Arroganz - Death Doom Punks [2026]

Artist: Arroganz

Album: Death Doom Punks
Year: 2026
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/vbs0M4v_0ZY / https://arroganz.info
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Die for Nothing  

2. Under Scarred Skin  

3. Pain Forged Armor  

4. Death Doom Punks  

5. Anti-Ideology  

6. Arsenic Breath  

7. Incubus' Veins  

8. Earth's Final Dose  

9. Spirit Arsonist

Witness: -[*]-
I like this new album from Arroganz; in my opinion, it has a more consistent death metal vibe than their previous work. Check it and see what you think.

Arroganz - Quintessenz [2024]

Artist: Arroganz

Album: Quintessenz
Year: 2024
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/F-FfhrVUWq0 / https://arroganz.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Origin of Fire

2. Outlaw Reborn  

3. Flames for Nemesis  

4. Dungeon Soul

5. The Devil and My Companion  

6. Deadend Rawness of Life  

7. Guardian of Old Scars  

8. Scorned Lifeblood  

9. The Essence Gospel

Witness: -[*]-

Arroganz - Morsus [2020]

Artist: Arroganz

Album: Morsus
Year: 2020
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/arroganzgermany
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Anodynon

2. Morsus

3. Pain & Light

4. Sleepless Forever

5. Dead Man Galaxy

6. In$ide $uicide

7. Aurora Arroganz

8. Guillotinen

9. Sickpeopledie.

10. Next Level Satan

11. 553

12. Praise Death = Feast Life

13. I Dealth With the Devil

Witness: -[*]-

Human Waste - Misery Obsessions [2026]

Artist: Human Waste

Album: Misery Obsessions
Year: 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://humanwaste-vanrecords.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/humanwasteaachen
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Last Rites  

2. All the Pigs Are Here  

3. Iron Casket  

4. Serpent's Betrayal  

5. A Noble Rot  

6. Seven Unmarked Graves  

7. Venomous Unction  

8. Misery Obsessions

Witness: -[*]-
I have been aware of this band since 2018, but hadn't listened to their music until hearing this album, and I immediately liked their style. Even though they are labeled as brutal death metal, and their 2018 album does have more of that aesthetic, this album sounds more traditional to me, and I like it a lot. German soil continues to cultivate a lot of great death metal!

Human Waste - Aesthetics of Disgust [2018]

Artist: Human Waste

Album: Aesthetics of Disgust
Year: 2018
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/mb-MQJ4ZD9A / https://risingnemesisrecords.bandcamp.com/human waste
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Loose My Shit  

2. Systematic Depression  

3. The War on Truth  

4. Injected Hate  

5. Wer Früher stirbt ist länger tot  

6. 4th Kind  

7. Cause We Are Fucked  

8. Slamming the Door  

9. Ballern  

10. Agony Euphoria  

11. Exterminate the Purity

Witness: -[*]-
One of the problems with being a hoarder is that you end up with so much stuff you never use or maybe even don't know that you have. That was the case for me with this album, as it was in my February 2018 folder, and I am pretty certain that I never even listened to it. That is a shame because it is a very good album, and I am trying to make up for it now. 

Oracle Of Worms - Cult of Suffering [2026]

Artist: Oracle Of Worms

Album: Cult of Suffering
Year: 2026
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/cgOH6dSo1h4 / https://oracleofworms.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Claws of Famine 

3.  Walking Ghost  

4. Cult of Suffering  

5. The Script  

6. Acolytes  

7. Valor  

8. Rabid  

9. Strychnine Hill  

10. Lost Generation

Witness: -[*]-
I am working through my April folder and finally got around to listening to this album. After 2 listens this is becoming one of my favorites for the year so far. They are tagged as black/death metal on Metal-Archives, but I am not hearing a lot of blackness, just good solid death metal \m/\m/

Hellysh - Heksenkæssel [2026]

Artist: Hellysh

Album: Heksenkæssel
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/pAG_NzT33U0 / https://hellysh.bandcamp.com / https://hellysh.bigcartel.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Carnal Devourment  

2. Simpleton Reign  

3. Throne of Agony  

4. Hypocrisy  

5. Black Death  

6. Fucked Again  

7. Burden of Mind  

8. Children of the Lost  

9. Scaphism  

10. Pager  

11. Necromancer

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a band that I was unfamiliar with until this release, and from limited listens, I can tell that I like some of their ideas quite a lot, and then other moments, maybe not as much, but it makes me want to listen more.

