Sectarium – God’s Wrath [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Sectarium Country: Cuba Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Extreme Metal might have been the most popular in some European, North and South American countries, but the long arms of the genre stretched to the most unlikely…

Whipstriker – Cry Of Extinction

Artist: Whipstriker Country: Brazil Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although Whipstriker feels like they are around since forever, ‘Cry Of Extinction’ is only the band’s fifth full-length album. Their tendency to bombard…

Inferior – Wrath

Artist: Inferior Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Even without having a clue who is exactly behind the band, Inferior isn’t making a secret of their musical direction. The cover art for ‘Wrath’ already gives away a bit,…

Matru-Zebu – Blood Cries with Sorrow [Demo]

Artist: Matru-zebu Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 Ancien Culte presents the debut demo tape of Matru-Zebu, what appears to be a new band from Finland. Spawned in the illustrious Elemental Cavern in Finland, the entities…

Crepuscule – Hybrid Cancer [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Crepuscule Country: Italy Label: La Caverna Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Among the set of demo tapes recently re-released by La Caverna Records is also this single demo from Crepuscule. This Italian band was formed by the duo Raff…

Worm Altar – Promo 2025

Artist: Worm Altar Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the release of the band’s ‘Astral Scourge’-EP from Summer 2023, it was rather quiet around Worm Altar. Usually one-man bands tend to release one demo or EP…

Daedric Chamber – The Bleak Veil Endures

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Grime Stone Records / Nightshade Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although ‘The Bleak Veil Endures’ is a bit older, being released on CD some half year ago, it is still very…

Corrosives – Wasteland [Demo]

Artist: Corrosives Country: Canada/USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 How this trio came together is something that you should ask them, but regardless of how their individual paths crossed, this Canadian/American collective surely knows how to make some…

Septicflesh – Amphibians [EP]

Artist: Septicflesh Country: Greece Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2025 In the running up to Septicflesh’s new album, that should appear somewhere in the next couple of months, the Greek masters of bombastic metal presents us with an…

Rotten Moon – Wasteland Polarity

Artist: Rotten Moon Country: Finland Label: Jems Label Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 By no means Finland’s Rotten Moon has ever been a band that was an easy listen or close to a quick Black Metal fix. Instead Antti “Heinous…

Corpus Offal – Corpus Offal

Artist: Corpus Offal Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 “Bring in that debut album”. With these words I closed my review on Corpus Offal’s 2-track demo tape that was released in…

Robust – Robust

Artist: Robust Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 This one came out of nowhere. No previous mention, no appearance on a Terratur Compendium. Here is Robust, from the fires of Nidaros, with their full-length debut.…

Enevelde – Pandemonium

Artist: Enevelde Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions / Cloven Hoof Brewing & Releasing Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 “Night breaks open like a wound bleeding anew Blow after blow raging flames You call me I dream…

The Chamberlain – Draconian Magick

Artist: The Chamberlain Country: Finland Label: Out of the Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Dominus Noctis’ was a pretty decent first release for Finnish Black Metal outfit The Chamberlain, taking their experience in other bands into a symphonic Black Metal…

Norrhem – Aurinko Ja Teräs

Artist: Norrhem Country: Finland Label: Out of the Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Norrhem’s musical journey has taken them through quite a development, starting from rawer beginnings to a sound that became increasingly more epic in atmosphere. With ‘Aurinko Ja…

Lucifer’s Child – The Illuminant

Artist: Lucifer’s Child Country: Greece Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Reviewing music is, just as listening to music, by definition about opinions and overall subjectivity. Although you might try to be as objective…

Black Fullmoon – Antithesis of the Light [Demo]

Artist: Black Fullmoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Mamzer Records / Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025   Pure Les Légions Noires worship: the Puerto Rican Black Metal band Black Fullmoon clearly didn’t hide their intentions for their debut demo.…

Pyromancer – Absolute Dominion By Fire

Artist: Pyromancer Country: USA Label: Adirondack Black Mass Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Demo MMXV’, Pyromancer’s debut demo tape from (you guessed it) 2015 it was awkwardly quiet around the band for about a…

Blodoffer – Hostis Mundi [Demo]

Artist: Blodoffer Country: Poland Label: Under The Sign Of Garazel Productions / Zombi Danz Records Formats: 12″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2024 Even if you have no idea what to expect from a debut demo from an anonymous Polish…

Great Tribulation – Latter Realities

Artist: Great Tribulation Country: Spain / USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the 1-track demo/promo from early January this year, the Spanish/American trio that together makes up Great Tribulation is back already with their debut album.…

Priester – Let The Blood Run Red [Demo]

Artist: Priester Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Priester, a new Heavy/Speed Metal band from Finland, was built upon the bits and pieces that were left after Borley Rectory was put on ice – or at least,…

HellAvenger – The Primordial Fire

Artist: HellAvenger Country: Chile Label: Death Division Rituals / Destruktion Records / Dynamite Records / El Abismo / Holycaust Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 ‘The Primordial Fire’, the debut full-length of this Santiago, Chile based…

Trench Foot – Cavernous Necrophagy [EP]

