Spire Of Lazarus - Soaked in the Sands [2022]

Artist: Spire Of Lazarus

Album: Soaked in the Sands
Year: 2022
Genre: Technical Deathcore
Web: https://spireoflazarus.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/spireoflazarus/
Country: Austria
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Dahaka

2. Brute

3. Farah

4. Warrior Within

5. The Rekem Reservoir

6. Soldier of Sand

7. Mask of the Wraith

8. Two Thrones

Witness: -[*]-
I know that a lot of the death metal purists are vehemently opposed to anything with "core" in it but some of the technical deathcore bands make some highly entertaining music in my opinion and this band from Vienna happens to be in that category. Formerly known as Dayum, they changed their moniker in 2020 and I think it suits their style quite well. 

Dayum - Ghost of Sparta [2019]

Artist: Dayum

Album: Ghost of Sparta
Year: 2019
Genre: Technical Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/bsc6q7xb5C8 / https://dayumband.bigcartel.com/
Country: Austria
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Introduction

2. Ghost of Sparta

3. Pegasus

4. Downfall of Gaia

5. Icarus

6. Challenge of Poseidon

7. Desert of Lost Souls

8. Hermes

9. Prometheus

10. Challenge of Poseidon 8bit

Witness: -[*]-

Three of the 4 members of Dayum went on to form or basically change their name to Spire Of Lazarus within months of releasing this album. This is a good one for the open minded listener. 

Bonecarver - Evil [2021]

Artist: Bonecarver

Album: Evil
Year: 2021
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/evil / https://www.facebook.com/bonecarverofficial
Country: Spain
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Revolver

2. Overtorture

3. The Scythe

4. Mallevs Malificarvm

5. Wormhole

6. Moon Maniac

7. Nest of Traitors

8. Hound Pound

9. The Blacksmith's Massacre

10. Evil

Witness: -[*]-
Formerly known as Cannibal Grandpa, this is the 1st release under their new moniker Bonecarver. I have seen this labeled as both brutal death metal and technical deathcore and I can I hear both sides of it in their style, maybe more "core" than many will care for.

Before The Harvest - Wretched Existence [2015]

Artist: Before The Harvest

Album: Wretched Existence
Year: 2015
Genre: Technical Deathcore / Symphonic
Web: https://youtu.be/Y4_233HxZ4c
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Process of Deterioration
2. Overriding the Menial.
3. Anaesthetized Dissection
4. Nefarious Voracity
5. Achluophobia
6. Lifeform Disintegration Ray
7. Filthy Breed
8. Obscene Turpitude
9. Denouement

Witness: -[*]-

Xenobiotic - Prometheus [2018]

Artist: Xenobiotic

Album: Prometheus
Year: 2018
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Deathcore
Web: https://www.facebook.com/xenobioticau
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Prometheus I: Aether
2. Prometheus II: Genesis
3. The Gift of Fire
4. Alive
5. Forethought
6. Nether II: Hindsight
7. Alone
8. He Who Dwells in Grime
9. The People's Champion
10. Prometheus III: Nemesis
11. Prometheus IV: Immortal

Witness: -[*]-
I had just posted this about 2 years ago but I want to bring this tech back to the front of the house again. This album is varied and really good \m/\m/

Out Of Yesteryear - Mass [2013]

Artist: Out of Yesteryear
Album: Mass
Year: 2013
Genre: Progressive Death Metal / Technical Deathcore
Web: https://www.facebook.com/outofyesteryear
Country: Belarus
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Paranoid Disgust
2. Messenger of Doom
3. Tyrants or Slaves
4. The Pig King
5. Blood Like Mercury
6. Retribution in Serenity
7. The Primal Silence
8. Call of Sin
9. IX

Witness: -[*]-
I've long liked this disc, it was one of my early favorites in 2013. This band carried a deathcore label and they were, so many will stay away but with they got enough prog-tech death metal goodness to make it very interesting in my opinion \m/\m/

Empyreal Vault - Empyreal Vault [2019]

Artist: Empyreal Vault

Album: Empyreal Vault
Year: 2019
Genre: Technical Deathcore
Web: https://www.facebook.com/EmpyrealVault/
Country: France
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Into the Forest
2. Deathbringer
3. Nameless and Evil
4. The Ritual
5. Astra Wound
6. Forgotten Titan
7. The Rain
8. Obscurity and Silence
9. I Am the Void

