Vastago – Influencias Adversas De Un Sol Adyacente

Artist: Vastago Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 After two EP’s, also compiled on a CDr released by an Argentinean label specialised in the format, the Spanish Vastago felt ready for the next step and serves us with their very…

Haavrun – Total Demolition Of Feeble Souls [Demo]

Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Caligo Arcanum Productions / Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 With ‘Total Demolition Of Feeble Souls’, the Bulgarian band Haavrun have now released their third demo tape. It’s always an exciting moment, because…

Warning – Rituals of Shame

Artist: Warning Country: United Kingdom Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Let’s go back to late 2006/ early 2007. The British band Warning released their sophomore record titled ‘Watching from a Distance’. An album…

Necro Blade – Dim The Light Of Faith [Demo]

Artist: Necro Blade Country: USA Label: Goat Throne Records Formats: Demo CD Year: 2026 Admittedly, I missed this band’s debut demo from 2024, also released by Goat Throne Records, but I ran into this one and the combination of the…

Kerkerengel – Raadon Unia

Artist: Kerkerengel Country: Finland Label: Wizard’s Hat Publications Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2026 It’s been a year since the latest Warmoon Lord record surfaced, but main man Lord Vrăjitor did not waste time since to revisit one of his more…

Arckanum – Motestandarin [7″ EP]

Artist: Arckanum Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 Johan S. Lahger began his career in metal in 1988, taking his place behind the drum kit in a band formed with three childhood friends, which they called Grotesque. Although…

Kalmankantaja – Godless Existence

Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 Recent years have marked a rather diverse soundscape for Kalmankantaja, continuously enriching their atmospheric Black Metal discography with ever-expanding escapades towards Doom Metal territories. But while that always felt…

Speedslut – Cimbrian Rites

Artist: Speedslut Country: Denmark Label: Listenable Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 When I first heard Speedslut, through their ‘Ferocity Of Steel’ EP that was released in Spring of last year, I was quite charmed by this Danish band’s blend of…

Mayhem – Liturgy Of Death

Artist: Mayhem Country: Norway Label: Century Media / Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 More than any other Black Metal scene, the Norwegians have shown that it not only comprises a large group…

Asphyxiater – Process Of Suffocation

Artist: Asphyxiater Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 After having spent some time operating under the moniker of Suicidal Preacher, this band changed their name to Asphyxiater in 2025 and then quickly released a digital 3-track demo. All…

Bestial Catacombs – Bestial Endsieg [EP]

Artist: Bestial Catacombs Country: Thailand Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 If the word ‘bestial’ features in both your band name and the title of your debut EP, it’s not particularly difficult to guess what musical direction this Thai…

Gouge – Pure Deathfuck [EP]

Artist: Gouge Country: Norway Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Although Gouge did play at the renowned Danish Death Metal festival Killtown Deathfest in 2014, I’ve always felt that they entered…

Spiritual Healing – Spiritual Healing [Demo]

Artist: Spiritual Healing Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 As a Death Metal band, calling yourselves ‘Spiritual Healing’ is a bit of a tricky business. Being compared to one of Death’s finest albums is, of course, inevitable,…

Kos – Cross Leech [Demo]

Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Kos, one of the many projects by E., might be one of his most enigmatic musical endeavours so far. The two previously released demos sound quite different from…

Sol Sistere – Adrift From Reason [EP]

Artist: Sol Sistere Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Personally I ran into Sol Sistere when I randomly picked up the first two albums from one of the many Hammerheart Records sales, together I didn’t pay more…

Tulus – Morbid Desires

Artist: Tulus Country: Norway Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Oh dear, a new Tulus album. ‘Morbid Desires’ is the Norwegian’s eighth instalment and, frankly, it is quite hard to pinpoint the…

Mesnada – Forgotten Pathway Of Dark Ages [EP]

Artist: Mesnada Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Admittedly, I had missed Mesnada’s untitled debut demo that was released earlier this year, as well as the two short releases that were put out in 2025 under the…

Immolation – Descent

Artist: Immolation Country: USA Label: Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 You could spend hours discussing Immolation. There are Death Metal fans who aren’t particularly keen on them, and there are people who have been devoted fans since the…

Fleshcrawl – Epitome Of Carnage

Artist: Fleshcrawl Country: Germany Label: Reigning Phoenix Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 From the very first moment I heard Fleshcrawl, which was in 2000, with the band’s ‘As Blood Rains From The Sky… We Walk The Path Of Endless…

Last Rites – Last Rites [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Last Rites Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Depending on how you look at this release, you could call it either a compilation tape or a re-release of a demo. But regardless of how you choose…

Venomous Invokation – Diabolic Death Metal [Demo]

Artist: Venomous Invokation Country: USA Label: Crow’s Nest Records / Funeral Moon Records Formats: Demo Tape / Demo CD Year: 2026 Although Venomous Invokation already released three short players (and a compilation CD with those earlier tracks), this Knoxville, Tennessee (USA)…

