Mortuary - Shine of the End [1995] (Re-issue 2024)

Artist: Mortuary

Album: Shine of the End
Year: 1995
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/RvClJEMawsk / https://www.facebook.com/mortuarymx
Country: Mexico
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Shine of the End

2. Decaying Kind

3. Negatively Alive

4. Retrorevolution

5. Dead Life

6. The Arrival

7. The Prey

8. Imperfection

9. Fantasy Fall

10. Frozen Flames

Witness: -[*]-
Unfortunately, I was not the least bit familiar with this band until I heard their new EP, and then I realized that I've had their 1991 album in my files since 2020 and hadn't even listened to it. I have corrected that now, as I just banged my head to the entire album over the past 30 minutes, and I listened to this album here yesterday. I can say that this is quite good, I mean really good! It's crazy that there are so many bands that I am not even familiar with. I am glad that I continue to discover "new" stuff.

Crown Of Thorns - The Burning [1995]

Artist: Crown Of Thorns

Album: The Burning
Year: 1995
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/R55UTbgvU50 / TDC Link - Crown Of Thorns / TDC Link - The Crown
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Of Good and Evil

2. Soulicide Demon-Might

3. Godless

4. The Lord of the Rings

5. I Crawl

6. Forever Heaven Gone

7. Earthborn

8. Neverending Dream

9. Night of the Swords

10. Candles

11. Forget the Light

Witness: -[*]-

Vomiting Corpses - Coma: The Spheres of Innocence [1995]

Artist: Vomiting Corpses

Album: Coma: The Spheres of Innocence
Year: 1995
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/uuWF-d3k4Jw / https://www.facebook.com/VomitingCorpses
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Kingdom of the Blind  

2. Dogmas Ignored  

3. Banished from Remembrance  

4. Ice-Age of the Common Sense  

5. Coma...  

6. Cold Blood  

7. When Doves Cry  

8. Si Vis Pacem  

9. Island of Sorrow

Witness: -[*]-
Here is an obscure death metal release from Emden, Germany, and even though they haven't released anything since 1995 Metal-Archives has them listed as active.

Morgana Lefay - Sanctified [1995]

Artist: Morgana Lefay

Album: Sanctified
Year: 1995
Genre: Power Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/morganalefayofficial / https://youtu.be/TG8x77OrjAU
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Out in the Silence

2. Time Is God

3. To Isengard

4. Why?

5. Mad Messiah

6. Another Dawn

7. In the Court of the Crimson King

8. Sorrow Calls

9. Where Insanity Rules

10. Shadows of God

11. Gil-galad (The Sanctified)

Witness: -[*]-
I was right in the transition from thrash, power, & groove to death metal and then I heard this disc and thought to myself, damn these power thrash guys still have more to say. I also like the reminiscent Jon Oliva feel to the vocals, at the time I appreciated it very much and the guitarists are killer too in my opinion. This is my own CD rip and I have their '96 Maleficium release on hard copy as well. 

Kilgore Smudge - Blue Collar Solitude [1995]

Artist: Kilgore Smudge

Album: Blue Collar Solitude
Year: 1995
Genre: Metal / Crossover 
Web: https://www.facebook.com/kilgoresmudge
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hangtime

2. Metamorphosis

3. Trial

4. Cleaner

5. Middle Way

6. Therapy

7. 3

8. Blue Collar Zen

9. Señorita Beefeater

10. Fridgafloor

11. Die Cast Mold

Witness: -[*]-
This is another cool and rare alternative metal release from the early/mid-'90s, I always liked the dude's vocal delivery and the groove in these songs. The death metal-only crowd certainly won't like this one but I do. I can't believe they are still active since I haven't heard anything from them since 1998.

Maleficarum - Across the Heavens [1995]

Artist: Maleficarum

Album: Across the Heavens
Year: 1995
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/maleficarumdeathmetal/
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Raping of Life

2. Season of Black

3. Time I Am

4. Fallen Worlds

5. Spirit Magnified

6. Kingdom of Lost

7. Under My Scars

8. Across the Heavens

9. Exalted Being

10. The Forgotten

11. Unfolded Dimensions

Witness: -[*]-
This isn't SMDM but since I am on an old school trip this weekend here is another one for you. Obscure yet awesome mid-'90s Italian death metal!

Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil [1995]

 Artist: Unanimated

Album: Ancient God of Evil
Year: 1995
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/SJF-bBwVW3I
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Life Demise
2. Eye Of The Greyhound
3. Oceans Of Time
4. Dead Calm
5. Mireille
6. The Depths Of A Black Sea
7. Ruins
8. Dying Emotions Domain
9. Die Alone

Witness: Link removed
Admittedly I have not spent a lot of time listening to their newer material but back in the day I felt that this album represented the band's best work \m/\m/

Obscene Crisis - Silence of the Mind [1995]

Artist: Obscene Crisis

Album: Silence of the Mind
Year: 1995
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/YXRxsN-LxpQ
Country: Canada
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Off Season
2. Illogical Responsibilities
3. Headrush
4. Human / Ecology
5. Open Mind
6. Obscenity
7. Out of Cage
8. Animated Hallucination
9. Street of Insecurity
10. Emotional Abusive Consummation

Witness: -[*]-

Xenomorph - Empyreal Regimes [1995] (Re-issue 2011)

Artist: Xenomorph

Album: Empyreal Regimes
Year: 1995
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/usDHtMQ_J-Y
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Keep
2. Wehrmacht
3. Plight of the Cimmerian
4. Subspecies
5. Inducted Throughout Time
6. Valley of the Kings
7. Biomechanics

Witness: -[*]-
A somewhat obscure US death metal trio from Omaha, Nebraska.

Fleshold - Pathetic [1995]

Artist: Fleshold

Album: Pathetic
Year: 1995
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/rt4bxEDmYm8
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Open the Sky
2. Into an Intimate Sea
3. Our Minds Merge
4. Difficulty Breathing
5. Pathetic
6. Surface Tension
7. Realidream
8.Disappear Without Tears

Witness: -[*]-

Abramelin - Abramelin [1995]

Artist: Abramelin
Album: Abramelin
Year: 1995
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/VVuvsXf9JKk
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Misfortune
2. Grave Ideals (Nekromaniak)
3. Spiritual Justice
4. Humble Abode
5. Stargazer
6. Stargazing (Stargazer II)
7. Deprived of Afterlife
8. Invocation

Witness: Link removed
Seething old school death from Melbourne, Victoria \m/\m/

Ophthalamia - Via Dolorosa [1995]

Artist: Ophthalamia
Album: Via Dolorosa
Year: 1995
Genre: Progressive Melodic Black Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/2FPKCC0H0Qo
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro / Under Opthalamian Skies / To the Benighted
2. Black as Sin, Pale as Death / Autumn Whispers
3. After a Releasing Death / Castle of No Repair (Pt.II)
4. Slowly Passing the Frostlands / A Winterland's Tear
5. Via Dolorosa / My Springnight's Sacrifice
6. Ophthalamia / The Eternal Walk (Pt.III)
7. Nightfall of Mother Earth / Summer Distress
8. Outro / Message to Those After Me / Death Embrace Me (Pt.II)
9. A Lonely Ceremony / The Eternal Walk
10. Deathcrush (Mayhem Cover)

Witness: -[*]-
Via Dolorosa is easily my favorite release from this band, which featured Abruptum, Marduk, and Edge of Sanity members.