Strychnos – Uendelig Begravelsesmarch [7″ EP]

Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 This 7” EP is the twin of ‘Sig Nærmer Døden’, the other EP that was simultaneously released by Dark Descent Records. Both EP’s are a natural continuation…

Mortify – Drowned In Muck [7″ EP]

Artist: Mortify Country: Japan Label: Sewer Stench Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 With titles like ‘Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement’ and ‘Buzzsaw Sickness’ in their back catalogue, you might already have a clue where this is heading. And you are quite…

Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid – Split 7″ EP

Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid Country: Finland / USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2025 Split 7” EP’s are basically seen in every style of extreme music, but with their roots in Punk and Hardcore it…

Lord Gore – Dark Lords Of The Cyst [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Lord Gore Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It’s not exactly the first time I’ve said that I’m not really interested in contemporary Grindcore, Death/Grind or related genres, but I do have a soft spot…

Ebony Pendant – Threnodies From The Coldlands

Artist: Ebony Pendant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 One of the American Black Metal bands that has caused the most stir in recent years is undoubtedly the one-man project Ebony Pendant. If we disregard the minor controversy surrounding his involvement with Degraved…

Funeral Vomit – Upheaval Of Necromancy

Artist: Funeral Vomit Country: Colombia Label: Xtreem Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With an album and the re-release of an earlier EP, Funeral Vomit has already proven itself to be by far the most interesting…

Gorewinter – Vernichtung (1995-1999) [Compilation]

Artist: Gorewinter Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Gorewinter is one of those bands that have been mentioned only once in a while in discussions about the early sparks that ignited the Finnish Black Metal revolution. As long…

Godkiller – The End Of The World [7″ EP]

Artist: Godkiller Country: Monaco Label: Debemur Morti Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 Probably prompted because the band’s 1998-released debut album was amongst the first Black Metal albums I’ve heard, Godkiller always remained a special band to me. Surrounded by…

Zkywbrezdreb – Uatrevyktuor [Demo]

Artist: Zkywbrezdreb Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Let’s start off with saying that nothing the musician behind Zkywbrezdreb ever did was even slightly middle of the road, but this particular project is definitely a great example of something that is…

Drowning The Light – Current 1366

Artist: Drowning The Light Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 In Azgorh’s own words, ‘Current 1366’ is one of the rawest Drowning The Light full-length albums in recent years, but at the same time a spiritual extension of the ‘Conquer…

White Rune – Eventide On Aurora

Artist: White Rune Country: Finland Label: Hammer Of Hate Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With another gorgeous cover, it is hard to miss there’s a new White Rune album out. And in the current musical constellation that seems…

Ofermod – Drakosophia

Artist: Ofermod Country: Sweden Label: Shadow Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Never a dull moment with Ofermod, that’s for sure. ‘Drakosophia’ was released about two months ago, but it didn’t take many moons for the band to implode…

Kamra – Unending Confluence

Artist: Kamra Country: Slovenia Label: Avantgarde Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Kamra’s previous effort, ‘Cerebral Alchemy’ from 2022, was quite a stunning debut album. While all of the involved musicians have other or previous experience, none of these…

Mystic Circle – Hexenbrand 1486

Artist: Mystic Circle Country: Germany Label: Reigning Phoenix Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 ‘Hexenbrand 1486’ is already the fourth Mystic Circle album since their unexpected return in 2021 and the tenth album overall. The previous three albums and…

Master’s Hammer – Maldorör Disco

Artist: Master’s Hammer Country: Czechia Label: Darkness Shall Rise Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Anyone who has delved a little into the roots of Black Metal cannot fail to notice Master’s Hammer, one of the…

VoidCeremony – Abditum

Artist: VoidCeremony Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 Although there is plenty of good Death Metal out there, it is difficult to argue that the genre is not suffering from a…

Torment Imagery – Torment Imagery [Demo]

Artist: Torment Imagery Country: Indonesia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Torment Imagery’s Bandcamp page shows me a photo of one person and states that the band is Indonesian. Beyond that, there is nothing else to be found about…

Chaos Insignia – Precode Rituals (Demo Rehearsal 2025)

Artist: Chaos Insignia Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Earlier this year I stumbled upon Chaos Insignia’s debut EP (or demo, if you prefer). I was enamoured with this band’s take on the Bestial Black/Death genre, even…

Chalice Of Eden – March Through Black Night [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Fallen Warrior is a musician that seems to have difficulties with using a compass. A musical one, that is. Or simply a person who is very indecisive…

Flesher – Gore On Gore [EP]

Artist: Flesher Country: USA Label: Maggot Stomp Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Tales Of The Grotesque Demise’, Flesher’s debut album from 2023, was a surprisingly good Death Metal album and one of the genre’s…

Sodality – Benediction, Part 2

Artist: Sodality Country: Poland Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Sodality: a Roman Catholic religious guild or brotherhood. Also a Polish band consisting of T. Kaos and Mark of the Devil, two members that only share…

Mausoleum Gate – Space, Rituals And Magick

Artist: Mausoleum Gate Country: Finland Label: Cruz Del Sur Music Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Ever since Mausoleum Gate introduced themselves into the scene, they have made an impact. At first, it wasn’t even so much their music, but…