Babylonian War Chant – Chaldean Witchcraft

Artist: Babylonian War Chant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 This monochromatic cover with the large logo is quite a departure from Babylonian War Chant’s earlier output. All previous releases featured a cover depicting Assyrian, Mesopotamian or Babylonian engravings or scenes,…

Teñvalded – Teñvalded [Demo]

Artist: Teñvalded Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Teñvalded debuted last April with a self-titled demo tape that contains a mix of both Dark Ambient and Dungeon Synth. Although it leaned more towards the latter and therefore…

Talvi – Talvi [Demo]

Artist: Talvi Country: Finland Label: Forest Gloom Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From Finnish, “Talvi” translates to “Winter”, a very befitting name for a band from Finland, a country known for its harsh winter. Therefore it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there’s two bands…

Nathrath / CelticHammer – Décadas De Represión [Split Tape]

Artist: Nathrath / CelticHammer Country: Spain Label: Bundushathûr Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 ‘Décadas De Represión’ is a short split tape that brings together Nathrath and CelticHammer, two bands from the Gallaecia Kommando, a circle of bands from the Galicia region in…

Goatkraft – Barbed Wire Doctrine [EP]

Artist: Goatkraft Country: Norway Label: Deathrune Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 I said it before, not everything from Norway sounds like Borknagar, Arcturus or Ulver. Not quite. With ‘Barbed Wire Doctrine’, Goatkraft’s latest offering and follow-up to 2023’s ‘Prophet…

Crévüre – Le Dernier Messie [Demo]

Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 With ‘Le Dernier Messie’, the French one-man band Crévüre has already released its third demo tape within the relatively short span of four months. Whilst Crévüre’s Raw Black Metal may not be of the…

Amputorium – Demo 2026

Artist: Amputorium Country: Belgium Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although nothing official has yet been announced about Amputorium, you don’t need to be a genius to piece things together regarding this new band. Not only…

Kūka’ilimoku – Aia I Ka ‘Ōpua Ke Ola

Artist: Kūkāʻilimoku Country: USA Label: Goatowarex / Nithstang Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Over the past years, basically since this solo-project’s inception in 2019, Kūka’ilimoku has been attracting attention from underground Black Metal fans from various directions.…

Black Cilice – Votive Fire

Artist: Black Cilice Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions / Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 When Black Cilice hit the underground scene with their first two albums in the first half of the 10s,…

Consecration – Exanimis

Artist: Consecration Country: United Kingdom Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 In their 15+ year career this British Death/Doom Metal band has amassed a respectable discography. Besides a couple of short players, this…

Whitemoon – Trucizna Dla Świata [EP]

Artist: Whitemoon Country: Poland Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 With Whitemoon, we have yet another impressively good band from the equally impressive Polish Black Metal scene. Although it is not entirely clear to…

Godless – Adversus Parousia

Artist: Godless Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 I have said before and I will say it again, and probably will repeat myself another countless after this one: there must be…

Mangled Recrement – Mangled Recrement [Demo]

Artist: Mangled Recrement Country: Poland Label: Caligari Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this band consists of a trio of musicians who have already gained some experience in bands such as Toughness and Leucotome, Mangled Recremant has only been…

Rotten Tomb – Vestiges Of Tortured Souls

Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Although it’s been the case ever since the early days of Extreme Metal, in recent years you can certainly count on the…

Occult Mountain – Wrath Of The Wolf Spirit [EP]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Fallen Warrior, the only musician behind Occult Mountain, is one of such people who seem to have more hours in a day and more days in a week…

Beast Majesty – Ungodly Revenge [EP]

Artist: Beast Majesty Country: Peru Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Beast Majesty might be a new band in the Extreme Metal scene, but the only person behind it is far from a newcomer. The wild child helming this…

Ancient Entity – The Final Dawn [Demo]

Artist: Ancient Entity Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 With Ancient Entity, Oskar Brahn his fifth band, but this time he’s doing it all by himself. But although all those other bands also fall within the Death…

Bewitched – Diabolical Death Mass

Artist: Bewitched Country: Sweden Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 In the mid-90s, Osmose Productions was arguably the leading force when it came to offering quality releases and setting trends within the realm of…

Baphomet’s Blood – Metal Damnation [Re-Release]

Artist: Baphomet’s Blood Country: Italy Label: Dying Victims Productions Format: LP / CD Year: 2026 After two records (and two demos) in the mid 00’s, that were as ramshackle as they were charming, the Italian Heavy-/Speed Metal band Baphomet’s Blood arrived at their third instalment…

Blood Serpent – Rehearsal MMXXVI [Demo]

Artist: Blood Serpent Country: Vietnam Label: House Of Ygra Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 After a good debut album back in 2023 and an enjoyable split CD with Iron Bludgeon in 2025, both released by the enigmatic House Of Ygra label, the Vietnamese noise mongers…