Saturday, March 4, 2023

Rake-Off - Observing Madness [2022]


Artist: Rake-Off
Album: Observing Madness 
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/vfk9WCfqVTI
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Glowing Descent
2. To Live in Fear
3. Killing Machine
4. Evil from the Depths
5. Living Paradox
6. Push Me Down
7. Eternal Curse
8. Trapped
9. Modern Slavery
10. Deathrider (Anthrax cover)

Witness: -[*]-

As Above So Below - Stigmata (EP) [2023]


Artist: As Above So Below
Album: Stigmata
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/FbUAqOfa79w
Country: Unknown
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Stigmata  
2. Incarnation Satanas  
3. Heart of Anger  
4. Son of Dawn  
5. Sol Invictus  
6. At the End of Time and Space

Witness: -[*]-
I can't really find any identity for this band, no country, no members, no Bandcamp page, nothing but I do like these tracks, so hopefully, more info materializes soon. 

Skombrus - Betrayal of the Breed [2017]


Artist: Skombrus
Album: Betrayal of the Breed
Year: 2017
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://skombrus.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/SkombrusThrashMetal/
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Aim in the Head
2. Crack Massacre
3. Bankrup Justice
4. Guilhotine, Torture and Genocide
5. Betrayal of the Breed
6. Soco na Cara
7. State of Suffering
8. Olho por Olho
9. Violent Life

Witness:
So, this is a quirky yet cool thrash metal album, it comes a little off of the rails at times but overall is interesting and entertaining. Metal-Archives states that they're still active so hopefully something new will be coming in the future. They have had no recent activity that I have seen on the Web.

Comaniac - Holodox [2020]


Artist: Comaniac
Album: Holodox
Year: 2020
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://comaniac.bandcamp.com/album/holodox / https://www.facebook.com/ComaniacOfficial/
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Holodox
2. The New Face of Hell
3. Art Is Dead
4. Head of the Snake
5. Narcotic Clan
6. Legend Heaven
7. Love and Pride
8. Under the Gun
9. Bittersweet
10. Alma Martyr

Witness: -[*]-

Comaniac - Instruction for Destruction [2017]


Artist: Comaniac
Album: Instruction for Destruction
Year: 2017
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://comaniac.ch/
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Coal
2. Suborned
3. Bow Low
4. Guarding Ruins
5. How to End It All
6. Self Control
7. Shattered  
8. Heart of Stone
9. Forever More
10. Instruction for Destruction

Witness: -[*]-

Friday, March 3, 2023

Ontborg - Following the Steps of Damnation [2023]


Artist: Ontborg
Album: Following the Steps of Damnation
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://ontborg.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/Ontborg/
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Steps of Damnation
2. Purgatory
3. Echoes ot Time
4. Nightfall
5. To the North
6. Underneath
7. I Am the Night
8. Ending Path
9. Old Mother Frost
10. The Tower

Witness: -[*]-
OSDM worship from Merano, Italy, a bit too much on the melodic side but with just enough HM2 fuzz to make it believable. 

Enthraller - The Devil King of the Sixth Heaven [2010]


Artist: Enthraller
Album: The Devil King of the Sixth Heaven
Year: 2010 
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/eOps7glBZs0
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Devil King  
2. Lust for Sickness  
3. Born of War  
4. Defiled Earth  
5. Descending Illuminati  
6. Mindless Slaves  
7. Leech of Depravity  
8. Avichi Hell  
9. Kalpa of Decay

Witness: -[*]-
These guys were/are from Torrence, California, but their current status is unknown. They made 3 albums in the early part of the 2000s but this is the only one of their efforts that I ever heard and it wasn't/isn't bad at all.

Coffin Lust - Manifestation of Inner Darkness [2016]


Artist: Coffin Lust
Album: Manifestation of Inner Darkness
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/s2D2m7yOt_g
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Excoriation of Morality
2. Beyond Redemption
3. Mass Extinction
4. Chaos Absolute
5. Swarming Black Inferno
6. Damnation's Bringer
7. Prophecy of Malevolence
8. Manifestation of Inner Darkness

Witness: Link removed

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

SourceRa's Best of 2022

Well, it took me quite a while, but I eventually managed to do my BOTY 2022. This time I didn´t write sth. for every entry – cuz I sure as hell wouldn´t be finished by now – instead there´s a YT link for every entry so you can judge for yourselves.

