Priester – Soldier Of Fortune [EP]

Artist: Priester Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Although many Hard Rock enthusiasts will associate the title ‘Soldier Of Fortune’ with the Deep Purple ballad and closing track of their 1974 album ‘Stormbringer’, it is also the…

Warfare Noise – Satanic Blood Ecstasy [Demo]

Artist: Warfare Noise Country: Paraguay Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Even though Warfare Noise has been around for almost fifteen years already and has a considerable discography, they never landed on these pages before. Not even with the…

Lugubrious Garment – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Lugubrious Garment Country: Italy Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: Demo Tape / CD Demo Year: 2025 Honestly, if this demo tape wasn’t released on Nuclear Winter Records, I am pretty sure I would’ve never heard it. Maybe it’s short-sighted…

Flesh Hierarchy – Demo 1

Artist: Flesh Hierarchy Country: USA Label: Grotesque Devotion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Flesh Hierarchy is the brainchild of a person named JN, and if we were to believe the internet sources, this one-man project is the first step into…

Forbidden Temple – In The Rotting Grave

Artist: Forbidden Temple Country: Belgium Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Yes, I still have a lot of catching up to do. ‘In The Rotting Grave’ is Forbidden’s second full-length album that was…

Lead Injector – Witching Attack

Artist: Lead Injector Country: Germany Label: High Roller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 In times when everything around us is becoming more complicated and developments are sometimes taking on frightening speeds, it is sometimes nice to embrace the…

Abhorration – Abhorrent Entities [Compilation]

Artist: Abhorration Country: Norway Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 With the release of ‘Demonolatry’ at the end of 2024, Abhorration’s name buzzed through the underground. And not without reason: the album was a highlight in Extreme Metal in…

Tempest – Obscure Hallucinations [7″ EP]

Artist: Tempest Country: Mexico Label: Chaos Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Tempest’s first outing, ‘Unending Torment’, was a very enjoyable debut album, but in all honesty, there was a clear lack of a determined vision. Like a lose canon…

Deathwinds – …Towards Doom…

Artist: Deathwinds Country: Canada Label: Headsplit Records / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 When the ‘Ripping Annihilation’-EP was released back in autumn of 2025, it was quite a bit of a surprise. After…

Vulkan Grit – Godslaying Arcane Panoply

Artist: Vulkan Grit Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Since I’ve missed the band’s debut EP from 2023, Vulkan Grit arrived to me pretty much out of the blue with their full-length album. But since the Werewolf…

Final Ritual – Ulterior Spiritual Resonances [Demo]

Artist: Final Ritual Country: Chile Label: Oratorivm Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Ulterior Spiritual Resonances’ is the debut demo of a new band from Chile, and although that is basically it as far as the available information goes, that…

Dark Fog Eruption – Decline [Demo]

Artist: Dark Fog Eruption Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Dark Fog Eruption started sometime in the late 2010s and has been around for a while now, yet I haven’t really paid much attention to them. And…

Irae – In The Key Of Twilight

Artist: Irae Country: Portugal Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 A year after the release of the ‘Promiscuous Fire’ EP, we now finally have Irae’s new full-length album and follow-up to 2022’s ‘Assim Na Terra Como No Inferno’. Even though Irae’s discography…

Remina – Crypts Of Spectral Cries And Astral Dreams [EP]

Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s debut EP, the duo returns with their second EP. With a duration of half an hour, ‘Νεκροταφείο Αγγέλων’…

Remina – Νεκροταφείο Αγγέλων [EP]

Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Metal Throne Productions / Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In spring 2025 Menschenfeind Propaganda released a split tape between Eternal Ice from Japan and Yūrei, that, even though…

Sepulchral Witchcraft – Culto A La Muerte [Demo]

Artist: Sepulchral Witchcraft Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Although Sepulchral Witchcraft is a (new) band from Russia, there’s musically nothing that seems to tie the band to their native scene – or at least what we usually associate with Russian Black…

Misotheist – De Pinte

Artist: Misotheist Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Ever since the Nidrosian Black Metal bands Mare, Kaosritual, Celestial Bloodshed and One Tail, One Head reignited the flame of Black Metal in Trondheim in the mid…

