Jungle Rot - Skin the Living [1996]

Artist: Jungle Rot

Album: Skin the Living
Year: 1996
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nFbRWbkQIyA / https://www.facebook.com/igotjunglerot
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Demon Souls

2. Destruction and Misery

3. Eternal Agony

4. Killing Spree

5. Rotten Bodies

6. Black Candle Mass

7. Awaiting the End

8. Tomb of Armenus

9. Decapitated

10. Screaming for Life

Witness: -[*]-

Edge Of Sanity - Crimson [1996]

Artist: Edge Of Sanity 

Album: Crimson
Year: 1996
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/rSoADCtYI_I
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Crimson
2. Murder Divided (Japanese Bonus Track)

Witness: Link removed 

Sacrilege - Lost in the Beauty You Slay [1996]

Artist: Sacrilege
Album: Lost in the Beauty You Slay
Year: 1996
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Bwl8R887Wqg
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Frozen Thoughts
2. Beyond the Gates of Pain
3. Without Delight
4. Crying Statues of Paleness and Ice
5. Fettered in Shackles of Light
6. Lost in the Beauty You Slay
7. Silence in a Beloved Scream
8. Torment of Life
9. Initio Silentium Noctis

Witness: -[*]-
In my opinion, this is truly classic Swedish melodic death, one of the better bands of the genre.

Gates Of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path [1996]

Artist: Gates Of Ishtar

Album: A Bloodred Path
Year: 1996
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/3l3kTMByLYw
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Inanna

2. Where the Winds of Darkness Blow

3. The Silence

4. Tears

5. The Dreaming Glade

6. When Daylight's Gone

7. Into Seasons of Frost

8. A Bloodred Path

9. I Wanna Be Somebody (W.A.S.P. cover)

Witness: Link Removed
In my opinion, this disc and At Dusk and Forever are both quite good with some nice lead guitar work and those raspy vocals that were so characteristic of the era and style.

Ablaze My Sorrow - If Emotions Still Burn [1996]

Artist: Ablaze My Sorrow

Album: If Emotions Still Burn
Year: 1996
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ED4kB_C7wD4
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. If Emotions Still Burn

2. The Rain That Falls...

3. Rise Above the Storming Sea

4. Denial (The Way of the Strong)

5. The Battle

6. My Last Journey

7. As I Face the Eternity

8. My Revenge to Come

Witness: -[*]-

Cruentus - In Myself [1996]

Artist: Cruentus

Album: In Myself
Year: 1996
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/1SJUn-Fcbqk
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Trip into the Absolut Vacuum
2. Reborn from the Infernal Ashes!
3. Genocide
4. Seeking the Truth
5. Save Your Tears!
6. Under the Same Sky
7. Conditioned Mind
8. ...in an Endless Spiral
9. In Myself
10. Paths in Memory

Witness: -[*]-
Does anyone remember this disc? I first heard of these guys about 10 years ago when I found this rip and I find myself going back to this disc every once in a while, so I decided to post it tonight. The cool thing is that while conducting a bit of research for my post, I discovered that they just released a new disc and video vvv a few days ago.

Swollen - The Breathless Waiting (EP) [1996]

Artist: Swollen

Album: The Breathless Waiting
Year: 1996
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/-XivZcmXw1w
Country: Denmark
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Carnal Realm
2. Subside In Flesh
3. The Breathless waiting

Witness: -[*]-
This band is obscure, but the members aren't with all being in Iniquity at some point in time, and 2 of them spending time in Daemon, Sacrificial, Downlord, and The Cleansing. This is interesting, check it out.

Panzerchrist - Six Seconds Kill [1996]

Artist: Panzerchrist

Album: Six Seconds Kill
Year: 1996
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/cpUmVtXEhQA
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Perfect Kill
2. Winterlands
3. Panzer
4. Frontlines
5. Virus
6. Halls of Oblivion
7. Reload
8. Eviscerated Bitch
9. Gunhead
10. Last Supper

Witness: -[*]-
My first experience with this band back in the late '90s and this just so happens to be some of their best stuff in my opinion and my own CD rip \m/\m/

Captor - Drowned [1996]

Artist: Captor
Album: Drowned
Year: 1996
Genre: Thrash Metal / Groove Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/5SwfUDGO5pM
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. So Bold as Cold
2. Disbelieve
3. Mother
4. Zombiehead
5. Hostile Reality
6. Refuse to Die
7. Insane
8. Lost
9. Confession
10. More Life
11. Pray
12. Sick

Witness: -[*]-
Dark, brooding, and groovy as fuck thrash metal! This disc always reminded me a little bit of a darker Pantera. A very good disc and my CD rip (\m/\m/)

Cardinal Sin - Spiteful Intents (EP) [1996]

Artist: Cardinal Sin
Album: Spiteful Intents (EP)
Year: 1996
Genre: Blackened Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/nzP85bsW-BQ
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Spiteful Intent
2. Probe with a Quest
3. The Cardinal Sin
4. Language of Sorrow

Witness: -[*]-
Swedish old school classic! Such a damn shame that these guys never went on to record a full length, because these 4 tracks deserved a follow up (\m/\m/)

Frozen Sun - Dimensions [1996]

Artist: Frozen Sun
Album: Dimensions
Year: 1996
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/emfzrb2XlIg
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Once and for All
2. Life in Misery
3. Obsession
4. Grey
5. Puss Gorn' Decay
6. Streetwalker Song
7. In the Shadow of your Soul
8. Censorship Equals
9. Defect Dimension of Souls
10. Into the Outro

Witness: -[*]-
Grooving Danish death with Koldborn, Infernal Torment, and Panzerchrist members.