LOW - Through the Pentagon into Mass Submission

Artist: LOW

Album: Through the Pentagon into Mass Submission
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Lb0dABw6Hwg / https://low-slowdeath.bandcamp.com
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. WHG III  

2. The Hidden Crown  

3. Architect of Control  

4. Pitch Black Philanthropist  

5. In Sickness We Trust

Witness: -[*]-

Rotten Tomb - Vestiges of Tortured Souls [2026]

Artist: Rotten Tomb

Album: Vestiges of Tortured Souls
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/XipE2NzDdpY / https://rottentomb.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Chile
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Horror Manifestations  

2. Condemned Reality  

3. Lost Memories  

4. Waiting, Dying  

5. Mortified  

6. Mind of Chaos  

7. Here Lies Death  

8. Ancestral Perservation  

9. Human Pyre

Witness: -[*]-
This new release from Rotten Tomb is solid! These guys seem to keep getting better with each album.

PeelingFlesh - Human Pudding (EP) [2022]

Artist: PeelingFlesh

Album: Human Pudding 
Year: 2022
Genre: Slamming Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/XhwOM3eP68Q / https://dazestyle.bandcamp.com/peelingflesh
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dirtnap Dissection  

2. G Check  

3. Axe to the Face  

4. Bodega Bloodbath  

5. School Zone Speed Bump  

6. Human Pudding

Witness: -[*]- 
I am by no means a big fan of slamming BDM with all of the tectonic breakdowns and incessant BREEEEEEEE, but this came up on my feed somehow, and I ended up listening to the entire disc. I mean, it's only 13 minutes, and I probably wouldn't want to sit through much more, but this was actually kind of a fun listen with some well-placed samples and whatnot. 

Aseptic - Deranged Disturbance [2026]

Artist: Aseptic

Album: Deranged Disturbance
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Ko-cCS2DdEc / https://cdnrecords.com/ASEPTIC / 
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Voices

2. Deranged Disturbance

3. Abducted  

4. Lustful Butcher

5. Trophies

6. Enslaved to Crave

7. Disposal

8. Decending  

9. Echoing Remorse

10. Return to the Knife

11. Bounded

12. Cycles

Witness: -[*]-

Aseptic - Senses Decay (EP) [2018]

Artist: Aseptic

Album: Senses Decay
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://asepticmetal.bandcamp.com / https://www.instagram.com/asepticsj
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cessation

2. Disposed Remains

3. Senses Decay

4. Never Rest

Witness: -[*]-

Asra - The Way of All Flesh [2008]

Artist: Asra

Album: The Way of All Flesh
Year: 2008
Genre: Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/7lptncTpKEc / https://asra.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Payload  

2. Human Construct  

3. Those in Power  

4. Burning Proletaria  

5. Untitled  

6. Pathogen  

7. Exploiting the Dead  

8. 80 Year Suicide  

9. Guilt  

10. Loathsome  

11. Enclosed Enemy

Witness: -[*]-

Madripper - A Universe Within [2026]

Artist: Madripper

Album: A Universe Within
Year: 2026
Genre: Technical Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/LvzjDMX-1uU / https://www.facebook.com/MadripperMX
Country: Mexico
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Recital from Beyond  

2. Under the Cosmos  

3. The Amorphous Kingdom  

4. Divine Intervention  

5. Carnivore Planet  

6. Dimensional Burial  

7. A Universe Within  

8. The Yellow King

Witness: -[*]-
Killer technical thrash metal from Guadalajara, Mexico. These guys deliver a lot of grit in their thrash, verging on death metal at times. I like this one a lot!

Reborn In Flames - Hate Killer [2025]

Artist: Reborn In Flames

Album: Hate Killer
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/JZdo4z-YpoA 
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Untouchables  

2. Race in Ruin  

3. Emptiness and Retaliation  

4. Sacrifice in Vain  

5. Sea of the Dead  

6. Cycles of Hatred  

7. Roulette of the Soul  

8. Rotten Plan

Witness: -[*]-

Reborn In Flames - Destroying All They Built [2022]

Artist: Reborn In Flames

Album: Destroying All They Built
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/-pPdP-b4OhA / https://www.facebook.com/reborn_in_flames
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Reborn in Flames Attack  

2. The Meat Storm Increases  

3. From Your Hopeless Infection  

4. Psychotic  

5. This Is My War  

6. A Failure Called Humanity  

7. For the Deceivers  

8. The Signs of Imminent Death

Witness: -[*]-

Withering Soul - Passage of the Arcane [2025]

Artist: Withering Soul

Album: Passage of the Arcane
Year: 2025
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/CfuOSHL4Vuc / https://witheringsoul.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Attrition Horizon  

3. Grievance Eludes the Light  

4. The Monolith Embodied  

5. Gallery of the End  

6. Trajectory  

7. Among Covetous Eyes  

8. Burden of the Valiant

Witness: -[*]-
I have had this one uploaded for several months now, and just kept putting it off as far as posting it goes, because this style isn't always my thing. However, on the day that I decided to create the link, I was liking it, and listening to it again today, it has some good moments.