Sulphuric Deity – Demonstration MMXXVI [Demo]

Artist: Sulphuric Deity Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this demo seems to have been in the works for quite some time, this is still a new band for most people. Only those who regularly visit Reddit or Instagram may…

Caprice Steel – Demo I

Artist: Caprice Steel Country: Chile Label: Eseocho Label Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 When we talk about Chile as a country that provides metal enthusiasts with new music, we are almost always referring to Death Metal or Black Metal, and…

Bestial Warlust – Demo 1995 [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Bestial Warlust Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette / CD Year: 2026 Although bands like Impaled Nazarene, Blasphemy and Beherit were already blending the ferocity and darkness of Black Metal with the blunt brutality of…

Anima – Elämän Viha/Kuoleman Idoli [Demo]

Artist: Anima Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 I was first drawn to Anima through the release of their debut ‘Yllä Kaikkitietävän Tyhjyyden’, so for the right context I would recommend reading that review first. It was…

Anima – Yllä Kaikkitietävän Tyhjyyden

Artist: Anima Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 There’s not much to say about Anima, simply because not much is known. The band hails from Finland and consists of a single entity that goes by the name of…

Tünböri – Kurt Başlı Sancak [EP]

Artist: Tünböri Country: Türkiye Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 If we have to rely on the numbers provided by Metal Archives, Tünböri are one of just 799 Metal bands that hail from Türkiye, a number that drops…

Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit – Split [Re-Release]

Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit Country: Ukraine Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Originally this split tape was already released in 2022 by Bathöryhead, a rather obscure label from Ukraine that seems to focus primarily on bands from…

Hæksenhamer – Poisonous Heathenism

Artist: Hæksenhamer Country: Germany Label: Death Revelations Formats: LP / Cassette tape Year: 2025 What was never supposed to be more than a drunken improvisation, turned out to be an excellent first release for Hæksenhamer. Recorded in just one day,…

Obseqk – Funereal Pillar [EP]

Artist: Obseqk Country: Canada Label: 7S7W7 Formats: Digial EP Year: 2026 It is highly unlikely that anybody would claim that Olivier B. Emond is a one-sided musician. With his current and past work in acts such as Gotthammer (now Seraphic Castration), Kiloton, Melth, Pénombre,…

Veitsi – Kalevanpoika Herää! [Demo]

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As a fan of Veitsi’s take on the Black Metal genre, I never have to wait too long before there’s new material to wrap my ears around. ‘Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus’, the band’s last…

Vong – Phạn Hàm

Artist: Vong Country: Vietnam Label: Diabolical Vitriol / House Of Ygra Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although the digital version of Vong’s second offering was already released digitally and on CD through the band’s Bandcamp page and House…

Krucifixion Woods – Krucifixion Woods

Artist: Krucifixion Woods Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 While Veitsi has enough punk vibes going on, I think Krucifixion Woods, one of the other bands of M.K., has a way stronger punk connotation. Honestly,…

Hatenoir – Blasphemy Of The Souls

Artist: Hatenoir Country: Unknown Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 In the fall of 2025 Hatenoir debuted with ‘Candles Hold The Dark Light’, a demo that was released by Blackreach Productions on the most inferior format ever: a…

Oblivion – Sheol [Demo]

Artist: Oblivion Country: Chile Label: Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As more or less my standard procedure when stumbling upon a label that I had never heard before: checking what else is or was going on. A couple…

Archont – Macht:Demonstration [Demo]

Artist: Archont Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although there is very little known about this band, it is most likely that Archont is from Austria as they are claimed to be part of the Symbolismus…

Kêres – Misticismo Senza Radici

Artist: Kêres Country: Finland Label: His Wounds Formats: LP Year: 2025 While Kêres amassed an impressive number of demos in the earliest years of its existence, the last few years main man Atvar has been churning out a respectable number…

Sataras Belzebulba – Demo

Artist: Sataras Belzebulba Country: Czechia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 You should do yourselves a favour and check out this band’s pictures before reading further or listening to this demo. Of course I am not sure whether we’re…