OrificeTorture's Best of 2015

Bands with albums worth honorable mention for 2015 (in the order heard):

1. Gorelust

2. BIID

3. Mastabah

4. Defcon One

5. Xeroderma

6. Oral Fistfuck

7. Xipe Totec

8. Monolith Deathcult

9. This Spring of Death

10. Castrensis

11. Gruesome

12. Abiotic

13. Undead

14. Dyingbreed

15. Inhuman Depravity

16. Sothoth

17. Perihelion

18. Distruzione

19. Kossuth

20. Vitiated

21. Isomorphic

22. Endless

23. Antropofago

24. Nochaa

25. Veld

26. Raising the Veil

27. A Loathing Requiem

28. Sphere

29. Misanthropic Mind

30. Norylsk

31. Kaptivity

32. Day One

33. Serial Butcher

34. Beating Dead Meat

35. Carnal Blasphemy

34. Abhorrent Decimaton

35. Shattered

36. Psycroptic

37. Marasmus

38. Visceral Decay

39. Komponen Neraka

40. Primordium

41. Abhorrent Deformity

42. Symbolical

43. Reduced

44. I Chaos

45. Fungus

46. Iniquitous Deeds

47. Exuvium

48. Geggar Otak

49. Arkaik

50. Cryptopsy

51. Revulsed 

52. Tormention

53. Contrarian

54. Virial

55. Pronostic

56. Season of Suffering

57. Birth Through Gore

58. Horrendous

59. Enthrallment

60. Putridity

61. Obnoxious

62. Exocrine

63. Demented Heart

64. Sufism

65. Skeletal Remains

66. Kronos

67. Abyssal Descendant 

68. The Raven Autarchy

69. Regurgitate Life

70. Tension Prophecy

71. Sypsis

72. Symbiotic

73. Subconscious

74. Cranial Implosion

75. Parental Advisory

76. Corpse Garden

77. Necrogasm

78. Slaughter the Prophets

79. Anachronism 

80. Incinerate

81. Mouth Of The Serpent

82. Sickening

83. Sickening Horror

84. Criminology

85. Heaving Earth

86. Exile Into Suffery

87. I the Intruder

88. Ending Tyranny

SourceRa's Best of 2015

I just want to say thank you to SourceRa who has pretty much been around since the beginning of the site, but has really began actively contributing here in 2015. Thanks for the great list mate \m/\m/

BEST OF:

1st Place: Lost Soul - Atlantis (Deluxe Edition) - ´cuz the bonus tracks are so fuckin´good, too!!!

the rest in no particular order (well, that´s not true, they´re alphabetical but not in a ranked order)

A Loathing Requiem - Acolytes Eternal

Anachronism - Reflecting The Inside (EP)

Bone Gnawer - Cannibal Crematorium

Criminology - Capitalist Destroyer

Cryptopsy - The Book Of Suffering Tome 1

God Dementia - Consuming The Delusional

Hate Eternal - Infernus

King Parrot - Dead Set

Sadist - Hyaena

Sulphur Aeon - Gateway To The Antisphere

Honorable Mentions:

First two very special mentions, ´cuz both of them include members of In Demise

Intravenous Contamination - Drownd In Human Fluids

Cerebric Turmoil - Neural Net Meltdown

...now for the rest (again in alphabetical order):

Belhor - Discordia Concors

Blastomycosis - Covered in Flies and Afterbirth

Burial Ritual - Genocidal Theory

Cephalopod - A Bad Case Of Unreality

Dawn Of Azazel - The Tides Of Damocles

Deivos - Theodicy

Demiurgon - Above the Unworthy

Eradikal Insane - Mithra (´though being a bit to core-ish, at times)

Fungus - Predatory Harvest

Gloom - Doggod

Gorelust - We Are the Undead

Gorod - A Maze Of Recycled Creeds

Gruesome - Savage Land

Inhuman - Conquerors Of The New World

Kronos - Arisen New Era

Marasmus - Conjuring Enormity

Melechesh - Enki

Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed

Omnioid - Womb Of Infirmity

Ouroboros - Emanations

Psycroptic - Psycroptic

Putridity - Ignominious Atonement

Regurgitate Life - The Defiled Face Of Existence (EP)

Sectorial - We Are The Titan's Rising Ashes

Serocs - And When The Sky Was Opened (that one might very well have ranked higher if only i had (taken) the time to listen to it much more, it definately  is a grower)

Sickening - The Beyond

Skinless - Only the Ruthless Remain

Sleep Terror - Unihemispheria (that one would have been a best of the year, if there were no re-recordings - which are great, only not new!)

