Into a Cold Abyss

Artist: Annihilist Album: Vol. 1 Genre: Death Metal Country: Australia Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Web 1. Solace in Suffering 2. Sink 3. Prevail 4. Against the Wall 5. Echoes 6. Embers I found out about these guys last night - two of the members were contestants on Ninja Warrior. These guys are well worth a listen, lots of riffs, hooks and grooves to keep you listening. If you're in Australia you can catch them on the last few dates of the Xenobiotic tour!

Artist: Âme Noire Album: The Tree That Bears Rotten Fruit Genre: Blackened Deathcore Country: Australia Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. What Lurks Below 2. Slave to the Grave 3. Immurement 4. The Wayward Home 5. The Tree That Bears Rotten Fruit These guys are brutal, I've been waiting for this release and it doesn't disappoint!

Artist: A Scar for the Wicked Album: The Unholy Genre: Melodic Deathcore Country: Canada Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. Born From the Grave 2. A Place Where Death Resides 3. The Abyss 4. Darkness Approaches 5. The Unholy 6. Malformed 7. Evil Within Give this one a spin if you're a fan of The Black Dahlia Murder

Artist: Miseration Album: The Mirroring Shadow Genre: Technical Death Metal Country: Sweden Support:  iTunes  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. Dreamdecipher 2. Blueprinted Aeon Collapse 3. Voyaging the Seas of Thought 4. The Mirroring Shadow 5. A Trail Blazed Through Time 6. Dimorphic 7. Sulphury Sun 8. Imago 2.0 9. Theca 

Artist: Skeletal Spectre Album: Tomb Coven Genre: Death Metal Country: Sweden Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. The Decapitress 2. Amulet of Impurity 3. Wrath of Corrupta 4. Burial Ground 5. Cursed Ancestry 6. Tomb Coven 7. Eerie Bones Swedish masterpiece blending crushing doom and death metal tones, essential listening for fans of Monotheist era Celtic Frost

Artist: Revel in Flesh Album: Relics of the Deathkult Genre: Death Metal Country: Germany Support:  Bandcamp  /  Spotify  /  Facebook 1. Bonecrusher 2. Corpus Vermis 3. A Chant of Misery 4. Deathkult 5. Phlebotomy: Blood Dripping Healing 6. Nightrealm Ghouls: The Dead Will Walk the Earth 7. The Ending in Fire 8. Casket Ride 9. Pay to Die 10. Mutilation 11. Deny the Light This is a collection of songs previously only found on 7" EP's, perfectly showcasing the bands growth. For fans of death metal that sounds like real death metal

Artist: Rivers of Nihil Album: Where Owls Know My Name Genre: Death Metal Country: USA Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. Cancer / Moonspeak 2. The Silent Life 3. A Home 4. Old Nothing 5. Subtle Change (Including the Forest of Change and the Dissatisfaction Dance) 6. Terrestria III: Winter 7. Hollow 8. Death Is Real 9. Where Owls Know My Name 10. Capricorn / Agoratopia Go ahead and pick this one up, easily one of the best albums you'll hear all year. 

Artist: My Will Be Done Album: Cast Your Darkness Upon Them Genre: Melodic Death Metal Country: Germany Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook 1. Altruistic Requiems 2. Unto Ashes 3. The Passenger 4. Cast Your Darkness Upon Them 5. Bathory 6. No Sympathy for the Misbehaved 7. Delicacies Melodic death metal for fans of The Black Dahlia Murder and Crimson Armada, this one's free on bandcamp and well worth a listen!

Artist: Ataraxy Album: Where All Hope Fades Country: Spain Genre: Death Metal Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. The Absurdity of the Whole Cosmos 2. A Matter Lost in Time 3. One Last Certainty 4. As Uembras D'o Hibierno 5. The Mourning Path 6. The Blackness of Eternal Night Dark and gloomy death metal, slow and melancholic parts bordering on doom metal.

