Friday, June 9, 2023

Atomwinter - Catacombs [2018]


Artist: Atomwinter
Album: Catabombs
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Atomwinter / https://www.backstagepro.de/atomwinter
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Catacombs  
3. Dark Messiah  
4. Sadistic Intent  
5. Ancient Rites  
6. Gathering of the Undead  
7. Carved in Stone  
8. Necromancer  
9. Morbid Lies  
10. Funeral of Flesh

Witness: -[*]-

Abscession - Rot of Ages [2021]


Artist: Abscession
Album: Rot of Ages
Year: 2021
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Abscession / https://www.deezer.com/us/Abscession
Country: International
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Rat King Crawl
2. Theater of Pain
3. Dead Man's Hate
4. Rains of Death
5. Rot of Ages
6. The Final Furnace
7. When the Guillotine Falls
8. War Machine
9. Prometheus Unbound
10. Età della putrefazione

Witness: -[*]-
This is the better of their 2 albums for my tastes and it figures that this is a Transcending Obscurity  release as Kunal always seems to score the gems.

Abscession - Grave Offerings [2015]


Artist: Abscession
Album: Grave Offerings
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://abscession.bandcamp.com/music / 
Country: International
Quality: VBR



Tracklist:
1. Where Sleeping Gods Dwell
2. Gargoyle
3. In My Coffin
4. Cabin 13
5. Blowtorch Blues
6. Freshly Dug Graves
7. Plague Bearer
8. The Ruiner
9. Engorged with Gore
10. Downfall Pt.1

Witness: -[*]-

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Hot Graves - Plaguewielder [2023]


Artist: Hot Graves
Album: Plaguewielder
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/_hzzL6BzeBk 
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Flashing Madness ov Death
2. Infinite Glimmering Chasm
3. Temple Compromised
4. Talk to Me
5. Black Thorn and Blood
6. Baptized in Brimstone
7. View from the Gallows
8. Throne ov the Morning Star
9. Structural Violence
10. Necrodudial Blasphemer
11. Plaguewielder

Witness: -[*]-
The new album from Hot Graves is excellent in my opinion. If you are unfamiliar with them they have been around since 2008 and released a bunch of demos, EPs, and compilations, as well as 3 LPs, and this release sees them at their blackened thrashy best!

Hot Graves - Knights in White Phosphorus [2011]


Artist: Hot Graves
Album: Knights in White Phosphorus
Year: 2011
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal / Thrash  Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/WPr7h9ZRCtc / https://hotgraves.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dirthrash  
2. Fully Charged
3. Worship the Goat
4. Bad Blood
5. I Claim Your Blood (In the Night)
6. Blood Eruption
7. Total War
8. Kill for Satan
9. Dirge ov the Apokalyptik Hordes ov the Toxik Damned  
10. Get Killed Tonight
11. Rotted
12. Scarred
13. F.O.A.D.
14. The Craving
15. Desecration Time

Witness: -[*]-

HellWitch - Annihilational Intercention [2023]


Artist: HellWitch
Album: Annihilational Intercention
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://listenable-records.bandcamp.com/album/annihilational-intercention
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Sollipsistic Immortality
2. Delegated Disruption  
3. Megalopalypytic Confine  
4. Sorcerous Imminence
5. Hellwitch  
6. Epochal Cessation  
7. Anthropophagi
8. At Rest
9. Torture Chamber

Witness: -[*]-
I really hadn't paid much attention to HellWitch over the years. I've had their 2009 release since it first came out but hadn't listened to it much and this is basically their first release of new material since then, but I want to say that this disc is a ripper and I really like it. So, now I will have to go back and check into the releases I have missed.

HellWitch - Omnipotent Convocation [2009]


Artist: HellWitch
Album: Omnipotent Convocation
Year: 2009
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/zjDrnZcQfHE
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Vicious Avidity
2. Sought to Beguile
3. Opiatic Luminance
4. Neolithic Journey
5. Mysteria
6. Mythologicalies (Enlightened Paganus)
7. Irreverent Salvation
8. Final Approach
9. Days of Nemesis
10. Epitome of Disgrace
11. Infernal Death (Death cover)

Witness: -[*]-

Nihilism - Codex Nihilistic Exhumed [2023]


Artist: Nihilism
Album: Codex Nihilistic Exhumed
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://nihilism-deathmetal.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/nihilismdeathmetal
Country: France
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. War of the Blind  
2. Twelve Thousand  
3. Death & Hades  
4. Seven Thunders  
5. Fucking Prophecy  
6. Way of Dust  
7. The Punishment  
8. Slaves of Pain (Sepultura cover)  
9. Adjusting the Sun (Hypocrisy cover)  
10. Heartwork (Carcass cover)  
11. Suicide Machine (Death cover)  
12. Casket Garden (Dismember cover)

Witness: -[*]-
Seven new tracks and 5 covers, not a bad follow-up to their 2019 disc, which was my favorite from this band so far.