Necrocysm - Eternal Infernal [2026]

Artist: Necrocysm

Album: Eternal Infernal
Year: 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://sevared.bandcamp.com/necrocysm / https://www.instagram.com/necrocysm_bdm
Country: Indonesia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Death Valley (Intro)  

2. Heretical Preach  

3. Pulpet of Doom  

4. Abhorrence Savagery  

5. Rencana Bencana  

6. Hell of Slavery  

7. Eternal Infernal  

8. Diorama loka pralaya  

9. Dimensi neraka  

10. Excruciated Divine

Witness: -[*]-

Putrescent - Darkness Embraced [2025]

Artist: Putrescent

Album: Darkness Embraced
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/5m5I7j8FyFs / https://putrescent.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Infinite Darkness

2. Darkness Embraced  

3. Putrid Piles of Human Flesh  

4. Sepulchral Desecration  

5. Spectral Sanctum  

6. Obscure Putrescent Growls of Death  

7. Black Ceremony  

8. Inhuman Infestation

Witness: -[*]-

Invader - Begins to Wrath [2016]

Artist: Invader

Album: Begins to Wrath
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.reverbnation.com/invadergrind
Country: Indonesia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Prelude to Awaken

2. Megantara  

3. Begins to Wrath  

4. Kontroversi Surga  

5. Angkara Murka  

6. Savagery of Priest  

7. Menolak Tunduk  

8. The Pathetic Truth  

9. Paradigma Dajjal  

10. Republic Kafir

Witness: -[*]-

Chronic Hate - Defeating the Oblivion of Life [2026]

Artist: Chronic Hate

Album: Defeating the Oblivion of Life
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/TYvMuYk2w0A / https://chronichate.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Wrong  

2. Blastphemy  

3. Mass Distraction Program  

4. Regurgitated Brains  

5. Despair... in Sorrow  

6. Subjugated Minds  

7. Born to Appear  

8. Handcuffed  

9. Chronic Hate

Witness: -[*]-
Italy's Chronic Hate is back after a long absence from the scene. It has been 8 years since I even thought about them, but I missed out on their 2021 EP. I really enjoyed their 2012 debut and used to play it frequently, but for some reason, their 2018 effort didn't fully capture my attention. I listened to this entire disc today, and I like what I am hearing, but only time will tell if it leaves a lasting impression.

Brainblast - Colossus Suprema [2025]

Artist: Brainblast

Album: Colossus Suprema
Year: 2025
Genre: Symphonic Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/GuxpbdAJeNo / https://brainblastofficial.bandcamp.com
Country: Colombia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Plvs Vltra

2. Legio Æterna

3. Colossus Suprema

4. Relentless Rise

5. Cælvs Elixir

6. Interludium

7. Unchain Your Soul

8. Superior Entity

9. The Solemn Ethereal Realm

10. Armageddon

Witness: -[*]-

Ophidious - Relic of the Eight Configurations [2026]

Artist: Ophidious

Album: Relic of the Eight Configurations
Year: 2026
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ep_iGNIgwgM / https://ophidious.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Exordium  

2.  The Instruments of Pharaonic Ascendancy (A King in his Rising)  

3. Hagezussa  

4. As but Thralls In the Court of the Anunnaki  

5. Vyrakothka  

6. Necrosynoptic  

7. Tetragrammaton Undone  

8. Of Cernunnos and the Cauldron Born  

9. Zkhül  

10. The Great Apostate  

11. Master of Storms  

12. Gored by Horns In the Rising Sun

Witness: -[*]-
The 2-man project Ophidious is quickly back with a follow-up to their 2025 release, Forgotten Shrines of Heresy, and this is another competent collection of blackened death metal songs. 

Hope Deferred - Darkness Remains [2025]

Artist: Hope Deferred

Album: Darkness Remains
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal / Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/FIX0eER9MHc / https://hopedeferred.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Void With No Voice

2. Commanded To Kill

3. Brethren Of Blood

4. Absent Souls

5. Whom Shall You Serve

6. Inhumane World

7. Darkness Remains

8. Avarice

9. Fail You

10. Wrath's Misery

Witness: -[*]-

Possession - The Mother of Darkness [2026]

Artist: Possession

Album: The Mother of Darkness
Year: 2026
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/9TeQtKEIjAQ / https://www.facebook.com/hisbestdeceit
Country: Belgium
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. The Black Chapel  

