The Death Chamber's 2014 Year in Review (\m/\m/)

The Death Chamber's Best of 2014 - Year In Review

Hello all! It is the start of another year and we can only hope that the year of 2015 will be as bountiful as its predecessor. I am speaking purely from a musical sense because I know that there are a lot of screwed up things going on in the world that do not make much sense to a rational person, but this is a death metal blog, so let's focus on the metal. I predict that future metal historians will look back on this time period that we have been experiencing for the past few years and identify it as the epoch of the new resurgence of extreme music. I say this because of the sheer volume and quality of releases that there have been in the past few years, with 2014 being the pinnacle...so far.  Whether were talking about releases from established bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Misery Index, Sinister, and Vader, or you are loving new bands such as  Tyranize, Enragement, Athiria, Ichorid, and Hate Storm Annihilation. There is so much to "witness" and "indulge" in that creating a best of list can be a daunting task. With all of these spoils to savor and select from I am going to do my best to provide a refined list of what I liked in 2014. These may not necessarily be the best releases in the opinion of others, but this is what I thoroughly enjoyed over the past 12 months or in some cases what I am infatuated with here at the end of the year. I am sure that there will be something here for everyone to wreck their neck to.

Up The Irons to 2014 \m/\m/    

Brutal Death Metal -

Emeth - Aethyr
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Belgium
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/hthNpTVUhrA

Prostitute Disfigurement - From Crotch to Crown
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Netherlands
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/zL-Ld0llgS0 or TDC

Corpsefucking Art - Quel Cimitero Accanto alla Villa
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Italy
Purchase: CDN Records
Preview: http://youtu.be/MD_KSPV5Rl8 or TDC

Omnihility - Deathscapes of the Subconscious
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: Unique Leader
Preview: http://youtu.be/yl9CmI4B0Ms or TDC

Annihilated - XIII Steps To Ruination
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: Unique Leader
Preview: http://youtu.be/tztLa6agixg or TDC

Devour the Fetus - Cook'n Roll
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: France
Purchase: Official Band Site
Preview: YouTube or TDC

Extirpating the Infected - Reborn in Putrefaction
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Spain
Purchase: Big Cartel
Preview: http://youtu.be/OHqfvAAk6_A or TDC

Cerebral Effusion - Idolatry of the Unethical
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Spain
Purchase: Official Website
Preview: http://youtu.be/Wd9aXQmgQ-4

Mass Infection - For I Am Genocide
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Greece
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/8NPKOnc5jLk or TDC

Inhumano - Torturas De Almas Oscuras
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Chile
Purchase: CDN Records
Preview: Official Video or TDC

Decaying Purity - Malignant Resurrection of the Fallen Souls
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Turkey
Purchase: Sevared Records
Preview: http://youtu.be/90b2rOMm3KE or TDC

Tyranize - Remnants of Society
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/7kQgJKio3Ps or TDC

Kevlar Skin - Transmigrator
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Spain
Purchase: Sevared Records
Preview: http://youtu.be/AT6YHE1rn3A or TDC

Kaluman - Kaluman
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Indonesia
Purchase: Endless Torture E-Store
Preview: http://youtu.be/mzCb40gj97Y or TDC

Cerebral Extinction - Inhuman Theory of Chaos
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Italy
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/U--DqJ0wevQ

Technical Death Metal - 

Posthumous Blasphemer - Exhumation of Sacred Impunity

Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal

Country: Belarus

Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/Z0FlvVyTGPo or TDC

Fuck You And Die - Elements of Instability
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Country: Germany
Purchase: Big Cartel
Preview: http://youtu.be/NVPgA_6dHxc

Hour of Penance - Regicide
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Country: Italy
Purchase: Prosthetic Records
Preview: http://youtu.be/3LkEOqf8U-M or TDC

Decimation - Reign of Ungodly Creation
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Country: Turkey
Purchase: CDN Records
Preview: http://youtu.be/AkVZjBmA-yM

Inanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: Big Cartel
Preview: http://youtu.be/CA7x6DzMcmU

Carnivored - No Truth Found
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Country: Indonesia
Purchase: Endless Torture E-Store
Preview: http://youtu.be/b1vF9jAFGFA or TDC

Descravity - Orphic Signs
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Country: Japan
Purchase: Willowtip Records @ Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/Ebhc-fZZMXE or TDC

Archspire - The Lucid Collective
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Country: Canada
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/LTOxsbyEHmM or TDC

Dungortheb - Extracting Souls
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Country: France
Purchase: Great Dane Records @ Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/2fskkMW2FSY

Electrocution - Metaphysincarnation
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Country: Italy
Purchase: Best Buys (???)
Preview: http://youtu.be/QC4IIgMVRtY or TDC

