Attic – Return of the Witchfinder

Artist: AtticCountry: GermanyLabel: Ván RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Attic wasn’t exactly the first band to follow the path of of King Diamond and Mercyful Fate. With the Danes spawning copcycats of varying degrees of quality ever since their pioneering…

Uttertomb – Nebulas Of Self-Desecration

Artist: Uttertomb Country: Chile Label: Pulverised Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After being around for well over a decade and with several EP’s and splits under their belts it was about time these Chileans Death Metallers came up…

Aberration – Refracture

Artist: Aberration Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Aberration debuted in 2021 with a self-titled EP after which it remained quiet for a long time, not counting the Beherit cover that…

Ondfødt – Oldfodt [EP]

Artist: Ondfødt Country: Finland Label: Black Lion Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 With all due respect to both band and label, sometimes the logic eludes me a bit of what gets thrown on the market. One…

Candelabrum – Transmutations

Artist: Candelabrum Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Two years after the release of ‘Nocturnal Trance’ through Hells Headbangers, the Portuguese flagship of Lo-Fi Black Metal returns with their fourth full-length album. Before we dive into a deeper analysis of the…

Necrophobic – In The Twilight Grey

Artist: Necrophobic Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After the release of the ‘Death To All’-album in 2009 the future for Necrophobic never seemed brighter: a killer new record, a flawless back catalogue and a…

Arzhaabat – The Glory Of Wogastisburg [EP]

Artist: Arzhaabat Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 After a demo tape, a single released on cassette and a full-length album, the prolific MBN returns with another Arzhaabat recording. This time an almost 24-minute EP that fits, at…

Order Of Nosferat – The Absence Of Grace

Artist: Order Of Nosferat Country: Finland / Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As enchanting and confusing the shapeshifting entity of a vampire can be, the same can be said about this…

Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations

Artist: Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The trio that together makes up Diabolic Oath has just delivered us something new to chew on, not all too long after…

Kalmankantaja / Somber Winds – Split CD

Artist: Kalmankantaja / Somber WindsCountry: FinlandLabel: Misantropia RecordsFormats: Split CDYear: 2024 Shortly after the release of reimagined tracks from the 2014-2016 period, Kalmankantaja returns to the release front with the first new material of 2024 (although technically it was already…

Korpituli – Pohjola

Artist: Korpituli Country: Finland Label: Korpituli Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 ‘Pohjola’ is the third full-length album for the Finnish Black Metal band Korpituli, but honestly, if you have heard the bands previously released material,…

Conifère – L’Imp​ô​t Du Sang

Artist: Conifère Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 After having released a demo and a split in 2020, Conifère went silent for a good couple of years. While many bands do release one album or EP after another,…

Therianthropophagus – Damnatio Ad Bestias [EP]

Artist: Therianthropophagus Country: Canada Label: Serpents Head Reprisal Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 This new Black/Death Metal band from Canada debuts with an EP that clocks just under 20 minutes, but musically leaves very little to the imagination. In the right Canadian…

Adversaire – Adversaire [EP]

Artist: Adversaire Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This new 20-minute EP follows quickly after the release of this Canadian’s previous ‘Froid’-EP. With less than two weeks between them, I assume that all tracks on both releases were written and recorded…

Daedric Chamber – Nekromantik [EP]

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Daedric Chamber’s ‘Black Marsh Eternal’, the band’s fourth full-length album, felt like a prime example of the ‘new generation’ of contemporary (American) Black Metal. It portrayed the band,…

Kalmankantaja – Varjosielu

Artist: KalmankantajaCountry: FinlandLabel: Wolfspell RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 It has taken a couple of months, but with the release of ‘Varjosielu’ the first recording of Kalmankantaja of 2024 is finally here. This time around we aren’t presented with a new album,…

Vuosisata – Kuilu [Demo]

Artist: Vuosista Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 ‘Kuilu’ might seem the first ever release for this Finnish Atmospheric Black Metal band, it is actually its second outing. Before switching to the name of ‘Vuosisasta’ the band…