Apollinarix - Misanthropic Transcendence [2026]

Artist: Apollinarix

Album: Misanthropic Transcendence
Year: 2026
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/AO6Vqgqb9LE / https://apollinarix.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Endless Black Hallucinations  

2. Imperative of Stone  

3. Deaths Multiscious Transcendence  

4. Entheogenic Sacrifice  

5. Delusions of Martyrdom  

6. End of Times  

7. Devouring the Flesh of Gods

Witness: -[*]-
These guys from Salt Lake City are new to me, and they have created a decent debut. They're labeled as death metal, but I hear a fair bit of blackness in their sound and a somewhat muddy production mix. It doesn't matter, I like the album. 

Perpetual - Wings of Decay [2026]

Artist: Perpetual

Album: Wings of Decay
Year: 2026 
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/perpetualdeathmetal / https://www.instagram.com/perpetual_oficial
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Bearer of Doom  

2. Perpetual  

3. Humanity's Abyss  

4. Bloody Darkness  

5. Wings of Decay  

6. Inner Fear  

7. From Suffering to the Void  

8. All Gods Must Die  

9. Exitus  

10. Outro

Witness: -[*]-
I have known of this band for more than a decade now, but I really haven't listened to much of their music other than their 2015 album. I found this one a few weeks back and have been mostly enjoying it ever since.

Perpetual - Carving a Dismembered God [2015]

Artist: Perpetual

Album: Carving a Dismembered God
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/qEJg3uMD9pw / https://perpetualmetalband.bandcamp.com
Country: Spain
Quality: 128 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Fields of Akhenaton  

2. Among the Mutilated Corpses  

3. Age of Wolf  

4. Slave Fear Machines  

5. Carving a Dismembered God  

6. Blood Time  

7. Stalkerbutcher  

8. North Hordes

Witness: -[*]-

Tombseeker - Tombseeker [2026]

Artist: Tombseeker

Album: Tombseeker
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/qH9fFIKJnF8 / https://tombseeker.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tombseeker

2. Immolated Self

3. Chamber of Torment

4. Left Behind

5. Flagellated

6. They All Bleed the Same

7. Trenches

8. Catacomb Crawl

9. Anticitizen

Witness: -[*]-
This is a relatively new band from KC, MO, with a familiar style that sounds pretty good.

Vhol - Deeper Than Sky [2015]

Artist: Vhol

Album: Deeper Than Sky
Year: 2015
Genre: Progressive Thrash Metal / Blackened Heavy Metal / Crust
Web: https://youtu.be/nFFXwoned6I / https://www.facebook.com/vholisvhol
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps
 
Tracklist:
1. The Desolate Damned

2. 3AM

3. Deeper than Sky

4. Paino

5. Red Chaos

6. Lightless Sun

7. The Tomb

Witness: -[*]-
Even though this album is more than a decade old I only stumbled across it a couple of months back, and when I finally decided to give it a listen, my first thought was, damn this is interesting! There are parts of the album that work very well, thrashy and jamming, and then there are other parts that are a bit too progressive, but overall, I really dig it.

Extremity - Coffin Birth [2018]

Artist: Extremity

Album: Coffin Birth
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/XSXM36tIgwM
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Coffin Birth / A Million Witches

2. Where Evil Dwells

3. Grave Mistake

4. Umbilicus

5. For Want of a Nail

6. Occision

7. Like Father like Son

8. Misbegotten / Coffin Death

Witness: -[*]-

Extremity was a short-lived band from the San Francisco Bay area with members who were highly experienced from other bands, and together they created some entertaining death metal on their two releases before splitting up. I wish they could have kept it going.

Scalding - Nuclear Winter Spell [2025]

Artist: Scalding

Album: Nuclear Winter Spell
Year: 2025
Genre: Black Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/mzkLQ59wQ9Y / https://scalding.bandcamp.com
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Empires of Blood Cascade...

