Eternal Rot - Moribund [2023]

Artist: Eternal Rot

Album: Moribund
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UcJcY6FOrJw
Country: International
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Summoned from Moribound Delusions

2. Reflected in Perpetual Waves of Despair

3. Swollen Corpse Adoration

4. Desecrated Guts

5. Gestures Never Recalled

6. Lurker in the Morgue

Witness: -[*]-

Gamma Bomb - Sea Savage [2020]

Artist: Gamma Bomb

Album: Sea Savage
Year: 2020
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://gamabomb.blogspot.com/ / https://www.nightshiftmerch.com/gama-bomb
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Judo Killer

2. Sea Savage

3. Miami Supercops

4. She's Not My Mother, Todd

5. Ironblood

6. Lords of the Hellfire Club

7. Sheer Khan

8. Rusty Jaw

9. Monsterizer

10. Ready, Steady, Goat!

11. Electric Pentacle

12. Gone Haywire

Witness: -[*]-
I really like this album, it is easy to hear that these guys are having fun creating their brand of old-school styled thrash and they've been at it for a long time with several releases but this is my first exposure to Gamma Bomb. At times the Bobby "Blitz" influence is strong in this vocalist and that definitely adds to the appeal of the album for me.

Gross Reality - Return to Ruin [2023]

Artist: Gross Reality

Album: Return to Ruin
Year: 2023
Genre: Thrash Metal / Power Metal
Web: https://www.divebombrecords.com/bands/gross-reality / https://www.facebook.com/GrossReality
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Carbon Shadows  

2. Soul Substance  

3. Prison Planet  

4. Mind at Large  

5. Time Portals  

6. Nightmare Hall  

7. Dark the Sun  

8. Return to Ruin  

9. Solitary Hypnosis

Witness: -[*]-

Imperial Slave - ...Still At Large [2023]

Artist: Imperial Slave

Album: ...Still At Large
Year: 2023
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/1MWKpVjka1Y / https://imperialslave.bandcamp.com/
Country: New Zealand
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Slave of Death  

2. Who Rules the World?  

3. ...Still at Large  

4. Those Who Serve  

5. Exterminate  

6. Origins  

7. 536  

8. Blood Moon Sonata  

9. Priestiality

Witness: -[*]-
I really liked Imperial Slave's self-titled 2021 album and this is their follow-up from December of last year. I hadn't listened to this one much until recently but I like this album too. These guys have a nice style for my tastes.

Dark Reflection - Everlasting Night [2023]

Artist: Dark Reflection

Album: Everlasting Night
Year: 2023
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/DarkreflectionHome / https://dark-reflection-merch
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Rise  

2. House of Black

3. Everlasting Night  

4. Forever Altering  

5. Death's Burden

6. Animus  

7. Dark Reflection  

8. Our Decay  

9. Harvest  

10. Pious

11. Geske

12. Mirrorchapel 

Witness: -[*]-

Sacrificial Burial - Firstborn (EP) [2023]

Artist: Sacrificial Burial

Album: Firstborn
Year: 2023
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/VH3s8-gp0Io / https://sacrificialburial.bandcamp.com/album/firstborn
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood From the Nile

2. The Carcass Decays

3. The Serpent

4. Firstborn

Witness: -[*]-
These guys are tagged as melodic death metal but this is less melodic and more thrashy in my opinion.

Grotesqueries - Vile Crematory [2023]

Artist: Grotesqueries

Album: Vile Crematory
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/FJ8ZtvU4xQI / https://grotesqueries.bandcamp.com
Country: United States 
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hypnagogic Transmutation

2. Corpsejuice

3. Gorrified (The Ageless Malignancy)

4. Meat You with Chain

5. The Dweller's Threnody

6. Madness Breed

7. Dismembered Fears

Witness: -[*]-

Razgate - Born to Rot in Hell [2023]

Artist: Razgate

Album: Born to Rot in Hell
Year: 2023
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/edwbJ7jI3kk / https://razgatethrash.bandcamp.com/
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tyrants of Depravity  

2. Cursed Blood  

3. The Holy Grail  

4. Born to Rot  

5. The Thing at the Edge of Sanity  

6. Interlude  

7. Fill Up the Grave!  

8. Violence, Vengeance, Chaos  

9. More I See, More I Hate  

10. Nailed to the Crossfire  

11. Hail to the Fallen  

 

Witness: Link removed 

Resurge - Resurge From Underneath [2024]

Artist: Resurge

Album: Resurge From Underneath
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/elD6no0_5vE
Country: Portugal
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Resurge

2. Resurge from Underneath

3. Blame It on You

4. Mindless Greed

5. Graft of Reluctance

6. Entombed in Torment

7. Circle of Death

8. Vehemence

9. The Epitaph

Witness: -[*]-
Resurge is a fairly new band from Portugal, which has become a hotbed for death metal over the past several years and these guys are carrying the banner proudly with this release.

