Saturday, August 16, 2025

Diabolizer - Murderous Revelations [2025]


Artist: Diabolizer
Album: Murderous Revelations
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/0xjBqOTMfKE / https://diabolizer.bandcamp.com/
Country: Turkiye
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Into the Depths of Diseased Minds
2. Hogtied in Razorwire
3. Purulent Divinity in Black Flames
4. Seeds of the Dethroned
5. Set the World Ablaze (Infernal Dawn)
6. Bloodsteam Bonegrinder
7. Deathmarch of the Murderous Tyrant
8. Into the Jaws of Cerberus

Witness: -[*]-
For me, this band's 2021 album came out of nowhere and was really very good, so when I saw this release back in April. I was super excited. Then I listened to the first couple of tracks, and my first impression was of the production quality, and I felt it was so limiting. I mean, I can hear every instrument, but I have to crank this up to 20 on my sound system just to get a reasonable volume out of it, and usually I wouldn't go much above 15 for normal listening. Don't get me wrong, the songs, the skill level, and the nasty death metal on this album are top notch, but in my opinion, the production doesn't do it the justice it deserves. 

Cemetery - Thoughts on Life... and Death [2025]


Artist: Cemetery
Album: Thoughts on Life... and Death
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://cemeterydeathmetal.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/cemeterygermany
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Thoughts on Life
2. Among the Dead
3. Grief, Anger and Despair
4. Physical Fear
5. Nothingness
6. Lock the Doors to Your Mind
7. Believe
8. Truth "A"
9. Thoughts on Death

Witness: -[*]-
We have a new release from Germany's Cemetery, and upon first listen, this disc sounds very good to me. It doesn't appear that any original members remain in the lineup but this incarnation has created some interesting riffs and structures in these tracks, which have a bit of a technical flair to them. I am really liking this one.

Friday, August 15, 2025

Cytotoxin - Biographyte [2025]


Artist: Cytotoxin
Album: Biographyte
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://www.cytotoxin.de / https://cytotoxin.bandcamp.com/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Hope Terminator
2. Condemnesia
3. Behind Armored Doors
4. Biographyte
5. Deadzone Desert
6. The Everslave
7. Eventless Horizon
8. Bulloverdozed
9. Transition of the Staring Dead
10. Revelation
11. From Bitter Rivers

Witness: -[*]-
I have been following Cytotoxin for many years now and have always liked their music, especially the first 3 albums, but for some reason, I wasn't all that excited for this album, and I didn't even listen to it right away. Hey, that's on me though, because after listening to this a few times now, I realize that I still really like this band and their brand of technical brutality. 

Vaegon - Ciphers from the Void (EP) [2025]


Artist: Vaegon
Album: Ciphers from the Void
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Deathcore
Web: https://vaegon.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/Vaegon / TDC Link
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1.  Echoes of Silence  
2. Humanity's Final Stand  
3. Voidal Escapism  
4. Malformed in Machination  
5. Twilight God 

Witness: -[*]-
I don't care what anyone says, when it is done correctly, technical deathcore is freaking awesome music, and these guys from Edmonton are doing it correctly for my tastes.

Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness [2025]


Artist: Buried Realm
Album: The Dormant Darkness
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/KbNKvaJrC8s / https://www.buriedrealm.com/ / TDC Link
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Bloodline Artifice  
2. Futuristic Hollow Nation  
3. Human Code  
4. A Futile Endeavor  
5. Where the Armless Phantoms Glide, Pt. II  
6. Ophidian Dreams
7. Jaws of the Abyss  
8. The Dormant Darkness

Witness: -[*]-
Here is the newest release of classy melo-tech from Josh Dummer's Buried Realm. 

