Final Ritual – Ulterior Spiritual Resonances [Demo]

Artist: Final Ritual Country: Chile Label: Oratorivm Records Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Ulterior Spiritual Resonances’ is the debut demo of a new band from Chile, and although that is basically it as far as the available information goes, that…

Dark Fog Eruption – Decline [Demo]

Artist: Dark Fog Eruption Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Dark Fog Eruption started sometime in the late 2010s and has been around for a while now, yet I haven’t really paid much attention to them. And…

Irae – In The Key Of Twilight

Artist: Irae Country: Portugal Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 A year after the release of the ‘Promiscuous Fire’ EP, we now finally have Irae’s new full-length album and follow-up to 2022’s ‘Assim Na Terra Como No Inferno’. Even though Irae’s discography…

Remina – Crypts Of Spectral Cries And Astral Dreams [EP]

Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Menschenfeind Propaganda Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Rather hot on the heels of the band’s debut EP, the duo returns with their second EP. With a duration of half an hour, ‘Νεκροταφείο Αγγέλων’…

Remina – Νεκροταφείο Αγγέλων [EP]

Artist: Remina Country: Greece / Japan Label: Metal Throne Productions / Rat Covenant Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In spring 2025 Menschenfeind Propaganda released a split tape between Eternal Ice from Japan and Yūrei, that, even though…

Sepulchral Witchcraft – Culto A La Muerte [Demo]

Artist: Sepulchral Witchcraft Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Although Sepulchral Witchcraft is a (new) band from Russia, there’s musically nothing that seems to tie the band to their native scene – or at least what we usually associate with Russian Black…

Misotheist – De Pinte

Artist: Misotheist Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Ever since the Nidrosian Black Metal bands Mare, Kaosritual, Celestial Bloodshed and One Tail, One Head reignited the flame of Black Metal in Trondheim in the mid…

Sulphuric Deity – Demonstration MMXXVI [Demo]

Artist: Sulphuric Deity Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although this demo seems to have been in the works for quite some time, this is still a new band for most people. Only those who regularly visit Reddit or Instagram may…

Caprice Steel – Demo I

Artist: Caprice Steel Country: Chile Label: Eseocho Label Formats: Demo CD Year: 2025 When we talk about Chile as a country that provides metal enthusiasts with new music, we are almost always referring to Death Metal or Black Metal, and…

Bestial Warlust – Demo 1995 [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Bestial Warlust Country: Australia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ / Cassette / CD Year: 2026 Although bands like Impaled Nazarene, Blasphemy and Beherit were already blending the ferocity and darkness of Black Metal with the blunt brutality of…

Anima – Elämän Viha/Kuoleman Idoli [Demo]

Artist: Anima Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 I was first drawn to Anima through the release of their debut ‘Yllä Kaikkitietävän Tyhjyyden’, so for the right context I would recommend reading that review first. It was…

Anima – Yllä Kaikkitietävän Tyhjyyden

Artist: Anima Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 There’s not much to say about Anima, simply because not much is known. The band hails from Finland and consists of a single entity that goes by the name of…

Tünböri – Kurt Başlı Sancak [EP]

Artist: Tünböri Country: Türkiye Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 If we have to rely on the numbers provided by Metal Archives, Tünböri are one of just 799 Metal bands that hail from Türkiye, a number that drops…

Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit – Split [Re-Release]

Artist: Goatflesh / Bestial Vomit Country: Ukraine Label: Unpure Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 Originally this split tape was already released in 2022 by Bathöryhead, a rather obscure label from Ukraine that seems to focus primarily on bands from…

Hæksenhamer – Poisonous Heathenism

Artist: Hæksenhamer Country: Germany Label: Death Revelations Formats: LP / Cassette tape Year: 2025 What was never supposed to be more than a drunken improvisation, turned out to be an excellent first release for Hæksenhamer. Recorded in just one day,…

Obseqk – Funereal Pillar [EP]

Artist: Obseqk Country: Canada Label: 7S7W7 Formats: Digial EP Year: 2026 It is highly unlikely that anybody would claim that Olivier B. Emond is a one-sided musician. With his current and past work in acts such as Gotthammer (now Seraphic Castration), Kiloton, Melth, Pénombre,…

Veitsi – Kalevanpoika Herää! [Demo]

