Vindalf – Undying Order Of The Black Flames

Artist: Vindalf Country: Chile Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although Lord Valtgryftåke, with several albums and other output per year, might be Chile’s most prolific Black Metal musician the award for most intriguing…

Jehovah Lashing – Pulped Deity

Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With only 18 minutes, Jehovah Lashing’s debut album from 2023 was a rather short affair. However with 16 tracks and plenty of sonic violence, there was a lot…

Jehovah Lashing – Jehovah Lashing [Re-Release]

Artist: Jehovah Lashing Country: USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Originally released in 2023, the self-titled debut album by Jehovah Lashing first only had a digital version available, yet since a few days, more or less around…

Valdivian Tower – Die Schattenfestung

Artist: Valdivian Tower Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne / Inferna Profundus Records Formats: CD / LP Year: 2024 Everyone remotely following the (underground) Black Metal scene or regularly read our pages knows that Lord Valtgryftåke is one of the most…

Aptorian Demon – Liv Tar Slutt

Artist: Aptorian DemonCountry: NorwayLabel: Kyrck Productions & ArmourFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Trondheim has been one of the main strongholds in the Norwegian Black Metal scene, essentially from day one. It started in the early nineties with pioneering band Thorns and…

Conjuration – Sepulchral Incantations [Demo]

Artist: ConjurationCountry: GermanyLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormat: Demo tapeYear: 2024 It is no secret that most of the current Death Metal releases no longer tickle my fancy. That doesn’t mean that my love for the genre is entirely lost. The German duo…

Luring – Malevolent Lycanthropic Heresy

Artist: Luring Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After having been quite impressed by Luring’s sophomore album, and first one through Iron Bonehead Productions, I was eagerly awaiting the band’s third offering. That follow-up…

Black Curse – Burning In Celestial Poison

Artist: Black Curse Country: USA Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Apart from those who saw the band live in its earliest stages and/or were able to obtain a copy of the advance…

Wrathprayer – Enkoimeterion

Artist: Wrathprayer Country: Chile Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 If we’re not counting the split LP with fellow Chileans Force Of Evil from 2017 (also Nuclear War Now! Productions) ‘Enkoimeterion’ is…

Mánþiel – From Lycanthropic Realms Of Sorrow [Demo]

Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although ‘From Lycanthropic Realms Of Sorrow’ was released just a few days before the ‘A Thousand Ornaments Of The Cosmos’-album that I reviewed just before this one, I deliberately…

Mánþiel – A Thousand Ornaments Of The Cosmos

Artist: Mánþiel Country: Chile Label: Ars Maligne Formats: CD Year: 2024 After the ‘Vestiges Engraved In Frozen Mysticism’-album and the split with Wampyric Rites, both released in January 2023, it got a bit quiet around this project, run by the…

Vampyric Bloodlust – Wretched Is The Light [EP]

Artist: Vampyric BloodlustCountry: USALabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Sure, I’m not the fastest writer, but in the time between adding the first Vampyric Bloodlust EP ‘Midnight Slaughter’ to my review list and the actual review, sole band member Mördann managed to…

Vampyric Bloodlust- Midnight Slaughter [EP]

Artist: Vampyric BloodlustCountry: USALabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 Mördann is one heck of busy guy. Aurora Mortis, Faded Memories, Moonlight Spirit and Vivvaden are all bands that he formed in 2024 (with the latter two in collaboration with band…

Abhorration – Demonolatry

Artist: Abhorration Country: Norway Label: Invictus Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 That Norwegian’s are not exclusively tied to their trademarked Norwegian Black Metal is of course not exactly a secret, yet the non-Black Metal bands from the Scandinavian…

Nigrum – Blood Worship Extremism

Artist: Nigrum Country: Mexico Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After two EP’s, a demo and the ‘Elevenfold Tail’-debut album from 2022, the Mexican Black Metal outfit Nigrum was able to take things a step further…

Demstervold – Afgrondstocht

Artist: Demstervold Country: The Netherlands Label: New Era Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After the impressive ‘Den Svartne Spökerii’ demo tape from 2017, which was released through Jeroen’s own then resurrected Black Abyss Productions, we were treated with…

Carnal Savagery – Graveworms, Cadavers, Coffins And Bones

Artist: Carnal Savagery Country: Sweden Label: Moribund Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Album #2 for Carnal Savage this year. A trick they have pulled before, as although 2023 passed without any new recordings, the band had also released their first two albums…

Mercyless – Those Who Reign Below

Artist: Mercyless Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassett Tape / CD Year: 2024 With the publication of ‘Those Who Reign Below’, Mercyless has now released exactly the same number of records after reuniting as they did when they…

Vitriolic – Black Steel Vengeance

Artist: Vitriolic Country: Finland Label: Dying Victims Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Never judge a book by its cover. This wise statement is always good to keep in mind when browsing through the…

Cryptic Brood – Necrotic Flesh Bacteria

Artist: Cryptic Brood Country: Germany Label: Lycanthropic Chants / Rotted Life Records / War Anthem Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 When I ordered the band’s ‘Morbid Rite’ demo tape in 2013, I though the Cryptic…

Geatkihaukr / Veitsi – Split Tape

Artist: Geatkihaukr / Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 This split tape brings together two of Finland’s finest when it comes to crude-sounding Black Metal, both marching under the flag of River Valley Cult.…

Tyranni – Dränkt Av Livets Sekret

Artist: Tyranni Country: Sweden Label: New Era Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Tyranni came to my attention somewhere during the summer of 2019 with the 3-track ‘Baron Av Avoghetens Smärta’-promo tape, which ultimately led to the debut full-length…

