Friday, February 17, 2023

Fateful Finality - Emperor of the Weak [2022]


Artist: Fateful Finality
Album: Emperor of the Weak
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.fateful-finality.de/ / https://www.facebook.com/Fateful.Finality.Metal
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Emperor of the Weak  
2. Stealth Aggressor  
3. Live Amid Warfare  
4. Dead Earth  
5. When Peace Is the Demand  
6. Hate Kill And Death  
7. Time Bomb  
8. From Creator to Victim  
9. Call of the Cult  
10. The Man He Was  
11. Social Terror

Witness: -[*]-
Classic sounding thrash metal from Baden-Württemberg, Germany. A highly entertaining neck wrecker for an old metalhead like me.

Trastorned - Into the Void [2023]


Artist: Trastorned
Album: Into the Void
Year: 2023
Genre: Blackened Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/zNrrrCDGnSo
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Witch Hunt
2. Metal Violence
3. Black Fire
4. Miasma of Death
5. Into the Void
6. Dreadful Fate (Interlude)
7. Insanity
8. Reborn Through Hate

Witness: -[*]-

Intruder - Psycho Savant [1991]


Artist: Intruder
Album: Psycho Savant
Year: 1991
Genre: Technical Thrash Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/4EAvVZrv-As
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Face of Hate
2. Geri's Lament (When)
3. The Enemy Within
4. It's a Good Life
5. Invisible
6. Traitor to the Living
7. Final Word
8. N.G.R.I.

Witness: -[*]-
A "back in the day" favorite of mine from the early '90s. Technical thrash metal from Nashville, Tennessee, that vocally is a bit uneven, but there is some damn fine guitar work on this disc and as a result, this was an album that I played quite a bit back in those days. I am unsure what the current crowd will think of this disc but I like it quite a bit.

Sunday, February 12, 2023

First Degree Murder - Beyond Salvation [2012]


Artist: First Degree Murder
Album: Beyond Salvation
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/_VnqX-TCLp4
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Book Of Lies
2. For Rich-Man’s Sake
3. Set The World On Fire
4. Wings Of Fury
5. God Is Dead
6. Cloak Of Vengeance
7. Affliction
8. The Dark Pretender
9. Salvation For The Pitiful
10. Spheres Of Human Depravity
11. Trapped Inside
12. The Awakening of Behemoth
13. Outro

Witness: -[*]-
So, I was on my lunch break at work the other day doing what I usually do at lunch, surfing YouTube, and I came across this band called First Degree Murder. The caption under the video stated that it was an unreleased album from 2012. I began listening to it and I liked what I heard so I went to Metal-Archives and I found a band with the same name but they are a slam band and not my style at all. I reached out to the guy who posted the video, Simon, who also performs vocals and guitars on this album and he graciously sent me the album and permission to post it here. It seems that during the production process for this album, the band members became uncertain about the quality of the songs they had created and decided not to release the album. I think that was a mistake because even though these tracks are over 10 years old they sound very good to me and it is obvious that these 4 guys had talent and played well together. Unfortunately, the band would split up in 2016 and this would be their final opus but I am glad that the YouTube algorithm put this on my path because Beyond Salvation is a good album and I am happy to have finally experienced it \m/\m/

Ominous Scriptures - Rituals of Mass Self-Ignition [2023]


Artist: Ominous Scriptures
Album: Rituals of Mass Self-Ignition
Year: 2023
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Gz23Ssemepk
Country: Belarus
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Demonic Totem I Am  
2. Rituals of Mass Self-ignition  
3. Enraged  
4. Fanning the Flames  
5. Serpentine Wisdom  
6. Mangled Perception  
7. Inhabitant of the Lacrimarium  
8. Codex Rescriptus

Witness: Link removed

Puncture Wound - Brutal Butchery of Bargain Basement Bodies (EP) [2017]


Artist: Puncture Wound
Album: Brutal Butchery of Bargain Basement Bodies
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/puncturewoundosdm
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Gorruption  
2. Indiscriminate Slaughter  
3. Barbed Wire Suicide  
4. Aceldama

Witness: -[*]-
I want to say thanks to Unbound for mentioning this EP and to El Faffo for providing a link because I really like Puncture Wound and it gives me the opportunity to promote their 2020 release, Complete Carnage of Coagulating Cacophonous Corpses again too. Listen and enjoy \m/\m/

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Tension Prophecy - Tribal Hatred [2023]


Artist: Tension Prophecy
Album: Tribal Hatred
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UqHOt9SUtmI
Country: Iran
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Last Breath Before Rivived  
2. Uncontrolled Figure  
3. Tribal Hatred  
4. Philosophical Death  
5. Inglorious Power  
6. Intrinsic Fear  
7. Chemical Mass Killing  
8. Misanthrophy  
9. Heinous Divinity

Witness: -[*]-
I have been a fan of Tension Prophecy for a long time now and while I think their first 2 albums are their best, I do like this new album more than their previous effort. Decide for yourself, listen & support!

