Meth Leppard - Woke

 

Genre: Grindcore
Country: Australia
Year: 2020

1. Intro
2. Dead Kardashians
3. Down In A Hull
4. Nuttelex
5. Sixty Nine Feet Under
6. Sick Bern
7. Endless Prawn
8. Surplus Or Die
9. Woke 10. Boomer
11. Hype Bands 12. Elitism
13. Kangaroo Court
14. Thrash Sucks
15. Bug Warfare
16. Honey Bucket (Melvins cover)

Debut album by Meth Leppard. This is metal at its most primeval anxiety release with extraordinary distorted guitar riffs chugging away and blastbeats fucking pummeling up a storm. Unstoppable, powerful, full of ferocity and anger that is the short description of 'Woke'.

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Terrordome - Straight Outta Smogtown

 

Genre: Crossover/Thrash
Country: Poland
Year: 2021

1. Terrorizing The Nation As The Best Way To Thwart Shameful Schemes
2. Possessed By Blyat
3. Worried Again
4. Steel On The Road
5. Plastic Death
6. Your Personal Comfort Versus The Global Disaster
7. Desordem E Regresso
8. Into The Void
9. Ego-Boost Downfall
10. Money Kills 11. Demolition
12. I Don't Care 13. Conspiracy
14. The Day They Left Their Graves

3rd album by Terrordome, 6 years after their last one. Over 40 minutes and 14 songs, they batter the living shit out of their instruments in a head down no-nonsense wall of thrashing riffs that could move boulders. All the trademark crossover elements are here: thrashing riffs, speed, fast solos, anger, aggressiveness, everything someone could expect by modern, groovy crossover!

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Anti-Flag - 20/20 Division

 

Genre: Punk Rock
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2020

1. Hate Conquers All
2. It Went Off Like a Bomb
3. 20/20 Vision
4. Christian Nationalist
5. Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down
6. Unbreakable
7. The Disease
8. A Nation Sleeps
9. You Make Me Sick
10. Un-American
11. Resistance Frequencies
12. Born To Run
13. Concrete Breeds Apathy
14. No Allegiance to a Flag
15. No One Can Save Yourself But You
16. Fight Like Hell

12th album by Anti-Flag. This is the deluxe version of their '20/20 Vision' album and it contains 5 bonus songs. It is a reminder that there is hope, that we cannot be silenced, and that injustice can be overcome through solidarity. 

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Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers

 

Genre: Black
Country: Greece
Year: 2021

1. The Great Hunter
2. Yoth Iria
3. Hermetic Code
4. The Mantis
5. The Red Crown Turns Black
6. Unborn, Undead, Eternal
7. Tyrants
8. The Luciferian

Debut album by Yoth Iria. This band reunites two early Rotting Christ members, Jim Mutilator and The Magus, while a third, George Emmanuel, contributes guitars as a guest musician. The group delivers unique soundscapes and wonderful ideas. It is a nostalgic celebration of Hellenic black metal history as well as an intriguing glimpse into a promising future. 

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Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality 'Ep

 

Genre: Death/Hardcore
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2021

1. Starved
2. Sick Of Being Sober
3. Rusted Gold
4. Imposter Syndrome
5. Amputation
6. Depraved Not Deprived
7. Superspreader
8. Emptiness

8-track 'Ep by Gatecreeper. The first 7 songs finds the band in faster direction than ever with every track in almost or under a minute long each. The last song is a heavy as fuck 11-minute death-doom song. 

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Green Mantis - Kill The Plague 'Ep

 

Genre: Black/Thrash
Country: Mexico/Serbia
Year: 2020

1. Kill The Plague
2. Die Humans Die
3. This War Goes On
4. Deadliest Poison
5. Diabolical

5-track 'Ep by Green Mantis, a project of Rodo Insaniac (Acidez, etc.) and Pentagramator (Terrörhammer, All My Sins, etc.). The duo delivers 5 songs of evil black'n'roll infused with many thrash elements. They want to conjure a storm of fun and infect you with their black metal infused thrash excellence that has plenty of DIY punk attitude to boot.

