Dead Sun - The Grand Chamber [2019]

Artist: Dead Sun

Album: The Grand Chamber
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/QlMKM5xm4jk
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. A New Beginning  

2. The Hidden  

3. Sleeping Beasts  

4. The Grand Chamber  

5. Floodgates  

6. A Lifetime of Regret  

7. The Harvesting  

8. The Keepers of the Portal

Witness: -[*]-
Here is one of Rogga's oldest bands and he had 2 full-length releases last year with this entity and yet another this year. This is my own CD rip but the production quality is a bit lacking on this disc as it was recorded way to low for my tastes.

Ovid's Withering - Terraphage [2020]

Artist: Ovid's Withering

Album: Terraphage
Year: 2020
Genre: Technical Melodic Death Metal / Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/NMa--2gni7E
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Oracle

2. Godless

3. Spectres on the Ebon River

4. The Bandits of Shamblekeep 

5. At the Dreadlord's Behest

6. Ballad of the Lycan

7. Bloodscape

8. Tholg

9. Desperation

10. Corpsemover I

11. Corpsemover II

Witness: -[*]-

I know this band's style doesn't appeal to a lot of purists but I like their progressive slant on technical deathcore with their long winding songs filled with twists and turns, it is certainly good music when I am in the right mood. Listen & support!

Ovid's Withering - Scryers in the Ibis [2013]

Artist: Ovid's Withering

Album: Scryers of the Ibis
Year: 2013
Genre: Technical Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/757mqyrAJro
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Earthshaker I
2. Earthshaker II
3. Oedipus Complex
4. Murder to Dissect
5. Exile
6. Winter in Tomis
7. Acheron
8. The Omen of Lycaon
9. The God of Shepherds and Flocks
10. Falsehood of Blasphemous Voices
11. The Reckoning. The Summoning. The Purge.
12. Panikon Deima

Witness: -[*]-
Come on music lovers, you gotta give these guys credit for creating complex musical soundscapes.

Maniacal Force - Depraved Existence [2020]

Artist: Maniacal Force

Album: Depraved Existence
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/OJmysZCPFnk
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Restrained and Maimed  

2. World Cremation  

3. Brain Matter Discharge  

4. Insidious Disease  

5. Blood Fetish  

6. Possessed  

7. Clouds of Death  

8. Maniacal Force  

9. Exiled

Witness: -[*]-
Maniacal Force is a thrashy young death metal band from St. Paul, Minnesota and I happen to like their offering here quite a bit and looking forward to hearing them mature as a band in the future.

The Hallowed Catharsis - Killowner (EP) [2020]

Artist: The Hallowed Catharsis

Album: Killowner
Year: 2020
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/THCdeath/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Abduction Sequence

2. Forced Mutation

3. Breeding Pits

4. Swap Meat

5. Strays

6. Killowner

Witness: -[*]-

Werewolves - The Dead Are Screaming [2020]

Artist: Werewolves

Album: The Dead Are Screaming
Year: 2020
Genre: Technical Blackened Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/werewolvesinhell/
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Establish Dominance  

2. Know Your Place  

3. Dogknotted  

4. Fountains of Bile  

5. No More Heroes  

6. Beating Those We Despise  

7. Gnaw Their Bones  

8. Irate  

9. Showering Teeth

Witness: -[*]-
This is a very cool disc in my opinion, I really like the blackened technicality of their style. Listen & support!

Cemetery - The Last Day on Earth [2019]

Artist: Cemetery

Album: The Last Day on Earth
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://cemeterydeathmetal.bandcamp.com/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Slaves to the Cross  

2. Book of Lies  

3. Can You See the Light?  

4. Public Psychotica  

5. Master of Fate  

6. Dehumanized  

7. The Last Day on Earth - Pt.I  

8. The Last Day on Earth - Pt.II

Witness: -[*]-
I wasn't familiar with this particular Cemetery but I am aware of the Indonesian band of the same name and of course, there is the Swedish Cemetary  However, after doing some research (Googling), I see that these guys first formed way back in the mid-80s but only had 2 demos and a compilation to their credit prior to this release. However, I am glad I came across the band now because this disc is really pretty good.

Slaughter Messiah - Cursed to the Pyre [2020]

Artist: Slaughter Messiah

Album: Cursed to the Pyre
Year: 2020
Genre: Blackened Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Iq6bk6uWgK8
Country: Belgium
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. From the Tomb into the Void

2. Mutilated by Depths

3. Pouring Chaos

4. Hideous Affliction

5. Descending to Blackfire

6. Pyre

7. The Hammer of Ghouls

8. Fog of the Malevolent Sore

Witness: -[*]-

Graceless - Where Vultures Know Your Name [2020]

Artist: Graceless

Album: Where Vulture Know Your Name
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Graceless.osdm/
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Lugdunum Batavorum  

2. Retaliation of the Wicked  

3. Commander of Christ  

4. Nine Days of Mourning  

5. Here Be Dragons  

6. Where Vultures Know Your Name  

7. Warpath  

8. Embrace the Rain

Witness: -[*]-
With the follow-up to their 2017 release, Graceless has created a more doomy death metal album here. While not as good as Shadowlands this disc still provides some worthy moments to be heard.

Malfeitor - Dum Morior Orior [2012]

Artist: Malfeitor

Album: Dum Morior Orior
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/64oLcJcovZw
Country: Sweden
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Conversation in Minor

2. Beyond the Horrorizon

3. When Last Breath Fades

4. Exile from Sanity

5. To Hell, Farewell

6. Death, the Dead and Me

7. Rolling with Corpses

8. And the Sky Turned to Rage

9. Psychosis

10. Scenes from a Slaughterhouse

11. Sojourn Hell

Witness: -[*]-

Natrium - Elegy for the Flesh [2011]

Artist: Natrium
Album: Elegy for the Flesh
Year: 2011
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/xPk6DUrqwL0
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Elegy for the Flesh
2. Memetic Infection
3. Breastfed with Mendacity
4. Sarin Benison
5. Ravenous Theophaghist
6. Allograft Harvesting
7. Clinical Savagery
8. Plastinated Birth 

Witness: -[*]-

There is no doubt that this is their best album...so far, or at least I think so.

Atræ Bilis - Divinihility (EP) [2020]

Artist: Atræ Bilis

Album: Divinihility
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/atraebilis/
Country: Canada
Quality: 192 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Gnode
2. Sulphur Curtain
3. Phantom Veins Trumpet
4. Ectopian
5. Upon the Shoulders of Havayoth
6. A Ceremony of Sectioning

Witness: -[*]-
Top-shelf Canadian death metal from Vancouver, British Columbia and Transcending Obscurity Records label. These guys have a ton of talent and the only thing wrong with this effort in my opinion is that I want to hear more \m/\m/

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: -[*]-
Listen now & support here!

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: -[*]-