Kalmankantaja – Musta Aurinko

Artist: Kalmankantaja Country: Finland Label: Wolfspell Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 While the band has been active on other fronts, 2025 in comparison seems like a rather modest year for Kalmankantaja in terms of new albums. Only two albums were…

Summoning Hellgates – Spear Of Conquest [EP]

Artist: Summoning Hellgates Country: Spain Label: Osmose Productions Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2025 ‘Spear Of Conquest’ is the debut EP of a Spanish duo that presents itself as Summoning Hellgates. While one of the…

Sardonic Order – Autumn Rehearsal 2025

Artist: Sardonic Order Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although Sardonic Order is a brand new Black Metal band with this specific release being their debut, the exact title of this 2-track demo is quite telling. This…

Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré – Split Tape

Artist: Vlätre / Vräztrébrëzkré Country: USA Label: Cranial Blast Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 With one name even harder to pronounce than the other, this is definitely a split tape for enthusiasts. Which enthusiasts, you may ask. But those who…

Par-Delà Le Miroir – Le Temps Fera Son Œuvre

Artist: Par-Delà Le Miroir Country: France Label: Hérésie Nocturne Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2025 After a 20-minute demo tape at the very end of last year called ‘Les adieux de l’âme’, this one-man Raw Black Metal project now returns with…

Infernal Presence – Fiery Paths [EP]

Artist: Infernal Presence Country: Germany Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD Year: 2025 Infernal Presence is a new Black Metal band from Germany that were picked right up by Darkness Shall Rise Productions. The duo have…

Goathammered – Warghost Worship [Demo]

Artist: Goathammered Country: Denmark Label: Blasphemic Siege Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 During my daily rounds through the deeper regions of the internet, searching for new demos to sink my teeth into, I found not one, but two new…

Schizophrenic Warfare – Sperma [Demo]

Artist: Schizophrenic Warfare Country: Denmark Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Just about everything about this first achievement by Schizophrenic Warfare exudes fresh finesse and thoughtful sophistication. Or not. Maybe not… True connoisseurs of the depraved art of the…

Depredation Netra – Third Eye Predation [Demo]

Artist: Depredation Netra Country: India Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Depredation Netra is a new band out of India. Given the insane size of the country’s population, there is hardly any metal scene to speak of, and for that reason…

Sabulturath – Demo MMXXV

Artist:Sabulturath Country: Japan Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 It’s perhaps not such a crazy assumption that the name of this band sounds a bit like that annoying drunk guy at the concert who keeps shouting in your ear that he thinks “Sepultura”…

Dark Divination – Liitto Hengen ja Veren

Artist: Dark Divination Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Earlier in 2025 Dark Divination made their first appearance on Signal Rex with the release of the ‘Unforgotten’. With that EP, the band consisting of sole…

Chalice Of Eden – The Essence Of Imperial Blood [Demo]

Artist: Chalice Of Eden Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 In no time at all, the musician behind Occult Mountain and Chalice Of Eden has released an impressive number of demos, sometimes with only a few days in between. That is generally…

Traum – Diminishment In Perpetuum [Demo]

Artist: Traum Country: USA Label: Torture Palace Productions Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Honestly, I missed this project’s first offering, ‘Demo 2024’, but I would like to make amends by spending a few words on this follow-up, which was recently released…

Hautaveri – Hänen Kylmän Myrskynsä Airut [Demo]

Artist: Hautaveri Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Although it is yet unclear who’s behind this new solo-project, but it is highly unlikely that Hautaveri is this musician’s first attempt of making music. It might not be the…

Sons Of Hades – Tombs Of The Blind Dead

Artist: Sons Of Hades Country: Greece Label: Floga Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Imagine yourself being extremely hungry and you run into the nearest Domino’s or New York Pizza. But you suffer from severe indecisiveness,…

Necrobaptism – Necrobaptism [Demo]

Artist: Necrobaptism Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 A few weeks ago I ran into this debut demo by a Greek duo that goes under the name of Necrobaptism. They apparently got together earlier this year and…

Sad – Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening

Artist: Sad Country: Greece Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 This year marks the twentieth anniversary for Sad, and what better way to celebrate that than with a brand new album. But while ‘Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening’…

Malhkebre – To Those Who Forged Us [7″ EP]

Artist: Malhkebre Country: France Label: Battlesk’rs Productions Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2025 French Black Metal has always been something that intrigued me. While there’s obviously also been some stuff that was fairly easy to digest like Anorexia Nervosa or the…

Astral Gauze – A Fire As Alien As Hostile…

Artist: Astral Gauze Country: USA Label: Wergild Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2025 Astral Gauze is a new project consisting of two musicians with lavish résumés that include current and previous experience with such bands as Ebony Pendant, Iron…

Death Yell – Demons Of Lust

Artist: Death Yell Country: Chile Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape CD Year: 2025 If you’re talking about old Latin American Extreme Metal, it is categorically impossible to skip Death Yell. For the majority of the people…

