Starting tomorrow, the next three weeks are absolutely stupid with new albums. Over-the-top, ridiculous. An immediately-go-broke amount of music. Nothing less than an onslaught. We’re under attack.

Far be it from me to tell you how to spend your money — also far be it from me not to — but there’s some really killer stuff in here. As to why it’s all landing now? Some of it of course has to do with the timing of when it was recorded, bands hitting the studio in Spring before heading out on the road over the summer, but Fall releases also line up nicely for tours in October and November, heading into the holiday season, when the music industry basically shuts down. This is the last chance for releases to come out in 2017 and be considered for best-of-year lists.

I doubt the likes of Chelsea Wolfe or Godspeed You! Black Emperor or even Kadavar would cop to that as a motivating factor, instead pointing to the timing of Fall touring and so on, but these things are rarely coincidental. You know how there aren’t any blockbusters in January but every movie feels like it’s trying to win an Oscar? Same kind of deal.

Nonetheless, 2017 is laying it on particularly thick these next couple weeks, and as you can see in the lists below, if you’ve got cash to spend, you can pretty much choose your rock and roll adventure. I’ll add to this as need be as well, so keep an eye for changes:

Sept. 22:

Alcest, Souveinirs d’un Autre Monde (10th Anniversary Edition)
Brant Bjork, Europe ’16
Chelsea Wolfe, Hiss Spun
Epitaph, Claws
Faces of the Bog, Ego Death
The Flying Eyes, Burning of the Season
Fvzz Popvli, Fvzz Dei
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Luciferian Towers
Jarboe & Father Murphy, Jarboe & Father Murphy
Monarch, Never Forever
Nibiru, Qaal Babalon
Process of Guilt, Black Earth
Satyricon, Deep Calleth Upon Deep
Spelljammer, Inches from the Sun (Reissue)
Thonian Horde, Inconnu
Trash Titan, Welcome to the Banana Party
Ufomammut, 8
With the Dead, Love from With the Dead
Wolves in the Throne Room, Thrice Woven

Sept. 29:

Cities of Mars, Temporal Rifts
Deadsmoke, Mountain Legacy
A Devil’s Din, One Hallucination Under God
Disastroid, Missiles
Jim Healey, Just a Minute More (Sept. 26)
Idylls, The Barn
Kadavar, Rough Times
Lucifer’s Chalice, The Pact
Monolord, Rust
Outsideinside, Sniff a Hot Rock
Radio Moscow, New Beginnings
Scream of the Butterfly, Ignition
Tronald, Tronald (Sept. 30)
Unsane, Sterilize
Wucan, Reap the Storm

Oct. 6:

Elder Druid, Carmina Satanae
Fireball Ministry, Remember the Story
Frank Sabbath, Are You Waiting? (Oct. 2)
Himmellegeme, Myth of Earth
House of Broken Promises, Twisted EP
O.R.B., Naturality
Primitive Man, Caustic
Spirit Adrift, Curse of Conception
Spotlights, Seismic
Sumokem, The Guardian of Yosemite
Torso, Limbs
White Manna, Bleeding Eyes

Also:

Oct. 13: Enslaved, Firebreather, I Klatus, R.I.P., Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats (reissue), Weird Owl, etc.

Oct. 20: Iron Monkey, Spectral Haze, Bell Witch, The Spacelords, etc.

Something I forgot?

Invariably, right? If you know of something not seen above that should be, then by all means, please leave a comment letting me know. My only ask is that you keep it civil and not call me a fucking idiot or anything like that. I write these posts very early in the day, and if something has been neglected, I assure you it’s not on purpose and I’m happy to correct any and all oversights.

Thanks for reading and happy shopping. Support local record stores.

One has to wonder how the respective duties for the new Trash Titan video wound up such that guitarist/bassist/baguitarist/vocalist Collyn McCoy wound up spanking someone in a chipmunk costume leaning over a park bench while drummer Jeff Broady — while wearing a Hed P.E. shirt, no less — stayed home to prepare and consume what seems to be a giant pancake topped with an inhumane amount of butter. I guess it’s a matter of some debate who actually got the short end of that particular stick, but needless to say, “Danger of Love” is completely over the top. Way over. Its four-plus minutes are a righteous sendup of hypermasculine stoner rock in a way that the fact that the song comes from a new EP called Welcome to the Banana Party makes seem only more purposeful. Take that, testosterone.

Welcome to the Banana Party is out on Friday and will be a name-your-price download from Trash Titan‘s Bandcamp page. It’s the first offering from Trash Titan since their 2011 self-titled EP, and clearly they have something to say with it.

Cover art, PR wire snark and the video follow here:

TRASH TITAN drops New EP and New Video!

Sound the trumpets! Raise the flags! For Los Angeles by-way-of New Hampshire stoner rock duo Trash Titan returns after a six year hiatus with a brand new EP entitled “Welcome to the Banana Party.”

Therein you’ll find four skunky nuggets of down-home swamp-doom blues. It sounds like a bottle of Everclear became sentient and humped its own sister. And it’ll get your booty shaking like the DTs after a six week Mad Dog bender.

“Welcome to the Banana Party” finds Trash Titan returning to its original two-man-band form, comprised entirely of Jeff “Broadsword” Broady (Floodwatch) on lead drums and Collyn McCoy (Aboleth, Ultra Electric Mega Galactic) on lead vocals, dobro, lap steel, upright bass and baguitar. “Baguitar? What’s that?” you may ask. Fucked if I know, but it sounds like a rhino making love to a Denny’s dumpster. In other words – heavy. Heavier than Oprah after a six-week lockdown in the Hungry Jack R&D lab. And every bit as sexy.

Album was recorded in Bedford, New Hampshire and Los Angeles, California in June of 2017. Mixed and Mastered by Katie Gilchrest (High Priestess) at Mythology Mastering. Album art by Mariana Fiel (also of High Priestess).

“Welcome to the Banana Party” drops digitally September 22nd, 2017 care of Trash Titan’s Bandcamp page, for the Smart Price of “whatever the f**k you feel like paying” — even if what you feel like paying is nothing. For those who prefer the tactile feedback of physical merchandise, the band will also debut a brand new tee-shirt design care of Los Angeles artist Skillit as well as Trash Titan’s exclusive “Beer & Leather” scented beard and mustache wax.

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Trash Titan, “Danger of Love” official video