Pure Chaos - Rise of the Unheard [2023]

Artist: Pure Chaos

Album: Rise of the Unheard
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/dxB4AvyZW9o / https://purechaos93.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Coroner  

2. The Awakenings  

3. Reversed Psychology  

4. Rise of the Unheard  

5. Wars of the World  

6. Sadist Underground  

7. Demonic  

8. Final Jeopardy  

9. Demented Conspiracy

Witness: -[*]-
This album was just released in October of last year but it seems that this group has already disbanded, which is too bad because I like this disc and would've liked to hear more from them. 

Absolutism - Asynchronous [2023]

Artist: Absolutism

Album: Asynchronous
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/4aYR1JmZvAs / https://www.facebook.com/absolutismband
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Lost Wavelengths

2. Ophivchvs Fortress  

3. Lothophagovs

4. The Riddle of the Ages

5. Uppståndelse  

6. Icarvs Falling  

7. The Hidden Svns  

8. The Eleventh Parsec  

9. Asynchronovs Sentience  

10. Cygnus X-1

Witness: -[*]-
I had posted Absolutisim's previous EP Blasting Trilok I but for some ignorant reason had the band labeled as being from Indonesia and then when this disc came out last year I thought this was a different band. I finally figured out my error and corrected it and I wanted to say that this is a very good offering of Spanish technical death metal and an excellent follow-up to their previous effort.

Vindictive Homicide - Souvenirs of Flesh (EP) [2023]

Artist: Vindictive Homicide

Album: Souvenirs of Flesh
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/AWrzgVaQhno / https://vindictivehomicide.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Unsparing Grasp  

2. The Grand Design  

3. From Below, They Came  

4. Souvenirs of Flesh

Witness: -[*]-

Invertebrated - Mass Planecide (EP) [2023]

Artist: Invertebrated

Album: Mass Planecide
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://invertebrated.bandcamp.com/album/mass-planecide
Country: Belgium
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Elite Laminectomy

2. Chromosomal Castration

3. Extracting Divinity

4. Mass Planecide

Witness: -[*]-

Reticulate - The Lungs of Depravation [2023]

Artist: Reticulate

Album: The Lungs of Depravation
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Pe14qS3UfAQ / TDC Link
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Watching the World Burn (Intro)  

2. Anxious to Kill  

3. A Tie with Your Tongue  

4. Nothing Left: The History of Teresa (Intro)  

5. Into the Lungs of Depravation  

6. Emasculator  

7. Violated Flesh  

8. Skull Impaler  

9. Collapsed World  

10. Into a Dark and a Cold Place (Intro)  

11. Suffering Soul  

12. The Undead

Witness: -[*]-

Crypts - Necropolis (EP) [2023]

Artist: Crypts

Album: Necropolis
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/HmbOjYaVNHU / https://cryptsdeath.bandcamp.com/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tomb of the Revenant  

2. Embrace the Darkness  

3. Haunted Ruins  

4. Necropolis

Witness: -[*]-

Abducted - Abducted [2020]

Artist: Abducted

Album: Abducted
Year: 2020
Genre: Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/Oa3oC9k0P6k / https://abductedak.bandcamp.com/album/abducted
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Apostasy  

2. Aberration  

3. Kerrigan  

4. Existence Is Futile  

5. Indoctrination  

6. Mark of the Beast  

7. The Godburner  

8. Remnants  

9. Deadite  

10. The Twin Princes  

 

Witness: -[*]-
This is somewhat of a novelty as these guys are crafting deathcore in the Great White North of Fairbanks, Alaska. I know there are more but I can only think of one other band with a connection to that state and that is Turbid North.

Bonestorm - Under the Sight of Time [2024]

Artist: Bonestorm

Album: Under the Sight of Time
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/OTCxfO3MJqU / https://www.facebook.com/bonestormdeathmetal
Country: Colombia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Eternal Cycle (Intro) 
2. Origin
3. Homo ad Circulum
4. Under the Sight of Time
5. Remember You Will die (Memento Mori)
6. Ancient Remains
7. Dystopia of a God
8. The Dawn of the Man
9. Killchain
10. Abysmal (Outro)

Witness: -[*]-
Thanks to CarlG for reminding me about Bonestorm a couple of weeks ago because I went back to their 2020 release, which I really liked but hadn't listened to in quite a while and then he dropped this new album in here and I must say that I like this one even more. I can tell from a couple of listens this is a solid album. I already reached out to the band and I am going to purchase a physical copy of this one, maybe a t-shirt too. Damn, I am closer to 60 than not and I am still buying and wearing death metal t-shirts \m/\m/

