Nocturnal Hollow - A Whisper of an Horrendous Soul [2019]

Artist: Nocturnal Hollow

Album: A Whisper of an Horrendous Soul
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/QSC-k-ZJbMo / https://www.facebook.com/nocturnalhollowband
Country: Venezuela
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Coming Back to the Grave

2. Trapped in a Coffin

3. I Am the Slaughter

4. Rotten Skull

5. Master of Invidious

6. God of All Deaths

7. Spit the Nails

8. Midnight Burial

9. World Decay

10. Ancestral Beings

Witness: -[*]-

Torture Squad - Devilish [2023]

Artist: Torture Squad

Album: Devilish
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/torturesquad
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hell Is Coming

2. Flukeman  

3. Buried Alive  

4. Warrior  

5. Sanctuary  

6. Uatumã  

7. Thoth  

8. Mabus

9. Find My Way  

10. Gaia  

11. A Farewell to Mankind  

12. The Last Journey

Witness: -[*]-
This is the newest release from these long-running thrashers from São Paulo and I think this is a damn fine collection of songs and shows that after 34 years they still have a passion for their brand of death-tinged thrash metal.

Torture Squad - Far Beyond Existence [2017]

Artist: Torture Squad

Album: Far Beyond Existence
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UvHq9iHtDbY
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Don't Cross My Path

2. No Fate

3. Blood Sacrifice

4. Steady Hands

5. Hate

6. Hero for the Ages

7. Far Beyond Existence

8. Cursed by Disease

9. You Must Proclaim

10. Torture in Progress

Witness: Link removed

Devility - Infernal Retribution (EP) [2023]

Artist: Devility

Album: Infernal Retribution
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/FM-bRKrQrmk / https://devility.bandcamp.com/
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Descending into Oblivion

2. Amorphous Deformity

3. Unearthly

4. Infernal Retribution

Witness: -[*]-

Mind Conflict - Temple of God [2024]

Artist: Mind Conflict

Album: Temple of God
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/lPR-Q0iQCsI / https://www.instagram.com/mind_conflict/
Country: International
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Shadows of a Dying World  

2. Javelin  

3. Mob Mentality  

4. Storm Laden Skies  

5. Unforced Sacrifice  

6. Dance of Swords  

7. Digital Nightmare  

8. Skeleton Hands  

9. Age of Retribution  

Witness: -[*]-
Hey, people don't overlook this release, I'm glad I didn't. Mind Conflict appears to currently be a 2-man project from Belarus & somewhere in the Middle East (mysterious) and they have put together some good traditional death metal with these tracks, it can be a little too slow-paced at times but still good. 

Abominy - Abominy [2024]

Artist: Abominy

Album: Abominy
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2PpxIjnlZf4 / https://abominy.bandcamp.com/
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Inconexo trastorno  

2. Preludio a la tragedia  

3. Hijo de Hades  

4. Pedestres presas  

5. La Llorona  

6. Púdrete  

7. Laberinto del dolor  

8. Rey Muerte  

9. Odiando el ser  

10. Los invasores yacen muertos

Witness: -[*]-
South America is at it again with more killer death metal. Santiago, Chile's Abominy serve up their first LP and it is very entertaining for my tastes.

Sedlec Ossuary - Machine Born [2023]

Artist: Sedlec Ossuary

Album: Machine Born
Year: 2023
Genre: Progressive Death Metal / Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/iwxpNqNsL0U / https://www.facebook.com/SedlecOssuary/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Evolution Overgrown  

2. Catch All  

3. Eleven  

4. Machine Born  

5. Trench Rot

6. Delusions  

7. Dismember And Discard  

8. Extermination  

9. Dungeon Shackles  

10. Evolution Overthrown

Witness: -[*]-
After 8 years Sedlec Ossuary finally released a follow-up to their 2015 EP and this album is damn good in my opinion. It is technical and progressive without being too much in either camp and maintains a pleasing catchy brutality throughout. 

Hypaethral - Hypaethral [2023]

Artist: Hypaethral

Album: Hypaethral
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/rAwkE8CloqU / https://hypaethral.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Chelicera

2. Labyrinth of the Mind

3. Infernal Ascension

4. The Culling of Flesh

5. Cerebral Spores

6. Starless Empyrean

Witness: -[*]-
These tracks are pretty tasty, not excessively technical but just right for me.

Beneath - Ephemeris [2017]

Artist: Beneath

Album: Ephemeris
Year: 2017
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/GXc9kxvsE7s / https://www.facebook.com/beneathdeathmetal
Country: Iceland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Constellational Transformation  

2. Eyecatcher

3. Ephemeris  

4. Alignments  

5. Guillotine  

6. Cities of the Outer Reaches  

7. Medium Obscurum  

8. Amorphous Globe  

9. Multiangular

Witness: -[*]-
I was a big fan of this band on their first 3 releases (not counting the '09 promo) but for some reason, I have never given this one much attention, and I am not sure why because this is really quite good. I always considered their sound more brutal than technical and they continue to incorporate more technicality into their brutality and I preferred their earlier sound. Whatever, this is good, and I hope they are in the process of creating more music.

