Machiavellianism - Tormenting Guilt of Murderous Madness [2026]

Artist: Machiavellianism

Album: Tormenting Guilt of Murderous Madness
Year: 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/tnPuV4tLa34 / https://pathologicallyexplicit.bandcamp.com/machiavellianism
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tormented  

2. Descent into Despair  

3. Empty  

4. Consumed by Darkness  

5. Origin of Deception  

6. Embracing the Anger  

7. The Stages of Human Decomposition

Witness: -[*]-

Wormlord - Choices [2026]

Artist: Wormlord

Album: Choices
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Olhh2AZJpo8 / https://wormlord.bandcamp.com
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Skin Stripped Flesh  

2. Plague Park  

3. Ivory Tower  

4. Denial  

5. Choices  

6. Undying  

7. Watch Them Feed  

8. Mania  

9. Slurs

Witness: -[*]-
I have been aware of this band for some time now, as I had their Open Wounds album in my July 2023 folder, but I don't think I had ever listened to it. That is a shame. After giving this album some attention and finally going back to their previous album, I can confidently say that I like their style. 

Wormlord - Open Wounds [2023]

Artist: Wormlord

Album: Open Wounds
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/fMvGsl3A8GQ / https://www.facebook.com/wormlord.official
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Open Wounds  

2. Dismember  

3. Butcher  

4. Vermin  

5. Blind God  

6. Larvae Carnival  

7. Nether  

8. Ghouls

Witness: -[*]-
I have had this in my files for 3 years but hadn't listened to it until recently, and with their 2026 release, it is like having 2 new albums from this band. I like them both.

Deimler - Darkness Falls [2026]

Artist: Deimler

Album: Darkness Falls
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/BsXWvrtuYvg / https://deimler.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Opening Theme  

2. Beyond the Sea  

3. Darkness Falls  

4. E. B. E.  

5. Ghost in the Machine  

6. Pilot  

7. Silver Shadows  

8. Squeeze

9. The Jersey Devil  

10. Dreamweaver

Witness: -[*]-
This is one of the better albums of the year so far for my tastes. I had a digital copy on pre-order, and I listened to it a couple of times when it first came out, but then I just let the album sit. I am not sure why, other than I always have this urge to listen to the next new thing and don't have enough time to go back to favorites frequently. Anyway, I was finally listening to this again a few days ago and marveling at just how damn good this band has been in the last several years with their LPs. I feel like they've added some new elements to these tracks, and it's working for me.

Skulld - Abyss Calls to Abyss [2026]

Artist: Skulld

Album: Abyss Calls to Abyss
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal / Hardcore
Web: https://skulldband.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/skulldbanditaly
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1.  Healing the Wound  

2. The Blink  

3. Accabadora  

4. Wear the Night as a Velvet Cloak  

5. Le Diable and the Snake  

6. Mother Death  

7. Drops of Sorrow  

8. Sacred Fires

Witness: -[*]-

Death Feeder - Unleashing Ruin (EP) [2026]

Artist: Death Feeder

Album: Unleashing Ruin
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/npRVcdPeFx0 / https://deathfeeder1.bandcamp.com
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Fires Burn  

2. Rise of the Dead  

3. The Void above Being  

4. Soldier MCMXV

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, these guys have a strong mid-90s Swedish vibe, and I dig it!

Skullhammer - Where Skulls Pile High [2026]

Artist: Skullhammer

Album: Where Skulls Pile High
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/mOUUsVPAkF8 / https://skullhammer.de / https://skullhammer.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Principium

3. Where Skulls Pile High

4. Unstoppable March

5. Berzerker Fury

6. Abysmal  

7. Slaves to Despair

8. Hammered

Witness: -[*]-

Mortal Void - Death Salvation (EP) [2026]

Artist: Mortal Void

Album: Death Salvation
Year: 2026
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/CAio5MMsVoo / https://mortalvoidtx.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Abyss

2. Global Turmoil

3. The Specimen

4. As Emptiness Consumes

5. Mylingar

6. Death Salvation

Witness: -[*]-
This young band from Fort Worth has created a tight slab of semi-technical death metal. They aren't doing anything particularly new or unique; actually, there are very few bands who can these days, but this is a good listen nonetheless.  

Corrupted Saint - Purveyors of the Undead (EP) [2026]

Artist: Corrupted Saint

Album: Purveyors of the Undead
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/u5ES7Xtx5yQ / https://corruptedsaintthrash.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Purveyors of Devastation  

2. No More Room in the Morgue  

3. Impulsive  

4. Killberg  

5. Embalmed Alive (Live at Jacksonville Deathfest)

Witness: -[*]-
CarlG dropped this EP in here several months back, and I downloaded it on my phone and have been listening to it in the car, but kept forgetting to upload and post it. I am correcting that mistake now. I have been following these guys for a while and keep waiting for them to release an LP, but they haven't yet. The 4 new tracks on this EP are really good and worthy of your attention.