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Cara Neir - Phase Out

 

Genre: Exp.Hardcore/Black
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2021

1. The Trimjrtle Sanction
2. Damnation
3. Shady Blades
4. Valkyrie
5. Floodgates Of Doom
6. Four Seasons In A Day
7. Phasers Set To Relax
8. Maestro Infernus
9. Hypogelum
10. Legacy Of Gnax

6th album by Cara Neir. This time the group gets weird and blends punk, black metal, hardcore, 8-bit, noise rock and post-hardcore in a crazy stew. It might be a little rough around the edges in places, but the group really pull the blending off so well and have so much fun.

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Afsky - Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død

Genre: Black
Country: Denmark
Year: 2020

1. Altid Veltilfreds
2. Tyende Sang
3. Imperia
4. Bondeplage
5. Stemninger I & II
6. Angst

2nd album by Afsky, the solo project of Ole Pedersen of Solbrud. The album’s key strengths are the quality of its compositions, combined with excellent pacing. The songs are aggressive and fiery, but in an atmospheric mood-driven way.

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The Berzerker - Dissimulate

 

Genre: Industrial/Death/Grindcore
Country: Australia
Year: 2002

1. Disregard 2. Failure
3. The Principles And Practices Of Embalming
4. No One Wins
5. Death Reveals
6. Compromise
7. Betrayal
8. Last Mistake
9. Painless
10. Pure Hatred
11. Paradox
12. Abandonment
13. Untitled
14. Corporal Jigsore Quandary (Carcass cover)

2nd album by The Berzerker. Where the first album was certainly raw and abrasive, mainly due to as much financial restraints as malicious intent, this release is a more calculated yet vicious feral attack. Pounding industrial drums and exciting riffs build up a wall that just blows you away without compromises.

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Freefall - Dead Is The Oldest You Can Get 'Ep

 

Genre: Death
Country: Greece
Year: 2020

1. Aurora Boredalis
2. Dead Is The Oldest You Can Get
3. Family Spree
4. Complications (Killing Joke cover)

4-track killer 'Ep by Freefall. The ‘Ep comes shortly after the band finally stabilize its lineup. Their sound now is more solid, more confident and balances perfectly between old-school European and American death metal scenes, yet it emerges modern extreme metal elements.

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Nervosa - Perpetual Chaos

 

Genre: Thrash/Death
Country: Brazil
Year: 2021

1. Venomous
2. Guided By Evil
3. People Of The Abyss
4. Perpetual Chaos
5. Until The Very End
6. Genocidal Command
7. Kings Of Domination
8. Time To Fight
9. Godless Prisoner
10. Blood Eagle
11. Rebel Soul
12. Pursued By Judgement
13. Under Ruins

4th album by Nervosa. Here we find a new members next to mastermind Prika Amaral. Mia Wallace (Abbath, etc.), Eleni Nota (Lightfold, etc.) and Diva Satanica (Bloodhunter, etc.) joined the group, that continues delivering fast paced death/thrash. A polished yet still viciously raw slab of bruising thrash metal.

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The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires

 

Genre: Black/Doom
Country: Germany
Year: 2021

1. Ropes Into Eden
2. The Tundra Shines
3. Kromlec'h Knell
4. Mammothpolis
5. Anchoress In Furs
6. Polar Hiss Hysteria
7. Deserts To Bind And Defeat

The 6th album by The Ruins Of Beverast, it sees the group embracing a more traditional spirit of frost and depression. It remains just as stunning from beginning to end, and while it demands a bit more time to sink in compared to previous releases, the flirtations with gothic rock and metal makes the album have plenty to draw listeners back.

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Korpiklaani - Jylhä

 

Genre: Folk/Heavy
Country: Finland
Year: 2021

1. Verikoira
2. Niemi
3. Leväluhta
4. Mylly
5. Tuuleton
6. Sanaton Maa
7. Kiuru
8. Miero
9. Pohja
10. Huolettomat
11. Anolan Aukeat
12. Pidot
13. Juuret

11th album by Korpiklaani. It is a wild album, filled with diverse songs that range from fast and heavy to the upbeat party songs and of course, a few touching, emotive moments. It’s full of rugged hooks, accordion-led stomp and satisfyingly heavy riffs.

