Celestial Scourge - Observers of the Inevitable [2025]

Artist: Celestial Scourge

Album: Observers of the Inevitable 
Year: 2025
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://celestialscourge / https://celestialscourge.bandcamp.com / TDC Link
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Advent of Deities  

2. Vessels  

3. Exterminated  

4. Wandering Waste of Oxygen  

5. Insectoid Evisceration  

6. The Optic Chiasm  

7. Assembling Deformities  

8. Ancient Forms

Witness: -[*]-

Vomitizer - Release the Rats [2025]

Artist: Vomitizer

Album: Release the Rats
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/YilTYP36jwE / https://www.facebook.com/Vomitizer
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Wonderful World to Destroy  

2. Rat Religion  

3. The Church of Rats  

4. Rattus Ritualis  

5. Pestilence (The Sickness)  

6. Indulge into Chaos  

7. The Reek of Death  

8. Something Dark and Bloody Did Indeed Occur  

9. Raw Meat  

10. Wicked Supremacy

Witness: -[*]-
I don't know why, but when I saw this, I immediately picked it up, and then kept putting off listening to it for some reason. I am so glad that I finally did though because this is much different and better than I had anticipated. Worthy \m/\m/

Cadaver - Hymns of Misanthropy [2025]

Artist: Cadaver

Album: Hymns of Misanthropy
Year: 2025
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/DVWtDyvnTC0 / https://listenable-records.bandcamp.com/cadaver
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Maltreated Mind Makes Man Manic

2. Chained to His Fate  

3. Nowhere to Hide  

4. Sunset at Dawn  

5. From the Past  

6. Breaking Through  

7. Misanthropic Anthem  

8. Death Has to Wait  

9. Through the Pain  

10. Drowned in Dreams

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, I am very impressed with this album, it is quite good. Even though I haven't really listened to this band a lot over the years, I did like their 2004 release, Necrosis, and their 2020 album, but I never went back to check their earliest material. I will say that this album represents top-shelf death metal.

Cadaver - Edder & Bile [2020]

Artist: Cadaver 

Album: Edder & Bile
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/8hpu2nTpG_c / https://direct-merch.com/collections/cadaver
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:

1. Morgue Ritual

2. Circle of Morbidity

3. Feed the Pigs

4. Final Fight

5. Deathmachine

6. Reborn

7. The Pestilence

8. Edder & Bile

9. Years of Nothing

10. Let Me Burn

Witness: -[*]-

Abhorration - Demonolatry [2024]

Artist: Abhorration

Album: Demonolatry
Year: 2024
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/TOloD9aUJek / https://www.facebook.com/abhorration666
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Chamber of Agilarept

2. Ai Apaec

3. Spawn of an Abhorrent Entity

4. Invoke Them

5. The Grace of Immolation

6. Demonolatry

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, so Abhorration is a relatively new band whose members all have a lot of experience with other bands. Based on this album, which is very new to me even though it is in my November '24 folder, these guys have created a true to form, grimy, old-school death metal aesthetic all the way from the album art and the logo to the look of the band and especially their sound. I immediately keyed in on the speed metal vibe to the lead guitarwork and the raw thrashy-ness of the music overall and then I realized that 2 members including the lead guitarist are from Black Viper and then I liked it even more. This is another quality album from 2024 that I am only now becoming aware of. Better late than never, right?

Scars - Sin [2024]

Artist: Scars

Album: Sin
Year: 2024
Genre: Heavy Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/xh4jd2x8b7c / https://www.facebook.com/scarsnorwegianmetal/
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Call it Sin  

2. Hypocrite  

3. Way Down Low  

4. Final Call  

5. Vikings Land  

6. Living Lies  

7. Shoot the Sun  

8. Never Look Back  

9. In Desperation  

10. It Still Kills

Witness: -[*]-

 

Vredehammer - God Slayer [2024]

Artist: Vredehammer

Album: God Slayer
Year: 2024
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/SxKBWIj3Tjk / https://vredehammer.bandcamp.com/ / TDC Link
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. From the Abyss

3. The Joker

4. God Slayer

5. The Dragons Burn

6. Blood of Wolves

7. Death Becomes the New Day

8. Product Human Slave

9. Obliterator

Witness: -[*]-
This is the latest release by this 1-man project band from Norway and another solid display of his skills on this recording. Good stuff!

