Compendia - Into the Maze [2020]

Artist: Compendia

Album: Into the Maze
Year: 2020
Genre: Technical Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UAk2jhkAmRY
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cycles Pt.
2. Death Knell
3. Ouroboros
4. Colossus
5. Reanimus
6. Cerebral Gortex
7. Into the Maze
8. Cycles Pt. 2

Witness: -[*]-
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Scarab - Martyrs of the Storm [2020]

Artist: Scarab

Album: Martyrs of the Storm
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://www.scarabegypt.com/
Country: Egypt
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Martyrs of the Storm
2. Necropotence
3. Kingdom of Chaos
4. Blood Moon Shadows
5. Circles of Verminejya
6. The Dwellers Beneath
7. Oblivious Sanctum
8. Coffin Texts
9. Saturnian
10. Upon the Pagan Lands

Witness: -[*]-
Scarab is a long time favorite of mine and one of the few bands that I am aware of from the ancient land of Egypt.

Horrid - As We Forget Our Past [2019]

Artist: Horrid

Album: As We Forget Our Past
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/uUcx9LJocEM
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Reborn in Sin
2. Misunderstood God
3. Redemption and Lies
4. Demonic Sadocarnage
5. Immortal Passion
6. From Here to Eternity
7. Blasphemic Creatures
8. Vortex of Primordial Chaos
9. Land of No Return
10. As We Forget Our Past

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, this disc was released on 12/31/2019 but I didn't hear it until February of this year and I haven't gone back and checked, so not sure if it made anyone's best of 2019 list here at TDC but it probably should have as this is a damn good death metal release and even though there is only one original member I will still acknowledge them a long-running veteran band \m/\m/

Virocracy - Irradiation [2020]

Artist: Virocracy

Album: Irradiation
Year: 2020
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: http://www.virocracy.org/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Omen
2. Initio
3. Rane
4. Walking Ghost
5. Solitude
6. Dysplasia
7. Incarnation
8. Void of Heart
9. Forgotten

Witness: -[*]-

African Corpse - Conclusion 17 [2017]

Artist: African Corpse 

Album: Conclusion 17
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/africancorpse/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Opener

2. Phoenix  

3. Conclusion 17  

4. Lack of Faith  

5. Nameless Dead  

6. Masked (feat. Hard Riot)  

7. Blinded by Fear  

8. Disillusioned  

9. As Time Goes By  

10. New Dawn

Witness: -[*]-

Astringency - Of Vacant Planes [2020]

Artist: Astringency

Album: Of Vacant Planes
Year: 2020
Genre: Technical Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/astringencyofficial
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Mother's Touch

2. Sojourner

3. Impetus Vitalis  

4. Recrudescence  

5. A Glorious Death  

6. Vagabond

7. Apostate's Vendetta  

8. Absence  

9. Farewell Odyssey  

10. Steps to My Infinity

11. Abdicate

Witness: -[*]-
Finally, we have a new album from Astringency, and this is an excellent follow up to their 2017 release, Sanguinarium. Both albums offering more than 60 minutes of top-notch technical melodic death metal. Of Vacant Planes will most certainly be on my Best Of 2020 list at the end of the year.

Jesus Wept - Apartheid Redux [2020]

Artist: Jesus Wept

Album: Apartheid Redux
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nfcROb9fwqY
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Buried Face Down  

2. Drowning in Holy Water  

3. Hammering the Nails  

4. Jesus in Chains (Father in Hell)  

5. Comfortably Dumb  

6. Fucked on the Cross  

7. Animal (Fuck Like a Beast - W.A.S.P. cover)

Witness: -[*]-
Here is another band that is new to me for 2020 and I have to say that I like this disc quite a bit. Jesus Wept is from Detroit, Michigan and I have seen them labeled as death metal/hardcore and even death & roll but this is just death fucking metal to me, even the WASP cover is done very well in my opinion.

Gorgatron - Pathogenic Automation [2020]

Artist: Gorgatron

Album: Pathogenic Automation
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://www.facebook.com/gorgatronband/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Atrophy  

2. Usurpation  

3. Reactor  

4. Insurmountable  

5. Impostor Syndrome  

6. Noxious  

7. Pathogenic Automation  

8. Frostbitten Amputation  

9. Pierced from All Angles

Witness: -[*]-
Wow, this one caught me by surprise! I wasn't even thinking about Gorgatron and they sneak under the radar with Pathogenic Automation and from what I have heard so far this is a killer release from these North Dakota boys. Thanks to IllInTheHead @ STB for another great share \m/\m/

Karnivore - Dödsriket [2020]