Buried Realm - Buried Realm [2022]


Artist: Buried Realm
Album: Buried Realm
Year: 2022
Genre: Technical Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ufGmK69kA8U / https://buriedrealm.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Entrance
2. Spectral Light  
3. Poison Palace  
4. The Iron Flame  
5. Witch Bones  
6. Where the Armless Phantoms Glide  
7. Elder Gods  
8. Quicksand Memory  
9. He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) (Alice Cooper cover)

Witness: -[*]-

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Barbarous - Initium Mors [2025]


Artist: Barbarous
Album: Initium Mors
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://creatordestructor.com/barbarous / https://www.facebook.com/barbarousofficial
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Injection of the Exhumed
2. By Lead or Steel
3. Tools of the Trade
4. Initium Mors
5. The Tomb Spawn
6. Conscious Decomposition
7. Anointing the Sick
8. Coup de grâce

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a tasty slab of American death metal from Oakland in the East Bay, I give you Barbarous. These guys have a tight groove to their style that makes for a heavy and entertaining listen.

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Vermithor - Wasteland Throne (EP) [2025]


Artist: Vermithor
Album: Wasteland Throne
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/c_7ouBAt33o / https://vermithor.bandcamp.com/
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Apocalypse Dawn (intro)
2. Wasteland Throne
3. Cadaverous Uprising
4. Veil of Control
5. The Last Line of Defense

Witness: -[*]-
These guys have got a good groove going on!

Crüzer - Look to the Skies (EP) [2025]


Artist: Crüzer
Album: Look to the Skies
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/bvTh1eWEJZ0 / https://cruzermuzik.carrd.co/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Look to the Skies
2. Born to Rise
3. Raging Fire
4. (I Need) Thrash
5. Pit Vyper

Witness: -[*]-

Injúria - The Moral Stain [2025]


Artist: Injúria
Album: The Moral Stain
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://injuriametal.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/injuriaofficial
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Ash Remains  
2. Victim of Pain  
3. Finding the Truth  
4. Left Behind  
5. Cotard II  
6. The Moral Stain  
7. All Will Be Lost  
8. Hypocrisy  
9. End

Witness: -[*]-

Crucial Cruel Demenical - Neogeneración [2025]


Artist: Crucial Cruel Demenical
Album: Neogeneración
Year: 2025
Genre: Groove Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/crucialcrueldemencial
Country: Argentina
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Desquiciado  
2. El peor animal  
3. 74 dias  
4. Parte del caos  
5. Crucial  
6. Cruel demencial  
7. Dominio mundial  
8. En el juego del poder  
9. Neogeneración  
10. Subasta de sangre

Witness: -[*]-

Friday, August 8, 2025

Shadow Of Intent - Imperium Delirium [2025]


Artist: Shadow Of Intent
Album: Imperium Delirium
Year: 2025
Genre: Symphonic / Progressive Deathcore
Web: https://shadowofintent7.bandcamp.com / https://www.impericon.com/shadow-of-intent / TDC Link
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Prepare to Die 
2. Flying the Black Flag 
3. Infinity of Horrors 
4. Mechanical Chaos 
5. The Murdered Sleep 
6. The Facets of Propaganda 
7. Feeding the Meatgrinder (feat. Corpsegrinder) 
8. Vehement Draconian Vengeance 
9. Beholding the Sickness of Civilization 
10. Apocalypse Canvas 
11. No Matter the Cost 
12. Imperium Delirium

Witness: -[*]-

Frogg - Eclipse [2025]


Artist: Frogg
Album: Eclipse
Year: 2025
Genre: Progressive / Technical Death Metal / Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/AKLaQ6dtdKQ / https://froggofficial.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Walpurgisnacht
2. Life Zero
3. Dandelion
4. Eclipse I: Blind Bakunawa
5. Eclipse II: Sickened By Silence
6. Interspecific Hybrid Species
7. Wake Up
8. Sun Stealer
9. Double Vision Roll
10. Omni Trigger

Witness: -[*]-

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Abyssery - Interminable End [2025]


