Empty Throne - Unholy (EP) [2025]

Artist: Empty Throne

Album: Unholy
Year: 2025
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/GXx6o0bL9U8 / https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/empty throne
Country: United States
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Abbey of Thelema  

2. Unholy  

3. One by One  

4. And All Shall Know His Name  

5. That Day Has Come  

6. My Flesh the Temptation 

Witness: -[*]-

This is a supergroup of sorts featuring 2 members from Angerot and the drummer from Abigail Williams/The Kennedy Veil to name a few of his projects. 

Torturous Inception - Arcane Domain [2018]

Artist: Torturous Inception

Album: Arcane Domain
Year: 2018
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/yLgH_biFE5k / https://torturousinception.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Aberration Thorns

2. Dominion

3. Perpetual Misery Storm

4. Behelit

5. The Severing Aftermath

6. Silhouette Visions

7. Rolling in the Grave

8. Dragged Back Through the Portal

Witness: -[*]-
These guys are long overdue for another album as they have only released a few singles since this disc came out back in December 2018. In my opinion they were at the top of their game on this release, so hopefully, we will hear from them again soon.

Torturous Inception - Headfirst Into Oblivion (EP) [2015]

Artist: Torturous Inception

Album: Headfirst Into Oblivion
Year: 2015
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/6t3YA-89-so
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Gored by Horns of Judgment
2. Ascending Convergence
3. The Last Infected
4. Dead at Last
5. Strategic Dismemberment
6. Transmigration Within the Foul

Witness: -[*]-
NY brutality from Staten Island's Torturous Inception.

Tessaract - Voices From the World Below (Compilation) [2024]

Artist: Tessaract

Album: Voices From the World Below
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/jfcBs5FN2Is / https://archaic-sound.bandcamp.com/tessaract
Country: Ukraine
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The New World Orthodox  

2. No Head - No Problem  

3. Soil Made Souls  

4. Control My Fear  

5. Killing for a Living  

6. False Injected  

7. Shapes of Disaster  

8. Destiny  

9. Charred Corpse  

10. Destiny (demo)  

11. Future Smells Powder (live)

Witness: -[*]-

Fatal - Apocalypsis [2025]

Artist: Fatal

Album: Apocalypsis
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/mq8JvGAmtTQ / https://fataldeathtribe.bandcamp.com
Country: France
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Devoration

2. Vivant

3. Epuration

4. Soumission

5. Extragavance

6. Appetence

7. Revelation

8. Abjection

9. Fascination

Witness: -[*]-
For the first post of a 2025 album in The Chamber this year there is finally a new release from France's Fatal. It has been 18 years since their last album Barbarism and while it appears that only 2 members are remaining from that session I am quite impressed with what they have created after such a long time away from the scene. Recommended \m/\m/

Vulnus - Deceitful Entities [2024]

Artist: Vulnus

Album: Deceitful Entities
Year: 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/OdK2yLHdrMw / https://newstandardelite.bandcamp.com/album/vulnus
Country: Greece
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Bound of the Ignorant  

2. Infected by Faith  

3. Virulent Pyre  

4. Ego Disintegration  

5. Eternally Feeble  

6. Cubicles of Incorporeal Genocide  

7. The Withering Kind  

8. Futile Permanence

Witness: -[*]-
This album came out in early November and CarlG was the first to mention it and point them out to me since he knew I liked them from their previous album but I chose not to listen to it right away. That's okay, because here in the past week or so it has been new to me and I am enjoying it immensely. Excellent progression for the band.

Just Buried - Necro-Macro [2024]

Artist: Just Buried

Album: Necro-Macro
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/QtVIWItk1Ac / https://coyoterecords.bandcamp.com/just buried
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Necro-Macro

2. Combat Morgue Intoxication  

3. Gut Sculptor  

4. The Hobo Eater  

5. Funeral Carnage (Just Buried)  

6. Existence Is Torment  

7. Last Smile in the Coffin  

8. Human Skin Stew

Witness: -[*]-
This is another band I had on my radar last year but didn't get around to listening to more than a couple of tracks until just recently. I remember CarlG promoting this one a fair bit too. It is really a very good album that I should have posted here much sooner. 

Exuvial - The Hive Mind Chronicles Part I: Parasitica [2024]

Artist: Exuvial

Album: The Hive Mind Chronicles Part I: Parasitica
Year: 2024
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/exuvial / https://www.facebook.com/exuvialband
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hive Mind Overture

2. Hive Mind I: Convergent Evolution

3. Hive Mind II: Advent of Segmentation  

4. Hive Mind III: Neural Convolution  

5. Holometabolous  

6. Hypermanipulation  

7. Autonomic Awakening  

8. Parasitica  

9. Subterranean Swarm

10. Requiem for Ruin

11. Necrotic Dissolution

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, this is quite good for a first album but the band has been active since 2019 and all of the members have experience from other bands so I guess it is to somewhat be expected. Anyone open to the more progressive side of death should check this out.