Ancient Rivalry - What Lives Beneath [2026]

Artist: Ancient Rivalry

Album: What Lives Beneath
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://ancientrivalry.bigcartel.com / https://www.facebook.com/ancient rivalry
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. What Lives Beneath  

2. Altars of the Damned  

3. Rotted Crown  

4. Drowned in Human Filth  

5. Siege Eternal  

6. Sanctified Execution  

7. Hunger of the Dead  

8. Breathless Dominion

Witness: -[*]-
Here is an interesting young band from London with a solid debut full-length. They have a nice groove, a cool guitar tone, and overall a tight production. I like this album; the band shows promise.

Ulvedharr - Inferno XXXIII [2023]

Artist: Ulvedharr

Album: Inferno XXXIII
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://scarletrecords.bandcamp.com/ulvedharr / https://ulvedharrofficialshop.bigcartel.com
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Full Reload of Fear  

2. Wasteland

3. Revenge Loop  

4. Dagon  

5. Master Liar  

6. The Edge  

7. Eternal Attack  

8. Their Game  

9. A New God  

10. Oblivion

Witness: -[*]-

Ulvedharr - Total War [2017]

Artist: Ulvedharr

Album: Total War
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://scarletrecords.bandcamp.com/ulvedharr / https://www.facebook.com/Ulvedharr
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. This Is War...

2. Wolves  

3. Flagellum Dei  

4. Inquisition  

5. Total War  

6. Wrath of Brenn  

7. Krigaren  

8. Master of Slavery  

9. Legion  

10. The Dark Age  

11. ...Will Never End

Witness: -[*]-
I could have sworn that I had this album posted here several years ago, but I don't see it in the archive. I probably do have it posted, but didn't tag it correctly. Anyway, this is a killer album in my opinion, and I was reminded of it recently while listening to their 2023 release Inferno XXXIII.

Frolic - Legacies of Cybernetica [2026]

Artist: Frolic

Album: Legacies of Cybernetica
Year: 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/FcBS2AcFAcU / https://www.facebook.com/FrolicxThrash
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Legacies of Cybernetica  

2. Living in Virtuality  

3. A Shattered Soul

4. Disasters of Experiments  

5. Celestial Aventus

6. Where the Spiders Sleep  

7. Blades of Revenge

Witness: -[*]-
Frolic is a young band from Hayward, California, in the Bay Area, and they are using all of their influences to make some killer thrash metal and have some fun while they're doing it \m/\m/

Shrapnel - Raised on Decay [2017]

Artist: Shrapnel

Album: Raised on Decay
Year: 2017
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://shrapneluk.bandcamp.com / https://www.instagram.com/shrapnelbandofficial
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hollow Earth

2. Complete Resection

3. The Boundaries Set

4. Jester  

5. Pariah  

6. Echoes of Emptiness  

7. Carved from Above  

8. 1.0.1  

9. Raised on Decay

10. Choir of Wolves  

11. Antichrist (Slayer cover)

Witness: -[*]-
These guys released 3 top-notch thrash albums between 2014 & 2020, with Palace for the Insane being my first exposure and favorite album, but this disc is a close second. 

Cyclopic - Flesh of Chaos [2026]

Artist: Cyclopic

Album: Flesh of Chaos
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/eY6W_4rFaAM / https://cyclopic.bandcamp.com/cyclopic
Country: International
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Swords of Savage 

2. Flesh of Chaos 

3. Lich Seed 

4. Abyssal Hordes 

5. Cyclopic 

6. Eye of Rhynn 

7. Vanishing Tower 

8. Grotesque Feast 

9. The Wanderer 

10. Doomed to Eternity

Witness: -[*]-
Killer old-school styled death metal from this international outfit. I like this one!

