Horns Of Abomination – Horns Of Abomination [Demo]

Artist: Horns Of Abomination Country: USA Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 The cover art of this debut demo of Horns Of Abomination might not necessarily look evil, but musically this new band definitely has something to offer for those…

Vastago – Influencias Adversas De Un Sol Adyacente

Artist: Vastago Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 After two EP’s, also compiled on a CDr released by an Argentinean label specialised in the format, the Spanish Vastago felt ready for the next step and serves us with their very…

Necro Blade – Dim The Light Of Faith [Demo]

Artist: Necro Blade Country: USA Label: Goat Throne Records Formats: Demo CD Year: 2026 Admittedly, I missed this band’s debut demo from 2024, also released by Goat Throne Records, but I ran into this one and the combination of the…

Bestial Catacombs – Bestial Endsieg [EP]

Artist: Bestial Catacombs Country: Thailand Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 If the word ‘bestial’ features in both your band name and the title of your debut EP, it’s not particularly difficult to guess what musical direction this Thai…

Goatkraft – Barbed Wire Doctrine [EP]

Artist: Goatkraft Country: Norway Label: Deathrune Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 I said it before, not everything from Norway sounds like Borknagar, Arcturus or Ulver. Not quite. With ‘Barbed Wire Doctrine’, Goatkraft’s latest offering and follow-up to 2023’s ‘Prophet…

Beast Majesty – Ungodly Revenge [EP]

Artist: Beast Majesty Country: Peru Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Beast Majesty might be a new band in the Extreme Metal scene, but the only person behind it is far from a newcomer. The wild child helming this…

Blood Serpent – Rehearsal MMXXVI [Demo]

Artist: Blood Serpent Country: Vietnam Label: House Of Ygra Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 After a good debut album back in 2023 and an enjoyable split CD with Iron Bludgeon in 2025, both released by the enigmatic House Of Ygra label, the Vietnamese noise mongers…

Division 52 – Total War [EP]

Artist: Division 52 Country: Germany Label: Rat Covenant / Southern Soundclash Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 This is an EP I’ve been looking forward to for a while. ‘Total War’ is the debut release from the German duo who perform…

Devil’s Emissary – Auribus Teneo Lupum [EP]

Artist: Devil’s Emissary Country: Poland Label: Putrid Cult Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 With two albums in 2013 and 2014, ‘Malignant Invocation’ (Under The Sign Of Garazel Productions) and ‘Evangelic Decimations’ (through the same label) respectively, and the ‘Demiurge Asceticism’-…

Antichrist Siege Machine – Promo MMXXVI

Artist: Antichrist Siege Machine Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Within the Bestial Black/Death Metal genre, few bands are currently as popular as the American group Antichrist Siege Machine. Although the band has been around for over…

Goatoimpurity – Taog Taog Taog!

Artist: Goatoimpurity Country: Chile Label: Acta Nefanda Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 It might be fair to say that even people who enjoyed Chilean Black/Death Metal band Goatoimpurity around the time their full-length album came out might have forgotten about them. This trio released…

Hexenaltar – Descending Curse

Artist: Hexenaltar Country: Poland Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Founded in 2021, the Polish band known as Hexenaltar got off to a flying start. This resulted in two EPs and a…

Diabolical Vengeance – Conquer The Temples [Demo]

Artist: Diabolical Vengeance Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 I don’t know who lies behind the pseudonyms Pyromaniak and Decimator, but together they form the new Finnish duo that, under the name Diabolical Vengeance, is making its mark on the slowly…

Sura’sura – Warfare Metal [EP]

Artist: Sura’sura Country: Sri Lianka Label: විරූපි Propaganda Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 Although ‘Warfare Metal’ is only the first offering of Sura’sura from Sri Lanka, the band was already formed back in 2022. Not really sure what kept them…

Necromorbid – Ceremonial Demonslaught

Artist: Necromorbid Country: Italy Label: Godz Ov War Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 The Italian band Necromorbid has never been one to work hard and churn out releases at a rapid pace. You could say…

Evokthum – Seven Graves Of Messiah

Artist: Evokthum Country: Brazil Label: Self-Released Formats: Digitaal Year: 2026 When I reviewed Evokthum’s debut demo, ‘Majesty Blood Vomiter’, back on the first day of 2025 it was still a one-man operation. But now, several releases on, Evokthum has become a duo.…

Ignobleth – Manor Of Primitive Anticreation

Artist: Ignobleth Country: Italy Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 If you make your debut with a digital single titled ‘Bestial Witchery’, you leave no doubt as to where your musical ambitions lie. These were realised…

In Aeternum – …Of Death And Fire

Artist: In Aeternum Country: Sweden Label: Soulseller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 In the wake of the greats of the genre such as Sacramentum, Dawn, Naglfar, Necrophobic and, above all, Dissection, countless other bands set sail on the…

Bras d’Honneur – Hate Speech

Artist: Bras d’Honneur Country: Ukraine Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 There’s no end in sight to Roman Saenko’s creative output; while over the past few years we’ve already been treated to a number of new releases…

