Editor’s Picks

A careful selection of our favourite 15 releases as well as the 5 most promising Demos of the previous years. By no means comprehensive, they are merely a momentary reflection of mood and subject to change with time and as hidden gems are revealed.

2024

Full-length and EP releases according to FelixS

  1. Satanic Warmaster – Exultation Of Cruelty (Werewolf Records)
  2. Conifère – L’Imp​ô​t Du Sang (Phantom Lure)
  3. Phlegethon’s Majesty – Bygone Atonements (Medieval Prophecy Records)
  4. Concrete Winds – Concrete Winds (Sepulchral Voice Records)
  5. Satan – Songs In Crimson (Metal Blade Records)
  6. Departure Chandelier – Satan Soldier Of Fortune (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
  7. Upon Stone – Dead Mother Moon (Century Media Records)
  8. Deceased – Children Of The Morgue (Hell’s Headbangers Records)
  9. Drowned – Procul His (Sepulchral Voice Records)
  10. Sovereign – Altered Realities (Dark Descent Records)
  11. Inquisition – Veneration Of Medieval Mysticism And Cosmological Violence (Agonia Records)
  12. Varathron – The Crimson Temple (Agonia Records)
  13. Markgraf – Hohenbaden (Blutrausch Propaganda)
  14. Chapel Of Samhain – Black Onyx Cave (Nuclear Winter Records)
  15. Morgul Blade – Heavy Metal Wraiths (No Remorse Records)

Demo releases according to FelixS

  1. Haan Valar – Devotion To Xemzara (Mamzer Records / WolfKult Religion)
  2. Necrohammer – Ancient Metal Holocaust (Self-released)
  3. Ophidian – Descent Into The Labyrinth (Iron Bonehead Productions)
  4. Kathryn Danielle – Deaths Melodies On Memorial Rd (Self-released)
  5. Drakorathos – Ode To The Majesty Of The Nightside (Self-released)

Full-length and EP releases according to VincentP

  1. Death Like Mass –  The Lord Of Flies (Terratur Possessions)
  2. Satanic Warmaster – Exultation Of Cruelty (Werewolf Records)
  3. Bythos – Chthonic Gates Unveiled (Terratur Possessions)
  4. Misotheist – Vessels by which The Devil is Made Flesh (Terratur Possessions)
  5. Kratti – Matka Kohti Kosmista (Signal Rex)
  6. Gjendød – Livskramper (Osmose Productions)
  7. Whoredom Rife – Den Vrede Makt (Terratur Possessions)
  8. Horna – Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle (W.T.C. Productions)
  9. Attic -Return of the Witchfinder (Ván Records)
  10. Sovereign – Altered Realities (Dark Descent Records)
  11. Doedsmaghird – Omniverse Conciousness (Peaceville Records)
  12. My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding (Nuclear Blast Records)
  13. Witchfukker – Tapestry of Unspeakable Horrors (De Pankraker Records)
  14. Nahtrunar – Hrima (Altare Productions)
  15. Wurgilnõ – Krijtland (Fetzner Death Records)

Demo releases according to VincentP

  1. Moonstruck – Kingdom of the Dark Majesty (Signal Rex)
  2. Oerheks – Heksen & Geesten van Brabant (Amor Fati Productions)
  3. Iätön – Korpimaille (Korpituli Productions)
  4. Conjuration – Sepulchral Incantations (WolfKult Religion)
  5. Castrivenian – Eternal Fog’s Rebirth (WolfKult Religion)

2023

Full-length and EP releases according to FelixS

  1. Iron Void – IV (Shadow Kingdom Records)
  2. Satanic Warmaster – Aamongandr (Werewolf Records)
  3. Vindalf – Legion Of Spectral Blood (Signal Rex)
  4. Shadows – Out For Blood (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
  5. Phantom – Handed To Execution (Inframetal)
  6. Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle (Avantgarde Music)
  7. Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin)
  8. Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (Metal Blade Records)
  9. Deströyer 666 – Never Surrender (Season Of Mist)
  10. Urfaust – Untergang (Ván Records)
  11. Salacious Gods – Oalevluuk (Hammerheart Records)
  12. Sammath – Grebbeberg (Hammerheart Records)
  13. Krieg – Ruiner (Profound Lore Records)
  14. Miscreance – Convergence (Season Of Mist)
  15. Flesher – Tales Of Grotesque Demise (Redefining Darkness Records)

