Cage Fight - Exuvia [2026]

Artist: Cage Fight 

Album: Exuvia
Year: 2026
Genre: Metalcore / Crossover
Web: https://www.cagefightldn.com / https://candlelightrecordsuk.bandcamp.com/cage-fight
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Confined  

2. Oxygen  

3. Pig  

4. Pick Your Fighter  

5. Un bon souvenir  

6. Deathstalker  

7. Le Denei  

8. Exuvia  

9. The Hammer Crush  

10. IHYG (I Hate Your Guts)  

11. Elegie

Witness: -[*]-
This album won't be for everyone, but I kinda dig it as it takes me back to what I liked about this style in the early 2000s. The chick has some serious venom in her voice, and at times she gets brutal. This is a guilty pleasure for me for sure.

Sylosis - The New Flesh [2026]

Artist: Sylosis

Album: The New Flesh
Year: 2026
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.sylosis-band.com / https://www.facebook.com/Sylosis
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Beneath the Surface

2. Erased

3. All Glory, No Valour

4. Lacerations

5. Mirror Mirror

6. Spared from the Guillotine

7. Adorn My Throne

8. The New Flesh

9. Everywhere at Once

10. Circle of Swords

11. Seeds in the River

Witness: -[*]-
Back in the early 2000s, when metalcore was at its peak, this band released 2 EPs (posted below) that I thought were very good at the time, but as the scene became so highly oversaturated, my tastes changed. And, even though I have been aware of Sylosis and their many releases in the years that have passed since 2010 or so, I didn't pay much attention to them. Then, a couple of months ago, my old friend nuttinface urged me to give this album a chance, so I finally did, and I'll be damned, it is really very good. Thanks for pushing me, my brother!

Sylosis - The Supreme Oppressor (EP) [2007]

Artist: Sylosis

Album: The Supreme Oppressor
Year: 2007
Genre: Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/vFyfM9cR5Xg / https://sylosis.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. The Supreme Oppressor (Intro)

2. Manipulation Through Idols

3. Visions of Demise

4. Slowly Consumed

5. Silence from Those in the Sky

6. Turbulence

7. Blind Desperation

Witness: -[*]-

Sylosis - Casting Shadows (EP) [2006]

Artist: Sylosis

Album: Casting Shadows
Year: 2006
Genre: Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/FSxfM9YbuWU / https://www.instagram.com/sylosisofficial
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dark Revelations

2. Casting Shadows

3. The Bereaved

4. Oath of Silence

5. Beneath Black Clouds

Witness: -[*]-

Into The Fray - Deofolist [2025]

Artist: Into The Fray

Album: Deofolist
Year: 2025
Genre: Metalcore / Groove Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/NXqUNkvNn5E / https://satanath.bandcamp.com/intothefray

Country: Russia

Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. I, Borealis  

2. The Frogfoot  

3. Teufelsbrucke  

4. 776  

5. Lien X  

6. Warfighter (Ramin Djawadi cover)  

7. Vale of Tombs  

8. Bloodstainless Steel  

9. S(owulo) T(eiwaz) T(urisaz)  

10. Smorgon  

11. Martia Victrix  

12. The Oath

Witness: -[*]-
I am sure there are quite a few people who come here who will completely skip over this band because of the metalcore/groove tag, but I'm here to tell you that this disc is really a pretty good listen. There are some nice riffs and leads, and I like the dude's vocal delivery and cadence. Not bad at all.

Burial Ground - Sentence Passed (EP) [2025]

Artist: Burial Ground

Album: Sentence Passed
Year: 2025
Genre: Metalcore / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/wCfCqOHScUk / https://open.spotify.com/burial ground
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Shattering the Barrier of Silence  

2. Creature  

3. Sentence Passed  

4. Behavior Modification  

5. Third Impact  

6. Destroy the Light  

7. Vomit  

8. Forest of Grim

Witness: -[*]-
As is quite often the case, I found this one on one of the flooding sites, you know, the sites that post "everything new" without consideration for what may or may not actually be good. Well, I finally worked up the desire to listen to this. I hesitated because of the metalcore tag, and even though I used to be totally into metalcore back in the late 90s - early 2000s, I had reservations on this one. I was wrong, though; this is really pretty good, which is made unfortunate by the fact that they already split up. 