Artist: Voracious Scourge Album: Our Demise Genre: Death Metal Country: USA Support:  Bandcamp  /  Spotify  /  Facebook 1. Vaticination 2. Harbinger of Our Own Demise 3. Fortuity of the Decieved 4. Expatiate the Depraved 5. Oracle of Repugnance Old school, classic death metal. Just solid, crunchy riffs and hammering drums like they did it in the 90's. The band is made up of ex-members of legends Suffocation, Suture, and Sinister. This EP starts the year off with a bang for death metal, and I sure as shit can't wait to see what else these guys have to offer. 

Artist: Usurpress Album: Interregnum Genre: Progressive Death Metal Country: Sweden Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. A Place in Pantheon 2. Interregnum 3. In Books Without Pages 4. Late in the 11th Hour 5. Ships of Black Glass 6. The Iron Gates Will Melt 7. The Vagrant Harlot Slow, dramatic Swedish death metal. A unique mix of crushing death metal riffs, dark doom tones and a jazz drummer to bring it all together. This album is full of twists and turns and sure to keep you engaged from start to finish. 

Artist: Lord of War Album: Suffer Genre: Death Metal Country: USA Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. Age of Heresy 2. Nexus of Hate 3. Embryo 4. Suffer 5. Behold the Harvest 6. Manufactured Existence 7. Skin 8. Carbon Based Genocide 9. Hamunaptra  10. Drowning 11. Killing Must Feel Good to God Old but still gold.

Artist: Alterbeast Album: Feast Genre: Technical Death Metal Country: USA Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. Welcome to Your Doom 2. The Maggot's Ascension 3. Black Flame Illusion 4. Feast 5. Vile Skin Possession 6. Apex Night Eclipse 7. Coffin Crescendo 8. Where Dead Angels Lie 9. Upon the Face of the Deep

Artist: Xenoblight Album: Procreate Genre: Death Metal Country: Denmark Support:  Bandcamp  /  Spotify  /  Facebook 1. Procreation 2. Descension 3. Shapeshifter 4. Obsidian Chromatism 5. Xenoblight 6. Nocturnal Manifestations 7. Transendance 8. Kill Yourself 9. Predominance 10. Virus

Artist: Horizon Ablaze Album: The Weight of a Thousand Suns Genre: Death Metal Country: Norway Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. Sleep is the Brother of Death 2. Delusions of Granduer 3. Ghost of a Previous Nightmare 4. She Who Walks Upon the Sea  5. The End of a Dream  6. Behind the Veil  7. My Soul Divided 8. Insidious

Artist: Golgothan Remains Album: Perverse Offerings to the Void Genre: Death Metal Country: Australia Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook 1. Vehemence (Through Pain Divine) 2. From Chaos it has Come 3. Vile Blasphemy 4. Bone from Dust 5. Phantom Earth 6. Void 7. Timeless Eradicator 8. Looped Depraved Spell 9. Golgothan Remains 10. Flagellation (Torrid Tongues)

Artist: Kill Athena Album: Ravaging All Within Genre: Death Metal Country: Indonesia Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook 1. Glorius Begins 2. Disaster 3. Concussion 4. Into Havoc 5. The (False) Salvation 6. Eradication Doom 7. Lecture Deciet 8. Sovereign 9. Artificial Perspectives 10. Ravaging All Within

Artist: Hollow World Album: Exanimate Genre: Melodic Death Metal Country: Australia Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook  /  Spotify 1. Agartha 2. Defiling Paradise 3. Patient Zero 4. Systematic Refinement 5. Wildfire 6. Infect, Replace, Disintegrate 7. Reverse Transcription 8. Pyres 9. Everything Rots 10. Desolation 11. Exanimate Definitely channeling The Black Dahlia Murder

Artist: Shadow of the Colossus Genre: Death Metal Country: USA Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook 1. Evolution:Revolution Since I heard the game was getting a remaster I've been listening to these guys a tonne, check them out if you haven't already, both albums are well worth your time - absolutely incredible.

Artist: Crescent Album: The Order of Amenti Genre: Death Metal Country: Egypt Support:  Bandcamp  /  Facebook 1. Reciting Spells to Mutilate Apophis 2. Sons of Monthu 3. Obscuring the Light 4. Through the Scars of Horus 5. The Will of Amon Ra 6. Beyond the Path of Amenti 7. The Twelfth Gate 8. In the Name of Osiris