Okay first some new discoveries of not-new-shit. This is a bunch of shit I've stumbled across over the last couple of weeks and I basically went on a southern binge as you can see:
Extremely Rotten (Florida): Face-melting brutality, I plan to check out the band's other shit but for now I'm just blasting this one and not getting tired of it. I love the constantly changing tempo so much!
Detrimental (Texas): This link is their side of the split they did with Fetal Decay. Super dry-sounding caveman brutal death metal sickness. Basement as all fuck.
Rottenness (Mexico): Pure fucking butchery with some very very slight grinding bits, but to me it sounds mostly like no nonsense brutal death metal.
Necrocide (Texas): To me this sounds like straight up Cannibal Corpse worship, great fucking riffing. Sounds almost like a transitional track between
The Bleeding and
Vile or something.
Disencumbrance (Texas): I think maybe morgue has posted this before, because the video already had a 'like' from me on it. Anyway, sick shit with great cymbal work and demented usage of dual vocals.
mē◦āt◦َus (Texas): This album is fucking insane and stylistically all over the place in exactly the kind of zany psychopathic way I love to hear in death metal. I've only gotten through the album once but it really left a mark.
This is what I've been listening to lately and pretty much jamming constantly at work or at home:
Cronaxia (Portugal): Death metal on the technical side with fucking amazing drumming and non-stop riffing. For me this is definitely on the stronger side of 2018 death metal, the bassist fucking kills it too, great shit.
Iron Flesh (France): Totally shredding and buzzing death metal that kinda reminds me of Nihilist and Grave. At first I thought this was a step down from their prior EP but after a few more listens it's really growing on me. I love some of the melodic lead work over the filthy riffing, really creates a nice sound.
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (Canada): Weird as fuck melodic death metal with some grinding elements and a kind of progressive disposition towards the ideas. Honestly hard to pigeonhole this one, but I think I love it and it's played by this guy!
Conveyor (Poland): This band was an exciting find for me! Though still quite amateurish they have some incredible ideas whirling around on this album and with time could be a great experimental/technical death metal band. Anybody who loves the awkward charm of bands like Disharmonic Orchestra don't sleep on this one, really fucking cool band.
You all know these guys (I hope) and I've been delving into their discography which I slept on forever and ever. I've been stuck on this album and haven't moved on yet, because I don't feel like I'm ready to. This shit just destroys everything and then rolls its treads over the broken remains. Absolute annihilation in musical form.
Mordeth (Brazil): One of my personal favourite death metal bands, this is their new (mini?) album which comes with their 2009 EP
Robotic Dreams tacked on to the end (so roughly 28 minutes of new material). I have no doubt this will rank high in my 2018 albums list, this is some really special progressive death metal. There's not a lot of info about the release which is frustrating, I'd like to know more about it.