Chainmace - Unparalleled Cruelty (EP) [2023]


Artist: Chainmace
Album: Unparalleled Cruelty
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/crhmKiV2iZs / https://chainmace.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Kick the Dirt
2. The Poison Blue
3. Walking Disease
4. Psychosis
5. Mouth of Hate

Witness: -[*]-

Friday, February 10, 2023

DeadShot - Critical Inner Voices [2022]


Artist: DeadShot
Album: Critical Inner Voices
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/RgGjYdxX2uo / https://deadshot67.bandcamp.com
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Critical Inner Voices
2. Regret
3. Load! Aim! Fire!
4. T.E.O
5. What's Wrong
6. No One's Land
7. One Step Down
8. Pigs

Witness: -[*]-
I like this band they have a cool kinda laid-back style to their thrash. These tracks sound like they should have been released years ago but I still enjoy listening to this disc. See what you think if you're into older thrash.

Embrional - Evil Dead [2019]


Artist: Embrional
Album: Evil Dead
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.shop.immortalfrostproductions.com/Embrional / https://www.facebook.com/Embrional
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Ending Up on the Gallow  
2. Vileness...  
3. Inhuman Lusts  
4. Lord of Skulls  
5. Day of Damnation  
6. Endless Curse  
7. Abomination  
8. Damned by Dogmas

Witness: -[*]-
This 2019 offering is the latest full-length release from Embrional and another jewel in their crown of high quality death metal. I am looking forward to a new album from this band and hope it will be soon.

Embrional - The Devil Inside [2015]


Artist: Embrional
Album: The Devil Inside
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://embrional.bandcamp.com / https://embrional.com
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. The Devil Inside
2. Evil's Mucus  
3. Funeral March  
4. The Abyss  
5. Sadness
6. In Darkness  
7. (Behind) The Mask of Sanity  
8. 910  
9. Madman's Curse  
10. Callousness  
11. Venom  
12. Whores, Drugs and Brain Dead

Witness: -[*]-

Blood Reaping - Ignis Penumbra [2003]


Artist: Blood Reaping 
Album: Ignis Penumbra
Year: 2003
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/8xRQpfwxGgs
Country: Mexico
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro - Ignis Penumbra
2. Witching Bloodreaping
3. Boiling Steel
4. Venom Incarnate
5. Emptyness
6. Wrath of Blasphemy
7. Pandemonia
8. Where Black Flames Arise
9. Lascivious Malignant Miasma
10. Descend (Congregation of Blood And Flames)

Witness: -[*]-
Old school brutal \m/\m/

Blood Reaping - Feasting the Weak [2001]


Artist: Blood Reaping
Album: Feasting the Weak
Year: 2001
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/BabXizpCG5s
Country: Mexico
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Boiling Through Mastication  
2. Freezing Slaughter  
3. As My Knife Cuts  
4. Diabolic Profanation  
5. Seeds of Destruction  
6. Feasting the Weak  
7. Excrement Ward  
8. Sacrilegious Dismemberment
 
Witness: -[*]-

Sunday, February 5, 2023

Emerald Lord - Attaining the Supreme [2023]


Artist: Emerald Lord
Album: Attaining the Supreme
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/S8DezchS3Dg
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Transcendental Knowledge
2. Opulence of the Absolute
3. The Universal Form
4. Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
5. The Divine and Demoniac Natures
6. Calculation of Time from the Atom
7. The Cause of All Causes

Witness: -[*]-
After going on a rant a week or so ago about being burnt out on 1-man bands I keep stumbling across new ones that I like 😣 Oh well, this guy from Indy has created a pretty good effort with Attaining the Supreme.

Act Of Impalement - Infernal Ordinance [2023]


Artist: Act Of Impalement
Album: Infernal Ordinance
Year: 2023
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UiHtfEQVy-E / https://actofimpalement.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Summoning the Final Conflagration  
2. Bogbody  
3. In Wolflight  
4. Specters of Unlight  
5. Creeping Barrage  
6. Atomic Hecatomb  
7. Blasphemies Rebirth  
8. Death Hex  
9. Erased

Witness: -[*]-
Here is some grimy blackened death thrash from Nashville, Tennessee of all places. They won't be playing this in any honky tonk bars.

Imprisoned In Flesh - From Arrogance to Extinction (EP) [2022]


Artist: Imprisoned In Flesh
Album: From Arrogance to Extinction
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/NlNmXwKz1ME
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. An Ode to the Beheaded King  
2. Under a Smirking Sun  
3. Planet of the Idiots  
4. Redemption of a Warlord  
5. Nauseating Agony  
6. The Flying Foam Massacre  
7. Resolution of a Dying Species

Witness: -[*]-

Corrosive - Death as a Process [2022]


Artist: Corrosive 
Album: Death as a Process
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://corrosivemr.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.backstagepro.de/corrosive
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Death as a Process  
2. Preserved Behind Glass  
3. Human Puzzle  
4. Welcome to Your Autopsy  
5. When Body and Mind Are Separated  
6. Romance for Barbecue  
7. Necroloveicon  
8. Deathbedvisions  
9. When She Smells like Warm Butter  
10. Your Pain Is My Gain  
11. Demon

Witness: -[*]-
Corrosive has been the model for consistency in German death metal over the years and this album carries forward their grisly expertise quite nicely I think.

