Monday, December 26, 2022

Incrypt - Thrashing Extinction [2022]


Artist: Incrypt
Album: Thrashing Extinction
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/incryptofficial/ / https://incrypt.bandcamp.com
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Skulking  
2. Thrashing Extinction  
3. Ultimate Downunder Attack  
4. Pushed Beyond Breaking  
5. Open This Pit  
6. Extermination  
7. Point Evolution  
8. Stars of the Southern Land  
9. Ghost Hour Chimes  
10. Chaotic Freedom Remains  
11. Declaration

Witness: -[*]-

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity [2022]


Artist: Phobophilic
Album: Enveloping Absurdity
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/phobophilic/ / https://phobophilic.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Enantiodromia
2. Those Which Stare Back
3. Nauseating Despair
4. Cathedrals of Blood (Twilight of the Idols)
5. Individuation
6. The Illusion of Self
7. Survive in Obscurity
8. Enveloping Absurdity

Witness: -[*]-
Here is an album that caught me unaware, Phobophilic are from Fargo, ND, and they have been around for over 5 years now but this is my first encounter with them and I like it. This is yet another young US band showing a lot of potential for the future.

Cadaverous - Remnants of Violence [2022]


Artist: Cadaverous
Album: Remnants of Violence
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://cadaverousdeath.bandcamp.com / https://cadaverousgrind.wixsite.com/cadaverousdeath
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. The Morbidity of Death (Intro)  
2. Delectable Prospective
3. Unfathomable Depths
4. Slam the Coffin Shut
5. I Want to Kill
6. Burnt Remains
7. A Rotted Pile of Pedophiles
8. Bludgeoned
9. Rot in the Crypt
10. Sensory Deprivation
11. Remnants of Violence

Witness: -[*]-
When I saw the band name and album art I was expecting something quite different from this but I may like this more than what I was expecting. I am not saying this is a great album but I think these dudes from Indy have some potential to get better.

Excaved - Hidden Horrors (EP) [2022]


Artist: Excaved
Album: Hidden Horrors
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Excaved
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Pedophilic Obsession  
2. Diabolic Blindness  
3. Tragic Nights  
4. The System  
5. Focus on Hate

Witness: -[*]-
This is a killer little EP from 3/4 of Cyphonism, so I guess there is no wonder that it is good. Brutal German death metal \m/\m/

Abhorrency - Climax of Disgusting Impurities [2022]


Artist: Abhorrency
Album: Climax of Disgusting Impurities
Year: 2022
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/MprxxDvPL7c / https://abhorrency.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Sledgehammer Profanation  
2. Warmaster Offensive  
3. Choked upon the Pentagram  
4. Cathedral of Fornication  
5. Feces Aspergillum  
6. Edging on Disgusting Impurities  
7. Climax of Disgusting Impurities  
8. Perverse Serpentine Invocation  
9. Abhorrency

Witness: -[*]-

Old Man's Defects - Old Man's Defects (EP) [2022]


Artist: Old Man's Defects
Album: Old Man's Defects
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/-JMGzWuj9iw
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Run Away  
2. The Trees in the Forest  
3. Listen  
4. Dumb Ass Fool

Witness: -[*]-
One-man project from this dude and it is not bad at all.

Disadaptive - Apocryphal [2022]


Artist: Disadaptive
Album: Apocryphal 
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/hbg_ZsY86Tk
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Bleed to Earth (Intro)  
2. Apocryphal  
3. Mentor from Beyond the Grave  
4. Disciples of Impunity  
5. The Rifle Logic  
6. Crafted Abominations  
7. A Silent Dawn  
8. Missonaria Protectiva  
9. No Light from God  
10. In Death's Cold Arms (Outro)  
11. Ridden with Disease (Autopsy cover)

Witness: -[*]-

Western Massacre - Freedom Through Violence [2012]


Artist: Western Massacre
Album: Freedom Through Violence
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2ACeY8FS9uI / https://www.facebook.com/WesternMassacre
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1.  Steel Casket  
2. Brazilian Carnival  
3. Facelift  
4. Roadhouse  
5. Blood and Stone  
6. Western Massacre  
7. Defector  
8. The Recession  
9. Freedom Through Violence

Witness: -[*]-

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Post-Mortem - Monumental Pandemonium [2022]


Artist: Post-Mortem
Album: Monumental Pandemonium
Year: 2022
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://greatdanerecords.bandcamp.com/Post-Mortem / https://www.facebook.com/postmortem68500/
Country: France
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Abyssus Abyssum Invocat  
2. Genocider  
3. Skin of My Enemy  
4. Mountain of Skulls  
5. Opening of the Underworlds Gates  
6. The Pure Terror  
7. Cryptic Revelations  
8. Arallu Imperator  
9. Soul Inquisitor  
10. Altar of Inner Ghouls  
11. Graviora Manent  
12. Massive Decimation

