Blood Ages - At the Height of the Storm [2012]

Artist: Blood Ages

Album: At the Height of the Storm
Year: 2012
Genre: Death Metal
Web: Bandcamp / https://www.facebook.com/BloodAges
Country: France
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Djinns
3. Grey Sands
4. Dusk
5. Pandore
6. Interlude
7. Face the Vigrid
8. Kronos
9. Lifeless Tribe
10. Seth

Witness: -[*]-
Bringing this disc back to the front of the house today for another spin. This is some high-quality French death here. I used to see them tagged as deathcore, but I never really heard the "core," it was always more death metal to me \m/\m/

Battlesword - Failing in Triumph [2003]

Artist: Battlsword

Album: Failing in Triumph
Year: 2003
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/rjJqB7xo8zY
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. Chapter II

3. Baptized in Fire

4. Battlesword

5. This Silent Night

6. Fatal Dreaming

7. Bloody Reign

8. Last Rising Sun

9. Stormking

10. Into the Soul

Witness: -[*]-
CarlG mentioned the new disc from Battlesword a while back and commented on the fact that it doesn't sound that melodic to him and I haven't listened to it much but I think this debut album and especially their 2019 release are good examples of melodic death done right.

Stallion - Slaves of Time [2020]

Artist: Stallion

Album: Slaves of Time
Year: 2020
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: http://www.heavymetalstallion.com/ / https://stallion.bandcamp.com/album/slaves-of-time
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Waking the Demons

2. No Mercy

3. Time to Reload

4. All In

5. Brain Dead

6. Die with Me

7. Merchants of Fear

8. Dynamiter

9. Kill the Beast

10. Meltdown

Witness: -[*]-

I like this album because it gives me the same feelings as I used to have listening to Judas Priest as a teenager. Classicaly killer speedy power metal for the modern age.

Morgana Lefay - Sanctified [1995]

Artist: Morgana Lefay

Album: Sanctified
Year: 1995
Genre: Power Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/morganalefayofficial / https://youtu.be/TG8x77OrjAU
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Out in the Silence

2. Time Is God

3. To Isengard

4. Why?

5. Mad Messiah

6. Another Dawn

7. In the Court of the Crimson King

8. Sorrow Calls

9. Where Insanity Rules

10. Shadows of God

11. Gil-galad (The Sanctified)

Witness: -[*]-
I was right in the transition from thrash, power, & groove to death metal and then I heard this disc and thought to myself, damn these power thrash guys still have more to say. I also like the reminiscent Jon Oliva feel to the vocals, at the time I appreciated it very much and the guitarists are killer too in my opinion. This is my own CD rip and I have their '96 Maleficium release on hard copy as well. 

Lizzy Borden - Menace to Society [1986] (Reissue, Remastered 2021)

Artist: Lizzy Borden

Album: Menace to Society
Year: 1986
Genre: Power Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/_pm8tU4tKlA
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Generation Aliens

2. Notorious

3. Terror on the Town

4. Bloody Mary

5. Stiletto (Voice of Command)

6. Ultra Violence

7. Love Kills

8. Brass Tactics

9. Ursa Minor

10. Menace to Society

11. Taking Over the World - Demo  

12. White Rabbit - Live Demo  

13. Stiletto (Voice of Command) - Live Demo  

14. Betrayer - Live Demo 

Witness: -[*]-
This was the only Lizzy Borden album I ever came across in my local record store back in the day and I bought it. I have to admit that this was always a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, I thought they were campy in their appearance but there are a few really good tracks on this album, the track Notorious in the YouTube link up there is a good example.  

Silent Knight - Full Force [2022]

Artist: Silent Knight

Album: Full Force
Year: 2022
Genre: Power Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/silentknightband / https://silentknightband.bandcamp.com/
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood in the Water

2. Full Force  

3. The Last Candle Burns  

4. Dark & Mysterious Times  

5. Screaming Eagle  

6. Into Oblivion  

7. Awakening 

8. Create a New World

Witness: -[*]-

I have been exploring a lot of different stuff lately and wanted to point out some of the power, speed, & thrash metal I have been into recently. This album provides some moments of goodness but overall is a bit too melodic for me.

