Sentient Horror - In Service of the Dead [2024]

Artist: Sentient Horror

Album: In Service of the Dead
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://sentienthorror.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/sentienthorrorofficial/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Way of Decay  

2. Undead Mutation  

3. Mutilation Day  

4. Cadaverous Hordes  

5. The Tombcrusher  

6. Out of Sanity  

7. Glory to the Rotten  

8. Born in a Morgue  

9. Feeding on Fear  

10. In Service of the Dead

Witness: -[*]-
This is the new album from New Jersey's own Sentient Horror. These guys have been carrying the banner for Americanized Swedish death metal since Ungodly Forms in 2016, which is my most listened-to and favorite album from them, but this new album certainly kicks much ass. After 1 listen I can confidently say that they have created another quality slab of death metal.

Sentient Horror - Ungodly Forms [2016]

Artist: Sentient Horror

Album: Ungodly Forms
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/SGsYbJZJUhI / https://sentienthorror.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Into the Abyss...

2. Abyssal Ways

3. Die Decay Devour

4. Blood Rot

5. Splinter the Cross

6. Beyond the Curse of Death

7. Ungodly Forms

8. Suffer to the Grave

9. A Host of Worms

10. Of Filth and Flesh

11. Mourning

12. Celestial Carnage

Witness: -[*]-
I have had this album since December of 2016 and I ripped it back then but never posted it here for some reason. Probably because it fell into the December black hole for me and I was more focused on trying to put together a BOTY list. Well, 8 years late here is my CD rip of my favorite release from these guys. Killer Swedish-styled death metal \m/\m/

Horrific Demise - Excruciating Extermination [2019]

Artist: Horrific Demise

Album: Excruciating Extermination
Year: 2019
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2GY-7y1t4JU 
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Born from Brutality
2. Suicidal Frenzy
3. Maggot Ridden Human Feast
4. Cleansing the Putrescence
5. Apogee of Blaspheme
6. Religious Hypocrisy
7. Introduction to Atrocity
8. Voracious Cravings
9. Until Only We Remain

Witness: -[*]-
I was listening to this album again the other day and remembering how good it is, so I wanted to bring it back to the front of the house for another round of promotion. Killer Midwest Heartland brutality, this disc is totally freaking crushing. Metal-Archives lists these guys as active but I don't think they are. If so, I wish they would release a new album \m/\m/

Order To Ruin - Return to Ceyrior VII [2018]

Artist: Order To Ruin

Album: Return to Ceyrior VII
Year: 2018
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2fJ_ewKjBRk / https://order-to-ruin.bandcamp.com/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. World Eater (Intro)  

2. The Stormlake's Tale  

3. Dating Lucifer  

4. Mary-Jane  

5. Return to Ceyrior VII  

6. Alone with My Knife  

7. Into the Devil's Mansion  

8. The Conjurer  

9. The Bearing of Time

Witness: -[*]-
I always kind of liked Order To Ruin or at least what I have heard of their output. They released 2 EPs and 8 LPs in a 7 year period from 2012 to 2018. This was the first of two 2018 releases and then they split up. To me they always sounded a bit more Swedish than German and if you're open to melo-death then they are/were pretty good.

Necrotesque - The Perpetuated Festering [2023]

Artist: Necrotesque

Album: The Perpetuated Festering
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/BBwKzqzmrA8 / https://necrotesque.nl/
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cesium 137

2. Geriatric Cranium Crusher

3. The Perpetuated Festering

4. It's Just Murder

5. Sexual Sadism Disorder

6. Je maintiendrai

7. Death Obsessed

Witness: -[*]-
Necrotesque delivers mid-paced traditional death metal in the old-school vein. I don't ever specifically remember talking about them but I can imagine that CarlG may have mentioned this band in the past. 

