| 4.5 superb |
| A Pale December Death Panacea |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Anal Stabwound Reality Drips Into the Mouth of Indifference |
| Ancient Death Ego Dissolution |
| Badass proggy/OSDM sound, very fresh and riveting! |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| ATKA Untitled Album 1 |
| Frantic, breathtaking math/grind metal that sounds like a mad fusion of Gridlink, TDEP, and Psyopus. The technical factor is extremely high but it's also quite melodic and even progressive in a lot of spots. For me this will be one of the most underrated gems in extreme metal. Tons of fun but with a large splash of danger. |
| Back Door To Asylum Cerberus Millenia |
| Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Bloodshot Dawn Bloodshot Dawn |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Cambion Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium |
| Carnophage Matter of a Darker Nature |
| Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm |
| Civerous Maze Envy |
| Concrete Winds Concrete Winds |
| Absolutely disgusting, rabid death/grind. I absolutely love this particular blend of psychotic solos, relentless drumming, and surprisingly clear, but powerful production. |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux |
| Craven Idol The Shackles of Mammon |
| Craven Idol Forked Tongues |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Death Human |
| Deathfuckingcunt Decadent Perversity |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds |
| Defacement Duality |
| One of the wildest death metal rides I've taken recently. I hear all sorts of insane influences like Ulcerate, Wormed, Deafheaven, Demilich, etc. It's quite the rollercoaster, especially the 16-minute closer. |
| Defacement Doomed |
| Another stellar album from one of the best death metal groups in recent years. |
| Degial Predator Reign |
| Deliquesce Saviour / Enslaver |
| Demoniac (CHL) Nube Negra |
| Badass Chilean thrash metal with more riffs than you can shake a stick at. |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. |
| Deviant Process Nurture |
| Diskreet Engage the Mechanicality |
| Dysphoria Primal Entropy |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Faithxtractor Loathing & the Noose |
| Ferriterium Calvaire |
| Didn't think I'd be in the minority when I looked this beast of an album up but I love the vocals on display here, and the riffs are insanely potent as well. I also always appreciate black metal with a full, inoffensive mix. |
| First Fragment Dasein |
| Freedom of Fear Nocturnal Gates |
| Fyrnask Fórn |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Gigan Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery... |
| Gigan Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus |
| GridLink Longhena |
| Hellripper Warlocks Grim And Withered Hags |
| Hemotoxin When Time Becomes Loss |
| Later-era Death-influenced, but with sprinkles of modern, proggish touches as well that remind me of Blood Incantation or the newest Tomb Mold. What I love about this release is that I can really connect and headbang to it, or just have it take me on a journey. |
| Hideous Divinity Cobra Verde |
| Hideous Divinity Adveniens |
| Good grief! Hideous Divinity have delivered another album chock-full of crushing, supersonic death metal. Adveniens expands upon their sound in the best way possible. |
| Hideous Divinity Unextinct |
| Horrendous Ecdysis |
| Horrendous Anareta |
| Horrendous Idol |
| Yet another incredible album from the heroes of death metal. Everything has been taken up several notches. The riffs are more menacing and progressive, the leads and solos are more gorgeous and technical than ever, and there are plenty of surprises to be had. The incorporation of more clean and spoken vocals works perfectly in some parts(the ending of Golgothan Tongues), others not so much. Overall, a fantastic addition to the band's discography. |
| Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis |
| Inoculation Actuality |
| This may end up being an unsung 2025 death metal triumph, but holy hell is this nasty. This is honestly on par with some of the best the genre has put out in recent years . |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Krallice Years Past Matter |
| Krallice Ygg Huur |
| Magnetar There Will Be No Peace In My Valley |
| A stunning and fresh combination of black, death, and heavy metal. Tons of riffs, great drumming, rad vocals, and perfect production. |
| Malignancy ...Discontinued |
| Malignant Altar Realms of Exquisite Morbidity |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mayhemic Toba |
| Holy hell this is some intense blackened thrash. Time to party. |
| Mental Devastation The Delusional Mystery Of The Self Part I |
| This is one of the most innovative modern thrash bands out there. Sure, you can trace their influences to Coroner, Forbidden, and even Atheist, but they mix those influences in such a fresh and compelling way that it's impossible to write them off as mere copycats. |
| Mizmor Yodh |
| This is one of the best albums of 2016 and one of the best doom albums of the decade thus far. Yodh is a monolithic joining of doom, black metal, and harsh noise/drone/feedback madness. |
| Molested Divinity The Primordial |
| NAILS Abandon All Life |
| NAILS You Will Never Be One Of Us |
