Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Everdawn - Poems - Burn the Past [1997]


Artist: The Everdawn
Album: Poems - Burn the Past
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/MhrzWgKiKpQ
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Territory Loss
2. When The Sunset Forever Fade
3. Needlework 8
4. Where Pain Never Dies
5. Autumn, Sombre Autumn
6. Burn
7. Poems
8. Opera Of The Damned

Witness: -[*]-
Minor old school melo-death classic. There are a handful of great songs on this disc. It's recorded very low, so crank it up and fucking jam! CD rip + scans.

The Everdawn - Opera of the Damned (EP) [1996]


Artist: The Everdawn
Album: Opera of the Damned (EP)
Year: 1996
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/ynUHQXW_w28
Country: Sweden
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Everdawn
2. Nightborn
3. The Silent Winter Sky
4. Opera of the Damned

Download: Link

Deep In Hate - Only The Strong Survive [2007]


Artist: Deep In Hate
Album: Only The Strong Survive
Year: 2007
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: http://youtu.be/FdzC2EYKRQA
Country: France
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Payback Time
3. Abortion in Progress
4. Status : IDLE
5. Hopeless Addiction
6. Sphere of Handling
7. Traffic Insanity
8. Execration Need

Download: Link
Stellar brutal grindcore, far superior to their 2011 release in my opinion. (\m/\m/)

Necrogrind - Follow With My Fear [2011]


Artist: Necrogrind
Album: Follow With My Fear
Year: 2011
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: http://www.myspace.com/necrogrindrus
Country: Russia
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. The Dead Legion
2. Chainsaw
3. Follow with My Fear
4. Hellwall
5. The Blade Awaits
6. It's My Reborn
7. Virgin Slut
8. Wake Up
9. Revenge of the Zombie (Six Feet Under Cover)
10. Runaway from Inevitability
11. Person to Person Animal

Download: -[*]-
I can't find any videos and very little updated information on this band, I'm surprised because this disc is pretty damn good. Hear it now!

Molest The Episcopate - Socialistica Nervosa [2011]


Artist: Molest The Episcopate
Album: Socialistica Nervosa
Year: 2011
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Deathcore
Web: http://youtu.be/BUzGP2V2hIM
Country: New Zealand
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Drown the Christian Retards
2. Holy Writ As Hideous Smut
3. Energy
4. Sodomised Empress Empiricism
5. Hadith of a Qu'er Prophet
6. Burying the Caliphate in Glass
7. Pedophilia at the Point of Consecration
8. Socialistica Nervosa
9. Spine and Heart (of the Modern Antichrist)

Download: Link

Mencea - Pyrophoric [2012]


Artist: Mencea
Album: Pyrophoric
Year: 2012
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/yn8Ce9ivD7U
Country: Greece
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Phosphorus
2. CCC
3. Elders
4. Hounds
5. Beheading
6. Pyrophoric
7. Invocation
8. The Dead

Download: Link

Blastmasters - Twisted Metal [2008]


Artist: Blastmasters
Album: Twisted Metal
Year: 2008
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: http://youtu.be/qoQIpuL2VPg
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Altricial Meta-Genesis
2. Catastrophic System Failure
3. Shellfire and Tombstones
4. Twisted Metal
5. Putred Future
6. We the Treacherous
7. Implemented Digital Control
8. The Beheadings
9. La Fin du Monde
10. Shockwave Undertown

Download: Link removed by request

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Hellspawn - The Great Red Dragon [2012]


Artist: Hellspawn
Album: The Great Red Dragon
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/pWAM3IDN7NM
Country: Poland
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. The First Banner in the Fields of Devil
2. Words Becomes Flesh
3. Hellspawn
4. Diabolic
5. The Great Red Dragon
6. Intro to the Revelation
7. Revelation of the Red Dragon
8. The Dice are Cast
9. The Greatest King among Demon
10. An Obelisk of the World

Download: -[*]-

Hellspawn - Child of Hell [2010]


Artist: Hellspawn
Album: Child of Hell
Year: 2010
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/uozNCRZHxss
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Child of Hell
2. Thou
3. Dawn of Armageddon
4. Inferno
5. The Countmaster
6. 666
7. Forty and Four
8. SSW
9. Fiend

Download: Link

Toture Eternal - Mentally Killed Before the Birth [2005]

Artist: Torture Eternal
Album: Mentally Killed Before the Birth
Year: 2005
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/8wAjeZe35Pg
Country: Sweden
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Intro (Dark Industrial Waves)/Totally Aggressive and Cold
2. Mentally Killed Before the Birth
3. Alone in Hell Cold
4. End of All and Nothing in Particular
5. Necrophilian Psychotic Autopsy
6. Fuck You
7. Christianity Denied
8. Darklife in Stoneversion
9. Grey Distorted Playgrounds
10. The Last Gate of Despair / Outro (In Empty Darkness)

Download: Link

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Noctem - Oblivion [2011]


Artist: Noctem
Album: Oblivion
Year: 2011
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/Wcn3C0d84vA
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Popol Vuh
2. The Arrival of the False Gods
3. Universal Disorder
4. Abnegation and Brutality
5. Invictus
6. Sons of Hun-Vucub
7. Seeking the Ruin of Souls
8. Unredemption
9. Q'uma'rka'aa'j
10. A Borning Winged Snake
11. Oblivion

Witness: Link
Newest release from these Spaniards, blazing intense black death!

