Serpent Of Gnosis - As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation [2019]

Artist: Serpent Of Gnosis

Album: As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/serpentofgnosis/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Decoherence
2. Paroxysmal Dance
3. Fragile Vessel of Serenity
4. The Colorless Capsules
5. Cognivity
6. A Mask of Lucidity
7. Hemorrhaging Fabrications
8. Harvest
9. Entrenched Euphoria
10. Lurid Skin

Witness: -[*]-
Short grinding little ditties of death.

Breeding Ignorance - Image and Likeness [2019]

Artist: Breeding Ignorance

Album: Image and Likeness
Year: 2019
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/6d14186CJOU
Country: Belarus
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Defaced
2. Image and Likeness
3. Saviour
4. Spawn of Heaven
5. Hallucinogenic Hell
6. Heritage
7. Stagnation
8. Hammer Smashed Face (Cannibal Corpse cover)

Witness: -[*]-
In many ways, Breeding Ignorance is just another typical brutal death metal band but for some reason, these songs have captured my attention and I like this disc quite a bit.

Carnation - Chapel of Abhorrence [2018]

Artist: Carnation

Album: Chapel of Abhorrence
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.carnationband.com / https://carnation.bandcamp.com/
Country: Belgium
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. The Whisperer
2. Hellfire
3. Chapel of Abhorrence
4. The Unconquerable Sun
5. Disciples of Bloodlust
6. Hatred Unleashed
7. Plaguebreeder
8. Magnum Chaos
9. Sermon of the Dead
10. Fathomless Depths
11. Power Trip

Witness: -[*]-
This came out last August, and even though I really liked their 2015 Ep, for some reason I chose to ignore this disc last year, which I regret. I have been making up for that here in the past few months.

 

Mortals Path - Feast of Maggots [2019]

Artist: Mortals Path

Album: Feast of Maggots
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/MortalsPath/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Feast of Maggots
2. Face First into Purgatory
3. Emperor
4. Monument
5. Life Is Pain
6. Godless
7. Stabwound
8. Open Casket Funeral
9. Orgy in Gore
10. Gone Butchering
11. Bleeding Eye Sockets

Witness: -[*]-
Thanks to CarlG for the heads up on this disc but it isn't surprising that he would like this one. I mean it's straight up, no bullshit death metal from Germany, clocking in at over 40 minutes and they got a hot chick in the band as well. What's not to like?

Parental Advisory - Aetas Anthropophagorum [2019]

Artist: Parental Advisory

Album: Aetas Anthropophagorum
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Jz35ypoZIFM
Country: Austria
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Femur Masturbation
2. 78.9%
3. Cannibal Family
4. Heretic
5. Claws and Teeth
6. Conquered by the Undead
7. Reanimator
8. Age of Cannibals

Witness: -[*]-
I have long liked this band and I have to say that I am digging this new shit too. My own CD rip \m/\m/

Swarm Of Eyes - Designing the Dystopia [2011]

Artist: Swarm Of Eyes

Album: Designing the Dystopia
Year: 2011
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/IgSIwXjefps
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Enter the Circle
2. Ruins of My Last Salvation
3. Endless Ashes
4. Shadows at Dusk
5. Humanemic
6. Journey to the Endless End
7. Punish the Artificer
8. The Day That God Went Mad
9. Teeth of the Serpent
10. Warzone
11. Downfall
12. Til Death for Glory
13. Irredeemable
14. Nothing More I Can Bleed

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a disc that I had posted a few years back and I was liking it again recently, so I decided to bring it back to the front of the house.

Soulrot - All Hail the False Kings (EP) [2019]

Artist: Soulrot

Album: All Hail the False Kings
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/AwnEs6YHDhY
Country: Chile
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Napalm Crawling Mass
2. Children Must Die
3. They Corrupt the Sun
4. If the Truth be Know (Napalm Death cover)
5. Obliterate All King

Witness: -[*]-
Listen & support!

Vultur - Entangled In the Webs of Fear [2018]

Artist: Vultur

Album: Entangled In the Webs of Fear
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/WVLW8I6TcS4
Country: Greece
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Entangled in the Webs of Fear
2. Vulture's Beak
3. Murder Castle
4. Incubation of Grimness
5. Slithering in Carrion
6. Ritual Excarnation
7. Void of Hallucinating Torment
8. Retaliation
9. Maggoty Marrow

Witness: -[*]-

Vulnus - Vessels of Throe [2015]

Artist: Vulnus 

Album: Vessels of Throe
Year: 2015
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/dFWIbAjcm04 / https://newstandardelite.bandcamp.com/vulnus
Country: Greece
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Limitational Paradox
2. Failure
3. Concealed in Fractals
4. Thermal Activity of an Arson Rated as Disqualified
5. Neurons Subjected to Entropia
6. Idle in a Liquid Grave
7. Establish the Unstable