| Necromantic Forces Under The Threshold Of Consciousness |
| Nithing Agonal Hymns |
| Noisem Cease To Exist |
| Oathbreaker Maelstrom |
| Ophidian I Desolate |
| OWDWYR Receptor |
| What the effing eff did I just listen to?! This is some sort of insane technical/prog death metal concoction that blew me away. There are breakdowns but this definitely isn't your typical deathcore. Imagine Psyopus, BtBaM, and Meshuggah as starting points, but there are some sick surprises throughout. |
| Oxygen Destroyer Guardian of the Universe |
| Pallbearer Heartless |
| Pallbearer have expanded their sound and have created a masterpiece. They've really mastered the art of giving each song amazing momentum. "A Plea For Understanding" is probably one of the most heartfelt songs I've ever heard. |
| Palm Reader Beside The Ones We Love |
| Pillars of Cacophony Paralipomena |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation |
| Putrescent (USA-CA) Darkness Embraced |
| Putridity Morbid Ataraxia |
| Ramming Speed Doomed to Destroy, Destined to Die |
| Remnants of the Fallen All The Wounded And Broken |
| I have no idea how this isn't more well-known because this is some of the best metalcore I've ever heard. Insane solos, highly technical riffing and drumming, huge emotional moments, this album has all the good stuff in spades with absolutely no redundant chugging; the rare breakdowns are very deliberately placed and contribute to the songs in the best way. The lyrics and vocals patterns are pretty great too. |
| Revocation Revocation |
| Ripper (CL) Experiment of Existence |
| Sacrifizer Le Diamant de Lucifer |
| Fantastic black/thrash/speed metal with epic riffs and high-quality songwriting. |
| Sarcator Swarming Angels & Flies |
| Insane, high-speed blackened thrash. Guaranteed to induce headbanging. |
| Savage Oath Divine Battle |
| Scalding Nuclear Winter Spell |
| Scorched (USA-DE) Ecliptic Butchery |
| Seizures The Sanity Universal |
| Selbst Selbst |
| Selbst Despondency Chord Progressions |
| I will never get tired of all those haunting guitar leads. |
| Serocs The Phobos / Deimos Suite |
| Setentia Darkness Transcend |
| Shrine of Skulls Megalith of Madness |
| I am absolutely shocked that this incredible 2024 release hasn't garnered more attention. Ripping, furious, and fresh, Shrine of Skulls have created a hell of a fun death metal ride. I can't imagine any fan of the genre not thoroughly enjoying this one! |
| Skeletal Remains The Entombment Of Chaos |
| Extremely well done OSDM. No murky production, no pretension, only brutal riffing, ripping solos and highly enjoyable songwriting. You'll headbang, you'll piss your pants, and you'll hit play again when this album is over, guaranteed. |
| Skeletal Remains Fragments Of The Ageless |
| Their heaviest, most compelling album yet. Any fan of OSDM or death metal in general is sure to enjoy this classic yet fresh take on the genre. |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| Sumerlands Dreamkiller |
| Definitely one of the best traditional heavy metal releases of the modern age. There is a lot of diversity among the tracks; a few of them are fast-paced and lethal and some are slower and more atmospheric. Overall, the whole album rocks just as much as their debut and has the same sorrowful, dark touches in the riffing and lyrics. |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Secret Agnus Dei |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit |
| I've always liked Tomb Mold, but to me they always lacked emotional weight in their riffing and general delivery. This album is a huge improvement on that front. The riffs are more emotional, proggy and melodic while still bringing plenty of their trademark cavernous brutality to the table. |
| Type: Armor Unit Revolutions in Saecula |
| For some reason Sput wouldn't let me upload the album cover, but DO NOT PASS THIS UP if you like Discordance Axis, Gridlink, etc. Insane, balls-to-the-wall, interesting spacegrind. |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Unbirth Fleshforged Columns of Deceit |
| Unfathomable Ruination Finitude |
| Unhuman Unhuman |
| Usnea Usnea |
| Usnea Portals Into Futility |
| Vale of Pnath The Prodigal Empire |
| Vale of Pnath II |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Vomitrocious Dystopian Elegy: The Last Echoes of Dying Humanity |
| Vulture (DE) The Guillotine |
| Vulture (DE) Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves |
| Vulture (DE) Dealin' Death |
| Vulture (DE) Sentinels |
| Vulture does it again...! Sentinels is a fantastic, aggressive speed/thrash album that blends all the best characteristics of their previous works while sprinkling in a couple surprises here and there. Vulture might be influenced by bands much older than themselves, but they make the style feel fresh and authentic. |
| Warp Chamber Implements of Excruciation |
| Wharflurch Psychedelic Realms ov Hell |
| Wormed Exodromos |
| Wormed Krighsu |
| Xoth Interdimensional Invocations |
This is everything I want from a death metal album in today's scene. Soaring and ripping leads/solos, spastic but
well-structured songs, and a diverse set of influences ranging from black metal to heavy metal have made this
one of my favorite albums of the year! |
| Xoth Exogalactic |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures |
| 7 H. Target Yantra Creating |
