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
- Satanic Warmaster – Exultation Of Cruelty (Werewolf Records)
- Conifère – L’Impôt Du Sang (Phantom Lure)
- Phlegethon’s Majesty – Bygone Atonements (Medieval Prophecy Records)
- Concrete Winds – Concrete Winds (Sepulchral Voice Records)
- Satan – Songs In Crimson (Metal Blade Records)
- Departure Chandelier – Satan Soldier Of Fortune (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
- Upon Stone – Dead Mother Moon (Century Media Records)
- Deceased – Children Of The Morgue (Hell’s Headbangers Records)
- Drowned – Procul His (Sepulchral Voice Records)
- Sovereign – Altered Realities (Dark Descent Records)
- Inquisition – Veneration Of Medieval Mysticism And Cosmological Violence (Agonia Records)
- Varathron – The Crimson Temple (Agonia Records)
- Markgraf – Hohenbaden (Blutrausch Propaganda)
- Chapel Of Samhain – Black Onyx Cave (Nuclear Winter Records)
- Morgul Blade – Heavy Metal Wraiths (No Remorse Records)
Demo releases according to FelixS
- Haan Valar – Devotion To Xemzara (Mamzer Records / WolfKult Religion)
- Necrohammer – Ancient Metal Holocaust (Self-released)
- Ophidian – Descent Into The Labyrinth (Iron Bonehead Productions)
- Kathryn Danielle – Deaths Melodies On Memorial Rd (Self-released)
- Drakorathos – Ode To The Majesty Of The Nightside (Self-released)
Full-length and EP releases according to VincentP
- Death Like Mass – The Lord Of Flies (Terratur Possessions)
- Satanic Warmaster – Exultation Of Cruelty (Werewolf Records)
- Bythos – Chthonic Gates Unveiled (Terratur Possessions)
- Misotheist – Vessels by which The Devil is Made Flesh (Terratur Possessions)
- Kratti – Matka Kohti Kosmista (Signal Rex)
- Gjendød – Livskramper (Osmose Productions)
- Whoredom Rife – Den Vrede Makt (Terratur Possessions)
- Horna – Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle (W.T.C. Productions)
- Attic -Return of the Witchfinder (Ván Records)
- Sovereign – Altered Realities (Dark Descent Records)
- Doedsmaghird – Omniverse Conciousness (Peaceville Records)
- My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding (Nuclear Blast Records)
- Witchfukker – Tapestry of Unspeakable Horrors (De Pankraker Records)
- Nahtrunar – Hrima (Altare Productions)
- Wurgilnõ – Krijtland (Fetzner Death Records)
Demo releases according to VincentP
- Moonstruck – Kingdom of the Dark Majesty (Signal Rex)
- Oerheks – Heksen & Geesten van Brabant (Amor Fati Productions)
- Iätön – Korpimaille (Korpituli Productions)
- Conjuration – Sepulchral Incantations (WolfKult Religion)
- Castrivenian – Eternal Fog’s Rebirth (WolfKult Religion)
2023
Full-length and EP releases according to FelixS
- Iron Void – IV (Shadow Kingdom Records)
- Satanic Warmaster – Aamongandr (Werewolf Records)
- Vindalf – Legion Of Spectral Blood (Signal Rex)
- Shadows – Out For Blood (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
- Phantom – Handed To Execution (Inframetal)
- Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle (Avantgarde Music)
- Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin)
- Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (Metal Blade Records)
- Deströyer 666 – Never Surrender (Season Of Mist)
- Urfaust – Untergang (Ván Records)
- Salacious Gods – Oalevluuk (Hammerheart Records)
- Sammath – Grebbeberg (Hammerheart Records)
- Krieg – Ruiner (Profound Lore Records)
- Miscreance – Convergence (Season Of Mist)
- Flesher – Tales Of Grotesque Demise (Redefining Darkness Records)
Demo releases according to FelixS
- Gotthammer – Godslaying Sonic Barbarism (Anti-Human Productions / WolfKult Religion)
- Black Lycanthropy – For Satan’s Eternal Glory (Self-released)
- Dungeon Keeper – Fortress Of Evil (Kellerassel Records)
