Independent) [DSBM]
Skratte – Akt II : Des Wolfes Klagen (Northern Silence Productions) [Folk/Black Metal]
Tentacult – Lacerating Pattern (Transylvanian Recordings) [Death Metal]
Theatruum – Triumphs (Xenoglossy Productions) [Drone/Raw Black Metal]
Unholy Obscurity – Martyrium (Independent) [Blackened Death Metal]
Ur-in-stinkt/Frost, Pisse & Elend – Dreckmetal/Wake up in War (split- Independent) [Black Metal]
Victor Smolski – Guitar Force (Massacre Records) [Instrumental Prog/Shred]
WuW – L’Orchaostre (Pelagic Records) [Prog Doom]
Xandria – The Wonders Still Awaiting (Napalm Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Yashira/Horsewhip – Split (Zegema Beach Records) [Sludge]
Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!