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Paganizer - Bullets Reign 'Ep

 

Genre: Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 2020

1. Bullets Reign
2. The Punisher
3. Natures Bleeding (Terminal Grip cover)
4. Religious Cancer Terminal Grip cover)
5. Devils In My Little Box 

5-track 'Ep by Paganizer. Some new songs and two re-recorded songs of Terminal Grip demo era. Swedish death metal at its finest.

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Devil In The Kitchen - Wizard's Walk 'Ep

 

Genre: Folk/Thrash/Speed
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2004

1. Heather's Concussion
2. Coked Up Leprechaun
3. Whipple Hill Medley
4. Trey Eats Meat
5. D-A Set
6. Wizard's Walk
7. Mad Dog
8. Hook Of The Hamate
9. Clacking Paddles In Maine
10. Little Greene Men

A killer 'Ep and one of my favorite folk metal releases. The group perfectly blended folk, thrash and speed metal. An instrumental release with the leading force being an electric violin, while the rest instruments superbly support it. Tracks 8,9 and 10 come from their 2005 Demo. Too bad the group disbanded with no other official releases. 

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Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

 

Genre: Heavy/Gothic
Country: Sweden
Year: 2021

1. In Remembrance
2. Hour Of The Wolf
3. Leviathans
4. Dirge Of A Dying Soul
5. Lethe
6. Daughter Of The Djinn
7. Elementals
8. Inanna
9. Funeral Pyre
10. The Wilderness

5th album by Tribulation. The group couldn’t help but deliver another masterpiece, veiled of elegance and structure. This new studio effort has core influences from bands such as Fields of the Nephilim, as well as In Solitude, however it has been less extreme than all previous times. When doom metal meets barroque gothic, things get serious.

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Inepsy - Rock 'n' Roll Babylon

Genre: Rock'n'Roll/Heavy/Punk
Country: Canada
Year: 2003

1. Who's Next?
2. Lost The Ride
3. R'n'R Babylon
4. The Aftermath Of Progress
5. Street City Kids
6. Conspiracy WWIII
7. See You In Hell!
8. If You'll Die I'll Die
9. Born For The Road
10. We Are Here To Climb

Debut album by Inepsy. Taking the raw hardcore aggression of Discharge and Ripcord, and then merging it with the plodding and heavier sounds of Motörhead and Nausea, Inepsy synthesized a masterpiece of dark, vicious riff-rock.

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Asphyx - Necroceros

 

Genre: Death/Doom
Country: Holland
Year: 2021

1. The Sole Cure Is Death
2. Molten Black Earth
3. Mount Skull
4. Knights Templar Stand
5. Three Years Of Famine
6. Botox Implosion
7. In Blazing Oceans
8. The Nameless Elite
9. Yield Or Die
10. Necroceros

10th album by Asphyx, 5 years after their last one. It doesn’t really walk the line between the dank slowness of doom metal and the raging aggression of death metal, but rather vacillates back and forth between the two. There's nothing dull or boring on this album, the group really made some remarkable death/doom metal combined. 

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ACxDC - Satan Is King

 

Genre: Powerviolence/Grindcore
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2020

1. Singe
2. Mouth Breather
3. Gorged
4. Satan Is King
5. Turncoat
6. Matapacos
7. Copsucker
8. Propaganda Of The Dead
9. Exercise In Futility
10. Urban Blight
11. Come Out Fighting
12. Revenge
13. Ashes To Ashes
14. Back In Black Bloc
15. Maggot Museum

2nd album by AntiChrist DemonCore. It is one sustained scream of rage against the idiocy of religion, society, humanity and just about everything else. Most of the album is distorted breakneck blitzes of violence, but with just enough absolutely crushing changes into slower paces and lower vocals, but never leaving too much of the punk energy behind.

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Audio Kollaps - Panzer

 

Genre: Grindcore/Death/Crust
Country: Germany
Year: 2008

1. Schuld
2. Krieg
3. Was Ist Die Wahrheit?
4. Kaputt
5. Schmerz
6. Panzer
7. Der Letzte Schrei
8. Schwarz / Weiss
9. Deutsche Im Dübelwahn
10. Gier
11. Erwachen
12. Babylon
13. Normal
14. Zeit Zu Gehen

2nd album by Audio Kollaps. A pretty enjoyable and entertaining release. A great mix of death metal with crusty grindcore, with thrash riffs, tremolo sections and crusty, punky chord progressions. A gem for the genre.