Noctem - Divinity [2009]

Artist: Noctem
Album: Divinity
Year: 2009
Genre: Black Metal / Technical Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/noctemofficial
Country: Spain
Quality: 192 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Atlas Death
2. In the Path of Heleim
3. Realms in Decay
4. The Sanctuary
5. The Call of Oricalco's Horn
6. Across Heracles Towards
7. In the Aeons of Time
8. Necropolis of Esthar's Ruins
9. Divinity
10. Religious Plagues
11. Under Seas of Silence
12. Divinity (Bonus Track)

Witness: -[*]-
Intense and technical blackened death from Valencia, Spain. As brutal as technical melodic blackened death metal can be. Be sure to watch the video.


I know that most people who visit The Death Chamber on a regular basis, do so because they're looking for something new or unknown in the realm of death metal. I would also like to think that if you continue to search here, it's because you've already found something that piqued your interest. Well, hopefully, that will continue.

I've been feeling nostalgic lately, and so tonight I stepped into the Wayback Machine and would like to present something a little different. Most will not like this direction, but this is a sampling of the bands, that influenced me back in the day, the 1980's.

I'm posting a lot of stuff that most death metal fans won't like.. but I do. I'm avoiding the more mainstream bands of the era such as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Dio, Scorpions, Ozzy, Slayer, Metallica, and the like, even though I liked all of them. I only want to promote the lesser known bands or releases.

Some of these bands have never gotten the recognition that they deserved, and this promotion probably won't help, but I hope that at least a few people enjoy these "ancient treasures", and for everyone else, be patient, your regularly scheduled postings will be back tomorrow.

\m/ THORNE \m/

Helstar - Burning Star [1984]


Artist: Helstar
Album: Burning Star
Year: 1984
Genre: Power Metal / Speed Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/m8sTHepX38U
Country: United States
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Burning Star
2. Towards the Unknown
3. Witch's Eye
4. Run with the Pack
5. Leather and Lust
6. Possession
7. Shadows of Iga
8. Dracula's Castle

Witness: -[*]-
Heavy, progressive speed metal from Houston. The beginnings of the Texas scene, all fans of the genre should hear this offering if you haven't.

Forbidden - Forbidden Evil [1988]


Artist: Forbidden
Album: Forbidden Evil
Year: 1988
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/VVQzulX8qBA / https://www.facebook.com/forbiddenofficial
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Chalice of Blood
2. Off the Edge
3. Through Eyes of Glass
4. Forbidden Evil
5. March into Fire
6. Feel No Pain
7. As Good as Dead
8. Follow Me

Witness: -[*]-
Let me tell you a story, 30+ years ago, my buddy nuttinface and I went into a record store and he bought this album (fucking awesome), and I bought Racer X - Extreme Volume (fucking weak). Hopefully, I've made up for that poor choice many times since then but if not, then I'll repost this again now because it is a bit of a classic from back in the day. This is my own rip \m/\m/

Friday, July 20, 2012

Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory [1986]


Artist: Crimson Glory
Album: Crimson Glory
Year: 1986
Genre: Power Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/EaBcKfc3cH8 / https://www.theofficialcrimsonglory.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Valhalla
2. Dragon Lady
3. Heart of Steel
4. Azrael
5. Mayday
6. Queen of the Masquerade
7. Angels of War
8. Lost Reflection

Witness: -[*]-
It's funny, but I have a very sentimental memory about this album. Back in '86, my girlfriend and I were at the record store, like we always were at that time, or at least I was. Anyway, she found this band called Crimson Glory, and their debut album in the C-section, and she brought it to me and said, "You should get this one; I bet these guys are good." I think she actually just liked the photo with them in their masks on the back of the album, but I bought it anyway. I'll be damned if they didn't become one of my favorite bands for a few years, so thanks babe, for the recommendation. This is the CD version that I bought years later (\m/\m/)

Forced Entry - Uncertain Future [1989]


Artist: Forced Entry
Album: Uncertain Future
Year: 1989
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/1CJQ05qDO7k
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Bludgeon
2. Kaleidoscope of Pain
3. A Look Through Glass
4. Anaconda
5. Octoclops
6. Unrest They Find
7. Morgulon
8. Foreign Policy