Necrotesque - The Necrotic Grotesque (EP) [2021]

Artist: Necrotesque

Album: The Necrotic Grotesque
Year: 2021
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://necrotesque-deathmetal.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/NecrotesqueDeathMetal/
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Necrotic Grotesque

2. Demonic Sadist

3. ResErection

4. Permafrost

5. Mental Automutilation

6. Relentless Assault

Witness: -[*]-

Nuclear Storm - Good Morning Berlin [2024]

Artist: Nuclear Storm

Album: Good Morning Berlin
Year: 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/BKlVALR4nkU / https://www.facebook.com/nuclearstorm666
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Good Morning Berlin  

2. Flak 88  

3. Bloody Tears  

4. Tears of My Mind  

5. Iron Angel of Death  

6. The Last Sky

Witness: -[*]-

Nattsjäl - Chaosweaver [2024]

Artist: Nattsjäl

Album: Chaosweaver
Year: 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal / Black Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/pP-d79FkeqI / https://www.facebook.com/Nattsjal
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Gravelands  

2. The Last Voyage  

3. Reaper of the Dying  

4. Dreams from the Void  

5. The Little Treehouse  

6. Serenad för mörkret  

7. The Coming  

8. In the Dead of a Cold Evil Night  

9. The Snowcovered Lands

Witness: -[*]-

Hellish God - The Advent of Deathless Chaos Beast [2024]

Artist: Hellish God

Album: The Advent of Deathless Chaos Beast
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/6rB5QMnOPO4 / https://hellishgod.bandcamp.com
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Key of the Abyss / Bloodgeoning Maelstrom  

2. Throne of Zĕbūl  

3. Inglorius Rex  

4. The Advent of Deathless Chaos Beast  

5. Unholy Masters of Deformity  

6. Impuryfire  

7. The Eleven Headed Dragon  

8. The Dominant Powers of New Aeon

Witness: -[*]-

Hellish God had broken up following the release of their 2018 album Evil Emanations but it seems that they have now reformed as a 2-man project and they have released 26 razor-sharp minutes of spitting venom at Christ.

Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II [2003]

Artist: Edge Of Sanity

Album: Crimson II
Year: 2003
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/PqLPTR9YP84 
Country: Sweden
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Forbidden Words

2. Incantation 

3. Passage of Time 

4. The Silent Threat

5. Achilles Heel

6. Covenant of Souls

7. Face to Face

8. Disintegration

9. Aftermath

Witness: Link removed 
So, in 1997 Black Mark released a 2nd EOS album called Cryptic, which was the first ever without Dan Swanö but the rest of the band was there to perform and personally other than the first track Hell Written, I didn't really care for the album and in my opinion EOS was no more. Then in 2003, Dan released Crimson II without the rest of the band and this is the only Edge Of Sanity LP that I do not own a physical copy of. I actually think this is a pretty good effort considering he is doing almost everything himself (there were guest musicians on the album including Mike Wead - Candlemass, Merciful Fate/King Diamond to name a few of his bands) and while I like the contributions of the entire band on the previous albums I think it is obvious that EOS was Swanö.

Edge Of Sanity - Infernal [1997]

Artist: Edge Of Sanity

Album: Infernal
Year: 1997
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/O5fUQuqbwTU / https://www.pulltheplugpatches.com/edge-of-sanity
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hell Is Where the Heart Is

2. Helter Skelter

3. 15:36

4. The Bleakness of It All

5. Damned (by the Damned)

6. Forever Together Forever

7. Losing Myself

8. Hollow

9. Inferno

10. Burn the Sun

11. The Last Song

Witness: -[*]-
Edge Of Sanity was my first favorite death metal band. I had a lot of favorite metal bands throughout the '80s but EOS was my first truly favorite death metal band in the early part of the '90s because at the time I needed something a little more accessible to get me into the genre and The Spectral Sorrows & Purgatory Afterglow did that for me. I felt like this album was better than it was reviewed and discussed over the years. My favorites are the highlighted tracks. I know it is very melodic and "commercial" sounding but there are some good songs here in my opinion. This and all of the older albums are my own CD rips \m/\m/

Edge Of Sanity - Crimson [1996]

Artist: Edge Of Sanity 

Album: Crimson
Year: 1996
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/rSoADCtYI_I
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Crimson
2. Murder Divided (Japanese Bonus Track)

Witness: Link removed 

Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow [1994]

Artist: Edge Of Sanity

Album: Purgatory Afterglow
Year: 1994
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/JgjzLqOc-4Y / https://www.deezer.com/es/Edge Of Sanity
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Twilight

2. Of Darksome Origin

3. Blood-Colored

4. Silent

5. Black Tears

6. Elegy

7. Velvet Dreams

8. Enter Chaos

9. The Sinner and the Sadness

10. Song of Sirens

Witness: -[*]-
This was, is, and always will be my favorite EOS album because I think the riffs on this album are sick as fuck, just listen to that first riff in Twilight and then the ones in Elegy they make my eyes roll back in my head and just wanna bang my head. The 6 highlighted tracks are the draw of the album for me and they represent essential death metal.

Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows [1993]

Artist: Edge Of Sanity

Album: The Spectral Sorrows
Year: 1993
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/9E79fNEmhBI / https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/Edge Of Sanity
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Spectral Sorrows

2. Darkday

3. Livin' Hell

4. Lost

5. The Masque

6. Blood of My Enemies (Manowar cover)

7. Jesus Cries

8. Across the Fields of Forever

9. On the Other Side

10. Sacrificed

11. Waiting to Die

12. Feedin' the Charlatan

13. A Serenade for the Dead

Witness: -[*]-

 \m/\m/

Husqwarnah - Purification Through Sacrifice [2024]

Artist: Husqwarnah

Album: Purification Through Sacrifice
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/B-ix8DAurzk / https://www.facebook.com/HusqwarnaH
Country: Italy
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. To Protect and Sever  

3. Wheel of Torture  

4. Lawn Mower Massacre  

5. Graboids  

6. Mass Grave  

7. Reincarnation of Sin Pt.II  

8. Soldier 039  

9. Tower of Suicide  

10. The Jackal's Grin  

11. Outro

Witness: -[*]-
The new release from Husqwarnah is fast, furious, and ripping, and I like it!

Rise Of Kronos - Where the Gods Return [2024]

Artist: Rise Of Kronos

Album: Where the Gods Return
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/9-FIXNb9cg8 / https://riseofkronos.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Journey Begins  

2. Where the Gods Divide  

3. Hateful Fury  

4. Olympic Warmachine  

5. Titans from Olympus  

6. Down to Nothing  

7. Exit the Light  

8. Back to the Roots  

9. Kraken  

10. The One I Hate  

11. Disease

Witness: -[*]-
This disc is a re-recording of the album Where the Gods Divide from 2011 when the band was known as Surface. When I first heard it I thought it was new material but then a few of the tracks started to sound familiar so I did some research and found out I already had this album from over a decade ago.

Undeath - More Insane [2024]

Artist: Undeath

Album: More Insane
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.nightshiftmerch.com/undeath / https://www.indiemerchstore.com/undeath
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dead From Beyond

2. More Insane

3. Brandish the Blade

4. Disputatious Malignancy

5. Sutured for War

6. Cramped Caskets (Necrology)

7. Bounty Hunter

8. Wailing Cadavers

9. Disattachment of a Prophylactic in the Brain

10. Bones Clattering in the Cave

Witness: -[*]-
This new album from Undeath is freaking killer in my opinion. Strong musicianship and creative songcraft with clear & powerful production make for an excellent listening experience from start to finish.

Vicious Blade - Relentless Force [2024]

Artist: Vicious Blade

Album: Relentless Force
Year: 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crust
Web: https://youtu.be/rMbhxzI_gew / https://viciousblade.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Relentless Force  

2. Lunacy  

3. Mistress of Death  

4. Visceral Weakness  

5. Forged Steel  

6. Blasphemous Conjuring  

7. Nocturnal Slaughter  

8. Scorched  

9. Death Blow

Witness: -[*]-
Convincing & aggressive female-fronted thrash metal from Pittsburgh. I like this album.

Vicious Blade - Siege of Cruelty (EP) [2022]

Artist: Vicious Blade

Album: Siege of Cruelty
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crust
Web: https://youtu.be/zED562fpJ9w / https://viciousblade.bandcamp.com/siege-of-cruelty
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Cult of Scourge

2. Scavengers

3. Siege of Cruelty

4. Speed, Leather, & Hell

5. Wretchedness of Existence

Witness: -[*]-

Headrot - Human Buffet [2016]

Artist: Headrot

Album: Human Buffet
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://headrotband.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/headrotband1989/
Country: United States
Quality: 128 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Sleepless Bloodlust  

2. Removing Flesh from Bone  

3. Sucking Up Your Own Guts  

4. Feasting upon the Flesh  

5. Hammer to the Head  

6. Cease to Exist  

7. Pigs in Worship  

8. Pathways to the Flesh

Witness: -[*]-

Noxis - Violence Inherent in the System [2024]