| A Flock Named Murder Incendiary Sanctum |
| Abhorration (NOR) Demonolatry |
| I have a huge weak spot for this kind of blackened, grindy death metal and holy hell does this deliver. If you liked the new Concrete Winds, you'll probably enjoy this as well. |
| Abhorrent (USA-TX) Intransigence |
| Abigor Leytmotif Luzifer |
| Abnormality Contaminating the Hive Mind |
| Abscession Rot of Ages |
| Abyssal (UK) Antikatastaseis |
| Ad Nauseam Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est |
| Adversarial Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of... |
| Adversarial Solitude with the Eternal... |
| Aenigmatum Deconsecrate |
| Afterbirth The Time Traveler's Dilemma |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Ahtme Mephitic |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I |
| Algebra Chiroptera |
| All Pigs Must Die God Is War |
| All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature |
| Alterbeast Immortal |
| An Autumn Only The Ocean Knows |
| An Autumn The Long Goodbye |
| Analepsy Quiescence |
| Angelcorpse The Inexorable |
| Antigama The Insolent |
| Antropofagus Architecture of Lust |
| Apep The Invocation of the Deathless One |
| Apostasy (CHL) Death Return |
| Archspire All Shall Align |
| Arkaik Reflections Within Dissonance |
| Arkaik Lucid Dawn |
| Arkaik Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts |
| Ascended Dead Abhorrent Manifestation |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| Aspherium The Fall of Therenia |
| Astralborne Across the Aeons |
| Atheist Piece Of Time |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| Auroch Taman Shud |
| Auroch Mute Books |
| Chaotic yet atmospheric death metal with tons of freakish twists and turns. |
| Autonoesis Moon of Foul Magics |
| Axiomatic Dematerialization Absolute Elimination Of Existence |
| Azarath Blasphemers' Maledictions |
| Baring Teeth Atrophy |
| Baring Teeth Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins |
| Baring Teeth Transitive Savagery |
| Baring Teeth The Path Narrows |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Beastwars Blood Becomes Fire |
| Beheaded Never To Dawn |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Beneath (IS) Ephemeris |
| Beneath the Massacre Incongruous |
| Bestia Ater Anno Bestia Chrysallis |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Between the Buried and Me The Blue Nowhere |
| Blasteroid Crypts of Mind |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History Of The Human Race |
| This album completely rips, bringing dense atmosphere, speedy epic death metal, and insane, haunting vocals together in a whirlwind of cosmic chaos. Every track has a plethora of truly jaw-dropping moments, but the album suffers a bit from poor pacing and an experiment or two that don't work as well as they could have. |
| Bloodshot Dawn Demons |
| Breeding Filth Perverse Devolution |
| Bufihimat I |
| Burial Invocation Abiogenesis |
| Burning Palace Elegy |
| Burning The Masses Offspring of Time |
| Butcher 666 Goats Carry My Chariot |
| Cadaveric Fumes Echoing Chambers Of Soul |
| Cambion Unfold Chaos Supreme |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w |
| Car Bomb Meta |
Meta is absolutely punishing. Imagine Meshuggah and The Dillinger Escape Plan blended in a
sharknado. Cenotaph is a bit of a dud, but every other track is golden. |
| Carnosus Visions of Infinihility |
| Castrensis Hierarchies |
| Celestial Sanctuary Insatiable Thirst For Torment |
| Cephalotripsy Epigenetic Neurogenesis |
| Ceremony Of Silence Hálios |
| Chaos Inception Vengeance Evangel |
| Chaotian Effigies of Obsolescence |
| Chapel of Disease The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art |
| Clairvoyance Chasm of Immurement |
| Cloak To Venomous Depths |
| Cloak The Burning Dawn |
| Cloak Black Flame Eternal |
| Cloud Rat Qliphoth |
| Coffin Curse The Continuous Nothing |
| Cognitive Abhorrence |
| Condition Critical Extermination Plan |
| Condition Critical Degeneration Chamber |
| Contaminated (AUS) Celebratory Beheading |
| Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies |
| Contrarian Only Time Will Tell |
| Contrarian Sage of Shekhinah |
| Crazy Death/Atheist-inspired death metal. This is their most abstract, proggy work yet (the drumming is especially wild) and it works well, but not perfectly. |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Coroner Mental Vortex |
| Coroner No More Color |
| Corpus Offal Corpus Offal |
| Corrossive The great beyond |
| Coscradh Nahanagan Stadial |
| Critical Defiance Misconception |
| Critical Defiance The Search Won't Fall... |
| Cruciamentum Obsidian Refractions |
| Crypt Sermon Out of the Garden |
| Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light |
| Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus |
| Finally, a band has come around that is poised and ready to take the sci-fi thrash throne from the now defunct Vektor. These dudes shred extremely hard. |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm |
| Cynic Focus |
| Daeva (USA-PA) Through Sheer Will And Black Magic… |
| Dawn of Azazel The Tides of Damocles |
| Deafheaven Roads To Judah |
| Deafheaven Lonely People With Power |
| Dearth To Crown All Befoulment |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Symbolic |
| Deathbringer (BLR) IT |
| Decaying Purity Mass Extinction Of The Providential Ones |
