Friday, September 1, 2017

Gnostic - Engineering the Rule [2009]


Artist: Gnostic
Album: Engineering the Rule
Year: 2009
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/7x5WBIrdy0g
Country: United States
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Visceral
2. Isolate Gravity
3. Sleeping Ground
4. Engineering the Rule
5. Wall of Lies
6. Violently Calm
7. Life Suffering
8. Corrosive
9. Mindlock
10. Splinters of Change

Witness: -[*]-

Destroythm - Destroythm (EP) [2014]


Artist: Destroythm
Album: Destroythm
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: Bandcamp
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Wendigo
2. A Nation Lost
3. Contagion Effect
4. Infect the Infected
5. Dead Man's Switch
6. Righteous Indignation

Witness: -[*]-
Chicago based death thrashers. Listen & support \m/

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Garden of Stained Graves - Black Empire (EP) [2009]


Artist: Garden of Stained Graves
Album: Black Empire
Year: 2009
Genre: Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/-u4_Jj5QnjQ
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Phases Lvna Accrescentis
2. Your Veins Will Remove the Trees and Your Blood Will Sow the Purification
3. Inevitable Fate for a Fate Complex
4. Memories
5. Mortis Ingrata Mvsica
6. Blackwoods Horrifica
7. Phases Lvna Decrescentis

Witness: -[*]-

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Frakasm - Century of Decline [2017]


Artist: Frakasm
Album: Century of Decline
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Frakasm/
Country: France
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Reaper's Return
2.  Cerebral Torture
3.  Orgasmic Plutonium Warfare
4.  Hirosaki
5.  Treachery
6.  Inferi Gloria
7.  Nekrocannibal
8.  In the Womb

Witness: -[*]-
Check this out people, France strikes again with Frakasm! I like this disc a lot and while they aren't necessarily doing anything groundbreaking, they have created some highly entertaining death metal!

Cyphonism - Obsidian Nothingness [2016]


Artist: Cyphonism
Album: Obsidian Nothingness
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/slU-6qaAc-c
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hullbreach
2. Sacrifice the Heart of Life
3. Chronophobia
4. Equilibrium in Chaos
5. Dwelling in Deep Trenches
6. Overstimulation of Senses
7. The Sons of Endless Skies
8. Catharsis
9. Grinding to a Halt

Witness: -[*]-
This disc is sofa king killer, I can't believe that I missed it last year. Cyphonism is from Wolfsburg in  Lower Saxony and they are carrying the torch high for German death metal \m/\m/ 

Last Rites - Nemesis [2017]


Artist: Last Rites
Album: Nemesis
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/lastrites0
Country: Italy
Quality: 192 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Paradox of Predestination
2.  Architecture of Self-Destruction
3.  26.04.86
4.  Ancient Spirit
5.  Fallen Brother - Glory to the Brave (Outro)
6.  Human Extinction
7.  Realm of Illusions
8.  Souls' Harvest

Witness: -[*]-
I have to say thank you to Dave (vocals, guitars) for contacting me a few years ago with his bands' information because I had never heard of them before even though they had been around for 15+ years at the time. Now, a few years later they have more than 2 decades of history and are making some of their best music.
 

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Hellish God - Impure Spiritual Forces (EP) [2016]


Artist: Hellish God
Album: Impure Spiritual Forces
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/5lOLzA79_RI
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Sharey-Maveth
2. Impure Spiritual Forces
3. Triniconoclasm
4. Lustful Orgiastic Vestements

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, there seems to be a bit of an Italian Renaissance going on for the past couple of years. Here is Hellish God with their 2016 debut EP and I would say that based on these 4 tracks this band has a promising future.

Nervecell - Preaching Venom [2008]


Artist: Nervecell
Album: Preaching Venom
Year: 2008
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/nervecell
Country: United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1.As They Reign and Slither
2. Vicious Circle of Bloodshed
3. Flesh and Memories
4. For Every Victim Fallen
5. Beyond our Sins
6. Haute Monde Facade
7. Ratios
8. Demean
9. Vastlands of Abomination
10. Existence Ceased

Witness: -[*]-
\m/\m/

Gammoth - Obliterate [2016]


Artist: Gammoth
Album: Obliterate
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: Facebook
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. In Bloodshed We Will Meet
2. Death and Horror
3. Welcome to My Lair
4. Obscure Inoculation (An Article on Mutated MERS-CoV)
5. Cry Havoc
6. Diplomacy with a Shotgun
7. Undepictable Embodiment of Chaos
8. Cinereous
9. Hydrophobia

