Nebiros – Rehearsal Demo 1991 [Re-Release]

Artist: Nebiros Country: Colombia Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Earlier this spring Nuclear War Now! Productions reissued Nebiros’ first full-length album from 1996, an album that although it was released much later than other classics from…

Aznaitin – Aznaitin [Demo]

Artist: Aznaitin Country: Aznaitin Label: Morken Tapes Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Aznaitin, an anonymous Spanish entity from the Andalusian region, is a new act entering the Spanish Black Metal firmament. This self-titled demo tape is the band’s first feat,…

Mayhemic – Toba

Artist: Mayhemic Country: Chile Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The “Toba catastrophe theory” posits that the evolution of the human race was significantly influenced by an eruption of the Toba super volcano…

Deteriorot / Rotpit – We Rot [Split 7″ EP]

Artist: Deteriorot / Rotpit Country: USA / Germany/Sweden Label: Seven Inches Of Metal Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 With the aptly titled ‘We Rot’ Seven Metal Inches Records presents a new 7” that brings together the long-running Deteriorot…

Cloaked – Vampyric Sorrow [Demo]

Artist: Cloaked Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 With very little info being available of this newly conceived Nashville, Tennessee-based Raw Black Metal band the music on this project’s debut demo should do the majority of the…

Liminal Shroud – Visions Of Collapse

Artist: Liminal Shroud Country: Canada Label: Willowtip Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Album number three for this Canadian three-piece and with 2022’s ‘All Virtues Ablaze’ they have set the bar high for its follow-up release. That sophomore album…

Smyrtonos – Ceremonial Blaze [Demo]

Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Despite once being declared dead, Smyrtonos, Todorac’s main musical project, is more vibrant than ever before. Apart from a compilation of older material, we already saw him release an…

Slovgh – Emetic Fluid Transaction [EP]

Artist: Slvogh Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 From the ever thriving Danish Death Metal/Grindcore scene comes this new entity called Slovgh. A band that was more or less conceived out of…

Phantom – Transylvanian Nightmare [EP]

Artist: Phantom Country: Mexico Label: Doomentia Records / Headsplit Records / Inframetal Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Although the band had already released a couple of short players, Phantom from Mexicon only came…

Vrkolak – Carpathian Tyranny Returns

Artist: VrkolakCountry: Bosnia and HerzegovinaLabel: Black Gangrene ProductionsFormats: LPYear: 2024 At lot of attention has gone to the Black Metal scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for good reason. Band such as Sulphuric Night and Obskuritatem have garnered wide interest and acclaim and put their…

Demonic Torment – Blood Lust [Demo]

Artist: Demonic TormentCountry: FinlandLabel: Unpure RecordsFormat: Demo tapeYear: 2024 After playing together in Krusifoitu, Human Animal, Arcanos (here under the pseudonym of Black Nuclear Hellstorm) and Vomit Deprivator thought it was time to combine their powers in a different vessel…

Mortuary Ghoul – Norman

Artist: Mortuary Ghoul Country: USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Not even a year after the band’s debut album, Death Metal one-piece Mortuary Ghoul returns with its follow-up. An album that is obviously based…

Herculean Death – Glory Of Death’s Triumph

Artist: Herculean Death Country: USA Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Some two years ago I reviewed Herculean Death’s first EP, ‘Lost Hierarchy Of Dark Twisted Arts’ and reading back that one while listening to that particular EP…

Necroracle – Arcane Impious Sorceries

Artist: NecroracleCountry: SpainLabel: Triangulum Ignis / Nuclear Winter RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 The Spanish Death/Black Metal scene might not be the most active, but when a band releases an album, you know it’s worth your attention. That certainly applies…

Clactonian – Dea Madre [Demo]

Artist: Clactonian Country: Finland / Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Forged out of the dark visions of a few like-minded folks from both Finland and Italy comes Clactonian. A band that took their name from an old…

Opositor – Opositor [EP]

Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Down With The Most High Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Prior this new EP Opositor already released about a handful of releases, including a full-length album, all varying greatly in sound quality, but if one…

Opositor – Primaeval Worships [Compilation]

Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Year: 2024 As the title might already suggest, ‘Primaeval Worships’ is a compilation tape of older Opositor tracks that were recorded during the first two years of the band’s existence. To…

Impiety – Despondent Ecstacies [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Impiety Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2024 While the Singaporean Impiety by far is more well-known than this one from the USA, their musical background is not all that different. Okay,…