Allegaeon - Elements of the Infinite
Genre: Technical Melodic Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: Metal Blade Records
Preview: http://youtu.be/ErhgZhhXPvA or TDC

Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
Genre: Technical Melodic Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/cSkqscB9j4I or TDC

Hannes Grossmann - The Radial Covenant
Genre: Technical Progressive Death Metal
Country: Germany
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/gRGvP5_BMLc or TDC

Carnality - Dystopia
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Country: Italy
Purchase: Big Cartel
Preview: http://youtu.be/4unwX-mSwq0 or TDC

Innsmouth - The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Country: Denmark
Purchase: CD Universe
Preview: http://youtu.be/EIY-39Jo0TI or TDC

Death Metal including Old School, Blackened, Thrash & Grind -

Vomitile - Mastering the Art of Killing
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Cyprus
Purchase: Band Website
Preview: http://youtu.be/Pq3H3R3EWEc or TDC

Rogash - Supremacy Undone
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Germany
Purchase: Band Website

Preview: http://youtu.be/-6r6GkPTLvw or TDC

Misery Index - The Killing Gods
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Country: United States
Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: http://youtu.be/7laptOuaSDk

Athiria - Capital Punishment
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Austria
Purchase: iTunes
Preview: http://youtu.be/59vPUVXzY8I or TDC

Aposento - Aposento
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Spain
Purchase: Xtreem Music
Preview: http://youtu.be/YD4RMBLqSaU or TDC

Ichorid - Process of a Rotting World
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Germany
Purchase: CDN Records
Preview: http://youtu.be/UaNRXbOJT28 or TDC

Narada - Dead Waters
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Russia
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/p0YPhSkNVAM or TDC

Anthem - Phosphorus
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Poland
Purchase: Mad Lion records
Preview: http://youtu.be/FKPcJmX8Nl0 or TDC

Gluttony - Beyond the Veil of Flesh
Genre: Old School Death Metal
Country: Sweden
Purchase: iTunes
Preview: http://youtu.be/t_raIahCrlE or TDC

Afterburner - Dawn of Enthrallment
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Russia
Purchase: Xtreem Music
Preview: http://youtu.be/y7C-ksRy_ec or TDC

Depths of Chaos - Filth and Fear
Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/UR6FhuyczNg or TDC

Whisper of Death - Noise of Obstinacy
Genre: Death Metal
Country: France
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/-iKg5AK7-zc or TDC

No Raza - When Chaos Reigns
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Colombia
Purchase: iTunes
Preview: http://youtu.be/u5c-5BTj7oA or TDC

Fisthammer - Infallable
Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/Lx3QVxiRz7s or TDC

Cinis - Subterranean Antiquity
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Poland
Purchase: Sevared Records
Preview: http://youtu.be/4kzHexgoJoo or TDC

Enragement - Omnimalevolence of Man
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Finland
Purchase: Grooveshark (free download)
Preview: http://youtu.be/A3bqE-eU100 or TDC

Pallor Mortis - The Art of Terror
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Country: Canada
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/AdE3xLPz0mU or TDC

Belligerent Intent - Eternity of Hell & Torment
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Country: Australia
Purchase: Big Cartel
Preview: http://youtu.be/6j1mEMbe2Y4 or TDC

Body Harvest - Futile Creation
Genre: Death Metal
Country: United Kingdom
Purchase: Grindhouse Music
Preview: http://youtu.be/VreooQAzALo or TDC

Unwilling Flesh - Between the Living and the Dead
Genre: Old School Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: Eihwaz Recordings
Preview: http://youtu.be/eIpwfwvnBxU or TDC

...And last but not least, one year end release that I had to add to my list -

Festival of Mutilation - Indiscipline 

Genre: Technical Death Metal

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: http://youtu.be/3J_SG7TjBMg

2014 Ep's and Demos - 

Victims of Contagion - Parasitic Unborn (Tecnical Death Metal)
Primordium - Aeonian Obsolescence (Technical Death Metal)
Ominous Ruin - Demo (Death Metal)
Encrypted - Realms of Confusion (Progressive Death Metal)
Codex Alimentarius - The Hand of Apophis (Technical Death Metal)
Subservience - Upheaval (Death Thrash Metal)
Crematopsy - Admonition (Technical Death Metal)
Repugnance - Seeds of Oppression (Death Metal)
Volturyon - Human Demolition (Death Metal)
Poppy Seed Grinder - Promo 2014 (Brutal Death Metal)
Plaguebringer - Hallowed (Melodic Deathcore)
Leprous Divinity - Enslavement (Brutal Death Metal)
Cannabies - Green and Noxious (Technical Death Metal)
Parasitic Extirpation - Putrid Crown (Brutal Death Metal)
Gravecrusher - Morbid Black Oath (Old School Death Metal)
Flayed Disciple - Flayed Disciple (Death Thrash Metal)
Corpseflesh - Grotesque Inbreds (Brutal Death Metal)
Morbid Flesh - Embedded in the Ossuary (Old School Death Metal)
Xolaria - All Is None.... (Death Metal)

Well I could keep going, I didn't even list my favorite melodic death metal and deathcore releases, but I have been working on this list off and on for a few days now and it is time to close the book on 2014 and move on to 2015. Cheers and here is to a very heavy New Year. 

