Lethal Shöck - Storm of Death and Fire [2025]

Artist: Lethal Shöck

Album: Storm of Death and Fire
Year: 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/k7tafC74LMU / https://lethalshock.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Die in the Night  

2. Witchmaster's Torch  

3. Turn Up the Satan  

4. Bastards (Never Die)  

5. Unchain the Dark  

6. No Hope / Metal Priest  

7. Virgin Blood  

8. Inferior View  

9. Storm of Death and Fire

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, there has been quite a resurgence of old-school sounding thrash and speed metal this year. Much of it sounds really good, and I am digging it. Lethal Shöck from Chicago throws their hat into the ring with an authentic take on the retro style.

Parasite - Indoctrination Rituals [2025]

Artist: Parasite 

Album: Indoctrination Rituals
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/cWl83yaAmuY / https://www.instagram.com/parasite.thrashmetal/#
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. Chiroptera  

3. Burden of Man  

4. Blood Moon  

5. Wrong Turn  

6. Murder Suicide  

7. I.I.A.  

8. Cross the Line  

9. Entity  

10. Hallowed Halls

Witness: -[*]-
These guys have an interesting take on the traditional thrash metal sound. I'm kinda liking this one.

Gutted Souls - Portals to Chaosium [2025]

Artist: Gutted Souls

Album: Portals to Chaosium
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/t7NuVcwJSt8 / https://vianocturna.bandcamp.com/gutted souls / TDC Link
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hallowed Chambers of Madness  

2. Cosmic Ungod

3. Parasocial Parasitism

4. Kings of Nothing

5. Multicosmic Domination System (Blacken the Mercury - Corrupt the Silver)

6. Biotechnological Transhumanist Engineers

7. Spectacle of Charred Flesh

8. Apathic Anger

9. Zero-Sum Overlords

10. Praise be the Cosmic Devourer (Outro)

Witness: -[*]-
This is a killer new offering from Gutted Souls, who I think just keep getting better at their craft. I also just realized that their vocalist fronts this band as well. This is worth your time to investigate. 

Blood Bringer - Dead World [2025]

Artist: Blood Bringer

Album: Dead World
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/V1cealbdANo / https://bloodbringer1.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dead World  

2. T 800  

3. Forest of the Damned  

4. Somnambulant  

5. Nightstalker  

6. Limb by Limb  

7. Below  

8. Acid Breath  

9. Way to Hell  

10. Soul War

Witness: -[*]-
I remember when this album came out in July, CarlG was praising it heavily, and I listened to it right away and really liked it too. I had intended to post it at that time, but then it got away from me somehow, and I am just getting to it now. I like the solid mid-paced groove these guys get into on these tracks; it's vintage & heavy!

Spectral Sacrifice - Transcending the Abyss [2025]

Artist: Spectral Sacrifice

Album: Transcending the Abyss
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal / Groove Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/uGfnNxTAC48 / https://www.facebook.com/spectral sacrifice
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. El Eterno Retorno (Intro)  

2. Metamorphic  

3. Night Dose  

4. Shred with Style  

5. Overloaded  

6. The Devil in Life  

7. Shades  

8. Transcending the Abyss  

9. Spectral Sacrifice

Witness: -[*]-
The South American country of Chile is at it again with this new band, Spectral Sarifice, and their debut Transceding the Abyss. To me, this is a highly accessible and entertaining album.

Grumo - Sons of Disgust [2025]

Artist: Grumo

Album: Sons of Disgust
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://grumo.bandcamp.com / https://www.instagram.com/grumoband/
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Doomed  

2. Consumed by Punishment

3. Never Had Fear

4. Shattered Glass Breathing

5. Sons of Disgust

6. We Are the Scum

7. No Longer Devotion

8. Riding into Nowhere

9. Mutilated from the Inside

10. A Mouth That Devour

11. Everything Is Poison

Witness: -[*]-
This band goes back to 2004, but I haven't heard any of their previous work. I like this one as all of the songs are quick little beatdowns, and it remains engaging.

Incremated - Eyes Between Worlds [2025]

Artist: Incremated

Album: Eyes Between Worlds
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/tqob0lR8Pm8 / https://www.facebook.com/incremated
Country: Mexico
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Darkness in the Deep Sea  

2. The Silent Irrelevance of Humanity  

3. Consuming Eldritch Flesh  

4. Inhabitants of Dark Waters  

5. Matriarch of Swarms  

6. Eyes Between Worlds  

7. The Awakening from an Eternal Dream  

8. The Dweller in the Depths  

9. Black Glory of Creation  

10. Absorbing Falling Stars  

11. Dark Skinned Humanoid Horror

Witness: -[*]-

Slaves Of Evil - Certain Death (EP) [2025]

Artist: Slaves Of Evil

Album: Certain Death
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/eq9lVEuZB_8 / https://www.facebook.com/slavesofevil
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Altars of Pain  

2. Torn by the Claws of Madness  

3. Chaos Domain  

4. The Tomb

Witness: -[*]-

Slaves Of Evil - Madness of Silence [2014]

Artist: Slaves Of Evil

Album: Madness of Silence
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/eq9lVEuZB_8 / https://slavesofevil.bandcamp.com/
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Death Countenance  

2. The War with God  

3. Hell Dwellers  

4. The Army of the Damned  

5. Die Carrion!  

6. Kill Me  

7. I'm the Witch  

8. Insignificant Truth  

9. The Fallen One  

10. Slaves of Evil

Witness: Link removed
I have had this rip in my June 2015 folder, but have only listened to it a couple of times over the years. It is not that it is a bad album, it's not. There has just been too much other stuff to listen to in the last decade. Their new EP, which is their first real release since this caught my attention a little, so I wanted to promote this disc too. 

