Nachtheem – Nacht, Zij met Ons… [EP]

Artist: NachtheemCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Nachtheem is a mysterious new entity hailing from The Netherlands that released their debut EP ‘Nacht, Zij met Ons…’ at the dawn of 2024. While that release initially passed me by unnoticed,…

They Came From Visions – The Twilight Robes

Artist: They Came From Visions Country: Ukraine Label: Eisenwald Formats: CD Year: 2024 Drudkh’s immense influence on contemporary Black Metal is beyond any dispute, echoes of its elongated riffs based on the grandeur of nature can be heard in more…

Hæksenhamer – Heimat (Foul Folk Crusade) [EP]

Artist: HæksenhamerCountry: GermanyLabel: Death RevelationsFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 ‘Heimat (Foul Folk Crusade)’, a title that seems awfully fitting with the music that’s presented by Hæksenhamer. On their first release (although technically the EP was first released as an advance demo),…

Triumphal Vengeance- Crossing the Rubicon [EP]

Artist: Triumphal VengeanceCountry: Chile / GermanyLabel: Death RevelationsFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 With the coming of the band’s second EP, Triumphal Vengeance has turned quite a few things around. While the band, consisting of sole member Nebel, still plays Pagan Black…

Purulency – Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions [EP]

Artist: Purulency Country: USA Label: Caligari Records / Pulverised Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 ‘Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions’ is the first feat of the Kingsport, Tennessee, USA-based Death Metal that was founded back…

Svrm – Прощання [EP]

Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Almost immediately after the band’s conception back in the early 00’s Drudkh has gained a big following. Not only in people who found something new in the sort of…

Drunemeton – Tir Nan Og

Artist: Drunemeton Country: Russia Label: Heidens Hart Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 The man behind Drunemeton, who is from Russian origin but currently resides in Serbia, Europe, has had all of his previous releases done by a wide range of…

Kawir – Κυδοιμός (Kydoimos)

Artist: Kawir Country: Greece Label: Soulseller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Although we were already offered a sneak peak with the digital-only EP ‘War Of The Giants’ from 2022, mainly a fundraiser for the treatment of Kawir main…

Diocletian – Inexorable Nexus

Artist: Diocletian Country: New Zealand Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Diocletian’s ‘Gesundrian’ from 2014, released by the French Osmose Productions label, is commonly seen as one of the absolute cornerstones of…

Kråbol – Never

Artist: KråbølCountry: NorwayLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Families devoting their lives to Black Metal is hardly new. Quorthon and Boss, Mika and Kimmo Luttinen, LRH and Spellgoth: just a few examples of fathers/sons or siblings ending up in…

Dismorfia – Eclosion Repugnante [Demo]

Artist: Dismorfia Country: Peru Label: Gurgling Gore Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although I must say that the times in which I fully immersed myself in the grimey world of Grindcore are half a lifetime behind me, I can still…

Markgraf – Hohenbaden

Artist: Markgraf Country: Germany Label: Blutrausch Propaganda / AbArt Corruption Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Although this German band already released a 12” EP back in 2020, with even a demo a year earlier, Markgraf went completely under…

Parfaxitas – Weaver of the Black Moon

Artist: ParfaxitasCountry: Iceland / Norway / USALabel: Terratur PossesionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Parfaxitas, the archdemon that rules over astral thunderstorms. Ruler of wrath, fevers, vengeance and atavism. That who can gives rise to chaos, destruction and death through acts…

Nächtlich – Exaltation Of Evil

Artist: Nächtlich Country: Canada Label: Deathful Lust Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The Canadian Black Metal entity that is Nächtlich has been quite prolific throughout their entire career that started back in 2016. With a lot short…

Whoredom Rife – Den Vrede Makt

Artist: Whoredom RifeCountry: NorwayLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 In my review of ‘Winds of Wrath’ I had concluded that it was a logical continuation of what Whoredom Rife has stood for ever since they were conceived. At the…

Yxxan – Misanthropic Impulse

Artist: Yxxan Country: Sweden Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 In 2019 and 2020 the world was treated to two demos of an obscure one-woman act from Sweden. Yxxan presented itself in a total savage…

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…