Coma Control - Perennial [2024]

Artist: Coma Control

Album: Perennial
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/RQpcafR2u8Y / https://www.facebook.com/comacontrol/
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Before Vague Eyes

2. Scour the Air

3. Reunion: Regression

4.  Reunion: Concession

5. Mending Arms

6. Where Is When?

7. Don't Sleep or You'll Fall

Witness: -[*]-
As I have stated many times, Finland has been one of my favorite countries for death metal especially recently. and here is a 1-man project that interests me as well. Metal Archives has this tagged as death metal but I would say it is more progressive and mostly entertaining.

 

All Life Ends - Miscreation [2023]

Artist: All Life Ends

Album: Miscreation
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Metalcore
Web: https://alllifeends1.bandcamp.com / https://www.alllifeends.com
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Silent End of a Bastard Breed  

2. Garden of Imperfection  

3. The Dreamless Void  

4. Miscreation  

5. Extinction Hours

6. Pandemonic  

7. Novas Womb  

8. Crawling Existence  

9. Thanatos

Witness: -[*]-
Did anyone get into this disc a couple years back? I did, but I know that the metalcore tag turns a lot of people off even though I don't hear much core it's death metal just melodic at times and aggressive at others. 

Maul - In the Jaws of Bereavement [2024]

Artist: Maul

Album: In the Jaws of Bereavement
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/9tY6KLjK00A / https://tornfromthegrave.us/maul / https://maul701.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. In the Jaws of Bereavement

2. Blood Quantum

3. Weaving Cerebral Horrors

4. Spontaneous Stigmata

5. An Alluring Deceit

6. Midwest Death

7. Unbridled Delusions

8. Stuck Stomped and Smeared

9. With Each Voracious Lick

10. Drawn to Drowning

Witness: -[*]-

Negativus - Detestabilis [2024]

Artist: Negativus

Album: Detestabilis
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal / Groove Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Ojw9Zu9zFXo / https://negativus.bandcamp.com
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Detestabilis  

2. Cova Rasa  

3. Merda de Pessoa  

4. Zero à Esquerda  

5. Tal Pai (Tal Filho da Puta)  

6. Segundo Dia  

7. Espírito de Porco  

8. Desprezo  

9. Homem Santo  

10. Vermes  

11. O Mal

Witness: -[*]-

Crimson Butchery - Violence by Design [2024]

Artist: Crimson Butchery

Album: Violence by Design
Year: 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/hqdbTk1Q1gk / https://crimsonbutchery.bandcamp.com/
Country: Ireland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Defleshed and Shredded  

2. Senseless Brutality  

3. Henny and a Plan B

4. Violence by Design  

5. Evolution of Malice  

6. Sodomized to Insanity  

7. Sacrament Excrement  

8. Assault on Shermer High  

9. Nightmare Blunt Rotation  

10. Cleansed in Pestilence (Blade of Elohim) (Morbid Angel cover)

Witness: -[*]-
Back in June last year I posted their 2023 release and wasn't aware that this new album was coming and then in November this album landed and it marks a significant step forward. These songs are heavy and grooving with some nice technical guitar work at times. Recommended \m/\m/

Sadistic Christ - Carnal Desecration [2024]

Artist: Sadistic Christ

Album: Carnal Desecration
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/zZJubtvQTMA / https://sadisticchrist.bandcamp.com
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Sadisfaction

2. Despot to Regrets

3. Carnal Desecration

4. Evil Crucifix

5. Die in Silence

6. Mother of Demons

7. God's Punishment

8. Stigmatic Slave

9. Antropomorphous

10. When Your Bowels Fall

11. La miseria de tu alma

Witness: -[*]-
Here is another newer Spanish band that created a killer death metal album in 2024. A very tight band with catchy & heavy tracks, I really like the drum sound in this mix, and the ripping riffs and leads too. It is interesting how an aversion to Christ seems to breed so much great death metal but I don't think it was necessarily the man as much as it was/is the actions of the church.

Intolerance - Waking Nightmares of an Endless Void [2024]

Artist: Intolerance

Album: Waking Nightmares of an Endless Void
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/12fUsombYig / https://intolerancedeathmetal.bandcamp.com
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Towards Perdition

2. Fade into Oblivion

3. The Dark Forest

4. Rite of Passage

5. Hand of Glory

6. Devourer of Worlds

7. Spontaneous Self-Awareness of the Void

8. Melting Skies

Witness: -[*]-
This is another Spanish band that I am very aware of from their 2022 album Dark Paths of Humanity, which I thoroughly enjoyed and this release represents another step in their progression. Spain continued to bring solid death in 2024!

