Paganist - Void Dominion [2026]

Artist: Paganist

Album: Void Dominion
Year: 2026
Genre:  Blackened Thrash Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/JKiovuF-9dQ / https://paganist.bandcamp.com
Country: Costa Rica
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Lilith  

2. Kingdom Of Deserters  

3. Wicked Act  

4. Sadistic Revenge  

5. Nameless  

6. Deity  

7. I, the Nazarene  

8. Malevolent Storm

Witness: -[*]-
I feel that this album would have benefited greatly from clearer, punchier production, but it is still a nice listen because the band has talent and song-crafting skills. The band is labeled as thrash metal but I hear hints of blackened death metal here as well, so that is how I am classifying this. 

Where Deprivation Lies - The Seven Agonies [2026]

Artist: Where Deprivation Lies

Album: The Seven Agonies
Year: 2026
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2ro7rMUlWok / https://wheredeprivationlies.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. When a Soul Believes

2. Instrument of Penance

3. Hollywood Marionette

4. Sundown

5. In Tongues

6. Gemini

7. To the Lost

Witness: -[*]-

Cleavercult - A Throne Made by Human Parts [2026]

Artist: Cleavercult

Album: A Throne Made by Human Parts
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/txYrUKplxYc / https://cleavercult.bandcamp.com
Country: Greece
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Deadly Reflections  

2. Disgusting and Deformed  

3. Back to the Killings  

4. Starve for Meat  

5. Cold Blood Slasher  

6. Flesh-Starved Zombies  

7. Lingering of a Psychopath  

8. Brutal Death Assault  

9. A Throne Made by Human Parts

Witness: -[*]-

This disc is pretty cool, or at least I like it. I think you will too. 

Armory - Echoes of the Astrolith

Artist: Armory

Album: Echoes of the Astrolith
Year: 2026
Genre: Speed Metal
Web: https://www.armory.se / https://armory417.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/armory
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Return of the True Godz

2. Interceptor Squadron

3. Cosmic Dreams

4. Frequencies of Terror

5. Omens  

6. Sanity Disposed

7. The Final Invention

8. Spaceworkz  

9. Astrolith (Rising)

10. Pillars of Fire

Witness: -[*]-
God damn, this is old-school goodness! Not a perfect album, but I will take it anytime I am in a speed metal mood. These guys have been active since 2012, but this is my first experience with them, and the old fukker in me is liking it.

Open The Coffin - Once Alive Always Dead [2026]

Artist: Open The Coffin

Album: Once Alive Always Dead
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/mElJFzGRFZc / https://openthecoffin.bandcamp.com
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Burn My Coffin

2. Tomb Number 666

3. Once Alive Always Dead

4. Carnivorous Abomination

5. Embraced by the Grave

6. Decaying Flesh

7. Zombified

8. Tudo Pertence a Morte

Witness: -[*]-
This band from Brazil has a very European sound to their OSDM, and I like it!

Morrath - Obscure Abominations (EP) [2026]

Artist: Morrath

Album: Obscure Abominations
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Rza6WOLYVUE / https://morrath.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Gospel of Heretics  

2. Human Eradication  

3. Where the Obscure Dwells

4. Blasphemy Reigns  

5. Where Salvation Meets the Rot (live 2024)  

6. Crimson Demons (live 2024)  

7. New God Exalted (live 2024) 

Witness: -[*]-

Astral Corpse - Lengthening Shadows [2026]

Artist: Astral Corpse

Album: Lengthening Shadows
Year: 2026
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/X4yuPQV0ts4 / https://www.joshruff.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Lethe  

2. The Magus  

3. Lengthening Shadows  

4. Curse of Chains  

5. Descent into Dis  

6. The Winds of Cocytus  

7. Deathless  

8. Winter's Bane

Witness: -[*]-

Dark Quiet Death - Festering Blight [2026]

Artist: Dark Quiet Death

Album: Festering Blight
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UxPig_-rHSw 
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Festering Brains  

2. Obliterate the Mind  

3. Servants of the Blight  

4. Blight Infection  

5. Mutilate Me  

6. The Killing Tree  

7. Incinerate the Witch  

8. Behead the Tyrant  

9. City of the Dead  

10. Walking into the Unknown  

11. Reborn

Witness: -[*]-
A 1-man death metal project from Bloomington, Illinois, and I feel this guy has a real talent based on what he has created. It's funny, I was just in his neighborhood a couple of months ago too. It's hard to believe that the inspiration for his death metal comes from all of the farmland and small country towns. 