The Grotesquery - The Curse Of The Skinless Bride

Theory In Practice - Evolving Transhumanism (EP)

Virial - Organic Universe

Thorne's 'Best of The Death Chamber for 2015'

The Death Chamber's 2015 Year in Review

Another year has come and gone, and as we find ourselves at the beginning of a new year it is time to reflect on the wealth of excellent death metal releases that there were in 2015. I know many purists believe that all we get now is generic rehashed tripe, and I will readily admit that it is very difficult for any band to create music that is truly original, but it doesn't need to be original if it strikes that nerve within us that causes self-induced whiplash (as Overkill once said "wrecking neck").
Last year at this time, I was saying that 2014 had set a new standard for the volume and quality of releases, but now I am not sure that the standard hasn't been redefined in 2015. Our friend CarlG had an excellent comment recently when he stated that we could start each new year with an empty CD shelf, and we could easily fill it up with enough new music that we could be satisfied for a lifetime. I wouldn't want to give up all of the great music from the past, but based on what we have seen for the past 4 - 5 years I think his is a very true statement.

There are so many releases that deserve praise in my opinion, I am thinking of bands like Morbid Vomit, Gruesome, Spirit of Rebellion, Defect Designer, Defcon One, Karma Violens, and Visceral Dissection just to name a few that I couldn't fit into my list, but let's get to the ones that did make the cut. The following are what I have enjoyed throughout 2015, and I hope that you find something new to enjoy here as well.   

TDC Top 30 for 2015

Parental Advisory - Soundtrack of an Upcoming Apocalypse
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Austria
Purchase: Bandcamp
Preview: Official Video or TDC

Penitenziagite - Humanity Galore

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Slovenia

Purchase: Bandcamp or On-Parole

Preview: https://youtu.be/FgvHffTi6dU or TDC

Scarab - Serpents of the Nile

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Egypt

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/uI6k2oAiGYM or TDC

Fragile Existence - Cataclysms and Beginnings

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Canada

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: Official Video or TDC

Necrogasm - Cannibalism

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Greece

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/WJG-eeUfO7M or TDC

Pronostic - An Atomic Decision

Genre: Technical Melodic Death Metal

Country: Canada

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/MBO55wL7vpo or TDC

In Utero Cannibalism - Butcher While Others Obey

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Greece

Purchase: Grooves. Land

Preview: https://youtu.be/RyQVDSehOX8 or TDC

Gorelust - We Are the Undead

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Canada

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/-Ug0sVQg3u8 or TDC

Viscral - Egocentric Underneath of Horror

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Country: Indonesia

Purchase: Force Fed Merchandise or contact Viscral @ Facebook

Preview: https://youtu.be/HYyW4DZc3vs or TDC

The Ritual Aura - Laniakea

Genre: Technical Death Metal

Country: Australia

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: Official Video or Witness here -[*]-

The Juliet Massacre - Human Abuse

Genre: Deathcore

Country: Italy

Purchase: Big Cartel

Preview: Official Video or TDC

Ingested - The Architect of Extinction

Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Deathcore

Country: United Kingdom

Purchase: CM Distro

Preview: Official Video or TDC

Bloody Brotherhood - Ritual of Blood

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Spain

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: Official Video or TDC

Revulsed - Infernal Atrocity

Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal

Country: Australia

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/bgGBLScxjvA or TDC

Blastomycosis - Covered In Flies and Afterbirth

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Country: Canada

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/l5imQ0Oxle8 or TDC

Infected Chaos - The Wake of Ares

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Austria

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/Y8i2CHbNHc0 or Witness here -[*]-

