Balefire – Balefire [EP]

Artist: Balefire Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2025 This 12” EP, simply called ‘Balefire’ is the debut of this new band bearing the same name. But while this may be a new band on the…

Wuldorgast – Cold Light

Artist: Wuldorgast Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 At the very end of 2024 Iron Bonehead Productions offered us the debut album of American Black Metal band Wuldorgast, a new entity comprised of two…

Vadhakarmadhikarin – Tejashvi Akramakh Validaan

Artist: Vadhakarmadhikarin Country: India Label: Final Agony Formats: LP Year: 2025 While a lot of Extreme Metal is made in a few countries or continents with a long and lively history in this sort of music, some things do come…

Dryas – Gates To The Realm Of Silence And Rot [Demo]

Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Primitive Blood Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Demo #2 for Dryas from a series of three rapidly successive demo releases – not in the “right” sequence, though. The Portuguese Black Metal band, which sometimes operates…

Dryas – The Land Of Wolves And The Black Frost [Demo]

Artist: Dryas Country: Portugal Label: Asylum Tenebris Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 When I reviewed Dryas’ ‘Monumentos à Eternidade’-demo tape a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t know that was actually their third demo. At the time of writing there…

Adorior – Bleed On My Teeth

Artist: Adorior Country: United Kingdom Label: Dark Descent Records / Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Adorior’s ‘Bleed On My Teeth’ already came out in autumn last year, so I am arriving to the party a bit…

Dysangelium – Exxekratus [EP]

Artist: Dysangelium Country: Germany Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 German Black Metal band Dysangelium is not quite what you would say a prolific band. After their solid 2014 debut album ‘Thánatos Áskēsis’ it took the band five…

Caustic Phlegm – Purulent Apocalypse

Artist: Caustic Phlegm Country: United Kingdom Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Without any question, Caustic Phlegm’s 2022 debut demo was definitely one of the highlights of that year. Consequently, the three-song ‘Putrefying Flesh’ ended…

Frozen Graves – Seeding Will [Demo / Re-release]

Artist: Frozen GravesCountry: FinlandLabel: His WoundsFormats: LPYear: 2024 ’Seeding Will’ was the very first release by Frozen Graves, originally stemming from 2015. At that time, the band was still a strictly Finnish affair, consisting of Cosmic Church mastermind Luxixul Sumering…

Osgraef – Reveries Of The Arcane Eye

Artist: Osgraef Country: Uknown Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 At the time of writing, practically nothing is known about this brand-new band that fires their debut album at us out of nowhere with ‘Reveries Of…

Drudkh – Shadow Play

Artist: DrudkhCountry: UkraineLabel: Season of Mist Underground ActivistsFormats: LP / Cassette tape /CDYear: 2025 As conflict continues to tear apart their homeland, Roman Saenko and companions relentlessly persist to bring a homage to the landscapes of Ukraine and its history.…

Alesya – Hex De Tristesse Et Peste [Demo]

Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Svart Hat Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Mexican Alesya was born from the minds of two lads each with some experience within the underground Black Metal scene, but in this formation, ‘Hex De Tristesse…

Reeking Aura – Fires In Deep Frost [EP]

Artist: Reeking Aura Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 ‘Blood And Bonemeal’, Reeking Aura’s 2022-released debut album was a thoroughly satisfying and joyous ride for anyone who has a knack for something else than your…

Archaic Behest – Lore [Demo]

Artist: Archaic Behest Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although Archaic Behest is a new band, debuting with ‘Lore’ through Iron Bonehead Productions, the musicians behind the band are far from rookies. With an accumulated…

Blasphamagoatachrist – Bestial Abominator

Artist: Blasphamagoatachrist Country: Brazil/Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Those who thought that Blasphamagoatachrist would cease to exist after the deaths of Sabbaoth (2021) and Virrugus (2024) turns out completely mistaken. Of course, it…

Moonlight Malefice – Arbor Flame [Demo]

Artist: Moonlight Malefice Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Only a week after the release of ‘Demo 2024’ there is this other short demo, also clocking under seven minutes with basically only one song as…

Moonlight Malefice – Demo 2024

Artist: Moonlight Malefice Country: USA Label: Solitary Night Collective Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 In the span of just a week, American Moonlight Malefice has delivered two digital demos. Although both demos last only a little over 6 minutes, that…

Blackdeath – Mortui Incedere Possunt

Artist: Blackdeath Country: Russia Label: End All Life Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Russian Blackdeath has never chosen the easy route. Over their three decades span career they have delivered quite a few records that were either hard…