Zerre - Rotting on a Golden Throne [2026]

Artist: Zerre

Album: Rotting on a Golden Throne
Year: 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/Zerre / https://www.facebook.com/zerre.thrash
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Pigs Will Be Pigs

3. Deception of the Weak

4. Mental Vacation

5. Concrete Hell

6. Rotting on a Golden Throne

7. Tin God

8. Killing Taste

9. No Alibi

Witness: Link Removed

Anasarca - Achlys [2026]

Artist: Anasarca

Album: Achlys
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/BPG7JrDRGkQ / https://anasarca.de / TDC Link
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Beyond the Passing (Intro)

2. My Reality

3. Achlys

4. Basket of Burdens

5. In Memoriam

6. Pain Remains

7. Broken

8. He Is Dead

9. Wish You Were Here

10. How Can They

11. I Feel

Witness: -[*]-

Sadistic Impalement - Screams of the Abyss [2025]

Artist:  Sadistic Impalement

Album: Screams of the Abyss
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.backstagepro.de/sadistic-impalement / https://www.facebook.com/sadistic impalement
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cordoba  

2. Colony  

3. Satanic Rituals  

4. Broken World  

5. Echoes of War  

6. Headshot  

7. Pain and Despair  

8. Malleus Maleficarum

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a band from Nuremberg, who are labeled as death metal, but I hear a pretty strong core influence in their sound. That's okay, though, because I like it.

Etemenaki - Acts of Violence [2026]

Artist: Etemenaki

Album: Acts of Violence
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://etemenankidm.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Thalassophobia  

2. Utter Subjugation  

3. Rise of Enkidu  

4. Humbaba's Lair  

5. Gilgamesh III  

6. Enslaved  

7. Nam-Shub  

8. Erased from the Surface  

9. Nachkriegsschimmel

Witness: -[*]-

When I first saw this album and the band name, I wasn't expecting this to be a German band, but they are, and overall, I think this album has some decent moments.

Casket - In the Long Run We Are All Dead [2026]

Artist: Casket

Album: In the Long Run We Are All Dead
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/K_CBGKGLiRs / https://casketdeath.bandcamp.com 
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Will to Comply

2. Highest Thrones

3. Mirrors  

4. Seeds of Desolation

5. Hammer, Knife, Spade

6. Skull Bunker

7. Necrowaves  

8. Mainstream Mutilation

9. Fundamental Rot

10. Strangulation Culture

11. Graveyard Stomper

12. United Forses (S.O.D. cover) 

Witness: -[*]-
I admittedly have not listened to this album enough yet for it to really soak in, but I have liked their past work, and what I have listened to of this carries their lineage on quite effectively.

Corrosive Agent - Vastator Mundi [2026]

Artist: Corrosive Agent

Album: Vastator Mundi
Year: 2026
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Groove Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Myu-snpGMMU / https://www.facebook.com/CorrosiveAgentBand
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Mere Footnote

2. Carcass Country

3. Key Values

4. Hubris

5. Rhizome

6. Plague Raiser

7. Ng

8. Full Mental Package

9. Vastator Mundi

Witness: -[*]-
Corrosive Agent is a new German band who, based on their bio, recorded, mixed & mastered this album themselves, and they got a great sound. Proof that there is no need to have shitty sound quality in the production, like many bands are getting nowadays. These guys play what I would call modern melodic death groove, and I'm mostly liking it. Some parts are a bit slow, and the songs can tend to drag, but the band's heavier side is interesting and appealing to me, so I keep listening. I would say this disc is worth checking out if you're open to the progressive/melodic slant in their style.

