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Zombiefication
Reaper’s Consecration
2011
EP
Pulverised Records
Death Metal

Mexican death metal band Zombiefication‘s 2010 debut release Midnight Stench introduced listeners to the band’s style of death metal, emulating the style that old school Swedish death metal bands have created. Though nothing particularly memorable nor original on the record, the band’s energy seeping out of the music, and was a nice introduction to their brand of death metal. A year later, the band releases a five-track EP, Reaper’s Consecration, under Pulverised Records.

Apart from the obvious continuation in the themes that the band has included on Midnight Stench, in…

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Enthrallment
People from the Lands of Vit
2012
Full Length
United Guttural Records
Death Metal

Bulgaria’s Enthrallment has been dishing out some of the most brutal sounds from the country since their formation in 1998. People from the Lands of Vit is the band’s third full length album, four years in the making and is their debut on United Guttural Records, the brutal death metal/goregrind arm of the famed Deathgasm Records.

Despite the band’s main style of music being brutal death metal, there is a slightly blackened touch to the music right from the beginning riffs of the album…

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Morbidity
Pits of Eternal Torment
2012
Demo
Imperium Productions
Death Metal

The Bangladesh underground metal scene has certainly excited me a little ever since discovering the excellent Orator, displaying the increasing growth of this genre in a country that is little known for extreme metal. Morbidity is probably the second metal band aside from Orator that I encounter, and this year sees the band unleashing their brand of old school death metal in the form of their debut demo, Pits of Eternal Torment.
As would be expected of a demo, the production quality of Pits of Eternal Torment are…

Necrovation
Necrovation
2012
Full Length
Agonia Records
Death Metal

Seeing Necrovation's country of origin got me slightly hesitant, wondering if this was yet another of those pure Nihilist or Entomed-worship/emulation bands. But on Necrovation's debut on Agonia Records, the band ensures a further exploration of the sound that they have presented to fans on their previous releases, promising a record that has a wider range of influences from heavy metal to classical on top of the classic death metal sound.

So it is certainly surprising that the influences from old school Swedish bands were rather subtle throughout the record, as…

Morbidity
Pits of Eternal Torment
2012
Demo
Imperium Productions
Death Metal

The Bangladesh underground metal scene has certainly excited me a little ever since discovering the excellent Orator, displaying the increasing growth of this genre in a country that is little known for extreme metal. Morbidity is probably the second metal band aside from Orator that I encounter, and this year sees the band unleashing their brand of old school death metal in the form of their debut demo, Pits of Eternal Torment.

As would be expected of a demo, the production quality of Pits of Eternal Torment are extremely…

Abhorrence
Completely Vulgar
2012
Compilation
Svart Records
Death Metal

Prior to this, the only other Abhorrence that I know of is Brazil's death metal squad, after their split with Impiety. Apart from that, there is the little known band out of the same name from Finland as well, releasing only a single demo and EP in 1990 before splitting up shortly after that. This year Svart Records finally releases the long overdue compilation, containing both the demo and the EP, along with a couple of live and rehearsal tracks.

The band lists an whole host of old-school Swedish death metal…

The House of Capricorn
In the Devil's Days
2011
Full Length
Swamps of One Tree Hill
Stoner/Doom Metal

There's something about bands coming from the Oceania region, with outstanding extreme metal bands that come out from places like Australia and New Zealand. Equally dark as their black and death metal counterparts like Witchrist and Diocletian are stoner/doom metallers The House of Capricorn, with their sophomore full length effort, In the Devil's Days. Occult rock/metal has been a rather intriguing genre of late, and the simple, yet ominous album artwork further shrouding the band in an aura of mystery.

Unlike black…

Poisonous
Perdition's Den
2010/2012 (Reissue)
Full Length
Blood Harvest/Metalhit.com (Reissue)
Death Metal

Originally released in 2010 under Blood Harvest, this year sees Brazilian old school death metal horde Poisonous' debut full length album, Perdition's Den being re-issued under the digital record label, Metalhit.com. With Brazilian metal being pioneered by bands like Sarcofago and Sepultura, one would almost expect Perdition's Den to sound like the thrash-tinged death metal that Brazilian bands have crafted over the years.

But the heavy and crushing riffs that are present on Perdition's Den reek heavily of Incantation-worship, and this made even more so with the at…

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Stalwart
Manifest of Refusal
2012
Full Length
PRC Music
Death/Thrash Metal

Despite Stalwart's long history, being formed all the way back in 1999, it isn't until this year's Manifest of Ritual, the band's fourth full length album that I first hear of them. Metal hailing from Russia is a little-heard of thing personally, with the main genres being encountered are those of the black metal genre, and this makes it all the more exciting to hear what Stalwart is capable of.

On top of the usual speed and aggression that one would expect of a death/thrash metal release, Stalwart…

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Greed & Rapacity
Loki Bound
2012
EP
Milam Records
Black/Death Metal

Australia is a fertile land for some of the most extreme and experimental black and death metal bands to emerge, and is characterised by bands like Portal and Impetuous Ritual. Boasting just 2 members behind the band, Greed & Rapacity joins the ranks of these bands as well, presenting some of the harshest black metal that has been crafted on their 2010 demo, Ergreifer. 2 years later, the band returns with their single track EP, Loki Bound, a 30-odd minute journey that would test and push the boundaries…