Chevallier Skrog / Åndutsyn – Split

Artist: Chevallier Skrog / Åndutsyn Country: Czechia / USA Label: Nithstang Productions Formats: Split Cassette Year: 2025 Here we have another split release from the ever-prolific MBN (also in Arzhaabat, Ärschlings, Blau Blut, CEP and a handful more) with his…

Befouled By Flies / Drekavac – Split LP

Artist: Befouled By Flies / Drekavac Country: USA Label: Ixiol Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2025 Befouled By Flies might be a name that only rings a bell with real fanatics of Raw Black Metal and Black So, if you,…

Urn – Demon Steel

Artist: Urn Country: Finland Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 One of the bands relentlessly kept in the dark shadows of the Finnish Extreme Metal underground is definitely Urn. A combination of wrong choices,…

Gryla – The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass

Artist: Gryla Country: Norway Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Gryla is the brainchild and solo project of Torbjørn Kirby Torbo, a young Norwegian gentleman that is also active in Hevn III, Nedgravd and Ormpest. In…

Doodswens – Het Nieuwe Licht

Artist: Doodswens Country: The Netherlands Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Although ‘Het Nieuwe Licht’ was already released digitally on YouTube over a year ago, the band only released a physical edition of this 4-track live set, that was recorded in February 2024,…

Clactonian – Everlasting Paleolithic [Demo]

Artist: Clactonian Country: Italy Label: Prehistoric Sounds Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 ‘Dea Madre’ was the short debut demo of this Italian Black/Death Metal band and displayed the steps of a decent, yet not completely convincing band. Their aim was…

Tumba – Armagedón [Demo]

Artist: Tumba Country: Colombia Label: Destruktion Records / Hell Force Records / Inframetal Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Just a few months prior to the release of the band’s debut album ‘Blasfémico Resplandor’, Tumba also released a 4-track demo…

Thlipsis (Θλίψις) – Servants Of Apathy [EP]

Artist: Thlipsis (Θλίψις) Country: Greece Label: Fucking Your Creation Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2025 Θλίψις’s previous outing, ‘Dawn Of Defiance’, from 2023 was quite an interesting record that combined some classic Black Metal with the more typical Greek Black…

Satanic Black Blood – Sulphuric Demonomancy [Demo]

Artist: Satanic Black Blood Country: Germany Label: De Pankraker Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 From the German virtuous society of punks-gone-metal, this new band arises. Satanic Black Blood are a duo that’s also active in bands such as Secret…

Warloghe – Logos of All-that-ends

Artist: Warloghe Country: Finland Label: Northern Heritage Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Despite its release in 2021, the preceding Warloghe album ‘Three Angled Void’ was originally written between 2003 and 2007. Much closer to the recordings of the band’s first…

Combat Shrine – Extermination Initiation [Demo]

Artist: Combat Shrine Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 The all-knowing Metal-Archives filed Combat Shrine under “Grindcore”. Although that is not entirely out of touch with reality, you’re doing this Finnish band short quite a bit. And…

Teitanblood – From The Visceral Abyss

Artist: Teitanblood Country: Spain Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With especially the band’s first two albums, Teitanblood rose to true underground fame. Their sense for combining utter musical barbarity and impeccable song writing as well…

Iätön – Portit Pohjolan

Artist: Iätön Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After two highly enjoyable demos released on Altare Productions and Korpituli Records respectively, it is now time for the debut of Finnish Black Metalers Iätön. For that…

Warmoon Lord – Sacrosanct Demonopathy

Artist: Warmoon Lord Country: Finland Label: Werewolf Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 While debut album ‘Burning Banners of the Funereal War’ certainly gained some traction in the underground, it was arguably their sophomore record ‘Battlespells’…

Bestial Rites – El Abismo [Demo]

Artist: Bestial Rites Country: Peru Label: Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 From Peru comes Bestial Rites, a band that has been around for over a decade but only now releases their first feat. Within its ranks we can…

Chevallier Skrog – Invisible, Immortal

Artist: Chevallier Skrog Country: Czechia Label: Cosmic Cause Productions Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Who has been reading these pages regularly might have seen the name of Chevallier Skrog pass by more than once. MBN, who is also known for projects…

Daedric Chamber – Aurbis Unending [EP]

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Over the past few years, I have learned a thing or two about video games that I have never even seen in my entire life. There is a…

Chaos Insignia – Mechatronic Carnation [EP]

Artist: Chaos Insignia Country: Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 Probably prompted by the current popularity of the virtuous Antichrist Siege Machine, who have a song titled Chaos Insignia, these Romanians enter the field of chaotic Black/Death Metal…

Whipstriker – Cry Of Extinction

Artist: Whipstriker Country: Brazil Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Although Whipstriker feels like they are around since forever, ‘Cry Of Extinction’ is only the band’s fifth full-length album. Their tendency to bombard…

Inferior – Wrath

Artist: Inferior Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 Even without having a clue who is exactly behind the band, Inferior isn’t making a secret of their musical direction. The cover art for ‘Wrath’ already gives away a bit,…

Matru-Zebu – Blood Cries with Sorrow [Demo]