Old Wainds – Stormheart

Artist: Old Wainds Country: Russia Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With ten years in the making, the unannounced release of ‘Stormheart’ is quite a bit of a surprise. Over the past…

Gorgon – For Those Who Stay

Artist: Gorgon Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Despite this being the seventh album in total, with the appearance of ‘For Those Who Stay’, it is fair to speak of the “third…

Ungfell – De Gh​ö​rnt

Artist: Ungfell Country: Switzerland Label: Eisenwald Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In recent years the phenomenon of Ungfell has been all over the place if you are into folky and creative Black Metal. With their splendid sense for dramatique…

Yoth Iria – Blazing Inferno

Artist: Yoth Iria Country: Greece Label: Edged Circle Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 All good things must come to an end. Heroes will die and empires will fall… Although Yoth Iria’s ‘As The Flame Withers’…

Tyrannic – Tyrannic Desolation

Artist: Tyrannic Country: Australia Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 One of the most musically interesting bands from the celebrated Iron Bonehead Productions stables must definitely be Australia’s Tyrannic. Over the past decade the band has…

Malignant – Beyond The Grave [Demo]

Artist: Malignant Country: Chile Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Malignant can more or less be seen as “the new band” from Occulterror, the former vocalist of Sepulchral Rites who teams up with her former band mate…

Angelcorpse – Goats To Azazael [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Angelcorpse Country: USA Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2024 Angelcorpse’s ‘Goats to Azazael’ is a nothing short of a milestone in the wild and furious brand of Black/Death Metal. Not only did this mark the beginning of…

Pyre – Where Obscurity Sways

Artist: Pyre Country: Russia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Ever since Russia’s Pyre’s appearance on the international Death Metal scene the band has been appreciated for their take on the Old School way…

Pentacrostic – De Profundis [Re-Release]

Artist: Pentacrostic Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 While Pentacrostic’s debut album, ‘The Pain Tears’ from 1992, is generally regarded as the band’s finest hour – even a bit of a cult album in the…

Canis Dirus – By The Grace Of Death

Artist: Canis Dirus Country: USA Label: Bindrune Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 In this wretched world, life can still sometimes surprise you in a positive way. When I was asked to dive into this latest record of Canis Dirus,…

Tormentador / Sex Messiah – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Tormentador / Sex Messiah Country: Brazil / Japan Label: Sex Desire Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2024 This release may be a bit older, but as a fan of the 7” EP format and the underground qualities of…

Svrm – Скорбота [EP]

Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 The prolific Ukrainian one-man Black Metal operation that is Svrm seems to prefer shorter releases over full-lengths. Although S. has delivered three full-length albums, ‘Скорбота’ is the band’s 11th…

Nocuous Lust – Demo

Artist: Nocuous Lust Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sometimes very little words are needed, or they can even take some of the magic away. That must have been the way of thinking of this newly found…

Grief – Dark Epiphanies Of Nihilism [Demo]

Artist: Grief Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Over the past few years, Chilean Black Metal is something that we have learned to reckon with. Yet, it certainly is not only Lord Valtgryftåke that is dictating the…

Hasswald – …Der Waldgang [Demo]

Artist: Hasswald Country: Estonia Label: Warhorn Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 With their great debut demo, ‘Und So Begann…’ the Estonian Hasswald came as a bit of a surprise. Not only for the somewhat obvious fact that there’s not many…

Wolves Of Desor – The Witch Of November [Demo]

Artist: Wolves Of Desor Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 At the last days of December 2023 I stumbled upon the debut demo by Wolves Of Desor, a then new one-man project by M. who had otherwise…

Irae – Promiscuous Fire [EP]

Artist: Irae Country: Portugal Label: Signal Rex Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Just a few years ago, we might have started a review of a Portuguese Black Metal band by saying that this sunny country by exception…

Drowning The Light – Conquer Or Serve IV: Xeperapep

Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 After having been involved in a few more humanly or earth-bound spirited albums in the ‘Conquer Or Serve’-series, this fourth chapter is a somewhat more otherworldly. In an almost literal…

Masacre – Ola De Violencia [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: Masacre Country: Colombia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 In many ways the term “cult” applies to the early work of Masacre, and basically the band still very much fit to…

Fides Inversa – Pillars [EP]

Artist: Fides InversaCountry: ItalyLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 It’s been rather quiet around Fides Inversa, but in late November 2024 the band made their return to the stages, performing at the Unholy Congregation festival in Belgium. To mark that resurfacing,…