Resurrected - Perpetual [2026]

Artist: Resurrected

Album: Perpetual
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/resurrected.brutaldeath / https://resurrectedbrutality.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Unholy Intercession  

2. Human Wrath  

3. Forever Damned  

4. Into Mighty Death  

5. Sanity Is Lost  

6. Decomposed  

7. Immaculate Deception  

8. Echoes of Creation  

9. Perpetual  

10. Infernal Desire (Malevolent Creation cover)

Witness: -[*]-
Here is the newest release from this OG moniker in German death metal, Resurrected. I think these tracks represent the band very well, quite entertaining for my tastes. Only 1 original member is remaining, but it has been that way for a very long time now, with the 3 core members being together for ~14 years \m/\m/ 

Resurrected - Butchered in Excrement [2001]

Artist: Resurrected

Album: Butchered in Excrement 
Year: 2001
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/zIracdRoIF8 / https://resurrectedbrutality.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Beginning of Terror  

2. Dripping with Blood  

3. Deadly Lessons  

4. Wait to Suffer  

5. Macabre Fuckfest  

6. Infecting the Crypts (Suffocation cover)

7. Ophidicism  

8. Entangled in Madness  

9. Butchered in Excrement  

10. Conquered Suffering

Witness: Link removed

Sabiendas - Puppeteer of Doom [2026]

Artist: Sabiendas

Album: Puppeteer of Doom
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/B_fTskXFEf8 / http://www.sabiendas.com / TDC Link
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Ad Supplicium  

2. De Morte Indignorum  

3. Freak of Nature  

4. Scavenger of the Graves  

5. Garden of Delight  

6. Puppeteer of Doom  

7. Stench of Cadaver  

8. Soul Devourer  

9. Walls of Bedlam  

10. Eternal Empire  

11. The Outsider

Witness: -[*]-

Teratoma - Longing Voractiy [2026]

Artist: Teratoma

Album: Longing Voracity
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/YibwrsyoapM / https://teratomadeathmetal.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Exordium  

2. Longing Voracity  

3. Chaotic Bewilderment  

4. Ravaged and Absorbed  

5. Perpetual Anguish  

6. Circle of Perdition  

7. Interim  

8. Festering Realm 

9. Spewing Atrocities  

10. Stertorous Whisper

Witness: -[*]-
Thanks to CarlG for the heads up on this band a week or so ago. More killer Deutsch death metal, Germany is hitting it pretty hard so far in 2026! 

Rotten Soil - I Worship Death [2026]

Artist: Rotten Soil

Album: I Worship Death
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://rottensoil.bandcamp.com / 
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Eulogy  

2. The Reapers Crown  

3. Graveyard Rat  

4. Purgatory  

5. Pain  

6. I Worship Death  

7. Die for Me  

8. The Soul Collector  

9. Burial Ground  

10. Mortis Aeternum  

11. Casket Garden

Witness: -[*]-
These guys had a very good debut album back in 2022, and now here they are in 2026 with the follow-up, and I'm impressed. I haven't thoroughly listened to a lot of the new releases yet, but this is one of my current favorites for the year so far. They aren't doing anything particularly unique, but I do like what they've created here, all the way down to the cover of Dismember's Casket Garden at the end. 

Cruel Force - Haneda [2026]

Artist: Cruel Force

Album: Haneda
Year: 2026
Genre: Black Metal / Speed Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://burningleathermx.com/Cruel_Force / https://cruelforce.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Cross

2. Whips-A-Swinging

3. Savage Gods

4. Sword of Iron

5. Crystal Skull

6. Warlords

7. Black Talon

8. Titan’s Awakening

9. Haneda

Witness: -[*]-
Killer old-school speed metal from Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. On this album, Cruel Force has captured the essence of what this style should sound like. The drum and guitar sound is perfectly captured in the recording and works to transport the listener back to the 80's heyday of speed metal. This is recommended for any true fan of the genre.

  

Cruel Force - Dawn of the Axe [2023]

Artist: Cruel Force

Album: Dawn of the Axe
Year: 2023
Genre: Black Metal / Speed Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://cruelforce.bigcartel.com/cruel force / https://www.instagram.com/cruelforceofficial
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Azrael's Dawn

2. At the Dawn of the Axe

3. Night of Thunder

4. Death Rides the Sky

5. Devil's Dungeon

6. Watchtower of Abra

7. Across the Styx

8. Power Surge

9. Realm of Sands

Witness: -[*]-