Witness: -[*]-
\m/\m/

Scordatura - Self-Created Abyss [2017]


Artist: Scordatura
Album: Self-Created Abyss
Year: 2017
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/oVckmofsweQ
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Repulsive Miscreation
2. Godforsaken Castigation
3. Malignant Form of Inhumanity
4. Engineering Retribution
5. Consumed by Hatred
6. Servants of Entrapment
7. The Vile Existence
8. Ritual Acts of Malevolence
9. Self-Created Abyss
10. Confessions Inscribed

Witness: -[*]-
To me, this disc is unfairly overshadowed by many other releases this year, but I feel that Scordatura has crafted a very good death metal album with these tracks. They have always created quality brutality, and this is no different. Listen & support!

Friday, August 25, 2017

Resurgence - Besieged [2017]


Artist: Resurgence
Album: Besieged
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/resurgencevancouver/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Entombed Inside Your Brain
2. Machine
3. Sodomy by Chainsaw
4. In the Mirror
5. Thy Divine Convalescence
6. Your Time Has Expired
7. In My Grasp
8. All I Have Left

Witness: -[*]-
CarlG was promoting these guys a while back and he was right again, these guys are pretty good \m/\m/

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Helslave - Divination (EP) [2017]


Artist: Helslave 
Album: Divination
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Rdfhqg8LtEk
Country: Italy
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Summoning the Eternal Eclipse
2. Lord of Lies
3. The Spawn of Astaroth
4. Desecration

Witness: -[*]-
This Ep is awesome! Thanks to Tito V. for the heads up \m/\m/

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Grand Sermon - Massive Domain [2010]


Artist: Grand Sermon
Album: Massive Domain
Year: 2010
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/EwQUQdwcXwM
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. I Touched the Depths to Reach the Heights
2. Morass of the Wrathful Souls
3. ...When Nothing Shines
4. Banks of Acheron
5. The Gardens of Minos
6. Cerberus
7. Massive Domain
8. The Cruel King
9. Shrine of the Master (Brutality Cover)

Witness: -[*]-
Hey people what about Grand Sermon, do you remember them? This is really a very good slab of death metal from 7 years ago now. Damn, has it really been that many years already? Well supposedly they're still active, so I'm bringing them back to the front because this disc deserves your attention.

Massive Assault - Death Strike [2012]


Artist: Massive Assault
Album: Death Strike
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/P6wt9ISJThg
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Driven Towards Death
2. Cycle of Violence
3. Operation Anthropoid
4. Finished Sympathy
5. Turning Tides
6. Pride
7. Dismal Life
8. Aggressive Depression
9. Chained
10. Plead Not Guilty

Witness: -[*]-
No bullshit war death from The Netherlands of Hoogeveen, Drenthe. These guys have been very consistent over the years with no real departures from this style of brutality \m/\m/

Massive Assault - Promo 2004 [2004]


Artist: Massive Assault
Album: Promo 2004
Year: 2004
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/hM6nyjsSBWM
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 160 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hanged Man
2. Aggressive Depression
3. End All the Pain
4. Chained

Witness: -[*]-
In my opinion, these 4 tracks were an awesome prelude of what was to come from this highly productive band.

Deserter - Coils of the Lesser Serpent [2017]


Artist: Deserter
Album: Coils of the Lesser Serpent
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Fn-d8C-rUU8
Country: Belgium
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Darkening Clouds Over Utopia
2. Urban Gehenna
3. Headhunter
4. Carnal Carnival
5. Cry of the Forsaken
6. Bombing Flight
7. Warscar

Witness: -[*]-
Hmmm, thrashy...nice.

Garoted - Abyssal Blood Sacrifices [2017]


Artist: Garoted
Album: Abyssal Blood Sacrifices
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/cvsMnznArZM
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Necrosynod Perversions
2.  Reprisal of Sin
3.  Galvanized
4.  Dark Imperial Anathema
5.  Cannibalistic Witchery Listen
6.  Scourge of Thy Flesh Listen
7.  Deathscepter
8.  Malignant Coffin Rot

Witness: -[*]-
A bit raw in the production but overall a very solid release of traditional death metal from Corn Husker Country. I'll be interested to hear what these guys can create in the future. HQ rip \m/\m/

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Necrogod - The Inexorable Death Reign (EP) [2015]


Artist: Necrogod
Album: The Inexorable Death Reign
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/E19D3pMU9ZY
Country: International
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro - The Inexorable
2. Worms in Holy Flesh
3. The Death Provokers
4. Human Misery
5. Skull Crushing Death
6. Exequies for a Moribund God

Witness: -[*]-
Two man project featuring Ronald Jimenez from Insepulto on vocals and Rogga Johansson on everything else.This is another entertaining Rogga effort.