| Deceptionist Initializing Irreversible Process |
| Decrepit Birth Polarity |
| Decryptal Simulacre |
| Defect Designer Chitin |
| Deiphago I, The Devil |
| Deliquesce Cursed With Malevolence |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Demiser Slave to the Scythe |
| Demiurgon The Oblivious Lure |
| Demoniac (CHL) So It Goes |
| Depravity (AUS) Grand Malevolence |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar |
| Desecravity Anathema |
| Diabolizer Murderous Revelations |
| Dirge (FR) Hyperion |
| Diskord Degenerations |
| Dismember Like An Ever Flowing Stream |
| Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance |
| Divinite Hive Stellar Fusion Genesis |
| Division Speed Division Speed |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron |
| Dormant Ordeal Tooth and Nail |
| Downfall of Gaia Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay |
| Drawn and Quartered Lord of Two Horns |
| Droid (CAN) Terrestrial Mutations |
| Dysphoria To the Perfect Form of Modern Species |
| Dysphoria The Apogee |
| Eccentric Pendulum Perspectiva Invertalis |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Electrocutioner (USA-NY) Harbinger |
| Endon Mama |
| Endon Through The Mirror |
| Absolutely savage noise/grind/black metal with a vocalist that rivals Jacob Bannon in pure ferocity. "Torch Your House" is especially vicious yet also uplifting. |
| Enforced War Remains |
| Erebor Infinitus Somnium |
| ERRA Impulse |
| ERRA Augment |
| Eternal Champion The Armor Of Ire |
| Eternal Champion Ravening Iron |
| Eternity's End Unyielding |
| Eternity's End Embers of War |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Evilyn Mondestrunken |
| Execration (NOR) Return to the Void |
| Exocrine The Hybrid Suns |
| Exordium Mors As Legends Fade and Gods Die |
| Fallujah Xenotaph |
| Februus Surveillance Orgy |
| Felgrave Otherlike Darknesses |
| Fractal Generator Convergence |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir |
| Full of Hell just won't stop. The entire album is just dripping with malice, focused into a truly unsettling grind/death metal whirlwind. Harsh noise isn't usually my bag, but the group uses it pretty tastefully and it compliments the "brain-melting" vibe they have going on. |
| Gigan Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes |
| Gorephilia In The Eye Of Nothing |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution |
| GraveRipper Seasons Dreaming Death |
| Grey Heaven Fall Black Wisdom |
| Harlott Extinction |
| Hate Eternal Infernus |
| Hateful Set Forever on Me |
| This album blew me away. Chaotic, intricate but measured songwriting, creative riffs, and fantastic musicianship all around. Will probably become a 4.5 once I've unraveled it a bit more. |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Discarnate Ails |
| Hazzerd The 3rd Dimension |
| Heaving Earth Denouncing the Holy Throne |
| Heaving Earth Darkness of God |
| Hellix Montage |
| Hemotoxin Restructure The Molded Mind |
| Heresiarch Edifice |
| Hideous Divinity Obeisance Rising |
| Hideous Divinity Simulacrum |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| Hooded Menace Darkness Drips Forth |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Another fantastic album from Horrendous, even though it feels more like an EP at times. |
| Horror Chamber Thoughts: The Slow Decay |
| Huronian As Cold as a Stranger Sunset |
| Compelling and rich blackened/melodic/death metal. |
| Hyperdontia Harvest of Malevolence |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma |
| Inanimate Existence Liberation Through Hearing |
| Inanimate Existence A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement |
| Inanimate Existence Clockwork |
| Inculter Fatal Visions |
| Inculter Morbid Origin |
| Badass abrasive thrash. Less blackened/deathened than their last album, with a more mid-paced, atmospheric and even epic feel. A great mix of everything I love in modern thrash. |
| Infecting the Swarm Pulsing Coalescence |
| Infibulated Diabolical Euphoric Subjugation |
| Iniquitous Savagery Edifice of Vicissitudes |
| Inoculation Pure Cosmic Dread |
| Inoculation Celestial Putridity |
| Inoculation Anatomize |
| Insecurity Intruder of Reality |
| Badass Chilean thrash that brings the riffs in a major way. The vocals might not be everyone's cup of tea, but this album is really fresh and encapsulates the South American thrash scene in a great way. |
| Integrity Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial |
| Intronaut Valley Of Smoke |
| Intronaut The Direction Of Last Things |
| Iron Reagan The Tyranny Of Will |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Jade (ESP) Mysteries of a Flowery Dream |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| Kakothanasy Dystomorph |
| Kakothanasy Metagonism |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo |
| Kossuth Mictlan |
| Really sick tech/prog death metal in the same vein as Beyond Creation, Fallujah, and Deviant Process. Very noodly but there are some really nice melodic moments as well. |
| Kossuth Necronym |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough |
| Krallice Diotima |
| Krallice Hyperion |
| Krallice Prelapsarian |
Krallice mixes the chaos from Ygg Huur with the technical atmosphere of Years Past Matter
to create yet another amazing album.