Artist: Noxis

Album: Violence Inherent in the System
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://noxisdeathmetal.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/Noxisdeathmetal/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Skullcrushing Defilement  

2. Blasphemous Mausoleum for the Wicked  

3. Paths of Visceral Fears  

4. Abstemious, Pious Writ of Life  

5. Torpid Consumption  

6. Excursion  

7. Horns Echo over Chorazim  

8. Violence Inherent in the System  

9. Tense and Forlorn  

10. Emanations of the Sick  

11. Surfin' Blood Futile 

Witness: -[*]-
I like this album and the style of death metal these boys from Cleveland have on display.

Celestial Sanctuary - Visions of Stagnant Blood (EP) [2024]

Artist: Celestial Sanctuary

Album: Visions of Stagnant Blood
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/6qhf0tUQBSM / https://celestialsanctuary.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Visions of Stagnant Blood  

2. Puddles of You Reflect the Filth Within  

3. Gavage of the Vile

Witness: -[*]-
Celestial Sanctuary is a band that keeps progressing in my opinion. I didn't care much for their Soul Diminished album in 2021 but feel that their follow-up in 2023 is much improved and now these 3 tracks are my favorite material from them to date, so their next album may be a true beast.

Celestial Sanctuary - Insatiable Thirst for Torment [2023]

Artist: Celestial Sanctuary

Album: Insatiable Thirst for Torment
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/CelestialSanctuaryDeathMetal
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Trapped Within the Rank Membrane  

2. Glutted with Chunder  

3. Swivel Eyed and Gurning in the Shadows  

4. Meandering Stream of Foul Fluid  

5. Biomineralization (Cell Death)  

6. The Lurid Glow of a Dead, Burning Body  

7. Unquenchable Thirst...  

8. Gutted with a Blunt Blade

Witness: -[*]-

Succubus - The Eternal Curse of Existence [2023]

Artist: Succubus

Album: The Eternal Curse of Existence
Year: 2023
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/SZqRfq73YzM / https://succubus1.bandcamp.com
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Harbringer of Death  

3. Barrages of Broken Hopes  

4. The Failure of Humanity  

5. Aroused by My Sins  

6. The Void  

7. The Enduring Illusion  

8. Resist to Prevail  

9. The Darwinian Court  

10. The Eternal Curse of Existence

Witness: -[*]-

Abhorrent Rift - Abhorrent Rift [2024]

Artist: Abhorrent Rift

Album: Abhorrent Rift
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://abhorrentrift.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/Abhorrent Rift
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Rift  

2. Herald of Ideology  

3. Deviation

4. Anhedonia  

5. End of Transmission  

6. Sic Gloria Transit Mundi  

7. Dawn  

8. The Awakening  

9.  Via Negativia  

10. Crushed Hope and Broken Dreams  

11. Abhorrent Abundance

Witness: -[*]-

Gory Blister - Reborn from Hatred [2023]

Artist: Gory Blister

Album: Reborn from Hatred
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://goryblister.bandcamp.com  
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. From Ashes...

2. Push Out the Venom

3. Relentless Fear

4. Profound Sedation

5. Unexpected Livings

6. This Blood Is Forever

7. Reborn from Hatred

8. Greedy Existence

9. Signs from Beyond

10. Generation Ship

11. ...to Flames

Witness: -[*]-
I have long been a fan of this band's work but lost track of them after their 2014 album The Fifth Fury and completely missed their 2021 release, and somehow I didn't know about this album either until just recently when it popped up on my Bandcamp feed. I am thankful for the algorithm though because I am very surprised and impressed with this album and how much I like it. I don't really consider it to be a technical death metal album but it has a killer groove and is very catchy. 

The Lifted Veil - Genocidal Bliss of Heaven [2024]

Artist: The Lifted Veil

Album: Genocidal Bliss of Heaven
Year: 2024
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/EH0nCWEA6Tw / https://theliftedveil.bandcamp.com/
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Kirkkauden kutsu  

2. Paradise of Parasites  

3. Grotesque Matrimony  

4. Imprisoned in Flesh  

5. Vihalla siunattu  

6. Harha  

7. Hunting Season  

8. The Cult of Deformed Sanctity

Witness: -[*]-