Skelator - Death to All Nations [2010]

Artist: Skelator

Album: Death to All Nations
Year: 2010
Genre: Power Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/OkHm2hgBT7I
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Birth of Steel

2. The Truth

3. Victory (Henry V)

4. Circle of Bloodshed

5. Symphony of the Night

6. For Death and Glory

7. Stand Up (for Rock and Roll)

8. Death to All Nations

Witness: -[*]-

I am going to go on a power/speed metal trip here for a minute. This is an older Skelator album for all of you who are open to the power metal genre. I have promoted these guys for a while here in The Chamber and I felt this disc deserved a spot as well.

Thulsa Doom - A Fate Worse Than Death [2022]

Artist: Thulsa Doom

Album: A Fate Worse Than Death
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nsGMPBOsaio
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Where Death Dwells  

2. Cursed Domains Beyond  

3. Into the Vaults of Angmar  

4. Tomb of the Serpent Cult  

5. A Fate Worse than Death

6. Order of the Black  

7. Hung, Drawn and Quartered  

8. Lost Portal of Xhul  

9. The Dawn of the Fire Age  

10. The Orgy (Outro)

Witness: -[*]-

Acephalix - Theothanatology [2022]

Artist: Acephalix

Album: Theothanatology
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal / Crust
Web: https://youtu.be/c0McVbiTW-s
Country: United States
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Theothanatologist  

2. Godheads  

3. Abyssal  

4. Postmortem Punishment  

5. Innards of Divinity  

6. Pristine Scum  

7. Defecated Spirit 

8. Atheonomist

Witness: -[*]-
Damn! I was totally caught off guard by this album, I had heard some of their older material in the past and was mostly indifferent to their style but on this album, they have finely honed their craft into a grooving, crusty slab of death metal goodness \m/\m/

Acephalix - Interminable Night (Compilation) [2011]

Artist: Acephalix

Album: Interminable Night
Year: 2011
Genre: Death Metal / Crust
Web: https://youtu.be/dYuHBDnaH14
Country: United States
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Christ Hole  

2. Immemorial Past  

3. Daemonic Sign  

4. Rebirth into Perversion  

5. In Arms of Nothing  

6. Warm Flesh  

7. Interminable Night

Witness: -[*]-

Theodicy - Torture of Industry [2022]

Artist: Theodicy

Album: Torture of Industry
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal / Death Metal / Hardcore
Web: https://www.facebook.com/THEODICYde/ / https://theodicy.bandcamp.com/
Country: Germany
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Comment & Conquer  

2. From Alive to Skeleton  

3. The Truth  

4. Raise the White Flag  

5. Abscess Human  

6. Torture of Industry  

7. Rapture  

8. Last Strike  

9. Resource Desire  

10. Hateful World  

11. Bread and Circuses  

12. Godeater

Witness: -[*]-
I am not really familiar with this band even though I have their 2017 release and I did purchase this album on Bandcamp mainly based on the fact that I really liked the video above. They are listed in the thrash metal/hardcore genre but I hear a lot more death metal on this disc. Overall, I think they are pretty cool!

Theodicy - I Am War [2017]

Artist: Theodicy

Album: I Am War
Year: 2017
Genre: Thrash Metal / Death Metal / Hardcore
Web: https://theodicy.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-war-remastered
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Kratos  

3. I Am War  

4. Firms of Death  

5. Crowd Control  

6. First Person Shooter  

7. Dead White Aryan Zombie Army  

8. Massacre  

9. Un Devil Inside  

10. Executed by Fire  

11. The Dagger Complex  

12. The Green Lawn

Witness: -[*]-

Ashen - Godless Oath (EP) [2021]

Artist: Ashen

Album: Godless Oath
Year: 2021
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/8FPHkwTbkuk
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Godless Oath

2. Mass Cremation

3. Ruins

4. Asphyxiant

5. Inferno

Witness: -[*]-
This is a very nice little EP that I missed last year but and they have a full-length offering coming in December with 1 track available now but I will definitely have the album on my wishlist. These guys are very good in my opinion.

