Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell [1986]

Artist: Cirith Ungol

Album: One Foot In Hell
Year: 1986
Genre: Heavy Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/FH_YMF3RMCY
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood & Iron
2. Chaos Descends
3. The Fire
4. Nadsokor
5. 100 MPH
6. War Eternal
7. Doomed Planet
8. One Foot in Hell

Witness: -[*]-
This was the only Cirith Ungol album that I ever saw in my local record stores back in the day, I have since heard a few of their other releases and I like King of the Dead quite a bit as well but this is my favorite release from this long-running band.

Exciter - Long Live the Loud [1985]

Artist: Exciter

Album: Long Live the Loud
Year: 1985
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/3QBVh_m4GIE
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Fall Out
2. Long Live the Loud
3. I Am the Beast
4. Victims of Sacrifice
5. Beyond the Gates of Doom
6. Sudden Impact
7. Born to Die
8. Wake Up Screaming
9. Feel the Knife
10. Violence and Force (live)
11. Pounding Metal (live)

Witness: -[*]-
When I discovered Exciter they became my favorite band for 1984 and I had so much anticipation for this album but LLtL let me down for some reason. Don't get me wrong, this was a pretty good album at the time but it wasn't Violence & Force.

Exciter - Violence & Force [1984]

Artist: Exciter
Album: Violence & Force
Year: 1984
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/koAOIjBRgJ4
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps

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

Witness: -[*]-
Another of my early '80s favorites. At the time, I would take over the stereo at every party I went to and play the hell outta this album. 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!

Blacksmith - Fire From Within [1989]

Artist: Blacksmith 

Album: Fire From Within
Year: 1989
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/LRrNRiPOi-8
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Beast
2. House
3. Louder than Hell
4. A Taste of Darkness
5. The Bonemarch / Tower of London
6. Theatres des Vampires
7. Hell to Pay
8. Fug It
9. Black Attack

Witness: -[*]-
Do you underground guys remember this one? I do and I remember that my dude, nuttinface turned me onto this one back then and I have always liked this a fair bit for sure.

Bloodlust - Guilty As Sin [1985]

Artist: Bloodlust

Album: Guilty As Sin
Year: 1985
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/u0s5Zark4kI
Country: United States
Quality: 320 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

Witness: -[*]-
Here is another vinyl that I bought and played the Hell out of back in the day. These guys are from Los Angeles and damn I wish I would've lived out here back then. I would have seen all of my '80's favs and been an even bigger metalhead stoner than I am now. Wait a minute, maybe it's better that I didn't live out here then.

 

Witch Cross - Fit For Fight [1984]

Artist: Witch Cross
Album: Fit For Fight
Year: 1984
Genre: Heavy Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/WitchCross/
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: -[*]-
When I found this album in my local record store back in '84, I took it home and fell in love with it. I must say that at times the vocals were a bit too melodic, but I still liked this album immensely. I mean, tracks like Face of a Clown, Killer Dogs, the instrumental Axe Dance, and Alien Savage showed so much musical talent & ability back then and now.

Kill Division - Destructive Force [2013]

Artist: Kill Division

Album: Destructive Force
Year: 2013
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.metalblade.com/killdivision/
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Kill Division March
2. Mechanic Domination
3. Fear of Life
4. Locked Up Forever
5. Made of Lies
6. Destructive Force
7. Sadistic Oppressor
8. Distorted Reality
9. Generated Hate
10. Master Manipulator
11. Toxic World

Witness: -[*]-

Gastrorrexis - Realm Savagery Decimation [2018]

Artist: Gastrorrexis

Album: Realm Savagery Decimation
Year: 2018
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/KDNZoeywpUE
Country: Ecuador
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Deteriorate Flesh
3. Drain Blood
4. Devoured by Rats
5. Deep Repugnance
6. Impregnate Excrement
7. Induce Punishment
8. Vaccine of Horror
9. Extinction of Vitality
10. Outro
11. Instrumental
12. Corpses Insanity
13. Pathology of Parasities Eat Meat

Witness: -[*]-
You know, this one of those discs that fell into the December pit for me, by which I mean that when an album comes out in December I sometimes tend to overlook them because I am already in EoY list mode. That was the case with this disc and that's my loss because this is some of their best work IMO.

