Kalmankantaja – Autumnheart

Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Autumnheart’ is the second Kalmankantaja album of 2025, and as the change of logo might foretell, it is quite a different affair. While ‘Musta Aurinko’ took the atmospheric Black…

Kalmankantaja – Musta Aurinko

Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 While the band has been active on other fronts, 2025 in comparison seems like a rather modest year for Kalmankantaja in terms of new albums. Only two albums were…

Summoning Hellgates – Spear Of Conquest [EP]

Artist: Summoning Hellgates Country: Spain Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Spear Of Conquest’ is the debut EP of a Spanish duo that presents itself as Summoning Hellgates. While one of the…

Sardonic Order – Autumn Rehearsal 2025

Artist: Sardonic Order Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although Sardonic Order is a brand new Black Metal band with this specific release being their debut, the exact title of this 2-track demo is quite telling. This…

Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré – Split Tape

Artist: Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré Country: USA Label: Cranial Blast Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With one name even harder to pronounce than the other, this is definitely a split tape for enthusiasts. Which enthusiasts, you may ask. But those who…

Par-Delà Le Miroir – Le Temps Fera Son Œuvre

Artist: Par-Delà Le Miroir Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After a 20-minute demo tape at the very end of last year called ‘Les adieux de l’âme’, this one-man Raw Black Metal project now returns with…

Dismorfia – Slow Disembowelment To Be Defecated Alive [EP]

Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore / Lycanthropic Chants Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘Slow Disembowelment To Be Defecated Alive’ is yet another addition to the rapidly growing discography of Peru’s most active Death/Grind band. Although…

Carnal Savagery – Crypt Of Decay

Artist: Carnal Savagery Country: Sweden Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few weeks, I have had a number of discussions about the current state of affairs in the world of Death Metal. I have…

Infernal Presence – Fiery Paths [EP]

Artist: Infernal Presence Country: Germany Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD Year: 2025 Infernal Presence is a new Black Metal band from Germany that were picked right up by Darkness Shall Rise Productions. The duo have…

Goathammered – Warghost Worship [Demo]

Artist: Goathammered Country: Denmark Label: Blasphemic Siege Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 During my daily rounds through the deeper regions of the internet, searching for new demos to sink my teeth into, I found not one, but two new…

Schizophrenic Warfare – Sperma [Demo]

Artist: Schizophrenic Warfare Country: Denmark Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just about everything about this first achievement by Schizophrenic Warfare exudes fresh finesse and thoughtful sophistication. Or not. Maybe not… True connoisseurs of the depraved art of the…

Astral Spear – Astral Spear [EP]

Artist: Astral Spear Country: Poland Label: Signal Rex Formats: 12” EP / CD EP Year: 2025 No names, no history, just a birthright. Astral Spear is a mysterious new entity from Poland that is about to release its self-titled EP…

Blood Curse – Unholy Trinity [EP]

Artist: Blood Curse Country: Unholy Trinity Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Blood Curse is a trio that has been around for about a decade and released a good few of short players as well as a full-length album in 2018 (released through Stormspell…

Fate’s Hand – Steel, Fire & Ice

Artist: Fate’s Hand Country: Australia Label: Dying Victim’s Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Unfortunately I have missed this band’s debut 12” EP that was released back in 2021, otherwise I surely would’ve checked out this first full-length album by Australia’s Fate’s Hand.…

Depredation Netra – Third Eye Predation [Demo]

Artist: Depredation Netra Country: India Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Depredation Netra is a new band out of India. Given the insane size of the country’s population, there is hardly any metal scene to speak of, and for that reason…

Sabulturath – Demo MMXXV

Artist:Sabulturath Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It’s perhaps not such a crazy assumption that the name of this band sounds a bit like that annoying drunk guy at the concert who keeps shouting in your ear that he thinks “Sepultura”…

Dark Divination – Liitto Hengen ja Veren

Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Earlier in 2025 Dark Divination made their first appearance on Signal Rex with the release of the ‘Unforgotten’. With that EP, the band consisting of sole…

Speedslut – Ferocity Of Steel [EP]

Artist: Speedslut Country: Denmark Label: Beer Drinkers & Hellraisers Inc. Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the band’s name might suggest that this is a Speed Metal outfit that should not be taken too seriously, the music on this debut cassette EP is…

Evoken – Mendacium

Artist: Evoken Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 I vividly remember my first brush with Evoken. It was late 2002, and my friends and I had called for the help of a local Doom Metal…

Chalice Of Eden – The Essence Of Imperial Blood [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 In no time at all, the musician behind Occult Mountain and Chalice Of Eden has released an impressive number of demos, sometimes with only a few days in between. That is generally…