2. ...into the Mouths of Wolves

3. Plaguestorm

4. Valley of the Sepulcher

5. Nuclear Winter Spell

6. Dead Stag

7. Overthrown

8. Hill of the Cross

9. Embrace the Eternal Slumber

10. Onward to Oblivion

Witness: -[*]-

I am not always a big proponent of black metal but I like the riffs these guys have created here.

 

Corrosive Agent - Vastator Mundi [2026]

Artist: Corrosive Agent

Album: Vastator Mundi
Year: 2026
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Groove Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Myu-snpGMMU / https://www.facebook.com/CorrosiveAgentBand
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Mere Footnote

2. Carcass Country

3. Key Values

4. Hubris

5. Rhizome

6. Plague Raiser

7. Ng

8. Full Mental Package

9. Vastator Mundi

Witness: -[*]-
Corrosive Agent is a new German band who, based on their bio, recorded, mixed & mastered this album themselves, and they got a great sound. Proof that there is no need to have shitty sound quality in the production, like many bands are getting nowadays. These guys play what I would call modern melodic death groove, and I'm mostly liking it. Some parts are a bit slow, and the songs can tend to drag, but the band's heavier side is interesting and appealing to me, so I keep listening. I would say this disc is worth checking out if you're open to the progressive/melodic slant in their style.

Menace - Wheel of Spikes [2026]

Artist: Menace 

Album: Wheel of Spikes
Year: 2026
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/JEKKxU-bJmg / https://metalonmetalrecords.bandcamp.com/menace
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Wheel of Spikes  

2. Satanizer  

3. Backhander  

4. Argento Vivo  

5. Shades of Evil  

6. The Haunted Disguise  

7. Burnin' Ash  

8. Death Never Lies  

9. Per Aspera ad Inferi  

10. The Unmerciful

Witness: -[*]-
From the album cover to the band photo, it is plain to see that there is some serious Judas Priest worship going on with this band. From my perspective, that isn't a bad thing because I dig the retro vibe they have conjured up with these tracks. 

Riot City - Electric Elite [2022]

Artist: Riot City

Album: Electric Elite
Year: 2022
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://riotcityofficial.bandcamp.com / https://www.pulltheplugpatches.com/riot-city
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Eye of the Jaguar

2. Beyond the Stars

3. Tyrant

4. Ghost of Reality

5. Return of the Force

6. Paris Nights

7. Lucky Diamond

8. Severed Ties

Witness: -[*]-
Anyone who comes to this blog regularly and reads my ramblings in these posts should know that, along with death metal, I still love old-school sounding heavy/speed metal, and I think these guys are one of the better modern bands worshipping the style, with 2 solid albums under their belts. Killer soaring vocals and guitars!

South Of Hell - Hellfernùm [2026]

Artist: South Of Hell

Album: Hellfernùm
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://greatdanerecords.bandcamp.com/SOH / https://www.facebook.com/South-Of-Hell-Officiel
Country: France
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Discdere  

2. Holy Death  

3. Decadend Brutality  

4. Darkness of Soul  

5. ...  

6. Voice of War  

7. Clarity of Shade  

8. Mecanix of Unconsciousness 

9. Hellfernum  

10. Macabre Gearing  

11. Hates Comes from God

Witness: -[*]-
From my perspective, SOH is a somewhat obscure French death metal band that I didn't become aware of until 2022, even though they had an effective 2015 debut. Now, this is their first output since, and it sounds different but still quite good.

Subjected To Infinity - Nightside of Eden [2025]

Artist: Subjected To Infinity

Album: Nightside of Eden
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nxnGijfw7UM / https://subjectedtoinfinity.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Suffering That Never Subsides  

2. Consumed by Seraphic Fire  

3. Deviating from the Methods of the Ancient Hermetic Texts  

4. Umbral Procession  

5. Ophidian Revelations  

6. Sonder  

7. Demonolater

Witness: -[*]-

Resurrected - Perpetual [2026]

Artist: Resurrected

Album: Perpetual
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/resurrected.brutaldeath / https://resurrectedbrutality.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Unholy Intercession  

