Auriel’s Bow – Tamrielic Surrealism [EP]

Artist: Auriel’s Bow Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Not something I like to admit, but when I started the reviewing in the first years of the 00’s I used to be the youngest in every crew, now I am…

Spellgate – Spellgate

Artist: Spellgate Country: Finland Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 From Finland hails the entity of Spellgate, a rather mysterious band of which we know that E.P. runs the entire show and that their debut eponymous album has just been…

Anthropomantic – Blasphemous Decree

Artist: Anthropomantic Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette Tape / CDR Year: 2025 Anthropomantic is the latest project of a 18-year old musician from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Although ‘Blasphemous Decree’ is just the band’s debut album, it seems that Boyan…

Mania / Natürgeist – Split 7″ EP

Artist:Mania / Natürgeist Country: USA Label: Electric Assault Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Honestly, I was never impressed by any of Mania’s previous output and Natürgeist’s sole demo, also reissued on a 7” EP, was more hype than anything else. Without wanting…

Fulgorious – Total Black Metal Cult [Demo]

Artist: Fulgorious Country: Ecuador Label: Nebulavaho Records Formats: 7″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2025 Spawned from the mind of S.S comes Fulgorious, a new Black Metal band from the fertile Ecuadorian Black Metal grounds. While the country has a couple of well-known…

Chalice Of Eden – The Black Serpents Lament [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 ‘The Black Serpents Lament’ is the first demo of a new entity roaming the North American Raw Black Metal realms. Within its ranks we find Fallen Warrior, who already left a certain…

Savage Master – Dark & Dangerous

Artist: Savage Master Country: USA Label: Shadow Kingdom Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although I always found Savage Master a very enjoyable band it is hard to deny that, especially early on in their career, the offered quality wasn’t always…

Azathoth’s Dream – Solitary Forest Necromancy

Artist: Azathoth’s Dream Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 In 2023 Azathoth’s Dream debuted with an impressive debut called ‘Nocturnal Vampyric Bewitchment’. Maybe not completely out of the blue as it was preceded by a demo tape a…

Moonfall – Odes To The Ritual Hills

Artist: Moonfall Country: Finland Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After a split LP with Regere Sinister and two demo tapes released prior, with the first one dating back to 2010, this obscure Finnish act finally comes out with their…

Knüth – Demo X (MMXXV)

Artist: Knüth Country: Russia Label: Unholy Wormhole Formats: Digital demo Year: 2025 Ever since the band’s foundation back in 2018, this duo has been spawning demos, at least one per year. With this latest one they arrived at their tenth…

Carved Cross / Native Glow – Split Tape

Artist: Carved Cross / Native Glow Country: Australia Label: Solar Wind Productions Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2025 The otherwise prolific output of Carved Cross suddenly and unexpectedly came to a halt in 2023. Whereas we had previously struggled to…

Interceptor – Metal Death

Artist: Interceptor Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records / Motorpunk Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With two demos (also compiled together on a separate release) and a debut album released last year, chances are that you…

Lord Belial – Unholy Trinity

Artist: Lord Belial Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Admittedly, my relationship with Lord Belial has not always been one of true love. When I first ran into the band, some quarter of a century…

Fienden – Till Er (Demo 2025)

Artist: Fienden Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Everyone willing to dig just a little deeper than your average Black Metal band gaining their five minutes of fame through Black Metal Promotion, will know that there’s still…

Occult Mountain – Demo ll Walking The Snow Covered Path

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut demo, Occult Mountain is already back with another. ‘Winter Invocations’ was a particularly charming demo that showcased a great balancing…

Benediction – Ravage Of Empires

Artist: Benediction Country: United Kingdom Label: Nuclear Blast Records Format: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Death Metal hall-of-famers Benediction lost their grinding edges from the first two albums and along the way got increasingly groove-based, overall, they haven’t changed a whole lot. The…

Eerified Catacomb – Pallid Blue Memory [Demo]

Artist: Eerified Catacomb Country: Canada Label: Death Hymns Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Simultaneously released with the ‘Liquidation Of Souls’-demo tape, Eerified Catacomb treats you on yet another sinister demo recording. While both demos have a similar cover art and…

Devil Pig – Demo 2025

Artist: Devil Pig Country: South Korea Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although for a few seconds I thought I was dealing with a solo project by the singer of Embrace Of Thorns who uses this same pseudonym, this…

Profanatorium – Baphomet´s Slaves [Demo]

Artist: Profanatorium Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Profanatorium, a new and rather obscure entity from Spain. Well, Spain… I am aware of the fact that people from Gran Canaria usually do not want to be called…

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…

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.…