Witness: -[*]-
I remember watching the video above early in the year when it first came out and thinking that this was going to be a very good disc and then I didn't even listen to the album for several months. Well, ever since I took the time to listen to this I have been liking it more and more. These guys are tagged as brutal death metal and I don't necessarily agree with that genre tag but either way, this is highly recommended \m/\m/

Deathsiege - Throne of Heresy [2022]


Artist: Deathsiege
Album: Throne of Heresy
Year: 2022
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nnUx7gokewI
Country: Israel
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. All Roads Spiral Downwards
2. Dehumanized in Darkness
3. Harbringers of Finality
4. Throne of Heresy
5. Satanic Tyranny  
6. At the Ruins of Legacy
7. Revelations of Wretched Men
8. Smear Campaign Triumph Eternal
9. Drowned by Murderous Force
10. Poisonous Worlds
11. Unworthy Adversary
12. Siege of Death

Witness: -[*]-

Friday, December 23, 2022

Trog - Of Vomit Reborn (EP) [2022]


Artist: Trog
Album: Of Vomit Reborn
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Trog-deathmetal
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Intro  
2. Horrific Irrational Dream Imagery  
3. The Mangler  
4. Cosmic Parasite  
5. Interlude  
6. Of Vomit Reborn

Witness: -[*]-
From the swamps of New Jersey crawls Trog to spew forth these tasty chunks of death metal.

Heretic Saviour - Suppression of Humanity (EP) [2021]


Artist: Heretic Saviour
Album: Suppression of Humanity
Year: 2021
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://baserecordproduction.bandcamp.com/Heretic Saviour
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. A Perfect Day  
2. Living Puppets  
3. Fucktoys  
4. Glass Eyes  
5. Grotesque Impalement (Dying Fetus cover)

Witness: -[*]-

Never Reborn - What Darkness Brings (EP) [2020]


Artist: Never Reborn
Album: What Darkness Brings
Year: 2020
Genre: Blackened Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://neverreborn.com/ / https://neverreborn.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Doomrider
2. Dark Desires
3. As Shadows Fall
4. What Darkness Brings
5. Heaven Shall Forsake

Witness: -[*]-

Ascended Dead - Abhorrent Manifestation [2017]


Artist: Ascended Dead
Album: Abhorrent Manifestation
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/jtqJRpfIRhQ
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Promised Time  
2. Bloodthirst  
3. Perdition  
4. Ensnared for Eternity  
5. Dormant Souls
6. Subconscious Barbarity  
7. Fissure of Chaos  
8. Dawn of Armageddon  
9. Last Ritual (Possessed cover)  
10. Inexorable Death

Witness: Link removed

Monday, December 19, 2022

Rebel Souls - Dawn of Depravity [2022]


Artist: Rebel Souls
Album: Dawn of Depravity
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/rebelsouls.deathmetal/ / https://rebelsouls.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany / Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Dawn of Depravity  
2. Trophonios  
3. Poisoner of the Harvest  
4. Corrupting the Lambs  
5. Sea of Crises  
6. Three Thousand Screams  
7. Nihil Infinitum  
8. Beneath the Veneer  
9. Rebel Souls  
10. Virulent

Witness: -[*]-
It is probably recency bias on my part, but could this be one of the year's best albums? It is in the discussion for me. This is a killer band that has 2 members from Spain and one from Germany, which explains the confusion on my part about where they are from. They are from both but metal-archives only gives Germany credit for their place of origin. They have a killer EP from 2017 as well.

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Indepth - Ancient Architects [2022]


Artist: Indepth
Album: Ancient Architects
Year: 2022
Genre: Technical Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/iQtECRXtjwY
Country: Mexico
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Ethereal Desert  
2. The Embodimemt  
3. Coma Cluster
4. The Arrival I harvest  
5. The Arrival ll Outer world  
6. Universal Scar  
7. Apeiron  
8. Dark Matter Leviathan  
9. Primal Pansperma  
10. Ancient Architects  
11. The Terraformist  
 
Witness: -[*]-
These guys had a nice EP back in '20 and this disc shows a nice progression in their brand of atmospheric prog-death. I really enjoy the bass playing on this album and the other performances are very good as well.

Lamentations - Passion of Depression [2022]


Artist: Lamentations
Album: Passion of Depression
Year: 2022
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/lamentationsmusic / https://lamentations.bandcamp.com
Country: Singapore
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Prodigal  
2. Anew  
3. Shiver  
4. Sombre  
5. Ire  
6. Obeisance  
7. Nurture

Witness: -[*]-
This is a very intriguing listen for my tastes when I am in the mood for more progressive leaning stuff. 

Saturday, December 17, 2022

Raster Density - Apothecary's Tome ov Depravity and Filth [2022]


Artist: Raster Density
Album: Apothecary's Tome ov Depravity and Filth
Year: 2022
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal / Progressive
Web: https://www.facebook.com/rasterdensity / https://rasterdensity.bandcamp.com
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Excremental Bliss  
2. Death Measured in Milligrams  
3. End of the Bridge  
4. Eyewitness (Salt part II)  
5. Pill for Every Problem  
6. Amphibious Murder  
7. Of Ego and Exitus  
8. Bear with Me  
9. Can't Get Higher than Space

Witness: -[*]-
I was aware of this band's older material but had mostly forgotten about them until our friend SourceRa came in here promoting this disc a while back and I want to say thank you because I really like this album after a few listens.

