Immortal Hammer – Kráľovstvo Zimných Démonov

Artist: Immortal Hammer Country: Slovakia Label: Hexencave Productions / Murderous Music Production / Purity Through Fire / Werewolf Promotion Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 / 2024 Somewhere around the early to mid-00’s I developed a bit…

Khold – Du Dømmes Til Død

Artist: Khold Country: Norway Label: Soulseller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 While I concluded my review for ‘Svartsyn’, Khold’s previous record, as being fodder for those who enjoy some non-adventurous Black Metal, it was also one of the…

Granitader – Der Wald Zwischen Den Welten

Artist: Granitader Country: Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2024 As an analyst and close follower of the Black Metal scene in the past quarter of a century or so, it pleases me that, in recent years, I…

Corpus Offal – Demo 2024

Artist: Corpus Offal Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Corpus Offal might be a new band at the Death Metal firmament, but its bandmembers for sure are no stranger to Extreme Metal in general and…

Amorphous Dominion – A Blaze In The Eastern Sky [EP]

Artist: Amorphous Dominion Country: Thailand Label: Self-released Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 After having released a debut demo tape in 2022, the Thai Black Metal band Amorphous Dominion returns with its follow-up in the form of this self-released EP. That…

Adversaire – Froid [Demo]

Artist: Adversaire Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 This mysterious Canadian Black Metal band crossed my path first with the two Cosmic Cause Productions-released reissues of the band’s first demo and their split with Sensorial Numbness somewhere…

Drakorathos – Ode To The Majesty Of The Nightside [EP]

Artist: Drakorathos Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 The number of Romanian Black Metal bands is rather sparse, although most people don’t get much further than the (magnificent!) Negură Bunget we haven’t had a whole lot more…

Oppressive Descent – Sulfuric Wrath

Artist: Oppressive Descent Country: USA Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 Although Oppressive Descent was already founded back in 2008, the one-man project my workaholic Matt “Grond Nefarious” Schulte only really got wings during the years around the…

Drape – The Choir Above And The Symphony Below [EP]

Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a couple of days after Drape’s debut demo ‘Under The Majestic Black Mist’ the American one-man act returns with its follow-up; the twenty minute clocking and the evocatively…

Trijumf – Trijumf ili Smrt – Trijumf

Artist: TrijumfCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: Death Prayer RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2024 The latest release to emerge from the Black Metal scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the debut album of Trijumf. Whether it is in any way related to the members of the…

Abject Mentor – Bajo La Sombra Del Tormento [EP]

Artist: Abject Mentor Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 About a year ago I reviewed the debut album of Abject Mentor, a Mexican Death Metal band that was formed back in 2020 and previously released a handful…

Runespell – Wells Of Slidhr [Demo]

Artist: Runespell Country: Australia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 While Runespell started out as a solo band of Nightwolf (mostly known for his work in Eternum), it was expanded to a full-fledged band in 2022. This…

Coffins / Gravavgrav – Tribute To Grave [Split EP]

Artist: Coffins / Gravavgrav Country: Japan Label: Lycanthropic Chants Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 For the revered Japenese Death Metal band Coffins is this split 7” EP the latest chapter in a long tradition of splitting EP’s, this time…

Front Beast – Passage To The Centuries Of Old [EP]

Artist: Front Beast Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 Anyone who has been following the underground Black Metal scene in the last quarter of a century must at least once have stumbled upon Germany’s Front Beast,…

Iron Firmament – Empyrean Blood [EP]

Artist: Iron Firmament Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 ‘Empyrean Blood’ is Iron Firmament’s second offering, after last July’s debut EP ‘Keepeater’. That EP already introduced us to an interesting piece of Raw Black Metal that sounded…

Uhripuu – J​ä​ä​stä Revitty Maa [Demo]

Artist; UhripuuCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital demoYear: 2024 For the ancient inhabitants of Western and Eastern Finland, the Uhripuu was a sacrificial tree where they made sacrifices to either their ancestors or the earth elves and gods who maintain the vitality of…

Drape – Under The Majestic Black Mist [Demo]

Artist: Drape Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Drape is a new Black Metal band without any other information than it is apparently coming from the USA. But, since we are here for the music and not…

Ectospire – Afterlife Brutality [EP]

Artist: Ectospire Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Almost exactly a year ago I came across Ectospire’s debut demo, a tape that stuck with me a for a while because of a vital mix of both European…

Black Hurst – Blinding Pitch Of Victory [EP]

Artist: Black Hurst Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 In my review of the band’s 2023 demo tape I compared Black Hurst mainly with the occult sort of Black Metal of the likes of Varathron and…

Grave Alter – Demo II [Demo]

Artist: Grave Alter Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Last year I stumbled upon Grave Alter’s self-titled first demo, a 3-tracker that showed a certain appreciation of Mortician-styled gore-drenched Death Metal. Now, exactly one year later, also…

Puteraeon – Quindecennial Horror [EP]

Artist: Puteraeon Country: Sweden Label: Emanzipation Records Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Personally I have always categorized Puteraeon as one of the more interesting Swedish Death Metal bands that do no belong to the classics from the early 90’s. Don’t ask…

Merrimack – Of Grace And Gravity

Artist: Merrimack Country: France Label: Season Of Mist Underground Activists Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Personally I am always fascinated by the difference in appreciation certain bands receive. Sometimes it feels like even the deepest analyses are not able…

Midnight – Hellish Expectations

Artist: Midnight Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP /Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Over the course of the last, let’s say, ten years Midnight is one of Heavy Metal’s most revered rising stars. Not only has Midnight…

Kêres – Eidolon Abraxas

Artist: KêresCountry: FinlandLabel: His WoundsFormats: LP / DigitalYear: 2024 Just a few months after the simultaneous release of a new Kêres EP and full-length we find ourselves with yet another album. This time presented under the banner of His Wounds,…

Faidra – Militant : Penitent : Triumphant

Artist: FaidraCountry: SwedenLabel: Northern Silence ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 It seems that in the past year the number of new Atmospheric Black Metal bands has been through the roof. Or rather, it feels that the term…

Viharukous – Viimeisiä Houreita [EP]

Artist: Viharukous Country: Finland Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2023 After four demos, recorded in the timeframe between 2018 and 2021, this Finnish duo finally breaks a rather long silence with this latest offering, a 4-track EP (including…

Övervåld – V​å​ldsbejakande Extremism [EP]

Artist: Övervåld Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 I am sure you recognize it. Sometimes it feels inevitable to use Google Translate to clear something, but when you see the outcome, it makes so much sense that you…

Bergsvriden – Uråldrad [EP]

Artist: BergsvridenCountry: SwedenLabel: Self-releasedFormat: Digital EPYear: 2023 When Trollmania formed Bergsvriden in 2013, he was soon joined by fellow Midvintersblot members Trollpung and Öltomten. Not entirely abandoning the Folk Metal sound of their other band, with Bergsvriden they aimed for…

Nuclearhammer – Xaos Tenawas – Demo MMXXIII [Demo]

Artist: Nuclearhammer Country: Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2023 Not counting the 90-minute compilation that was released in 2018 (and reissued in 2021 and 2022 on a double cassette release and double CD respectively), ‘Xaos…