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,…

Atomic Goatcrime – Thermonuclear Humanicide

Artist: Atomic Goatcrime Country: Ecuador Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 After the band’s great 2023-released ‘Atomic Goat Exterminium!’-EP, I have kept my binoculars focused on Ecuador to see if there was any movement in the Atomic Goatcrime camp.…

Vadhakarmadhikarin – Tejashvi Akramakh Validaan

Artist: Vadhakarmadhikarin Country: India Label: Final Agony Formats: LP Year: 2025 While a lot of Extreme Metal is made in a few countries or continents with a long and lively history in this sort of music, some things do come…

Blasphamagoatachrist – Bestial Abominator

Artist: Blasphamagoatachrist Country: Brazil/Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Those who thought that Blasphamagoatachrist would cease to exist after the deaths of Sabbaoth (2021) and Virrugus (2024) turns out completely mistaken. Of course, it…

Nocuous Lust – Demo

Artist: Nocuous Lust Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Sometimes very little words are needed, or they can even take some of the magic away. That must have been the way of thinking of this newly found…

Naked Whipper – Chapel Defilement

Artist: Naked Whipper Country: Germany Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With the reissue of Naked Whipper’s cult back catalogue and its (unexpected) return on stage, appearing on the Never Surrender festival, it should come as…

Vider – Strike With Putrefaction

Artist: Vider Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 On a miserable, rainy, grey and stormy January day, nothing really fits better than an all-consuming darkness in musical form. For that joyous occasion today, I threw in the debut…

Kiloton – Ruine Radiante

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Almost simultaneously with the ‘Swine Slice’-EP Kiloton also assumed we, poor humans, were ready for even a full-length release of this rotten and totally degenerated Black Noise. Even if ‘Ruine…

Annihilation Cult – Annihilation Cult

Artist: Annihilation Cult Country: USA Label: Profaner Records / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 At the end of 2023 Annihilation Cult came up with a digital demo of just over 15 minutes of merciless Black/Death Metal…

Evokthum – Majesty Blood Vomiter [Demo]

Artist: Evokthum Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Someone even half-versed in the wonderful world of the Bestial Black/Death Metal scene will have no difficulty in already getting some idea of where this is going to, simply…

Wrathprayer – Enkoimeterion

Artist: Wrathprayer Country: Chile Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 If we’re not counting the split LP with fellow Chileans Force Of Evil from 2017 (also Nuclear War Now! Productions) ‘Enkoimeterion’ is…

Vengeance Horde – Surging Vengeance

Artist: Vengeance Horde Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions / Stygian Black Hand / Deathrash Armageddon Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After the short but convincing and self-titled debut EP, released on cassette tape and…

Warslaughter – Exacerbación [EP]

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 On the band’s previously released two demos and full-length albums Warslaughter already showed what they were made of. The Spaniards follow much of the country’s tradition in unrelenting…

Morbid Invocation – Opus I

Artist: Morbid Inovcation Country: Germany Label: Sect Entropy Formats: Tape Year: 2024 Without having felt the urge to record some demos or other short players first, this hitherto unknown duo goes straight for the full-length. Although, it is not actually…

Wrahha – Harbingers Of A Horrid Cleansing [Demo]

Artist: Wrahha Country: Germany Label: AbArt Corruption / Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 After the break-up of Lihhamon, singer/guitarist M. (here as BRSRKR) decided to try again with a different line-up. The exact reason for the predecessor’s…

Bestialgoat – Infernal Goat Of Extermination

Artist: Bestialgoat Country: Brazil Label: Brasilis Produções / Unpure Records Formats: Cassette tape / CD Year: 2024 With a back catalogue consisting of releases with black/white/red tones on the cover and titles of which the words are separated.by.dots. it is…

Abysmal Desecration – Total Extinction Of Humanity [EP]

Artist: Abysmal Desecration Country: Argentina Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With ‘Total Extinction Of Humanity’, this new Argentine band lays their first feat on the table. And if the band name combined with the black, white and red…

Ignobleth – Voidspawn Sacrifice [Demo]

Artist: Ignobleth Country: Italy Label: Masked Dead Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Despite these three blokes from the Northern region of Italy being said to be in their mid-teens, they know their craft damn well. Being formed somewhere in…

