Necro Ritus – Born by Evil Blood [Demo / Compilation]

Artist: Necro Ritus Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2026 ‘Born by Evil Blood’ combines the ‘Beast Unleashed’ and ‘Temple of Fornication’ demos, the first two Necro Ritus releases, onto one Cassette. This band was spawned in…

Chamber of Unlight – Avernus

Artist: Chamber Of Unlight Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 That a new Chamber of Unlight album was inbound comes as no surprise, as the band already teased a new track in 2023 in the…

Sadistic Evil – Ancient Torture [Demo]

Artist: Sadistic Evil Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2026 Sadistic Evil is one of the many outlets of Behemoth, a gentleman that has made his mark on Finnish Black Metal since 1991 in bands such as…

Devourment – Pious Impiety [EP]

Artist: Devourment Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2026 Brutal Death Metal doesn’t feature on these pages all that often, but that doesn’t mean we’re not up for it. Certainly not when it comes to Devourment. Like…

Thy Killing Hand – Infernal Commands

Artist: Thy Killing Hand Country: Poland Label: End All Life Productions / Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Thy Killing Hand is a relatively new Polish band that after two demos now releases their debut full-length album…

Morgarath – Onward To Extermination [Demo]

Artist: Morgarath Country: Poland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 As previously noted and reported, the Silesia region of Poland is a hotbed of uncompromising Extreme Metal. In recent months, a great many bands from the area have managed…

Drudkh – Thaw [EP]

Artist: Drudkh Country: Ukraine Label: Season of Mist Underground Activists Formats: 12” EP / CD EP Year: 2026 With thirteen full-lengths albums under their belts and an immensely recognizable sound, Drudkh has no doubt become of the most iconic Black…

Twilight Stronghold – The Heights Of Dreams [EP]

Artist: Twilight Stronghold Country: France Label: The Weeping Kingdom Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Although Twilight Stronghold released their first demo back in 2021, followed by three split releases and a compilation featuring those tracks, I can imagine that for…

Riena – Miekka Ja Varjo [EP]

Artist: Riena Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 ‘Miekka Ja Varjo’ is the first sign of battle of Finland’s Riena. The band harbors the talents of Draghn and Woewerb, the latter who you…

Piołun – Exolvuntur

Artist: Piołun Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 ‘Exolvuntur’ represents the second chapter in the discography of the Polish Black Metal band Piołun. That journey started in 2019 and led in 2022 to the debut…

Horns Of Abomination – Horns Of Abomination [Demo]

Artist: Horns Of Abomination Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 The cover art of this debut demo of Horns Of Abomination might not necessarily look evil, but musically this new band definitely has something to offer for those…

Hermetic Subjugator – Transmutational Ethos [Demo]

Artist: Hermetic Subjugator Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Hermetic Subjugator might be a new band, but the duo behind it are by no means rookies. Both gents have earned their stripes in the Spanish underground scene with such acts…

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…