Dig Me No Grave - Necrocosmic Ceremony [2025]

Artist: Dig Me No Grave

Album: Necrocosmic Ceremony
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://digmenograve.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/digmenograveband / TDC Link
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Gate

2. Necrocosmic Ceremony

3. Mad God's Vessel

4. Dreadful Memoirs

5. Blood for Teisheba

6. The Key

7. Alien Starwinds

8. Desecrated Heavens

9. Xuthal of the Dusk

10. Resurrection of Ligeia

Witness: -[*]-

Humiliation - Echoes of Annexation [2025]

Artist: Humiliation

Album: Echoes of Annexation
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/3jOmr3D8Y_I / https://humiliationmalaysiadeathmetal.bigcartel.com/
Country: Malaysia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Ground Truth  

2. Sungai Siput Incident  

3. Iban Mercenaries  

4. In Cold Blood  

5. Operation Termite  

6. Burned to Death  

7. No Man's Land  

8. Interment Camps  

9. Decapitation  

10. Casualties of War

Witness: -[*]-
Here is the latest in a long line of war-themed, straight-up, no-frills death metal albums from the Malaysian band Humiliation. Our old friend CarlG is a strong supporter of this band and their consistent style of death metal.

Scorching Tomb - Ossuary [2025]

Artist: Scorching Tomb

Album: Ossuary
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/iUYp9LV-s6U / https://scorchingtomb.bandcamp.com/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Stalagmite Impalement  

2. Skullcrush  

3. Diminished to Ashes  

4. Sanctum of Bones (Ossuary)  

5. Sentenced to Rot  

6. Feel the Blade  

7. Bloodlust Sacrifice  

8. Expired Existence

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, this album is the bomb! I'm glad I decided to listen to this one right away and not sit on it for a couple of months, the way I have been doing recently. These guys create a nice chug in their death design, somewhat similar to another favorite of mine, Molder.

MorD - The Reflection of Brutality is the Human Being [2025]

Artist: MorD

Album: The Reflection of Brutality is the Human Being
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/SGsgJVD6NIY / https://mord666.bandcamp.com
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Shistory  

2. Bloody Breath of Providence  

3. How to Kill  

4. Forced Symbiosis  

5. Man-Meat-Dog  

6. Frustrated Speed  

7. The Collector  

8. Now Pleasure Will Become the Pain  

9. Purification

Witness: -[*]-

Bangover - Hibernation Devastation [2025]

Artist: Bangover

Album: Hibernation Devastation
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://bangover.bandcamp.com / https://www.bangoverthrash.com/
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Texas Chainsaw Thrashacre  

2. Scum of the Earth  

3. Thrashional Rail  

4. The Banshee  

5. Death Shed  

6. Tannhauser Gates  

7. Hibernation Devastation

Witness: -[*]-
I like this one too.

Savage Mania - Demonic Assault [2025]

Artist: Savage Mania

Album: Demonic Assault
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/MRlKSL1B_N8 / https://www.facebook.com/SavageManiaofficial
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Undead Rebirth  

3. The Face of Death  

4. Master of Hell  

5. Remorse  

6. Storm of Steel  

7. Death and Decay  

8. Fasttrack  

9. Demonic Assault

Witness: -[*]-
Savage Mania has created a highly authentic and effective old-school thrash metal debut with Demonic Assault. The band is from Bollnäs, Gävleborg, Sweden, and they are proudly carrying the banner for thrashers everywhere.

Refusal - Venomous Human Concept [2025]

Artist: Refusal 

Album: Venomous Human Concept
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.refusalband.com / https://refusal.bandcamp.com
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Scholar of Perversion  

2. Venomous Human Concept  

3. The Grip Tightens  

4. Insatiable God  

5. War of Nothing  

6. Dehumanize  

7. We Are the Undead  

8. Sleeping Leviathan  

9. Congregation of the Eyeless  

10. Eternal Refrain

Witness: -[*]-
These guys just keep getting better with each release in my opinion. This album is quite good from start to finish. Chocked full of fuzzy death metal goodness!