Orphalis - As the Ashes Settle [2023]

Artist: Orphalis

Album: As the Ashes Settle
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Meal
Web: https://orphalisger.bandcamp.com/ / https://orphalismerch.bigcartel.com/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. As the Ashes Settle

2. Ritual of Conflagration

3. Watch Them Descend  

4. The Wolves Draw Near  

5. An Effigy to Humanity  

6. Staring into Ruin  

7. Moon Supremacy

8. From Shadows Arisen

9. Labyrinth Configuration  

10. To Embrace Defeat  

11. Crowned in Hatred

Witness: -[*]-
So, I didn't create a BOTY list last year for the first time in the existence of The Death Chamber, I believe? If I had, I would've definitely included this album because it is one of my favorites from '23 but came out right in my transition period between career choices and the brilliance of this disc got overshadowed by other aspects of my life. I am here to tell you today that this is very good tech BDM.

Orphalis - The Birth of Infinity [2016]

Artist: Orphalis

Album: The Birth of Infinity
Year: 2016
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Orphalisband / TDC Link
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Awaiting Ascension
2. Encased in a Higher Intellect
3. Reshaping the Omnipresent
4. Ingrained Absurdism
5. Planetary Reinvention
6. The Atavistic Tide
7. Lay Bare the Loam
8. Hematemesis
9. Swarming
10. Vanished State of Divinity
11. Inferiority Absolved

Witness: -[*]-
One of the best technical death metal albums of 2016 for my tastes. This is technical German brutality of the highest order from the Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia region. This is my own rip that I am offering you but you should listen & then support the band (\m/\m/)

Kohnerah - Ominous Ubiquitous [2023]

Artist: Kohnerah

Album: Ominous Ubiquitous
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://kohnerah.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/kohnerah/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Wake of Oblivion

2. Bovine Excision

3. Antimatter Annihilation

4. Eye of the Panopticon

5. Inoculus

6. Plucked from the Sky

7. Elegiac Departure

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, I was surprised and impressed with this album. I picked this up back in August but never listened to it until recently and I gotta say that I like this band. They're from KC Missouri and I enjoy the technical flair they add to their style of brutality. Good stuff!

Cerebral Invasion - A Story of Death [2023]

Artist: Cerebral Invasion

Album: A Story of Death
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/P4j40odm0cs / https://www.cerebralinvasion.com/ 
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:

1. Declaration of Hate

2. Conquer All

3. Survival of the Weak

4. Rise or be Killed

5. Brainwashed Into Fucking Madness

6. Savage Awakening

7. Blind Leading the Blind

8. Face of Fear

9. Demons Within

10. A Story of Death

Witness: -[*]-

Metal Requiem - Unreachable Depths [2023]

Artist: Metal Requiem

Album: Unreachable Depths
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/MetalRequiemofficial/ / https://www.reverbnation.com/metalrequiem
Country: Guatemala
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tyrant Oppressor  

2. Death Wish  

3. Oblitteratum  

4. Inquisition  

5. Unreachable Depth  

6. The Darkest Day  

7. In Madness  

8. Sickness Within

Witness: -[*]-
This band has been at it since 2002 but this is my first exposure to their work and I like it. It's really more thrash than death metal but that's okay for me.

Defy The Curse - Horrors of Human Sacrifice [2023]

Artist: Defy The Curse

Album: Horrors of Human Sacrifice
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Crust
Web: https://www.defythecurse.com/ / https://defythecurse.bandcamp.com/
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Leading into the Realm of Torment

2. Existence Consumed

3. The Tower of Suffering

4. Endless Curse

5. Swarms

6. The Oppressor

7. Horrors of Human Sacrifice

8. Eidolon of the Blind

9. Desolate Void

10. Serpent Cult

11. Panopticon

12. Dreameater

Witness: Link removed

Death Warmed Over - Trench Warfare (EP) [2023]

Artist: Death Warmed Over

Album: Trench Warfare
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/o2R8aSmgUSs
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Trench Warfare

2. Assassin

3. Declaration of Death  

4. An Obsession  

5. Witchcraft

 

Witness: -[*]-
I was getting ready to write "This young band is pretty good" but then I learned that the core members originally formed in 1995 but didn't release anything until 2021. Even though they're not a "young band" it doesn't change my opinion because I like both of their EPs so far and want to hear a full length now. 

Death Warmed Over - Tribulation (EP) [2021]

Artist: Death Warmed Over

Album: Tribulation
Year: 2021
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/lpllfgvEIVY / https://deathwarmedover.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tribulation

2. Blood Moon

3. Inaudible Scream

4. Release the Anger

5. Planet Earth: Population Zero

6. Aftermath

Witness: -[*]-