Chasm Of Discord - Admonishing the Dawn of Reverence [2022]


Artist: Chasm Of Discord
Album: Admonishing the Dawn of Reverence
Year: 2022
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/XW91U9sL86A / https://chasmofdiscord.bandcamp.com/album
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Feeding the Machine
2. Monolith of Deceit
3. Cremation
4. Deny the Light
5. Identified Singularity
6. Living Envy the Dead
7. Disparaging Revelations
8. Insidious
9. Anatomic Abomination
10. Where the Body Lies
11. Formless Being

Witness: -[*]-
This album is good in my opinion and I really wanted to promote it because I like their style immensely, Another plus is that the band is from Salem, Oregon. I really liked my time up there in the late '90s and I saw a lot of good shows in Portland.


Friday, December 16, 2022

Obvurt - Triumph Beyond Adversity [2022]


Artist: Obvurt
Album: Triumph Beyond Adversity
Year: 2022
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://www.obvurt.com/ / https://obvurthebeginning.bigcartel.com/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. The Beginning  
2. Second Chance  
3. Invisible Enemy
4. Halfway from Theory  
5. Renverser l'adversité  
6. One Last Thing  
7. Life and Death  
8. Versus

Witness: -[*]-
After releasing an excellent EP in 2021, Obvurt is already back with a full-length album that displays the range and skill of this Canadian trio quite exquisitely. 

Epidermal Veil - Psalms of the Flayed (EP) [2022]


Artist: Epidermal Veil
Album: Psalms of the Flayed
Year: 2022
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ocHUvpmGJTc / https://epidermalveil.bandcamp.com/
Country: Iceland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Crimson Sky
2. My Wish, Your Veil of Flesh
3. A Darkened Wasteland
4. Swarm of Ursath
5. Reaper's Nectar

Witness: -[*]-

Vormir - Celestial Carnage [2022]


Artist: Vormir
Album: Celestial Carnage
Year: 2022
Genre: Progressive Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/3qPAoRirdgA / https://vormirdm.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Nailed Shut  
2. Hel  
3. Celestial Carnage  
4. L' Appel Du Vide I  
5. L' Appel Du Vide II  
6. L' Appel Du Vide III  
7. Burial Ground

Witness: -[*]-
Entertaining progressive and technical death from El Paso, Texas. I wonder if our old buddy OrificeTorture knows about these guys, they're right in his backyard?

Thursday, December 15, 2022

The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow [2022]


Artist: The Chasm
Album: The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/kik1eiA48fY / https://www.facebook.com/TheChasm.Acerus/
Country: Mexico / United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Return of the End (The Ancient Spirit That Makes Me Aware)
2. A Keen but Empty Sight
3. Spectre of the Arcane Cognition
4. An Occult Gift Responds
5. The Constellations Stagger
6. A Chronicle from the Parallel World
7. The Paths That Led to the Abysm
8. The Nightfall Ills with Deathly Symbols
9. The Funeral Cortege:Sepulchre:/Final Flight of the Hateful Raven/Portal to the Isolated Domain

Witness: -[*]-
I was aware of this band but had only heard one previous release and not in a long time at that but then DDM came in here praising this album for all of the riffs and the songwriting. Well, all I can say is you are totally correct dude. This album is a very entertaining listen and the riffs are killer \m/\m/

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Venefixion - A Sigh from Below [2021]


Artist: Venefixion
Album: A Sigh from Below
Year: 2021
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/VLRfgsHZ7Yk
Country: France
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Resurrection
2. Veneficial Upheaval
3. Of Wolves and Ghosts
4. Ways to the Netherworld
5. Clavicula Salomonis
6. Summoned and Defiled
7. Subterranean Deathspell
8. Aghori's Ashes of the Dead
9. As Light Goes Astray

Witness: -[*]-
From the album art, logo, and band photos I knew this was going to be leaning more toward the blackened side of metal and it is but A Sigh from Below is also firmly rooted in death metal and these guys from Brittany have a very good grasp of it.

Necrobastard - Massgrave [2021]


Artist: Necrobastard
Album: Massgrave
Year: 2021
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/s8WCtOAuDCg
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Necromantic Nights  
2. Deadly Mass  
3. The Grotesque Roots of Civilization  
4. Into the Burial Darkness  
5. Madness Ritual  
6. Sacrifice Purification  
7. Ancient Disaster  
8. Charge in Paradise  
9. Insulting Humanity  
10. Inverting Thy Cross

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, 2021 is turning out to be an even better year than I thought it was when it ended. I don't remember hearing much chatter about this disc but there should have been. Massgrave is a grisly slab of Chilean death metal, I don't know what is going on down in Bio Bio but along with Sadistic there is some sickness there.