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Monstrous - World Under Siege

 

Genre: Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 2019

1. Crawling Through Ruins
2. The End Undone
3. World Under Siege
4. The Obscured Sky
5. Plague Hunter
6. Biohazardous
7. The Sour Earth
8. Humanity/Destructor
9. The Rise Of Vermin
10. Armageddon Dawn

Debut album by Monstrous. Another project of Rogga (Paganizer, Revolting, etc.) with Erik Bevenrud (Stass), Kjetil Lynghaug (Echelon, Paganizer, etc.), Jon Rudin (Just Before Dawn, etc.) and Jonny Pettersson (Heads For The Dead, Massacre, etc.). Pure death metal with some D-Beat elements.

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Wombbath - Choirs Of The Fallen

 

Genre: Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 2020

1. Fallen
2. Crawling From The Pits
3. We Shall Remain
4. A Sweet Taste Of Death
5. From The Beggars Hand
6. Void
7. A Vulgar Declaration
8. Wings Of Horror
9. Choirs Of The Damned
10. In A Cloak Of Anger

4th album by Wombbath. It has the crust punk influence, nasty HM-2 tone, d-beats and catchiness that have long been hallmarks of Swedish death metal. It is just about what you’d expect modern Swedish death metal to sound like. It has plenty of nods to the genre’s heyday, as to be expected considering Wombbath were part of that heyday.

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The Monolith Deathcult - V2-Vergelding: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Ashes

 

Genre: Death/Industrial/Avant-Garde
Country: Holland
Year: 2018

1. Planet Wrath
2. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Ashes
3. Come Forth Lazarus
4. Fist Of Stalin
5. The #Snowflake Anthem
6. Rise Of The Dhul-Fakar
7. Die Glocke (live)
8. The Furious Gods (live)

6th album by The Monolith Deathcult. The group delivers a very experimental and listenable brand of in-your-face death metal mixed with industrial elements. The production and the riffage all being pretty clean-cut and only the gutteral rasp of Michiel Dekker really giving that death metal edge.

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Church Of The Dead - Church Of The Dead

 

Genre: Death
Country: Finland
Year: 2020

1. The Opening: Rising From The Beyond
2. Hounds Of Men
3. Coffincraft
4. Rat King (The Bringer Of Plague)
5. The Reckoning
6. Something Came Out Of The Woods
7. Nekrovulture
8. The Abyss

Debut album by Church Of The Dead. Crusty, dirty death metal with oldschool ruthlessness and a punk-fueled attitude that spits in the face of ideas like melody or accessibility. At only 32 minutes, this is pretty short, but every minute of it is well worth listening to.

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Blessed By Perversion - Remnants Of Existence

 

Genre: Death
Country: Greece
Year: 2020

1. Descending To The Catacombs
2. Gallery Of Bones
3. Atonement Refused
4. Among The Tombs Absent Gods
5. Caverns Of Torture
6. Whithin Monumental Chaos

2nd album by Blessed By Perversion. Great death metal album that flirts with both death metal scenes, the European and the American. A technically brilliant and dark, haunting journey, 'Remnants of Existence' is an album within the death metal realm that should not be missed. 

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Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare

 

Genre: Doom/Heavy/Black
Country: Ireland
Year: 2021

1. A Curse On Men
2. She Wolves Of The Savage Season
3. The Great Beast We Serve
4. Nature Is The Devil’s Church
5. Her Master’s Voice
6. Viral Tomb
7. Devil’s Bane
8. Ruin Upon The Temple Mount
9. You Don’t Move Me (I Don’t Give a Fuck) (Bathory cover)

3rd album by Dread Sovereign. There are a wide variety of styles on display which keeps things refreshing and exciting as you work your way through. The vocals are as charismatically performed as you would expect, and the delivery is as impressive as ever.

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Exarsis - Sentenced To Life

 

Genre: Thrash
Country: Greece
Year: 2020

1. Censored
2. Another Betrayal
3. The Truth Is No Defense
4. Aiming The Eye
5. Mouthtied
6. The Drug
7. Against My Fears
8. One Last Word
9. Interplanetary Extermination
10. New War Order

5th album by Exarsis. It has the band playing as fast as ever but also more melodically than on previous releases. Exarsis could have played it safe after 'New War Order' but instead came out with all guns blazing, delivering the best album yet of their career.

