Contempt - The Secret Around Us [2003]

Artist: Contempt

Album: The Secret Around Us
Year: 2003
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://bandzone.cz/contempt
Country: Slovakia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. Blind Eyes Can't Speak

3. Who Am I?

4. My End

5. Not Any Question

6. A Dead Stone

7. The Nightwind

8. The Secret Around Us

9. Go My Boy Go and Die

10. Choke on Your Shame

11. The Dark Rain

Witness: -[*]-
I've had this CD for at least 20 years now, but it was never one of my "go-to" favorites. However, I do like their newest release quite a lot. Interestingly, I see this received a 90% review score at Metal Archives, which kinda surprised me. To each his own I guess. This is my own CD rip.

The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed [2003]

Artist: The Black Dahlia Murder

Album: Unhallowed
Year: 2003
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Deathcore
Web: https://direct-merch.com/the-black-dahlia-murder / https://www.facebook.com/theblackdahliamurderofficial
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Unhallowed

2. Funeral Thirst

3. Elder Misanthropy

4. Contagion

5. When the Last Grave Has Emptied

6. Thy Horror Cosmic

7. The Blackest Incarnation

8. Hymn for the Wretched

9. Closed Casket Requiem

10. Apex

Witness: -[*]-

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.

Psycroptic - The Scepter of the Ancients [2003]

Artist: Psycroptic

Album: The Scepter of the Ancients
Year: 2003
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/WxXIEE-kpq8 / https://www.psycroptic.com/
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Colour of Sleep

2. Battling the Misery of Organon

3. Lacertine Forest

4. Psycrology

5. Skin Coffin

6. Cruelty Incarnate

7. The Valley of Winds Breath and Dragons Fire

8. A Planetary Discipline

9. The Scepter of Jaar-Gilon

Witness: -[*]-
I found this CD at Best Buys back in '04 or '05 and I had not heard of these guys but decided to purchase this disc and I liked it but it wasn't one of my "go-to" discs. Then, I saw them live in '08 or '09 touring for Ob(Servant) and I gained more appreciation for the band after seeing their performance. This is my own rip and probably their best release. 

Zaburon - Sic Bellum Incipit (EP) [2003]

Artist: Zaburon

Album: Sic bellum Incipit
Year: 2003
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/gQ0LGV-1GP0?
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. The Beginning

3. Zaburon

4. Bloody King

5. The Aweaking of the Titans  

6. Sickly Theatre

7. Infinity Human Suffering

Witness: Link removed 
This early release showed more of a technical flair to their style but that was lost on their next album, 19 years later, and now they are tagged as brutal death metal.

Blood Reaping - Ignis Penumbra [2003]

Artist: Blood Reaping 

Album: Ignis Penumbra
Year: 2003
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/8xRQpfwxGgs
Country: Mexico
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro - Ignis Penumbra
2. Witching Bloodreaping
3. Boiling Steel
4. Venom Incarnate
5. Emptyness
6. Wrath of Blasphemy
7. Pandemonia
8. Where Black Flames Arise
9. Lascivious Malignant Miasma
10. Descend (Congregation of Blood And Flames)

Witness: -[*]-
Old school brutal \m/\m/

Fleshless - Sensual Death Immitation [2003]

Artist: Fleshless

Album: Sensual Death Immitation
Year: 2003
Genre: Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/3O10MRo1KsM
Country: Czechia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Torture Me  

2. Sensual Death Immitation  

3. Scream of Decapitated  

4. Incinerated 

5. Parasites  

6. Disconnected  

7. Surrounded by Hell  

8. Survival Extortion  

9. Foetal Purulent

Witness: -[*]-

Battlesword - Failing in Triumph [2003]

Artist: Battlsword

Album: Failing in Triumph
Year: 2003
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/rjJqB7xo8zY
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. Chapter II

3. Baptized in Fire

4. Battlesword

5. This Silent Night

6. Fatal Dreaming

7. Bloody Reign

8. Last Rising Sun

9. Stormking

10. Into the Soul

Witness: -[*]-
CarlG mentioned the new disc from Battlesword a while back and commented on the fact that it doesn't sound that melodic to him and I haven't listened to it much but I think this debut album and especially their 2019 release are good examples of melodic death done right.

Perversist - Machine Grind Surgery [2003]

Artist: Perversist

Album: Machine Grind Surgery
Year: 2003
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore
Web: https://youtu.be/9jpF0YsH9ow
Country: Czechia
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Merciless Messiah  

2. Unable to Ressurection  

3. Necrosphere  

4. Grindboys from Hell  

5. Victims of the Faith  

6. Underwater Evil  

7. Bazooka Brain Surgery  

8. Die in Me Forever  

9. Napalm Ballet  

10. Misirlou  

11. Pedophiladelphia

Witness: -[*]-

Spawn Of Possession - Cabinet [2003]

Artist: Spawn of Possession

Album: Cabinet
Year: 2003
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/U7amYpi8Ttk
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Lamashtu
2. Swarm of the Formless
3. Hidden in Flesh
4. A Presence Inexplicable
5. Dirty Priest
6. Spawn of Possession
7. Inner Conflict
8. Cabinet
9. The Forbidden
10. Church of Deviance
11. Uncle Damfee

Witness: -[*]-
I like all of their releases but I don't think Spawn Of Possession has topped Cabinet yet. Highly recommended Swedish technical superiority (\m/\m/)