So, here are my Top 5:


1. Aurora Borealis (USA) – Prophecy Is The Mold In Which History Is Poured

2. Immolation (USA) – Acts Of God

3. Criminal Element (USA/RUS) – Abuse Of Power

4. Origin (USA) – Chaosmos

5. Analepsy (POR) – Quiescence

And here´s the rest in no particular order:


• Posthuman Abomination (ITA) – Mankind Recall
• Akinetopsia (BRA) – Collapse Of Continuum
• Amputate (POR/CH) – Dawn Of Annihilation
• Anchillys (NED) – Elan Vital
• Antropofagus (ITA) – Origin
• Barbatos (BRA) – Raw, Aggressive And Blasphemous
• Brute (SLO) – Essence Of Tyranny
• Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement (USA) – Constructing The Cataclysm
• Bleeding Display (POR) – Dawn Of A Killer
• Decaying Flesh (IDN) – Virtuous In Suffering
• Devilpriest (POL) – In Repugnant Adoration
• Disgustibus (ITA) – True Taste Of Terror
• Emulsified (USA) – Apocalypse
• Exocrine (FRA) – The Hybrid Suns
• Father Befouled (USA) – Crowned In Veneficum
• Carceri (NED) – From Source To End
• Grand Old Wrath (GER) – Every Man For Himself
• Gutural Disease (IDN) – The Foreseen Deadline
• Haunted Shores (USA) – Void
• Desecrate The Faith (USA) – III
• Burying Place (LT) – In The Light Of Burning Churches
• JOADS (ITA) – Yersinia Pestis
• Krisiun (BRA) – Mortem Solis
• Golgothan (USA) – Leech
• Misgivings (FRA) – Misgivings
• Cryptic Hatred (FIN) – Nocturnal Sickness
• Order Ov Riven Cathedrals (ITA) – Absolute
• Raster Density (FIN) – Apothecary´s Tome Ov Depravity And Filth
• Sceptic (POL)– Nailed To Ignorance
• Sonivinos (USA/CAN/BEL) - Sonicated Intravaginal Insemination in Numbers
• Soreption (SWE)– Jord
• Stench Of Death (CAN) – Aeternum After
• SubOrbital (GER) – Planetary Disruption
• The Antichrist Imperium (UK/AUS) - Volume III: Satan in His Original Glory
• Troglodyte (USA) - The Hierarchical Ecological Succession: Welcome to the Food Chain
• Sublation (USA)– The Path To Bedlam
• ULO (IDN) – Three Two
• Vomit Forth (USA) – Seething Malevolence
• Wafat (IDN)– Feminism
• Waste Of Humanity (CHL) – Push The Weak Around
• Obvurt – Triumph Beyond Adversity
 

EPs:


• Abysmal Dawn (USA) – Nightmare Frontier
• Achromatous (GER) – Achromatous
• Deformatory (CAN) – Harbinger
• Epidermal Veil (ICE) – Psalms Of The Flayed
• Solus Ex Inferis (AUS/IND/USA/CHL) – Exogenesis
• Illucinus (USA) – The Machine
• Death Machine (CAN) – Inanimate
• Infrastrvctvre (CAN) – Infrastrvctvre
• Perdition Temple (USA) – Merciless Upheaval
• Power Concept (HUN/SRB/AUS/GER) - Inhuman Compatible
• Severe Torture (NED) – Fisting The Sockets
• The Sound That Ends Creation (USA) - Unicorn Laser Bubblegum City
• Vagus (SWE) – Sulfurous
• Vril (ECU) – Nephilim

Honorable Mentions:


•  Apostate (UK) – In the Image of God
•  Dead Squad (IDN) – Catharsis
•  Decrapted (ESP) – Bloody Rivers Of Death
•  Decipher (NOR) – Breed Of An Obsolete Kind
•  Decapitated (POL) – Cancer Culture
•  Embryonic Devourment (USA) – Heresy Of The Highest Order
•  Sadistic Drive (FIN) – Perpetual Torture
•  Rebel Souls (GER) – Dawn Of Depravity
•  Thanatophobia (BLR/RUS) – Rebirth Through Destruction
•  Rejuvenation (BGR) – Crystalline
•  Werewolves (AUS) – From The Cave To The Grave
•  Writhing Shadows (USA) – Writhing Shadows

Enjoy and let the Metal flow!

