Great Tribulation – Latter Realities

Artist: Great Tribulation Country: Spain / USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the 1-track demo/promo from early January this year, the Spanish/American trio that together makes up Great Tribulation is back already with their debut album.…

Priester – Let The Blood Run Red [Demo]

Artist: Priester Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Priester, a new Heavy/Speed Metal band from Finland, was built upon the bits and pieces that were left after Borley Rectory was put on ice – or at least,…

HellAvenger – The Primordial Fire

Artist: HellAvenger Country: Chile Label: Death Division Rituals / Destruktion Records / Dynamite Records / El Abismo / Holycaust Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 ‘The Primordial Fire’, the debut full-length of this Santiago, Chile based…

Trench Foot – Cavernous Necrophagy [EP]

Artist: Trench Foot Country: United Kingdom Label: Cavernous Records / Iron Fortress Records / Macho Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 It hasn’t been since 2022, with the release of the ‘Moral Obscenity’ EP since we last…

Grave Infestation – Carnage Gathers

Artist: Grave Infestation Country: Canada Label: Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 The last couple of years Grave Infestation has evolved into a rather smooth rolling Death Metal machine. If you’d listen back to…

Necrochakal – Golgothian Orgies Of Bestial Lust

Artist: Necrochakal Country: Greece Label: Floga Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Since the band’s formation some 12 years ago, Necrochakal from Athens, Greece, has tormented the ears of followers of the Extreme Metal underground. Yet they have done so by…

Vidarr – Bäume Unter Dem Mond Demo

Artist: Vidarr Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 By the look at the grainy black/white artwork and this specific logo you might judge that this is yet another band of Ildjarn-worship. And, in a certain way you wouldn’t be…

Ingwald – Demo 1

Artist: Ingwald Country: Russia Label: Jems Label Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ingwald is one of the musical vessels of Waldsarg, the person who is also behind Vidarr, with which he releases his debut demo, simply titled ‘Demo 1’, through the USA-based…

Kêres – Skryer of the Lighthouse

Artist: Kêres Country: Finland Label: Final Agony / Vermines Pestifera Formats: LP Year: 2025 Kêres fans rejoice! One year after the last sign of life, Atvar returns. ‘Skryer of the Lighthouse’ is the latest full-length, featuring ten songs spread over…

Profanatica – Wreathed In Dead Angels [EP]

Artist: Profanatica Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Phrases like “band X requires no further introduction” are used all the time. In most cases that is highly debatable, at least in terms…

Stygian Storm – The Flame Of Rebellion Never Dies

Artist: Stygian Storm Country: Spain Label: Abyssal Spectra / Escafismo Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Usually, when it comes to reviewing, I like to stick with releases of a few weeks old, couple of months maximum. Otherwise…

Carrion Liturgy – Demo I

Artist: Carrion Liturgy Country: USA Label: Venereal Veneration Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Without much information to go on, I can basically only mention that Carrion Liturgy is a new Black Metal project from USA, helmed by a duo whose identities are…

Ligament – Demo MMXXV

Artist: Ligament Country: USA Label: Headsplit Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Yes, I can be a sour old guy for whom things are not easily good enough, but there are times when the young boy in me awakens. Just say “this…

Urukhai – Vernichtung [Demo]

Artist: Urukhai Country: Italy Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 A certain amount of mysticism naturally contributes to how you view and experience a band, not infrequently that includes anonymity. Although that concept has become somewhat hackneyed by now, it…

Galgeberg – Cerberus [EP]

Artist: Galgeberg Country: Norway Label: Aftermath Music / Our Ancient Future Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 To start off with a confession, I always approach this sort of bands with extreme precaution and an unhealthy dose of scepticism. New…

Orrery – Nine Odes to Oblivion [Re-release]

Artist: Orrery Country: Australia Label: Forbidden Frequencies Formats: LP Year: 2025 I’m sure many a music fanatic has those releases, the ones that made an immediate impact, stuck with you for years, yet never got the proper treatment and recognition…

Bidirna Dhamani – Ojash

Artist: Bidirna Dhamani Country: India Label: Goatowarex / Kaliyuga Konspiracies Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Have you ever wondered what Morbid Angel would sound like if they were a Black Metal band? Of course you did. And we have…

Remains of Ash – Demo II

Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Before I could finish the review of the first Remains of Ash demo, another demo already dropped. ‘Demo II’ was released just a few months after ‘Remains…

Remains of Ash – Remains of Ash [Demo]

Artist: Remains of Ash Country: Finland Label: Self-released Format: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Remains of Ash was formed in January 2025 by Dark Divinator, who is also active in Kerzenlicht, Dark Divination, Valonkantaja and Nekromanser. Like Dark Divination, Remains of…

Dark Divination – Unforgotten [EP]

Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 You just gotta love the thrill of finding new acts based on members of bands you like. Despite being formed in 2022, I was unaware of Dark…

Kerzenlicht – Demo I

Artist: Kerzenlicht Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 When Signal Rex teased images of ‘Demo I’ by the new Finnish act Kerzenlicht, I knew to pay attention. Lately, the label has been releasing excellent demos and…

Chemical Death – Times Of Inquisition

Artist: Chemical Death Country: Brazil Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Zombi Danz Records Formats: LP Year: 2025 Those who delved very deep into the Extreme Metal scene of Brazil from around the turn of the 90’s, might have read…

