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Bludgeon were an American death metal band. They were active from '97 to 2001 and released just 2 demos, this one right here being their last one.
It's very much death metal, but man they deliver it in such a melodic way. Could this be considered melodeath? I'm actually not sure, truly on the fence myself. Vocals are really nice, cool growls. Guitars switch between an higher register for melodic riffs and lower chords for the beefy death metal parts. Interesting release! The early 2000's really were weird, man....
Tracklist:
00:00 - Smother Your Children
04:00 - The Sound of Breaking Bones
08:10 - Hate Breeding Hate
11:52 - Barbaric Through the Ages
14:21 - Cleansed by Fire
20:02 - Drawn and Quartered
24:25 - Cleaved by Axe Blast
28:11 - Smother Your Children (Remix)
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Bludgeon were an American death metal band. They were active from '97 to 2001 and released just 2 demos, this one right here being their last one.
It's very much death metal, but man they deliver it in such a melodic way. Could this be considered melodeath? I'm actually not sure, truly on the fence myself. Vocals are really nice, cool growls. Guitars switch between an higher register for melodic riffs and lower chords for the beefy death metal parts. Interesting release! The early 2000's really were weird, man....
Tracklist:
00:00 - Smother Your Children
04:00 - The Sound of Breaking Bones
08:10 - Hate Breeding Hate
11:52 - Barbaric Through the Ages
14:21 - Cleansed by Fire
20:02 - Drawn and Quartered
24:25 - Cleaved by Axe Blast
28:11 - Smother Your Children (Remix)
Got no links, people
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![Bludgeon - Abandon All Hope [Full Demo - 2001]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/F55stCVO4hE/mqdefault.jpg "Bludgeon - Abandon All Hope [Full Demo - 2001]
Bludgeon were an American death metal band. They were active from 97 to 2001 and released just 2 demos, this one right here being their last one.
Its very much death metal, but man they deliver it in such a melodic way. Could this be considered melodeath? Im actually not sure, truly on the fence myself. Vocals are really nice, cool growls. Guitars switch between an higher register for melodic riffs and lower chords for the beefy death metal parts. Interesting release! The early 2000s really were weird, man....
Tracklist:
00:00 - Smother Your Children
04:00 - The Sound of Breaking Bones
08:10 - Hate Breeding Hate
11:52 - Barbaric Through the Ages
14:21 - Cleansed by Fire
20:02 - Drawn and Quartered
24:25 - Cleaved by Axe Blast
28:11 - Smother Your Children (Remix)
Got no links, people
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![Necronomicon - The Silver Key [Full EP - 1996]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FRCvpI9SZP0/mqdefault.jpg "Necronomicon - The Silver Key [Full EP - 1996]
Necronomicon are a Canadian death metal band, formed in 1988 and active ever since. In their 33 years of runtime, they released 1 demo, this EP and 6 full-lenghts, being signed to Season of Mist as of the upload of this video.
This demo is some of the gnarliest shit Ive heard in a while. Although the band moved on from this style in their later music, The Silver Key is a top tier EP. They knew how to make some knuckle dragging riffs back in the day, some times they even sound like a pseudo-BDM band which is fucking sick. Not only that, but Necronomicon nailed their atmosphere - the band knew exactly when to go full riff-mode and when to introduce some chilling synths and chants, without ever losing a single bit of the aggression.
The Silver Key packs one hell of a punch, I wish the band had kept this style.
Tracklist:
00:00 - The Silver Key
04:56 - Morbid Ritual
08:36 - The Asylum
09:34 - Hunting Horror
13:20 - Cthonians
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Necronomicon-The-Silver-Key/release/1559665
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![Mortals Dream - Burning Vision [Full Demo - 1999]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Fs9b2gl7UhE/mqdefault.jpg "Mortals Dream - Burning Vision [Full Demo - 1999]
Mortals Dream were a Greek death metal band. They formed in 1995, released 4 demos and then split-up, Burning Vision being their last recorded music.
They play a very straight forward and quite melodic style of death metal in a way that definitely couldnt have come from another period in the 90s. That along the odd CGI that SCREAMS late 90s/early 00s adds up to a very interesting demo.
Edit: One thing I realized after writing this, they do sound a lot like Ripping Corpse in some moments, especially in the 3rd track Tolerance, just not as technical.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Against Immortals
03:00 - So Innocence
06:50 - Tolerance
09:18 - Truth Shade
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/9004483-Mortals-Dream-Burning-Vision
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![Sarcasmo - Bizarre [Full Demo - 1996]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G8hOH_W2mqI/mqdefault.jpg "Sarcasmo - Bizarre [Full Demo - 1996]
Sarcasmo were a death metal band from Brazil. Active from 1993 to 2011, theyve released 5 demos in the 90s and 2 LPs in the 2000s.