Witness: -[*]-
So, I know a lot of people probably won't even give this a chance because it's labeled as and is overly deathcore and the production could be better but overall, for my varied tastes, this is a pretty good listen \m/\m/

Wretched - Son of Perdition [2012]

Artist: Wretched
Album: Son of Perdition
Year: 2012
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Technical Deathcore
Web: https://www.facebook.com/wretchednc
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Oblivion
2. Imminent Growth
3. At the First Sign of Rust
4. Dilated Disappointment
5. Repeat… The End Is Near
6. Dreams of Chaos
7. The Stellar Sunset of Evolution Pt. 1 (The Silence)
8. The Stellar Sunset of Evolution Pt. 2 (The Rise)
9. The Stellar Sunset of Evolution Pt. 3 (The Son of Perdition)
10. Karma Accomplished
11. Decimation

Witness: -[*]-
CD rip + scans.

Wretched - The Exodus of Autonomy [2009]

Artist: Wretched 

Album: The Exodus of Autonomy
Year: 2009
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Technical Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/2MucTX8i6z4
Country: United States
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Shrouded in Filth
2. Aborning
3. Before the Rise
4. A Preservation of Immortality
5. Fetal Consumption
6. Mephistos Will
7. Deplorable Miscalculations
8. Final Devourment
9. VI: The Exodus of Autonomy
10. VII: the Descent
11. VIII: Everlasting Damnation

Witness: -[*]-

Succumb To Demise - Constructed of Abstract Matter [2017]

Artist: Succumb To Demise

Album: Constructed of Abstract Matter
Year: 2017
Genre: Technical Deathcore
Web: https://www.facebook.com/succumbtodemiseofficial/
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Rid the Existence
2. Infatuation of Flesh
3. Purifier
4. Degradation of Humanity
5. Blood for Your God
6. Plague the Masses
7. Lucid Engineering
8. Constructed of Abstract Matter

Witness: -[*]-
This is brutal, technical & core-ish but still has a helluva lot of death metal in it and I like it for sure. Listen & Support!

Exterminatus - Laniakea [2018]

Artist: Exterminatus 

Album: Laniakea
Year: 2018
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Technical Deathcore
Web: https://www.facebook.com/exterminatusband/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. The Final Days
2. Desertification
3. The A.R.C.
4. Machineborn
5. Metamorphosis
6. Spawn of Man
7. The Visitor I
8. The Visitor II
9. Per Aspera ad Astra
10. The Great Attactor
11. Laniakea

Witness: -[*]-
This is a very good follow-up to their 2013 debut, Vini Vidi Vici!

Exterminatus - Veni Vidi Vici [2013]

Artist: Exterminatus
Album: Veni Vidi Vici
Year: 2013
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Technical Deathcore
Web: https://exterminatus.bandcamp.com/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Stardust
2. The Coming Storm
3. D.L.M.A.
4. Spores
5. Orders to Vaporize
6. Axios
7. Sludge World
8. Victory in Death
9. Veni Vidi Vici Pt. I (for the Emperor God)
10. Veni Vidi Vici Pt. II (for the Warp)
11. Welcome to the Warp

Witness: -[*]-
I was pretty high on this disc about 5 years back. I still get into this style when it's well done like this is. A very good debut in my opinion!

