Reich Der Geister – Bloody Reliquary [Demo]

Artist: Reich Der Geister Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although this French one-man operation already released two demos and a split tape before this latest offering, it never popped up on my radar. But now…

Abhorrent Execration – Atavistic Voracity [EP]

Artist: Abhorrent Execration Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 After two demos and an EP, the French duo that is Abhorrent Execration returns with yet another EP that, for now, is only digitally available through the band’s…

Nubivagant – Live In Abtenau

Artist: Nubivagant Country: Italy Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Just like the other releases of Nubivagant featured on these pages, I have filed this one under “Black Metal”. Yet, anyone familiar with the band knows that Nubivagant isn’t…

Eerified Catacomb – Liquidation Of Souls [Demo]

Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Sordid Realm Of Apparition’ and the split tape with Gnawed Chrisom, Eerified Catacomb returns with two new demo tapes. ‘Liquidation Of Souls’ is…

Ancient North – The Woods Of Samael

Artist: Ancient North Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 After a blitzing start with firing away one recording after another, over time Ancient North has been taking on a slower pace. Still, you can’t be surprised that Forlorn…

Sanguine Relic / Gates of Dawn – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Sanguine Relic / Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Label: Death Hymns Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 This little piece of vinyl brings together two of the USA’s most popular Raw Black Metal bands, with Sanguine Relic being an…

Re-Buried – Flesh Mourning

Artist: Re-Buried Country: USA Label: Translation Loss Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Two years and a half after the release of the band’s debut album, ‘Repulsive Nature’, Re-Buried returns to the front with a new…

Sepulchral Lamentations – Manifestum Tertii Antichristii

Artist: Sepulchral Lamentations Country: Austria Label: TSC Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Sepulchral Lamentations is a new one-man project from Austria, helmed by Stephan “Shathrazhul” Homschek who started creating music under this moniker only this year. Although he has some…

Moon Oracle – Guardians Of The Lunar Spheres

Artist: Moon Oracle Country: Finland Label: Bestial Burst Formats: CD Year: 2025 With only a few years behind them as a band, the trio that forms Moon Oracle is not only a seasoned company with precious experience in bands such…

Caustic Phlegm – Demo 2025

Artist: Caustic Phlegm Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 With a great demo and a successful full-length album on Hells Headbangers Records, released earlier this year, it is fair to say that one-man army Caustic Phlegm…

Uhritulet – Pedon Ruumis/Liekin Takaa [Demo]

Artist: Uhritulet Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 Blame it on old age, or perhaps I simply prophetised this in my review of the Uhritulet debut album. But the observation that ‘Uhritulet’ didn’t manage to stand out…

Cénotaphe – Chimères

Artist: Cénotaphe Country: France Label: Ancien Culte / Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ossuaire Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 Things moved fast for Cénotaphe. Born out of their time together in Nécropole, instrumentalist Fog and vocalist Khaosgott started…

Galghe – Bloed Eed [Demo]

Artist: Galghe Country: Belgium/The Netherlands Label: Merg&Been Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 Galghe is a rather new spiritual vessel in which J. and P., both also members of Vergankelijk, once again join forces. These members have vast experience in the…

Witchcraft – Belphegor [Demo / Re-release]

Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 Together with the rehearsal demo ‘Shaitan’, Wolfkult Religion re-released the Witchcraft rehearsal demo ‘Belphegor’ in June 2025. Also stemming from 2024, this rehearsal is a little different than…

Witchcraft – Shaitan [Demo / Re-release]

Arist: Witchcraft Country: Finland Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 ‘Shaitan’ is one of two rehearsal tapes of the Finnish maniacs of Witchcraft that were recently re-released by Wolfkult Religion. With both rehearsals originally appearing in 2024, this…

Invoketh – Sabbatikal Obsession [Demo]

Artist: Invoketh Country: France Label: Messe Noire Productions / Obscurity Of Error Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Invoketh is a new entity arising from the Extreme Metal scene from France. A new band maybe, but the three members are far from rookies. On…

Starcave Nebula – Asterism [Demo / Re-release]

Artist: Starcave Nebula Country: Canada Label: Wolfkult Religion Format: Demo tape Year: 2025 If you thought that releasing the likes of Kiloton, Goat Semen and Witchcraft pushed the label Wolfkult Religion far into Extreme Metal label, brace yourselves. With the…

