This Toilet Tuesday (11/10/15)
Greetings, friends, and welcome to another This Toilet Tuesday! Now, I know that half of you are off playing Fallout 4 already, so the former Head of State and I are here to give a soundtrack that neither sucks nor crashes every time you try to move to a new area. There are all sorts of bleak and disgusting songs waiting to accompany you on your journey across the nuclear wasteland. Oh, and say hi to this guy for me if you happen across him.
Otargos – Xeno Kaos (Kaotoxin Records) [Black Metal]
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Otargos means goat in Greek. You probably don’t need any more convincing than that, but in case you do, let me say this. “Dominatrix” is a rip-roaring bad-time that bodes well for Xeno Kaos. This track is filled with boundless energy, unrepentant blasts, and a technicality often missing from black metal. Whether or not that’s a good thing is up to you, but I’m jamming. FFO: Ignis Uranium, Non Opus Dei, Anaal Nathrakh 11/13/15 (W.)
Revenge – Behold.Total.Rejection (Season of Mist) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Wolf Slave Protocol (Choose Your Side)”
HOLY CRAP. This is one of the gnarliest, most misanthropic things I’ve heard all year. Revenge go hard and hateful, simple as that. Each track kind of blends into the next, but when the drums and riffs are as inhumanly fast and unassailable as this, do you really care? FFO: Conqueror, Blasphemy, Diocletian 11/13/15 (W.)
Firespawn – Shadow Realms (Century Media Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Ruination,” “Lucifer Has Spoken”
There has been no shortage of quality death metal this year, and Firespawn seek to add to the carnage with their debut, Shadow Realms. And add they do; while it probably won’t be as much of a knockout as, say, Horrendous, “Ruination” and “Lucifer Has Spoken” have no shortage of evil vigor. If you can forgive them a somewhat lolbuttzy music video, there’s a lot to enjoy here. 11/13/15 (Spear)
Hegemon – The Hierarch (Season of Mist) [Black Metal]
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When I hit play on The Hierarch, the opening notes of “Hatred from the Core” led me to expect a solid second-wave black metal style album. With the exception of a couple guitar fills out of Mikael Åkerfeldt’s playbook, that’s what I got… for the first couple minutes. The final moments of the song saw a full choir explode into the tune, and from there the album continued to defy my expectations for its duration. The songwriting is surprisingly varied, with plenty of acoustic guitars and clean vocals adding texture and beauty to the bleakness. Don’t pass this up. 11/13/15 (Spear)
Acid Cross/Kriegg/Hellripper – Acid Cross/Kriegg/Hellripper (split- Contaminated Tones) [Black/Speed Metal]
Listen to “Full Moon Witchery,” “Nekroslut” (Hellripper)
Austral/Cold – The Exalted Shadows of Death Are Dancing (split- Tyrannus Records) [Black Metal]
Awe – Providentia (Pulverised Records) [Black Metal]
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The Body/Krieg – The Body/Krieg (collaboration- At A Loss Recordings) [Noise/Doom]
Listen to “Bottom of the Bottle, Bottom of the River”
Cerebric Turmoil – Neural Net Meltdown (Amputated Vein Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Childrain – Matheria (Maldito Records) [Melodeath]
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Corrosive Carcass – Forsaken Lands (Xtreem Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “The Ghoul”
Deville – Make It Belong to Us (Fuzzorama Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Chief,” “Life in Decay”
Dragged Into Sunlight/Gnaw Their Tongues – NV (collaboration- Prosthetic Records) [Hate]
Listen to “Visceral Repulsion”
Exterminas – Dichotomy (Satanath Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “The Dawn of Deceit”
Fireland – The Time Traveler (Independent) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Angels Falling”
Ghost Machinery – Evil Undertow (Pure Legend Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Arms of the Strangers”
Girlschool – Guilty as Sin (UDR Music) [Heavy Metal]
Graveshadow – Nocturnal Resurrection (Mausoleum Records) [Melodic Metal]
Listen to “Namesake”
Helmut – Bite! (Tenacity Music) [Stoner/Doom]
Listen to “Oensingen”
Infection Code – 00 – 15: l’avanguardia industriale (Argonauta Records) [Industrial]
Listen to “Martire”
Insanity – Visions of Apocalypse (Unspeakable Axe Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Visions of Apocalyspe”
Intronaut – The Direction of Last Things (Century Media Records) [Progressive/Post Metal]
Listen to “Digital Gerrymandering,” “Fast Worms”
Isengrim – Rutjan Koski (Independent) [Black Thrash]
Listen to “Kyinen Vuode, Matoinen Peti”
Ixion – Enfant de la Nuit (Finisterian Dead End) [Atmospheric Doom]
Listen to “Ghost in the Shell”
Kampfar – Profan (Indie Recordings) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Daimon”
Khadaver – Extinctio Mundi (Independent) [Industrial]
Listen to “Zeroborn”
King Witch – Shoulders of Giants (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Lucid”
Living with Disfigurement – Posthumous Indignities (Extreme Ultimate) [Brutal Death Metal]
Lythronax – The Architect (Independent) [Deathcore]
Listen to “Hubris,” “Ignis Fatuus”
Mägo de Oz – Finisterra Ópera Rock (DRO) [Power Metal]
Listen to “La Cruz de Santiago”
Megaton – Destroyer of Worlds (Independent) [Doom]
Listen to “Alcoholic Wizards”
Mist of Nihil – A Faint Aurora (Independent) [Melodeath]
Listen to “The Last Wound of Gaia”
Mortal Scepter – As Time Sharpens The Sentence (Unspeakable Axe Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Violent Revenge”
Mynded – Dead End Paradise (Bob-Media) [Thrash]
Listen to “Kill Or Be Killed”
Nightfear – Drums of War (Rock-CD Records) [Power Metal]
Listen to “Path of Victory”
Phrenetix – Fear (Inferno Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Piece of Lie”
Reject the Sickness – Chains of Solitude (Mighty Music) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Hopeless”
Return From The Grave – Three(p) (Argonauta Records) [Doom]
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Revolted Masses – Age of Descent (Inverse Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Waltz For The Fallen”
Sabiendas – Column of Skulls (Bret Hard Records) [Death Metal]
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Sentenced – Drowned by Blood (Rising Nemesis Records) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Putrefaction”
Shock – Forewarned (Independent) [Speed Metal]
Listen to “Sonic Assault”
Soulsick – III.XV inovember (Air Records) [Black Metal]
Suntorn – Symbiotic Polarity (Ghastly Music) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “A Godless Oasis,” “Bloodsun Sacrifice”
Suotana – Frostrealm (Independent) [Blackened Melodeath]
Listen to “For My Iced Angel”
Swallow The Sun – Songs from the North I, II & III” (Century Media Records) [Death/Doom]
Listen to “Heartstrings Shattering”
Tangorodrim – Defunct Pluto Mythology (Doomentia Records) [Blackened Doom]
Listen to “Underground in Law,” “Green Fields – Grey Clouds”
Tötal Harmönic Distörtion – Madkind (Independent) [Thrash]
Traitor – Venomizer (Violent Creek Records) [Thrash]
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Vhod – Dreamcleaver (Inverse Records) [Death Metal]
Listen to “So Pass Away/Locus Mortis”
Vingulmork – Chiaroscuro (Crime Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Hold Your Ground”
Zenith Reunion – Entropy (7Hard Records) [Heavy Metal]
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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