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As a fan of Veitsi’s take on the Black Metal genre, I never have to wait too long before there’s new material to wrap my ears around. ‘Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus’, the band’s last…

Vong – Phạn Hàm

Artist: Vong Country: Vietnam Label: Diabolical Vitriol / House Of Ygra Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although the digital version of Vong’s second offering was already released digitally and on CD through the band’s Bandcamp page and House…

Krucifixion Woods – Krucifixion Woods

Artist: Krucifixion Woods Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 While Veitsi has enough punk vibes going on, I think Krucifixion Woods, one of the other bands of M.K., has a way stronger punk connotation. Honestly,…

Hatenoir – Blasphemy Of The Souls

Artist: Hatenoir Country: Unknown Label: Altare Productions Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 In the fall of 2025 Hatenoir debuted with ‘Candles Hold The Dark Light’, a demo that was released by Blackreach Productions on the most inferior format ever: a…

Oblivion – Sheol [Demo]

Artist: Oblivion Country: Chile Label: Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 As more or less my standard procedure when stumbling upon a label that I had never heard before: checking what else is or was going on. A couple…

Archont – Macht:Demonstration [Demo]

Artist: Archont Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although there is very little known about this band, it is most likely that Archont is from Austria as they are claimed to be part of the Symbolismus…

Kêres – Misticismo Senza Radici

Artist: Kêres Country: Finland Label: His Wounds Formats: LP Year: 2025 While Kêres amassed an impressive number of demos in the earliest years of its existence, the last few years main man Atvar has been churning out a respectable number…

Sataras Belzebulba – Demo

Artist: Sataras Belzebulba Country: Czechia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 You should do yourselves a favour and check out this band’s pictures before reading further or listening to this demo. Of course I am not sure whether we’re…

Adversus Semita – Forgangen Helligbrøde

Artist: Adversus Semita Country:  Norway Label: Altare Productions / Astral Nightmare Productions / Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Adversus Semita was conceived somewhere in 2009 by its sole member Abandoned and hails from Trondheim. The city…

Oraculum – Hybris Divina

Artist: Oraculum Country: Chile Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP/ CD Year: 2026 Formed in 2011, Oraculum from Chile features members of amongst others Wrathprayer and Deathwards. Very early on they struck a union with Invictus Productions from Ireland, a collaboration…

Darvaza – We Are Him

Artist: Darvaza Country: Italy / Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In my review of ‘Ascending Into Perdition’, I wrote that this debut album by the band, released in 2022, proved that their formula, as presented…

Ërhatiüurä – Vergletscherung [Demo]

Artist: Ërhatiüurä Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 When I ordered and reviewed the first demo tape of Ërhatiüurä there was little to no information available about this then-new project. Not that there is heaps of that…

Bezdan – Upon The Altar

Artist: Bezdan Country: Croatia Label: I Hate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although the band’s roots go as deep as 2009, ‘Upon The Altar’ is only Bezdan’s first full-length album. The first years of their existence the band…

Trance Of The Undead – Dawn Of Resurrection [EP]

Artist: Trance Of The Undead Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Now that Cursed Excruciation seems to have entered a somewhat quieter period, the sole musician behind this band has turned his attention…

Sonnenpfähler – Sonnenpfähler [Demo]

Artist: Sonnenpfähler Country: USA Label: Annulet Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 On the very first day of this year Sonnenpfähler digitally released its debut demo through the Annulet label/circle of which this one-woman project is an active participant of. And, fairly, not just…

Nosferatu – Satana In Fabula [Demo]

Artist: Nosferatu Country: Brazil Label: Hammer Of Damnation Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 The legendary figure of Nosferatu has been an inspiration for metal bands since the very start of the genre, it didn’t take long before bands started picking…

Morbius – Malicious Rites [Demo]

Artist: Morbius Country: Indonesia Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Malicious Rites’ is the debut demo of a new band called Morbius. With about a dozen other bands with the same name, Morbius isn’t quite the most…

Zweihander – Disciplines Of Gro-Goroth [Demo]

Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Abbatoir Prods. / Fehexenheit Prod. Formats: Demo CDr Year: 2025 Besides the black/white/red artwork that reveals just about everything of what to expect musically, it was this band’s name that attracted my attention. A German…