Artist: Karnivore

Album: Dödsriket 
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/y0GiJ4mVrw0
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hinterkaifeck (Intro)  

2. Empire of Filth  

3. War Is Coming  

4. Slice 'n Dice  

5. No Freak  

6. Murder Dungeon  

7. Black Flames  

8. The Antfarm  

9. Woodshed  

10. Disfigured Man

Witness: -[*]-

Entity - Hypostatization [2020]

Artist: Entity

Album: Hypostatization
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/bu9uZK2OC6Y
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hypnagogia  

2. M.I.R.R.O.R.S.  

3. Imaginary Imagery  

4. Atrophic Anamnesis  

5. Ineffable  

6. Gloom  

7. Null  

8. Demon of Impermanence

Witness: -[*]-

Nervagust - Godless Entity [2019]

Artist: Nervagust

Album: Godless Entity
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/KdK2PMbtVW4
Country: Indonesia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Eternal Passage  

2. Godless Entity  

3. Perish (Possessed by God)  

4. Hollow  

5. Drowned in Fear  

6. Beneath the Suffering  

7. Detrimental Slaughter  

8. Full Absolute Malice  

9. Semesta Bicara

Witness: -[*]-
Anybody who comes to TDC frequently knows that I like Indonesian death metal and here is another band that solidifies my opinion about the skills in that region of the world. This young band even has a bit of a different style than many of their countrymen. Thanks to my long time friend rot, "somewhere in Poland," over at Share the Brutality for this killer share \m/\m/ 

Korvak - Korvak [2020]

Artist: Korvak

Album: Korvak
Year: 2020
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/profile.Korvak
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hybris

2. Pandemonium

3. Mind Malefactor

4. Eagle Death

5. Empty Soul

6. E.O.D. (Empire of Dust)

7. The Hydrocyclone: No. 1 - Apex, No. 2 - Vortex

8. Maniac

9. Dike

Witness: -[*]-
Korvak seems to be a fairly nondescript South American thrash band from Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil. I knew nothing about them until just recently but happy to be discovering this disc now because they have some real potential for the future while still creating some catchy music already. 

Affliction Gate - Aeon of Nox (From Darkness Comes Liberation) [2009]

Artist: Affliction Gate

Album: Aeon of Nox (From Darkness Comes Liberation)
Year: 2009
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/EZ4XDYrtTr0
Country: France
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. After the Red Moon  

2. The Worst Is Yet to Come  

3. Knights of Scorn  

4. Our Evil Legacy  

5. Cattle Burner  

6. Mirror Breakdown  

7. Inner Demise  

Witness: -[*]-

Slaughter the Prophets - Cabal (EP) [2020]

Artist: Slaughter the Prophets

Album: Cabal
Year: 2020
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/8VNCB1fbK0o
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Yebamoth 98a  

2. Exodus Too Good for Them  

3. Talmudic Blood Ritual  

4. War

Witness: -[*]-
Hey people, check out Slaughter the Prophets new EP, very cool & brutal NY death metal. Listen and support here \m/\m/

Slaughter the Prophets - Indiscriminate Desecration [2015]

Artist: Slaughter The Prophets

Album: Indiscriminate Desecration
Year: 2015
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/vYvfA0Fq70g
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Rescinded Paradise
2. Divine Abandonment
3. Demolishing The Throne
4. Limitations Of Humanism
5. Indiscriminate Desecration
6. Mortification Of The Flesh
7. Burned At The Stake
8. Kill Everyone, Start Over
9. As A Wolf Amongst Sheep

Witness: -[*]-

Inducing Terror - Inducing Terror (EP) [2020]

Artist: Inducing Terror

Album: Inducing Terror
Year: 2020
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/glTRRgFY0Jc
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Continuous Ignition  

2. Honor Kill  

3. Agony in Recess  

4. Venomous Recoil  

5. Vivisynthesis

Witness: -[*]-
Inducing Terror is from Tempe, Arizona and the band has been in existence since 2004 but this effort is my first exposure to their music and I like what I am hearing here.