Witness: -[*]-
Technical and at times, brutal thrash out of Seattle, from back in the day. Essential stuff \m/\m/

Bloodlust - Guilty As Sin [1986]


Artist: Bloodlust
Album: Guilty As Sin
Year: 1986
Genre: Speed Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/mtbWbG7zxmI
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Soldier of Fortune
2. Ride to Death
3. Chainsaw
4. Tear it up
5. Bleeding for You
6. Too Scared to Run
7. Rising Power

Download: Link
\m/\m/

Pantera - Power Metal [1988]


Artist: Pantera
Album: Power Metal
Year: 1988
Genre: Power Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/KUKneC71HDI
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Rock the World
2. Power Metal
3. We'll Meet Again
4. Over and Out
5. Proud to Be Loud
6. Down Below
7. Death Trap
8. Hard Ride
9. Burnnn
10. P.S.T.

Download: Link
I found this on cassette in my local record store back in '88 and I fell in love with this disc, so infectous. I never understood why Pantera as a band ignored this disc in their live show, this is a sterling gem. "I asked you once a million time to keep your life the same."

Scanner - Hypertrace [1988]


Artist: Scanner
Album: Hypertrace
Year: 1988
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/E3CsudRlvog
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Warp 7
2. Terrion
3. Locked Out
4. Across the Universe
5. R.M.U.
6. Grapes of Fear
7. Retaliation Positive
8. Killing Fields
9. Wizard Force
10. Galactos (Bonus Track)

Witness: -[*]-
This album contains the best tracks the band ever created in my opinion. I had heard Galactos before hearing the rest of the disc and thought this band is going to be killer down the road, but unfortunately this was the only album that struck my interest. My rip isn't the digital Japanese reissue, it's a good 320 of the original Hypertrace album, and a vinyl rip of Galactos from an old vinyl compilation that I have.

Tyrant - Legions of the Dead [1985]


Artist: Tyrant
Album: Legions of the Dead
Year: 1985
Genre: Heavy Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/b-Y9qVjsQWU
Country: United States
Quality: 256 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Warriors of Metal
2. Fall into the Hands of Evil
3. The Battle of Armageddon
4. Legions of the Dead
5. Tyrant's Revelation
6. Listen to the Preacher
7. Knight of Darkness
8. Thru the Night
9. Sacrifice
10. Time Is Running Low

Download: Link
In my opinion, this album was an unheralded gem of the mid 80's. I'm sure that it is an acquired taste, but I always liked it. "Down my chin the blood drips..."

Sword - Metalized [1986]


Artist: Sword
Album: Metalized
Year: 1986
Genre: Heavy Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/ddJbONJcGMs
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. F.T.W (Follow the Wheel)
2. Children of Heaven
3. Stoned Again
4. Dare to Spit
5. Outta Control
6. The End of the Night
7. Runaway
8. Where to Hide
9. Stuck in Rock
10. Evil Spell

Witness: -[*]-
This album contains some excellent guitar work and some damn catchy songs. \m/\m/

Savatage - The Dungeons are Calling (EP) [1984]


Artist: Savatage
Album: The Dungeons are Calling
Year: 1984
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/v5o5VLJVk4o
Country: United States
Quality: 256 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Dungeons Are Calling
2. By the Grace of the Witch
3. Visions
4. Midas Knight
5. City Beneath the Surface
6. The Whip

Witness: -[*]-
Savatage was one of my favorite bands from the heyday of the '80s, and the first 4 tracks on this EP are a good illustration of the potential that they had. In my opinion, their downfall was that they could never quite put together an entire album of killer tracks, and the fact that their guitarist; Criss Oliva died much too young (RIP) \m/\m/

Exciter - Violence & Force [1984]


Artist: Exciter
Album: Violence & Force
Year: 1983
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/mdnkCMVzusI
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Oblivion
2. Violence and Force
3. Scream in the Night
4. Pounding Metal
5. Evil Sinner
6. Destructor
7. Swords of Darkness
8. Delivering to the Master
9. Saxons of the Fire
10. War Is Hell

Download: Link
Another of my early 80's favorites. At the time, Exciter was a 3 piece band and somewhat unique in that the drummer; Dan Beehler, was also the vocalist. This album was all power chords and blasting drums, good shit!

Witch Cross - Fit For Fight [1984]


Artist: Witch Cross
Album: Fit For Fight
Year: 1984
Genre: Heavy Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/LIOojpMPmYA
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Night Flight to Tokyo
2. Face of a Clown
3. Rocking the Night Away
4. Killer Dogs
5. Fight the Fire
6. Axe Dance
7. Light of a Torch
8. Alien Savage

Witness: -[*]-
This bands only studio release, it's very melodic and tame by today's standards, but I used to wear this album out back in the day.