Another year has come and gone, and as we find ourselves at the beginning of a new year it is time to reflect on the wealth of excellent death metal releases that there were in 2015. I know many purists believe that all we get now is generic rehashed tripe, and I will readily admit that it is very difficult for any band to create music that is truly original, but it doesn't need to be original if it strikes that nerve within us that causes self-induced whiplash (as Overkill once said "wrecking neck").
Last year at this time, I was saying that 2014 had set a new standard for the volume and quality of releases, but now I am not sure that the standard hasn't been redefined in 2015. Our friend CarlG had an excellent comment recently when he stated that we could start each new year with an empty CD shelf, and we could easily fill it up with enough new music that we could be satisfied for a lifetime. I wouldn't want to give up all of the great music from the past, but based on what we have seen for the past 4 - 5 years I think his is a very true statement.
There are so many releases that deserve praise in my opinion, I am thinking of bands like Morbid Vomit, Gruesome, Spirit of Rebellion, Defect Designer, Defcon One, Karma Violens, and Visceral Dissection just to name a few that I couldn't fit into my list, but let's get to the ones that did make the cut. The following are what I have enjoyed throughout 2015, and I hope that you find something new to enjoy here as well.
Parental Advisory - Soundtrack of an Upcoming Apocalypse
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Austria
Purchase:
Bandcamp
Preview:
Official Video or
TDC
Penitenziagite - Humanity Galore
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Slovenia
Scarab - Serpents of the Nile
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Egypt
Fragile Existence - Cataclysms and Beginnings
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Canada
Necrogasm - Cannibalism
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Greece
Pronostic - An Atomic Decision
Genre: Technical Melodic Death Metal
Country: Canada
In Utero Cannibalism - Butcher While Others Obey
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Greece
Gorelust - We Are the Undead
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Canada
Viscral - Egocentric Underneath of Horror
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Indonesia
The Ritual Aura - Laniakea
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Country: Australia
The Juliet Massacre - Human Abuse
Genre: Deathcore
Country: Italy
Ingested - The Architect of Extinction
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Deathcore
Country: United Kingdom
Bloody Brotherhood - Ritual of Blood
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Spain
Revulsed - Infernal Atrocity
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Country: Australia
Blastomycosis - Covered In Flies and Afterbirth
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Canada
Infected Chaos - The Wake of Ares
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Austria
Xeroderma - The Reckoning
Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States
Obscure Infinity - Perpetual Descending into Nothingness
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Germany
Recueil Morbide - Morbid Collection
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: France
Defaced - Forging the Sanctuary
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Switzerland
Sothoth - Rise To Conquer
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Country: Poland
Overtorture - A Trail of Death
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Sweden
Feral - Where Dead Dreams Dwell
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Sweden
Necropsy - Buried In the Woods
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Finland
Alustrium - A Tunnel to Eden
Genre: Technical Progressive Death Metal
Country: United States
Eradikal Insane - Mithra
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Deathcore
Country: France
Genital Grinder - Abduction
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Italy
Birth Through Gore - The Culmination Conquest
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Country: Greece
Lectern - Fratricidal Concelebration
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Italy
Season Of Suffering - Evolve to Extinction
Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States
Top EP's & demos for 2015
Exile Into Suffery - Substitutional Race of Tomorrow (Technical Death Metal)
TDC
Mass Defect - Continuity of Government (Death Metal / Thrash Metal)
TDC
Anoxide - Purge the Idols of Illusion (Death Metal)
TDC
Vitiated - Promo 2015 (Technical Death Metal)
TDC
Castrator - No Victim (Death Metal)
TDC
Sewercide - Severing the Mortal Cord (Death Metal / Thrash Metal)
TDC
Exuvium - Subarachnoid (Death Metal)
TDC
Gravebane - Mortify The Grave (Death Metal)
TDC
Avulsed - Altar of Disembowelment (Death Metal)
YouTube
Sentient - Ceremonial Murder (Death Metal)
YouTube
Ominous Ruin - Exiled (Technical Brutal Death Metal)
TDC
Pestuary - Pestuary (Death Metal)
TDC
The Hallowed Catharsis - EP II: Organic Entrenchment (Deathcore)
YouTube
Cheers to 2015 \m/\m/ and here is to a very heavy 2016!