Defaced - Icon [2026]

Artist: Defaced

Album: Icon
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/dfJykqxq6YI / https://defaced.ch / TDC Link
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Antagonist  

2. Perception  

3. As My Will Prevails  

4. The Initiation  

5. Forever Mine  

6. Anthem of Vermin  

7. Sonate  

8. Icon  

9. Culling the Herd  

10. Betrayer

Witness: -[*]-

Ascended Master - Crepuscular Gloom [2026]

Artist: Ascended Master

Album: Crepuscular Gloom
Year: 2026
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/rJuJEOqZ7mU / https://ascendedmaster666.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Void Horror

2. Blood Spilled upon the Stars  

3. Midnight Mother  

4. Crepuscular Gloom  

5. Ghoul Queen  

6. A Separation of Earth and Magic  

7. Xenopaleontology

Witness: -[*]-

Lago - Vigil [2026]

Artist: Lago 

Album: Vigil
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/gfv9FYMx-Fk / https://lagometal.bigcartel.com / https://everlastingspew.bandcamp.com/vigil
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Behold, Ruin

2. Fodder

3. Procession into Slaughter

4. Initiation Rite

5. In a House of Ill Repute

6. Kingdom Without Pulse

7. The Land Was a Desert

Witness: -[*]-

Nykteria - Henosis [2026]

Artist: Nykteria

Album: Henosis
Year: 2026
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/sNIXg1UkeBA / https://www.facebook.com/nykteriaband
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Terradeformants

2. The Great Conflagration

3. Gestating Bloodborne Blight

4. Pariah

5. Sullen Tombs of Reincarnation

6. Encroaching Madness

7. A Lament for the Dead  

8. Necromantic Subjugation

9. Luminiferous Bodies

Witness: -[*]-
Nykteria is a blackened death metal band from Finland, and this is their debut full-length. To me, this is somewhat similar to the recent Oracle Of Worms release in that it brings a strong dose of death metal with heavy riffs and aggressive drumwork. Overall, this is a very good listen in my opinion.

 

Dawn Of Creation - Scorching Method Memorabilia [2026]

Artist: Dawn Of Creation

Album: Scorching Method Memorabilia
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/WYqbc4gxHLE / https://dawnofcreation.bandcamp.com
Country: Serbia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Of Pyres, Bones and Waste

2. To Seek and Suffocate

3. Your Flesh is Gone

4. Seized (Day by Day)

5. Mandibula

6. Into Lock-Up

7. Suicide Divine

8. Ignis (Metod's Method)

Witness: -[*]-
Here is the newest release from Dawn Of Creation, a band I have been aware of for several years, but I guess I haven't followed them too closely. I first heard their Masquerade Poetry EP in 2014, but they fell silent until 2022, and I never paid much attention to that comeback album. I listened to this release a few days ago in the car, and I like what they have created, even though it isn't anything I haven't heard before. It is definitely worthy of a few listens.

Dawn Of Creation - Self-Destructive Matters [2022]

Artist: Dawn Of Creation

Album: Self-Destructive Matters
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/SSVQoLdfog8 / https://www.instagram.com/dawnofcreationband
Country: Serbia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Armageddon Manifesto

2. Fuck Your Blood

3. I, God

4. Walking Hatred

5. Walls

6. Damned

7. Deformed

8. Ghost to the Machine

Witness: -[*]-

Dawn Of Creation - Masquerade Poetry (EP) [2014]

Artist: Dawn Of Creation

Album: Masquerade Poetry
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/7759FaQl058 
Country: Serbia
Quality: 320Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood Be Shed

2. Revelation AK-47

3. Flaming

4. The Masquerader

5. Dawn of Creation

Witness: -[*]-

Nukem - The Grave Remains [2026]

Artist: Nukem

Album: The Grave Remains
Year: 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://nukemthrash.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/NukemOfficial
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Dead Draw

2. Policies of Hate

3. Random Acts of Violence

4. Tactics of Terror

5. Into the Kill Zone

6. Unconditional Surrender

7. Sentenced to Die

8. Curse of the Devil’s Bible

9. Empress of Evil

10. Torture, Murder, Mutilate!

11. Pro Mortuis

12. Don’t Believe a Word (Thin Lizzy cover)

Witness: -[*]-
Fukk yes, let's thrash!!!

Void - Forbidden Morals [2025]

Artist: Void

Album: Forbidden Morals
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://voidthrash.bandcamp.com / https://officialvoid.com / TDC Link
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Curse

2. Forbidden Morals

3. Gateways of Stone

4. Judas Cradle

5. Nine Blood Moons

6. Valeria

7. Apparition

8. By Silver Light

9. Return of the Phantom

10. Beneath... Lives the Impaler

Witness: -[*]-

Morger - 2012 [2012]

Artist: Morger

Album: 2012
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/PzPrdoWNhQ0 / https://www.facebook.com/MorgerBand
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Война

2. Освенцим

3. Мы сами в этом виноваты

4. Потоп

5. Пилорама

6. Конец

7. Ядерный взрыв

8. Чума

9. Чёрный легион

10. Мой последний день

Witness: -[*]-