Silent Empire - Dethronement of All Icons [2018]

Artist: Silent Empire

Album: Dethronement of All Icons
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/bluHENvbjVU
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Unique and Primordial
2. Abolish the Reins of Men
3. Blessed by Wisdom
4. Unscathed Before the Unknown
5. Hail the Legions
6. I Am the Empire
7. Conquest the Throne of Blasphemy
8. Among the Faceless

Witness: -[*]-

Antiverse - Under the Regolith [2018]

Artist: Antiverse

Album: Under the Regolith
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/xiiu5Y0wAWM
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hallucigenia
2. Crimson Codex
3. Ghostwinds
4. Black Waves of Sorcery
5. Subject Six
6. Under the Regolith
7. Diaspora
8. Derelicts
9. Shunned House

Witness: -[*]-
I missed this disc last year and not sure if anyone mentioned them, I would hope that someone did. I have their 2014 release posted here and remember liking it a fair bit back at that time.

Goregäng - Neon Graves [2019]

Artist: Goregäng

Album: Neon Graves
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/D_YesqHJfjQ / https://www.facebook.com/goregang
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Cavity in Reality
2. False Flags
3. Cathedral of Chemicals
4. Silence Is Consent
5. Spray of Teeth
6. Feeble-minded Rash
7. Neon Graves
8. Plague of Hammers
9. Goregӓng
10. Weightless Sentinels
11. Putrid Judgement
12. This Era of Human

Witness: -[*]-
Goregäng is a 2-man project from Spring Hill, Florida. These guys have contributed to many other highly satisfying bands, and they certainly have a tasty old-school flavor to their sound. This is another quality release from India's Transcending Obscurity label, cheers to Kunal Choksi \m/\m/

Parius - Saturnine [2015]

Artist: Parius

Album: Saturnine
Year: 2015
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UiGkWBiBZU4
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Doctor Device
2. Galactic Termination
3. Grave of the Firegod
4. Mannequin Soldier
5. Archaic Diabolical
6. Saturnine
7. Confined
8. Lake Laogai
9. Progression Through Violence
10. The Silence of the Sirens
11. Fresh Graves, Old Tombs
12. Dark Horizons

Witness: -[*]-
Parius are a fairly young bunch of guys from Philadelphia who create some skilled technical melodic death metal, I had their 2018 disc in my best of list, so that should tell you what I think of them. They were younger when they made this one, so it isn't quite as polished and honed but still has some very good moments for my tastes.

Ruthless - Aftermath [2019]

Artist: Ruthless

Album: Aftermath
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/ruthlessdeath
Country: Spain
Quality: 192 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Your Name Carved in Stone
3. Bastard Unknowing
4. Killer Serenity
5. Sentients
6. Scars of Judgement
7. In the Purple
8. Embodiment

Witness: -[*]-
Check this disc and support this band from A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. The video above is from their 2016 EP.

Thrashist Regime - Carnival of Monsters [2018]

Artist: Thrashist Regime

Album: Carnival of Monsters
Year: 2018
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/thrashistregime
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Laughter Then Madness Then Death
2. Antarctattack
3. Headshot
4. Megalomaniac
5. Operation: Keep Him Busy
6. Vengeful Knights
7. Colossus
8. Soldiers of Fortune
9. X-COM: Enemy Unknown
10. Carnival of Monsters
11. Metacidal Massacre

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, this is an entertaining thrash metal album! I like it when a new band can capture that old school, off the rails style like these guys do. Listen & support \m/\m/

Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers... [2015]

Artist: Sarpanitum

Album: Blessed Be My Brothers...
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/uqOkWTFmC6w
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Komenos
2. By Virtuous Reclamation
3. Truth
4. Glorification upon the Powdered Bones of the Sundered Dead
5. Immortalised as Golden Spires
6. Thy Sermon Lies Forever Tarnished
7. I Defy for I Am Free
8. Homeland
9. Malek al-Inkitar
10. Blessed Be My Brothers

Witness: -[*]-
I have liked this band for a long time, I think their 2007 release is a true gem and I am not sure why but for some reason I have really struggled to fully appreciate this disc. It is not bad at all but at the same time, it doesn't beckon me to play it much either.

Sarpanitum - Despoilment of Origin [2007]

Artist: Sarpanitum

Album: Despoilment of Origin
Year: 2007
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/loGEV1dDWqw
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1.  Seducing the Phallus Throne
2. Halls of Decadence
3. Ascending the Divine
4. Provocation of an Eternal Odium
5. Dusk Over Assyria
6. Cur Defilement
7. Dawn of Enthrallment
8. Despoilment of Origin

Witness: -[*]-
Here is some killer UK death metal from more than 10 years ago now. Damn, where does the time go? I guess it doesn't matter, just be sure to give this a listen if you are uninitiated.