Xeroderma - The Reckoning

Genre: Death Metal

Country: United States

Purchase: Xeroderma @ Facebook

Preview: https://youtu.be/_in9xy-S5Fk or TDC

Obscure Infinity - Perpetual Descending into Nothingness

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Germany

Purchase: Homepage

Preview: Official Video or TDC

Recueil Morbide - Morbid Collection

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Country: France

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/JS0CkFFarFE or TDC

Defaced - Forging the Sanctuary

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Switzerland

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/Z0NwnYSvui4 or TDC

Sothoth - Rise To Conquer

Genre: Technical Death Metal

Country: Poland

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: https://youtu.be/L4T8hsZDdmY or TDC

Overtorture - A Trail of Death

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Sweden

Purchase: Homepage

Preview: Unofficial Video or Witness here -[*]-

Feral - Where Dead Dreams Dwell

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Sweden

Purchase: Homepage

Preview: Official Video or Official Video or Witness here -[*]-

Necropsy - Buried In the Woods

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Finland

Purchase: Xtreem Music

Preview: https://youtu.be/_8kUjDjzw44 or TDC

Alustrium - A Tunnel to Eden

Genre: Technical Progressive Death Metal

Country: United States

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: Official Video or Witness here -[*]-

Eradikal Insane - Mithra

Genre: Technical Death Metal / Deathcore

Country: France

Purchase: Bandcamp

Preview: Official Video or TDC

Genital Grinder - Abduction

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Italy

Purchase: Genital Grinder @ Facebook

Preview: https://youtu.be/7vEIVguUKPU or TDC

Birth Through Gore - The Culmination Conquest

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Country: Greece

Purchase: Sevared Records

Preview: https://youtu.be/r1Tu-G5wnS8 or Witness here -[*]-

Lectern - Fratricidal Concelebration

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Italy

Purchase: Homepage

Preview: https://youtu.be/Nu9QDmdU2tQ or TDC

Season Of Suffering - Evolve to Extinction

Genre: Death Metal

Country: United States

Purchase: Season Of Suffering @ Facebook

Preview: https://youtu.be/3JiL-526iE8 or TDC

Top EP's & demos for 2015

Exile Into Suffery - Substitutional Race of Tomorrow (Technical Death Metal) TDC
Mass Defect - Continuity of Government (Death Metal / Thrash Metal) TDC
Anoxide - Purge the Idols of Illusion (Death Metal) TDC
Vitiated - Promo 2015 (Technical Death Metal) TDC
Castrator - No Victim (Death Metal) TDC
Sewercide - Severing the Mortal Cord (Death Metal / Thrash Metal) TDC
Exuvium - Subarachnoid (Death Metal) TDC
Gravebane - Mortify The Grave (Death Metal) TDC
Avulsed - Altar of Disembowelment (Death Metal) YouTube
Sentient - Ceremonial Murder (Death Metal) YouTube
Ominous Ruin - Exiled (Technical Brutal Death Metal) TDC

Pestuary - Pestuary (Death Metal)  TDC

The Hallowed Catharsis - EP II: Organic Entrenchment (Deathcore) YouTube

Cheers to 2015 \m/\m/ and here is to a very heavy 2016!

Kali Yuga - Kali Yuga [2015]

Artist: Kali Yuga

Album: Kali Yuga
Year: 2015
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/dkEHga15EGs
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. God's Gift
2. Evolution of Schizophrenia
3. The Gray Man
4. Sacrifice
5. Atrocity
6. Immortal Fire
7. Inside Agony
8. Obsession
9. Unearthed
10. Designed For Devestation

Witness: -[*]-
Killer 2015 release of melodic, yet aggressive, death metal from Kali Yuga. This is easily my favorite offering from these Germans right now.

Against The Plagues - Purified Through Devastation [2015]

Artist: Against The Plagues

Album: Purified Through Devastation
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/oRokUVe_irY
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Man's Modern World
2. All Flesh Had Corrupted
3. Praetorian Icon
4. Theokratia
5. Terrorform
6. Extermination Event
7. Falling Further
8. Enblightened
9. Enemy Herein

Witness: -[*]-
I have been a big fan of this band ever since I heard their first release, The Architecture of Oppression, several years ago. That disc had a much more melodic black metal inspiration to it, and was re-released in 2010 under the title Decoding the Mainframe. The new disc is much more death metal than their earlier material, and pretty damn good at that. Be sure to check out the video above.

