Black Hurst – Purgatory Of Flesh Bizarre

Artist: Black Hurst Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions / Nuclear War Now! Productions / Signal Rex Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Black Hurst made their debut with a demo tape in 2023, if we don’t count…

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…

Diavol – Advance Promo MMXXV

Artist: Diavol Country: Romania Label: Self-Releasaed Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Diavol is a relatively new band, hailing from the seemingly fertile Heavy Metal grounds in Bucharest, Romania. It is a duo consisting of Mike Witchspit on drums and on…

Vömitt – Motörized Kataphracts [EP]

Artist: Vömitt Country: Romania Label: Self-Releasaed Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 In the summer of 2024 I first heard from Vömitt, a bunch of motörized scallywags from Romania. Although these lads already released an EP a year prior, I only…

Grieving Mirror – Golden Age Restored [Demo]

Artist: Grieving Mirror Country: USA Label: Neuro Plastic Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 In summer last year, Grieving Mirror debuted with ‘Opulence And Grandeur’, a very interesting demo tape that showed the multifaceted character of this one-man project, led by…

Crévüre – En Rase Campagne [Demo]

Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Whether Sanglant is also involved with other bands or projects, I do not know, but either way, ‘En Rase Campagne’ is the debut demo tape of Crévüre. As one might expect, judging by…

Blood Ecstasy – Age Of Iron [Demo]

Artist: Blood Ecstacy Country: Spain Label: Diabolical Vitriol Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although Spain’s Extreme Metal scene is one of the smallest in Europe relative to the country’s population, there’s always something great to experience. It may be a sad thought that the…

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…

Nachtgnawer – Medieval Devourer [EP]

Artist: Nachtgnawer Country: Finland Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 Nachtgnawer managed to heavily impress me so far, both with their ‘Eternal Curse of the Blood’ Demo and ‘Unholy Vampyric Supremacy’ collaboration EP with Wulfseer. There are…

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…

Fegefeuer – Plageteufel [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Fegefeuer Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: LP Year: 2026 Narbentage Produktionen, the label behind this vinyl reissue of the only recording Fegefeuer ever made, is based in the village of Ralingen, a town situated right on the Luxembourg…

Artavoz – Lashkari Satanis

Artist: Artavoz Country: Georgia Label: Narbentage Produktionen Format: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Although this Black Metal duo, hailing from unknown origins, made their debut back in 2023 with a digital and instrumental single, you’d be forgiven if it slipped your attention. It did mine,…

Nathrath – Demo 1

Artist: Nathrath Country: Spain Label: Narbentage Produktionen Format: Demo Tape Year: 2026 For an old soul like me, it’s still nice to actually hear a demo on cassette tape, especially a first one. In fact, I have nothing against demos being made available digitally,…

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…

Dreadful Relic – Ancient Obsession

Artist: Dreadful Relic Country: Greece / USA Label: Frost & Fire Records / Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Despite the mild controversy surrounding Dreadful Relic, I have considered this band to be a prime Nuclear…

Galghe – Heerscht de Dood nu als Onderkoning?

Artist: Galghe Country: Belgium/The Netherlands Label: Zwaertgevegt Format: LP Year: 2026 On the soon to be released debut full-length ‘Heerscht de Dood nu als Onderkoning?’, Galghe continues on their thematical journey to use their music to tell tales of the…

Aerdryk – Onzuiver

Artist: Aerdryk Country: Belgium Label: Amor Fati Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 When the Aerdryk debut was released in 2022, it was presented with quite some flair. Not only did it form catalog number AFP199 of the renowned…

Dødmoon – Demø MMXXV [Demo]

Artist: Dødmoon Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: Demo tape / Demo CD Year: 2026 With pulsating pace and rasping vocals Dødmoon kicks off its first release ‘Demø MMXXV’. These Finns mean business with Black Metal in the Scandinavian style.…

Vargrav – Dimension: Daemonium

Artist: Vargrav Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Three years have passed since Vargrav released their third record ‘The Nighthold’. A time in which things have changed. For the band, who went from a fearsome…

Lokabrenna – Acephalic Apocrypha [Demo]