Amoklauf - Mournful Prophecies of a Dying World (EP) [2014]


Artist: Amoklauf
Album: Mournful Prophecies of a Dying World
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/3FIo7RHvX-w
Country: Argentina
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Techniques of Self Destruction
2. Scattered Remains
3. Mournful Prophecies of a Dying World

Witness: -[*]-

Brutal Avengers - Chapter II - Mission to Exterminate Xenomorph Activity [2014]


Artist: Brutal Avengers
Album: Chapter II - Mission to Exterminate Xenomorph Activity
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/BrutalAvengers
Country: France
Quality: VBR



Tracklist:
1. Destruction of he Sick by the Fallen Angel Command
2. Xenomorph Invaders from the Lost Planet
3. Return of Made Zombies
4. Vormitarmageddon
5. Necrop a Triot
6. There Is No God
7. Thunderbolts
8. Alien Disenbowelment
9. Tomb of the Rising Stars
10. Absolute Zero the Starlight Destruction

Witness: -[*]-

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Cytotoxin - Gammageddon [2017]


Artist: Cytotoxin
Album: Gammageddon
Year: 2017
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/EogmkUtiAFQ / https://www.facebook.com/Cytotoxinmetal
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Radiatus Generis
2. Chaos Cascade
3. Gammageddon
4. Chernopolis
5. Deadzone Outpost
6. Redefining Zenith
7. Corium Era
8. Antigenesis
9. Outearthed
10. Sector Zero

Witness: -[*]-
If the year ended right now, then this disc would be in my top 5 for sure and probably competing with Hideous Divinity for #1. It may still be that way on December 30th of this year. I've long promoted Cytotoxin, but I wasn't even really anticipating this release, and much to my surprise, it's just sofa king good from start to finish, from brutality to technicality, this disc is the "real deal." Listen & Support (\m/\m/)

A Taste Of Fear - God's Design [2017]


Artist: A Taste Of Fear
Album: God's Design
Year: 2017
Genre: Technical Thrash Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2X5GuN25LIc
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. God's Design
2. Into Hell
3. Out of Place
4. A Feared Secret
5. Make Suffer
6. Ripped Soul's Gift
7. The Passage
8. A Taste of Fear

Witness: -[*]-
Listen to this tasty Italian techy-ness, it represents a display of high-quality musicianship for sure.

Erythrocyte - Revival (EP) [2009]


Artist: Erythrocyte
Album: Revival
Year: 2009
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Fj-Lz-lofrw
Country: Turkey
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Proceeds Of the Peace
2. Creatures
3. Ecstatica
4. I Hate My Life
5. See Nothing Inside
6. Sword Of Justice
7. Vassals Of Money

Witness: -[*]-
What do you think of this groups melodic vision of death metal? I can say I like it for sure, fudging killer!

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Skirmish - Jet-Black Days (EP) [2013]


Artist: Skirmish
Album: Jet-Black Days
Year: 2013
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/skirmishband
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. The Mirror Distortion
2. Strategy of Self-Destruction
3. Obscure Tyrant
4. Replacement
5. First Seed
6. Terminal Embrace
7. Absolute Demise

Witness: -[*]-

Gatekeeper - Gatekeeper [2005]


Artist: Gatekeeper
Album: Gatekeeper
Year: 2005
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/bGQ6pe8Bpvw
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1.  The Passion
2. Without Fear
3. Dysuria
4. The Price of Salvation
5. Dragon Nostril
6. Cleansed
7. Sea of Lies
8. The Most Beautiful Work of Art
9. Coptopsy
10. Wormtongue
11. Coathanger
12. Sentenced

Witness: -[*]-
I wanted to bring this disc back to the front of the house again. Gatekeeper was a short-lived band that had some real potential, but Jacob Enfinger left to form Reciprocal and that was that. Just fuckin' listen to Coathanger and see what I mean about this band \m/\m/