Artist: Matru-zebu Country: Finland Label: Ancien Culte Formats: Demo tape Year: 2025 Ancien Culte presents the debut demo tape of Matru-Zebu, what appears to be a new band from Finland. Spawned in the illustrious Elemental Cavern in Finland, the entities…

Daedric Chamber – The Bleak Veil Endures

Artist: Daedric Chamber Country: USA Label: Grime Stone Records / Nightshade Productions Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although ‘The Bleak Veil Endures’ is a bit older, being released on CD some half year ago, it is still very…

Corrosives – Wasteland [Demo]

Artist: Corrosives Country: Canada/USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 How this trio came together is something that you should ask them, but regardless of how their individual paths crossed, this Canadian/American collective surely knows how to make some…

Septicflesh – Amphibians [EP]

Artist: Septicflesh Country: Greece Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2025 In the running up to Septicflesh’s new album, that should appear somewhere in the next couple of months, the Greek masters of bombastic metal presents us with an…

Rotten Moon – Wasteland Polarity

Artist: Rotten Moon Country: Finland Label: Jems Label Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 By no means Finland’s Rotten Moon has ever been a band that was an easy listen or close to a quick Black Metal fix. Instead Antti “Heinous…

Robust – Robust

Artist: Robust Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 This one came out of nowhere. No previous mention, no appearance on a Terratur Compendium. Here is Robust, from the fires of Nidaros, with their full-length debut.…

Enevelde – Pandemonium

Artist: Enevelde Country: Norway Label: Terratur Possessions / Cloven Hoof Brewing & Releasing Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 “Night breaks open like a wound bleeding anew Blow after blow raging flames You call me I dream…

The Chamberlain – Draconian Magick

Artist: The Chamberlain Country: Finland Label: Out of the Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 ‘Dominus Noctis’ was a pretty decent first release for Finnish Black Metal outfit The Chamberlain, taking their experience in other bands into a symphonic Black Metal…

Norrhem – Aurinko Ja Teräs

Artist: Norrhem Country: Finland Label: Out of the Dungeon Formats: CD Year: 2025 Norrhem’s musical journey has taken them through quite a development, starting from rawer beginnings to a sound that became increasingly more epic in atmosphere. With ‘Aurinko Ja…

Lucifer’s Child – The Illuminant

Artist: Lucifer’s Child Country: Greece Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Reviewing music is, just as listening to music, by definition about opinions and overall subjectivity. Although you might try to be as objective…

Black Fullmoon – Antithesis of the Light [Demo]

Artist: Black Fullmoon Country: Puerto Rico Label: Mamzer Records / Wolfkult Religion Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025   Pure Les Légions Noires worship: the Puerto Rican Black Metal band Black Fullmoon clearly didn’t hide their intentions for their debut demo.…

Pyromancer – Absolute Dominion By Fire

Artist: Pyromancer Country: USA Label: Adirondack Black Mass Formats: Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Demo MMXV’, Pyromancer’s debut demo tape from (you guessed it) 2015 it was awkwardly quiet around the band for about a…

Blodoffer – Hostis Mundi [Demo]

Artist: Blodoffer Country: Poland Label: Under The Sign Of Garazel Productions / Zombi Danz Records Formats: 12″ EP / Demo Tape Year: 2024 Even if you have no idea what to expect from a debut demo from an anonymous Polish…

Great Tribulation – Latter Realities

Artist: Great Tribulation Country: Spain / USA Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After the 1-track demo/promo from early January this year, the Spanish/American trio that together makes up Great Tribulation is back already with their debut album.…

HellAvenger – The Primordial Fire

Artist: HellAvenger Country: Chile Label: Death Division Rituals / Destruktion Records / Dynamite Records / El Abismo / Holycaust Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 ‘The Primordial Fire’, the debut full-length of this Santiago, Chile based…

Necrochakal – Golgothian Orgies Of Bestial Lust

Artist: Necrochakal Country: Greece Label: Floga Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Since the band’s formation some 12 years ago, Necrochakal from Athens, Greece, has tormented the ears of followers of the Extreme Metal underground. Yet they have done so by…

Vidarr – Bäume Unter Dem Mond Demo

Artist: Vidarr Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 By the look at the grainy black/white artwork and this specific logo you might judge that this is yet another band of Ildjarn-worship. And, in a certain way you wouldn’t be…

Ingwald – Demo 1

Artist: Ingwald Country: Russia Label: Jems Label Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Ingwald is one of the musical vessels of Waldsarg, the person who is also behind Vidarr, with which he releases his debut demo, simply titled ‘Demo 1’, through the USA-based…

Kêres – Skryer of the Lighthouse

Artist: Kêres Country: Finland Label: Final Agony / Vermines Pestifera Formats: LP Year: 2025 Kêres fans rejoice! One year after the last sign of life, Atvar returns. ‘Skryer of the Lighthouse’ is the latest full-length, featuring ten songs spread over…

Profanatica – Wreathed In Dead Angels [EP]

Artist: Profanatica Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 Phrases like “band X requires no further introduction” are used all the time. In most cases that is highly debatable, at least in terms…