Korrosive - Kaustic Hordes [2021]

Artist: Korrosive

Album: Kaustic Hordes
Year: 2021
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://cdnrecords.com/shop/korrosive-kaustic-hordes / https://www.facebook.com/korrosivethrash
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Slaughter the Preacher

2. Burning Earth 2029

3. Terminal Violence

4. Khaotic Evil

5. Vitriolism

6. Hijo de Puta

7. Acidized

8. Septik Messiah

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a pretty kool thrash metal album from our neighbors to the north in Ontario and they already have another full-length due in October on CDN Records. Listen & support!

Exit Wound - Rising Terror [2022]

Artist: Exit Wound

Album: Rising Terror
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Ebwbf6jXsNg
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Panic  

2. Rising Terror  

3. Life Is Death  

4. Solar Mortality  

5. The Nurse of Torment  

6. Save Yourself from Extinction  

7. Shadows Obscured  

8. Taking No More  

9. On Lies They Tread  

10. One Last Man

Witness: -[*]-

Kilgore Smudge - Blue Collar Solitude [1995]

Artist: Kilgore Smudge

Album: Blue Collar Solitude
Year: 1995
Genre: Metal / Crossover 
Web: https://www.facebook.com/kilgoresmudge
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hangtime

2. Metamorphosis

3. Trial

4. Cleaner

5. Middle Way

6. Therapy

7. 3

8. Blue Collar Zen

9. Señorita Beefeater

10. Fridgafloor

11. Die Cast Mold

Witness: -[*]-
This is another cool and rare alternative metal release from the early/mid-'90s, I always liked the dude's vocal delivery and the groove in these songs. The death metal-only crowd certainly won't like this one but I do. I can't believe they are still active since I haven't heard anything from them since 1998.

B-Thong - Skinned [1994]

Artist: B-Thong

Album: Skinned
Year: 1994
Genre: Groove Metal / Hardcore
Web: https://youtu.be/81vgG3lpS8M
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. S.F.M.  

2. Fatal Accusation  

3. Godslave  

4. Schizophrenic Pavement  

5. No More  

6. Violent Blows  

7. Floodgate  

8. Stained  

9. My Opinion  

10. Power Ranger  

11. Days of Blood  

12. Taking You Home  

13. Under My Nails  

14. Justice Seeker

Witness: -[*]-
I really liked this disc back in '94 even though I will admit that it is a bit disjointed and uncomfortable at times. I was just making the transition into death metal in this time period but thrash, alternative, & hardcore were still very much in my wheelhouse back then. I have their '95 disc on CD as well but it didn't do as much for me.

Alien Autopsy - Cosmic Inception [2022]

Artist: Alien Autopsy

Album: Cosmic Inception
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/oU-ekOyr2mI
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cruel Intruder  

2. Parasite  

3. Controller  

4. Ask Andy  

5. Maximum Security Prison Planet  

6. Luminiferous Ether  

7. Instrument of Annihilation  

8. The Abduction  

9. Cosmic Inception

Witness: -[*]-

Castrator - Defiled in Oblivion [2022]

Artist: Castrator

Album: Defiled in Oblivion
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/CastratorBand / https://darkdescentrecords/defiled-in-oblivion
Country: International (United States)
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dawa of Yousafzai

2. Tormented by Atrocities

3. Befoul My Existence

4. Inquisition Sins

5. Voices of Evirato

6. Forsaken and Deprived

7. Sinister Mind

8. Purge the Rotten (Ones)

9. Tyrant's Verdict

10. Countess Bathory (Venom cover)

Witness: -[*]-
I had been very excited about this new album from Castrator, but then, for some reason, I have not given it much of my attention since it was released. I have been trying to make up for that here recently, and I do want to say that this is a nicely crafted slab of death metal from these 4 ladies.