Ending Tyranny - Evolution of Deceit [2015]

Artist: Ending Tyranny

Album: Evolution of Deceit
Year: 2015
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Technical Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/iZCDnoeyHCs
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Consciousness Deprived
2. Depravity
3. 12 Palms
4. Poisoning the Soul
5. Faceless Silhouette
6. The Stench of Repression
7. Epitome
8. Dealers of Hate

Witness: -[*]-
2015 has been a good year for Canadian death metal. Listen & Support \m/\m/

Catastrophic Evolution - The Origin [2015]

Artist: Catastrophic Evolution

Album: The Origin
Year: 2015
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/3OAkQ97qw10
Country: International
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Corrupt Supremacy
2. Infection in Your Arteries
3. Rotten Memories of Pain
4. Perverted Harassment
5. Leader of Devastation
6. Conscience's Fear
7. Open Wound
8. The Origin
9. Continuous Disappointment
10. The Eternal Repentance
11. Bird's Eye View
12. Condemned to Suffering

Witness: -[*]-

Narcotic - To The Pyre [2015]

Artist: Narcotic

Album: To The Pyre
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/K4vGZQjkME4
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Breath in the Casket
2. Panopticon
3. Screaming in Solitary
4. Barren
5. Internal Decay
6. Soul Harvest
7. Towards the Unknown
8. Death March
9. To the Pyre

Witness: -[*]-
US Heartland death from the Windy City!

Oral Fistfuck - Spiritual Sickening [2015]

Artist: Oral Fistfuck

Album: Spiritual Sickening
Year: 2015
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/bR8DiiImVT4
Country: Switzerland
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Sickening
2. Nemesis
3. Transcend the River of Blindness and Feed'em with Your Puking Hate
4. Aghori Sadhu, Beholder of the Ancient Instincts
5. The Juggernaut
6. Improvise for Imperfection
7. Inside the Cage
8. What a Mess
9. Makyo

Witness: -[*]-
\m/\m/

Tombstalker - Black Crusades [2015]

Artist: Tombstalker

Album: Black Crusades
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/gCJ-XGh7q5E
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Forlorn Recollections
2. Chaos Undivided
3. Blood Thirster
4. Fate Weaver
5. Black Crusades
6. Soul Eater
7. Plague Father
8. Chaos Enthroned

Witness: -[*]-
Pretty sure I got this from Lord Frostdomain, so you know it has to be good. Entertaining death thrash from Lexington, Kentucky. Listen & Support!

Unbreakable Hatred - Ruins [2015]

Artist: Unbreakable Hatred

Album: Ruins
Year: 2015
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/ruins / https://unbreakablehatredofficialstore.bigcartel.com/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Addiction
2. Dysfunctional System
3. Natural Disaster
4. Ruins
5. Unpredictable Brutality
6. The Beginning of the End
7. Luxurious Sickness
8. Primitive Thoughts

Witness: -[*]-
I really liked Unbreakable Hatred's 2011 album, which I bought when it first came out and I had high expectations for this band. Then, this disc came out and I liked it but it got washed out by the multitude of other higher-quality releases in 2015 and then the band broke up and that was it.

Dystrophy - Wretched Host [2015]

Artist: Dystrophy

Album: Wretched Host
Year: 2015
Genre: Progressive Technical Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/z86XOImfN0w
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Apex
2. Singularity
3. Within the Mind
4. Exoparasite
5. Wretched Host
6. Demise
7. Anhedonia
8. Nadir

Witness: -[*]-
\m/\m/

Defacing - Homicidal Satisfaction [2010]

Artist: Defacing

Album: Homicidal Satisfaction
Year: 2010
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/LRDyX_cB8VA
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Murder Is My Crime
2. Impatience to Kill
3. You Know You Want to Kill People
4. Homicidal Needs Lead My Way
5. Remember the Infanticide
6. Reflexions Before Degradation
7. B.P.C.
8. Don't Become a Murderer
9. Animal Satisfucktion
10. The Sound of Annihilation
11. Deliriums of Moribund Addiction
12. Crawling to Salvation
13. A.M.
14. Atrocities That Testify Dementia
15. Sick Obsession (Need to Be Hated)

Witness: -[*]-

Defacing - The Beginning of Human Cruelty (EP) [2003]

