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: -[*]-

Where Deprivation Lies - Tempest [2021]

Artist: Where Deprivation Lies

Album: Tempest
Year: 2021
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/pr_I1MkUFuc / https://wheredeprivationlies.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Poseidon  

2. Concrete Skies

3. They Will Repent

4. Riches to the Conjurer

5. Valkyrie

6. What Is Your Pleasure, Sir?

7. Static Hymns Before the Fractal Altar

8. The Trials

Witness: -[*]-

I like this album a bit more than the new one, it seems more creative and less melodic. 

Arbitrater - Darkened Reality [1993]

Artist: Arbitrater

Album: Darkened Reality
Year: 1993
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/YRuHlsaYjnE / https://www.deezer.com/us/arbitrater

Country: United Kingdom

Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:

1. Judge And Jury 

2. Suicide Commercially 

3. Guilty Of No Crime 

4. No Second Chance 

5. Racist Nation 

6. Deadline 

7. Nightmare Vision 

8. Choose Your Weapons 

9. Darkened Reality 

10. Memories Of Yesterday

Witness: -[*]-

Arbitrater - Balance of Power [1991]

Artist: Arbitrater

Album: Balance of Power
Year: 1991
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/KxsQ9ozVuKE / https://tribunalrecords.bandcamp.com/arbitrater
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Allegiance 

2. The Treaty 

3. Evil Emperor 

4. Conquest 

5. Life Line 

6. Graveyard Of Fools 

7. Time For Destiny

8. Deadly Assassin 

9. Conquest (Demo)  

10. Mystical Dreamworld (Demo) 

11. Crash Of Thunder (Demo) 

Witness: -[*]-

Ancient Rivalry - What Lives Beneath [2026]

Artist: Ancient Rivalry

Album: What Lives Beneath
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://ancientrivalry.bigcartel.com / https://www.facebook.com/ancient rivalry
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. What Lives Beneath  

2. Altars of the Damned  

3. Rotted Crown  

4. Drowned in Human Filth  

5. Siege Eternal  

6. Sanctified Execution  

7. Hunger of the Dead  

8. Breathless Dominion

Witness: -[*]-
Here is an interesting young band from London with a solid debut full-length. They have a nice groove, a cool guitar tone, and overall a tight production. I like this album; the band shows promise.

Shrapnel - Raised on Decay [2017]

Artist: Shrapnel

Album: Raised on Decay
Year: 2017
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://shrapneluk.bandcamp.com / https://www.instagram.com/shrapnelbandofficial
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hollow Earth

2. Complete Resection

3. The Boundaries Set

4. Jester  

5. Pariah  

6. Echoes of Emptiness  

7. Carved from Above  

8. 1.0.1  

9. Raised on Decay

10. Choir of Wolves  

11. Antichrist (Slayer cover)

Witness: -[*]-
These guys released 3 top-notch thrash albums between 2014 & 2020, with Palace for the Insane being my first exposure and favorite album, but this disc is a close second. 

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.

Impermanent - Forging Eternity (EP) [2026]

Artist: Impermanent 

Album: Forging Eternity
Year: 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Slam Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/rj9uPGZoIb8 / https://impermanentdeath.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Mass Psychogenic Illness  

2. Spiralisation  

3. Defilement of Self  

4. Corporal Immortality  

5. Outro

Witness: -[*]-

Scordatura - Led Into Oblivion [2026]

Artist: Scordatura

Album: Led Into Oblivion
Year: 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://scordatura.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/Scordaturaofficial
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Doomed to Fate  

2. Led into Oblivion  

3. Existential Termination  

4. Echoes of a Fractured Mind  

5. Oppressed/Repressed  

6. A Manic Indoctrination  

7. Retali(h)ate  

8. When the Red Moon Hangs Low  

9. Maw of the Void  

10. Begging to Die

Witness: -[*]-
I have been a fan of this band ever since I first heard Torment of the Weak in 2013, and when I saw this album was due to be released this year, I pre-ordered a digital copy immediately. After only one complete listen, unfortunately, I must say I am a little let down, but I am not ready to pass final judgment just yet. I am going to give this more spins and time to soak in.

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: -[*]-

Ophidious - Relic of the Eight Configurations [2026]

Artist: Ophidious

Album: Relic of the Eight Configurations
Year: 2026
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ep_iGNIgwgM / https://ophidious.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Exordium  

2.  The Instruments of Pharaonic Ascendancy (A King in his Rising)  

3. Hagezussa  

4. As but Thralls In the Court of the Anunnaki  

5. Vyrakothka  

6. Necrosynoptic  

7. Tetragrammaton Undone  

8. Of Cernunnos and the Cauldron Born  

9. Zkhül  

10. The Great Apostate  

11. Master of Storms  

12. Gored by Horns In the Rising Sun

Witness: -[*]-
The 2-man project Ophidious is quickly back with a follow-up to their 2025 release, Forgotten Shrines of Heresy, and this is another competent collection of blackened death metal songs. 