- Black Edifice – The Miasmic Trance (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Full-length and EP releases according to VincentP
- Manii – Innerst i Mørket (Terratur Possessions)
- DHG/Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current (Peaceville Records)
- Enevelde – En Gildere Død (Terratur Possessions)
- Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions)
- Syn – Villfarelse (Terratur Possessions)
- Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle (Avantgarde Music)
- Korgunthurus – Jumalhaaska (Woodcut Records)
- Cruel Force – Dawn of the Axe (Shadow Kingdom Records)
- Old – Dawn of Darkness (Unsilent Tomb Records)
- Helleruin – Devils, Death and Dark Arts (New Era Productions)
- Grieve – Wolves of the Northern Moon (Werewolf Records)
- Shadows – Out For Blood (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
- Marduk – Memento Mori (Century Media)
- Thy Darkened Shade – Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya (W.T.C. Productions)
- Botulistum – Botulistum (New Era Productions)
Demo releases according to VincentP
- Kratti – Demo 2023 (Escafismo Records / TÄH! Records)
- Oerheks – Landschapsanachronismen (Amor Fati Productions)
- Iätön – Loitsutulet (Altare Productions)
- Nightside – Lions (Purity Through Fire)
- Oerheks – Valkengebed (Amor Fati Productions)
2022
Full-length and EP releases according to FelixS
- Moonlight Sorcery – Piercing Through The Frozen Eternity (Avantgarde Music)
- Sordid Blade – Every Battle Has Its Glory (Gates Of Hell Records)
- Saor – Origins (Season of Mist)
- Zemial – To Slay With Silent Dagger (Self-released)
- Felvum – Fullmoon Mysticism (Out Of Season)
- Forbidden Temple – Step Into The Black Pentagram (Gramschap)
- Vindalf – Ancient Spells Of Darkness (Signal Rex)
- Imprecation – In Nomine Diaboli (Dark Descent Records)
- Altars – Ascetic Reflection (Everlasting Spew Records)
- Immolation – Acts Of God (Nuclear Blast Records)
- Concrete Winds – Nervebutcherer (Sepulchral Voice Records)
- Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
- Faceless Burial – At The Foothills Of Deliration (Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo)
- Obituary – Dying Of Everything (Relapse Records)
- Krolok – Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky (Osmose Productions)
Demo releases according to FelixS
- Blood Loss – The Order Of Malevolence (Self-released)
- Necrohammer – Unholy Black Steel (Self-released)
- Caustic Phlegm – Putrefying Flesh (Self-released)
- Bottenberg – Demo 2022 (Self-released)
- Fellmoon – Fellmoon (Self-released)
Full-length and EP releases according to VincentP
- Askeregn – Brennende Åkres Grøde (Terratur Possessions)
- Mortuus – Diablerie (W.T.C. Productions)
- In Twilight’s Embrace – Lifeblood (Terratur Possessions)
- Moonlight Sorcery – Piercing Through The Frozen Eternity (Avantgarde Music)
- Krolok – Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky (Osmose Productions)
- Sumerlands – Dreamkiller (Relapse Records)
- Warloghe – Three Angled Void (Northern Heritage Records)
- Apogeion – Astrolatria I: Initiatio (Northern Heritage Records)
- Walghinge – Primordiaal Verlangen (Gramschap)
- Satanic Warmaster – Aamongandr (Werewolf Records)
- Lifvsleda – Sepulkral Dedikation (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
- Aerdryk – Met De Drietand Op Mijn Huid (Amor Fati Productions)
- Nécropole – Yoga (Northern Heritage Records)
- Greve – Föllo Afv Svavel Lifvets Dimridå (Purity Through Fire)
- Sorgetid – Natt av Tusen Dödsfall (Werewolf Records)
Demo releases according to VincentP
- Aeon Furnace – Providence Descends (Ancien Culte)
- Herugrim – Demo XXMMII (Escafismo Records)
- Nachtgnawer – Eternal Curse of the Blood (Self-released)
- Fellmoon – Fellmoon (Self-released)
- Oerheks – Cagghenvinna (Amor Fati Productions)