All Life Ends - Miscreation [2023]

Artist: All Life Ends

Album: Miscreation
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: https://alllifeends1.bandcamp.com / https://www.alllifeends.com
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Silent End of a Bastard Breed  

2. Garden of Imperfection  

3. The Dreamless Void  

4. Miscreation  

5. Extinction Hours

6. Pandemonic  

7. Novas Womb  

8. Crawling Existence  

9. Thanatos

Witness: -[*]-
Did anyone get into this disc a couple years back? I did, but I know that the metalcore tag turns a lot of people off even though I don't hear much core it's death metal just melodic at times and aggressive at others. 

Sentenced 2 Die - Parasitic Infection [2023]

Artist: Sentenced 2 Die

Album: Parasitic Infection
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/84uitXYrwUs / https://s2d-maggotstomp.bandcamp.com/sentenced-2-die
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Desecrated Tombstones  

2. Tied Down and Impaled  

3. Parasitic Infection  

4. Corpse Defleshed  

5. Canopy of Intestines  

6. Etched in Stone  

7. Bestial Deformity  

8. Splattered on Pavement  

9. Grinding Limbs to Stumps  

10. Manifestations of an Infected Mind

Witness: Link removed

Scathe - What the World Has Come To [2009]

Artist: Scathe

Album: What the World Has Come To
Year: 2009
Genre: Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/6O1tcROdfpI
Country: United States
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Plagues  

2. The Restraining Order  

3. Amend  

4. Purify  

5. Remorsefully Yours  

6. Remembrance  

7. Atone  

8. What Would Have Been  

9. Self Destruct  

10. Forsaken  

11. The World As We Knew It  

12. Forgotten Law  

13. Unleash  

14. Truth  

15. Analyzing Reality  

16. What the World Has Come To

Witness: -[*]-

Purified In Blood - Reaper of Souls [2006]

Artist: Purified In Blood
Album: Reaper of Souls
Year: 2006
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: http://youtu.be/aTC6s1tauNY
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Gates of Gehenna
2. Unmarked Graves
3. Dying Age
4. Venom
5. Possessed by Death
6. Imprisoned Freedom
7. The Last Day
8. Endless Evil
9. The Ultimate Price
10. Skullwister

Witness: -[*]-

I am pretty certain that a lot of people wouldn't even bother with this because of the melodic and metalcore tags but this is still a very cool album in my opinion.

 

A Traitor Like Judas - Nightmare Inc. [2005]

Artist: A Traitor Like Judas

Album: Nightmare Inc.
Year: 2005
Genre: Metalcore / Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/8nO3_wKb0zg
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps
 
Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. Die Without...

3. No More Silence

4. Nightmare Inc.

5. From My Cold Dead Hands

6. The Swan

7. A Good Day to Die

8. Memory Hall

9. To the Bones

10. You Rip Our Guts Out

11. On Freedom Square

Witness: -[*]-

As We Fight - Black Nails and Bloody Wrists [2004]

Artist: As We Fight

Album: Black Nails and Bloody Wrists
Year: 2004
Genre: Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/kNgRb10LLsQ
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. I Bury My Head in My Hands

2. Catalyst of Terror

3. Bringing It All Together

4. Ignite the Fire

5. Embrace This Hell

6. Unreachable

7. Black Nails and Bloody Wrists

8. Dead Mans Hand

9. Resistance

10. Lost to the Madness

11. Wasting Days

Witness: -[*]-
I know a lot a people won't like this disc but I kinda did back in that day but haven't listened to this in quite a long time and it sounds pretty dated but I still like some of this stuff.