Brilliant Coldness - Beyond Eternity (EP) [2003]

Artist: Brilliant Coldness
Album: Beyond Eternity
Year: 2003
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/bDi-owNuKlE
Country: Ukraine
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Beyond Eternity
2. Abyss of Unbeingness
3. Majesty of Truth
4. Mental Infection
5. Unborn
6. Calling for the Rain

Witness: -[*]-

Goretrade - Ritual of Flesh [2003]

Artist: Goretrade
Album: Ritual of Flesh
Year: 2003
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/PEUXAuZk4tE
Country: Colombia
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Piercing Her Throat
2. Ritual of Flesh
3. Ambushing the Ignorance
4. Bloodstained Altars
5. Bloody Beings
6. Hell's Dominion Butchery
7. ...And Your Blood Will Be Lust
8. Born of a Murderer
9. Postmortem Incision
10. Laceration

Witness: -[*]-
Ritual of Flesh is the first in a series of grisly slices of brutality. Listen & Get it \m/\m/

Sinners Bleed - From Womb to Tomb [2003]

Artist: Sinners Bleed 

Album: From Womb to Tomb
Year: 2003
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/A-Ni3BkYUuU
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Agony of Selfdenial
2. The Ludo Game
3. Death Bringer
4. Sinners Lust
5. Daemons
6. Injected Lies
7. Invisible Knowledge
8. From Womb to Tomb
9. Bound

Witness: -[*]-
In honor of Sinners Bleed finally releasing a new record today after a 16-year silence I am bringing this one back to the front of the house for your listening pleasure. Enjoy this techy goodness \m/\m/

Eradykate - Rektaliation [2003]

Artist: Eradykate
Album: Rektaliation
Year: 2003
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/TvyabTSh-u4
Country: France
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. 69
2. Sodomize the Armless Child with a Pneumatic Drill
3. La Philocoprie Dans le Bavoir
4. The Abortive Baseball Bat
5. Déflorée a la Machette
6. Je Vais te Brutalé l’Anus
7. Fucked Through a Gash In the Stomach
8. Anal Sex with a Leper

Witness: -[*]-
I think that Eradykate were quite unique, too bad they had to split-up. This disc is very good and deserved a follow-up in my opinion, HQ rip \m/\m/

Centinex - Decadence - Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos [2003]

Artist: Centinex

Album: Decadence - Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos
Year: 2003
Genre: Death Metal
Web: Centinex - Decadence-Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Arrival of the Spectrum Obscure
2. Misanthropic Darkzone
3. Hollowsphere
4. Target: Dimension XII
5. Deathstar Unmasked
6. A Dynasty of Obedience
7. Mechanical Future
8. Cold Deep Supremacy
9. New World Odyssey

Witness: -[*]-
On this release and World Declension from '05, Centinex got a lot more melodic than their older stuff but there are still some very good moments here.

Deathchain - Deadmeat Disciples [2003]

Artist: Deathchain

Album: Deadmeat Disciples
Year: 2003
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/MAKsDuJKVps
Country: Finland
Quality: 256 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Chaos Wartech
2. Rabid Vultures
3. Poltergeist (The Nemesis)
4. March of the Thousand Legions
5. Carnal Damage
6. Undertaker
7. Skeletal Claws
8. Carrier of Pestilence
9. Deadmeat Disciples

Witness: -[*]-
Easily my favorite Deathchain release and my own rip from many years ago. I'm glad I have this disc in my collection.

Fatal - Eskhaton [2003]

Artist: Fatal 

Album: Eskhaton
Year: 2003
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/New Album / https://www.facebook.com/Fatal_France
Country: France
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Anakhendavia
2. The Massacra
3. Broken Bones
4. The Maggots' Song
5. And Suddenly the Silence
6. ...Extreme And Demoniak
7. Onyx Applikation
8. Born, Suffer, and Burn
9. Force of God
10. La Ley de Pachamama
11. Danse avec Nemesis

Witness: -[*]- 
Thanks to our old friend Tomb Keeper for this share a couple of years back.

Pandemia - Personal Demon [2003]

Artist: Pandemia

Album: Personal Demon
Year: 2003
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/RGqc_ykbXPA
Country: Czechia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Shores of Agony
2. The Right Path
3. Devious Omen
4. Personal Demon
5. Sins of My Blood
6. Demonic Time
7. In This World
8. Father of the Lie
9. Erased from the Earth

Witness: -[*]-
Pandemia's new release was one of my early favorites from 2015, but as of now, Personal Demon is still my favorite release from them. Recommended \m/\m/

Prion - Time of Plagues [2003]

Artist: Prion

Album: Time of Plagues
Year: 2003
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UY-FzQgfVlw
Country: Argentina
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Senseless Miseries
2. To the Abyss of Hell
3. Envy & Hate
4. The Plagues
5. Executed
6. Beyond the Period
7. Armenia
8. The Opposite
9. Instrumental

Witness: -[*]-
It is hard to believe that this disc is almost 2 decades old already and this band has been at it since 1994. Listen now & Support here \m/\m/

Embryonic Devourment - Beheaded By Volition (EP) [2003]

Artist: Embryonic Devourment

Album: Beheaded By Volition
Year: 2003
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/KtZb7LPrNjg
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Beheaded by Volition
2. Desanctifying the Mediterranean
3. Bush for Disembowelment
4. Demon in the Sea
5. Mutiny

Witness: -[*]-