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/prelapsarian |
| Kronos Arisen New Era |
| Krypts Cadaver Circulation |
| Lie in Ruins Floating in Timeless Streams |
| Light Dweller The Subjugate |
| Living Gate Suffer As One |
| Logic of Denial Aftermath |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask |
| Lunar Blood Twilight Insurgency |
| Lvcifyre The Broken Seal |
| Lycus Chasms |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Maze of Sothoth Extirpated Light |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility |
| Miscreance Convergence |
| Really nifty old-school/prog influenced death metal. The instrumentation is fun and frenetic, but the vocals are a bit lackluster. |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu |
| Mitochondrion Vitriseptome |
| Really damn good atmospheric/murky death metal. Not quite as ripping and immediate as I usually like, but this is destined to be seen as a major comeback album after all these years. |
| Mortual Altar of Brutality |
| Moss Upon The Skull Quest For The Secret Fire |
| Mutagenic Host The Diseased Machine |
| NAILS Unsilent Death |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Neurosis Given To The Rising |
| Nightbearer Defiance |
| Nightbringer Hierophany of the Open Grave |
| Nightbringer Ego Dominus Tuus |
| Nightbringer Terra Damnata |
| Just as good as their other albums. Another solid Nightbringer release that does little to expand their sound. |
| Nogothula Telluric Sepsis |
| Noisem Agony Defined |
| Noisem Blossoming Decay |
| Northlane Discoveries |
| Nothingness Supraliminal |
| Noxis Violence Inherent In The System |
| Nuvolascura Nuvolascura |
| Nuvolascura As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination |
| Nuvolascura How This All Ends |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Obliteration Nekropsalms |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure |
| Obscene (USA-IN) Agony & Wounds |
| Badass old-school inspired death metal! Cool mix of high-speed riffage and slower, more menacing moments. |
| Obscene Worship Ordained to Infernal Depths |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis |
| Obscura Akróasis |
| Obscura A Valediction |
| Obsolete Animate//Isolate |
| Odious Mortem Cryptic Implosion |
| Olkoth (USA-SC) At the Eye of Chaos |
| Ominous Ruin Requiem |
| Organectomy Existential Disconnect |
| Orphalis The Approaching Darkness |
| Osserp Els Nous Cants de la Sibil·la |
| Outer Heaven Infinite Psychic Depths |
| Pagan Altar Never Quite Dead |
| It's hard to believe that a classic band can still be putting out such rockin', doomin' tunes, but Pagan Altar just refuses to die! |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction |
| Paranorm Empyrean |
| Paroxysm Unit Fragmentation // Stratagem |
| Perilaxe Occlusion Vapor Chamber |
| Phinehas Till the End |
| Phobocosm Foreordained |
| Primitive Man Scorn |
| Profanity Fragments of Solace |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Protosequence Bestiary |
| Pyrrhon Exhaust |
| Question Reflections of the Void |
| Regurgitation Excrement Acts of Putrefaction |
| Replacire Do Not Deviate |
| Ripping technical death metal with plenty of progressive leaning riffs and song structures. An incredible improvement upon their previous album, which was already excellent. |
| Replicant Infinite Mortality |
| Resin Tomb Cerebral Purgatory |
| Resurgency No Worlds... Nor Gods Beyond |
| Retromorphosis Psalmus Mortis |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms |
| Revocation Deathless |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin |
| Revocation The Outer Ones |
| Revocation Netherheaven |
| Riot City Electric Elite |
| Really badass album that expands the sound from their first to reach beyond their inspirations. |
| Ripped to Shreds Sanshi |
| Ritual Necromancy Disinterred Horror |
| Royal Thunder CVI |
| Ruby The Hatchet Fear is a Cruel Master |
| Sadistic Ritual The Enigma, Boundless |
| Sadus The Shadow Inside |
| Sarcastic Obedience Fading Faith |
| Scalpture Feldwärts |
| Scordatura Mass Failure |
| Selbst Relatos de Angustia |
| Sentient Horror In Service of the Dead |
| Sepulcher Panoptic Horror |
| Sepulchral Curse Crimson Moon Evocations |
| Shards of Humanity Cold Logic |
| Sijjeel Affiliation of Horrid Containment |
| Sijjin Helljjin Combat |
| Really awesome combination of early death metal and thrash. It's not as "ripping" as a lot of the stuff coming out these days but it rocks really damn hard. |
| Sinmara Aphotic Womb |
| Sinmara Within the Weaves of Infinity |
| Skaphos Cult of Uzura |
| Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Smoulder Violent Creed of Vengeance |
| Snet Mokvání V Okovech |
| Soreption Jord |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant |
| Spectral Lore III |
| Spirit Possession Spirit Possession |
| Stabbing Extirpated Mortal Process |
| State Faults Children of the Moon |