Medical Etymology - Concepts of Medical Terminology [2026]

Artist: Medical Etymology

Album: Concepts of Medical Terminology
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal / Goregrind
Web: https://youtu.be/rW8PeIhbC7w / https://baserecordproduction.bandcamp.com/medical etymology
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Synerggizing Muscularity

2. Remove the Hyperdontia

3. Floating Through the Body (A Near Death Experience)

4. O-Negative Emergency Supply

5. Concepts of Medical Terminology

6. Osteogenesis Imperfecta

7. The Delicate Corpse Restoration Art

8. Grade IV Hepatic Encephalopathy

Witness: -[*]-
The second voice in the dual vocals takes a bit to get used to, and maybe you never really do, but it works well at times. Primarily, the music just fukking jams, so certainly worthy of a few listens. 

Embalmed Putridity - W.I.L.D [2026]

Artist: Embalmed Putridity

Album: W.I.L.D
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/m0BU_UhUesI / https://embalmedputridity.bandcamp.com
Country: France
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Océan 

2. Into the furnace 

3. Mass extinction 

4. The ritual 

5. Ghost Cities 

6. The truth behind 

7. W.I.L.D 

8. Necromancy 

9. Thoughts from below

Witness: -[*]-
Our long-time friend and significant contributor, CarlG (RIP, my brother; you will be greatly missed around here), had a saying that he used frequently. "Death metal is like pizza and poontang; it's all good, but some is better than others." Well, that statement aptly applies to this album. It is much better than I had anticipated it would be, as I was expecting something brutal and guttural based on the band name, but this is more in the vein of old-school death metal with catchy riffs and hooks. Very good for my tastes!

Corrossive - Inmortuae [2026]

Artist: Corrossive

Album: Inmortuae
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/gbb6pVwn3rs / https://corrossive.bandcamp.com
Country: Argentina
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Inmortuae

2. Nigromante  

3. Oscuro emerger  

4. Entre la espada y la pared  

5. La congregación  

6. Apóstatas  

7. La batalla de Aqueronte

Witness: -[*]-
When I first saw this album a few months back, I immediately thought it was the German band, but then, upon listening, I realized they don't sound anything alike, and the spelling is different (ss). Don't sleep on these guys though; they sound pretty good in their own right.

Rotgore - Gorging Vicious and Vile [2026]

Artist: Rotgore

Album: Gorging Vicious and Vile
Year: 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/tUh0RKCZ65k / https://bizarreleprous.bandcamp.com/rotgore
Country: Indonesia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Rot Rot Rot

2. Say Lay Melted

3. Where Your Soul Are Now

4. When Last Breath in Casket

5. Cranial Embodiment

6. Womb Full of Suffer

7. Consume the Corpse

8. I Will Stab You

9. .... Of Savagery

Witness: -[*]-

Hekatoxin - Obsidian Majesty [2026]

Artist: Hekatoxin

Album: Obsidian Majesty
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/WlbxhbGQwTE / https://hekatoxen.bandcamp.com 
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Lost Souls Epitome  

2. I Am Them  

3. Spawns of Darkness  

4. Haunting Ceremony  

5. Domus vilomaxus  

6. Grave Reveries  

7. At Hellsrivers Pathway  

8. Vanguard the Dark

Witness: -[*]-
God damn, Finland is at it again! Here is a young band that has created a high-quality album for my tastes. Dark, heavy, and pounding northern death metal. It could be recency bias, but I think this is damn good stuff \m/\m/

Grave Depression - Seize the Decay [2026]

Artist: Grave Depression

Album: Seize the Decay
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Kbya0ehASjI / https://gravedepression.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Prey at Dawn  

2. Crush the Tyrant  

3. Kingdom of Blood  

4. Crawl Towards Hope  

5. Eternity to Feast  

6. The Great Unlight  

7. Alchemy of Destruction  

8. Buried Sword  

9. Pile of Death  

10. Into Darkness  

11. Primordial Horror  

12. Empty Tombs

Witness: -[*]-
A newer band from the Pacific Northwest creating some entertaining death metal. Check it out and see what you think.