Deaf Aid - Hellgate [2023]


Artist: Deaf Aid
Album: Hellgate
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.deaf-aid.com/ / https://youtu.be/qTUFLaUBQwM
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Reign of Retards  
2. T.O.T.  
3. Ausgeburt  
4. Gutas  
5. Let the Infidel Rot  
6. Harbinger of Death  
7. Hellgate  
8. Inner Nightmare

Witness: -[*]-
Deaf Aid is another band I was unfamiliar with and apparently, at least one of the guys in this band (drummer) has been at it since 1989. I don't know what their older material sounds like but if it is anything like this, then I want to hear it now. 

Friday, June 2, 2023

Infiltration - Cognitive Warfare [2023]


Artist: Infiltration
Album: Cognitive Warfare
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Q2tRzxSdd24 / https://www.facebook.com/infiltrationdeath
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Null
2. Conveyor of Slaves  
3. Mongers of Propaganda  
4. Malevolent Retribution  
5. Of Those Who Didn't Flee  
6. Kill Box Massacre  
7. Cognitive Warfare

Witness: -[*]- 
Infiltration is quickly following up on their 2022 release Extinct with a new album already this year. This is another quality offering from the band but at only 20 minutes in length, it is hard to consider this an LP but a worthy listen nonetheless.

Skulldozer - Non Stop Ruthless Crushing [2023]


Artist: Skulldozer
Album: Non Stop Ruthless Crushing
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://deathbyskulldozer.wixsite.com/skulldozer / https://www.facebook.com/xSKULLDOZERx
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Non Stop Ruthless Crushing  
2. Thy Enemies Driven Before Me  
3. Kingdom Ossuarium  
4. Hatesworn Shitstorm  
5. Scum Beneath the Skin  
6. Wolves Amongst Sheeple  
7. Bastards of Zeus  
8. Bow to None  
9. Deathblessed  
10. Skullfucking Domination

Witness: -[*]-
Skulldozer is from Long Beach, Mississippi, and they released this full-length onslaught in January but I overlooked it because I had an EP from them with the same name that I had just picked up last year. I guess I thought this was the same release so I ignored it and 6 of the 10 songs are the same but the 4 new ones make it worthwhile in my opinion.

  

Cenobite - Torment Your Flesh and Explore the Limits of Experience [2023]


Artist: Cenobite
Album: Torment Your Flesh and Explore the Limits of Experience
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/GEdmQMV0Yoo
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Filthy Glory  
2. Cenobite's Sigil  
3. Sores  
4. Master of Torment  
5. Infecting Mauler  
6. Tomb  
7. Doctrine of Purgation
8. Chains and Hooks  
9. Festering Mutilation  
10. Keys of Logic

Witness: -[*]-
I wasn't familiar with this band untill CarlG began promoting this disc a few weeks back and then I finally got around to listening to it and I'm hooked. This is really cool, so now I will have to explore their back catalog as well.

Rend Them Asunder - Existence to Entrails [2022]


Artist: Rend Them Asunder
Album: Existence to Entrails
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Lpr5nTIF9uU / https://rendthemasunder.bandcamp.com/
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Rigour Mortis  
2. The Red Room  
3. Blasphemy  
4. Salvo  
5. Devoid of Decorum  
6. Existence to Entrails  
7. Outnumbered, Encircled, Slaughtered  
8. Vengeance Reaped  
9. Corrupted Innocence  
10. Shrapnel Disembowelment

Witness: -[*]-

Monday, May 29, 2023

Fishlizard - Dissected Alive (EP) [2023]


Artist: Fishlizard
Album: Dissected Alive
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/38VHj3911xw / https://fishlizardband.bandcamp.com/
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Penetration Devastation
2. Manufactured Habitat
3. Pneumonia
4. Dissected Alive

Witness: -[*]-
These guys came up with a strange band name and I'm not sure why the dude in the photo is holding a propane tank unless they are planning on grillin' up some fish lizards but they have created about 18 minutes of killer death thrash on this EP and I looking forward to hearing more from these Aussies in the future.

Terrifier - Trample the Weak, Devour the Dead [2023]


Artist: Terrifier
Album: Trample the Weak, Devour the Dead
Year: 2023
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ZCblyRjT4U8 / https://www.facebook.com/TerrifierThrashers
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Trial by Combat  
2. Perpetual Onslaught  
3. Bones of the Slain  
4. Depths of the Storm Scepter  
5. Grinding the Blade  
6. Death and Decay  
7. Dawn of the Slaughter  
8. Awaiting Desecration

Witness: -[*]-
Here is another band with a familiar old-school thrash sound that is highly appealing to me but I had never heard of them until recently and they have a 2017 album that sounds quite good to me as well.