Artist: Trench Foot Country: United Kingdom Label: Cavernous Records / Iron Fortress Records / Macho Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It hasn’t been since 2022, with the release of the ‘Moral Obscenity’ EP since we last…

Grave Infestation – Carnage Gathers

Artist: Grave Infestation Country: Canada Label: Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 The last couple of years Grave Infestation has evolved into a rather smooth rolling Death Metal machine. If you’d listen back to…

Necrochakal – Golgothian Orgies Of Bestial Lust

Artist: Necrochakal Country: Greece Label: Floga Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Since the band’s formation some 12 years ago, Necrochakal from Athens, Greece, has tormented the ears of followers of the Extreme Metal underground. Yet they have done so by…

Vidarr – Bäume Unter Dem Mond Demo

Artist: Vidarr Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 By the look at the grainy black/white artwork and this specific logo you might judge that this is yet another band of Ildjarn-worship. And, in a certain way you wouldn’t be…

Ingwald – Demo 1

Artist: Ingwald Country: Russia Label: Jems Label Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ingwald is one of the musical vessels of Waldsarg, the person who is also behind Vidarr, with which he releases his debut demo, simply titled ‘Demo 1’, through the USA-based…

Kêres – Skryer of the Lighthouse

Artist: Kêres Country: Finland Label: Final Agony / Vermines Pestifera Formats: LP Year: 2025 Kêres fans rejoice! One year after the last sign of life, Atvar returns. ‘Skryer of the Lighthouse’ is the latest full-length, featuring ten songs spread over…

Profanatica – Wreathed In Dead Angels [EP]

Artist: Profanatica Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Phrases like “band X requires no further introduction” are used all the time. In most cases that is highly debatable, at least in terms…

Stygian Storm – The Flame Of Rebellion Never Dies

Artist: Stygian Storm Country: Spain Label: Abyssal Spectra / Escafismo Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Usually, when it comes to reviewing, I like to stick with releases of a few weeks old, couple of months maximum. Otherwise…

Carrion Liturgy – Demo I

Artist: Carrion Liturgy Country: USA Label: Venereal Veneration Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Without much information to go on, I can basically only mention that Carrion Liturgy is a new Black Metal project from USA, helmed by a duo whose identities are…

Ligament – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Ligament Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Yes, I can be a sour old guy for whom things are not easily good enough, but there are times when the young boy in me awakens. Just say “this…

Urukhai – Vernichtung [Demo]

Artist: Urukhai Country: Italy Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 A certain amount of mysticism naturally contributes to how you view and experience a band, not infrequently that includes anonymity. Although that concept has become somewhat hackneyed by now, it…

Galgeberg – Cerberus [EP]

Artist: Galgeberg Country: Norway Label: Aftermath Music / Our Ancient Future Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 To start off with a confession, I always approach this sort of bands with extreme precaution and an unhealthy dose of scepticism. New…

Orrery – Nine Odes to Oblivion [Re-release]

Artist: Orrery Country: Australia Label: Forbidden Frequencies Formats: LP Year: 2025 I’m sure many a music fanatic has those releases, the ones that made an immediate impact, stuck with you for years, yet never got the proper treatment and recognition…

Bidirna Dhamani – Ojash

Artist: Bidirna Dhamani Country: India Label: Goatowarex / Kaliyuga Konspiracies Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Have you ever wondered what Morbid Angel would sound like if they were a Black Metal band? Of course you did. And we have…

Remains of Ash – Demo II

Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Before I could finish the review of the first Remains of Ash demo, another demo already dropped. ‘Demo II’ was released just a few months after ‘Remains…

Remains of Ash – Remains of Ash [Demo]

Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Remains of Ash was formed in January 2025 by Dark Divinator, who is also active in Kerzenlicht, Dark Divination, Valonkantaja and Nekromanser. Like Dark Divination, Remains of…

Dark Divination – Unforgotten [EP]

Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 You just gotta love the thrill of finding new acts based on members of bands you like. Despite being formed in 2022, I was unaware of Dark…

Kerzenlicht – Demo I

Artist: Kerzenlicht Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 When Signal Rex teased images of ‘Demo I’ by the new Finnish act Kerzenlicht, I knew to pay attention. Lately, the label has been releasing excellent demos and…

Chemical Death – Times Of Inquisition

Artist: Chemical Death Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Zombi Danz Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Those who delved very deep into the Extreme Metal scene of Brazil from around the turn of the 90’s, might have read…

Alesya – Chants d’une Lignée Sanglante

Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Not too long ago I stumbled upon Alesya’s marvellous ‘Hex De Tristesse Et Peste’-demo that was released by Mexico’s underground label Svart Hat Productions. The almost 20-minute demo brought together…

Draugheimen – Draugheimen [Demo]

Artist: Draugheimen Country: Unknown Label: Bloodthorn Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 The so far mostly very mysterious Draugheimen, whose background and origins are currently shrouded in mists, unleashed a fine self-titled demo on humanity at the end of last year.…

Mephitic Corpse – Sickness Attracts Sickness

Artist: Mephitic Corpse Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records / 625 Thrash! Formats: Vinyl / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With the band’s debut, the ‘Immense Thickening Vomit’ demo tape from 2019, Mephitic Corpse managed to…