Vacuous - In His Blood [2025]

Artist: Vacuous

Album: In His Blood
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://vacuousdeath.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/vacuousdeath/
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. In His Blood  

2. Stress Positions  

3. Hunger  

4. Flesh Parade  

5. Public Humiliation  

6. Contraband  

7. Immersion  

8. No Longer Human

Witness: -[*]-

Evulsion - Spiritual Putrefaction [2024]

Artist: Evulsion

Album: Spiritual Putrefaction
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/DII3oumxYV0 / https://evulsion.bandcamp.com/
Country: International
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Decimation  

2. Spiritual Putrefaction  

3. Grazed by Death  

4. Downpour of Insight  

5. Soil's Cold Truth  

6. Excuse to Kill  

7. Mangled Reality  

8. Under Tons of Marble  

9. Refined Torture

Witness: -[*]-

Ectospire - Spiritual Dismemberment (EP) [2025]

Artist: Ectospire

Album: Spiritual Dismemberment
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/dIAaXKSHZRo / https://ectospire.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Gravebreaker  

2. Vile Procession  

3. Pain Begets Expiration Begets Pain  

4. March of Yokai  

5. Devotional Trepanum

Witness: -[*]-

OmniVexation - OmniVexation (EP) [2025]

Artist: OmniVexation

Album: OmniVexation
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/0AXvpjm3UJg / https://omnivexation.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Void

2. Discipline of Decimation

3. Severing the Rot

4. Putrescent Incarnate

5. Decrepit Requiem

Witness: -[*]-
Clocking in at just under 14 minutes and containing really only 4 proper songs, this is a quick and entertaining listen. These two guys definitely display a lot of Archspire influence in their style but they have their own flavor too, and I think it sounds pretty freakin' good.

Unbounded Terror - Something is Rotten in Humanity [2025]

Artist: Unbounded Terror

Album: Something is Rotten in Humanity
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://unboundedterror.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/UnboundedTerror / TDC Link

Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Fear of Dying  

2. Destiny of Evil  

3. Demons in Your Mind  

4. Reviving  

5. Inside Death  

6. The Disappointment  

7. Divine Virtue  

8. Believing Again  

9. The Evil Cause

10. I'm a Freak (Wicked Lady cover) 

Witness: -[*]-
When this leaked back in March, it was highly praised by our resident death metal historian, CG, and others, but I chose not to listen to it right away because I was catching up on other releases. So, now I've finally made time for it in the past week, and the good thing about waiting a while to listen is that this is still new to me now, and I'll be damned if this isn't an excellent album! 

Ceremony - Solitary Bleed [2025]

Artist: Ceremony

Album: Solitary Bleed
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/GQz0oDcSx6U / https://www.facebook.com/ceremonynetherlands#
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Via Dolorosa  

2. Only Our Blood  

3. Bull of Phalaris  

4. Solitary Bleed  

5. Embrace Inferno  

6. Rites of Sacrifice  

7. The Poison Cup 

8. Pestis Bacteria  

9. Ludicium Mortis  

10. Stoning Commenced  

11. Bull of Phalaris (Orchestral Version)

Witness: -[*]-
Solitary Bleed is the new album from the Dutch band Ceremony, and I really like it. This is a departure from the straightforward death metal of their previous work, and I'm sure death metal purists would not like all of the un-death metal accoutrements they have incorporated here, such as clean female vocals, synth & piano, and orchestral arrangements. However, in my opinion, they are well placed and only add to make the dominant traditional death metal parts that much heavier. Another cool aspect of the album is the concept, with each song delving into an infamous method of execution used throughout the history of our kind. 

Ceremony - Retribution [2019]

Artist: Ceremony

Album: Retribution
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/o7rrgL6hs5A / https://ceremonythenetherlands.bandcamp.com/
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Retribution  

2. Influential  

3. In a Dark Time  

4. Erilaz  

5. Divinatory Rites  

6. Imperfect Perfection  

7. Mystery of Mysteries  

8. Tortured Souls

Witness: -[*]-
Ceremony is a somewhat obscure band, at least to me, because they formed in 1989 and their total output from '89 to 2018 was 2 demos, 1 EP, and a full-length in 1993. I didn't become aware of them until 2019 with this release, and I have to admit that I haven't listened to this a lot over the past 6 years but it is a good album and worthy of attention.

Sloow - Sloow [2025]

Artist: Sloow

Album: Sloow
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ETOXOFgnGxo / https://sloow.bandcamp.com/
Country: Austria
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood and Death  

2. Submarine Commandments  

3. The Road to Glory  

4. Convoy of Death  

5. Verge of Crucifixion  

6. Needle on the Loose  

7. Bloodgrave  

8. Prepare Ye!  

9. Poseidon Falls  

10. The Real War  

11. Humiliating Defeat

Witness: -[*]-
I listened to this almost as soon as it dropped based on CarlG's recommendation, and he was correct, this is some killer straight-up, no-frills death metal. I have listened to their 2022 album, but it didn't grab me, and I understand they changed from a doomier sound in their early years. This album is just death in my opinion, and it may get a little long in the end, but through 7 or so tracks, it's very entertaining.   

