Father Befouled - Morbid Destitution of Covenant (2010)

Band: Father Befouled
Genre: Old School Death Metal
Country: United States


Morbid Destitution of Covenant [Full-length](2010)

Malevolent Creation - Invidious Dominion (2010)

Band: Malevolent Creation
Genre: Old School Death Metal
Country: United States


Invidious Dominion [Full-length](2010)

Deathchain - Death Gods (2010)

Band: Deathchain
Genre: Old School Death/Thrash Metal
Country: Finland


After their last two lack-luster releases, Deathchain returns to form in 2010 with their fifth full-length, Death Gods. While the sound isn't quite as gritty or thrash-laden as on their past albums, sometimes sounding a bit like NMF-era Bloodbath, it's still a death metal album well-worth your time and it shows they haven't lost the ability to release quality material.

Death Gods [Full-length](2010)

Decrepit Birth - Polarity (2010)

Band: Decrepit Birth
Genre: Brutal/Technical Death Metal
Country: United States

Polarity [Full-length](2010)

Axis Powers - Marching Towards Destruction (2009)

Band: Axis Powers
Genre: Old School Death Metal
Country: Sweden

Marching Towards Destruction [Full-length](2009)

Pestilence - Consuming Impulse (1989)

Band: Pestilence
Genre: Old School Death Metal
Country: Netherlands

Consuming Impulse [Full-length](1989)

Molested Discography

Band: Molested
Genre: Old School Death Metal
Country: Norway

Stalk the Dead [Demo](1991)
Unborn Woods in Doom [Demo](1993)
Blod-Draum [Full-length](1995)
Stormvoid [Ep](1997)

Ripping Corpse Discography

Band: Ripping Corpse
Genre: Old School Death/Technical Thrash Metal
Country: United States

Death Warmed Over [Demo](1987)
Splattered Remains [Demo](1989)
Demo # 3 [Demo](1990)
Dreaming with the Dead [Full-length](1991)
1992 Promo [Demo](1992)
Unreleased Album [Full-length](????)

Encoffination - Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh (2010)

Band: Encoffination
Genre: Old School Death/Doom Metal
Country: United States

Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh [Full-length](2010)

Soul Devour - Apocalyptic Anti-Human Annihilation (2010)

Band: Soul Devour
Genre: Old School Death Metal
Country: Singapore

I'll admit, the Singapore death metal scene has never been a focus for me outside of a handful of bands like Rudra and Wormrot. It just seems to be one of those countries that shows a few promising acts but is so far behind the rest of the world, it could barely register a blip the size of a pigeon on the global death metal radar. Soul Devour is a relatively new death metal trio, having formed in 2006 and released one demo in 2008 before this, their full-length debut. They state their main influences lie mainly in American death metal bands, specifically Massacre, Monstrosity, and Morbid Angel which sounds very accurate when you listen to them (especially In Dark Purity-era Monstrosity).

Devoured and Daemonoz handle the vocal duties, one performing a low scream (in the vein of Deteriorate) and the other, a slower, deep guttural growl. This combination fits well with the varying tempo of the music which changes from mid to fast paced throughout the album. Even with the apparent revival of old school death metal that's been going on for the last two years or so, there are few new bands that I'd be comfortable putting in the American death metal scene in its hay day and saying that, not only would they survive, but flourish as well. With Apocalyptic Anti-Human Annihilation, Soul Devour proves that they deserve to be one of those select few bands and that they could turn a pigeon-sized blip into one the size of a small plane.

Apocalyptic Anti-Human Annihilation [Full-length](2010)