Nuclear Tomb - Epoch Inhumane [2026]

Artist: Nuclear Tomb

Album: Epoch Inhumane
Year: 2026
Genre: Progressive Thrash Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://www.instagram.com/nucleartomblives / https://nucleartomb1.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Watch the Skies

2. Falling Out the World of Lies

3. Unbowed and Averse

4. Faithless Continuum

5. Broken Promise, Barren Essence

6. Lifeless Transformation

7. Butcher's Lament

8. Terminally Emboldened

9. The Coward's Cruise

10. Epoch Inhumane

Witness: -[*]-
I hadn't heard of this band prior to finding this disc back in June. Well, it caught my interest quickly and got me to search for their 2024 album too, and lo and behold, I like them both. I see they share the bass player from Ninth Realm, who recently released a good album of their own. She's keeping busy. Check this out!

Putrefactum - Weltenbrand [2026]

Artist: Putrefactum

Album: Weltenbrand
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.instagram.com/putrefactum_band / https://putrefactum.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tank 1916  

2. Putrificator  

3. Command  

4. Colonialism  

5. Horrors of War  

6. Postwar Survivors  

7. Great Depression  

8. Destroyer of Worlds  

9. Natsu Matsuri Epitaph

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, German culture continues to breed interesting new death metal bands at a very high rate. It seems Putrfactum has been active since 2019, but this is my first exposure to their brand, and it is a bit different. I dig it! 

One Day In Pain - Devouring the Gods [2026]

Artist: One Day In Pain

Album: Devouring the Gods
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/t-Bu7IVWzUs / https://onedayinpain.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Be Dead  

2. Devouring the Gods  

3. Let It Bleed  

4. Garrotterad  

5. Emptiness  

6. Ferocious Consumption  

7. Ashen Soul  

8. Crushed Coffin  

9. Conquering the Void  

10. My Arrogance

Witness: -[*]-
Our longtime friend CarlG has promoted this band strongly over the past several years, and this album specifically this year. I have to agree with him on this one, as I have with many over the years. This album is a very strong example of traditional Swedish death metal \m/\m/

Final Plague - Downwards [2026]

Artist: Final Plague

Album: Downwards
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/o0kY3Uj-hxY / https://www.facebook.com/FinalPlague / TDC Link
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Zombie Farm  

2. Sadistic Sanity  

3. Imposed Extinction  

4. The Unseen  

5. Purified  

6. Smothered Emptiness  

7. Scorn  

8. Sick Muse  

9. Spinning Maze  

10. Downwards

Witness: -[*]-

Baalzagoth - No God, No Savior [2026]

Artist: Baalzagoth

Album: No God, No Savior
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/EIkfUZ0Nqv4 / https://baalzagoth.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. True Messiah  

2. Satan  

3. Codex Asmodei  

4. Behemoth  

5. Excommunicatus Ab Humanitate  

6. Blood Tribunal  

7. Auto-Da-Fe  

8. No God, No Savior  

9. Christ of Deceit  

10. Gloria Apostasiae

Witness: -[*]-

Abuser - Blood Marks [2026]

Artist: Abuser

Album: Blood Marks
Year: 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/abuserthrash / https://xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com/abuser
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cry of the Innocent  

2. Suspended in Torture  

3. Blood Marks  

4. Painbringer  

5. Fin de siècle  

6. Monument of Atrocity  

7. Struggling for Reality  

8. Lethal Obsession  

9. Abuser  

10. Witnessing Madness

Witness: -[*]-