Nikki's Best of 2017

   Band                Country    Album
1 Hour of Penance  ITA   Cast the First Stone
2 Antropomorphia  NLD   Sermon ov Wrath
3 Mortör             CAN   Burn Up the Dead
4 Archspire     CAN   Relentless Mutation
5 Monster             GER   Bload Soaked Restart
6 Discreation     GER   End of Days
7 Cannibal Corpse  USA   Red Before Black
8 Acephalix     USA   Decreation
9 Broken Hope     USA   Mutilated and Assimilated
10 Cytotoxin     GER   Gammageddon
11 Sinister             NLD   Syncretism
12 Dyscarnate     GBR   With All Their Might
13 Skullmace     CAN   Rise Above Blood
14 Daemusinem     ITA   The Ungodly Defiance
15 Oblivion             USA   The Path Towards...
16 Betalmand     GER   Wüstenplanet
17 Bloodphemy     NLD   Bloodline
18 Maat             GER   Monuments will Enslave
19 Scordatura     GBR   Self-Created Abyss
20 Morta Skuld     USA   Wounds Deeper than Time
21 Deserted Fear     GER   Death Shores Rising
22 Saprobiontic     GER   Science of War
23 Kalopsia             USA   Angelplague
24 Neocaesar     NLD   11:11
25 Hideous Divinity ITA   Adveniens
26 Soulrot             CHL   Nameless Hideous Manifestations
27 John Frum     USA   A Stirring in the Noos
28 Ulvedharr     ITA   Total War
29 Phidion             SWE   The Throes of Scourge
30 Suicidal Causticity ITA   The Human Touch
31 Dying Fetus     USA   Wrong One to Fuck With
32 Whore of Bethlehem  USA   Extinguish the Light
33 Sectesy             CZR   In the Secretion of the Upcoming Days
34 Paganizer     SWE   Land of Weeping Souls
35 Maximum Carnage     ZAF   Blackened Sun
36 Massive Assault  NLD   Mortor
37 Nervecell     UAE   Past, Present…Torture
38 Incertain             GER   Rats in Palaces
39 Verminous Mind RUS   Dusk of Humanity
40 Scolopendra     FRA   The Alienation Spread
41 Deathcrush     ITA   Hell
42 Graceless     NLD   Shadowlands
43 Overoth             GBR   The Forgotten Tome
44 Karnar             ITA   Take Their Heads
45 Akephalos     USA   Headless Demon Angel
46 Lifeless             GER   The Occult Mastery
47 Verthebral     PAR   Regeneration
48 Perkulatory     SWE   Chronic Caffeine Dependence
49 Throne of Heresy SWE   Decameron
50 Narthraal              ICE   Screaming from the Grave

The Walking Dead Orchestra - Resurrect [2017]

Artist: The Walking Dead Orchestra

Album: Resurrect
Year: 2017
Genre: Death Metal / Technical Deathcore
Web: https://www.facebook.com/TheWalkingDeadOrchestraOFFICIAL
Country: France
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Calvaire
2. Resurrect the Scourge
3. Through the Realm of Chaos
4. Vengeful Flavors
5. Dogmes Anxiogenesis
6. Area of Desolation
7. Demoligarchie
8. Siamese Traitors
9. Apostate
10. Necrosphere
11. Spread the Chaos and Terror
12. Desecrate

Witness: -[*]-
These guys seem to have a very good grasp of the technical deathcore sound with enough death metal to keep it interesting for me all the way through \m/\m/

Dayum - Dark Souls [2017]

Artist: Dayum

Album: Dark Souls
Year: 2017
Genre: Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/Qezem6YBZHY
Country: Austria
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Lordran
2. Artorias
3. Seath
4. Siegmeyer of Catarina
5. Blighttown
6. Dark Souls
7. Manus
8. Big Hat Logan
9. Catacombs
10. Solaire
11. Ornstein & Smough
12. Lost Izalith
13. Gwyn

Witness: -[*]-

Devolved - Reprisal [2012]

Artist: Devolved 

Album: Reprisal
Year: 2012
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Technical Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/yhMPKXJK1qc
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Systematic Avenger
2. Accelerated Human Degeneration
3. Reprisal of the Damned
4. Supremacy Enforced
5. Embodiment
6. Collateral Damage
7. Apocalyptic Visionary
8. Terminal Enslavement
9. Corrupted Mind Processor
10. Inanimate Infinity
11. (Cadence of) the Dirge (Exhorder cover)