Gotthammer – Nuclear Conquest [Compilation]

Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: CDYear: 2024 ‘Nuclear Conquest’ is the tale of Turbo Sodomizer, Hammer Commander and Sonic Reducer, who together as Gotthammer have set out to turn the world to ash with their downtuned savagery. This compilation is a…

Kiloton – World War V [Compilation]

Artist: KilotonCountry: CanadaLabels: War Vellum / Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 Presented in chronological order, ‘World War V’ is a compilation of the demos and four EPs that Canadian act Kiloton amassed over the last year or so.…

Sadomortuary – Inflicting Litanies Of Torment

Artist: Sadomortuary Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 After a couple of demos (also available on a US-released compilation CD) and a split with Nameless Tomb, ‘Inflicting Litanies Of Torment’ is Sadomortuary’s first full-length album. In just…

Gotthammer – Ancient Nature [EP]

Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Anti-Human Productions / WolfKult ReligionFormats: 7” EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2024 The godslaying sonic barbarians of Gotthammer return to the stage with their first EP, following a couple of demos and a split with…

Goatscrote – Parasite Plague

Artist: Goatscrote Country: Canada Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With a name that in itself leaves little to the imagination, the “logo” and covers that Canadian Goatscrote serve themselves with make it even easier to imagine what this…

Pillagery – Pillagery [Demo]

Artist: Pillagery Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Pillagery, a new Canadian Black/Death Metal outfit, is presenting its first feat in the form of this 4-track demo tape that (almost) simultaneously saw the darkness of day with…

Warslaughter – Autólisis Coprolitica (Demo Compilation)

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: The Final Return Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of the band’s second album, the Black Noise Committee released ‘Autocombustión’, we are also presented with this tape release that compiles both…

Warslaughter – Autocombustión

Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Black Noise Committee / Headsplit Records / Ixiol Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After two demos and a full-length album in about three years the band decided to throw in the towel…

Opositor – Opositor [EP]

Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Down With The Most High Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Prior this new EP Opositor already released about a handful of releases, including a full-length album, all varying greatly in sound quality, but if one…

Opositor – Primaeval Worships [Compilation]

Artist: Opositor Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Year: 2024 As the title might already suggest, ‘Primaeval Worships’ is a compilation tape of older Opositor tracks that were recorded during the first two years of the band’s existence. To…

Penis – Nuclear Fukk [EP]

Artist: Penis Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 This is the day we have all been waiting for. The day that there would finally be a band that would call themselves Penis. Hallelujah! Well, okay, the band…

Kiloton – Heart [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 ‘Heart’ is the third Kiloton EP that was released in a series of four that further expands the audial onslaught that was set in with last year’s trio of…

Kiloton – Gears [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Because ‘Gears’ is the second Kiloton EP in an impressively short time, I would almost suggest to read the review of the first EP ‘War’ too to at least…

Kiloton – War [EP]

Artist: Kiloton Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 With no less than four EP’s in about two months, one-man force Kiloton, hailing from the Quebec-region of Canada, is following up its death march as started back in…

Prehistoric War Cult – Barbaric Metal

Artist: Prehistoric War Cult Country: Germany Label: Fucking Kill Records / Iconoclasm Conquest / Kellerassel Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 With a good couple of short players in the past few years the German Black/Death…

Primitive Warfare – Extinction Protocol

Artist: Primitive Warfare Country: USA Label: Godz Ov War Productions / Stygian Black Hand Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After a demo and two splits (with Complot! and Bog Body) the duo that is behind Primitive Warfare thought it…

Profanation – Skull Crushing Violence [EP]

Artist: Profanation Country: France Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Profanation is a band that sprung from the minds of a number of French musicians who had previously earned their stripes in bands such…

Vomit Messiah – Demo II

Artist: Vomit Messiah Country: Spain Label: In Pulverem Mortis Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Last autumn, Spain’s Vomit Messiah had already caught my attention with their self-titled demo tape that was brimming with unbridled savage barbarism. Deliciously unoriginal and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Nuclearhammer – Xaos Tenawas – Demo MMXXIII [Demo]

Artist: Nuclearhammer Country: Canada Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2023 Not counting the 90-minute compilation that was released in 2018 (and reissued in 2021 and 2022 on a double cassette release and double CD respectively), ‘Xaos…