Unlike their first demo, Sarcasmo went for a more straight forward death metal style, althought with some broots touch - think Abramelin, but more Brazilian if that makes sense.
They have 3 more demos - Funeral Corpse 1993, Incarnate In Your Body 1995 and Prision of Souls 1998 - if you guys have any of them Id love to hear them! Email me the files if you could :)
Tracklist:
00:00 - Paradoxal Alucinations
04:26 - Bizarre
09:57 - Prison of Souls
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/10603416-Sarcasmo-Bizarre
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![Dagorlad - The Shadow Grace [Full EP - 1998]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GXIfTpuWN4o/mqdefault.jpg "Dagorlad - The Shadow Grace [Full EP - 1998]
Dagorlad were an Italian melodic death metal band. They originally formed in 1993 as Hanestesia, changing name to Dagorlad in 1995. They only released this EP under that moniker, being known as Dagorquest since 1999.
I dont know whats up with me finding melodeath randomly in my old osdm download folder, 4th time this week! Anyway, Im not a huge fan of melodeath, but this EP is really really good. Starts of rather softly, but the punchy (and sometimes too loud (in a good way)) production quickly catches up. The Silent Harp its pretty much a soup with all the elements you will find in Dagorlads music. March of Dragons gets super chaotic and I love it. The EP does not lose any single bit of aggression from start to end.
Even if you dont like melodic death metal, I still think you have plenty of stuff here to enjoy.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Beyond the Unknown Gates
01:45 - The Silent Harp
07:49 - March of Dragons
13:47 - Shaded Embrace of Fate
22:04 - Narn I Hin Hurin
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/11632205-Dagorlad-The-Shadow-Grace
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![Symphonium - Christian Death [Full Demo - 1994]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GZPOx-Q-JXI/mqdefault.jpg "Symphonium - Christian Death [Full Demo - 1994]
This Norwegian band came up with a really sick blend of death/doom and black metal. Unfortunately, this was the only demo they ever recorded, I wouldve loved to hear a follow up LP to Christian Death.
I believe they took some notes from Goatlord and decided to give it their own spin. Sometimes the drums sounds exactly like Goatlord, specially the kick drum. The demo stays mostly in a mid-to-slow tempo during the first half, then you come across Inn I Dype Skogers Favn, which is just black metal and blast beats for almost 2 and a half minutes, followed by Syndernes Lidelse, thats essentially a 7 minute long outro (why did they do this?!?!?!?), and then the closer gets back to the real meat of the demo.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Wisdom of Darkness
04:34 - Christian Death
06:25 - Die in Fire
10:08 - Diary of a Dying Man
13:44 - Inn I Dype Skogers Favn
16:19 - Syndernes Lidelse
23:44 - Draken Har Tre Hoder
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![Putrid Evocation - Eternal Gloom: A Void of Agony and Repugnancy [Full EP - 2021]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GlknH1kaLac/mqdefault.jpg "Putrid Evocation - Eternal Gloom: A Void of Agony and Repugnancy [Full EP - 2021]
Eternal Gloom:... is Putrid Evocation latest conjuration, a 25 minute long occult journey through life and death.
As Ive stated before in many other videos, the current metal scene in Santiago, Chile is easily one of my favorites. In the last couple of years, that scene alone spat out the best of the best releases in recent memory - thats exactly where Putrid Evocation are from and they dont fall behind.
For this EP, they took upon the teachings of Incantation and Finlands Convulse, merged them together, and added that uniquely Chilean touch that no one else could replicate (and accompanied by a sick ass, almost abstract, cover art)
Another sick release for your top 10s for this year, and if you disagree you are wrong.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Evokers of the Obscurity, Reveal the Course of True Death
05:18 - Spreading the Impure Seed of Antichrist Ejaculation Upon your Dismal Skeleton (Interlude)
06:31 - Faceless Shadows
11:34 - Cryptical Rites of Rotting Flesh
17:26 - Surrounded by Emaning Black Mist from the Depths of a Derelict Grave (Interlude)
19:42 - Rising Spirit, Beyond the Corpse
Arise from the dismal depths, support the band: https://burningcoffinrecs.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-gloom-a-void-of-agony-and-repugnancy
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![Dementia - World of Hate [Full Demo - 1994]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HG13oZ5n0Y4/mqdefault.jpg "Dementia - World of Hate [Full Demo - 1994]
If youre feeling like giving a chance to releases with terrible album covers, give it to World of Hate by the French death metallers Dementia. That artwork is really atrocious but the music is Great!