Okrütnik - Krwawy Pontyfikat (Bloody Pontificate) [2023]

Artist: Okrütnik

Album: Krwawy Pontyfikat (Bloody Pontificate)
Year: 2023
Genre: Black Metal / Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Hn7X9UQu-ok / https://okrutnik.bandcamp.com/ / https:/okrutnik
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kpbs

Tracklist:
1. 1978  

2. Krwawy pontyfikat  

3. Rytuały czarnego ognia  

4. Wnieborżnięcie Maryi Panny  

5. Pieśń świętokradców  

6. Lochy Watykanu  

7. Wdowa po rzeźniku  

8. Almanach opętanych  

9. Oddech potępieńca

Witness: -[*]-

Daisy Cutter - Daisy Cutter [2024]

Artist: Daisy Cutter

Album: Daisy Cutter
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/AwFjmsxJCPI / https://daisycuttermunich.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. No Fucking Respect  

2. Deadeye  

3. Daisy Cutter  

4. Hollow Man  

5. Killing Machine  

6. Here I Die  

7. M.I.A.  

8. No Gods!  

9. Dead Man's Trail

Witness: -[*]-

The Grifted - Doomsday & Salvation [2023]

Artist: The Grifted

Album: Doomsday & Salvation
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/1Q1-z-VeYOc / https://thegrifted.com/ 
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Fractured  

2. Behind Me in Ruins  

3. Closure  

4. Bleed Before My Eyes  

5. The Maggots Feast  

6. This Place of Madness  

7. Days of the End  

8. When a Phoenix Dies  

9. Hope for Death  

10. You Will Never Live  

11. Doomsday and Salvation

Witness: -[*]-

Perpetual Torment - Ritual of Possession (EP) [2023]

Artist: Perpetual Torment

Album: Ritual of Possession
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nPF_2oPwAqc 
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Midnight (Intro)  

2. Ritual of Possession  

3. Ancient Visions  

4. Bloodlust  

5. DCLXVI  

6. Receive the Gift of Death  

7. Execute the Remaining

Witness: -[*]-

Monastery Dead - Ego Sum Dolor [2024]

Artist: Monastery Dead 

Album: Ego Sum Dolor
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://monasterydead.ru/ / https://monastery-dead.bandcamp.com/
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. I Am Pain  

2. Raptophilia  

3. Womb  

4. Blessed with Abortion  

5. Mindscars  

6. Bloodshot  

7. Revelation  

8. Devoured by the Booze  

9. Verminous Chamber  

10. Manipulation  

11. Suicide Preacher  

12. Cattle Troops  

13. Apollyon

Witness: -[*]-

I really haven't paid too much attention to this band over the years but I did like their 2015 album and used to spin it occasionally, but this new album seems like a marked step to the forefront for these guys and I for one intend to start paying them the respect they are due. Recommended death metal \m/\m/

Monastery Dead - Black Gold Appetite [2015]

Artist: Monastery Dead

Album: Black Gold Appetite
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/D5h_JZ-H5nY / https://www.facebook.com/monasterydeadspb/
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Global Bleeding Euphoria  

2. More Power  

3. You Are Parasite  

4. Despairing Existence  

5. Sublimation  

6. Sick Absolution  

7. Generation: Rats  

8. Black Gold Appetite  

9. Why Are You Born  

10. Voracity of Madness  

11. Lie  

12. Digital Apocalypse  

13. Gore Gods Enthroned

Witness: -[*]-
Aggressive death metal from Saint Petersburg, Russia. The video below is not from this album, it was released as a single in 2019. Listen & support!

 

Eternal - Cryptic Lust [2024]

Artist: Eternal

Album: Crypric Lust
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/rYIt8FxHxUk / https://eternalaz.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Doorway to Tribulation

2. Hammer of Eternal Torment  

3. Guide Thy Hand  

4. Torture Chapel  

5. Spectral Immolation  

6. Ancient Rites  

7. Dirge

8. Cryptic Lust  

9. Thorns of Regret  

10. Conjuring the Void  

11. Cauldron of Entrails  

12. Deathcrush (Mayhem cover)

Witness: -[*]-
Not to be confused with the French band Eternal or one of the countless other bands with the same moniker this group is from Phoenix, AZ. and they have a pretty cool style of their own. 

Ascending Olympus - Frontlines [2023]

Artist: Ascending Olympus

Album: Frontlines
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/AscendingOlympusOfficial
Country: Greece
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. As the Ground Trembles

2. Off to Different Shores

3. Hell Is in My Eyes

4. A Call to Arms

5. The City Will Not Fall

6. Death Will Come from Above

7. I of the Damnation

8. Frontlines

9. Fatal Nightmare

10. Until the War Is Won

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, this is another stellar death metal album for 2023 from a relatively new band Ascending Olympus! Thanks to CarlG for mentioning these guys in his 2023 BOTY list because I had missed it when this came out in April of last year. There was a lot of killer death in '23 and this ranks near the top for me. 