Witness: -[*]-
Highly worthy Athenian brutality! This is my own CD rip \m/\m/

Helstar - Nosferatu [1989]

Artist: Helstar 

Album: Nosferatu
Year: 1989
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Helstar.Metal
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Rhapsody in Black
2. Baptized in Blood
3. To Sleep, Per Chance to Scream
4. Harker's Tale (Mass of Death)
5. Perseverance and Desperation
6. The Curse Has Passed Away
7. Benediction
8. Harsh Reality
9. Swirling Madness
10. Von am Lebem Desto Strum
11. Aieliaria and Everonn

Witness: -[*]-

Helstar - A Distant Thunder [1988]

Artist: Helstar

Album: A Distant Thunder
Year: 1988
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/dKUzubJcLd0
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The King Is Dead
2. Bitter End
3. Abandon Ship
4. Tyrannicide
5. Scorcher
6. Genius of Insanity
7. (The) Whore of Babylon
8. Winds of War
9. He's a Woman, She's a Man (Scorpions cover)

Witness: -[*]-

Helstar - Remnants of War [1986]

Artist: Helstar

Album: Remnants of War
Year: 1986
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/GzKfeBUIZ-o
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Unidos por Tristeza
2. Remnants of War
3. Conquest
4. Evil Reign
5. Destroyer
6. Suicidal Nightmare
7. Dark Queen
8. Face the Wicked One
9. Angel of Death

Witness: -[*]-
Helstar was one of my favorite bands from the '80s and IMO, they probably had the best first 4 album run of any band in the genre from that era and this release is their best overall effort from my perspective \m/\m/

Helstar - Burning Star [1984]

Artist: Helstar

Album: Burning Star
Year: 1984
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Pm2XSWCEm5w
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Burning Star
2. Toward the Unknown
3. Witch's Eye
4. Run with the Pack
5. Leather and Lust
6. Possession
7. The Shadows of Iga
8. Dracula's Castle

Witness: -[*]-
This is one of my favorite albums from back in that time period. Helstar were so far ahead of other bands back then, and I was the first one in my circle who knew about them, so I would take this album to every party that I went to back then, and convince the party giver to play it or commandeer the sound system and play it myself. Killer metal and my own rip \m/\m/

Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction [1984]

Artist: Jag Panzer

Album: Ample Destruction
Year: 1984
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/ruxGZAgM0Rk
Country: United States
Quality: VBR

Tracklist:
1. Licensed to Kill
2. Warfare
3. Symphony of Terror
4. Harder than Steel
5. Generally Hostile
6. The Watching
7. Reign of the Tyrants
8. Cardiac Arrest
9. The Crucifix

Witness: -[*]-
I have to admit that I have not really listened to much of Jag Panzer's later work but I found this back in the day and I knew then that I had discovered something awesome. This album was one of the early prototypes of the style that would become US power metal \m/\m/

Reverend - World Won't Miss You [1990]

Artist: Reverend

Album: World Won't Miss You
Year: 1990
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Reverend/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Remission
2. Another Form of Greed
3. Scattered Wits
4. Desperate
5. Leader of Fools
6. World Won't Miss You
7. Rude Awakening
8. Gunpoint
9. Killing Time
10. Hand of Doom (Black Sabbath Cover)
11. 11th Hour

Witness: -[*]-
I never saw Reverend or Metal Church live and from that video, it sure doesn't look like the David Wayne that I have seen in photos but it does sound like him, so I guess it is. This was their last good offering in my opinion and certainly worthy of some spins if you were a fan of the style.

Reverend - Reverend (EP) [1989]

Artist: Reverend

Album: Reverend
Year: 1989
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/2KhJ8SdKg9g
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Power of Persuasion
2. Dimensional Confusion
3. Wretched Excess
4. Ritual

Witness: -[*]-
The Reverend of the Metal Church, David Wayne's later incarnation. This was a good debut and lead in to World Won't Miss You.

Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell [1986]

Artist: Cirith Ungol

Album: One Foot In Hell
Year: 1986
Genre: Heavy Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/FH_YMF3RMCY
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood & Iron
2. Chaos Descends
3. The Fire
4. Nadsokor
5. 100 MPH
6. War Eternal
7. Doomed Planet
8. One Foot in Hell

Witness: -[*]-
This was the only Cirith Ungol album that I ever saw in my local record stores back in the day, I have since heard a few of their other releases and I like King of the Dead quite a bit as well but this is my favorite release from this long-running band.