 

Murder Method - No Regard for Human Life [2022]

Artist: Murder Method

Album: No Regard for Human Life
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/v3EugcVNVMI / https://murdermethod.bandcamp.com/releases
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Surrogate of Suffering  

2. No Regard for Human Life  

3. Hide the Bodies  

4. Will of Burden  

5. Fiend for Flesh  

6. Misanthropy  

7. Casket Screams  

8. Spiritual Desolation  

9. Dead Body Clean Up

Witness: -[*]-
This band is new to me and I must say that I really like their brand of death metal as they have crafted some really good songs with catchy riffs and interesting drum patterns but this album suffers from a weak production quality in my opinion. Compared to most other 2022 releases the sound quality of the recording isn't up to par but the fact that I still like this speaks to the talent of the band.

 

Disrupted - Pure Death [2020]

Artist: Disrupted

Album: Pure Death
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/6sVz1GNs3rg
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood Worship  

2. Human Stew  

3. Born in a Corpse  

4. Carve  

5. Headless Torso  

6. Total Death  

7. Pestilential Vomit  

8. Goat Lord  

9. Chopped into Oblivion  

10. Slave from the Grave

Witness: -[*]-
I have been sitting on this post for such a long time for some reason and I don't know why, because errybody has already heard this one but it is good to come back to from time to time. I posted their 2014 EP here 7 years ago and didn't post anything else until tonight and all of their discs have been worthy \m/\m/

Disrupted - Morbid Death [2015]

Artist: Disrupted

Album: Morbid Death
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/beq7tz8pl40
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Rotten

2. Feast on the Priest

3. From the Tomb

4. Funeral Creep

5. Psalm for the Slaughtered

6. Maimed and Devoured

7. Resurrected

8. Behead the Dead

9. Buried in Bowels

10. Christian Death

Witness: -[*]-

Battalion - Welcome to the Warzone [2008]

Artist: Battalion

Album: Welcome to the Warzone
Year: 2008
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/oeqaihzyVFM
Country: Belgium
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Mechanized Blitzkrieg

2. Cracks of My Coffin

3. Ten-Thousand Corpse Ditch

4. Throne of Lies

5. Blunt Force Trauma

6. Curb Stomp

7. Verdun Meat Grinder

8. Radiation Holocaust

9. Opening the Blastdoors to Hell

10. Mass Incinerator

Witness: -[*]-
Battalion has long since split up but their first 2 LPs, which includes this disc are excellent examples of war themed death metal done right. Heavy as a King Tiger and deadlier than an 88 trained on advancing infantry. Now in 2022, 2 of their members have resurfaced in Carnal Desecration who have just released their own top-tier slab of Belgian death \m/\m/

Battalion - Winter Campaign [2005]

Artist: Battalion

Album: Winter Campaign
Year: 2005
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/BattalionSquadCamp
Country: Belgium
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Spitfire
2. Bombenkrieg
3. Warfiend
4. Nuclear Devastation
5. Winter Campaign
6. Monolith (Peenemünde)
7. Skeleton City
8. Superior Firepower
9. Defcon 696
10. The Swarm (Locust Invasion)
11. Ghost of War
12. Torture Tactics
13. Death at the Helm

Witness: -[*]-
This album is some of the better European death metal that you're going to hear from this era. Highly skilled and talented musicians who bring a great amount of catchy heavy metal goodness to their death metal. A true favorite and my own CD rip \m/\m/

Carnal Desecration - Sacrificial Death [2022]

Artist: Carnal Desecration 

Album: Sacrificial Death
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nzjLXOa8Qeo
Country: Belgium
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dark Presence  

2. Suffering Eternal  

3. Thrive in Apathy  

4. Sacrificial Death  

5. Rites of the Necromancer  

6. Spawn of Dis  

7. Fear Made Flesh  

8. Maschalismos  

9. S-21  

10. Unholy Immortality  

11. Perennial Curse  

12. Carnal Desecration

Witness: -[*]-
Carnal Desecration is a new band from Antwerp, Belgium, and with Sacrificial Death, their debut full length, they have created 41 minutes of top-tier death metal! This album is very brutal in a traditional sense and catchy as fuk, solid through & through \m/\m/