2. Human Wrath  

3. Forever Damned  

4. Into Mighty Death  

5. Sanity Is Lost  

6. Decomposed  

7. Immaculate Deception  

8. Echoes of Creation  

9. Perpetual  

10. Infernal Desire (Malevolent Creation cover)

Witness: -[*]-
Here is the newest release from this OG moniker in German death metal, Resurrected. I think these tracks represent the band very well, quite entertaining for my tastes. Only 1 original member is remaining, but it has been that way for a very long time now, with the 3 core members being together for ~14 years \m/\m/ 

Resurrected - Butchered in Excrement [2001]

Artist: Resurrected

Album: Butchered in Excrement 
Year: 2001
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/zIracdRoIF8 / https://resurrectedbrutality.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Beginning of Terror  

2. Dripping with Blood  

3. Deadly Lessons  

4. Wait to Suffer  

5. Macabre Fuckfest  

6. Infecting the Crypts (Suffocation cover)

7. Ophidicism  

8. Entangled in Madness  

9. Butchered in Excrement  

10. Conquered Suffering

Witness: Link removed

Tumour - Human Salvage [2026]

Artist: Tumour

Album: Human Salvage
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal / Hardcore
Web: https://tumour.bandcamp.com 
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Through the Balustrade  

2. Dust to Death  

3. Mortal Sickness

4. Civilian   

5. World Peace Of Shit  

6. Serotonin Debt  

7. Dead Body Armour  

8. In Stone

Witness: -[*]-
These Aussies create a sound with a big groove that brings a strong hardcore vibe, but I hear solid death metal throughout. I like it!

Austerymn - Sepulcrum Viventium [2015]

Artist: Austerymn

Album: Sepulcrum Viventium
Year: 2015
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/5s4UVpArXec / https://austerymnofficial.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Feeding the Grotesque  

3. Written in the Scars  

4. Bleeding Reality  

5. Excarnation  

6. Darkness Burns Forever  

7. The Living Grave  

8. In Death... We Speak  

9. Necrolation  

10. Buried Alive  

11. Dead  

12. Riven

Witness: -[*]-
I was completely unaware of this band until just about a week ago, and I am so glad I discovered them now because this is a very good disc. It is definitely on the melodic side, but it remains highly engaging. These guys are supposedly still active and long overdue for new material. I hope we get some.

Invictus - Nocturnal Visions [2026]

Artist: Invictus

Album: Nocturnal Visions
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/0yTdZmb-z9c / https://invictus3.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Japan
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Abyssal Earth Eradicates  

3. Altar of Devoted Slaughter 

4. Lucid Dream Trauma  

5. Persecution Madness  

6. Dragged Beneath the Grave  

7. Wandering Ashdream  

8. Frozen Tomb  

9. Nocturnal Visions

Witness: -[*]-

Kakothanasy - Metagonism [2025]

Artist: Kakothanasy

Album: Metagonism
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/MYpN-VUcRYM / https://kakothanasy.bandcamp.com
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Drifting to a Moderately Commutable Adjustment Without Fitness Supremacy  

2. Ephemeral Demise Macro-Episodes Merging in Successive Epiphenomenal Conglomerates  

3. Impassive Contemplation of a Distraught Remembrance Born in Transient Integrity  

4. The Hard Problem of Targeting an Irrefutable Endogenous Transmission in a Somatic Compound  

5. Of Utter Recognition and Supervenience in a Distinct Frame of Unbounded Responsive Facility  

6. Methanized Autocatalytic Clash Culminated Into Ascetic Abolishment  

7. Abstraction of a Quartered Continuum Containing Redundant Occurrences of Objective Suffering  

8. Foremost Biotic Constituents Conjoined for Analog Synthesis: An Irrelevant Recognition of Qualms?

Witness: -[*]-

Rusted Crown - The Epitome of Death [2026]

Artist: Rusted Crown

Album: The Epitome of Death
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/sRUjPuMa1H8 / https://rustedcrown.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. March to the End  