Necrogenesis - Desire for Murder [2025]

Artist: Necrogenesis

Album: Desire for Murder
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/WqGHwgsoBvE / https://coyoterecords.bandcamp.com/necrogenesis
Country: Russia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hopeless Reality  

2. Alone on the Battlefield  

3. Desire for Murder  

4. Combat Losses  

5. Unbreakable Wall  

6. Night Outing  

7. The One Who's Going to Kill You  

8. The Beast Inside Us

Witness: -[*]-

Released Anger - Revenge [2017]

Artist: Released Anger

Album: Revenge
Year: 2017
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://releasedanger.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/ReleasedAngerGR/#
Country: Greece
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Revenge

2. Problems Remain

3. Fight Back

4. Mind Penetration

5. Inner Enemies

6. Certain Death

7. Justice

8. Human Slavery

9. Scum

10. Silent Killer

Witness: -[*]-

Stillborn Soiled - Cerebral Carnage [2025]

Artist: Stillborn Soiled

Album: Cerebral Carnage
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal / Sludge Metal
Web: https://www.metalmusicarchives.com/stillborn-soiled / https://www.instagram.com/stillborn.soiled
Country: International
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hollow 

2. Acid 

3. Pedophobia 

4. Deicide 

5. Providence 

6. Guilt 

7. Burden 

8. Adrenochrome 

9. Possessed 

10. Slave 

11. Curse 

Witness: -[*]-
I came across this disc back in July, and I have listened to it a few times now, and it has grown on me quite well. There is not much information about this band in the "usual places," but from what I have found, they're a new 3-piece band that hails from Germany and Syria, and they have an interesting take on modern death metal.

Hallucinating - Carnage [2025]

Artist: Hallucinating

Album: Carnage
Year: 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/V4ye0wZEAjk / https://hallucinatingmusic.bandcamp.com/carnage
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Evisceration  

2. Suffocating Slowly  

3. Hannibal  

4. Lobotomized  

5. Incubus  

6. Eating Human Brain  

7. Hallucinating Ways  

8. Defeat  

9. Brutal Mass Extinction  

10. Killing Me

Witness: -[*]-
Here is another one-man brutality project, this time from Genoa, Italy, and I like this one. He isn't doing anything new, but what he does, he does well. On a side note, I wonder what's up with the poor rip quality this year. You know, supposedly a rip is 320 Kbps, but the frequency response says otherwise. I don't pay a lot of attention to it, but my man, Ill over at STB always reports it, and this is one of many recordings this year that aren't as bright and clear as they could/should be.  

Cumbeast - Fairytales of Filth [2025]

Artist: Cumbeast

Album: Fairytales of Filth
Year: 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://cumbeast.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/CumbeastOfficial/#

Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cummando

2. Metham of Gotham

3. Captain Cock

4. Abacus of Testicles

5. Troll Named Scrot

6. Åbomination

7. Forest Fap Frenzy

8. Ghostfuckers

9. Spermafrost

Witness: -[*]-
Cumbeast isn't a band that I have spent a lot of time listening to over the years, as I really didn't care much for them when I first heard their 2008 release, but then I did like their 2015 & 16 albums. They are certainly an interesting band with their sense of experimentation and groove. I finally got around to listening to this album a few weeks back, and it has some very good moments. Certainly a different sound than I am used to hearing from Finland.

Cumbeast - Straight Outta Sewer [2016]

Artist: Cumbeast

Album: Straight Outta Sewer
Year: 2016
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/EZ0V_JL4MI0 / https://cumbeast.bandcamp.com
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Guerrillaz of Sickness  

2. Septic Zorro  

3. Leper Beach  

4. Sewer Mongrel  

5. Guttural Jumanji  

6. Intergalactic Intercourse  

7. Bowel Harmonics  

8. Vulgar Display of Genitalia  

9. Sudden Death Thugs

Witness: -[*]-

Kyarn - Reinkyarnated [2025]

Artist: Kyarn

Album: Reinkyarnated
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2_g7pJIJu00 / https://www.facebook.com/Kyarnband#
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Eternal  

2. Seeker  

3. Rat Race  

4. The Mountain  

5. Obey  

6. Narciklysm  

7. Kyarn  

8. Cut Throat

 
Witness: -[*]-
Country boy, bluegrass death thrash from London...Kentucky. 

Pit Lord - Massive Grilling Capacity [2025]

Artist: Pit Lord

Album: Massive Grilling Capacity
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/6jTNjNhkeDI / https://pitlordbbq.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Massive Grilling Capacity  

2. Mandatory Burgercide  

3. Meat Cup  

4. The Matter of Platter  

5. Done As Shit  

6. Kings of the Carnivorous Creation  

7. Hunter Griller  

8. Chili's Baby Back Ribs  

9. Baby Griller  

10. Bleeding the Flank  

11. Kill-Step

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, this is some heavy, saucy, groove-laden death metal from a 2-man project outta Davenport, Iowa. The dudes obviously don't take themselves too seriously and somewhat remind me of Cannnabis Corpse in that sense, with the difference that one band creates death metal about smoking weed and getting stoned, and the other creates death metal about grilling succulent meat. With both bands, the music is on point and performed to perfection. 

Celestial Scourge - Observers of the Inevitable [2025]

Artist: Celestial Scourge

Album: Observers of the Inevitable 
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://celestialscourge / https://celestialscourge.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Advent of Deities  

2. Vessels  

3. Exterminated  

4. Wandering Waste of Oxygen  

5. Insectoid Evisceration  

6. The Optic Chiasm  

7. Assembling Deformities  

8. Ancient Forms

Witness: -[*]-