Terrifier - Destroyers of the Faith [2011]


Artist: Terrifier
Album: Destroyers of the Faith
Year: 2011
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/w-Xh7zzes38 / https://empirerecords.bandcamp.com/album/terrifier
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Valkyrie
2. Hammer Fist
3. Welcome to Camp Blood
4. The Age of Steel
5. Scum Ridden Filth
6. Legions of the Dead
7. Of Victory and Valour
8. Destroyers of the Faith

Witness: -[*]-

Fatal Punishment - Age of Madness [2022]


Artist: Fatal Punishment
Album: Age of Madness
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://witchesbrewthrashes.bandcamp.com/age-of-madness / https://fatalpunishmentband
Country: Czechia
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. P.T.A.  
2. Cruel Vision  
3. Facemelter  
4. Devastation  
5. From Origin to Extinction  
6. The Sixth Sense  
7. Killosophy  
8. Reign of Violence  
9. Morbid Fairytale  
10. Spreading Illusion  
11. Age of Madness

Witness: -[*]-

Mutate - Mutated Deformation (Demo) [2021]


Artist: Mutate
Album: Mutated Deformation
Year: 2021
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/k_wtvdgBQO4
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Atrocious Cruelties  
2. Mangled Beyond Human Recognition  
3. Neglected Infancy  
4. Compulsive Cries  
5. Cryogenic Preservation 

Witness: -[*]-

Thunderwar - Black Storm [2016]


Artist: Thunderwar
Album: Black Storm
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/1qNuj41mupU
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Marvel at My Sins  
2. New Age Prophecy  
3. Black Storm Will Unfold  
4. New Messiah  
5. The Descent  
6. Path of the Aghori  
7. A Tale of Lust and Disgust  
8. Iconoclast 

Witness: Link removed

Thunderwar - The Birth of Thunder (EP) [2013]


Artist: Thunderwar
Album: The Birth of Thunder
Year: 2013
Genre: Death Metal
Web: Bandcamp / https://youtu.be/eLZ0cT0c-kU
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Vimana (the Chairots in Heaven)
2. Shadows of Lindisfarne
3. The Birth of Thunder
4. Eagle of Glory

Witness: -[*]-

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Pantheon - Empire in Ruin [2023]


Artist: Pantheon 
Album: Empire in Ruin
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://pantheon666.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/Pantheon666Lr/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Head on a Stick
2. Man-Infestation
3. Penetration of Maggots
4. Absence of Light
5. Slit the Throat
6. Venomous Mortality
7. Eviscerate Desecrate Cremate
8. Death Is in the Air
9. Blood the Bible Bleeds

Witness: -[*]-
Damn! May has been a very good month as I have found a helluva lot to like this month. This album from Pantheon of Little Rock, Arkansas is quite good.

Unmaker - Limb From Limb [2023]


Artist: Unmaker
Album: Limb From Limb
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://unmaker1.bandcamp.com/limb-from-limb / https://www.facebook.com/Unmakermetal
Country: Ireland
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. To War!
2. Drop Dead
3. Limb from Limb
4. Control
5. Point Break  
6. Rise
7. False Disciple
8. Breathe

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a young band from Dublin that has released a highly entertaining slab of thrashing death metal with this disc. Good effort!

Friday, May 26, 2023

Beauty Must Die - Dissent [2023]


Artist: Beauty Must Die
Album: Dissent
Year: 2023
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/w2bJ7RCTvps / https://beautymustdie.bandcamp.com/
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. In the Heat of Misanthropy  
2. My Hate  
3. No Tolerance  
4. Blaze  
5. The Age of the Offended  
6. When Time Will Come  
7. Dissent  
8. Watchdogs  
9. Duress  
10. To the Creators  
11. Night of Madness  
12. And the Stars Burn Out

Witness: -[*]-
I have said several times that I prefer the traditional 3-5 person band over the 1 dude does it all but there are so many talented individuals out there who can do it and the guy behind BMD is highly skilled. The album he has created isn't usually my style of choice because it is way more black than death but I really like many of these tracks.

Gorrified - Horrific Gore (EP) [2023]


Artist: Gorrified
Album: Horrific Gore
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/QlUJkbdmD0U / https://gorrified.bandcamp.com/music
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Bloodfiend  
2. Gorebath  
3. Horrific Gore  
4. Caramelized Cadaver  
5. Dissolution of the Flesh

Witness: -[*]-

Exterminated - Exterminated (EP) [2023]


Artist: Exterminated
Album: Exterminated
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/bK7b_oZcWTQ / https://www.instagram.com/exterminatedband/
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Systematic Demise  
2. The Escalation Quandry  
3. Consignment to the Grave

Witness: -[*]-
These guys have some talent and potential, don't they? Yes, they do.