Imposer- Divine Intolerance (2010)

Imposer

Divine Intolerance (2010)

Genre- Blackened Death Metal

Very aggressive blackened death metal from Italy. This short and haunting 4 song is the bands most recent release and contains 2 evil originals and 2 cover songs. I hear influence of Immolation, Behemoth and Krisiun on the heavy. Worth a listen.

Divine Intolerance

Arkaik- Existential Chaos (2007)

Arkaik

Existential Chaos

Genre- Technical Death Metalcore

Dont let the goofy band name/logo and boring album cover fool you, this is an above average technical death metal release from a band hailing from California. They seem to touch on alot of core influence pretty often, most especially in the vocal department. Impressive drumming, solid song writing and a constant blitz of gut wrenching song structure. This is absolutely an band/album worth checking out.

Existential Chaos

Unconsecrated- Slave To The Grave (2010)

Unconsecrated

Slave To The Grave (2010)

Genre- Death Metal

This is fucking awesome stuff. Insanely fuzzy, yet clean and well produced, throw back death metal styled brutality. Solos and thunderous riffage dive-bombing overhead between bursts of old school chugology, and some of the most rich, mid ranged frog throating gutturals I've heard recently. Unreal. This is an absolute must download and support.

piles of bodies, not even a fly would defend.

Candiria- Deep In The Mental (1995)

Candiria

Deep In The Mental (1995)

Genre- Death Metal/Grindcore/Jazz/Jam/Other

I think I may have more respect for Candiria than I do for pretty much 90% of the other bands that I listen to. Ok, so that may be a bit of a stretch but still, without these guys I dont think I'd be as into the obscure metal scene as I am. I swear I was raised on the street driven, attitude plenty, atmospheric, abstract assault that is Candiria's early recordings. These guys were never given a solid chance by most, go ahead, try to find a Metal Archives page for them. Not metal enough? Ha! These guys fired on all "metal" cylinders constantly, from death metalling growls to swift hardcore flavored beatdowns to melodic jazz infused bass driving chaos to grindcore influenced blasts. Just take a listen, for first timers I can guarantee a future download of another album. For those more experienced with the band already, you should know that this is their first demo and it contains a few tracks that went on to be re-recorded for 'Process of Self Development'. I'll be sure to share that gem with you all soon, in the mean time check out this post as well as... er um, well, this post.

Deep In The Mental

Begrime Exemious- Set Ablaze The Kingdom of Abraham (2009)

Begrime Exemious

Set Ablaze The Kingdom of Abraham (2009)

Genre- Blackened Death Metal

Here is more sickeningly dark blackened death metal from Canada. I just heard of these guys recently and I'm very glad I did. This EP is a well produced slab of dirty death metal with blackened overtones. They seem to be delivering a very steady stream of new releases and shit too which is always a plus. 'Set Ablaze The Kingdom of Abraham' touches on lots of distorted and buzzed genres besides the expected death metal fare, from old school thrashing deathgrind to slow and agonizing doom. Begrime Exemios aim to haunt and will absolutely hold the listener by the throat for 20 minutes. If nothing else, download to check out their awesome cover of Autopsy's 'Ridden With Disease'.

Set Ablaze The Kingdom of Abraham

free download @ bandcamp

Obscura- The Flesh and the Power It Holds (Death Cover)

Obscura

Illegimitation (2012)

The Flesh And The Power It Holds (Death Cover)

Genre- Technical Melodic Death Metal

Obscura is primed and ready to drop another release on the metal world already, only this time it comes in the form of a compilation containing demos from 2003/2006 as well as unreleased tracks from the 'Omnivium' sessions in 2011. Man, that Christian Muenzner is one busy dude. This is the first thing they've leaked so far from those 2011 tracks. Here we have a pretty sweet cover of a great Death song from their 1998 album 'The Sound of Perseverance'. The track quality is only 256kbs for now, if I can find a better one at some point before the album drops, I'll try to update the post. Enjoy this shit, and please guys, buy this album when it comes out. Actually, make it a point to buy a lot of CDs this year if you can. Some of these bands really deserve it.

The Flesh And The Power It Holds

NEW cd's I've purchased so far in 2012

Aborted- Global Flatline (pre)

Abigail Williams- Becoming (pre)

Antediluvian- Through The Cervix of Hawaah

Autopsy- Severed Survival

Autopsy- Mental Funeral

Autopsy- Macabre Eternal

Decrepit Birth- Polarity

Deicide- Deicide

Disma- Towards the Megalith

Dissect- Swallowing Swouming Mass (1993)

Dissect

Swallowing Swouming Mass (1993)

Genre- Death Metal

Here's some low/mid paced old school death metal from the Netherlands. Lots of bouncing riffs, walking pace chug-a-longs with low, vomitous vocals, crunchy, lead heavy guitar work and a pretty solid drummer for the genre. Its really nothing too life changing but shit man, if you haven't heard it before, then why stay that way?

any idea what 'swouming' means?

