Slechtvalk - At Death's Gate [2024]

Artist: Slechtvalk

Album: At Death's Gate
Year: 2024
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Web: https://slechtvalk.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/Slechtvalk.metal/#
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Paralysed by Fear

2. At Death's Gate

3. The White Raven

4. Fight Till the End

5. Death

6. Night of the Locusts

7. Enshrouded

8. The Destroyer

9. Heritage

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Pantheon - Dead Existence [2024]

Artist: Pantheon

Album: Dead Existence
Year: 2024
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://envenomedmusic.bandcamp.com/Pantheon / https://pantheon13.bandcamp.com
Country: Israel
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Evolution / Degeneration  

2. When the Dead Empire Burns  

3. Horda of Savage Tribes

4. Dead Existence  

5. Black Candle  

6. Hermit  

7. The House of Screaming Souls  

8. Revenge (The Boy Has Grown)  

9. Gods of War  

10. Fly Through the Mazes of Time

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Human Abyss - Death Obsessed [2024]

Artist: Human Abyss

Album: Death Obsessed
Year: 2024
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://humanabyss.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/HumanAbyssOfficial/
Country: Germany
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Skinless  

2. Death Obsessed  

3. Dark Passage  

4. Cut

5. Temple  

6. Dreadnought  

7. Oblivion  

8. Meat the Creator  

9. The Abyss II  

10. Ghoul

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This band is very new to me. I saw the video above back in March before the album was released and I kinda liked it so I placed this disc on my BC wishlist and then forgot about it until a few days ago. I have been listening in the car and I like this, well the black metal screeching I could do without so much of, but there are some cool guitar riffs, heavy beats, and the death metal vocals are nice. Overall I think this is pretty good.

Human Abyss - Anatomy of Anxiety [2022]

Artist: Human Abyss

Album: Anatomy of Anxiety
Year: 2022
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://humanabyss.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/HumanAbyssOfficial/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Abyss  

2. Locked Gates  

3. Shallow Water  

4. Disillusion  

5. Disappear  

6. Mors Cardo  

7. Icy Mirror  

8. Endurance

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Onheil - In Black Ashes [2023]

Artist: Onheil

Album: In Black Ashes
Year: 2023
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://blacklion.nu/portfolio-item/onheil/ / https://blacklionrecords.bandcamp.com/
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Night Terror  

2. In Black Ashes  

3. Like Shadows in the Night  

4. Void  

5. Beneath a Steel Sky  

6. Bloodthirst  

7. Master of Disease

Witness: -[*]-
Wow! Finding this album today came as a complete surprise to me as I didn't even know that they were still active. I have long liked their 2009 release and then missed their 2014 release completely but I am glad to have Onheil back on my radar. I like this and will have to search out their 2014 disc as well.

Onheil - Razor [2009]

Artist: Onheil

Album: Razor
Year: 2009
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: http://www.onheil.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/OnheilMusic
Country: Netherlands
Quality: VBR



Tracklist:
1. Out of the Darkness It Comes
2. Nemesis' Light Fading
3. As Hope Dies
4. Final Redemption
5. Day of Departure
6. Razor
7. The Fallen Kingdom
8. Pad der Verdoemenis
9. Penetration of Innocence
10. Rain of Fire
11. From Above

Witness: -[*]-
I have posted this disc a few different times here @ TDC as I have liked to re-promote these guys over the years and then today I discovered their new release so I am bringing this one back to the front of the house again. Entertaining blackened melodic death metal from Dordrecht, South Holland \m/\m/

Frozen Dawn - The Decline of the Enlightened Gods [2023]

Artist: Frozen Dawn

Album: The Decline of the Enlightened Gods
Year: 2023
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/s8tXUqh6TF8
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Mystic Fires of Dark Allegiance  

2. Spellbound  

3. Black Reign Awaits  

4. Frozen Kings  

5. Wanderer of Times  

6. Oath of Forgotten Past  

7. Cosmic Black Chaos  

8. The Decline of the Enlightened Gods  

9. The Fall of Aeons

10. Blinded by Light, Enlightened by Darkness (Necrophobic cover)  

 

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Damn, I haven't listened to this band since 2015 or so and I liked them back then but didn't follow them afterward. Flash forward 8-9 years and Unbound and ElF got me to listen to them again and damn they have improved too much higher levels.

Well Of Night - The Lower Planes of Self-Abstraction [2020]

Artist: Well Of Night

Album: The Lower Planes of Self-Abstraction
Year: 2020
Genre: Melodic Black Metal 
Web: https://youtu.be/sA7BkNb47-w
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Black Alder Sacristy  

2. Allegiance to the Barren Lands  

3. Doctrine of Futility and Human Extinction

4. Ritual of the Seven Shrines  

5. Apex and Eschaton  

6. Ossuary of the Fallen Snow

Witness: -[*]-
I am not the biggest black metal enthusiast but every so often I come across an album that strikes me in a way that I really enjoy and this happens to be one of those albums. From the acid rain scorched forests of Dayton, Ohio, I give you Well Of Night.

Against The Plagues - Purified Through Devastation [2015]

Artist: Against The Plagues

Album: Purified Through Devastation
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/oRokUVe_irY
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Man's Modern World
2. All Flesh Had Corrupted
3. Praetorian Icon
4. Theokratia
5. Terrorform
6. Extermination Event
7. Falling Further
8. Enblightened
9. Enemy Herein

Witness: -[*]-
I have been a big fan of this band ever since I heard their first release, The Architecture of Oppression, several years ago. That disc had a much more melodic black metal inspiration to it, and was re-released in 2010 under the title Decoding the Mainframe. The new disc is much more death metal than their earlier material, and pretty damn good at that. Be sure to check out the video above.