Undead's Damnation - World War Nightmare [2024]

Artist: Undead's Damnation

Album: World War Nightmare
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/n1bsCKilsn4 / https://dealerrecordsgamonal.bandcamp.com/undeads-damnation
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. On the Way to Disaster  

2. Demential Trenches  

3. Doomed Troopers  

4. Horrid Assaults  

5. The Price of Victory  

6. Justland Apocalypse  

7. Fort Douaumont  

8. Flames in the Skies  

9. Beast of Steel  

10. The Lost Battalion  

11. The Last Day of the Great War

Witness: -[*]-
A newer Spanish band with Nasty Surgeons & Mass Burial members. I like this one a lot and I know that CarlG did too as it made the #11 spot on his Best of 2024 list.

Rotborn - Shrapnels of a Panic Spiral [2024]

Artist: Rotborn

Album: Shrapnels of a Panic Spiral
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/xp-xcLgaShE / https://rotborn.bandcamp.com
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Preventive Dismemberment  

2. Shrapnels of a Panic Spiral  

3. Parasites of the Broken Earth  

4. Randomized Certainty  

5. Through the Bones  

6. Ungraved  

7. Prosopagnosia  

8. The Immortal Cult  

9. Gods of Submission  

10. The Closing of the Vortex

Witness: -[*]-
As soon as I heard the 1st pre-release track from this album last year I knew it would be very good for my tastes and I wasn't disappointed when it was released in October. 34 minutes of well constructed South American death metal.

Rotborn - Genocidal Resolution (EP) [2022]

Artist: Rotborn

Album: Genocidal Resolution
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/POvs7EeqW38 / https://rotborn.bandcamp.com
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Genocidal Resolution  

2. Rules of Manipulation

Witness: -[*]-

Orki - Deception of Hate (EP) [2024]

Artist: Orki

Album: Deception of Hate
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://orkideathmetal.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/orki
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Descending Inner Darkness  

2. No More Room in Hell  

3. Dominhate  

4. You Deserve to Die  

5. Fear and Pain

Witness: -[*]-

Obsidian Mantra - As We All Will [2024]

Artist: Obsidian Mantra

Album: As We All Will
Year: 2024
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://vianocturna.bandcamp.com/obsidian-mantra / https://www.facebook.com/ObsidianMantra
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. What Is Not, Is Not  

2. Cult of Depression  

3. Slave Without a Master  

4. Who Will Become a Murderer  

5. Condemned to Oppression  

6. Chaos Will Consume Us All  

7. Sowers of Discord  

8. Weavers of Misery

Witness: -[*]-

Obsidian Mantra - Existential Gravity [2017]

Artist: Obsidian Mantra

Album: Existential Gravity
Year: 2017
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/b6goO8BgTrg / https://obsidianmantra.bandcamp.com
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Deviation

2. The Weakness Deepens

3. Entering the Inner Shade

4. Voice from Within

5. Afflicted with the Plague

6. Vomiting the Void

7. The Flame of Self-Condemnation

8. Wander of the Cursed Ones

Witness: -[*]-

Retching - Charming the Decomposed [2024]

Artist: Retching

Album: Charming the Decomposed
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.instagram.com/retching_death/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Moonlight Perversions (Intro)  

2. Gorging on Ecstacy  

3. Premature Decapitation  

4. Shower Curtain Silhouette  

5. Foaming  

6. Vulgar Celluloid Trophy  

7. Septic Entombment  

8. Fetid Abattoir  

9. Mortuary of Desire

Witness: -[*]-
I don't know why but I thought I had another release by this band in my files but as it turns out this is their debut and it sounds raw, gritty and familiar. The samples are well placed and killer too. I like it! Unfortunately, I could find very little intel on this band, I mean they have a Metal Archives and a Bandcamp page but neither has much info. Hell, I can't even find a YouTube link and the album came out in October, Grisly death metal from Rhode Island!

Wroht - Dissolution [2024]

Artist: Wroht

Album: Dissolution
Year: 2024
Genre: Progressive Death Metal / Groove Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Lf5gbxu-OoE / https://wroht.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood Prison  

2. Degradation  

3. Beyond Salvation

4. Decay's Embrace

5. The Sweet Taste of Venom

6. Cycle of Torment  

7. Forged in Fire  

8. Dissolution

Witness: -[*]-

 

Asylum Purgatory - Rise of the Dread King [2024]

Artist: Asylum Purgatory

Album: Rise of the Dread King
Year: 2024
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/iZ_bqGB4uCY / https://asylumpurgatory.bandcamp.com
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Welcome to the Asylum

2. Fail Redemption

3. Dread King

4. Fallen

5. Plague of Talahan

6. Infested

7. Bless the Dead

8. Rise

Witness: -[*]-

Abhorrent - Without Judgement (EP) [2024]

Artist: Abhorrent

Album: Without Judgement
Year: 2024
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/t1A4mWxZCC4 / https://abhorrentatl.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Abhorrent  

2. Shackled by Healing  

3. Inception of Self-Denial

Witness: -[*]-
So, this isn't the Texas-based Abhorrent that put out a killer album in 2015 and then disappeared, this is a 2-man project from Atlanta and they have their moments on these 3 tracks. Even though it's too short to get a good feel for the he band it caught my interest a bit.