2. Total Annihilation  

3. Deadly Machine  

4. Armed Cult  

5. The Epitome of Death  

6. Human Harvest  

7. Trenches as Tombs  

8. 1000 Yard Stare  

9. Servants of Violence  

10. In My Grave, I Rot

Witness: -[*]-

Defcon - While the Wolf Eats [2025]

Artist: Defcon

Album: While the Wolf Eats
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/EgcrlVY_2ek / https://www.facebook.com/DefconSTL
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps
 
Tracklist:
1. Crossover  

2. The Debt  

3. While the Wolf Eats  

4. Laid to Waste  

5. Lack of Control  

6. Insomnia  

7. Half Ounce of Power  

8. Hollow Words  

9. King Leper

Witness: -[*]-

Unchurch - Unchurch [2025]

Artist: Unchurch

Album: Unchurch
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://chaos-records.bandcamp.com/unchurch / https://www.facebook.com/unchurch666
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Ode to Blasphemy  

2. Traitor  

3. Unchurch  

4. Pilgrimage to Abyss  

5. Al infierno no entras  

6. Stone the Repentants  

7. No eres dios  

8. Outcast from the Eden  

9. Sacred Chalice

Witness: -[*]-

Aggressive Perfector - Come Creeping Fiends [2026]

Artist: Aggressive Perfector

Album: Come Creeping Fiends
Year: 2026
Genre: Speed Metal / Thrash Metal / Heavy Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/z2gGG0z7y0Y / https://aggressiveperfector.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dead Undead

2. Strange Companion

3. Fiend in You

4. Like a Beast

5. Obscene Cult

6. Denied by the Reaper

7. Harlot's Spell

8. Return of the Axe

9. Gallows' Eve

Witness: -[*]-
I like this one quite a bit, but wish it were a bit grittier and heavier at times. It doesn't matter, as I get older and farther away from my favored times in the 1980s, I'm a sucker for albums like this. These guys are competently repurposing riffs from back in the day, everything from Iron Maiden to a twist on the Detroit Rock City riff from Kiss, and it works.

Sanity's Rage - The Dead Don't Run [2026]

Artist: Sanity's Rage

Album: The Dead Don't Run
Year: 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://sanitysrage.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/SanitysRage/#
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Only Madness Remains

2. Measure of Guilt  

3. When the Sharp Things Come  

4. Sanity's Rage  

5. Blood Calls for Blood  

6. Nothing Sacred Will Hold  

7. The Dead Don't Run  

8. The Final Exhibition of Pain  

9. Reeducate the Masses  

10. Sanity Lies in Ruin

Witness: -[*]-
This album is a grower, I guess? I mean, I found this back in January, and I had started to listen to it a few times in the car while commuting, but it didn't hold my attention. Then today, I decided to listen to it again here in the house, and I am really liking their sound and style. So much so, that I am going to spend time on their 2012 album as well.

 

In Your Blood - In Your Blood [2025]

Artist: In Your Blood

Album: In Your Blood
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/is_lCjm0V8A / https://iyfbca.bandcamp.com
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Ash & Alcohol  

2. Empty  

3. The Gift  

4. Tragedy  

5. Storm Delays  

6. Shadow Integration  

7. Dead  

8. Crow & Crown  

9. Serpent Eye  

10. Dark Triad

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, this is a gritty, heavy fukking thrash metal album! Very good in my opinion, and I am not sure how much attention this one might have gotten. It was released last August, and I didn't come across it until November, so maybe others missed this as well. Check it now for sure.

Bone Storm - Daemon Breed [2026]

Artist: Bone Storm

Album: Daemon Breed
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2QBxH8UiORQ / https://wearebonestorm.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Summoning the Storm  

2. Heaven's End (Burn Them All)

3. Daemon Breed

4. Plaguerider

5. Sanctimonious Morality

6. Cursed Born

7. Wrist Slitter

8. Blood Priest

9. Hammer of Judas

10. Ritual Supremacy

11. Halo of Disease

12. The Cleaner

Witness: -[*]-
Not to be confused with the Colombian Bonestorm, this 4-piece band is from Middletown, Connecticut, and have a very cool style in their own right. For my tastes, this is an entertaining listen overall.