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Crown Of Madness - Elemnetal Binding (EP) [2023]


Artist: Crown Of Madness
Album: Elemental Binding
Year: 2023
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/17JiLeH2ZvE
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Immortal Eyes
2. A Wrenching Nostalgia  
3. Roots, Limbs and Sky  
4. Vile Sun

Witness: -[*]-

Crown Of Madness - The Void (EP) [2022]


Artist: Crown Of Madness
Album: The Void
Year: 2022
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/IGuaVlmBaH4
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Pale  
2. Eternal Feeding  
3. The Manipulated  
4. Anguish  
5. False God's Hymn

Witness: -[*]-

Orbit Culture - Shaman (EP) [2021]


Artist: Orbit Culture
Album: Shaman
Year: 2021
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Groove Metal
Web: https://www.orbitculture.com/ / https://orbitculture.bandcamp.com/music
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Mast of the World
2. Flight of the Fireflies
3. Carvings
4. Strangler
5. A Sailor's Tale

Witness: -[*]-

Humiliation - Infantry [2022]


Artist: Humiliation
Album: Infantry
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Em3JKca_XbM
Country: Malaysia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Colonization  
2. Victims of Oppression  
3. Resistance Against Restrictions  
4. The Evoke  
5. Rebellion  
6. Kampar - Advancing Down  
7. Gemencheh Bridge  
8. In the Darkness of Endau's Night  
9. Last Days  
10. Medal of Honour

Witness: -[*]-
Here is the latest annual installment from Malaysia's Humiliation who has been releasing at least 1 full-length album every year since 2010. Our good buddy CarlG has long been a staunch supporter of this band because they check all of the boxes that are important to him when it comes to death metal. They are straight-up, no-frills, 10 - 12 tracks per album, each one clocks in at 45+ minutes, and they don't change from one album to the next, they remain very regimented and consistent in what they do. What more could you ask for from a death metal band?

Humiliation - XI: Triumphant [2020]


Artist: Humiliation
Album: XI: Triumphant
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/HqGCqvXusOs
Country: Malaysia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tanjung Kunyit - The Beginning  
2. Tanjung Kunyit - The Tracking Down  
3. Strategy Outpost  
4. Tanjung Kunyit - The Outpost  
5. Tanjung Kunyit - The Final Battle  
6. Codebreakers  
7. This Is Not A Drill  
8. Verge Of Callapse  
9. What Is The Target  
10. Last Resting Place

Witness: -[*]-

Humiliation - Battalion [2014]


Artist: Humiliation
Album: Battalion
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/4EEvsNkRZuY / https://deepsendrecords.bandcamp.com/battalion
Country: Malaysia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Malayan Emergency (Intro)  
2. Post Aftermath
3. Liberated Area
4. No Land Rights to Speak Of
5. The Killing Campaign
6. Overthrow
7. Alliance
8. War Path
9. Undefeated
10. Baling Talks
11. Restless Fight

Witness: -[*]-
Even though I don't claim to be an expert on this band because I don't listen to them a lot, I still consider this to be my favorite of their early releases and it holds up pretty well here 9 years later.

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Anacryptic - Architects of Discord [2023]


Artist: Anacryptic
Album: Architects of Discord
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/gm4gh25cG88
Country: Colombia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Doomed to fall
2. Architects of discord  
3. Void of confusion  
4. Swarming madness  
5. Ape rage  
6. Wings of incivility  
7. Despised altar  
8. Murmuring the meek

Witness: -[*]-
Colombia has been been a fertile breeding ground for some good death metal over the past many years and Anacryptic is another prime example of this fact. They have a couple of EPs and a demo to their credit and now this full length, but at just under 19 minutes I am not sure how it is categorized as an LP. Anyway, the tracks are very good and that is all that matters in the end.

 

Friday, February 24, 2023

Morbikon - Ov Mournful Twilight [2022]


Artist: Morbikon
Album: Ov Mournful Twilight
Year: 2022
Genre: Black Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/qfBP-oXSJvk?list=OLAK5uy_lCE1-uJzJeSynsQXlJaGTtEJFULcPnaxU
Country: International
Quality: 320 Kbps
 
Tracklist:
1. Consumed by Entropy  
2. Universal Funeral
3. Cursed to March on Shattered Limbs
4. Deaththirst  
5. Ov Mournful Twilight  
6. In Ritual Isolation  
7. Borne of Phantom Vessel
8. Infinite Pathways to the Earthen Grave

Witness: -[*]-
A big shout out and huge props to DDM for the intel and heads up on this disc. This is a very good offering of black thrash and the riffs on this album are top-notch headbangers. I probably would have never given this disc a chance if not for his recommendation. Much appreciated my friend \m/\m/ 

Cruentus - Fossilized [2022]


Artist: Cruentus
Album: Fossilized
Year: 2022
Genre: Black Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/tm3gYlKCO28 / https://cruentus1.bandcamp.com/night-embrace-me
Country: Sweden
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Ascending  
2. The Catalyst  
3. Nihil Ultra  
4. Mot Alltets Slut  
5. The Lost Ones  
6. Prey  
7. Relentless Scourge  
8. Averted Reality  
9. Doldrums  
10. Primordial Reprisal

Witness: -[*]-
Highly entertaining thrashy black metal from this 2-man Swedish project. I pre-ordered and purchased this on Bandcamp last year after hearing only one preview track and that is rare for me with black metal albums but I thought it was that good.