3. Graveside Prayer  

4. The Wild Hunt (Let Them Run)  

5. Exhulted Hearts  

6. Outro  

7. Cry-Shrine-Die  

8. The Mother of Darkness  

9. Latrodectus Tela  

10. Young Blood Ritual  

11. Outro

Witness: -[*]-

Casket - In the Long Run We Are All Dead [2026]

Artist: Casket

Album: In the Long Run We Are All Dead
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/K_CBGKGLiRs / https://casketdeath.bandcamp.com 
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Will to Comply

2. Highest Thrones

3. Mirrors  

4. Seeds of Desolation

5. Hammer, Knife, Spade

6. Skull Bunker

7. Necrowaves  

8. Mainstream Mutilation

9. Fundamental Rot

10. Strangulation Culture

11. Graveyard Stomper

12. United Forses (S.O.D. cover) 

Witness: -[*]-
I admittedly have not listened to this album enough yet for it to really soak in, but I have liked their past work, and what I have listened to of this carries their lineage on quite effectively.

Caedem - Tales of the Bitter Ends [2026]

Artist: Caedem

Album: Tales of the Bitter Ends
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/35ZjmsnFLCQ / https://caedem.bandcamp.com
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Werewolf of Wysteria  

2. Killing Spree  

3. Polarized  

4. Tales of Bitter Ends  

5. Embrace the Dark  

6. Gone with the Cult  

7. The Purgatory Express  

8. In Flames  

9. Altar of Blood

Witness: -[*]-
I had been waiting for a few years now for these guys to release a full-length album, and I can honestly say that this has been worth the wait. Caedem has created 9 tracks of killer traditional death metal in the Swedish style. 

Caedem - Ad Transitum (EP) [2020]

Artist: Caedem

Album: Ad Transitum
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://caedem.bandcamp.com / https://www.instagram.com/caedem.official
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Altar of Blood

2. Behold the Beautiful Dead

3. Gone with the Cult

4. Shinigami

5. Altar of Blood (live)  

6. Suppressing Shadow (live)

Witness: -[*]-

Corpse Water - ...Something in the Water [2026]

Artist: Corpse Water

Album: ...Something in the Water
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/flgVkrE3vXc / https://www.corpsewater.com / https://corpsewater.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood High  

2. Spontaneous Human Combustion  

3. Those of the Obscene  

4. You Can Scream, It Won't Matter  

5. The Hauntings of May  

6. I Demon, I Monster  

7. There's a Body in the Tank  

8. The Body and Blade  

9. Traumatised

Witness: -[*]-
It seems that Corpse Water is a 1-man project from Belfast, and for my tastes, this dude has created some damn good death metal!

Sovernal - For the Flames of Blasphemy [2025]

Artist: Sovernal 

Album: For the Flames of Blasphemy
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal / Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/Q0FPUr0zw9c / https://sovernal.bandcamp.com
Country: Indonesia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Genesis 76:2

2. Euphemism of Contempt

3. Born of Scorn

4. Oblivion

5. Tyrant's Crown Cadaver

6. Carnage of Depravity

7. Bloodstained Authority

8. Decaying in the Hand of Deathbringer

9. For the Flames of Blasphemy

10. Beyond the Dark Sphere 4:78

Witness: -[*]-
This is different from what you typically get from Indonesia, and while I have long been a fan of Indo-death metal, I'm liking the change-up sound that these guys captured on this disc.

Stormcrown - Echoes of the Impending Storm [2026]

Artist: Stormcrown

Album: Echoes of the Impending Storm
Year: 2026
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/86T20Ol1-Go / https://stormcrownmetal.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Oghma Infinium  

2. Edge of the Unknown  

3. Hot Lead High Speed  

4. Hymn of the Road Warrior  

5. X3r0  

6. Black as Night  

7. Stormcrown

Witness: -[*]-
Here is an excellent example of modern power metal from the Blacksburg area of Virginia. I would say this is predominantly on the melodic power metal side, but there are times when these guys inject some grit and venom, and the leads can be both soaring and blistering. Another fun listen if you are into the style.  

Steel Arctus - Dreamruler [2025]

Artist: Steel Arctus

Album: Dreamruler
Year: 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/steelarctus / https://steelarctus.bandcamp.com
Country: Greece
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cry for Revenge

2. Defender of Steel

3. Fate of the Beast

4. Dreamruler

5. Wicked Lies

6. Fires of Death

7. Riding Through the Night

8. Glory of the Hero

9. Will to Power

10. Legend of the Warrior

11. Onar (όναρ)

Witness: -[*]-
Wow, this album is so good! I know the death metal only crowd won't like it, or will ask where it was at 40 years ago, but the people who have more diverse tastes similar to mine will certainly be totally into this band. I want to thank our resident Goa Trance officinato Unbound for the heads up on these guys. Just looking at the album art, I expected something much less intriguing and would have probably never given this album a chance if he hadn't promoted it so strongly. Awesome \m/\m/