Obscene Crisis - Silence of the Mind [1995]

Artist: Obscene Crisis

Album: Silence of the Mind
Year: 1995
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/YXRxsN-LxpQ
Country: Canada
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Off Season
2. Illogical Responsibilities
3. Headrush
4. Human / Ecology
5. Open Mind
6. Obscenity
7. Out of Cage
8. Animated Hallucination
9. Street of Insecurity
10. Emotional Abusive Consummation

Witness: -[*]-

Berzerker Legion - Obliterate the Weak [2020]

Artist: Berzerker Legion

Album: Obliterate the Weak
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/berzerkerlegion/
Country: International
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Rise of the Berzerkers

2. A World in Despair  

3. I Am the Legion  

4. Of Blood and Ash  

5. Obliterate the Weak  

6. The Falling Dawn  

7. The King of All Masters  

8. Upon the Throne of Mortem  

9. A Lurking Evil  

10. In the Name of the Father

Witness: -[*]-

Holycide - Fist to Face [2020]

Artist: Holycide

Album: Fist to Face
Year: 2020
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: http://www.deathmetal.biz/holycide/
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intrump  

2. Fist to Face

3. Empty Cyber Life

4. Vultures  

5. Nuclear Fallout  

6. Trapped by the Crappy Trap

7. Mentality Packs  

8. The Aftermath (Recipients of Death cover)  

9. Napalm Sweet Napalm  

10. Innocent Hate  

11. Fake Libertarian

Witness: Link removed by request
I don't necessarily need the politics but these guys do create some killer thrash metal! With Dave Rotten from Avulsed on vocals and actually I think I like his thrash vocals better than his death vocals.

Sisters of Suffocation - Humans Are Broken [2019]

Artist: Sisters of Suffocation

Album: Humans Are Broken
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/sistersofsuffocation 
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Humans Are Broken

2. Wolves

3. War in My Head

4. The Machine

5. What We Create

6. Liar

7. Little Shits

8. The Next Big Thing

9. Blood on Blood

10. The Objective

11. Burn

12. Every Little Fibre

13. For I Have Sinned

Witness: Link Removed

I really liked their EP and then their debut album in 2017 but I haven't listened to this as much for some reason. I have been trying to make up for that here recently and wanted to bring this disc back around for your attention.

Sisters of Suffocation - Anthology of Curiosities [2017]

Artist: Sisters of Suffocation

Album: Anthologies of Curiosities
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://sistersofsuffocation.bandcamp.com/
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Shapeshifter  

2. I Am Danger  

3. The Hunger  

4. This Is Not My Home  

5. I Swear  

6. Limb from Limb  

7. Our Bodies Will Rot  

8. Dysplasia  

9. Psychosurgery  

10. Boundaries

Witness: -[*]-
Sisters of Suffocation create some killer death metal on all of their offerings but this is my favorite album from this group or at least the one I have listened to the most.

Bodybag - The Bleeding Walls of My Mental Cell (EP) [2016]

Artist: Bodybag

Album: The Bleeding Walls of My Mental Cell
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://bodybaghorror.bandcamp.com/
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Fugitive  

2. Paramount Carving  

3. Bathing with Corpses  

4. Tales from the Hard Side  

5. Fire, Walk with Me  

6. Murdered in the Barn  

7. Anamnesis

Witness: -[*]-
I had never heard this release until just recently but I am familiar with their Somatic Nightmare EP and liked that disc a lot. I have to say that this effort may be even better. 

Bodybag - Somatic Nightmare (EP) [2014]

Artist: Bodybag

Album: Somatic Nightmare
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://vk.com/bodybagforeverybody
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Body Found
2. Gallery of Perversion
3. To the Fringe
4. Assassinate
5. The Dreaming Dead
6. Somatic Nightmare
7. Morgue an Abattoir

Witness: -[*]-
\m/\m/

Two Face Sinner - Spiritual Nemesis [2020]

Artist: Two Face Sinner

Album: Spiritual Nemesis
Year: 2020
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/5s6njgVPfKs
Country: Peru
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Invoking Evil

2. Satanic Altar

3. God Sun

4. Servants of Blind Faith

5. Army of Me

6. God of the Masses

7. Triumphant Satan

8. Chants of Hate

9. Ode to Destruction

10. Mother Death

Witness: -[*]-

Intense blackened death metal from Lima, Peru. Listen and support \m/\m/

Well Of Night - The Lower Planes of Self-Abstraction [2020]

Artist: Well Of Night

Album: The Lower Planes of Self-Abstraction
Year: 2020
Genre: Melodic Black Metal 
Web: https://youtu.be/sA7BkNb47-w
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Black Alder Sacristy  

2. Allegiance to the Barren Lands  

3. Doctrine of Futility and Human Extinction

4. Ritual of the Seven Shrines  

5. Apex and Eschaton  

6. Ossuary of the Fallen Snow

Witness: -[*]-
I am not the biggest black metal enthusiast but every so often I come across an album that strikes me in a way that I really enjoy and this happens to be one of those albums. From the acid rain scorched forests of Dayton, Ohio, I give you Well Of Night.