Barbaric Oath – Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance [EP]

Artist: Barbaric Oath Country: Germany Label: Caligari Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 Honestly, I had missed the ‘Attack Attack Attack!’-demo tape from 2024, even though it was released by the Dutch label Night Terrors Records. After…

Black Cum – X – Lussuria Profana Desiderio Diabolico

Artist: Black Cum Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 With Black Cum, Niko “Behemoth” Thomasson (known for his work in and relation with such acts as Cursed Penetrator, Aske, Necro Ritus, Sadistic Evil and Azazel) explores the most foul regions…

Temple – Sacrificed Ego [Demo]

Artist: Temple Country: Germany Label: Ancient Spirit Terror Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 After a self-released and self-titled promo tape in 2025, Temple now returns with a proper demo tape, released under the banner of Ancient Spirit Terror. These Germans…

DET – Destructive Elite Terror

Artist: DET Country: Finland Label: Cruel Gates Records / Dying Victims Productions / Headsplit Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 While DET is not quite a very appealing name for a band, it stands for “Destructive…

Morbosatan – Morbo, Coca, Satán

Artist: Morbosatan Country: Peru Label: Ablaze Productions / Fallen Temple / Goat Eyaculation Records / Iconoclasm Conquest / Southern Soundclash Records Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 ‘Morbo, Coca, Satán’, Morbosatan’s third full-length album, was originally released about a…

Necroblasphemer – Shadow Of Nowhere

Artist: Necroblasphemer Country: Italy Label: Post Mortem Nihil Est Prod. Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Back in 2023 the Black/Death Metal band Necroblasphemer, hailing from the Emilio-Romagna region in Italy, debuted with a demo called ‘Smell Of Death’. Although the…

Triumph – Opposing Equality

Artist: Triumph Country: USA Label: Black Plague Records / Pagan Fury Records Format: CD Year: 2026 Slowly but surely Evan “Immolator” Richardson is building quite a name for himself in the realm of Bestial Black/Death Metal. While not being specifically…

Szmrdt – Best Of [Demo]

Artist: Szmrdt Country: Czechia Label: Filth Junkies Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 It will come as no surprise that, even more than the artwork and the logo, it was the title of this debut demo tape that caught my…

Abhorvm – First Exhvmations [EP]

Artist: Abhorvm Country: Scotland Label: Death Revelations Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2026 Abhorvm is the newest addition to the ranks of Death Revelations, a label that has been churning out stellar underground releases lately by Triumphal Vengeance, Hæksenhamer and Sacris…

Mughtasib – Invictus [Demo]

Artist: Mughtasib Country: Spain Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 This second demo tape by Mexican one-man band Mughtasib, which translates to “Violator”, is simply called ‘Invictus’ and continues the path chosen about two years ago when…

Possession – The Mother of Darkness

Artist: Possession Country: Belgium Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Some ten years ago, Possession was the top focus of the Belgian extreme Metal world. Obviously, the country has produced some fine Black Metal over the…

Ejecutor – Medium… La Daga De La Iniciación

Artist: Ejecutor Country: Chile Label: Chaos Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 Although Ejecutor was already founded back in 1999 and seen their name pop up every now and then, I honestly never really paid any real attention to them. And…

Bloodaxe Holocaust – Bloodaxe Holocaust [Demo]

Artist: Bloodaxe Holocaust Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Bloodaxe Holocaust is the brainchild of Jake Davids and is at the helm all by himself. Whether this means the end of Sorrow’s Maw, that debuted with…

Bloody Vengeance – Stuka Deathstrike [EP]

Artist: Bloody Vengeance Country: USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Format: 12″ EP Year: 2026 Although the band has been around for about fifteen years, it is only in the last few years that Bloody Vengeance has started to gain traction. Perhaps this is…

Zweihander – Genocidal Siege Of Thorn Knights [EP]

Artist: Zweihander Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 After a demo and two digital singles (both actually more or less the same song in a different version), all released in 2025, Zweihander quickly strikes again with a…

Lysergic – Towering Altars Of Misanthropy [EP]

Artist: Lysergic Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 In the final moments of 2023, Canadian band Lysergic released a beastly album entitled ‘Dimethyltryptikon’. Even with a playing time of just under half an hour, it was actually an…

Incandescence – Hors Temps

Artist: Incandescence Country: Canada Label: Profound Lore Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Although ‘Hors Temps’ is best translated to ‘Timeless’, the music of Incandescence is definitely not of that ilk. At least, in the sense that it has…

Bestial Possession – Sepulchral Rites [EP]

Artist: Bestial Possession Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Despite being around for over twenty-five years, a few months ago I covered the Peruvian band Bestial Possession for the first time. But what we have here though,…

Cadaveric Messiah – Entombed In Yahannam

Artist: Cadaveric Messiah Country: Colombia Label: Entropy Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 In 2024 this Colombian band debuted with a 2-track 7” EP ‘Into The Putrid Fumes Of The Abyss’, which offered us a thunderous and thoroughly regressive piece…