Damngod - Humanity: The Legacy of Violence and Evil [2011]


Artist: Damngod
Album: Humanity: The Legacy of Violence and Evil
Year: 2011
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/AOvhHQx84CM
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Father of the Year
2. Feelin' Bad Never Felt So Good
3. First Lady
4. Blood Church
5. Smiling From My Grave
6. Warlike Mind
7. Brother No. 1
8. Zyklon Golgotha

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a blast from the past that I had forgotten about and I really like them, they have that classic Swedish OSDM feel but they're from Finland. A very good listen \m/\m/

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Souls To Deny - The Tragedy of Human Existence [2022]


Artist: Souls To Deny
Album: The Tragedy of Human Existence
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/URRZmQ18xyg
Country: Slovakia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  
2. An Act of Enslavement  
3. The Beast Within  
4. Like Lambs to the Slaughter  
5. Architects of Decay  
6. Vivisepulture  
7. A Necrotic Magician  
8. The Bloodswamp  
9. Our Wretched Existence  
10. Outro

Witness: -[*]-
I like this album, these guys may not be doing anything particularly new or unique but they have a style and groove that is appealing to my tastes \m/\m/

Monastery - Divine Damnation [2022]


Artist: Monastery
Album: Divine Damnation
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/YgGtNkSxl90
Country: Hungary
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Decomposition of Human Brain
3. Hereditary Pestilence
4. Divine Damnation
5. Catatonic Schizophrenia
6. Age of Shit
7. Bleed
8. Fakemockracy
9. Anatomy of Insanity
10. The End Is the Beginning (Outro)

Witness: -[*]-
A version of this band has been around since 1990 and this incarnation still has 2 of the original members (guitar & drums). This is my first exposure to Monastery and it has been quite pleasing. 

Spire Of Lazarus - Soaked in the Sands [2022]


Artist: Spire Of Lazarus
Album: Soaked in the Sands
Year: 2022
Genre: Technical Deathcore
Web: https://spireoflazarus.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/spireoflazarus/
Country: Austria
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dahaka
2. Brute
3. Farah
4. Warrior Within
5. The Rekem Reservoir
6. Soldier of Sand
7. Mask of the Wraith
8. Two Thrones

Witness: -[*]-
I know that a lot of the death metal purists are vehemently opposed to anything with "core" in it but some of the technical deathcore bands make some highly entertaining music in my opinion and this band from Vienna happens to be in that category. Formerly known as Dayum, they changed their moniker in 2020 and I think it suits their style quite well. 

Friday, February 3, 2023

Dayum - Ghost of Sparta [2019]


Artist: Dayum
Album: Ghost of Sparta
Year: 2019
Genre: Technical Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/bsc6q7xb5C8 / https://dayumband.bigcartel.com/
Country: Austria
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Introduction
2. Ghost of Sparta
3. Pegasus
4. Downfall of Gaia
5. Icarus
6. Challenge of Poseidon
7. Desert of Lost Souls
8. Hermes
9. Prometheus
10. Challenge of Poseidon 8bit

Witness: -[*]-
Three of the 4 members of Dayum went on to form or basically change their name to Spire Of Lazarus within months of releasing this album. This is a good one for the open minded listener. 

Soul Reborn - Black Tear in a River of Blood [2022]


Artist: Soul Reborn
Album: Black Tear in a River of Blood
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/phDw2kAmI7E
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Our Era
2. A Perfect Choice
3. Black Tear in a River of Blood
4. The Wings of Solitude
5. Something Awakens
6. My Personal Hell
7. Insomnia
8. Wild Ego
9. The Witch of Vardo

Witness: -[*]-

Nekrovault - Totenzug: Festering Peregrination [2020]


Artist: Nekrovault
Album: Totenzug: Festering Peregrination
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/pQAaMSOUfUc
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Totenzug - Funereal Hillscapes
2. Sepulkrator
3. Psychomanteum - Luminous Flames
4. Pallid Eyes
5. Serpentrance
6. Basilisk Fumes
7. Eremitorium

Witness: -[*]-
I wasn't familiar with this band until I came across this a few months ago and I really like the middle 3-4 tracks on this album but haven't listened to it much so I may end up liking more or all of it.

Insidious Void - Entropy (EP) [2022]


Artist: Insidious Void
Album: Entropy
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: https://insidiousvoid.bandcamp.com/album/entropy / https://www.facebook.com/InsidiousVoid
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. The War
2. Trinity Downfall
3. Upon a Dead World
4. Entropy

Witness: -[*]-