Penis – Nuclear Fukk [EP]

Artist: Penis Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This is the day we have all been waiting for. The day that there would finally be a band that would call themselves Penis. Hallelujah! Well, okay, the band…

Chevallier Skrog – Dokud Nepomine Nebe I Zem [Demo]

Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 With his many bands and projects the ever restless and total workaholic MBN is presenting new music almost every week, and while, of course, not everything…

Smyrtonos – Cast Into Outer Darkness [EP]

Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut full-length, not even released a month ago, the ever restless Todorac returns with a new Smyrtonos recording. This time a new…

Black Fullmoon – Black Fullmoon [Demo]

Artist: Black Fullmoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 A haunting and sinister Dungeon Synth-like track sets the mood for the self-titled demo of this new and anonymous Black Metal entity from Puerto Rico. And their…

Ophidian – Descent Into The Labyrinth [EP]

Artist: Ophidian Country: Greece Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Like many others, I have an unquenchable thirst for Greek Black Metal, so not only the obvious bands of the past, but certainly also the newer acts…

Wurgilnõ – Krijtland

Artist: WurgilnõCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Fetzner Death Records / Rotting Sun RecordsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 That Consanguineus’ will, passion and inspiration does not wane has become clear with the pace at which he has propelled his latest project Wurgilnõ.…

Thornspawn – Coronation Of The Supreme Beast

Artist: Thornspawn Country: USA Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 When it comes to the North American Black Metal scene, the discussions usually evolve around the same bands, it’s always Judas Iscariot, Leviathan, Krieg,…

Sear Bliss – Heavenly Down

Artist: Sear Bliss Country: Hungary Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In the more melodic and atmospheric Black Metal constellation from roughly half of the 90’s to the mid 00’s, Sear Bliss played a significant role. Maybe…

Drowning The Light – To The End Of Time [Re-Release]

Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 The last couple of years saw a lot of Drowning The Light’s back catalogue resurface in the form of some well-deserved reissues, mostly through Azgorh’s very…

Moonstruck – Kingdom of the Dark Majesty [Demo]

Artist: MoonstruckCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal RexFormats: Demo tapeYear: 2024 As if delivering one of the best Finnish Black Metal records of 2024 wasn’t enough, Kratti vocalist Haarniska returns once more in the entity Moonstruck. A different band in which the stage…

Bok – Metastasis Dei [Demo]

Artist: Bok Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Although the musician behind this new Dutch Black Metal band gained his experience in bands like Göll and Experimentum, with Bok he takes all the reins in his…

Ieschure – When The Darkness Comes

Artist: Ieschure Country: Ukraine Label: Those Opposed Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although the band has released a good amount of EP’s and splits over the past years, ‘When The Darkness Comes’ is only Iechure’s…

Necrohammer – Ancient Metal Holocaust [Demo]

Artist: Necrohammer Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Two years ago I stumbled upon this Mexican band playing a vintage sort of Black/Speed Metal that was inspired by all things old and extreme: Venom, Hellhammer, Sodom, Sarcófago…

Siegehammer – Spectral Entities [EP]

Artist: Siegehammer Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Only formed last year, this Spanish Death Metal band had already released a demo tape in the waning days of December 2023 and now arrived to its second release:…

Sadistic Goatmessiah – Demo 2023 [Re-Release]

Artist: Sadistic Goatmessiah Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 As the title already suggests, this demo was actually the demo the band presented last year. That first version was recorded and released in October of 2023 and…

Elemental – Nightburn

Artist: ElementalCountry: FinlandLabel: Final Agony RecordsFormats: 12″ LPYear: 2024 If you though that Kêres plays bareboned and primitive Black Metal, let me introduce Elemental to you. Atvar, the main man behind not only Kêres but also Circle of Ouroborus, Rahu…

Rotten Tomb – The Relief Of Death

Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Death Division Rituals Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a couple of various short players Chilean Death Metal band Rotten Tomb struck us in 2022 with a great chunky piece of Death Metal…

Kiloton – C4H8Cl2S [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With this fourth EP in a short series of short-players released by the ever-restless and prolific T.S., a Canadian musician who has been torturing our senses with several other…

Kiloton – Heart [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 ‘Heart’ is the third Kiloton EP that was released in a series of four that further expands the audial onslaught that was set in with last year’s trio of…