Corpse Water - ...Something in the Water [2026]

Artist: Corpse Water

Album: ...Something in the Water
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/flgVkrE3vXc / https://www.corpsewater.com / https://corpsewater.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood High  

2. Spontaneous Human Combustion  

3. Those of the Obscene  

4. You Can Scream, It Won't Matter  

5. The Hauntings of May  

6. I Demon, I Monster  

7. There's a Body in the Tank  

8. The Body and Blade  

9. Traumatised

Witness: -[*]-
It seems that Corpse Water is a 1-man project from Belfast, and for my tastes, this dude has created some damn good death metal!

Austerymn - Sepulcrum Viventium [2015]

Artist: Austerymn

Album: Sepulcrum Viventium
Year: 2015
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/5s4UVpArXec / https://austerymnofficial.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Feeding the Grotesque  

3. Written in the Scars  

4. Bleeding Reality  

5. Excarnation  

6. Darkness Burns Forever  

7. The Living Grave  

8. In Death... We Speak  

9. Necrolation  

10. Buried Alive  

11. Dead  

12. Riven

Witness: -[*]-
I was completely unaware of this band until just about a week ago, and I am so glad I discovered them now because this is a very good disc. It is definitely on the melodic side, but it remains highly engaging. These guys are supposedly still active and long overdue for new material. I hope we get some.

Aggressive Perfector - Come Creeping Fiends [2026]

Artist: Aggressive Perfector

Album: Come Creeping Fiends
Year: 2026
Genre: Speed Metal / Thrash Metal / Heavy Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/z2gGG0z7y0Y / https://aggressiveperfector.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dead Undead

2. Strange Companion

3. Fiend in You

4. Like a Beast

5. Obscene Cult

6. Denied by the Reaper

7. Harlot's Spell

8. Return of the Axe

9. Gallows' Eve

Witness: -[*]-
I like this one quite a bit, but wish it were a bit grittier and heavier at times. It doesn't matter, as I get older and farther away from my favored times in the 1980s, I'm a sucker for albums like this. These guys are competently repurposing riffs from back in the day, everything from Iron Maiden to a twist on the Detroit Rock City riff from Kiss, and it works.

Grave Ghoul - Gruesome and Macabre [2025]

Artist: Grave Ghoul

Album: Gruesome and Macabre
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ZQuoFnvQpdE / https://graveghoul.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Emptying of the Graves  

2. Cathedral of Tombs  

3. Entombed Alive  

4. Autosarcophagy  

5. Dr. Butcher  

6. Within the Woods  

7. The Spectral Dead  

8. Hungry Cadavers  

9. Drilled  

10. Shambling Eyeless Corpses  

11. A Shrine of Bones

Witness: -[*]-
I've slept on this album for long enough now. I really liked the dude's previous work in this 1-man project band. Well, it seems there is actually a band to perform live now, but my understanding is that everything on display here was performed by just the main dude. 

Dying Realm - Siege the Walls (EP) [2026]

Artist: Dying Realm

Album: Siege the Walls
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Pirr4jM1nbg / https://dyingrealm.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Graves of Gods

2. Villainous Incantation

3. Mace Buried Deep

4. Abundant Mutilation 

Witness: -[*]-
It is only 4 tracks, but Dying Realm shows promise with what they've created here. I, for one, want to hear more.

Heart Ripper - Fatality [2025]

Artist: Heart Ripper

Album: Fatality
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2V4jNXzoQDU / https://www.facebook.com/heartripperband
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Press Start to Begin the Violence  

2. Cleaved in Two  

3. Death 13  

4. Lurking Through the Tombs  

5. Fatality  

6. Devoured by the Mind  

7. Deathmatch  

8. Insomnicide  

9. Vortex of Flesh  

10. Final Boss

Witness: -[*]-
Heart Ripper is a 1-man does it all wrecking crew who has created a fairly energetic and entertaining death metal album with these tracks.  

Body Harvest - Parasitic Slavery [2019]

Artist: Body Harvest

Album: Parasitic Slavery
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://bodyharvest1.bandcamp.com / https://bodyharvest.bigcartel.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Wrath of Ra

2. Global Decimation

3. Hierarchy of Grief

4. Consumed by Tyrants

5. Narcissistic Being

6. Parasitic Slavery

7. The Prophet

8. The Endless Ascent

9. Darkness Descends

10. Apocalyptic Abomination

Witness: -[*]-
Back in 2014, when I heard Body Harvest's debut, Futile Creation, I was immediately impressed by their brand of death metal, but for some reason, I didn't pay as much attention to this album. It is not that this is a bad album; it's not, but I guess there has been too much death and not enough life to enjoy it all. Sadly, these guys split up following this release.