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.  

Voidspore - Prophetic Ocular Syntax (EP) [2025]

Artist: Voidspore

Album: Prophetic Ocular Syntax
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/XBO-6CRByP0 / https://voidspore.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Crimson Affusion  

2. Inexorable Decay  

3. Decomposing Celestial Bodies  

4. Violaceous Bog  

5. Eaten by God and Assimilating to Mycelial Divinity

Witness: -[*]-
Psilocybin obsessed brutality from Wallingford, Connecticut. I don't think these guys are microdosing; I think they are eating full-on grams. They say you don't trip unless you throw up. Well, I never threw up, but I sure as hell went on some trips back in the day.

Jungle Rot - Cruel Face of War [2026]

Artist: Jungle Rot

Album: Cruel Face of War
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.instagram.com/jungle_rot / https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/jungle rot
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Apocalyptic Dawn  

3. Cruel Face of War  

4. Maniacal

5. Suffer in Silence  

6. Radicalized  

7. Blade of Betrayal  

8. When the Elders Rise  

9. Horrors Vile  

10. Legacy of the Damned  

11. Rot Riffs  

12. Hollow Husk

Witness: -[*]-
Jungle Rot is the model of consistency because they have created 12 full-length albums over the course of 30 years, and in some ways, they have all been the same album. Obviously, there are differences in each release, albeit quite subtle, and for some fans, that is a very positive attribute of the band. For me, I have liked all of their albums that I have listened to over the years, but none compel me to come back over and over. Maybe this newest release will be different.

Jungle Rot - A Call to Arms [2022]

Artist: Jungle Rot

Album: A Call to Arms
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://uniqueleaderrecords.com/jungle rot / https://www.pulltheplugpatches.com/jungle-rot
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Call to Arms

2. Beyond the Grave

3. Genocidal Imperium

4. Asymmetric Warfare

5. Vengeance and Bloodlust

6. Maggot Infested

7. Deathsquad

8. Haunting Future

9. Total Extinction

10. Population Suicide

Witness: -[*]-

Jungle Rot - Jungle Rot [2018]

Artist: Jungle Rot

Album: Jungle Rot
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/igotjunglerot / https://www.indiemerchstore.com/jungle_rot
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Send Forth Oblivion

2. Delusional Denial

3. A Burning Cinder

4. Triggered

5. Fearmonger

6. Stay Dead

7. Glory for the Fallen

8. Pumped Full of Lead

9. Twisted Mind

10. Terrible Certainty (Kreator cover)

Witness: -[*]-

Jungle Rot - Terror Regime [2013]

Artist: Jungle Rot

Album: Terror Regime
Year: 2013
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://junglerot.bandcamp.com 
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Voice Your Disgust

2. Terror Regime

3. Utter Chaos

4. I Am Hatred

5. Blind Devotion

6. Scorn

7. Rage Through the Wasteland

8. Ruthless Omnipotence

9. I Don't Need Society (D.R.I. cover)

10. Carpet Bombing

11. Pronounced Dead

Witness: -[*]-

Jungle Rot - Slaughter the Weak [1997] (Remastered 2002)

Artist: Jungle Rot 

Album: Slaughter the Weak
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/k9mRo8WTaJ8 / https://backonblack.bandcamp.com/jungle rot
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Left for Dead

2. Gore Bag

3. Infectious

4. Demigorgon

5. Consumed in Darkness

6. Murder One

7. Butchering Death

8. World of Hate

9. Deadly Force

Witness: -[*]-

Jungle Rot - Skin the Living [1996]

Artist: Jungle Rot

Album: Skin the Living
Year: 1996
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nFbRWbkQIyA / https://www.facebook.com/igotjunglerot
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Demon Souls

2. Destruction and Misery

3. Eternal Agony

4. Killing Spree

5. Rotten Bodies

6. Black Candle Mass

7. Awaiting the End

8. Tomb of Armenus

9. Decapitated

10. Screaming for Life

Witness: -[*]-

Sölicitör - Enemy In Mirrors [2025]

Artist: Sölicitör

Album: Enemy In Mirrors
Year: 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal

Web: https://youtu.be/CZeSLTL9zS0 / https://www.facebook.com/solicitor.speedmetal
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Descent

2. Paralysis

3. Iron Wolves of War

4. Spellbound Mist

5. We Who Remain

6. Fallen Angel

7. Crimson Battle Beast

8. Enemy in Mirrors

9. Black Magick & the Devil's Hand Pt I

10. Black Magick & the Devil's Hand Pt II

Witness: -[*]-
I really liked the band's previous album, but it took me a bit to warm up to this one; now that I have, I am liking it as well. They are building on their songwriting chops and created a more mature-sounding album, and I think they got a better production as well.

Redivider - Sounds of Malice [2026]

Artist: Redivider

Album: Sounds of Malice
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/RtVmDPDSMyo / https://redividerdeathmetal.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Quartered & Devoured  

2. Sounds of Malice  

3. Shackled to Existence  

4. Apocalyptic Waste  

5. Fratricide  

6. Bask in the Rot  

7. Left to Rot

Witness: -[*]-

Apollinarix - Misanthropic Transcendence [2026]

Artist: Apollinarix

Album: Misanthropic Transcendence
Year: 2026
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/AO6Vqgqb9LE / https://apollinarix.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Endless Black Hallucinations  

2. Imperative of Stone  

3. Deaths Multiscious Transcendence  

4. Entheogenic Sacrifice  

5. Delusions of Martyrdom  

6. End of Times  

7. Devouring the Flesh of Gods

Witness: -[*]-
These guys from Salt Lake City are new to me, and they have created a decent debut. They're labeled as death metal, but I hear a fair bit of blackness in their sound and a somewhat muddy production mix. It doesn't matter, I like the album. 