Artist: Lokabrenna Country: Iceland Label: Sect Entropy Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 After the release of ‘Flesh Cathedral’ in 2012, a real underground hype arose around Svartidauði, which marked the start of the Icelandic Black Metal “boom” and the hipsster…

Nebelfaust – Die Krähenfüße des Winters

Artist: Nebelfaust Country: Germany Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 After leaving a strong first impression with the debut album ‘Das kalte Eisen des Mondes’, Nebelfaust returns in early 2026 with ‘Die Krähenfüße des Winters’. Sole member Zinkruwahn offers us…

Verdigris / Crève-Gorge – MMXXVI Split Tape

Artist: Verdigris / Crève-Gorge Country: France Label: Starless Industries Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 Although I am familiar with Veins Like Vines, I had missed the existence of this project by Septembre. About a year ago, he released his debut…

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…

Moospirscher / Grundhyrde – Split

Artist: Moospirscher / Grundhyrde Country: Germany / USA Label: NIthstang Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 What we have here is a split tape that is quite a bit out of the ordinary. Grundhyrde is one of the many musical…

Akhoth – Storm Of Pagan Fury [Demo]

Artist: Akhoth Country: Australia Label: Sorcery Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 ‘Storm Of Pagan Fury’, the latest demo from Australian band Akhoth, sounds as if time has stood still. In fact, everything here exudes nostalgia. Not just the music,…

Kurjuus – Takaisin Alkukantaisuuteen

Artist: Kurjuus Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 This Finnish one-man Black Metal band was founded around 2017, but it took four years before the first demo could be released. After that, however, there was no stopping him.…

Torpefied Bloodlust – Torpefied Bloodlust

Artist: Torpefied Bloodlust Country: USA Label: Perverse Homage Formats: Demo CDr Year: 2026 After recording a bunch of demos around the 2020s, only a small portion of which were actually distributed, things went eerily quiet around Torpefied Bloodlust. It’s therefore…

Infernal Mantle – Satanic Blood Burns True

Artist: Infernal Mantle Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 In the spring of 2025, I pored over the debut demo by Infernal Mantle, a one-man Black Metal band from the United Kingdom. Although my final verdict was…

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…

Nefarious Scorn – Warriorization Of The Black Pentagram

Artist: Nefarious Scorn Country: Canada Label: Pain Chain Productions Formats: CD Year: 2025 The Canadian Raw Black Metal act Nefarious Scorn is born out of the minds of two musicians who are also active in some other bands and projects, together forming quite an…

Funeral Fire – Demo 3 [Re-Release]

Artist: Funeral Fire Country: Japan Label: Rat Covenant Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 In the summer of last year, Funeral Fire’s debut demo was reissued through the German label Menscheinfeind Propaganda and in the waning moments of 2025 the same honour befell the band’s last…

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…

Terrorshroud – Order Of Absolute Terror [Demo]

Artist: Terrorshroud Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Terrorshroud is a new Black/Death Metal band rising from the ever-fertile Greek underground scene. But while the individual band members only go by their initials and with blurred-out photos, it is at least known…

Mütiilation – Pandemonium Of Egregores

Artist: Mütiilation Country: France Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Mütiilation may never have been a truly controversial band, but Meyhna’ch has never made a secret of his misanthropy. Whether that is part of…

Forbidden Temple – Draculhearsals [Demo]

Artist: Forbidden Temple Country: Belgium Label: Gramschap Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Just as I was late reviewing ‘In The Rotting Grave’, I am also a little late covering this rehearsal tape that followed it. But although I would prefer…

Gravewürm – Along The Path Of Darkness We March

Artist: Gravewürm Country: USA Label: Funeral Empire Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 People are quick to mention Nunslaughter when it comes to bands that have been stoically grinding away for decades, never managing to achieve a major breakthrough but at…

Chevallier Skrog – Stíny Domoviny

Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2026 Fans of Chevallier Skrog usually don’t have to wait long for new material. Sometimes it seems like things are quiet around this project for a little while,…

Bluthammer / Vider – Wolfprotocol [Split 12”LP]

Artist: Bluthammer / Vider Country: Germany / Sweden Label: WolfKult Religion Formats: Split 12” LP Year: 2026 Relentless, menacing, uncompromising. Just some words that come to mind when playing this split between Bluthammer and Vider. Joined by their same home…