Witness: -[*]-

The Death Chamber's Best of 2016

Damn! Another year has come and gone already, I can't get over how fast time flies by in my life, it's almost as if every trip around the sun takes only the blink of an eye. However, when I begin going back through the Metal that we've had this year, and for many years now, it can definitely bring some perspective to the time that has actually passed by. There were so many death metal releases again this year, and I know that I didn't even hear nearly all of them. To that point I have a good sized list of releases that either I didn't get a chance to absorb or just overlooked because of too much other stuff in the vault. Bands like Big End Bolt, Blast Perversion, Incremate, Prevail, Pargochy, Miasmal, Severed Limbs, Mental Apraxia, Breeding Filth, Abnormality, The Mutilator, and the new Demonseed are just a few of the unrepresented, and there are many more that will probably turn up on lists contributed by others. See, that's the problem with the excessive wealth we have in our genre, it breeds a sickness and it seems that I can never get enough to be satisfied, but yet there is way too much to ever fully appreciate. Another difficulty is that I am always looking to discover and promote newer bands, and often times it's at the expense of older more established bands, but that is the thing about having this site, it's my goal to turn people onto something that they may not have otherwise discovered and heard. If I can accomplish that for enough people, then I am doing my part to spread the Gospel of Metal and hopefully help death to flourish \m/\m/

My list is not an attempt to judge what were the best releases of 2016, but rather to point out the bands and offerings that I liked in hopes that others may discover something missed and decide for themselves, so here it is.

Death Metal - Traditional, Brutal, & Technical:

Katalepsy - Gravenous Hour

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Country: Russia

Purchase: https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravenous-hour

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/Katalepsymoscow / -[*]-

Incinerate Creation - Adaption of Human Suffering
Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States
Purchase: https://incineratecreation.bandcamp.com/releases
Preview: https://youtu.be/FxEiyVxOkig  /  TDC Link

Sacramental Blood - Ternion Demonarchy
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Serbia
Purchase: https://ghastlymusick.bandcamp.com/album/ternion-demonarchy
Preview: https://youtu.be/dm-hbqC7er4 / TDC Link

Soulburner - The Throne of Armageddon
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Colombia
Purchase: https://burnyoursoul.bandcamp.com/album/the-throne-of-armageddon
Preview: https://www.facebook.com/soulburnerband/ / TDC Link

Rogash - Malevolence

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Germany

Purchase: https://rogashmetal.bandcamp.com/album/malevolence

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/rogashmetal / -[*]-

Formaline - Corpscience

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Country: Russia

Purchase: https://formaline.bandcamp.com/

Preview: https://youtu.be/YKAR6fNAyJI / TDC Link

Xenomorphic Contamination - Colonized From the Inside

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Country: Italy

Purchase: http://xenomorphiccontamination.bigcartel.com/product/chasm-of-no-return-ep

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/xenomorphic.contamination / TDC Link

GxSxD - The Adversary

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Japan

Purchase: https://pulverised.bandcamp.com/album/the-adversary

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/GxSxD/ / TDC Link

Rotting Obscene - Depths of Decay

Genre: Death Metal

Country: United States

Purchase: http://www.transcendingrecords.com/cgi-bin/productDetails.cgi?pid=9487

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/RottingObscene / -[*]-

Panoptikon - Sunken City

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Netherlands

Purchase: https://panoptikon.bandcamp.com/

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/Panoptikonpage/ / -[*]-

Towering Abomination - Towering Abomination

Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal

Country: United States

Purchase: https://toweringabomination.bandcamp.com/album/towering-abomination

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/toweringabomination/ 

Orphalis - The Birth of Infinity

Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal

Country: Germany

Purchase: https://orphalis.bandcamp.com/

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/Orphalisband / TDC Link

Omophagia - In the Name of Chaos

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Switzerland

Purchase: https://orphalis.bandcamp.com/ / Unique Leader

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/Omophagia/ / -[*]-

Imprecator - Imprecator

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Sweden 

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/imprecator/ 

Preview: YouTube / -[*]-

Hellspawn - There Has Never Been a Son of Me

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Poland

Purchase: https://oldtemple.bandcamp.com/album/hellspawn-there-has-never-been-a-son-of-me

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/Hellspawn.Metal/ / https://youtu.be/BcLjwaLZmFo

Chaos Catharsis - Renaissance Psychotique

Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal

Country: Canada

Purchase: http://uturecords.bigcartel.com/product/chaos-catharsis-renaissance-psychotique

Preview: Facebook / https://youtu.be/x67doouDm8A / -[*]-

Carnophage - Monument

Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal

Country: Turkey

Purchase: http://www.indiemerch.com/uniqueleader/item/41882

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/carnophageturkey/ / https://youtu.be/ytKxOC4uIXE