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Demoniac - So It Goes

 

Genre: Thrash/Black
Country: Chile
Year: 2020

1. RSV-Fool Coincidence-Testigo
2. The Trap
3. Extraviado
4. Equilibrio Fatal
5. So It Goes

2nd album by Demoniac. A masterpiece that I've just heard, that's why I didn't put it in my best of 2020 list. They took many risky moves in composing this material, as adding jazz elements and the use of clarinet, but didn’t fail in any. 'So It Goes' is one of the best and most original releases in the genre this year. Enjoy!

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Inculter - Fatal Visions

 

Genre: Thrash
Country: Norway
Year: 2019

1. Open The Tombs
2. Impending Doom
3. Shepherd Of Evil
4. Endtime Winds
5. Final Darkness
6. Towards The Unknown
7. Fatal Visions
8. Through Relic Gates

2nd album by Inculter. It is a wonderful album to experience from start to finish, and it doesn’t wear out its welcome with repeated spins. This is modern thrash that sounds like classic thrash. All songs shine in view of the riffs which have elements of early Slayer, early Aura Noir and late Nocturnal.

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Looking For An Answer - Dios Carne

 

Genre: Death/Grindcore
Country: Spain
Year: 2017

1. Deflagración
2. La Carne Del Leviatán
3. Sol Negro
4. Utopía De Sangre
5. Apoteosis
6. Redención
7. Invierno Eterno
8. Rito De Autofagia
9. Autofagia
10. Némesis
11. Demiurgo
12. Mártir Matarife
13. Muerte Lenta
14. Liberación

4th album by Looking For An Answer. The group continues delivering blistering, old school death-infused grindcore. From the death metal side, they bring some seriously catchy riffs, and from the grind side comes the blasting aggression and the razor-sharp pounding. The songs actually have a bit of a sludge element worked into them. 

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Warwound - WW III

 

Genre: D-Beat/Punk/Thrash
Country: England
Year: 2020

1. Bastards
2. The Blindfolds Of Bigots
3. Hypocrisy Of The Powers That Be
4. Just A Thought
5. Children Of War
6. The Age Of The Racist
7. Mislead/Deceive  
8. People Are Shit
9. We Don't Accept
10. Note To Self (This World Is Fucked)
11. The Blood Never Dries
12. Take The Money And Run
13. Is This Me?
14. Undesirable
15. Fight Your Demons

2nd album by Warwound. The group consists of Damian Thompson (Sacrilege), Ian Glasper (ex-Stamping Ground), Steve Wingrove (ex-Hellkrusher) and Tony Martin (The Varukers). They deliver a well-crafted mix of D-Beat, hardcore/punk and thrash metal. The group takes the essence out of thrash metal riffs and angry punk attitude to produce a tight record that meets all expectations.

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Dephosphorus - Sublimation

 

Genre: Death/Black/Grindcore
Country: Greece
Year: 2020

1. Βορά Των Αιώνων
2. Ψυχοϊστορία
3. Εξύψωση
4. Προς Το Απόκοσμο Φως Του Πυρήνα
5. Absurd Aftermath
6. Multiple-Dimension Descriptor
7. Neural Lace
8. Into The Glory Of Eternal Orbit
9. In Dimensions 7 To 11
10. The Mists Rose Like Departing Dreams

4th album by Dephosphorus. It’s a noisy and suitably eclectic style of music infused with smatterings of punk, various subgenres of extreme metal and grindcore. 

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Werewolves - What A Time To Be Alive

 

Genre: Black/Death
Country: Australia
Year: 2021

1. I Don't Like You
2. Sublime Wartime Voyeurism
3. Mission Statement
4. Crushgasm
5. Unfathomably Fucked
6. Antisocial
7. Traitors And Bastards
8. A Plague On All Your Houses
9. They Will Pay With Their Own Blood

2nd album by Werewolves. If you like an extreme mixture of thrash/death/black and grindcore and can well do without pieces that are held in a slower tempo, this is exactly the right thing for you. There’s double bass drumming, pummeling guitars, savage roars and insults in plentiful supply. It’s fast, vicious music, rage incarnate that hates indiscriminately.

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