Magnus- I Was Watching My Death (1991)

Magnus

I Was Watching My Death (1991)

Genre- Thrash/Death Metal

Early and obscure thrashing death metal from Poland.

I Was Watching My Death

In The Midst Of Lions- Out of Darkness (2009)

In The Midst Of Lions

Out Of Darkness (2009)

Genre- Technical Melodic Deathcore

I got really souped about this band, In The Midst of Lions, after hearing their 3rd album, 2011's 'Shadows'. That release was an ultra thick, technical melodic deathcore gem. So I picked up their first album the other day and was not let down at all. This is deathcore with some real substance for sure folks. Lots of intense breakdowns and techy guitar noodling. Sure it runs together and becomes a little repetitive after a while but this is a short, energy packed, pit ensuing beast that is well worth the download.

Out Of Darkness

Prosanctus Inferi- Red Streams Of Flesh (2011)

Prosanctus Inferi

Red Streams Of Flesh (2011)

Genre- Blackened Death Metal

If you liked my post about the mighty Antediluvian then you should really be able to appreciate this little slab of filthy death metal, I cant put it down. Disgusting production, horrific vocals that dwell through fat, dripping tunnels of raw torturous sound and blasting chaos. Its actually pretty hard to describe how awesome it really is. Gotta give them a shot.

Red Streams Of Flesh

Torture Krypt- Rotted Remnants (1995)

Torture Krypt

Rotted Remnants (1995)

Genre- Death Metal

Rotted Remnants is a gore bath and a pure death metal attack from these New Jersey natives. This is some very brutal and festering shit, kind of in the vein of early Cryptopsy, but no where near as technical. Very throaty, vile, low vocals howl violent hymns of death and violence atop punishing guitar walls of standard death metal fare. The drumming and bass guitar work is well above average and both deserve to be recognized as so. Fucking sick cover art too, just wish I could find a more sharp image to really get into the detail there. This is definitely sick shit, you all should blast this.

Rotted Remnants

Nomicon- Tri Angle (1991)

Nomicon

Tri-Angle (1991)

Genre- Technical Death Metal/Chaotic/Thrash

Fuck! This is some absolutely amazing and relatively unknown stuff from Finland circa 1991. So much energy comes across here! The lead guitarist is on some other shit and goes about making his own rules for alot of this release. From jazzed up groovy death metal influenced punching to absurd thrashing shouts and twists this is some really impressive stuff for the time. Pure chaos in song structure my friends. This godly 10 minute 3 track chunk is sure to leave a bruise on even the most seasoned obscure metal worshipping veteran.

Tri-Angle

Exesion- Promise Waste and Rot (2007)

Exesion

Promise Waste And Rot (2007)

Genre- Thrashing Death Metalcore

Sometimes bargain bins do hold the occasional hidden gems. The last trip to my favorite record store yielded this blistering 7 song digi from Indiana's Exesion. Dont let the abstract cover art and shitty album title fool you. These are fast, well produced songs, with above average and slightly technical riffage, solid drumming and a beasty, well ranged, vocalist. This shit has a ton of potential but unfortunately it looks like this is the bands only release, even though the metallum has them listed as still 'active'. This is worth checking out for those in need of a death fueled thrashing spin kick from out of fucking nowhere.

Promise Waste And Rot

Antediluvian- Revelations in Excrement (2011)

Antediluvian

Revelations in Excrement (2011)

Genre- Blackened Death Metal

Sorry its been a while between posts, my internet connection has been shitty at best and I've spent a lot of time being drunk since the beginning of the new year. Been listening to a shit load of new music though, one band I cant stop listening to lately is Antediluvian, their dark, unshowered breed of death metal is very unique, atmospheric and haunting. Low drowned vocals squeeze between thick walls of oozing death metal guitars and a grimy production. This 3 song teaser was released as a 45 rpm early last year about 10 months before they dropped the mammoth 'Through The Cervix of Hawaah' in November. Go grab the hand sanitizer because this shit will leave a pretty nasty stain on the listener.

Revelations in Excrement

Querion- Impious Domination (2002)

Querion

Impious Domination (2002)

Genre- Death Metal

Fast and driving death metal from Brazil. Tons of fancy finger work from the bass player here, which is always fun. A sloppy production overall, a bit fuzzy but very brutal. The songs tend to go on for a while and, much like their homeland brethren in Krisiun, the songs tend to go nowhere. Still a fun listen for fans of guitar solo wizardry and crushing groove.

Impious Domination