Sol Sistere – Adrift From Reason [EP]

Artist: Sol Sistere Country: Chile Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Personally I ran into Sol Sistere when I randomly picked up the first two albums from one of the many Hammerheart Records sales, together I didn’t pay more…

Tulus – Morbid Desires

Artist: Tulus Country: Norway Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 Oh dear, a new Tulus album. ‘Morbid Desires’ is the Norwegian’s eighth instalment and, frankly, it is quite hard to pinpoint the…

Mesnada – Forgotten Pathway Of Dark Ages [EP]

Artist: Mesnada Country: Spain Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2026 Admittedly, I had missed Mesnada’s untitled debut demo that was released earlier this year, as well as the two short releases that were put out in 2025 under the…

Last Rites – Last Rites [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Last Rites Country: Germany Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Depending on how you look at this release, you could call it either a compilation tape or a re-release of a demo. But regardless of how you choose…

Babylonian War Chant – Chaldean Witchcraft

Artist: Babylonian War Chant Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2026 This monochromatic cover with the large logo is quite a departure from Babylonian War Chant’s earlier output. All previous releases featured a cover depicting Assyrian, Mesopotamian or Babylonian engravings or scenes,…

Teñvalded – Teñvalded [Demo]

Artist: Teñvalded Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Teñvalded debuted last April with a self-titled demo tape that contains a mix of both Dark Ambient and Dungeon Synth. Although it leaned more towards the latter and therefore…

Talvi – Talvi [Demo]

Artist: Talvi Country: Finland Label: Forest Gloom Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 From Finnish, “Talvi” translates to “Winter”, a very befitting name for a band from Finland, a country known for its harsh winter. Therefore it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there’s two bands…

Nathrath / CelticHammer – Décadas De Represión [Split Tape]

Artist: Nathrath / CelticHammer Country: Spain Label: Bundushathûr Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2026 ‘Décadas De Represión’ is a short split tape that brings together Nathrath and CelticHammer, two bands from the Gallaecia Kommando, a circle of bands from the Galicia region in…

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…

Crévüre – Le Dernier Messie [Demo]

Artist: Crévüre Country: France Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 With ‘Le Dernier Messie’, the French one-man band Crévüre has already released its third demo tape within the relatively short span of four months. Whilst Crévüre’s Raw Black Metal may not be of the…

Amputorium – Demo 2026

Artist: Amputorium Country: Belgium Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although nothing official has yet been announced about Amputorium, you don’t need to be a genius to piece things together regarding this new band. Not only…

Kūka’ilimoku – Aia I Ka ‘Ōpua Ke Ola

Artist: Kūkāʻilimoku Country: USA Label: Goatowarex / Nithstang Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2026 Over the past years, basically since this solo-project’s inception in 2019, Kūka’ilimoku has been attracting attention from underground Black Metal fans from various directions.…

Black Cilice – Votive Fire

Artist: Black Cilice Country: Portugal Label: Altare Productions / Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 When Black Cilice hit the underground scene with their first two albums in the first half of the 10s,…

Whitemoon – Trucizna Dla Świata [EP]

Artist: Whitemoon Country: Poland Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2026 With Whitemoon, we have yet another impressively good band from the equally impressive Polish Black Metal scene. Although it is not entirely clear to…

Occult Mountain – Wrath Of The Wolf Spirit [EP]

Artist: Occult Mountain Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2026 Fallen Warrior, the only musician behind Occult Mountain, is one of such people who seem to have more hours in a day and more days in a week…

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…

Bewitched – Diabolical Death Mass

Artist: Bewitched Country: Sweden Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2026 In the mid-90s, Osmose Productions was arguably the leading force when it came to offering quality releases and setting trends within the realm of…

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…

Black Rock – Last Damnation

Artist: Black Rock Country: Finland Label: Planet Of Judgement Records Formats: CD Year: 2026 Behind this band, with the rather uninspiring name Black Rock, lies a duo who, in this line-up, have been regularly unleashing their primitive-style Black Metal upon the world since 2012. Although…