Artist: Defacing 

Album: The Beginning of Human Cruelty
Year: 2003
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/lo_nSYcUyTo
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Atrocities That Testify Dementia
2. Deliriums Of Moribund Adicction
3. Remember The Infanticide
4. Resurrected In Excretive Substances

Witness: -[*]-

Skeletal Remains - Beyond the Flesh [2012]

Artist: Skeletal Remains

Album: Beyond the Flesh
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/-ETdnUrWFio / https://www.instagram.com/skeletalremainsofficial
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Extirpated Vitality
2. Desolate Isolation
3. Reconstructive Surgery
4. Carrion Death
5. Traumatic Existence
6. Anthropophagy
7. Homicidal Pulchritude
8. Sub-Zero Termination

Witness: -[*]-
Old-school death metal madness from my neck of the woods, Whittier, CA. \m/

Inherent Scream - Vice! Degraded! (demo) [2008]

Artist: Inherent Scream

Album: Vice! Degraded!
Year: 2008
Genre: Death Metal
Web: Listen
Country: Ukraine
Quality: 256 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Falling In Leprosy
2. Degraded
3. Military-War

Witness: -[*]-
Check it \m/

Malvomed - Chain of Destruction [2015]

Artist: Malvomed

Album: Chain of Destruction
Year: 2015
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2oXWyoLJj1A
Country: Indonesia
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Destroy
3. The Last Forgotten
4. Negara Para Bedebah
5. Syndrome of Death
6. Teroris
7. Refuse / Resist (Sepultura Cover)
8. Written Symbolic

Witness: -[*]-
Yet another killer release from Indonesia in 2015!

Fungus - Predatory Harvest [2015]

Artist: Fungus 

Album: Predatory Harvest
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/jk9GuMwyEtE
Country: International
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Computerized Humanity
2. Nano Execution
3. Bulimic Breed Consumption
4. Nihilarian
5. Dead Soul Creation
6. Tumorous Narcosis
7. Nuclear Induction of Cannibalism
8. Magnetic Compliance
9. Trapped in Delusional Psychosis
10. Predatory Harvest

Witness: -[*]-
Unfortunately I sort of overlooked this disc for a while, but it is quite entertaining.

AbouT:BlanK - AbouT:BlanK (EP) [2015]

Artist: AbouT:BlanK 

Album: AbouT:BlanK
Year: 2015
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/-MocO23DYms
Country: Canada
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Axiomatically Psychosomatic
2. Mechanical Obscenity
3. Ascetic Paradox
4. Anthropomorphic Digestion
5. Obscurantism and Eulogies
6. Unforgotten Death

Witness: -[*]-
I am currently enamored with this disc, if you want to hear 1 of the better tech death EP's this year, here it is.

Carvakas - Anti-Platonic Machinery [2015]

Artist: Carvakas

Album: Anti-Platonic Machinery
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Qsnide7y05U
Country: Chile
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cynic Philosophy
2. Overfly the Abyss
3. Written in Blood
4. Into the Epicureans Garden
5. Zarathustra the Godless
6. Twilight of Idealism
7. Abderian Materialism
8. The World's Axis

Witness: -[*]-
Intellectually minded Chilean death metal. Listen & Support \m/\m/

Carvakas - Stultifera Navis [2012]

Artist: Carvakas

Album: Stultifera Navis
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/uFyofkBvcvQ
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. I Don't Believe
3. I Will Cut You into Pieces
4. Inflection
5. Turn It Off
6. Crisis
7. Pickman's Model
8. Don't Play Their Game
9. Story of the Eye
10. The Little Death
11. Preachers of Shit

Witness: -[*]-
Not bad at all, listen and support!

Concrete - Chambers of Afterlife [2015]

Artist: Concrete

Album: Chambers of Afterlife
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/MZWOaF04ooc
Country: Bulgaria
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tied to the Pyre
2.  A Slasher's Thrill
3. Dreaming in Innsmouth
4. Necroenzyme
5. As Eternity Engulfs My Flesh
6. Suspended Afterlife
7. Upon Sacrificial Altars
8. Resurrection Through Ingestion
9. A Chapter of Linked Murders

Witness: -[*]-
I didn't know about these guys until a couple of months back when I saw this at Frostdomain. Glad I did, this and their previous discs are pretty damn good \m/\m/