Coffin Storm - Arcana Rising [2024]

Artist: Coffin Storm

Album: Arcana Rising
Year: 2024
Genre: Heavy Metal / Doom Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/d5nvhMqJ9Ns / https://peaceville.bandcamp.com/coffin storm
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Over Frozen Moors

2. Arcana Rising

3. Open the Gallows

4. Eighty-Five and Seven Miles

5. Ceaseless Abandon

6. Clockwork Cult

Witness: Link removed

Horrifier - Horrid Resurrection [2023]

Artist: Horrifier

Album: Horrid Resurrection
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/jHPYE2HApdM / https://horrifiermetal.bandcamp.com/
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Chainsaw Death

2. Injected Corpse

3. Hooks in Flesh

4. Assimilated Life

5. Deranged Sanity

6. Sick Twisted Pleasures

7. Sadistic Impalement

8. Horrid Resurrection

Witness: -[*]-
Here is another straight-up, no-frills death metal album that dropped back in the December black hole and I missed out on it for a while but glad that I finally picked up on it as this is a very entertaining collection of songs from a promising young band.

Inculter - Morbid Origin [2023]

Artist: Inculter

Album: Morbid Origin
Year: 2023
Genre: Blackened Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/sNKenbBH_YU / https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/inculter
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. Death Reigns  

3. Age of Reprisal  

4. Chained to the Void  

5. Children of Demise  

6. Extinction  

7. Morbid Origin  

8. Perennial Slaves  

9. Lethal Salvation

Witness: -[*]-

Inculter - Fatal Visions [2019]

Artist: Inculter 

Album: Fatal Visions
Year: 2019
Genre: Blackened Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/hWrW26rTksY / https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/inculter
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Open the Tombs  

2. Impending Doom  

3. Shepherd of Evil  

4. Endtime Winds  

5. Final Darkness  

6. Towards the Unknown  

7. Fatal Visions  

8. Through Relic Gates

Witness: Link Removed

Diskord - Degenerations [2021]

Artist: Diskord

Album: Degenerations
Year: 2021
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://diskord.net/home / https://transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com/
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Loitering in the Portal  

2. Bionic Tomb Eternal  

3. Abnegations  

4. The Endless Spiral  

5. Dirigiste Radio Hit  

6. Lone Survivor  

7. Dragged for Coronation  

8. Clawing at the Fabric of Space  

9. Atoms Decay  

10. Raging Berzerker in the Universe Rigid  

11. Gnashing  

12. Beyond the Grime  

Witness: -[*]-
I would say that the music Diskord has created over the years is twisted and chaotic, chocked full of many disparate styles and ideas, and typically doesn't suit my tastes but this album is very interesting and at times heavy as fuck. I find myself liking this one and the more I listen to it the more I understand it.

 

Celestial Scourge - Dimensions Unfurled (EP) [2023]

Artist: Celestial Scourge

Album: Dimension Unfurled
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/95sCoT3ujNk / https://celestialscourge.bandcamp.com
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Vast Profound  

2. Moon Dweller  

3. Elliptical Orbit  

4. Dimensions Unfurled  

5. Mortal Sun

Witness: -[*]-
This is a cool EP from a young band and their sound isn't what I would expect when I think of Norwegian death metal but that is okay. I want to hear more from these guys!

Deathhammer - Electric Warfare [2022]

Artist: Deathhammer

Album: Electric Warfare
Year: 2022
Genre: Blackened Thrash Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/deathhammerofficial / https://deathhammer.bandcamp.com/
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Savage Aggressor

2. Crushing the Pearly Gates

3. Enter the Morbid

4. Return to Sodom/Soldiers of Darkness

5. Rapid Violence

6. Thirst for Ritual

7. Thrown to the Abyss

8. Violent Age of Bloodshed

Witness: -[*]-

Noxium Ferus - Blasphemicon [2023]

Artist: Noxium Ferus

Album: Blasphemicon
Year: 2023
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/noxiumferus
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blasphemicon  