Innsmouth - The Shadow Over Innsmouth [2014]

Artist: Innsmouth

Album: The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Year: 2014
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/z9JLSwnIQSo
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Vomiting a Hole in the Soul
2. Dreams of Slowly Drowning
3. Ritual of Chud
4. Under the Pyramids
5. Klaatu Verata Nicto
6. Reanimator
7. The Colour Out of Space
8. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

Witness: -[*]-
Don't confuse these guys with the Australian band of the same name. These guys are from Aarhus, Denmark and they actually kick some serious ass with this release. Another one of those young bands that have come out with a high quality release right out of the gate \m/\m/

Decease - Age of the Covenant [2014]

Artist: Decease

Album: Age of the Covenant
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/lG_iNG_JJLo
Country: Romania
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Hypnotic Paranoia
3. Consume the Weak
4. The Covenant
5. Breeders of Malevolence
6. Global Annihilation
7. Human Scum
8. Cerebral Stagnation
9. Causal Nexus
10. Outro

Witness: -[*]-

Dethrone The Corrupted - Dethrone the Corrupted (EP) [2014]

Artist: Dethrone The Corrupted

Album: Dethrone the Corrupted
Year: 2014
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/u3bjyLCwSms
Country: Slovenia
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Wired to Psychosis
2. Materialistic Narcissism
3. Institutionalized Schizophrenia
4. Egocentric Cannibalism
5. Reapers of Avarice
6. Psychological Warfare

Witness: -[*]-
It's funny, from the band name you would expect deathcore, but this is more in the vein of modern melodic death metal. Support them here \m/

Belligerent Intent - Eternity of Hell & Torment [2014]

Artist: Belligerent Intent

Album: Eternity of Hell & Torment
Year: 2014
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/9YA95KxcQBw
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Serpent Lord Enthroned
2. Defiant in Horror
3. Bound in Hell
4. Sons of Perdition
5. Grand Empire of Death
6. In the Essence of Everlasting Hatred and Sin
7. The Third Flame of Cleansing Fire
8. O'Fire Thou Hath Been Born
9. Masters to the Ways of Decent

Witness: -[*]-
Don't sleep on Belligerent Intent, they have a brutal blackness about them that makes this disc very good. Maybe even top 20 for 2014???

Mutant Supremacy - Reincarnate [2014]

Artist: Mutant Supremacy

Album: Reincarnate
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/BEhqfRrEMkc
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Possessed By Flesh
2. Omens From The Dead
3. Malignant Divination
4. Apocalypse Command
5. Buried Beneath The Obelisk
6. Rotting Season
7. Complete Obliteration
8. Deathmarch

Witness: -[*]-
Mutant Supremacy are a Brooklyn based death metal unit and I got to thank OrificeTorture for promoting these guys a while back. It got me to listen and I like some of what I'm hearing.

Circaic - False Prophetic Roads (EP) [2014]

Artist: Circiac

Album: False Prophetic Roads
Year: 2014
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/X7E10F272K4
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Spewing of Venom
2. Floodgates
3. Polarity
4. The Separation Phase
5. Beyond Recalibration
6. False Prophetic Roads

Witness: -[*]-

Hideous Divinity - Cobra Verde [2014]

Artist: Hideous Divinity

Album: Cobra Verde
Year: 2014
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/PKtxROJLr0c / https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/hideous divinity
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. In My Land I Was a Snake
2. The Somber Empire
3. Cobra Verde
4. Salt in Martyr's Tear
5. Sinister and Demented
6. Desolation Within
7. Alonest of the Alone
8. Adjinakou
9. The Last and Only Son (Ripping Corpse Cover)

Witness: -[*]-
I know it's been a good year when this disc just lays there and doesn't get much traction from me. Hideous Divinity was one of the better tech brute bands from 2012, and this disc is very good as well \m/\m/

Devour the Fetus - Cook'n Roll [2014]