Valgrind - Speech of the Flame

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Italy

Purchase: https://www.facebook.com/valgrindband

Preview: -[*]-

Strangulate - Catacombs of Decay

Genre: Death Metal

Country: India

Purchase: https://strangulateindia.bandcamp.com/album/catacombs-of-decay-raw-death-metal

Preview: https://youtu.be/wMS2Pnroaqs / -[*]-

Range of Mutilated - Post Traumatic Perish

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Country: Indonesia

Purchase: https://waarproductions.bandcamp.com/album/post-traumatic-perish

Preview: Facebook / https://youtu.be/rnIvYxuKtHs /  -[*]-

Face of Oblivion - Cataclysmic Desolation

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Country: United States

Purchase: Comatose Music

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/FaceofOblivionMN/ / https://youtu.be/raowNrIjeO8 / -[*]-

Purgatoire - Passé décomposé

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Canada

Purchase: PRC Music

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/purgatoiredeathmetal/ / https://youtu.be/Ee2wqOeC5Tk / -[*]-

Kaapora - Inòspito

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Germany

Purchase: https://kaapora.bandcamp.com/album/in-spito

Preview: https://youtu.be/ZNTjRjpnqYM / -[*]-

Denominate - Those Who Beheld the End

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Finland

Purchase: https://denominate.bandcamp.com/album/those-who-beheld-the-end

Preview: https://www.facebook.com/DenominateBand/ / https://youtu.be/p4OUBlOjrrY / -[*]-

Endless Sacrifice - Dominio total

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Argentina

Purchase: https://www.facebook.com/Endless-Sacrifice-1109841642423403/

Preview: https://youtu.be/XLwX-fH906E / -[*]-

Random Death & Metal - Melodic / Thrash / Progressive / Deathcore

Kinnefret - Coming of Age (USA) / TDC Link 

The Scarlet Claw - Divulger (NLD) / TDC Link

Nerodia - Vanity Unfair (ITL) / TDC Link

Splattafish - Celestial Plague  (USA)

Wastewalker - Funeral Winds (USA) / TDC Link

Riftwalker - Green & Black (CAN) / -[*]-

Omnicide - Constants and Variables (CHE) / TDC Link

Karmik Revenge - Self-Conception (ESP) / -[*]-

Burn Down Eden - Ruins of Oblivion (DEU) / TDC Link

Unhoped - Sonic Violence (FIN)

Dust Bolt - Mass Confusion (DEU)

Aggravator - Sterile Existence (USA) / TDC Link
Hellbringer - Awakened From the Abyss (AUS) / https://youtu.be/S35HesWIXug
Dethrone - Incinerate All (SWE) / TDC Link

Alright then, it's getting late, so I guess I will have to add my Ep's and some other stuff later \m/\m/

Dreamfall In Vain - Resurrection [2016]

Artist: Dreamfall In Vain

Album: Resurrection
Year: 2016
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Technical Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/64CzxRfYSZI
Country: Belarus
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. No Return
2. Black Mist
3. Forbidden Legacy
4. Restless Soul
5. Empty Casket
6. Sentenced to Death
7. Follow Me
8. Bringer of Apocalypse
9. Funeral
10. Constant Algorithm

Witness: -[*]-
You all know I like technical melodic death and that's what is happening right here. Some pretty good shit!

Serpentspire - The Cosmic Throne (demo) [2015]

Artist: Serpentspire

Album: The Cosmic Throne
Year: 2015
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/zxL5H62dGMI
Country: United States
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Nostromo
2. Invasion
3. The Cosmic Throne
4. The World Eater Approaches
5. Exhumed

Witness: -[*]-
These guys just re-released this disc with a different vocalist, guitarist, and new album art. I haven't heard the new version yet, but this demo from 2015 kicks some major technical death metal(core) ass. See for yourself, and support the band by purchasing the new version of this disc \m/\m/

Ovid's Withering - The Cloud Gatherer (EP) [2012]

Artist: Ovid's Withering

Album: The Cloud Gatherer
Year: 2012
Genre: Technical Deathcore
Web: https://youtu.be/FRLbL1p7o28
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Omen of Lycaon (ft. Jamie Stewart of The Absence)
2. Oedipus Complex
3. Panikon Deima

Witness: -[*]-
\m/\m/