2. Kerethial - Cut Off from God  

3. Make Me Kill  

4. Autokrator  

5. IA Pazuzu  

6. Live Life Loveless  

7. The Conjuration of Fire  

8. Phallic Pride  

9. Dickslapped by the Devil  

10. Destroyer (Twisted Sister cover)

Witness: -[*]-

Decipher - Breed of an Obsolete Kind [2022]

Artist: Decipher

Album: Breed of an Obsolete Kind
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/fvhXGetQU0M / https://www.facebook.com/deciphernorge/
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. View Through Dead Eyes  

2. Green Mass Suggestion  

3. Breed of an Obsolete Kind  

4. Attract, Condemn, Repulse  

5. Beyond Comprehension  

6. Double Standards  

7. Life Illusion  

8. Necessary Evil  

9. Pull The Trigger  

10. Air-Raid Silence

Witness: -[*]-
Decipher has created one of my new favorite albums for 2022 with Breed of an Obsolete Kind. They are labeled as black death metal but all I hear is thrashy-ass death metal and it is good!

Castrator - Defiled in Oblivion [2022]

Artist: Castrator

Album: Defiled in Oblivion
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/CastratorBand / https://darkdescentrecords/defiled-in-oblivion
Country: International (United States)
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dawa of Yousafzai

2. Tormented by Atrocities

3. Befoul My Existence

4. Inquisition Sins

5. Voices of Evirato

6. Forsaken and Deprived

7. Sinister Mind

8. Purge the Rotten (Ones)

9. Tyrant's Verdict

10. Countess Bathory (Venom cover)

Witness: -[*]-
I had been very excited about this new album from Castrator, but then, for some reason, I have not given it much of my attention since it was released. I have been trying to make up for that here recently, and I do want to say that this is a nicely crafted slab of death metal from these 4 ladies.

 

Exeloume - Fairytale of Perversion [2011]

Artist: Exeloume

Album: Fairytale of Perversion
Year: 2011
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/exeloume / https://exeloume.bandcamp.com/
Country: Norway
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Lex Talionis  

2. Blind Billions  

3. Ignorance Is Bliss  

4. Fairytale of Perversion  

5. Locus Ceruleus  

6. Share My Pain (Stalingrad)  

7. Hellhole  

8. Psychopath  

9. Tool of God  

10. Faceless Children  

11. The Bitsa Maniac  

12. Our Poisonous Creation

Witness: -[*]-
Do you guys remember this disc? I had such high hopes for this band back when this was released more than a decade ago now but so far they have only released 1 follow-up EP in 2013. That is a damn shame because this was/is a very good offering.

Fleshkiller - Awaken [2017]

Artist: Fleshkiller

Album: Awaken
Year: 2017
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://merchnow.com/catalogs/fleshkiller / https://www.facebook.com/fleshkillerofficial/
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Parallel Kingdom

2. Salt of the Earth

3. Wisdom

4. Secret Chambers

5. Awaken

6. Inherit

7. Evil Eclipse

8. True Image

9. Warfare

10. Window of Time

Witness: Link Removed
Our buddy defleshed is always talking about going through his music files and deleting the stuff he doesn't like or listen to but I hardly ever do that, I just continue to accumulate music. The result of my hoarding ways is that I am always finding stuff in my own collection that I didn't even remember that I had and this album from Fleshkiller is another example. It has been in my October 2017 folder and I don't think I had ever listened to it until just recently and I find it quite enjoyable. This certainly won't be for everybody because it is highly progressive drawing a lot of comparisons to the technical thrash band Extol and rightly so due to the commonality of a couple of members but I know this will appeal to some of you out there.

Devoid Of Life - Embracing Emptiness [2022]

Artist: Devoid Of Life

Album: Embracing Emptiness
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/lzvnD0Ccf8g
Country: Norway
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Shrouded Graves  

2. Succumbed to Misantrophy  

3. Deprivation of All  

4. Falling Through the Abyss  

5. Brutality Reigns  

6. Euphoric Nothingness  

7. It Never Ends  

8. Ashes of the Past  

9. The Grimness of Mortal Depravity  

10. A Headless Hunter

Witness: -[*]-
Devoid Of Life has created a high-quality slab of blackened Norwegian death metal for our listening pleasure here in 2022. Don't sleep on this one people.