| Another fantastic album from State Faults, even though the pace is a bit uneven throughout the somewhat overlong runtime. |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods |
| Suffocation Pierced From Within |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam |
| Sulphurous The Black Mouth of Sepulchre |
| SUMAC The Deal |
| Sumerlands Sumerlands |
| Sutrah (CAN) Dunes |
| Svartidaudi Flesh Cathedral |
| Swampbeast Offering of Chaos, Lamenting in the Blood of Man |
| Swelling Repulsion Fatally Misguided |
| Taphos Come Ethereal Somberness |
| Terminalist The Crisis as Condition |
| Badass space thrash for fans of Vektor, Xoth, etc. |
| Terrifier Weapons of Thrash Destruction |
| Terrifier Trample the Weak, Devour the Dead |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Burial In The Taking Of Flesh |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Crinn Shadowbreather |
| The Crown Crown of Thorns |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Fall of Every Season Amends |
| The Last of Lucy Godform |
| Thorium The Bastard |
| Torch Runner Committed To The Ground |
| Transtorned Into the Void |
| Tribulation The Children Of The Night |
| Tymo The Art of a Maniac |
| Uada Devoid of Light |
| Ulcer Dead Souls Cathedral |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon |
| Unbirth Deracinated Celestial Oligarchy |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Define The Great Line |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Universally Estranged Reared Up In Spectral Predation |
| Usnea Random Cosmic Violence |
| Usnea Bathed in Light |
| Crushing doom metal! The songs are relatively short this time around, but they're still heavy as hell. Doesn't quite reach the emotional heights of their last album but this is still worthy of any doom fan's time. |
| Uttertomb Nebulas Of Self-Desecration |
| Vaelmyst Secrypts of the Egochasm |
| Venenum Trance of Death |
| This is some seriously evil death metal with more than a little blackened influence. It's a little erratic sometimes, but the riffs are savage and some of the buildups are astounding. |
| Venus Torment Perversion of Nature |
| Vildhjarta + där sjunger under evighetens granar + |
| Vile Rites Senescence |
Yet another fantastic, unique death metal release from 2024. Plenty of aggression, but with some righteous,
unpretentious experimentation. |
| Violator Unholy Retribution |
| Vitriol (USA) Suffer & Become |
| Challenging, chaotic death metal with a dissonant, blackened tinge. |
| Void (USA-LA) Forbidden Morals |
| Wake Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow |
| Warbringer Wrath and Ruin |
| Warfield With The Old Breed |
| Watchtower Control And Resistance |
| Wormhole Almost Human |
| Wormwitch Strike Mortal Soil |
| Some sort of crazy blackened thrash mixed with classic hardcore and doom. Strike Mortal Soil has plenty to keep you interested and rocking your face off listen after listen. |
| Wrathprayer Enkoimeterion |
| Xenoblight Procreation |
| YOB Our Raw Heart |
| Zatokrev Silk Spiders Underwater |
| Zygoma The Highest Court |
| 3.5 great |
| A Loathing Requiem Acolytes Eternal |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser |
| Abnormality Mechanisms of Omniscience |
| Abominable Putridity The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin |
| Abysmal Dawn Programmed to Consume |
| Abysmal Dawn Leveling the Plane of Existence |
| Abyssal (UK) Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius |
| Aegaeon Dissension |
| Aevangelist Enthrall to the Void of Bliss |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig |
| Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Altars (AUS) Paramnesia |
| Altars (AUS) Ascetic Reflection |
| An Autumn Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| Anakim The Elysian Void |
| Anthropophagus Depravity Demonic Paradise |
| Antigama Meteor |
| Arkaik Metamorphignition |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| As I Lay Dying Through Storms Ahead |
| Constant band-related drama aside, I thought this was a well-done metalcore record. There's nothing groundbreaking on display, but it has a lot of energy and I think it's refreshing to hear a more "classic" sound amid all the nu-core coming out these days. |
| Ascension The Dead of the World |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer |
| Astriferous Pulsations from the Black Orb |
| Asystole (USA-NY) Siren To Blight |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Beastwars Beastwars |
| Bell Witch Longing |
| Bell Witch Four Phantoms |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence |
| Black Fast Terms of Surrender |
| Blood Freak Squalor |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| The death metal is decent, the ambience is decent, and the way the band stitches the disparate styles together is decent. Definitely worth listening to and finding out if this is up your alley. |
| Bloodtruth Obedience |
| Bloody Phoenix Death To Everyone |
| Bone Dance Bone Dance |
| Brain Drill Quantum Catastrophe |
| Burning The Masses Mind Control |