Artist: Abyssery
Album: Interminable End
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/PlIKDsGud5M / https://www.instagram.com/abyssery/#
Country: Ireland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Antechamber (Prelude)
2. Vortex of Oneiric Visions
3. Entering the Void
4. Sadistic Sentence
5. Liminal Prison (Interlude)
6. Entropic Enslavement
7. Interminable End
8. Immiseration

Witness: -[*]-
I came accross this a week or so ago, thanks to IllInTheHead @ STB for yet another master share \m/\m/ 
Abyssery is a 2-man project listed as being from Ireland, but 1 dude is from Dublin, and the other (James Stewart), who I didn't know, but after doing some research discovered that he is in so many bands and performs drums on so many albums that I like, is from England, so they're a UK band. This is a killer example of death metal superiority. 

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Ashen - Leave the Flesh Behind [2025]


Artist: Ashen
Album: Leave the Flesh Behind
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/ashendeath / https://ashendeath.bandcamp.com
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Devourer  
2. Ancestral Gate  
3. Aeon  
4. Leave the Flesh Behind  
5. Void Within  
6. Ageless  
7. Reincarnate  
8. Infinite Sea  
9. Severed  
10. Blood Offering

Witness: -[*]-
I have been following Ashen for a few years now, and I like their style; it's straightforward, dark, & blasting. There's really not much more you can ask for, except maybe to pick up the pace a little more often, but that's just my tastes.

Intrepid - Juxtaposition [2025]


Artist: Intrepid
Album: Juxtaposition
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/7g_lfdKNgs8 / https://intrepidest.bandcamp.com/intrepid
Country: Estonia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood Means Nothing 
2. Ciphered 
3. Nocturnal Tones of Grey 
4. Sanctimonious 
5. Overthrone 
6. Juxtaposition 
7. Opiated Consumption 
8. Sensationalized 
9. Aries 
10. Flesh Scorner

Witness: -[*]-
Hey dudes! Here is some new Estonian death metal that has a bit of a 90s hardcore feel to it, and I like it a lot. See what you think. 

Cercenated - Towards to Judecca [2020]


Artist: Cercenated
Album: Towards to Judecca
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/qOGhV4U53Js
Country: Colombia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Evocations
2. Revelations
3. Natural Light of Doom
4. Destructive Entity
5. Of Fire Upon Throne
6. Ritual de sangre y barro
7. Pactum (Erebos)
8. Temple of Gnosis
9. Oath
10. Towards to Judecca

Witness: -[*]-

Rottenblast - Ilusi Soliteris [2020]


Artist: Rottenblast
Album: Ilusi Soliteris
Year: 2020
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://rottenblast.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/rottenblast.official/
Country: Indonesia
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. 1965
2. Parade Darah
3. Deviasi Tahta
4. Victim of Throne
5. Genosida
6. Ilusi Soliteris
7. Hegemoni Vigilante
8. Simposium Kompulsif
9. Negeri Temaram
10. Flag of Hate (Kreator cover)

Witness: -[*]-


Friday, August 1, 2025

Rivers Of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil [2025]


Artist: Rivers of Nihil
Album: Rivers of Nihil
Year: 2025
Genre: Progressive / Technical Death Metal
Web: https://www.riversofnihil.com / https://direct-merch.com/rivers-of-nihil / TDC Link
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. The Sub-Orbital Blues
2. Dustman
3. Criminals
4. Despair Church
5. Water & Time
6. House of Light
7. Evidence
8. American Death
9. The Logical End
10. Rivers of Nihil

Witness: -[*]-
When I first heard of Rivers Of Nihil back in like 2010, I thought that this band was sofa king good, and that impression lasted through 2015 with their Monarchy album, but after that, I kinda lost them. So, my oldest friend is a guy I call nuttinface, and he doesn't come around here much, but that may be my fault. Anyway, we're still really cool, and a few weeks ago he tried to push these guys back on me again. He said, "Man, you used to like them, what's up now?" I said, "Yeah, I know, but they changed." Then he said, "Yes, they did, for the better." Well, he was correct, this album is so freaking good if you're open to the progressive side of death metal \m/\m/

