Sh*t That Comes Out Today: October 14, 2014

October 14th, 2014 at 11:30am
David Lee Rothmund

Hi MetalSucks reader! Welcome back to Shit That Comes Out Today, your satanic bible of each week’s heavy new releases. We list ‘em, we spotlight ‘em, we link you to their preview jams and full streams — and everybody wins. And if we missed any legit new shit, we beg you to email us! Thanks! Now crank it up!

Calm Hatchery
Fading Reliefs (Selfmadegod)
On a playlist with: Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal, Immolation
Listen Fading Reliefs full steram (here)

There’s no denying the wide appeal of straight-up death metal, although it can be hard to do right. There’s always this potential to garnish it, which distracts from the rawness that defines it. I’m glad Fading Reliefs is old-school death metal both snappy and nostalgic. I’m also super glad these dudes are more under the radar, surprising given the sheer quality of this frickin’ sweet album.

Revocation
Deathless (Metal Blade)
On a playlist with: Arsis, Gorod, Skeletonwitch
Listen Deathless full stream (here)

Metal can pummel you, slap you, punch you, or nurse you from its tit — but fuck, does it barely give handjobs anymore. Revocation is one of those great last hoorahs to metal’s naughtier side. Am I calling Revocation a whore? Maybe, I mean I’m so cash-for-time on Deathless that I’m poor as fuck and smiling from ear to ear. It’s just something you have to hear, the quote-unquote magic in them is real and blows out of the speakers at 10,000 mph without stopping to take a piss. Love it.

Occultation
Silence In The Ancestral House (Profound Lore)
On a playlist with: Negative Plane, Ides Of Gemini
Listen “Laughter In The Halls Of Madness” and “The Dream Tide” (here)

Profound Lore has been building an impressive roster. So it’s unsurprising that this new jam by Occulation is fantastic. It’s the album you buy half because you want the cover art, and half cause you can immediately predict how you’re going to enjoy the music: baked/buzzed/ripped/tipped/whathaveyou. It’s a genie in a bottle, you want to rub it and see if a big ol’ fucking magical ghost pops out to grant you some wishes (more money pls kthx)!

Blut Aus Nord
Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry (Debemur Morti)
On a playlist with: Deathspell Omega, Darkspace, Aosoth
Listen Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry full stream (here)

Lovers of Deafheaven (guilty as charged) can forget that what they’re hearing ain’t new. Blut Aus Nord has been at this atmospheric, blackened, avant-garde thing since the mid-’90s. It’s nice to hear some old dogs playing new tunes — the package sounds mature, purposeful, and unshowy. Oh, and always super-moody and dark.

Baptists
Bloodmines (Southern Lord)
On a playlist with: Converge, Enabler, Torch Runner
Listen “Calling” (here) “Harm Induction” (here)

All the circlejerking around Enabler makes it nice to herald some honest competition — and in the democracy of metal I might be inclined to favor the Baptists’ new album album for Top Dawg in their little subgenre. It’s razor-sharp, just as you’d expect, but rockable enough to sound excellent in your local dingy metal joint.

Rings Of Saturn
Lugal Ki En (Unique Leader)
On a playlist with: Beneath The Massacre, Origin, Archspire
Listen Lugal Ki En full stream (here)

All the hyper-technical death metal floating around … It’s hard to keep it all straight. The goal really is to make something so blisteringly heavy, fast, and complicated that all other notions get lost in the commotion. Rings Of Saturn’s new album is tasteful (lol) even though it might be the heaviest thing laid down in years. There are too many hng fuck yeah moments to count, but if you’re short on time, listen through 1:15 here and tell me it ain’t oh so sexy. This be my favorite jam this year.

