• Dissentient - Black Galactic (CAN-ON)
• Nights of Malice - Chaos Exordium (USA-NJ) (deathcore)
• Xenosis - Hermetic Transmutation (USA-CT)

• Eaten By Insects - Insectecution [EP] (USA-CA) (not super tech, but good)
• The Scalar Process - Agnomysticism (France)

• Caedem - Tales of Bitter Ends (Sweden)
• The Crimson Armada - Elements Volume 1: The Abyssmal Depths [EP] (USA-OH) (deathcore)
• The Summon - Falling into the Trap of Promised Bread (Mexico)

• Crown the Beast - Judgement [EP] (Denmark)
• Desecrated Conscience - Doomed (Argentina)
• Necromorphic Despair - King of Nothing [EP] (Belgium)
• Vilethrone - Funeral for a Forsaken World (Spain)

Not much for tech this week, but enjoy these and let me know if I missed anything!

• Ingested - Denigration (UK-ENG) (slamming deathcore)
• Klokotor - Riziko úhynu (Slovakia)

Y'all. Cognizance day.

• Cognizance - In Light, No Shape (UK-ENG)
• Devenial Verdict - Old Blood-Fresh Wounds (Finland) (brutal tech)
• Malconstruct - Entanglement (USA-TX) (melotech/groove ffo Eye of Horus)
• Necropia - Our Kingdom Befouled (USA-NY) (borderline tech/core, but Good Shit Confirmed)

• Atropal - Burn the Skies (USA-AZ) (instrumental prog death)
• Carcerous - Doomsday Factory (Bulgaria)
• Omnivortex - Throne of Absolute Chaos [EP] (Finland)

Nothing I'd consider particular tech this week, but these releases might be of interest:

• Church - Christslave (USA-OH)
• Gore Force 5 - Annus Porcus Oinkus (Belgium)
• Reeking Aura - On the Promise of the Moon (USA-NY/NJ)
• Warside - Cognitive Extinction (France)

Bonus, since it's a light week for tech:

• Kanine - Khaos (France) (deathcore)
• The Last Ten Seconds of Life - The Dead Ones (USA-PA) (deathcore)

Well everyone, the day is finally upon us! I know it's only April, and I'm only a couple listens in, but Inferi's already gonna be pretty hard to unseat for AOTY for me.

• Archspire - Too Fast to Die (CAN-BC)
• Inferi - Heaven Wept (USA-TN)
• Oppressor God - Veil of Shadows [EP] (USA-AZ)
• Tethys - The Antikytherium (USA-CO) (NB: Inferi's vocalist, Stevie Boiser <3)

• Graveborn - Metempsychosis (USA-MA) (straddles tech/core, but wow this band slaps, hadn't heard of them until now)
• Vitrified Entity - Imum (CAN-QC)

• Asylum TX - Cultus Inoxia (USA-TX duh)
• Growth - Under the Under (AUS-VIC)

• Abyssius - Vermin (International)
• Gutvoid - Liminal Shrines (CAN-ON) (not super tech, but pretty good)
• Hautajaisyö - Surun Paino (Finland) (death thrash)

• Lamb of God - Into Oblivion (USA-VA) (groove metal, not tech death, but obviously a high-profile release that might interest this community)
• Rejuvenation - The Pinnacle of Violence (Bulgaria)
• Solus Ex Inferis - Teratogen [EP] (International)

• Nalar - Lichtgestalt (Germany) (melodeath, totally not tech, but ffo Amon Amarth's "With Oden on Our Side" / "Twilight of the Thunder God" era, and I thought this community might enjoy that)
• Nocturnal Ceremony - Obsidian (Norway)
• Stacja 11 - Devictum Deum (Poland)
• Subcutaneous Exsanguination - Eradication Fascination (Austria) (Encyclopaedia Metallum says brutal tech, sounds just BDM to me, but some might dig it)
• Xenobiotic - Dante (AUS-WA) (skirts the border between tech death and deathcore, but these guys are great)

Holy big singles, Batman!

• Beyond Creation - Reverence [Single] (CAN-QC)
• Inferi - Heaven Wept [Single] (USA-TN)
• Psycroptic - Falling (Little River Band cover) [Single] (AUS-TAS)
• Unburier - As Time Awaits [EP] (UK-ENG)

Bonus - new album announced for May: Cognizance - In Light, No Shape (UK-ENG)

• AmongRuins - Advent of Chaos (Greece) (melodeath)
• Luminesce - Like Crushed Violets and Linen (CAN-QC)
• Phasma - Purgatory (Greece/USA)

• (Liverum - Meaning Will Travel (Norway) last week)
• Thy Gnosis - Deprive of Vision (Switzerland)

• Khronic Infection - Worldwide Metastasis (Brazil)
• Sombra - Condemned to the Colorless (USA-CA)
• Stalwart - Tempvs Edax Rervm (Russia) (released 1.23)

• Banisher - Metamorphosis (Poland)
• Omnifear - Kingdom [EP] (UK-ENG) (deathcore)

At last, I have assembled my album of the year list for 2025! I had a lot of fun picking out albums I was really excited about, and then a really hard time sorting them from there. So don't put toooo much stock in any album's relative position: I wholeheartedly recommend all of these. To that end, I also opted to consolidate everything into this single list this year (no differentiation for high/low profile bands or EPs). With no further ado:

1. Fallujah - Xenotaph (USA-CA)
2. Recorruptor - Sorrow Will Drown Us All (USA-MI)
3. Demon King - Death Knell (USA-TN)
4. Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence (CAN-QC)
5. Revocation - New Gods, New Masters (USA-MA)
6. Exterminatus - Echoes From A Distant Star, Pt. 1 (CAN-BC)
7. Sandvvitch - Sandvvitch (USA-NV)
8. Ben's Raincoat - Radiant Cliffs [EP] (USA-NE)
9. Wrath of Belial - Embers of Dead Empires (Denmark)
10. Retromorphosis - Psalmus Mortis (Sweden)
11. Pathogenic - Crowned in Corpses (USA-MA)
12. Synaptic - Enter the Void (Germany)
13. Fleshbore - Painted Paradise (USA-IN)
14. Celestial Scourge - Observers of the Inevitable (Norway)
15. Hypermass - Apparition Day [EP] (Norway)
16. Avatar of Hate - Necrotic Awakening (Romania)
17. Pravitas - The Parasitic Divine (UK-ENG)
18. Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil (USA-PA)
19. Unaligned - A Form Beyond (USA-FL)
20. Human Time - Цена совершенства ([The] Price of Perfection) (Russia)
21. Eschaton - Techtalitarian (USA-CT/MA)
22. Allodium - Dream Labyrinth (USA-CA)
23. Nightbearer - Defiance (Germany)
24. Unknown Subject - Democracies Die! [EP] (Finland)
25. Wretched - Decay (USA-NC)

Honorable mention: I'd definitely classify this as some sort of deathcore, but this year I absolutely could not stop listening to Shadow of Intent - Imperium Delirium (USA-CT/RI)

Let me know what you feel I've left out, including the zanier stuff (looking at you, Frogg). I know I've scaled back my posting to just weekly roundups, but I'm still voraciously consuming as much as I can, so I'm eager to discover any more gems that managed to escape my notice - there are always inevitably some!