Exciter - Long Live the Loud [1985]

Artist: Exciter

Album: Long Live the Loud
Year: 1985
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/3QBVh_m4GIE
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Fall Out
2. Long Live the Loud
3. I Am the Beast
4. Victims of Sacrifice
5. Beyond the Gates of Doom
6. Sudden Impact
7. Born to Die
8. Wake Up Screaming
9. Feel the Knife
10. Violence and Force (live)
11. Pounding Metal (live)

Witness: -[*]-
When I discovered Exciter they became my favorite band for 1984 and I had so much anticipation for this album but LLtL let me down for some reason. Don't get me wrong, this was a pretty good album at the time but it wasn't Violence & Force.

Exciter - Violence & Force [1984]

Artist: Exciter
Album: Violence & Force
Year: 1984
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/koAOIjBRgJ4
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Oblivion
2. Violence and Force
3. Scream in the Night
4. Pounding Metal
5. Destructor
6. Swords of Darkness
7. Delivering to the Master
8. Saxons of the Fire
9. War Is Hell

Witness: -[*]-
Another of my early '80s favorites. At the time, I would take over the stereo at every party I went to and play the hell outta this album. Exciter was a 3 piece band and somewhat unique in that the drummer; Dan Beehler, was also the vocalist. This album was all power chords and blasting drums, good shit!

Blacksmith - Fire From Within [1989]

Artist: Blacksmith 

Album: Fire From Within
Year: 1989
Genre: Heavy Metal / Power Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/LRrNRiPOi-8
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Beast
2. House
3. Louder than Hell
4. A Taste of Darkness
5. The Bonemarch / Tower of London
6. Theatres des Vampires
7. Hell to Pay
8. Fug It
9. Black Attack

Witness: -[*]-
Do you underground guys remember this one? I do and I remember that my dude, nuttinface turned me onto this one back then and I have always liked this a fair bit for sure.

Bloodlust - Guilty As Sin [1985]

Artist: Bloodlust

Album: Guilty As Sin
Year: 1985
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/u0s5Zark4kI
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Soldier of Fortune
2. Ride to Death
3. Chainsaw
4. Tear It Up
5. Bleeding for You
6. Too Scared to Run
7. Rising Power

Witness: -[*]-
Here is another vinyl that I bought and played the Hell out of back in the day. These guys are from Los Angeles and damn I wish I would've lived out here back then. I would have seen all of my '80's favs and been an even bigger metalhead stoner than I am now. Wait a minute, maybe it's better that I didn't live out here then.

 

Witch Cross - Fit For Fight [1984]

Artist: Witch Cross
Album: Fit For Fight
Year: 1984
Genre: Heavy Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/WitchCross/
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Night Flight to Tokyo
2. Face of a Clown
3. Rocking the Night Away
4. Killer Dogs
5. Fight the Fire
6. Axe Dance
7. Light of a Torch
8. Alien Savage

Witness: -[*]-
When I found this album in my local record store back in '84, I took it home and fell in love with it. I must say that at times the vocals were a bit too melodic, but I still liked this album immensely. I mean, tracks like Face of a Clown, Killer Dogs, the instrumental Axe Dance, and Alien Savage showed so much musical talent & ability back then and now.

Kill Division - Destructive Force [2013]

Artist: Kill Division

Album: Destructive Force
Year: 2013
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.metalblade.com/killdivision/
Country: Netherlands
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Kill Division March
2. Mechanic Domination
3. Fear of Life
4. Locked Up Forever
5. Made of Lies
6. Destructive Force
7. Sadistic Oppressor
8. Distorted Reality
9. Generated Hate
10. Master Manipulator
11. Toxic World

Witness: -[*]-

Gastrorrexis - Realm Savagery Decimation [2018]

Artist: Gastrorrexis

Album: Realm Savagery Decimation
Year: 2018
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/KDNZoeywpUE
Country: Ecuador
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Deteriorate Flesh
3. Drain Blood
4. Devoured by Rats
5. Deep Repugnance
6. Impregnate Excrement
7. Induce Punishment
8. Vaccine of Horror
9. Extinction of Vitality
10. Outro
11. Instrumental
12. Corpses Insanity
13. Pathology of Parasities Eat Meat

Witness: -[*]-
You know, this one of those discs that fell into the December pit for me, by which I mean that when an album comes out in December I sometimes tend to overlook them because I am already in EoY list mode. That was the case with this disc and that's my loss because this is some of their best work IMO.