Tomorrow To Ashes - The End of All Days (EP) [2009]

Artist: Tomorrow To Ashes

Album: The End of All Days
Year: 2009
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/MK4oQSRlkYE
Country: Germany
Quality: 128 kbps

Tracklist:
1. The End of All Days
2. Room of Sorrow
3. Die for Sins
4. Blind Eyes
5. Behind Their Beautiful Smile
6. Waste of Nature

Witness: -[*]-

壕Trench - Blossom [2020]

Artist:  壕Trench

Album: Blossom
Year: 2020
Genre: Metalcore / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/EK6vjUtIvlE
Country: Canada
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Crawling Past
2. The Face of Ra
3. Become Fulfilled
4. Crystal Shame
5. Blossom I
6. Living in Salt
7. Abandoned
8. Cosmic Grave
9. Patience
10. Hellbent Gate (feat. Jesse Zaraska of Misery Signals)
11. Blossom II

Witness: -[*]-
This is different for sure but still kinda interesting, take the trip with me and see what you think. Thanks to my friend Roundevil Rond for the intel on this band.

Mermaid In A Manhole - Flesh Drapes the Spire [2006]

Artist: Mermaid In A Manhole

Album: Flesh Drapes the Spire
Year: 2006
Genre: Blackened Doom Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/YSUBjLj15Lk
Country: United States
Quality: VBR @ 256 kbps

Tracklist:
1. March of the Brimstone Colossus
2. Playing Rasputin's Fiddle
3. Wormwood
4. Rosaleen - Lambs Drape the Spire
5. Asphodel
6. Fangs Will Rust

Witness: -[*]-
So, here's a disc that I used to dig on quite a bit but it will definitely be an acquired taste for many of you. These guys certainly flew the metalcore flag, so that will be a turn off to most but their music here had a blackened doomy feel that kept it interesting and I liked the dude's schizophrenic vocal style.

I Warned You - Breathing the Scarlets [2012]

Artist: I Warned You
Album: Breathing the Scarlets
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: http://youtu.be/w7pKGfuAoLM
Country: Czech Republic
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Pray
3. Revenge
4. Breathing The Scarlets
5.Election
6. Sands Of Time
7. Reach
8. Nothing Gets Forgiven
9. Origin
10. I Warned You

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a disc that I used to listen to quite a bit when it first came out and while this style won't suit everybody, I just want to see if anyone else appreciates it the way that I do \m/\m/

The Darkest Red - Destroy & Rebuild [2009]

Artist: The Darkest Red

Album: Destroy & Rebuild
Year: 2009
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/DD5GWFIXgpM
Country: Netherlands
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Paint the Town Red
2. Wake the Dream
3. Survive
4. Endless
5. Into Ashes
6. Declaration of War
7. The Book
8. The Reaping
9. Er is geen god
10. Destroy & Rebuild

Witness: -[*]-

Gokan - Vae Victis (EP) [2014]

Artist: Gokan

Album: Vae Victis
Year: 2014
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/k8dslcm2ueE
Country: France
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. No Surrending
2. Maladif
3. Interlude
4. Price of Your Blood
5. Vae Victis
6. Waste of Time

Witness: -[*]-

Gokan - Gokan (EP) [2007]

Artist: Gokan

Album: Gokan
Year: 2007
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/4Bn46CBRsS4
Country: France
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Load
2. Déviant
3. Force et Horreur
4. Luxe
5. Accablé

Witness: -[*]-

Your Chance To Die - Ex Nihilo [2017]

Artist: Your Chance To Die

Album: Ex Nihilo
Year: 2017
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: https://youtu.be/uiHGOsOXhfc
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. End of Siege
3. Feeders
4. Skinwalker
5. Shapeshifters
6. Shadow and Flame
7. Omega
8. Ignite the Sky

Witness: -[*]-
One of many that Nikki has dropped on us here recently. Not too bad if you're open to the melodic stuff. Here is one of their older videos for your review and assessment.