Förgjord – Tie, Totuus & Kuolema [Demo / Re-release]

Artist: FörgjordCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 At the same time as the new album, ‘Perkeleen Weri’, we are served with a piece of Förgjord’s more distant past. Formed in 1995, the band existed under the monikers Brightness of Darkness,…

Förgjord – Perkeleen Weri

Artist: FörgjordCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 After a relatively slow start to their career, at least release wise, Förgjord really picked up the pace around 2017. With their 5th full-length in around 7 years, the band definitely is on a…

Ritus De Cruor – Vainajain Kammarissa [EP]

Artist: Ritus De CruorCountry: FinlandLabel: Altare ProductionsFormats: CD EPYear: 2024 With the release of ‘Vainajain Kammarissa’ we have arrived at the fourth release of Ritus De Cruor, following a demo, an EP and a split with Käärmekristus. On this latest…

Necroferum – Visions From The Necrorealm [EP]

Artist: Necroferum Country: Costa Rica Label: Nuclear Winter Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 While Nuclear Winter Records always stood for impeccable releases of outstanding Death Metal bands, the Greek label particularly seemed to…

Funerealm Gloom – Catachthonium Mysteriis

Artist: Funerealm Gloom Country: Finland Label: Down With The Most High / Medieval Prophecy Records / Unpure Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the great and compelling ‘Serpentcraft’ demo tape from 2020, the duo of…

Pamorak – Pamorak [Demo]

Artist: Pamorak Country: Belarus Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Many bands that have emerged from the soil roughly east of the Polish border have a rather unique and elusive sound. Something in those bands binds them,…

Rotpit – Long Live The Rot

Artist: Rotpit Country: Germany / Sweden Label: War Anthem Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 ‘Long Live The Rot’ is Rotpit’s second full-length album and with a few short-players under their belts they can easily be considered a prolific…

Tenebro / Mortuary Ghoul – Dellamorte [Split]

Artist: Tenebro / Mortuary Ghoul Country: Italy / USA Label: Dismal Fate Records Formats: Split Cassette EP Year: 2024 This is one of those splits that you knew that was eventually going to happen. It is no surprise that Tenebro-chief…

Dungeon Keeper – Chaos Sorcery Strike At Midnight

Artist: Dungeon Keeper Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records / Iconoclasm Conquest / Lower Class Kids Records Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Germany’s Dungeon Keeper took me by surprise with their debut demo ‘Fortress Of Evil’, released last year through Kellerrassel Records. Their blend…

Morbid Rituals / Dungeon Keeper – Demos [Split LP]

Artist: Morbid Rituals / Dungeon Keeper Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Probably prompted by the idea that it would be a shame for the demos of both Dungeon Keeper and Morbid Rituals to be limited to the…

Doedsmaghird – Omniverse Consciousness

Artist: DoedsmaghirdCountry: NorwayLabel: Peaceville RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Pushing boundaries. It was that attitude that drove the second wave of Black Metal in Norway, pushing the genre into new extremities. Dødheimsgard is synonym with this future-minded way of thinking, never comfortable with the familiar…

Stenched – Purulence Gushing From The Coffin

Artist: Stenched Country: Mexico Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Me Saco Un Ojo Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As a sign that something good was going on, ‘Gorging On Mephitic Rot’, Stenched’s demo from last…

Törnen – Under Korpens Visdom

Artist: Törnen Country: Sweden Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although prior the release of ‘Under Korpens Visdom’ there was rumour that Swartadauþuz was a part of Törnen, it eventually turned out he was not. Yet,…

Kinahmi – Birth of the Nine Diseases

Artist: KinahmiCountry: FinlandLabel: Death MonumentFormats: Cassette tape / CD-RYear: 2024 Unpolished, twisted and atonal. Just a few words to describe the music of the Finnish band Kinahmi. The raw Black Metal that is presented on the debut ‘Birth of the…

Forgotten Tomb – Nightfloating

Artist: Forgotten Tomb Country: Italy Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Okay, let’s throw the cat among the pigeons. Forgotten Tomb is, hands down, the best Italian metal band. That indeed includes the respected…

Strychnos – Armageddon Patronage

Artist: Strychnos Country: Denmark Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Denmark’s thriving Death Metal scene has spawned many a great band, the majority of them following a rather similar path of (sometimes Grindcore-fuelled)…

Vengeance Horde – Surging Vengeance

Artist: Vengeance Horde Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Stygian Black Hand / Deathrash Armageddon Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the short but convincing and self-titled debut EP, released on cassette tape and…

Warslaughter – Exacerbación [EP]

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 On the band’s previously released two demos and full-length albums Warslaughter already showed what they were made of. The Spaniards follow much of the country’s tradition in unrelenting…

Valonkantaja – Valonkantaja [EP]

Artist: ValkonkantajaCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal Rex / Self-releasedFormats: Cassette EP / CD-R EPYear: 2024 In less than 12 minutes Valonkantaja introduces themselves to the world in the shape of their very first release. On this EP, released on CD-R by the…

Chaos Invocation – Wherever We Roam…

Artist: Chaos InvocationCountry: GermanyLabel: AOP RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 I’ll admit it, I didn’t see it coming that the newest Chaos Invocation record would be released by any other label than W.T.C. Productions. After four albums and a split, the…

Bastard Priest – Doomed To Decay [EP]

Artist: Bastard Priest Country: Sweden Label: D-Takt & Råpunk Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2024 During the resurgence of Old School-styled Death Metal in the late 00’s, Bastard Priest was a breath of fresh air. Most bands based their sound…