OTHER SHIT THAT COMES OUT TODAY

The Acacia Strain Coma Witch (Rise) listen
Ancient VVisdom Sacrificial (Magic Bullet) listen
» Arabrot I Modi EP (Fysisk Format) listen
» At Dusk Anhedonia (Broken Limbs) listen
Aurin Catharsis (Pavement) listen
Beastmilk Use Your Deluge EP reissue (Magic Bullet) listen
Beastmilk White Stains On Black Wax single reissue (Magic Bullet) listen
Better Left Unsaid The Reissues (InGrooves) listen
Cara Neir / Venowl split (Broken Limbs) listen
Chasing Safety Season Of The Dead (Outer Loop) listen
Climates Bodyclocks (Artery) listen
Drone Drone (Metalville) listen
Dystopia Human = Garbage reissue (Tankcrimes) listen
Eden Circus Marula (Lifeforce) listen
Exodus Blood In, Blood Out (Nuclear Blast) listen
Favorite Weapon Sixty Saragossa (Rise) listen
For All I Am No Home (InVogue) listen listen
» Fleshworld / Gazers / Viscera split (Unquiet) listen
Gideon Calloused (Facedown) listen listen
Hang the Bastard Sex In The Seventh Circle (Siege of Amida/Century Media) listen listen
Heroes of Vallentor The Warriors Path Part I (Inverse) listen
Horrendous Ecdysis (Dark Descent) listen
» House Of Lightning Lightworker (Translation Loss) listen listen
Inter Arma The Cavern EP (Relapse) listen
Itnuveth The Way Of The Berserker (Xtreem) listen
KMFDM Our Time Will Come (Metropolis) listen
Kreyskull Tower Witch (Inverse) listen
Lamb Of God As The Palaces Burn doc DVD (Epic) watch
Like Monroe Things We Think, But Never Speak (eOne) listen listen
Lunatic Soul Walking On a Flashlight Beam (Kscope) listen
The Lurking Corpses Workin’ For The Devil (Hells Headbangers) listen listen
» Manes Be All End All (Debemur Morti) listen
Manhack Dominicide EP (Autumn + Colour) listen
MoE 3 (Fysisk Format) listen
Mastercastle Enfer De La Bibliotheque Nationale (Scarlet) listen
The Melvins Hold It In (Ipecac) listen
Menace Ruine Venus Armata (Profound Lore) listen
Midnight Sin Sex First (Bakerteam) listen
My Brother The Wind Once There Was A Time When Time And Space Were One (Free Electric Sound) listen
Necrowretch “Even Death May Die” 7″ (Century Media) listen
Noturnall Noturnall (Metalville) listen
» October 31 Bury The Hatchet (Hells Headbangers) listen
Old Lines No Child Left Behind (No Sleep) listen
Ozzy Osbourne Memoirs Of A Madman DVD/CD (Epic) watch
Pig Destroyer Mass & Volume EP (Relapse) listen
Planethard Now (Scarlet) listen
Process of Guilt / Rorcal split EP (Bleak) listen
Rebellious Spirit Obsession (SPV) listen
Riot Horse This Is Who We Are (Metalville) listen
Sanctuary The Year the Sun Died (Century Media) listen listen read
Sarea This Is Not Goodbye (Doolittle) listen
Scar Symmetry The Singularity (Phase 1 – Neohumanity) (Nuclear Blast) listen listen
Septycal Gorge Scourge Of The Formless Breed (Comatose) listen
Sloths Twenty Years EP (The Ghost Is Clear) listen
Starkill Virus of the Mind (Century Media) listen listen
» Swallowed Lunarterial (Dark Descent) listen
Tarnkappe Tussen Hun En De Zon (Hammerheart) listen
» Thy Serpent’s Cult Sedition, Sorcery and Blasphemy (Ordo) listen
Today Is the Day Animal Mother (Southern Lord) listen
Transmaniacon The Darkening Plain (New Heavy Sounds) listen
Volunteer Goner EP (Forge Again) listen
Weed Is Weed Blunt Force Trauma (Ripple) listen
Wormwood Wormwood (Magic Bullet) listen listen