Demo releases according to FelixS

  1. Gotthammer – Godslaying Sonic Barbarism (Anti-Human Productions / WolfKult Religion)
  2. Black Lycanthropy – For Satan’s Eternal Glory (Self-released)
  3. Dungeon Keeper – Fortress Of Evil (Kellerassel Records)
  4. Black Edifice – The Miasmic Trance (Iron Bonehead Productions)

Full-length and EP releases according to VincentP

  1. Manii – Innerst i Mørket (Terratur Possessions)
  2. DHG/Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current (Peaceville Records)
  3. Enevelde – En Gildere Død (Terratur Possessions)
  4. Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions)
  5. Syn – Villfarelse (Terratur Possessions)
  6. Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle (Avantgarde Music)
  7. Korgunthurus – Jumalhaaska (Woodcut Records)
  8. Cruel Force – Dawn of the Axe (Shadow Kingdom Records)
  9. Old – Dawn of Darkness (Unsilent Tomb Records)
  10. Helleruin – Devils, Death and Dark Arts (New Era Productions)
  11. Grieve – Wolves of the Northern Moon (Werewolf Records)
  12. Shadows – Out For Blood (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
  13. Marduk – Memento Mori (Century Media)
  14. Thy Darkened Shade – Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya (W.T.C. Productions)
  15. Botulistum – Botulistum (New Era Productions)

Demo releases according to VincentP

  1. Kratti – Demo 2023 (Escafismo Records / TÄH! Records)
  2. Oerheks – Landschapsanachronismen (Amor Fati Productions)
  3. Iätön – Loitsutulet (Altare Productions)
  4. Nightside – Lions (Purity Through Fire)
  5. Oerheks – Valkengebed (Amor Fati Productions)

2022

Full-length and EP releases according to FelixS

  1. Moonlight Sorcery – Piercing Through The Frozen Eternity (Avantgarde Music)
  2. Sordid Blade – Every Battle Has Its Glory (Gates Of Hell Records)
  3. Saor – Origins (Season of Mist)
  4. Zemial – To Slay With Silent Dagger (Self-released)
  5. Felvum – Fullmoon Mysticism (Out Of Season)
  6. Forbidden Temple – Step Into The Black Pentagram (Gramschap)
  7. Vindalf – Ancient Spells Of Darkness (Signal Rex)
  8. Imprecation – In Nomine Diaboli (Dark Descent Records)
  9. Altars – Ascetic Reflection (Everlasting Spew Records)
  10. Immolation – Acts Of God (Nuclear Blast Records)
  11. Concrete Winds – Nervebutcherer (Sepulchral Voice Records)
  12. Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
  13. Faceless Burial – At The Foothills Of Deliration (Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo)
  14. Obituary – Dying Of Everything (Relapse Records)
  15. Krolok – Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky (Osmose Productions)

Demo releases according to FelixS

  1. Blood Loss – The Order Of Malevolence (Self-released)
  2. Necrohammer – Unholy Black Steel (Self-released)
  3. Caustic Phlegm – Putrefying Flesh (Self-released)
  4. Bottenberg – Demo 2022 (Self-released)
  5. Fellmoon – Fellmoon (Self-released)

Full-length and EP releases according to VincentP

  1. Askeregn – Brennende Åkres Grøde (Terratur Possessions)
  2. Mortuus  – Diablerie (W.T.C. Productions)
  3. In Twilight’s Embrace – Lifeblood (Terratur Possessions)
  4. Moonlight Sorcery – Piercing Through The Frozen Eternity (Avantgarde Music)
  5. Krolok – Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky (Osmose Productions)
  6. Sumerlands – Dreamkiller (Relapse Records)
  7. Warloghe – Three Angled Void (Northern Heritage Records)
  8. Apogeion – Astrolatria I: Initiatio (Northern Heritage Records)
  9. Walghinge – Primordiaal Verlangen (Gramschap)
  10. Satanic Warmaster – Aamongandr (Werewolf Records)
  11. Lifvsleda – Sepulkral Dedikation (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
  12. Aerdryk – Met De Drietand Op Mijn Huid (Amor Fati Productions)
  13. Nécropole – Yoga (Northern Heritage Records)
  14. Greve – Föllo Afv Svavel Lifvets Dimridå (Purity Through Fire)
  15. Sorgetid – Natt av Tusen Dödsfall (Werewolf Records)

Demo releases according to VincentP

  1. Aeon Furnace – Providence Descends (Ancien Culte)
  2. Herugrim – Demo XXMMII (Escafismo Records)
  3. Nachtgnawer – Eternal Curse of the Blood (Self-released)
  4. Fellmoon – Fellmoon (Self-released)
  5. Oerheks – Cagghenvinna (Amor Fati Productions)