Azooma - The Act of Eye [2016]


Artist: Azooma
Album: The Act of Eye
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/kBxRSnjTgU4
Country: Iran
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Act 1 - Plague of Predator
2. Act 2 - Umbra of Mirth  
3. Act 3 - The Ocular Dominance  
4. Act 4 - Erosion of Shadows  
5. Act 5 - Non-Entity of Visions  
6. Act 6 - Flare of Flames  
7. Act 7 - Objectivity of Oblivion  
8. Act 8 - The Eyes: A Tale of Sight and Shadows

Witness: -[*]-

Infective Symphony - Voice of Existence [2018]


Artist: Infective Symphony
Album: Voice of Existence
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/InfectiveSymphony
Country: Mexico
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Photon Sphere
2. Bow to Eternity
3. Devoted Silence
4. The Twelfth Planet
5. Sense of Sickness
6. Ziusudra
7. Oscillating Time
8. Burning My Will
9. Skeptical Chymist
10. Casting the Soul Through Blood

Witness: -[*]-
I first posted this disc here in 2018 and I have been hoping to hear more from this band because this disc is very good in my opinion but it seems that they are currently "on hold." Hopefully, they can get back on track because they certainly have talent and potential based on this release \m/\m/

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Butcher Of Sodom - The Annihilation of a Butchered Heart [2023]


Artist: Butcher Of Sodom
Album: The Annihilation of a Butchered Heart
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nXwSDobAVMU
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Mouth Filled with Maggots  
2. Eaten in the Womb  
3. Necrophilia  
4. Torture  
5. Bled like a Pig  
6. Garroting  
7. Love  
8. Fetching  
9. Cleanse the World Through Fire  
10. Rise to Power  
11. The Chalice  
12. The Cross Has Fallen

Witness: -[*]-

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Tentacult - Lacerating Pattern [2023]


Artist: Tentacult
Album: Lacerating Pattern
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ZSRK_7k9dhM / https://tentacult.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Primordial Call - Litany of Relict Caverns  
2. Seismic Assault  
3. Aberration Sphere  
4. Obsidian Blade  
5. Into Astral Crypt  
6. Lacerating Pattern - Fractal Gateway

Witness: -[*]-
This album has been getting a fair bit of promotion here in The Chamber, especially by our newest friend El Faffo. I have even heard that in some secluded corners, people are "lacerating their vests" over this album, so I have decided to give it more attention and post it here. 

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Frozen Dawn - The Decline of the Enlightened Gods [2023]


Artist: Frozen Dawn
Album: The Decline of the Enlightened Gods
Year: 2023
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/s8tXUqh6TF8
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Mystic Fires of Dark Allegiance  
2. Spellbound  
3. Black Reign Awaits  
4. Frozen Kings  
5. Wanderer of Times  
6. Oath of Forgotten Past  
7. Cosmic Black Chaos  
8. The Decline of the Enlightened Gods  
9. The Fall of Aeons
10. Blinded by Light, Enlightened by Darkness (Necrophobic cover)  
 
Witness: -[*]-
Damn, I haven't listened to this band since 2015 or so and I liked them back then but didn't follow them afterward. Flash forward 8-9 years and Unbound and ElF got me to listen to them again and damn they have improved too much higher levels.

Soulmass - Let Us Pray [2023]


Artist: Soulmass
Album: Let Us Pray
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Doom Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/zczmRUkwDpQ
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Call Beyond
2. Sympathy's Desire
3. Below the Lake
4. Ominous Prayer
5. Vile Executioner
6. Where the Crow Feathers Fall
7. Nightmares Reign

Witness: -[*]-
After releasing a highly entertaining EP in June of 2022 entitled Eidolon, Soulmass is already back with a full-length of their doomy brand of Floridian death metal and I like it a lot. Recommended \m/\m/

Necrokinesis - Necrokinesis [2020]


Artist: Necrokinesis
Album: Necrokinesis
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/FGFjnOmaASc
Country: Ireland
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. No Future  
2. In Darkness Reborn  
3. Nosferatu  
4. At One with Death  
5. The Path to Destruction  
6. Lazarus  
7. The Suffering  
8. Chernobyl

Witness: -[*]-
By my own words, I am tired of all of these 1-man project bands yet I keep finding more of them that I like and want to promote. Well, Necrokinesis is another fine example of how one person can do it all in the studio and make it sound pretty damn good.