Cadaver - Hymns of Misanthropy [2025]


Artist: Cadaver
Album: Hymns of Misanthropy
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/DVWtDyvnTC0 / https://listenable-records.bandcamp.com/cadaver
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Maltreated Mind Makes Man Manic
2. Chained to His Fate  
3. Nowhere to Hide  
4. Sunset at Dawn  
5. From the Past  
6. Breaking Through  
7. Misanthropic Anthem  
8. Death Has to Wait  
9. Through the Pain  
10. Drowned in Dreams

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, I am very impressed with this album, it is quite good. Even though I haven't really listened to this band a lot over the years, I did like their 2004 release, Necrosis, and their 2020 album, but I never went back to check their earliest material. I will say that this album represents top-shelf death metal.

Cadaver - Edder & Bile [2020]


Artist: Cadaver 
Album: Edder & Bile
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/8hpu2nTpG_c / https://direct-merch.com/collections/cadaver
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Morgue Ritual
2. Circle of Morbidity
3. Feed the Pigs
4. Final Fight
5. Deathmachine
6. Reborn
7. The Pestilence
8. Edder & Bile
9. Years of Nothing
10. Let Me Burn

Witness: -[*]-

Burial Ground - Sentence Passed (EP) [2025]


Artist: Burial Ground
Album: Sentence Passed
Year: 2025
Genre: Metalcore / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/wCfCqOHScUk / https://open.spotify.com/burial ground
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Shattering the Barrier of Silence  
2. Creature  
3. Sentence Passed  
4. Behavior Modification  
5. Third Impact  
6. Destroy the Light  
7. Vomit  
8. Forest of Grim

Witness: -[*]-
As is quite often the case, I found this one on one of the flooding sites, you know, the sites that post "everything new" without consideration for what may or may not actually be good. Well, I finally worked up the desire to listen to this. I hesitated because of the metalcore tag, and even though I used to be totally into metalcore back in the late 90s - early 2000s, I had reservations on this one. I was wrong, though; this is really pretty good, which is made unfortunate by the fact that they already split up. 

Ophidious - Forgotten Shrines of Heresy [2025]


Artist: Ophidious
Album: Forgotten Shrines of Heresy
Year: 2025
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/f4Unl0NSp9c / https://www.ophidious.co.uk/
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Prelude of the Tyrant
2. Pazuzu Manifestat  
3. Ophidious  
4. Chosen of Crom  
5. Hexxengeist  
6. Wolfshead  
7. R'lyeh Torpidity  
8. Massacre in the Cryptoporticus  
9. Schism  
10. The Risen God?

Witness: -[*]-

Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution [2025]


Artist: Ancient Death
Album: Ego Dissolution
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UhCLiaD6UQY /  https://ancient-death.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Ego Dissolution
2. Breaking the Barriers of Hope
3. Breathe - Transcend (Into the Glowing Streams of Forever)
4. Journey to the Inner Soul
5. Echoing Chambers Within the Dismal Mind
6. Unspoken Oath
7. Discarnate  
8. Violet Light Decays

Witness: -[*]-
From Walpole, Mass, comes Ancient Death, and they're bringing a bit of a different take with their brand of old-school death metal, mixing in progressive and technical elements to create an excellent debut album. I am really looking forward to hearing what this band creates in the future.

Seven Doors - The Final Gate (EP) [2025]


Artist: Seven Doors
Album: The Final Gate
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/e6N8AKSH2yw / https://sevendoorsdm.bandcamp.com/ / TDC Link
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Final Gate  
2. A Beautiful Stuffed Corpse  
3. Deep River Savages  
4. Mutilation

Witness: -[*]-
This is only 4 tracks, but when it is this good, I will take every little bit that I can get. This dude got skillz.