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Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
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 would've 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", that's 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
Got no links for you this time
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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 would've 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", that's 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
Got no links for you this time
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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
Got no links for you this time
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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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![Overthrow - Overthrow [Full Demo - 1994]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ISSXy8NBajw/mqdefault.jpg "Overthrow - Overthrow [Full Demo - 1994]
Overthrow were a death metal band from Argentina. They formed in 1991 and released 3 demos and 2 splits throughout the 90s.
This self titled demo is 1/3rd intros and 2/3rds actualy music, but if you can get through that youll find some pretty cool mostly mid tempo down tuned death metal. The length is pretty ideal, doesnt overstay its welcome nor has chance to try to do so much it fucks everything up. The vocals are low as fuck with some wraith-like higher bits (but never high screeches), the drums and guitars are always in good sync, beefy and, even if they dont do anything new, on point with the delivery. I think Ill have to look for Overthrows other demos!
Tracklist:
00:00 - Eternal
01:07 - Devils Eyes
04:03 - Putrefaction
04:29 - Conquer de Fear
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/11739360-Overthrow-Overthrow
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![Beyond Belief - Stranded [Full Demo - 1992]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IST8I-wzccc/mqdefault.jpg "Beyond Belief - Stranded [Full Demo - 1992]
Beyond Belief were a Dutch death/doom metal band, and a classic one at that too! Im a fan of their debut album, Towards the Diabolical Experiment, and I was very surprised to see they still dont have their full discography up on youtube. They formed in 1986 but, due to members being in and out the band all the time, disagreements and whatnot, they didnt record anything until 1991. This demo youre listening to right now is their second one.
Slow is the word here! Just slow and doomy all the way through the demo. It creates a nice obscure atmosphere, truly cemetery music. The production is really nice for a demo too, damn. Its really clean and polished (but not squeaky clean, of course, theres still the grit and much we all love around here). The vocals also have some effects layered, which I personally like a bunch, dude sounds like cookie monster now.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Godforsaken
07:09 - Stranded
12:49 - Silent Are the Holy
15:19 - Prophetic Countdown
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/1449818-Beyond-Belief-Stranded
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![Xymonthra - Demo 94 [Full Demo - 1994]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JAbelqQHONw/mqdefault.jpg "Xymonthra - Demo 94 [Full Demo - 1994]
Xymonthra were a Swedish technical death metal band. Formed in 1991, they released 3 demos under Xymonthra, this one being possibly their last before they changed name to Macrocosmic Emotions in 1994.
There isnt much to say about this demo if you ask me. Althought I wasnt able to track down any artwork for the video (the logo you see was taken from their previous demo), the quality isnt as shitty as I would expect from something in this situation. Its not super techy like tech death would become in the late 90s, really shows how a genre can progress. Essentially, this is death metal with some technical/unusual riffs here and there, not as straight foward as the average release from back in the day.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Beyond Erroneous Thoughts
02:53 - Observe Every Counterfeit Considerateness
08:34 - Ulterior
18:57 - Valetudinarian
Couldnt find any links, friends
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![Dehuman - Promo 9900 [Full Demo - 2000]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JUE_iLa8HeE/mqdefault.jpg "Dehuman - Promo 9900 [Full Demo - 2000]
Dehuman were an Australian brutal death metal band. Active from 1995 to 2001, they released 2 demos, one in 1996 and this one in 2000. Later on, these were compiled and released as the Return of the Lifeless compilation, in 2019.
Honestly, theres not much to say about this band - its your average late 90s broots, hits the right spots and for 40 mins of runtime its not a complete chore to get through. Maybe its just for die hard fans of the genre since it really doesnt bring anything new to the table. But hey, if I didnt like it I wouldnt have uploaded it!
Tracklist:
00:00 - True Man Hate Wise
05:21 - Rampaged
08:40 - Behind Dead Eyes
15:27 - Indulge in Hatred
20:23 - Epitome of Disgrace
25:52 - Left to Decay
29:57 - Rampage
33:10 - In Darkness Restrained
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![Decay - Ceremonial Torture [Full Demo - 1992]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JuNaiQ3RXbw/mqdefault.jpg "Decay - Ceremonial Torture [Full Demo - 1992]
Decay were a Greek death metal band, formed in 1991... and thats about all the information thats out there about this band. They released this single track in 1992 and apparently nothing else. This video is a contender to the shortest full demo Ive ever uploaded (I think it wins tbh).
About the music, there is only so much that can be said about a single track. Slower paced death metal with some death/doom influences, probably Cianide or Mythic (although its unlikely since they were overseas, idk if their 1992 releases would reach Greece within a year). Many guitar screeches and big sounding music towards the end.
Tracklist:
00:00 - Ceremonial Torture
No useful links for this...
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