Zepter – Zepter

Artist: Zepter Country: Austria Label: High Roller Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 After what you can call a very successful first EP in 2024, that saw a reissue on all relevant formats, the Austrian Heavy…

Archont – Macht:Demonstration [Demo]

Artist: Archont Country: Austria Label: Altare Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although there is very little known about this band, it is most likely that Archont is from Austria as they are claimed to be part of the Symbolismus…

Triumphal Vengeance – Spears of Conquest

Artist: Triumphal Vengeance Country: Chile / Austria Label: Death Revelations Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 After a duo of EPs, sole member Nebel is now ready to unleash the full-length debut of Triumphal Vengeance upon us. Once again brought by…

Hagzissa – Revelry of a Maltreated Jade [EP]

Artist: Hagzissa Country: Austria Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12” EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Formed in 2016, Hagzissa combines members of the likes of Kringa, Serpere, Sněť and Weathered Crest. Despite having released an album on Iron Bonehead…

Serpere – Exsequiae [EP]

Artist: Serpere Country: Austria Label: Into Endless Chaos Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Somehow Serpere slipped under my radar. A shame, because the involvement of the members in amongst others Kringa, Hagzissa and Weathered Crest certainly would have drawn…

Sepulchral Lamentations – Manifestum Tertii Antichristii

Artist: Sepulchral Lamentations Country: Austria Label: TSC Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Sepulchral Lamentations is a new one-man project from Austria, helmed by Stephan “Shathrazhul” Homschek who started creating music under this moniker only this year. Although he has some…

Venator – Psychodrome

Artist: Venator Country: Austria Label: Dying Victims Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although the NWOBHM-movement has never really stopped attracting new listeners over the past two decades or so, its popularity has been coming and…

Nahtrunar – Hrima

Artist: NahtrunarCountry: AustriaLabel: Altare ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 Following up ‘Wolfsstunde’ is quite a tall order, as Nahtrunar delivered a stellar atmospheric Black Metal record that could match itself with their fantastic debut ‘Symbolismus’ and their genre peers. Yet…

Cryptal Echoes – Cryptal Echoes [Demo]

Artist: Cryptal Echoes Country: Austria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 When thinking about Austrian Death Metal, the majority of us reading this will think of bands like Pungent Stench, Disharmonic Orchestra, Disastrous Murmur or perhaps Miasma. But recently…

Fessus – Pilgrims Of Morbidity [Demo / Reissue]

Artist: Fessus Country: Austria Label: Self-Released / Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 / 2024 At the beginning of Autumn 2023, the rather fresh Austrian Death Metal outfit Fessus self-released their debut demo tape, ‘Pilgrims…

Kringa – All Stillborn Fires, Lick My Heart!

Artist: KringaCountry: AustriaLabel: Terratur PossessionsFormats: CDYear: 2023 Kringa’s ‘Total Mental Desecration’ was a pretty sensational EP. Although the band had released some demos since its inception in 2009, it was probably that specific release that gained the band a bit…

Lichtblick – Abkehr

Artist: Lichtblick Country: Austria Label: Immortal Frost Productions Formats: CD Year: 2022 Lichtblick is German for ‘bright spot’, a symbol for hope, a brighter future. This is in stark contrast to the title of this second full-length from the Austrian…

Weathered Crest – Dust Vessel [EP]

Artist: Weathered CrestCountry: AustriaLabel: Fallow FieldFormats: Cassette tape EPYear: 2022 On their first EP and debut album, we were already introduced to Weathered Crest, a Raw Black Metal band from Austria that sprung from the brain of Vritra of Kringa…

Weathered Crest – Blossoming Of The Paths

Artist: Weathered CrestCountry: AustriaLabel: Into Endless Chaos Records / Tour de GardeFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 Earlier in 2021, Weathered Crest, the project started by Vritra from Brånd and Kringa, released the ‘Broken Column’ debut EP. Which…

Weathered Crest – Broken Column [EP]

Artist: Weathered CrestCountry: AustriaLabel: Födweg / Into Endless Chaos RecordsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2021 Early last year, the world saw Weathered Crest’s first born, the ‘Broken Column’ EP. Weathered Crest is a side-project of Vritra who continues to kill his time…

Theotoxin – Fragment : Totenruhe

Artist: TheotoxinCountry: AustriaLabel: Art Of PropagandaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 After some changes in their sound on the first few albums, Theotoxin seemingly found their style of Black Metal on the album ‘Fragment : Erhabenheit’. Eager to bring this to…

Theotoxin – Fragment : Erhabenheit

Artist: TheotoxinCountry: AustriaLabel: Art Of PropagandaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2020 Austria’s Theotoxin have upheld a steady pace of releasing albums since its formation in 2016. The sound varied a bit from one album to the other, however. On the 2017…

Ellende – Ellenbogengesellschaft

Artist: EllendeCountry: AustriaLabel: Art Of PropagandaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Ellende has been an intriguing project. Ever since its inception in 2011 by L.G., then being only 20 years of age, the project has reflected its main man’s innermost thoughts,…

Belphegor – The Devils

Artist: BelphegorCountry: AustriaLabel: Nuclear BlastFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Admittedly, I had lost sight of Belphegor for a while. After the 2000 release of ‘Necrodaemon Terrorsathan’, I somewhat lost interest in the band. I did hear some…

Nahtrunar – Wolfsstunde

Artist: NahtrunarCountry: AustriaLabel: Altare Productions / Symbolismus WerkeFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Insiders might know Austria’s Nahtrunar from the excellent debut album `Symbolismus’, a work that was heavily inspired by the spirit of 90s Norwegian Black Metal. Follow-up `Existenz’ mostly…

Firunwinta – Innenleben… [EP]

Artist: Firunwinta Country: Austria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 Austrian one-man act Firunwinta presents their first offering: a 23-minute EP of bleak Black Metal in old school fashion. The cover to this digital EP shows a forest in…

Valhalla – Power & Might [Demo]

Artist: Valhalla Country: Austria Label: Hallucination’Zine Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2002 Another demo from my dungeons. So, not new, from autumn 2002, but we are supporting the underground right? So here it is! And this one is really cool. I…