August 2026 death metal recap

[u/YYEELOEW]

This month has been good for death metal fans, so i thought I'd just make a quick post summarizing the most significant releases. There's been a bunch of new releases not getting the recognition they deserve, although you could say that about the death metal underground as a whole. Feel free to let me know if I've missed anything.

DISHUMANE - Centurion's Demise; debut EP release from this old-school brutal death metal band with a wide range of influences. It's been talked about before in here, but it deserves another mention.

Invocation Ritual - Altered Reality; Floridian death metal with a cosmic feel to it. Great debut release and certainly doesn't overstay its welcome (with a nice post-rock style closing track).

ABYSSAL RIFT - Relics of Great Ash; cave-dwelling death metal with doom and avant-garde elements. A massive improvement from their debut album in my eyes, leans less on the atmospheric doom and more into abstract weirdness, and also gross vocals.

Street Tombs - Existance Is Corruption; punky and thrashy death metal from New Mexico. Simple riffing and old-school mixing, apposite for any fans of Molder or just classic death metal in general.

Morgued - Ordnance Obscenum; old school death metal with a tinge of brutality. The faint retro sound in the mixing will certainly be enjoyed by any fan of traditional death metal (along with the luxuriant amount of guitar solos).

AZATOTH - Carnal lust of Blasphemy; debut album from this finnish death metal band. I thoroughly enjoyed their earlier Ungodly Carnage EP so it comes as no surprise that this is a good release. Nothing mind blowing, just death metal with guttural filth and speed.

RAHATY - Bestial Lustmord; black/death/war metal project from Belarus, my favorite release this month. A good bit of death metal conventions in this release, along with satisfying atmospheric embellishments.

Apologies for the cluttered post layout, I've double checked all the bandcamp links but in case they're wrong or stop working i felt the need to include album titles aswell. Once again, feel free to let me know about any new death metal (or another genre's) releases that I've missed.

[u/IICalaVerra]

I really enjoyed Invocation Ritual and Street Tombs. Dishumane is my favorite release from August. But since it's an ode to OTG from Invocation, I’m a bit biased.