Silent Empire - Dethronement of All Icons [2018]

Artist: Silent Empire

Album: Dethronement of All Icons
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/bluHENvbjVU
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Unique and Primordial
2. Abolish the Reins of Men
3. Blessed by Wisdom
4. Unscathed Before the Unknown
5. Hail the Legions
6. I Am the Empire
7. Conquest the Throne of Blasphemy
8. Among the Faceless

Witness: -[*]-

Antiverse - Under the Regolith [2018]

Artist: Antiverse

Album: Under the Regolith
Year: 2018
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/xiiu5Y0wAWM
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hallucigenia
2. Crimson Codex
3. Ghostwinds
4. Black Waves of Sorcery
5. Subject Six
6. Under the Regolith
7. Diaspora
8. Derelicts
9. Shunned House

Witness: -[*]-
I missed this disc last year and not sure if anyone mentioned them, I would hope that someone did. I have their 2014 release posted here and remember liking it a fair bit back at that time.

Goregäng - Neon Graves [2019]

Artist: Goregäng

Album: Neon Graves
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/D_YesqHJfjQ
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. A Cavity in Reality
2. False Flags
3. Cathedral of Chemicals
4. Silence Is Consent
5. Spray of Teeth
6. Feeble-minded Rash
7. Neon Graves
8. Plague of Hammers
9. Goregӓng
10. Weightless Sentinels
11. Putrid Judgement
12. This Era of Human

Witness: -[*]-
Goregäng is a 2 man project from Spring Hill, Florida and they certainly have a tasty old school flavor. This is another quality release from India's Transcending Obscurity label, cheers to Kunal Choksi \m/\m/

Parius - Saturnine [2015]

Artist: Parius

Album: Saturnine
Year: 2015
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/UiGkWBiBZU4
Country: United States
Quality: 192 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Doctor Device
2. Galactic Termination
3. Grave of the Firegod
4. Mannequin Soldier
5. Archaic Diabolical
6. Saturnine
7. Confined
8. Lake Laogai
9. Progression Through Violence
10. The Silence of the Sirens
11. Fresh Graves, Old Tombs
12. Dark Horizons

Witness: -[*]-
Parius are a fairly young bunch of guys from Philadelphia who create some skilled technical melodic death metal, I had their 2018 disc in my best of list, so that should tell you what I think of them. They were younger when they made this one, so it isn't quite as polished and honed but still has some very good moments for my tastes.

Ruthless - Aftermath [2019]

Artist: Ruthless

Album: Aftermath
Year: 2019
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/ruthlessdeath
Country: Spain
Quality: 192 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Your Name Carved in Stone
3. Bastard Unknowing
4. Killer Serenity
5. Sentients
6. Scars of Judgement
7. In the Purple
8. Embodiment

Witness: -[*]-
Check this disc and support this band from A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. The video above is from their 2016 EP.

Thrashist Regime - Carnival of Monsters [2018]

Artist: Thrashist Regime

Album: Carnival of Monsters
Year: 2018
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/thrashistregime
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 kbps



Tracklist:
1. Laughter Then Madness Then Death
2. Antarctattack
3. Headshot
4. Megalomaniac
5. Operation: Keep Him Busy
6. Vengeful Knights
7. Colossus
8. Soldiers of Fortune
9. X-COM: Enemy Unknown
10. Carnival of Monsters
11. Metacidal Massacre

Witness: -[*]-
Damn, this is an entertaining thrash metal album! I like it when a new band can capture that old school, off the rails style like these guys do. Listen & support \m/\m/

Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers... [2015]

Artist: Sarpanitum

Album: Blessed Be My Brothers...
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/uqOkWTFmC6w
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Komenos
2. By Virtuous Reclamation
3. Truth
4. Glorification upon the Powdered Bones of the Sundered Dead
5. Immortalised as Golden Spires
6. Thy Sermon Lies Forever Tarnished
7. I Defy for I Am Free
8. Homeland
9. Malek al-Inkitar
10. Blessed Be My Brothers

Witness: -[*]-
I have liked this band for a long time, I think their 2007 release is a true gem and I am not sure why but for some reason I have really struggled to fully appreciate this disc. It is not bad at all but at the same time, it doesn't beckon me to play it much either.

Sarpanitum - Despoilment of Origin [2007]

Artist: Sarpanitum

Album: Despoilment of Origin
Year: 2007
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/loGEV1dDWqw
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1.  Seducing the Phallus Throne
2. Halls of Decadence
3. Ascending the Divine
4. Provocation of an Eternal Odium
5. Dusk Over Assyria
6. Cur Defilement
7. Dawn of Enthrallment
8. Despoilment of Origin

Witness: -[*]-
Here is some killer UK death metal from more than 10 years ago now. Damn, where does the time go? I guess it doesn't matter, just be sure to give this a listen if you are uninitiated.