Siegehammer – Demo MMXXIII [Re-Release]

Artist: Siegehammer Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 You can already tell from the title of this demo that we are dealing with a reissue of these recordings. We are now a year on, but Profaner…

Vile Rites – Senescence

Artist: Vile Rites Country: USA Label: Carbonized Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although this American trio is quite young in age, they seem to be intrigued by the concept of time. The band’s previously released…

Sadomortuary – Inflicting Litanies Of Torment

Artist: Sadomortuary Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 After a couple of demos (also available on a US-released compilation CD) and a split with Nameless Tomb, ‘Inflicting Litanies Of Torment’ is Sadomortuary’s first full-length album. In just…

Mergelland – De Lichtenberg Sessies 2020 [EP]

Artist: MergellandCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Merg & Been / Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 Before Wurgilnõ there was Mergelland. Consanguineus’ musical dedication to the region of Limburg started in 2020 and resulted in an EP and a single. Work started on…

Cantique Lépreux – Le Bannissement

Artist: Cantique Lépreux Country: Canada Label: Eisenwald Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Anyone who has been compelled by the grandeur of the Metal Noir Quebecois scene will most likely have stumbled upon the back catalogue of Cantique Lépreux. It might be a bit…

Gotthammer – Ancient Nature [EP]

Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Anti-Human Productions / WolfKult ReligionFormats: 7” EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2024 The godslaying sonic barbarians of Gotthammer return to the stage with their first EP, following a couple of demos and a split with…

Kerkerengel – …From a Dishonoured Grave

Artist: KerkerengelCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 With Kerkerengel we witness the birth of another band led by Lord Vrăjitor, the mastermind behind the likes of Warmoon Lord, Old Sorcery and Argenthorns. But while epic and symphonic elements form parts…

Necromoon – War And Obedience [Compilation]

Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Within the course of two month Polish Necromoon has released their debut album, an EP and a split. Whether they are going to keep up this insane work…

Witchtrap – Hungry As The Beast

Artist: Witchtrap Country: Colombia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The past few weeks I have featured quite a few Latin American bands, a continent that has a metal scene that is a…

Castrivenian – Eternal Fog’s Rebirth [Demo]

Artist: CastrivenianCountry: BrazilLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassete tapeYear: 2024 Castrivenian is a relatively new entity from Brazil that was formed earlier in 2024. The band released their first demo ‘S.H.T.I.’ earlier in April, but with fires of creativity burning brightly, immediately…

Taival – Journey to Beyond

Artist: TaivalCountry: FinlandLabel: Wolfspell RecordsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 ‘Journey to Beyond’ is the debut album of Taival, which saw its release in the early months of the year courtesy of the respected Wolfspell Records. The album is adorned…

Absolute Key & Hail Conjurer – Trident Vision Live

Artist: Absolute Key & Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 It is not the first time that the creative Finnish Black Metal extraordinaire Hail Conjurer and the mind-boggling dark noise metal scoundscapist Absolute Key join…

Necromoon – Obedience [EP]

Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Following on from the recently released ‘War With Tyranny’ album, Canadian Anti-Human Productions not only releases a split tape with Tarokulith but also this new EP. Six new…

Tarokulith / Necromoon – Split

Artist: Tarokulith / Necromoon Country: Canada / Poland Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 As the title already suggests, this Anti-Human Productions release combines Tarokulith and Necromoon, two entities that like to thumb their noses at things like…

Rotten Tomb – Necropolis [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Rotten Tomb Country: Chile Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Rather shortly after the release of Rotten Tomb’s most recent full-length, the excellent ‘The Relief Of Death’, there is more to enjoy in…

In Aphelion – Reaperdawn

Artist: In Aphelion Country: The Netherlands / Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With ‘Reaperdawn’ the Swedish/Dutch alliance of In Aphelion delivers their second full-length album, and while the band is regarded as a new band…

Sextrash – Funeral Serenade [Re-Release]

Artist: Sextrash Country: Brazil Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP Year: 2024 Many a review on early Extreme Metal releases out of the South American scene start with the appreciation for those early works of Sepultura and Sarcófago or the…

Torturium – Chamber

Artist: Torturium Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 The first half of the 00’s were definitely Arttu “War Torech” Pulkkinen’s most prolific years, not only did he record the guitars on an impressive part of Satanic Warmaster’s back…

Vulvacult – El Triunfo Del Caos [Compilation]

Artist: Vulvacult Country: Argentina Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 While the band already released a full-length album and a couple of (more recent) split releases, the band is now presenting a cassette tape with the title of…

Goatscrote – Parasite Plague

Artist: Goatscrote Country: Canada Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With a name that in itself leaves little to the imagination, the “logo” and covers that Canadian Goatscrote serve themselves with make it even easier to imagine what this…

Sequestrum / Sněť – Split EP

Artist: Sequestrum / Sněť Country: Denmark / Czechia Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Noxious Ruin Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 Arriving late to a party might be fashionable, it has its downsides too. Like arriving late to the party that the…

Pillagery – Pillagery [Demo]

Artist: Pillagery Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Pillagery, a new Canadian Black/Death Metal outfit, is presenting its first feat in the form of this 4-track demo tape that (almost) simultaneously saw the darkness of day with…

Knüth – Demo IX (MMXXIV)

Artist: Knüth Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2024 After 11 demos and splits in less than four years, Knüth, a Russian Black Metal duo, fell silent for a couple of years, only to revive the project in…

Atomicide – Manifest Of Aversion

Artist: Atomicide Country: Chile Label: Death Divsion Rituals Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Chilean Atomicide are a band that are very active at times and then slow down for a while. The band started in 2003 and worked their…

Warslaughter – Autólisis Coprolitica (Demo Compilation)

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: The Final Return Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of the band’s second album, the Black Noise Committee released ‘Autocombustión’, we are also presented with this tape release that compiles both…

Warslaughter – Autocombustión

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Black Noise Committee / Headsplit Records / Ixiol Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After two demos and a full-length album in about three years the band decided to throw in the towel…

Acid Mass – Upon The Knife [EP]

Artist: Acid Mass Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Yes, I have said it before and I will probably mention it again in the future: the advantage of having a one-man band is that you can crank…

Glutted Swarm – …Of Old

Artist: Glutted Swarm Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2024 Throughout the entire history of Heavy Metal as an overarching genre, it has been proven on several occasions that originality is not a must when it comes to producing…

Chapel Of Samhain – Black Onyx Cave

Artist: Chapel Of Samhain Country: Portugal Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Spawned from the minds of Black Onyx and Phoros, Chapel Of Samhain is one of the latest monsters to come from…