Ültra Raptör – Fossilized

Artist: Ültra Raptör Country: Canada Label: Fighter Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Admittedly, for a good while I have avoided listening to this band for rather obvious reasons. Although I do not consider myself a…

Nekkrolüst – Hate And Kill

Artist: Nekkrolüst Country: USA Label: Metal Power Fighting Force / Putrid Cult Formats: CD / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After two demos, the last of which was released in 2024 by Destruktion Records in a limited edition of only 20…

Morbikon – Lost Within The Astral Crypts

Artist: Morbikon Country: USA Label: Tankcrimes Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The downside of reviewing music is that you “have” to do that in a rather short amount of time and since we are being flooded with new…

Hagzissa – Revelry of a Maltreated Jade [EP]

Artist: Hagzissa Country: Austria Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12” EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Formed in 2016, Hagzissa combines members of the likes of Kringa, Serpere, Sněť and Weathered Crest. Despite having released an album on Iron Bonehead…

Kalmankantaja – Autumnheart

Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Autumnheart’ is the second Kalmankantaja album of 2025, and as the change of logo might foretell, it is quite a different affair. While ‘Musta Aurinko’ took the atmospheric Black…

Kalmankantaja – Musta Aurinko

Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 While the band has been active on other fronts, 2025 in comparison seems like a rather modest year for Kalmankantaja in terms of new albums. Only two albums were…

Summoning Hellgates – Spear Of Conquest [EP]

Artist: Summoning Hellgates Country: Spain Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Spear Of Conquest’ is the debut EP of a Spanish duo that presents itself as Summoning Hellgates. While one of the…

Sardonic Order – Autumn Rehearsal 2025

Artist: Sardonic Order Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although Sardonic Order is a brand new Black Metal band with this specific release being their debut, the exact title of this 2-track demo is quite telling. This…

Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré – Split Tape

Artist: Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré Country: USA Label: Cranial Blast Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With one name even harder to pronounce than the other, this is definitely a split tape for enthusiasts. Which enthusiasts, you may ask. But those who…

Par-Delà Le Miroir – Le Temps Fera Son Œuvre

Artist: Par-Delà Le Miroir Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After a 20-minute demo tape at the very end of last year called ‘Les adieux de l’âme’, this one-man Raw Black Metal project now returns with…

Dismorfia – Slow Disembowelment To Be Defecated Alive [EP]

Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore / Lycanthropic Chants Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 ‘Slow Disembowelment To Be Defecated Alive’ is yet another addition to the rapidly growing discography of Peru’s most active Death/Grind band. Although…

Carnal Savagery – Crypt Of Decay

Artist: Carnal Savagery Country: Sweden Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Over the past few weeks, I have had a number of discussions about the current state of affairs in the world of Death Metal. I have…

Infernal Presence – Fiery Paths [EP]

Artist: Infernal Presence Country: Germany Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD Year: 2025 Infernal Presence is a new Black Metal band from Germany that were picked right up by Darkness Shall Rise Productions. The duo have…

Goathammered – Warghost Worship [Demo]

Artist: Goathammered Country: Denmark Label: Blasphemic Siege Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 During my daily rounds through the deeper regions of the internet, searching for new demos to sink my teeth into, I found not one, but two new…

Schizophrenic Warfare – Sperma [Demo]

Artist: Schizophrenic Warfare Country: Denmark Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just about everything about this first achievement by Schizophrenic Warfare exudes fresh finesse and thoughtful sophistication. Or not. Maybe not… True connoisseurs of the depraved art of the…

Blood Curse – Unholy Trinity [EP]

Artist: Blood Curse Country: Unholy Trinity Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Blood Curse is a trio that has been around for about a decade and released a good few of short players as well as a full-length album in 2018 (released through Stormspell…

Fate’s Hand – Steel, Fire & Ice

Artist: Fate’s Hand Country: Australia Label: Dying Victim’s Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Unfortunately I have missed this band’s debut 12” EP that was released back in 2021, otherwise I surely would’ve checked out this first full-length album by Australia’s Fate’s Hand.…

Depredation Netra – Third Eye Predation [Demo]

Artist: Depredation Netra Country: India Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Depredation Netra is a new band out of India. Given the insane size of the country’s population, there is hardly any metal scene to speak of, and for that reason…

Sabulturath – Demo MMXXV

Artist:Sabulturath Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It’s perhaps not such a crazy assumption that the name of this band sounds a bit like that annoying drunk guy at the concert who keeps shouting in your ear that he thinks “Sepultura”…

Dark Divination – Liitto Hengen ja Veren

Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Earlier in 2025 Dark Divination made their first appearance on Signal Rex with the release of the ‘Unforgotten’. With that EP, the band consisting of sole…

Speedslut – Ferocity Of Steel [EP]

Artist: Speedslut Country: Denmark Label: Beer Drinkers & Hellraisers Inc. Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the band’s name might suggest that this is a Speed Metal outfit that should not be taken too seriously, the music on this debut cassette EP is…