Jane Dark - Voices From the Deep [2011]

Artist: Jane Dark

Album: Voices From the Deep
Year: 2011
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/jane.dark3
Country: Serbia
Quality: VBR



Tracklist:
1. Children of the Eternal Night
2. Behind the Walls
3. In the Mouth of Madness
4. The Path
5. Unholy Rituals
6. In Your Nightmares
7. Lurking Fear
8. Falling Apart
9. From the Deep
10. Voices
11. In the Moment of Last Feeling

Witness: -[*]-

Stortregn - Emptiness Fills the Void [2018]

Artist: Stortregn

Album: Emptiness Fills the Void
Year: 2018
Genre: Technical Melodic Blackened Death Metal
Web: https://www.nightshiftmerch.com/Stortregn / https://www.facebook.com/Stortregn
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Through the Dark Gates
2. Circular Infinity
3. The Forge
4. Nonexistence
5. The Chasm of Eternity
6. Lawless
7. The Eclipsist
8. Shattered Universe
9. Children of the Obsidian Light

Witness: -[*]-   

Stortregn - Singularity [2016]

Artist: Stortregn

Album: Singularity
Year: 2016
Genre: Technical Melodic Blackened Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/y9tabvsfNQU / https://stortregn.bandcamp.com/singularity
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Enlighten Salvation
2. Acosmic Ascendant
3. Crimson Depths
4. Vertigo
5. Omega Rising
6. Aurora
7. Black Moon Silhouette
8. Nightside of Eden
9. Elegy
10. Neverending Singularity

Witness: -[*]-

Narthraal - Screaming from the Grave [2017]

Artist: Narthraal

Album: Screaming from the Grave
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/QmAx8bU8FLI
Country: Iceland
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Death of the Undying
2. Screaming from the Grave
3. Million Graves to Fill
4. Worldwide Destruction
5. Envy
6. Descent into Darkness
7. Blood Path
8. Symbols of Hate
9. Feed the Pig
10. Dismember the Entombed

Witness: -[*]-

Tyrant - Too Late to Pray [1987]

Artist: Tyrant 

Album: Too Late to Pray
Year: 1987
Genre: Heavy Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com\TYRANT/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Tyrant's Revelation II
2. Too Late to Pray
3. Beyond the Grave
4. Valley of Death
5. The Nazarene
6. Bells of Hades
7. Into the Flames
8. Babylon
9. Verdalack
10. Beginning of the End
11. Eve of Destruction

Witness: -[*]-
I didn't hear this album until long after it came out, sometime in the late '90s and by that time I had moved on to death metal, so I never gave this much attention even though I really liked their first album. However, here in later years as I wax all nostalgic I have taken the time to get to know this album and it is really pretty good if you were into these guys like I was.

Tyrant - Legions of the Dead [1985]

Artist: Tyrant
Album: Legions of the Dead
Year: 1985
Genre: Heavy Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/c0Goex9ioJ0
Country: United States
Quality: 320 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

Witness: -[*]-
I bought this album back in '85 and I've always liked it, so much so that that I searched out the CD here recently after almost 35 years. These tracks represent the strongest material that this band would ever create in my opinion, the 2nd half of the disc tails off a bit but overall a highly worthy offering from back in the day \m/\m/

Ritual Servant - Metallum Evangelii [2019]

Artist: Ritual Servant

Album: Metallum Evangelii
Year: 2019
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nK6SRO1zSMs
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Seven Trumpets
2. Amongst the Wolves
3. The Sacrifice
4. Comfort in the Fire
5. Dying to Self
6. Woe Is Me
7. The Just
8. Ten Lepers

Witness: -[*]-
Christian thrash metal from South Carolina. These guys are very preachy but they make some pretty decent old school thrash.

Dead Trooper - Cynicist [2009]

Artist: Dead Trooper

Album: Cynicist
Year: 2009
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/deadtrooper/
Country: Norway
Quality: VBR



Tracklist:
1. Kiss of the Kannibal
2. Reaping of Your Cries
3. Death Casts a Shadow
4. Cynicist
5. No More Singing
6. Awakening the Awe
7. Mold of the Unspeakable
8. The Nether Regions
9. Guns n' Neurosis

Witness: -[*]-
This shit's awesome in my opinion, what the fuck is your opinion? If you like this disc, then be sure to check into their newest stuff too.

Malicious Death - ...From Above [2010]

Artist: Malicious Death 

Album: ...From Above
Year: 2010
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://maliciousdeath1.bandcamp.com/
Country: Finland
Quality: VBR



Tracklist:
1. Death by Dawn
2. One by One
3. Crooked Cross
4. No Justice
5. Reign of Chaos
6. Blasphemy
7. Storm of the Metal
8. Thrash till Death
9. ...from Above

Witness: -[*]-
Highly entertaining thrash metal paying homage to the old school. I like this album because it feels like it would've fit right in back in the Day \m/\m/