Parasite – Indoctrination Rituals

Artist: Parasite Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 I’ve probably said it more than once before, Thrash Metal isn’t exactly the most frequent featured genre of Extreme Metal here at out pages, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like out fair share of…

Traum – Diminishment In Perpetuum [Demo]

Artist: Traum Country: USA Label: Torture Palace Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I missed this project’s first offering, ‘Demo 2024’, but I would like to make amends by spending a few words on this follow-up, which was recently released…

Hautaveri – Hänen Kylmän Myrskynsä Airut [Demo]

Artist: Hautaveri Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although it is yet unclear who’s behind this new solo-project, but it is highly unlikely that Hautaveri is this musician’s first attempt of making music. It might not be the…

Sons Of Hades – Tombs Of The Blind Dead

Artist: Sons Of Hades Country: Greece Label: Floga Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Imagine yourself being extremely hungry and you run into the nearest Domino’s or New York Pizza. But you suffer from severe indecisiveness,…

Executioner’s Blade – First Execution [Demo]

Artist: Executioner’s Blade Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘First Execution’, a not so subtle way to announce your own debut. However, in this case, the emphasis is not so much on “First” as on “Execution”. This…

Sintage – Unbound Triumph

Artist: Sintage Country: Germany Label: High Roller Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Even more than Sintage’s debut, it was once again the glorious artwork of this new album that immediately caught my attention. One of…

Deranged – Cut Carve Rip Serve [Re-Release]

Artist: Deranged Country: Sweden Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 This isn’t exactly the first time I’ve shared my surprise and delight at the current Brutal Death Metal re-release frenzy from Hells Headbangers Records. Although I don’t follow…

Necrobaptism – Necrobaptism [Demo]

Artist: Necrobaptism Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 A few weeks ago I ran into this debut demo by a Greek duo that goes under the name of Necrobaptism. They apparently got together earlier this year and…

Sad – Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening

Artist: Sad Country: Greece Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 This year marks the twentieth anniversary for Sad, and what better way to celebrate that than with a brand new album. But while ‘Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening’…

Malhkebre – To Those Who Forged Us [7″ EP]

Artist: Malhkebre Country: France Label: Battlesk’rs Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 French Black Metal has always been something that intrigued me. While there’s obviously also been some stuff that was fairly easy to digest like Anorexia Nervosa or the…

Astral Gauze – A Fire As Alien As Hostile…

Artist: Astral Gauze Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Astral Gauze is a new project consisting of two musicians with lavish résumés that include current and previous experience with such bands as Ebony Pendant, Iron…

Death Yell – Demons Of Lust

Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape CD Year: 2025 If you’re talking about old Latin American Extreme Metal, it is categorically impossible to skip Death Yell. For the majority of the people…

Revenge – Night Danger

Artist: Revenge Country: Colombia Label: Dying Victims Productions / Rata Mutante Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 One of the longest running Colombian Heavy/Speed Metal bands are back with a new record. Revenge, founded back in 2002, have been…

Hostilia – Face The Fire

Artist: Hostilia Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Personally I had never heard of Hostilia before, but before this debut full-length album for Hammerheart Records they apparently released two EP’s and a couple of digital singles. Yet, even…

Redenção Pelas Chamas – Redenção Pelas Chamas

Artist: Redenção Pelas Chamas Country: Portugal Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2025 It’s not really the first time I’ve expressed my not always mild aversion to overly smooth-and-simple or downright interchangeable Black Metal. Some musicians are just cranking…

Malakhim – And In Our Hearts The Devil Sings

Artist: Malakhim Country: Sweden Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With two demos and ‘Theion’, their debut album, released in the timespan between 2017 and 2021, Malakhim from Sweden has been working hard to establish their…

Perdition Temple – Malign Apotheosis

Artist: Perdition Temple Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Format: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Without being sure what the reason was behind Perdition Temple’s previous album, ‘Merciless Upheaval’, that only had the A-side filled with new…

White Baroness – War Chariots

Artist: White Baroness Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 What do you get when members of Morgal, Sigon and Devil Moon get together in the same room? No doubt a deranged Heavy…

Cursed Penetrator – Invocation

Artist: Cursed Penetrator Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Format: CD Year: 2025 After two demos, of which the first one was reissued as part of a split CD with Black Offal Messiah, ‘Invocation’ marks the band’s further deepening of the…

Krolok – Path To The Haunted Ruins

Artist: Krolok Country: Slovakia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The anticipating buzz of the crowd, the rising sound of the timpani and horns: there is no doubt that ‘Path To The Haunted Ruins’ is not in…

Atonement – Ripping Death [Demo]

Artist: Atonement Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Two years ago the Swedish Black/Thrash Metal band Atonement surprised with their debut album ‘Sadistic Invaders’ released through Dying Victims Productions. Well, “surprised”, not so much with…