| C R O W N Natron |
| Call of the Void Dragged Down A Dead End Path |
| Call of the Void Ageless |
| Castevet Obsian |
| Chaos Motion Psychological Spasms Cacophony |
| Wild, experimental, technical death metal. Really cool to listen to and dissect, but not very accessible or headbangable. If they were to mix in a few catchy riffs and make things flow a bit better they'd have something special on their hands. |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| A fantastic follow up to their previous album, but that singing is pretty rough to get through. |
| Charli XCX Brat |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule |
| Closure in Moscow Soft Hell |
| Has a lot of highlights and combines most of the good stuff from all their previous works, but the energy is too low overall for this to touch First Temple. |
| Conglaciation Conglaciation |
| Contrarian Polemic |
| Contrarian To Perceive Is To Suffer |
| Cosmic Putrefaction Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains |
| Cough Ritual Abuse |
| Cough Still They Pray |
| Creeping Death Boundless Domain |
| Somewhat inconsistent, but the good stuff is pretty damn good! |
| Critical Defiance No Life Forms |
| Crowhurst Crowhurst |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest |
| Cuttered Flesh Love at First Bite |
| Dawohl Leviathan |
| Deadguy Near-Death Travel Services |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Decapitated Christ Glorious Tyrannizing of Human Rats |
| Desolate Shrine The Sanctum of Human Darkness |
| Desolate Shrine The Heart of the Netherworld |
| Devangelic Xul |
| Devoid of Thought Outer World Graves |
| Disembodiment Spiral Crypts |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes |
| Drain (USA-CA) California Cursed |
| Enblood Cast to Exile |
| Encenathrakh Ithate Thngth Oceate |
| Evil (JPN) Possessed by Evil |
| Exul Path to the Unknown |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| Fallujah Empyrean |
| Fathomless Ritual Hymns for the Lesser Gods |
| Fauna Avifauna |
| Fyrnask Eldir Nótt |
| Goath IV: Silencing the Prophets of Deceit |
| Goratory Sour Grapes |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Grave Hex Vermian Death |
| Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum |
| Heaving Earth Diabolic Prophecies |
| Hellish The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| High on Fire Luminiferous |
| Horrendous The Chills |
| Hour of Penance Paradogma |
| Hour of Penance Sedition |
| Hyperdontia Hideous Entity |
| Immolation Acts of God |
| Really good addition to their discography, some of the changes are a tad too random/jarring though. |
| Inisans Transition |
| Into the Ashes Consumed by the Negative Dimension |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| Invent Animate Heavener |
| Khemmis Absolution |
| Khemmis Hunted |
| Korrosive Toxic Apokalypse |
| Krallice Krallice |
| Krypts Unending Degradation |
| Krypts Remnants of Expansion |
| Lethal Shock Evil Aggressor |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Lost Soul Atlantis: The New Beginning |
| Lycus Tempest |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
| Malformed Confinement of Flesh |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| As someone who has liked, but not loved Mastodon's past few albums, this rules. If you're looking for another Blood Mountain you won't find it here, but this is the best album they've put out since Crack the Skye. Also, not sure why people are complaining so vehemently about the production. It's not the best I've ever heard, but it's not offensive at all and it gets the job done. Only thing I noticed is that the drums don't sound quite as full and powerful as they usually do. 3.7/5 |
| Mindforce New Lords |
| Morgue (FRA) Close to Complete Darkness |
| Mortify (CHL) Fragments at the Edge of Sorrow |
| Neurosis Through Silver In Blood |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires |
| Nightbringer Apocalypse Sun |
| Nuclear Tomb Terror Labyrinthian |
| Nucleus (USA-IL) Entity |
| Obscura Omnivium |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden |
| Pandemic Outbreak Skulls Beneath the Cross |
| Pestifer Expanding Oblivion |
| Phantom (MEX) Handed to Execution |
| Phrenelith Chimaera |
| Polaris Fatalism |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Punch They Don’t Have To Believe |
| Putrascension Forever Below |
| Pyres Year Of Sleep |
| Re-Buried Flesh Mourning |
| Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal |
| Reptilian Perennial Void Traverse |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Sallow Moth Stasis Cocoon |
| Sarcophagum The Grand Arc of Madness |
| Schizogen Spawn of Almighty Essence |
| Shadow in the Darkness Erstwhile Befell |
| Skeletal Remains Condemned To Misery |
| Spectrum of Delusion Neoconception |
| Spirit Possession Of the Sign ... |
| Stoned Jesus Seven Thunders Roar |
| SubRosa (US) No Help for the Mighty Ones |
| Sunless Ylem |
| Thanatotherion Alienation Manifesto |