Hathorious - Beneath the Shade of Hathor (Demo) [2011]

Artist: Hathorious

Album: Beneath the Shade of Hathor
Year: 2011
Genre: Melodic Blackened Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/klIK0AfENC8
Country: Egypt
Quality: 256 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dawn of the Ancients
2. The Fighter in Annu
3. Glory Be to Osiris
4. Abydos
5. Funeral of Akhenaten

Witness: -[*]-

Abusiveness - Trioditis [2010]

Artist: Abusiveness 

Album: Trioditis
Year: 2010
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/cMckA3x3LGk
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1.Odmrocze/Trioditis
2. Chwała pozostanie
3. Legiony Słońca
4. Południca
5. W wichrze wzniesione pochodnie
6. Na zgliszczach
7. Prychovanyj Boh
8. Droga zemsty
9. Wieczornica
10. Niklot
11. Hangatyr (Bóg Wisielców)
12. Zamrocze

Witness: -[*]-
Definitely not as brutal as Hybris, this is more in the melodic vein. I prefer the thrashier stuff.

Yatrogeny - Radical Pessimism [2012]

Artist: Yatrogeny

Album: Radical Pessimism
Year: 2012
Genre: Melodic Blackened Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/z8-SWJwgM5w
Country: Mexico
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Worthless Society
2. Paradoxical Suicide
3. Imperfect World
4. Unalterable Character
5. Mirror of the Time
6. Hating the Dawn
7. Radical Pessimism
8. Utopias in Vain
9. Macabre Dancing

Indulge: -[*]-
These guys are tagged as tech / melodic black metal, but I hear a lot of death thrash in here too. Not bad!

Gloria Morti - Lateral Constraint [2012]

Artist: Gloria Morti

Album: Lateral Constraint
Year: 2012
Genre: Blackened Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/EosbTErt3kY
Country: Finland
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Lex Parcimoniae
2. The First Act
3. Our God Is War
4. Aesthetics of Self-Hyperbole
5. Sleep, Kill, Regress, Follow
6. Hallucinations
7. Slaves
8. Non-Believer
9. The Divine Is a Fraud
10. Conclusion

Indulge: -[*]-
I haven't given this disc many spins, but what I've heard sounds pretty good, certainly worthy of some attention.

Mephistopheles - Death Unveiled [2003]

Artist: Mephistopheles 

Album: Death Unveiled
Year: 2003
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/tLf237aLUGU
Country: Germany
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. By Fiery Death Devoured
2. Cryosphere Trimension
3. Earthborn
4. Far Beyond Redemption
5. From End to End
6. Intoxicate the Sun
7. Stigmata (Seed of Anti-Babylon)
8. Summon Primal Trinity
9. Whispering Shadows (Unanimated Cover)

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Not the Australian band, this is blackened melo-death from Oldenburg, Germany.

Mephistopheles - Modern Instinct's Purity [2001]

Artist: Mephistopheles
Album: Modern Instinct's Purity
Year: 2001
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/FLz_sTHmfIw
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Prelude to Instinction
2. Conquer Self - Destruction
3. Bastard Blood's Prosperity
4. First Death Introdus
5. Galaxia (an Empire Beneath the Sun)
6. My Enemy Divine
7. Solarian
8. Killing Conscious

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Mephistopheles - Songs of the Desolate Ones [1999]

Artist: Mephistopheles
Album: Songs of the Desolate Ones
Year: 1999
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/JAQjeQv3IIA
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Desolating Hymn
2. Kurgan Supremacy
3. Twilight Shore
4. Opaque Fortress
5. Moldavian Fires
6. Across Oceans of Time
7. Northern Eternity

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Dark Fortress - Eidolon [2008]

Artist: Dark Fortress
Album: Eidolon
Year: 2008
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/CcYoIi8Az7A
Country: Germany
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. The Silver Gate
2. Cohorror
3. Baphomet
4. The Unflesh
5. Analepsy
6. Edge of Night
7. No Longer Human
8. Catacrusis
9. Antiversum

Witness: -[*]-

Agorphos - Nebula MMXII [2012]

Artist: Agorphos
Album: Nebula MMXII
Year: 2012
Genre: Blackened Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/uOe9777uhhY
Country: France
Quality: 128 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Artefact
2. Melancolie of the Ancient World (Age of Darkness)
3. Mechanical Pantheon
4. Intronisation in the Hall of Pain
5. Nebula MMXII
6. Xenochrist

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Thirdmoon - Dimorphic Cynosure [2007]

Artist: Thirdmoon
Album: Dimorphic Cynosure
Year: 2007
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/hiYTkv4KvJY
Country: Austria
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Slave
2. Crawl Through Subspecies
3. Sinew Disconnected
4. Character of Scars
5. Cross the Rubicon
6. Dimorphic (Prologue)
7. Dimorphic Cynosure
8. Sentenced to Aeons
9. Instrumental
10. Souls to Drown
11. Cadaverous Haven
12. Livid
13. Entwined Dimensions
14. Nothing
15. Outro

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Thirdmoon is a band I really know very little about, I have had this disc for quite a while, but don't really listen to it much. It seems that they formed in 1994 and have released 5 LP's including this one. This is really pretty good if you're in the mood for MDM with some blackened influences \m/

Of Raven And Ruins - Bound to Prophecy [2009]

 

Artist: Of Raven And Ruins
Album: Bound to Prophecy
Year: 2009
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/oj_FoQCDW00
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Resonance
2. Bound To Prophecy
3. Dance Of Disdain
4. Abomination (Behold The Damned)
5. The Animate Incarcerate
6. Interlude
7. Raven Knights
8. Blood Feud Fields
9. Atrophy Of The Unavailing
10. Salem's Wrath
11. Shadowed In Silence

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