Viscous – Morbid Arousal [7″ EP]

Artist: Viscous Country: Canada Label: Godz Ov War Productions / Anti-Human Productions / Unpure Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 In April last year we already got a small taste of what was to…

Coffins – Sinister Oath

Artist: Coffins Country: Japan Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although ‘Sinister Oath’ is the band’s sixth full-length and I have picked up quite a few of their smaller releases over the years, it…

Depressive Witches – Lost, Forgotten And Heartbroken

Artist: Depressive Witches Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2024 On the band’s first two albums, ‘Bad Flask’ (2021) and ‘Distant Kingdoms’ (2022) the two French brothers of Depressive Witches already tried to prepare humanity for something seriously different.…

Horn – Daudswiärk

Artist: Horn Country: Germany Label: Northern Silence Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although I ran into the name of the German Pagan Black Metal band Horn a few times before, I only really first heard the band with…

Night Shall Drape Us – Lunatic Choir

Artist: Night Shall Drape UsCountry: FinlandLabel: Season of Mist Underground ActivistsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Night Shall Drape Us certainly managed to garner some interest as soon as the project was announced. Combining artists known for their work in Horna,…

Drengskapur / Häxenzijrkell – Split LP

Artist: Drengskapur / Häxenzijrkell Country: Germany Label: Amor Fati Productions / The Cosmic Pillars Formats: Split LP / Split Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 On this split release, presented by Amor Fati Productions (with The Cosmic Pillars taking care…

Sarcasm – Mourninghoul

Artist: Sarcasm Country: Sweden Label: Hammerheart Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 While the musical transition from a more or less standard Swedish Death Metal in the band’s embryonical stages to the more Black Metal-infused sound after Sarcasm’s 2015…

Deicide – Banished By Sin

Artist: Deicide Country: USA Label: Reigning Phoenix Music Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Most people of a certain age reading this will have a relationship with Deicide that is based on, at least, mixed feelings. To…

Nebiros – Guerreros De Lucifer [Re-Release]

Artist: Nebiros Country: Colombia Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Ever since the genre’s earliest beginnings, the bands from South America has been contributing significally to the development of the phenomenon of Black Metal. Most notably, of…

Mütiilation – Black Metal Cult

Artist: Mütiilation Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With the trumpeting words “This entity, buried but not dead, whose return you hoped for but no longer expected…” the great return of Mütiilation was made announced.…

Unleashed – Before The Creation Of Time [Compilation]

Artist: Unleashed Country: Sweden Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Without going too much into the in itself somewhat sad history of Johnny Hedlund’s rather disgraceful tricking out of Nihilist by disbanding the band and…

Drevorod – Anthems Of Soil And Stars

Artist: Drevorod Country: Russia Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Over the last twenty or so years, the Eastern regions of Europe and Russia have increasingly developed itself as a true hotbed for Pagan Black Metal. Maybe not…

Funeral Storm – Chthonic Invocations

Artist: Funeral Storm Country: Greece Label: Hells Headbangers Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although the band already released two splits and a compilation that brought those tracks together, I only ran into Funeral Storm with their…

Lifvsleda – Evangelii Härold

Artist: LifvsledaCountry: SwedenLabel: Norma Evangelium DiaboliFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 In 2022 we were forewarned that a new Lifvsleda album was incoming with the release of the 7” EP ‘Lifvspänn’, a prelude to the band’s second album ‘Sepulkral Dedikation’. This…

Morgul Blade – Heavy Metal Wraiths

Artist: Morgul Blade Country: USA Label: No Remorse Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a demo/EP, ‘Harbingers Of Power And The World’s End’ from 2019, that sadly enough went under my radar, the American Heavy Metal band Morgul…

Draugnim – Verum Malum

Artist: Draugnim Country: Finland Label: Naturmacht Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 It was a long wait. Draugnim needed no less than eight years to come up with this fourth full-length album and follow-up of the…

Last Retch – Ergotism [EP]

Artist: Last Retch Country: Canada Label: CDN Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2024 After having released an outstanding demo and an equally great debut album in 2021 and 2022 respectively, the Canadian Death Metal band Last Retch treats us with…

Dødsferd – Wrath

Artist: Dødsferd Country: Greece Label: Fucking Your Creation Records / Hypnotic Dirge Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 In the almost quarter of a century of existence the Greek Black Metal band Dødsferd has spawned nothing…

Nights Horn – Divina Obscura

Artist: Nights Horn Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Nights Horn is the brainchild of Thomas Lhairaud, a French multi-instrumentalist and ‘Divina Obscura’ is the work that follows up on the ‘Blood Soul’-demo tape that was released last…

Anatomia / Eternal Rot – Split

Artist: Anatomia / Eternal Rot Country: Japan / Germany/United Kingdom Label: Behind The Mountain / Gurgling Gore Formats: Split LP / Split Cassette / Split CD Year: 2024 While Anatomia might forever be regarded as Coffins’ little brother, they have…