Torchure - The Essence [1993] (Re-issued / Remastered 2015)

Artist: Torchure

Album: The Essence
Year: 1993
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/DqnYoU_o_S8 / https://vicrecords1.bandcamp.com/torchure
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Invisible Truth  

2. Sense of Death

3. Sinister Seduction

4. Voice of Power

5. Terminus

6. No Rest in Peace

7. Between the Urges

8. The Essence

9. Cry of Madness

10. X

11. Traces

12. Lost Souls

Witness: -[*]-
First off, I want to thank our friend defleshed for bringing this band back to my attention. I had this rip in my May 2019 folder, and I remember listening to this when I found it and thinking that these guys were pretty good, but I wasn't familiar with them at all. The reason may be that 2 of the original founding members, the Reissdorf brothers, died in a car crash in 1992 and even though I think the band carried on for some time after that tragedy, their fate was sealed.

Sadomort - Maze of Razors [2025]

Artist: Sadomort

Album: Maze of Razors
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/sRMRwjzbDik
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Scream in Vain

2. Usurp the Throne

3. Red Hot Spikes

4. Self Sacrifice

5. Charge

6. Maze of Razors

7. Slashed in the Face

8. The Poltergeist

9. Extermination Genocide

Witness: -[*]-
Sadomort is a 2-man crew going on a total old-school onslaught of thrashing death metal, and I like it!

Prophecy - Foreseen Scriptures [2019]

Artist: Prophecy

Album: Foreseen Scriptures
Year: 2019
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://prophecystore.com/ / https://www.instagram.com/prophecytxofficial/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Foreseen Scriptures

2. Infinite Deception

3. Buried in Brimstone

4. Being Consumed

5. Infuriate

6. Redemption

7. Thy Reach Within  

8. The Awakening

9. Eye of the Pit

10. Our Domain

Witness: -[*]-

Metal Archive sites 32 bands with the moniker of Prophecy. This version here was originally from Louisiana, but now resides in Fort Worth, Texas, and they have consistently cranked out some heavy brutality over the years. For my tastes, their best album so far was in 2011 with Don't Fuckin' Mess With Texas, but I am hoping we can get something new from these guys soon.

Prophecy - Our Domain [2002]

Artist: Prophecy

Album: Our Domain
Year: 2002
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/g8I5On7Etmo / https://prophecystore.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Our Domain

2. Gurgling Menstrual Phlegm  

3. Beaten, Broken and Butchered

4. Keep It Fuckin' Brutal  

5. All You Can Fuck and Eat

6. Inevitable Fate

7. Questions Never Answered

8. Destined to Fail  

9. Tortured by Deceit

10. The Shit

Witness: -[*]-

Comatose - The Ungodly Lamentations [2018]

Artist:  Comatose

Album: The Ungodly Lamentations
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/MPOtYP2q8SY / https://www.facebook.com/comatosePH/#
Country: Philippines
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro: The Incantation

2. Cursed Messiah  

3. Ancient Prophecies of Doom  

4. Forever Reign Supreme  

5. The Beast of Revelation  

6. Overshadowed by Hellfire  

7. Thy Mighty Conquest  

8. Comatose

Witness: -[*]-
I fukked up, I had meant to post this album a couple of weeks ago when I posted their new disc, which I think is pretty good by the way, but I spaced it, so correcting my egregious error now. 

Prophecy - Twisted Reality [2018]

Artist: Prophecy

Album: Twisted Reality
Year: 2018
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/M3lFbbu3Wd8 / https://prophecythrashmetal.bandcamp.com/
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. New World Order

2. Twisted Reality

3. System of Slavery

4. Condemned to Insanity

5. The Silent Oppressor

6. Profit Fanatics

7. Fatal Beliefs

8. World Disassembly

Witness: -[*]-

Atdemacia - Order of the Black Rose [2025]

Artist: Atdemacia

Album: Order of the Black Rose
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/HIbaTBkFkdY / https://www.facebook.com/zaiasdeathmetal666/
Country: Guam
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Forever Unseen Death  

2. Hemomancer  

3. Death Trap  

4. Slithering Torment  

5. Noxian Blood  

6. Demon of Secrets  

7. Blood of the Iron Throne  

8. The Blade of Noxus  

9. The Order of the Black Rose  

10. Disorder of the Black Rose

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a first: the first band from Guam to be featured in The Death Chamber. Atdemacia are tagged as technical death metal, and they do have elements of tech in their sound, but it definitely isn't to the point of wankery. Overall, I think this is quite good.

ADE - Supplicium [2025]

Artist: ADE

Album: Supplicium
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal / Folk Metal
Web: https://adelegions.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.instagram.com/adelegions/ / TDC Link
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Ave Dis Pater

2. Burnt Before Gods

3. Ad Bestias!

4. Let There Be Oblivion

5. Vinum

6. Patibula

7. Quartered by Chariots

8. Oderint Dum Metuant

9. From Fault to Disfigurement

10. Taedium Vivere​

Witness: -[*]-

Metaphobic - Deranged Excruciations [2025]

Artist: Metaphobic

Album: Deranged Excruciations
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nApn8bH9zmo / https://metaphobic.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Spectral Circle

2. Mental Deconstruction

3. Execration

4. Disciples of Vengeance

5. Veiled Horizons

6. Hypnosis Engram

7. Reconstituted Grey Matter

8. Insatiable Abyss

Witness: -[*]-
Metaphobic are creating some killer death metal down in Altanta, Georgia, and is part of the Everlasting Spew roster of bands. That should tell you something about this band because they typically release quality.