I unironically mustve downloaded this accidentally in a forum, because I wouldnt touch anything with that artwork unless someone personally told me it was good, and one day decided to give a spin - eh, why not? I thought... - and its really good! Nothing groundbreaking, but stupid beefy and very very grounded death metal. I hear some Massacra in there!
Dementia really werent good at picking artworks for their music. The cover for the debut album, In Core of the Dark Ages, is just atrocious, even worse than this imo. However, their second album Answer has a great cover art to compensate (and its NOT because it has boobs, I just like the artstyle) :)
Tracklist:
00:00 - Poisened Lies
04:13 - Undertakers
08:14 - Born to Die
12:09 - World of Hate
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/10422199-Dementia-World-Of-Hate
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![Manticore - Burrowers [Full Demo - 1994]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HZu8UfDTUT8/mqdefault.jpg "Manticore - Burrowers [Full Demo - 1994]
Manticore were an Australian death metal band and were active from 1992 to late 1999. In their runtime, the band released 2 demos, this one being the 2nd one, and 2 LPs.
Burrowers is the definition of short and sweet. They encapsulated a shit ton of raw cruelty and bararity in a 9 minute long demo. The tempo doesnt go lower than a moderately fast mid-tempo, anything else is fast and relentless. Deep growls and low tuned guitars accompanied by an extremly fitting and tight druming are to be found. That closing Slayer cover is also excellent, I absolutely love it.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Mask
03:33 - Of No Consequence
06:50 - Raining Blood (Slayer cover)
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Manticore-Burrowers/release/1648194
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![Scald - Born With Teeth [Full EP - 1997]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HxtajK8VfX0/mqdefault.jpg "Scald - Born With Teeth [Full EP - 1997]
Scald are an Irish extreme metal band. I dont use the umbrella term extreme metal very often, but since Scald have played around within the genres of death, doom, sludge, industrial, drone and grindcore, I think its fitting this time. Since their formation in 1993, Scald almost always remained active, having only a brief break between 2017 and 2020.
This EP, the bands second release, is an interesting mix of death metal with sludgy and industrial influences. Rarely do they play straight forward riffs, theres always a break, a switch up or some other quirky thing. To me it really represents well that H.R. Giger style artwork.
Maybe not an EP for everyone, but if youre into unorthodox styles of metal you should definitely check this out.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Maggot Farmer
03:51 - Aware Inanimate
06:47 - The Flycatcher Orifice
11:49 - Confusexcremental
18:08 - Inside the Machine
21:09 - Insular
23:16 - Non Selective
26:12 - Body Forlorn
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/master/1768757-Scald-Born-With-Teeth
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![Fifth Dominion - Pain, Rage & Laughter [Full Demo - 1993]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IMdM0unAgfY/mqdefault.jpg "Fifth Dominion - Pain, Rage & Laughter [Full Demo - 1993]
Fifth Dominion were an Irish technical death metal band. They formed from the ashes of Misanthropy, which you might know from their Bruised Opinion demo (super cool, you should check it out!). Active from 1992 to 1994, the band recorded 3 demos, Pain, Rage & Laughter being their 2nd release.
If youre familiar with Misanthropy, I think you would agree that Fifth Dominions music could be described as Misanthropy but more chaotic. They take what they did on Bruised Opinion and add some guitar wankery every riff and a half. It still have a bunch of straight forward moments, but now theres a bunch of technical breaks and a heavy use of synths for atmosphere.
After disbanding in 1994, some members took the bands name and made it THE Fifth Dominion and recorded a single death doom demo.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Tormented by Irritating Giggles
00:49 - Vicious Circle
06:45 - Flagrante Delicto
10:49 - Vow of Silence
15:52 - Premature Existence
20:28 - Refusal to Mourn
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/master/2480077-Fifth-Dominion-Pain-Rage-Laughter
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![Sudden Fear - Pursuit of Truth [Full Demo - 1993]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IMhf2V_hKUQ/mqdefault.jpg "Sudden Fear - Pursuit of Truth [Full Demo - 1993]
Sudden Fear were an American thrash metal band. Formed in 91, they released 2 demos, this one and a self-titled in 96, disbanding in 99.
Their style is on the more aggressive end of the thrash spectrum, with kind of late 80s Hetfield vocals and blood pumping riffs, some of them akin to very early stages of death metal, when it was starting to separate itself from thrash - Pursuit of Truth is still very much just thrash metal though.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Potential Ruin
04:36 - Loss of Reason
08:32 - Corrupt Before the Time
13:18 - Final Stage of Evolution
17:58 - Radical Mutation
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