Tombseeker - Tombseeker [2026]

Artist: Tombseeker

Album: Tombseeker
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/qH9fFIKJnF8 / https://tombseeker.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tombseeker

2. Immolated Self

3. Chamber of Torment

4. Left Behind

5. Flagellated

6. They All Bleed the Same

7. Trenches

8. Catacomb Crawl

9. Anticitizen

Witness: -[*]-
This is a relatively new band from KC, MO, with a familiar style that sounds pretty good.

Vhol - Deeper Than Sky [2015]

Artist: Vhol

Album: Deeper Than Sky
Year: 2015
Genre: Progressive Thrash Metal / Blackened Heavy Metal / Crust
Web: https://youtu.be/nFFXwoned6I / https://www.facebook.com/vholisvhol
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps
 
Tracklist:
1. The Desolate Damned

2. 3AM

3. Deeper than Sky

4. Paino

5. Red Chaos

6. Lightless Sun

7. The Tomb

Witness: -[*]-
Even though this album is more than a decade old I only stumbled across it a couple of months back, and when I finally decided to give it a listen, my first thought was, damn this is interesting! There are parts of the album that work very well, thrashy and jamming, and then there are other parts that are a bit too progressive, but overall, I really dig it.

Extremity - Coffin Birth [2018]

Artist: Extremity

Album: Coffin Birth
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/XSXM36tIgwM
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Coffin Birth / A Million Witches

2. Where Evil Dwells

3. Grave Mistake

4. Umbilicus

5. For Want of a Nail

6. Occision

7. Like Father like Son

8. Misbegotten / Coffin Death

Witness: -[*]-

Extremity was a short-lived band from the San Francisco Bay area with members who were highly experienced from other bands, and together they created some entertaining death metal on their two releases before splitting up. I wish they could have kept it going.

Subjected To Infinity - Nightside of Eden [2025]

Artist: Subjected To Infinity

Album: Nightside of Eden
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/nxnGijfw7UM / https://subjectedtoinfinity.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Suffering That Never Subsides  

2. Consumed by Seraphic Fire  

3. Deviating from the Methods of the Ancient Hermetic Texts  

4. Umbral Procession  

5. Ophidian Revelations  

6. Sonder  

7. Demonolater

Witness: -[*]-

Defcon - While the Wolf Eats [2025]

Artist: Defcon

Album: While the Wolf Eats
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/EgcrlVY_2ek / https://www.facebook.com/DefconSTL
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps
 
Tracklist:
1. Crossover  

2. The Debt  

3. While the Wolf Eats  

4. Laid to Waste  

5. Lack of Control  

6. Insomnia  

7. Half Ounce of Power  

8. Hollow Words  

9. King Leper

Witness: -[*]-

Bone Storm - Daemon Breed [2026]

Artist: Bone Storm

Album: Daemon Breed
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2QBxH8UiORQ / https://wearebonestorm.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Summoning the Storm  

2. Heaven's End (Burn Them All)

3. Daemon Breed

4. Plaguerider

5. Sanctimonious Morality

6. Cursed Born

7. Wrist Slitter

8. Blood Priest

9. Hammer of Judas

10. Ritual Supremacy

11. Halo of Disease

12. The Cleaner

Witness: -[*]-
Not to be confused with the Colombian Bonestorm, this 4-piece band is from Middletown, Connecticut, and have a very cool style in their own right. For my tastes, this is an entertaining listen overall.

Damned By The Pope - Blasphemy Perpetuated [2025]

Artist: Damned By The Pope

Album: Blasphemy Perpetuated
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/5H8VyAiwwgw / https://dbtpofficial.bandcamp.com
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Sanctimonious Purification  

2. Generations Perverse  

3. Blasphemy Perpetuated  

4. Vows of Repugnance  

5. Hollow God  

6. Feeding the Deity  

7. Death of Self (Day of Disdain)

Witness: -[*]-

Ectovoid - In Unreality's Coffin [2026]

Artist: Ectovoid

Album: In Unreality's Coffin
Year: 2026
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/NXAvt5xKRTM / https://everlastingspew.bandcamp.com/ectovoid
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dissonance Corporeum

2. Collapsing Spiritual Nebula

3. Intrusive Illusions (Echoes from a Distant Plane)

4. Formless Seeking Form

5. Irradiated Self

6. In Unreality's Coffin

7. Erroneous Birth

8. It Is Without Shape...  

9. In Anguished Levitation

Witness: -[*]-
I have not listened to this band much over the years, even though I've had all of their LPs in my files. They just got lost in the shuffle, I guess, but I like this album, and I wanted to promote the band here in The Chamber.

 

Ectovoid - Dark Abstraction [2015]

Artist: Ectovoid

Album: Dark Abstraction
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/9uZCkhoXbfI / https://www.facebook.com/ectovoid
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Obscure Altars  

2. Visions of Reflective Decay  

3. Mental Netherworlds  

4. Precipice of Absolute Chaos  

5. Rituals of Hallucination  

6. The Expanse Between Slumber and Death  

7. A Prisoner of Paradox  

8. Spawned from Unending Mystery

Witness: -[*]-