Charogne – Rance Moelle / Accoutumanc [Demo]

Artist: Charogne Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘Rance Moelle / Accoutumanc’ is the one-track follow-up demo of ‘Bourbe’ and ‘Liturgia Horarum’, two demos that saw the light of day at the end of 2024 and very…

Occult Mountain – Winter Invocations [Demo]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It could be a very good slogan to sell more copies of your demo: “so good, it’s not allowed on Metal-Archives”. While many of the unfathomable choices of…

Iron Division – Blood Tactics [Demo]

Artist: Iron Division Country: Denmark Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / IYY Blitzkrieg Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the Danish Extreme Metal scene and the Danish Extremely Rotten Productions label are mostly known for their Autopsy and Incantation-influenced Death Metal…

Empalamento – Ordem Da Estaca [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Empalamento Country: Portugal Label: Self-released / Haloran Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 / 2025 Even though I consider myself rather well-versed in the underground Extreme Metal scene, I sometimes tend to miss out on rather…

Eerified Catacomb / Gnawed Chrisom – Split Tape

Artist: Eerified Catacomb / Gnawed Chrisom Country: Canada / Andorra Label: Under The Dark Soil Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Although I’ve seen the name of Gnawed Chrisom before, I never had the opportunity to check this project out musically.…

Burr Hole – Trepanation

Artist: Burr Hole Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 At the time of writing, the identity of the two musicians behind Burr Hole remains hidden, but even without knowing that it is highly unlikely that they…

Thromvosis – Black Signs Of Bestiality

Artist: Thromvosis Country: Greece Label: Death’s Ovasions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 ‘Black Signs Of Bestiality’ is the follow-up recording to 2023’s ‘Proclamation Of The Smegmatic Warcult’, a record that I have reviewed and spent only a few hands full…

Azazel – Ave Dominus Luciferi

Artist: Azazel Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: CD Year: 2025 33 years and still going, Azazel returns with their latest full-length ‘Ave Dominus Luciferi’. Released on, how could it be any differently, the 6th day of the 6th month…

Medico Peste – Aesthetic of Hunger

Artist: Medico Peste Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices Formats: CD Year: 2025 Five years have passed since the last album by the Polish band Medico Peste. A time in which a lot has happened. For one, a drastic change in…

Tenebro – Inferno Contaminato [EP]

Artist: Tenebro Country: Italy Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘Inferno Contaminato’ is yet another 2-track EP by the Italian masters of musical gore. And again, Tenebro pays homage to a horror movie, this time it is…

Pandemia – Darkened Devotion

Artist: Pandemia Country: Czechia Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 During the late 90’s and first years of the 00’s eastern Europe had a rather vibrant Death Metal scene, a scene that went very well with the region’s ever-thriving Grindcore tradition. It…

Living Evil – Curse The Cross [Demo]

Artist: Living Evil Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Living Evil is a new band formed by the duo that together also appear as the Traditional Doom Metal outfit Kathryn Danielle, whose debut finished high in my…

Evil Deceiver – Hymns To Death [Demo]

Artist: Evil Deceiver Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s self-titled demo that was released in the very waning days of 2024, Evil Deceiver returns with yet another demo. In…

Sexmag – Sexorcyzm

Artist: Sexmag Country: Poland Label: Destruktion Records / Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few years Sexmag has been growing into what you might call the “underground next big thing”. Not only just…

Profanação – A Queda Das Religiões Abraâmicas

Artist: Profanação Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 From the ever-fertile Portuguese soil comes Profanação, a band that already released two demo tapes through M.D.M. in 2022 and an Altare Productions-released full-length album on cassette tape.…

Konfus – Rabenlieder [EP]

Artist: Konfus Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Besides a one-track demo that was digitally released about a year ago, ‘Rabenlieder’ is the first offering from this relatively new German one-man band called Konfus. That one song that was previously released…

Funeral Fire – Demo [Re-Release]

Artist: Funeral Fire Country: Japan Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Originally ‘Demo’ was first available in summer last year as a self-released demo tape, but early 2025 it saw its reissue through Germany’s Menschenfeind Propaganda. A collaboration that is not too surprising,…