Artist: Devour the Fetus

Album: Cook'n Roll
Year: 2014
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: Official Video
Country: France
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. I Puked a Fetus
2. Baby Con Carne
3. Ombilical Spaggheti
4. Uterhoven
5. 42 Fetus in My Fridge
6. Maternal Cheesecake
7. Caesarean Buffet
8. Cooked Like a Pig
9. Tequilamniotic
10. Formol (Fetus Alcohol)
11. Period Pussy Poo (With Onions and Carots)
12. Chimney Babycue
13. Babynception
14. Fecore from Breetaland

Witness: -[*]-
Wow, this shit hit me like a ton of bricks, I love this disc! Killer, modern French brutality, we certainly owe thanks to Berc for this great share. Check Cook'n Roll out and then support the band \m/\m/

Seprevation - Consumed [2014]

Artist: Seprevation

Album: Consumed
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal  / Thrash Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/uCMIOJT85XE
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Divine Devastation
2. Servants of Suffering
3. Ascension of Agony
4. Sarcophagal Chamber
5. Dreams
6. Slave to the Grave
7. In Torment They Burn
8. Sea of Thoughts
9. Postmortem Lividity
10. Between Two Worlds

Witness: -[*]-
This is more thrash than death, but still very cool!

Blood of Serpents - Black Dawn [2014]

Artist: Blood of Serpents

Album: Black Dawn
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/91bP-Pa0AeI
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Horn Shaped Crown
2. King Redeemer
3. Illuminator of Flesh
4. Black Dawn
5. Masquerade of Plagues
6. Atrocious
7. Deliverance Divine
8. World in Fire
9. Unhallowed

Witness: -[*]-

Electrocution - Metaphysincarnation [2014]

Artist: Electrocution

Album: Metaphysincarnation
Year: 2014
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/QC4IIgMVRtY
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Wireworm
2. Phylogenesis
3. Abiura
4. Bloodless
5. As a Son to His Father
6. Panopticon
7. Nature Obliteration
8. Logos
9. Aliento del Diablo
10. Spirals in Tension
11. Anthropocentric

Witness: -[*]-
\m/\m/

Hellraizer - Disclosure of Cosmogony : Dawn to the Ruination [2014]

Artist: Hellraizer

Album: Disclosure of Cosmogony : Dawn to the Ruination
Year: 2014
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/WKlMNWXgTC4
Country: Indonesia
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Flame Part I: Elegy of Synthesis
2. Omong Kosong
3. Perception Paragraph
4. When the World Was Torn Apart
5. Asumsi Tak Bernyawa
6. Etimologi Hantam Simbolisasi
7. Flame Part II: End of Declaration
8. Game Over (Ruination)
9. Transcendent Transformation
10. Trilateral Cosmogony

Witness: -[*]-
So this release came out several months back, but I am just now getting acquainted with it and you know what? I like this disc, another up and coming band from Indonesia \m/\m/

Cadaver - The World Under Terror [2014]

Artist: Cadaver

Album: The World Under Terror
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: http://youtu.be/PI_S-9axHyA
Country: Indonesia
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. World Under Terror (Intro)
2. Selamat Datang Akhir Dunia
3. Kau Pantas Binasa
4. Progress to Revival (Demo Version)
5. Intelektual Frontal
6. Tentara Mayat Karaoke
7. Kill Your Mother Rape Your Dog (Dying Fetus cover)
8. Brainwashed by DB Digital Syndrome
9. Selamat Datang Akhir Dunia (Live)

Witness: -[*]-

Xolaria - All Is None (EP) [2014]

Artist: Xolaria

Album: All Is None
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: Bandcamp
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Infinite Complex
2. Primordial Birth
3. Reality Concealed
4. Eternal Collapse

Witness: -[*]-

Morbidity - Revealed From Ashes [2014]

Artist: Morbidity

Album: Revealed From Ashes
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/_xsZT77lBYA
Country: Bangladesh
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Intro / Decaying Souls
2. Incarnation of Death
3. Let There Be Chaos
4. Morbidity
5. Pits of Eternal Torment
6. SkullCrusher
7. Unholy Resurrection
8. Revealed from Ashes

Witness: -[*]-

Bonestorm - Hidden Horizon [2014]

Artist: Bonestorm

Album: Hidden Horizon
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/gT8QRx-ZMTI
Country: Colombia
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Intro (March of Souls)
2. Cyclical Times
3. The Inexorable Testament
4. Hidden Horizon
5. Sacrifice by Fire
6. You'll Never See (Grave Cover)
7. The Black Plague
8. Digging His Own Tomb
9. Human Slaughter

Witness: -[*]-
What's this, South America is putting up another contender? Damn, this disc is pretty cool too \m/