Divine Pain - Destructive Measures [2024]

Artist: Divine Pain

Album: Destructive Measures
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/IX-gaBhjZhQ / https://misanthropic.com.br/
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. Flesh-Eating Protocols  

3. Violence as Prevention  

4. 731  

5. The God's Funeral  

6. Gospels of Damnation  

7. Dead Man Walking  

8. Six Feet Under  

9. Deus Mortuus Est  

10. A Path into the Void

Witness: -[*]-

Fabulous Disaster - Crucify This! [2025]

Artist: Fabulous Disaster

Album: Crucify This!
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Lsvg18XWn_s / https://www.fabulousdesaster.de/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Menace to Sobriety

2. Misanthropolis

3. Trenchmouth

4. Coffin Dwellers

5. Crucify This!

6. Rip It Up

7. A Hard Days Fight

8. May Your Mother Wear Black

9. Ten Year Chaos

10. Before the War

11. Trapped in the Dark

Witness: -[*]-
For a thrash band to have a name like Fabulous Disaster, you can probably guess who one of their influences is. This is my first exposure to this German band and their music, but they have been around for 15 years now and have a couple of other full-length albums that I may have to check out. More killer thrash for 2025!

ThrashWall - ThrashWall [2020]

Artist: ThrashWall

Album: ThrashWall
Year: 2020
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/xbKFlRC7eVE / https://thrashwall.bandcamp.com
Country: Portugal
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. War Outside the Wall

3. Old Jail

4. Warehouse Rampage

5. World Domination

6. Mental Destruction

7. Insanity Alert

8. Mosh in the Hall

Witness: -[*]-

Blood Butcher - Artifacts of Destruction (EP) [2025]

Artist: Blood Butcher

Album: Artifacts of Destruction
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Zr-5a8T2Fj0 / https://bloodbutcher666.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. The Machine That Bleeds  

3. Blade of Bleeding  

4. Mask of Lies  

5. Ring of Rutec

Witness: -[*]-
I was not familiar with this band, but they're from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and on their earlier work, they had more of a death'n'roll style, but this new EP is firmly in the death-thrash camp in my opinion, and it's pretty good at that. I am interested to hear what comes next.

Blastheory - Abominable Dimensions of Hate [2025]

Artist: Blastheory

Album: Abominable Dimensions of Hate
Year: 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/giAhWj0CSDA / https://sevared.bandcamp.com/Blastheory
Country: United States
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Depths in Absurdity  

2. De-Genessis  

3. Diminished Divinity  

4. Anomalous Revelation  

5. Vanish into Dust  

6. Valley of the Lilith  

7. Nihilism Seduction  

8. Spiritual Dimensions  

9. Self Inflicted Sickness  

10. Implant the Progeny  

11. Cataclysmic Era

Witness: -[*]-

Comatose - The Unhallowed Congregation [2025]

Artist: Comatose

Album: The Unhallowed Congregation
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/dGia20ZlHl0 / https://comatoseph.bandcamp.com/
Country: Philippines
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Scrolls of Profanity  

2. Descent to Necropolis  

3. Horrors Beyond Horrors  

4. The Unhallowed Congregation  

5. Arena of Death  

6. Eternal Life Eternal Lies  

7. Face the Reaper  

8. Fallen Ones of the Dead Light  

9. Condemned to Darkness

Witness: -[*]-

Shrine Of Denial - I, Moloch [2025]

Artist: Shrine Of Denial

Album: I, Moloch
Year: 2025
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/vBDKKGszVdQ / https://shrineofdenial.bandcamp.com
Country: Turkiye
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Climbing Through Nothingness  

2. A Sanctuary in the Depths of the Realms  

3. I, Moloch  

4. Pillars of Ice  

5. The Mesmer  

6. Oneiros  

7. Headless Idol  

8. Temple of the Corpse Misuser

Witness: Link removed
Here is a new band serving up a heavy slab of blackened death metal intensity. The Man at Transcending Obscurity Records always seems to come up with interesting bands and good albums. Cheers, Kunal and Shrine Of Denial!

Dodengod - Heralds of a Dying Age [2025]

Artist: Dodengod

Album: Hearlds of a Dying Age
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal / Doom Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/OYMV0H5EHgg / https://dodengod1.bandcamp.com
Country: Belgium
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. In Darkness  

2. The Grinder Feeds on Hate  

3. Breathe Deep the Dark  

4. The Adversary  

5. Devouring Fires  

6. Heralds of a Dying Age  

7. Born  

8. No Distant Flame Ahead  

9. Flesh-Tech  

10. In Death

Witness: -[*]-