Behemoth – The Shit Ov God

Artist: Behemoth Country: Poland Label: Mystic Production / Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 This review is a bit late. Somewhat deliberately. Releases by the bigger bands in the Extreme Metal genres are usually…

Haavrun – Ensigns Of Evil [Demo]

Artist: Haavrun Country: Bulgaria Label: Hellvetic Carnage Productions Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 With Todorac you are always in for a surprise. One day he starts a project, the other day he disbands it again, or changes its name. Same…

Melth – Fatal Suffusion Of Tissues [Demo]

Artist: Melth Country: Canada Label: Berserk Ritual Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Emerging from the equally inventive and unpredictable group of musicians who previously brought us acts such as Gotthammer, Complot!, Moulin Banal, Adversaire, Shezmu, Pénombre and Kiloton. The exact…

Krvna Majka – Krvna Majka [EP]

Artist: Krvna Majka Country: USA Label: Prism of Deceit Recordings Formats: Digital Year: 2025 While the roots of the members are unknown, the Slavic band name Krvna Majka, or Blood Mother, may imply a European band is behind this eponymous…

Baneful Tongue – Baneful Tongue

Artist: Baneful Tongue Country: Norway Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Baneful Tongue is the brainchild of S.B.E., the one and only member of the band. When exactly the band was formed is not entirely clear, but S.B.E. has quite…

Flail – Within the Firths of Futility

Artist: Flail Country: Finland Label: Gramschap Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Despite that the band has existed since 2018, the Finnish Flail was unknown to me up til very recently. With members that are part of Kiira, Celestial Grave…

Katakomba – The Second Death

Artist: Katakomba Country: Sweden Label: Majestic Mountain Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘The Second Death’ is Katakomba’s return after the solid self-titled album from 2022. Albeit nothing really spectacular, that debut album was definitely a tasty slab of…

Pentagoatcross – Open Your Mouth Bitch

Artist: Pentagoatcross Country: USA Label: Malevolent Sounds Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Life can be a difficult thing to deal with, but sometimes it is surprisingly simple. Like with this digitally released debut album, give me a band name like Pentagoatcross…

Hjemsøkt – Om Vinteren, På En Sort Trone

Artist: Hjemsøkt Country: Norway Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Time is a fickle. A couple of years ago I intended to write up my thoughts on ‘Mystikk & Mørke’, an EP released by the Norwegians…

Katalepsie – Initial Spasm [Demo]

Artist: Katalepsie Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 In today’s conversations about Lo-Fi Black Metal we usually refer to bands like Sanguine Relic, Mons Veneris, Black Cilice, Orgy Of Carion and the likes. Some 20 years ago…

Sacris Ritus Vermes – With Burning Devotion [EP]

Artist: Sacris Ritus Vermes Country: Germany Label: Death Revelations Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Some images say more than a thousand words. The candles, the smoke and the skull to remind me of Mare’s ‘Spheres Like Death’. A band name…

Geatkihaukr – Varjaeger

Artist: Geatkihaukr Country: Finland Label: Out Of The Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Although the band already released two demo tapes and a 7” EP through Out Of The Dungeon in 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively, I only ran into…

Greve – Bleknat Bortom Evig Tid

Artist: Greve Country: Sweden Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2025 If I’m being honest, as time has gone by my opinion on the output of Swartadauþuz has changed. While I certainly appreciate the body of work that he…

Death Invoker – Reh. Damnations 2025

Artist: Death Invoker Country: Peru Label: Primitive Devil Worship Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Death Invoker was founded two decades ago and although the band has never released a full-length, it is highly unlikely you’ve never heard of the band…

Triumphal Vengeance – Spears of Conquest

Artist: Triumphal Vengeance Country: Chile / Austria Label: Death Revelations Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 After a duo of EPs, sole member Nebel is now ready to unleash the full-length debut of Triumphal Vengeance upon us. Once again brought by…