Intéremo - Buried in Rotten Remains [2023]

Artist: Intéremo

Album: Buried in Rotten Remains
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://goregeousproductions.bandcamp.com/interemo / https://www.facebook.com/interemoband
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Wake the Rotten

2. Twisted and Abused

3. Severed

4. Stupid as It Sounds

5. Mass Extinction

6. Necromaniac

7. Wicked Assault

8. Decapitation

9. Madman  

10. Death Reigns

11. Rotten Corpse

Witness: -[*]-
Man, this is a solid album and I know CarlG was promoting it heavily several months ago but I let it rest for a while before diving into it and after several listens this is one of my favorite new Swedish bands. These 3 dudes fucking jam and I love the vocals.

 

Plague Of The Fallen - Amongst the Rats [2023]

Artist: Plague Of The Fallen

Album: Amongst the Rats
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://plagueofthefallen1.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/PlagueoftheFallen
Country: New Zealand
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dead

2. Amongst the Rats

3. The God of Depravity

4. Cycles of Anguish

5. Tongues of Fire

6. Relentlessly Butchered

7. Leading Us Into the Darkness

8. Incestuous Breeding

9. So You Have Chosen Death

Witness: -[*]-

Corpses Conductor - Corpse's Conductor [1997] (Re-Issue 2022)

Artist: Corpses Conductor

Album: Corpse's Conductor
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/XUhK8uwQFec / https://huangquanrecords.bandcamp.com/corpses conductor
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Into the Dark  

3. Obscure Reality  

4. Hypocrisy  

5. Dreams of Terror  

6. Existential...  

7. Deceived by Life

Witness: Link removed 

Church Of The Dead - Beyond Death [2023]

Artist: Church Of The Dead

Album: Beyond Death
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/p05Cb-IEPTg / https://churchofthedead.bandcamp.com
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dawn of the Wizard  

2. Tombdweller  

3. Ashes of the World  

4. Chainsaw Gutsfuck (Mayhem cover)  

5. Whore of Eden  

6. Christborn  

7. Wormwood  

8. Floating in Blood

Witness: Link removed 

Ashes Reborn - Contamination [2018]

Artist: Ashes Reborn

Album: Contamination
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/ashesreborn.pt/
Country: Portugal
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Sound the Alarm
2. We Are the Plague
3. A Needed Revolution
4. Policy of Fear
5. Path to Self Destruction
6. W.A.R (We Are Revoluted)
7. Insane
8. Contamination
9. Not Machines

Witness: -[*]-
I was listening to this album again recently and wanted to bring it back to the front for renewed exposure. It is hard to believe that this album is already 6 years old. Back in 2018 this band and their countrymates Infraktor were 2 of my favorites for that year. I am hoping we get something new from both soon \m/\m/

Xorsist - At the Somber Steps to Serenity [2023]

Artist: Xorsist

Album: At the Somber Steps to Serenity
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/PlWcvJ3TCB4 / https://www.nightshiftmerch.com/xorsist
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Life in Vain

2. Carve It Out  

3. Blessed By the Divine  

4. Imitation  

5. Coterie of the Depraved  

6. Banished to Obscurity  

7. Distorted Shapes  

8. Grace  

9. Darkened Wings

10. At the Somber Steps to Serenity

Witness: Link removed
Xorsist is back with 2/3 of a new lineup and a quick follow-up to their 2022 debut album. They are still successfully mining the early '90s Stockholm scene for their sound and the production, courtesy of Tomas Skogsberg fits the style they are pursuing perfectly even though I would prefer a more guitar heavy sound.

Strigampire - All to Dominate [2023]

Artist: Strigampire

Album: All to Dominate
Year: 2023
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Web: https://strigampire.bandcamp.com / https://strigampire.bigcartel.com/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Liberty

2. Dominate Them All

3. Sold Our Soul

4. In the Maze of the Lost

5. Where I Belong

6. Basking In Paradise

7. Death Silence

8. The Day I’ll Join You

9. Brave the Tempest

10. TNT (AC/DC cover)

Witness: -[*]-

I haven't really listened to this band much but I do have another album from them posted here from back in the early days of this site and they have a very melodic accessible sound reminiscent of mid-90s Swedish melo-death, which I was always partial to.

Eyecatcher - Eyecatcher (EP) [2023]

Artist: Eyecatcher

Album: Eyecatcher
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://eyecatcher.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood Carnival  

2. Purgatorium  

3. Wormtongue  

4. Reclusa

Witness: -[*]-
A short but promising EP by a 2-man crew from CarlG's corner of the map.