| Thaw Earth Ground |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz |
| Toxaemia Rejected Souls of Kerberus |
| Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness |
| Tumourboy Damaged System |
| Tyranex Reasons For The Slaughter |
| Ufomammut Ecate |
| Ukhel Bred to Conquer |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| This is really damn good. It's dissonant but melodic at the same time. I like my death metal to be a little bit more "fun" though, if you catch my drift. Non-sexually. |
| Unbirth Asomatous Besmirchment |
| Unbirth are back, and they've created another awesome slab of tech/brutal death metal. My only complaint is that the production is a bit rough this time around, but the nasty riffs and expert songwriting are still in full swing. |
| Vale of Pnath Between the Worlds of Life and Death |
| Vampire With Primeval Force |
| Vexovoid Call of the Starforger |
| Vhol Vhol |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Warforged I: Voice |
| This is some pretty out-there death metal. Some of the riffs are more traditional melo/tech death metal but a serious affinity for atmospheric breaks and sudden shifts in direction make this an exciting, if disorienting experience. Some of the transitions are astounding but others are a bit too jarring for my tastes. It's definitely worth a listen if you like Fallujah, Virvum, or any of that other spacey tech death metal stuff. |
| Windhand Soma |
| Wode Uncrossing The Keys |
Leans even more into the blackened/rock/metal side of their sound than their previous works,
but there's some ferocity on display as well. If you dig Tribulation, Cloak or Nite, you'll
love this. |
| Wormed Planisphaerium |
| Wraith (USA-IN) Undo The Chains |
| Xenotropic Mutation Omophagia Of Submerged Organism |
| YOB Atma |
| Zustand Null Beyond the Limit of Sanity |
| 3.0 good |
| Abaddon Incarnate Pessimist |
| Abigail Williams Becoming |
| Abiotic Symbiosis |
| Abiotic Casuistry |
| Acid King III |
| Acid King Middle Of Nowhere, Center Of Everywhere |
| Adimiron Timelapse |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| Ahab The Giant |
| Aliases Safer Than Reality |
| Aliases Derangeable |
| Alpha Wolf A Quiet Place to Die |
| Chuggy hardcore with a few interesting Danza-esque moments. The lyrics are lackluster and they rely way too heavily on the aforementioned chugging. |
| Bedsore Hypnagogic Hallucinations |
| Good, but not great psychedelic old-school death metal. While there are certainly some kickass moments, the album is highly inconsistent and many of the slower, creepier parts are simply boring. |
| C R O W N Psychugry |
| Celeste Animale(s) |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty |
| Super heavy hardcore with a bit of mathcore to make things extra chaotic. Nothing new or unique, but it is certainly enjoyable even though the production holds it back. |
| Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog |
| Very vicious and fast-paced death metal with very odd, anxiety-inducing violins and other instruments thrown in. Unfortunately the constant inclusion of these into practically every section, along with some odd mixing choices causes the guitars to lose a lot of their power. Still worth a listen by anyone into Abyssal, Wormlust, and weird/dissonant black/death metal. |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fallujah Undying Light |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails (Remixed & Remastered) |
| I was so excited when I saw the news that this was being remixed/remastered. Unfortunately, it's only slightly less offensive sonically than the original. The snare and toms still sound horrible, but everything else sounds decent enough I suppose. Maybe in another ten years we'll get a perfected version. |
| First Fragment Gloire Eternelle |
| Decently written and there is some AMAZING stuff here, but funnily enough one factor drags this down into the mud: way too many squealing pinch harmonics. It sounds like one thousand dogs are chewing on one thousand squeaky toys. Would have easily been a 4-4.5 if they had cut out 90% of them. In 'El is definitely the best track. |
| Frontierer Orange Mathematics |
| Horn of the Rhino Summoning Deliverance |
| Morbus Chron Sweven |
| Northlane Singularity |
| Phrenelith Desolate Endscape |
| Rivers of Nihil The Conscious Seed of Light |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy |
| Underoath The Place After This One |
| Surprised to see so much hate for this, it's certainly not as good as their classic material but it's about as good as a lot of the nu-core Sputnik seems to swoon over. |
| Vhol Deeper than Sky |
| Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Decay |
| A very strange return after 10+ years. There are some great riffs and leadwork, but the pacing is very slow. It also kind of takes a nosedive halfway through, with two weak tracks leading up to a lackluster 16 minute instrumental piece. Worth a listen, and works in the background. |