Ashes – Into the Woodlands

Artist: Ashes Country: Poland Label: Malignant Voices Formats: CD Year: 2026 Earlier in the year, Ashes presented their third album. Titled ‘Into the Woodlands’, it marked yet again a change in vocalist. After Vann sang on the eponymous debut album…

Enevelde / Gjendød – Elegier fra Avgrunnen

Artist: Enevelde / Gjendød Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Some years ago, Terratur Possessions used to frequently release splits. But since the last one (between Whoredom Rife and Taake) dated from 2020 it seemed…

AntiHuman Industries – Accelerated Death Impulse

Artist: AntiHuman Industries Country: Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Behind the moniker of AntiHuman Industries is a line-up that would make the average adorer of the Finnish Black Metal scene salivate. On vocals we find…

Morgal – The Seventh Circle

Artist: Morgal Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2026 I thoroughly enjoyed the over the top ferocity and speed on Morgal’s ‘Nightmare Lord’, the band’s debut full-length released in 2021 on Werewolf Records.…

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’-…

Mordberg – Winter Solitude [EP]

Artist: Mordberg Country: Germany Label: Sturmglanz Black Metal Manufaktur Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2026 As I write this, the temperature is almost at 30 degrees, and I’m trying to do as little as possible and keep the…

Stygian Storm – Countless Dawns Of Blood And Iron

Artist: Stygian Storm Country: Spain Label: Medieval Prophecy Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Although Stygian Storm’s debut album was preceded by a demo tape released in the fall of 2023, it was primarily ‘The Flame Of Rebellion Never Dies’, released in the summer…

Geheimnisvoll – Pale Triumph Of The Hidden Flame

Artist: Geheimnisvoll Country: USA Label: Obscurant Visions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Over the course of just a few years, Geheimnisvoll has emerged as one of the most celebrated Black Metal bands on the North American continent. Although ‘Pale…

Countess – The End Of Time

Artist: Countess Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2026 For fans of straightforward Black Metal with a nod to the past and a thick, heavy Pagan vibe, Countess is a solid fixture in their lives. For years now,…

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…

Blood Spirit – Granite Eternity

Artist: Blood Spirit Country: Australia Label: Dark Adversary Formats: CD Year: 2026 Just a couple of weeks after the release of the ‘Zeal For Blood’ demo tape, this Australian band is back again to present their debut full-length album. Composed…

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…

Black Vomit 666 – Satanic Speed Metal [EP]

Artist: Black Vomit 666 Country: Colombia Label: Black Legion Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2026 Only about two months after Black Vomit 666’s latest full-length album, the band already presents something new to sink your teeth in: a new EP released on CD…

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…

Gaalvan – Beastial Serpent Of The South [Demo]

Artist: Gaalvan Country: Germany Label: Crimson Reign Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 In the introduction part of my review of ‘Geschworener Hass’, the previous demo of Gaalvan, I already cited that many one-man Black Metal bands do not beat…

Veitsi – Druhtinaz [Demo]

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Anyone who regularly visits these pages has likely come across Veitsi before. Not counting the other projects and bands associated with Veitsi, this is already the seventh time we’ve dedicated a few…

Nachtheem – Waan van de Leegte

Artist: Nachtheem Country: The Netherlands Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Comparisons were undeniable when Nachtheem released their debut EP ‘Nacht, Zij met Ons…’ in 2024. The album felt like a spiritual follow-up to ‘Venter på Stormene’…

Doedsvangr – Within The Flesh

Artist: Doedsvangr Country: Norway / Finland / France Label: Soulseller Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2026 Gehenna, Mayhem, Sargeist, Horna, Tsjuder, Nordjevel and Aosoth: it’s just a fraction of the impressive resume of bands that the members of Doedsvangr…

Suicidal Winds – In the Fire 666

Artist: Suicidal Winds Country: Sweden Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: CD Year: 2025 If you’re a fan of Suicidal Winds you must have some patience. Sure, the band’s early years were relatively prolific, racking up four demos, four full-lengths and a…

Night’s Embrace – Rehearsal 2026 [Demo]

Artist: Night’s Embrace Country: France Label: Starless Industries Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2026 Although L.S., also known as Lila Starless, has been active in countless bands and projects, she has only appeared on these pages once before. That was with…