Alesya – Chants d’une Lignée Sanglante

Artist: Alesya Country: Mexico Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Not too long ago I stumbled upon Alesya’s marvellous ‘Hex De Tristesse Et Peste’-demo that was released by Mexico’s underground label Svart Hat Productions. The almost 20-minute demo brought together…

Draugheimen – Draugheimen [Demo]

Artist: Draugheimen Country: Unknown Label: Bloodthorn Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 The so far mostly very mysterious Draugheimen, whose background and origins are currently shrouded in mists, unleashed a fine self-titled demo on humanity at the end of last year.…

Mephitic Corpse – Sickness Attracts Sickness

Artist: Mephitic Corpse Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records / 625 Thrash! Formats: Vinyl / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 With the band’s debut, the ‘Immense Thickening Vomit’ demo tape from 2019, Mephitic Corpse managed to…

Mournful Moon – Twilight, My Passion

Artist: Mournful Moon Country: Greece Label: His Wounds Formats: LP Year: 2025 Those who heard the band’s previous two outings will testify that Mournful Moon is truly something special. With 2020’s ‘.​.​.​As Shadows Fall Over Zenitheaen’-EP and especially the ‘Rose…

Morsun Diaboli – Dzień Triumfu [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Morsun Diaboli Country: Poland Label: Diabolical Vitriol / Pro Morte Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Dzień Triumfu’, Morsun Diaboli’s second demo from 1998, had already been reissued once in 2019 and a compilation of all surviving Morsun Diaboli tracks was released in…

Bode Maldito – Sodomizing Christ [Demo]

Artist: Bode Maldito Country: Brazil Label: Unpure Records Format: Demo tape Year: 2024 Although ‘Sodomizing Christ’ was already released digitally by the band itself around the summer of last year, it took a few more months before a physical version…

Tumba – Blasfémico Resplandor

Artist: Tumba Country: Colombia Label: Destruktion Records / Inframetal Records / Vociferos Malditos Producciones Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After a good amount of short players and splits, Tumba from Bogatá, Colombia thought it was about time to…

Eternal Ice – Curse In The Sky [EP]

Artist: Eternal Ice Country: Japan Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although Eternal Ice already released a demo tape in autumn of last year, the band didn’t caught my attention yet. But even though that demo was only distributed in extremely…

Vastago – Hexagnosis [EP]

Artist: Vastago Country: Spain Label: Elf Eggs / Profaner Records Formats: 7″ EP / Cassette EP Year: 2025 Although the tape version of ‘Hexagnosis’ was already released digitally in October of last year, this second EP of Spanish Black/Death Metal band Vastago didn’t see…

Abbashaitan – Sorceritual [Demo]

Artist: Abbashaitan Country: Finland Label: Worship Tapes Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although the band has already been around for a respectable amount of time, Abbashaitan’s first two demos, from 2017 and 2020 respectively, have remained completely under the radar…

Morbific – Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh

Artist: Morbific Country: Finland Label: Headsplit Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records / Memento Mori Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 If you happen to be a fan of Morbific you never have to really wait…

Consumption – Catharsis

Artist: Consumption Country: Sweden Label: Dusktone Formats: CD Year: 2025 After two full-length records for Hammerheart Records in 2020 and 2022, the Swedes of Consumption went for the Como, Italy based Dusktone for their third album. Without knowing any details,…

Moulin Banal – Sainte-Paix

Artist: Moulin BanalCountry: CanadaLabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Cassette tapeYear: 2025 Moulin Banal was a Black Metal band that hailed from Montréal in the Canadian province of Quebec. During its 6 -year existence it initially consisted of Carabinier Carignan, and Comte Bergaby (the mind behind acts like…

Veitsi – Perikato

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: Breath Of Pestilence Formats: CD Year: 2025 After a good couple of demos, EP’s and a split tape with Geatkihaukr, early this year the Finnish one-man army of Veitsi returns with its first full-length album.…

Salacious Gods – The Slumbering Silence [Demo/ Re-release]

Artist: Salacious GodsCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: WolfKult ReligionFormats: Demo TapeYear: 2025 After an extended period without releases, Salacious Gods has turned the tide completely. There was the long-awaited full-length ‘Oaelevluuk’ and the band returned to the stages in 2023. Last year…

Warhammer – Total Maniac

Artist: Warhammer Country: Germany Label: Ván Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 If you would have told me some twenty-five years ago that Warhammer would release their sixth full-length album in 2025 on a label like Ván Records, widely…

Bluthammer – Iron Eagle Division [Demo]

Artist: Bluthammer Country: Germany Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 “Fuck Religion, Fuck Politics, Fuck Humanity”. It can only be clear. Bluthammer does not mince words: this is merely about sonic violence and unhinged total hatred. And, of course,…

Tales Of Blood – Breath Of Repugnance

Artist: Tales Of Blood Country: France Label: Great Dane Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 Although French Death Metal band Tales Of Blood, in one form or another has been around since the early 1990’s, the band was totally unknown to…

Barshasketh – Antinomian Asceticism

Artist: Barshasketh Country: New Zealand Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Besides a couple of splits, Barshasketh released no less than five albums in fifteen years, still I am amazed by how little appreciation this band gets.…