Xulux / Kurjuus – Split

Artist: Xulux / Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Split Cassette Tape / Split CD Year: 2024 Not only do both bands on this split hail from the same Finnish town of Jyväskylä, they are also both one-man bands venturing…

My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding

Artist: My Dying BrideCountry: United KingdomLabel: Nuclear BlastFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 My Dying Bride is a band with a special place in my heart. I remember first learning of the band during high school when a classmate was wearing…

Infamous Glory – Algor Mortis

Artist: Infamous Glory Country: Brazil Label: Black Hole Productions Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although Infamous Glory has been around already for quite a few years, in fact they are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, I wouldn’t be surprised if…

Baphorator – I.B.L.I.S.

Artist: Baphorator Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 After a self-released demo tape in 2023 this American duo returns with a half-hour debut LP through none other than Nuclear War Now! Productions. The label ever…

Regere Sinister – Inside The Eye Of Horned Winds

Artist: Regere Sinister Country: Finland Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Regere Sinister, a band comprised of a duo who are also together in Ride For Revenge and Horse Latitudes and further have experience in such bands…

Bythos – Chthonic Gates Unveiled

Artist: BythosCountry: FinlandLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 The debut album of Bythos stood out for several reasons. For one, the seasoned veterans from the Finnish Black Metal scene that comprise the act had chosen a sound far away…

Hekseblad – Kaer Morhen

Artist: Hekseblad Country: USA Label: Hypnotic Dirge Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a considerable amount of demo’s and EP’s that were released in the last couple of years, the American duo that together form Hekseblad thought it…

Kratti – Matka Kohti Kosmista

Artist: KrattiCountry: FinlandLabel: Signal RexFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 After releasing one of the best demos of 2023, the Finns in Kratti will return with their first full-length of the band’s carreer. To be released by Signal…

Attic – Return of the Witchfinder

Artist: AtticCountry: GermanyLabel: Ván RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Attic wasn’t exactly the first band to follow the path of of King Diamond and Mercyful Fate. With the Danes spawning copcycats of varying degrees of quality ever since their pioneering…

Uttertomb – Nebulas Of Self-Desecration

Artist: Uttertomb Country: Chile Label: Pulverised Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After being around for well over a decade and with several EP’s and splits under their belts it was about time these Chileans Death Metallers came up…

Aberration – Refracture

Artist: Aberration Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Aberration debuted in 2021 with a self-titled EP after which it remained quiet for a long time, not counting the Beherit cover that…

Ondfødt – Oldfodt [EP]

Artist: Ondfødt Country: Finland Label: Black Lion Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 With all due respect to both band and label, sometimes the logic eludes me a bit of what gets thrown on the market. One…

Candelabrum – Transmutations

Artist: Candelabrum Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Two years after the release of ‘Nocturnal Trance’ through Hells Headbangers, the Portuguese flagship of Lo-Fi Black Metal returns with their fourth full-length album. Before we dive into a deeper analysis of the…

Necrophobic – In The Twilight Grey

Artist: Necrophobic Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After the release of the ‘Death To All’-album in 2009 the future for Necrophobic never seemed brighter: a killer new record, a flawless back catalogue and a…

Arzhaabat – The Glory Of Wogastisburg [EP]

Artist: Arzhaabat Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 After a demo tape, a single released on cassette and a full-length album, the prolific MBN returns with another Arzhaabat recording. This time an almost 24-minute EP that fits, at…

Order Of Nosferat – The Absence Of Grace

Artist: Order Of Nosferat Country: Finland / Germany Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 As enchanting and confusing the shapeshifting entity of a vampire can be, the same can be said about this…

Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations

Artist: Diabolic Oath Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The trio that together makes up Diabolic Oath has just delivered us something new to chew on, not all too long after…

Kalmankantaja / Somber Winds – Split CD

Artist: Kalmankantaja / Somber WindsCountry: FinlandLabel: Misantropia RecordsFormats: Split CDYear: 2024 Shortly after the release of reimagined tracks from the 2014-2016 period, Kalmankantaja returns to the release front with the first new material of 2024 (although technically it was already…

Korpituli – Pohjola

Artist: Korpituli Country: Finland Label: Korpituli Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 ‘Pohjola’ is the third full-length album for the Finnish Black Metal band Korpituli, but honestly, if you have heard the bands previously released material,…

Conifère – L’Imp​ô​t Du Sang

Artist: Conifère Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 After having released a demo and a split in 2020, Conifère went silent for a good couple of years. While many bands do release one album or EP after another,…

Therianthropophagus – Damnatio Ad Bestias [EP]

Artist: Therianthropophagus Country: Canada Label: Serpents Head Reprisal Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 This new Black/Death Metal band from Canada debuts with an EP that clocks just under 20 minutes, but musically leaves very little to the imagination. In the right Canadian…