Redenção Pelas Chamas – Redenção Pelas Chamas

Artist: Redenção Pelas Chamas Country: Portugal Label: Purity Through Fire Formats: CD Year: 2025 It’s not really the first time I’ve expressed my not always mild aversion to overly smooth-and-simple or downright interchangeable Black Metal. Some musicians are just cranking…

Malakhim – And In Our Hearts The Devil Sings

Artist: Malakhim Country: Sweden Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 With two demos and ‘Theion’, their debut album, released in the timespan between 2017 and 2021, Malakhim from Sweden has been working hard to establish their…

White Baroness – War Chariots

Artist: White Baroness Country: Finland Label: Primitive Reaction Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 What do you get when members of Morgal, Sigon and Devil Moon get together in the same room? No doubt a deranged Heavy…

Cursed Penetrator – Invocation

Artist: Cursed Penetrator Country: Finland Label: Unpure Records Format: CD Year: 2025 After two demos, of which the first one was reissued as part of a split CD with Black Offal Messiah, ‘Invocation’ marks the band’s further deepening of the…

Krolok – Path To The Haunted Ruins

Artist: Krolok Country: Slovakia Label: Osmose Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 The anticipating buzz of the crowd, the rising sound of the timpani and horns: there is no doubt that ‘Path To The Haunted Ruins’ is not in…

Atonement – Ripping Death [Demo]

Artist: Atonement Country: Sweden Label: Dying Victims Productions Format: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Two years ago the Swedish Black/Thrash Metal band Atonement surprised with their debut album ‘Sadistic Invaders’ released through Dying Victims Productions. Well, “surprised”, not so much with…

Arjen – Konce Iznad Mene đavo Drži [Compilation]

Artist: Arjen Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina Label: Self-released Formats: Digital Year: 2025 While Izrod released a record and an EP fairly recently and new material by Obskuritatem and Sulphuric Night is supposed to be imminent, the last few years have…

Sexófago – Sexo, Drogas, Muertes

Artist: Sexófago Country: Australia Label: Sounds From The Gallows Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 Although the band got off to a flying start with no fewer than three demo tapes in their debut year, 2012, things then went completely quiet from there on. Into…

Savaging – Vignettes of Cruelty and Callousness

Artist: Savaging Country: USA Label: Into Extinction Formats: Cassette tape Year: 2025 Having formed in 2024, Savaging recently released their debut release, a full-length titled ‘Vignettes of Cruelty and Callousness’. Despite that I somehow expected Death Metal after reading the…

Necroaura – Necroaura [Demo]

Artist: Necroaura Country: Portugal / France Label: Asylum Tenebris Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Necroaura is a new international band (or project, if you will) sprung from the minds of Insalubris Infernalis (or I.I.) who is usually spending his time with Dryas,…

Veitsi – Fenno-Ugrilainen Yliherruus [Demo]

Artist: Veitsi Country: Finland Label: River Valley Cult Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 After the ‘Perikato’-full length album that was released on the second day of this year, one-man band Veitsi is back with a new recording in the form of a demo tape.…

Obeisance – Totaler Krieg Kurzester Krieg

Artist: Obeisance Country: USA Label: Wit Duivel Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Despite the band has been around for well over three decades and spawns out material on a very regular basis, Obeisance has never been featured on these pages before. And honestly, I…

Night’s Threshold – Nocturnal Obsession

Artist: Night’s Threshold Country: USA Label: Altare Productions Formats: LP Year: 2025 After two demos and three split releases, with Lament In Winter’s Night (Atrocity Altar, 2021), Efermus (Atrocity Altar, 2023) and Eerified Catacomb (Perverse Homage/His Wounds, 2023/2025) respectively, this…

Victimarum – Seitsemän Soihdun Valossa

Artist: Victimarum Country: Finland Label: Signal Rex Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 Iätön, Kratti, Moonstruck, Valonkantaja, Kerzenlicht, Dark Divination, Devil Moon. The contingent of Finnish Black Metal bands on Signal Rex is rapidly expanding. And that’s a good thing,…

Demigoat – Bestial Empire

Artist: Demigoat Country: Sri Lanka Label: Black Kvlt Records Formats: CD Year: 2025 Ever since the birth of our beloved genre, Sri Lanka might not have been the ultimate hotbed of our metal. But despite the lack of a rich…

Kos – Crawling Noxious Spells [Demo]

Artist: Kos Country: USA Label: Elf Eggs Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2025 Although I tend to keep a close eye on the Elf Eggs label and I wrote a favourable review about Kos’ debut demo earlier this year, this new…

Evil Tree – Lepers Tongue [Demo]

Artist: Evil Tree Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2025 Admittedly, I have missed this band’s first demo from 2022, but when I came across the cover of this new demo on Instagram, I had to find it.…

Nekromanteion – The Sinister Flame [Demo / Re-release]

Artist: Nekromanteion Country: Bolivia Format: 7″ EP Label: Wolfkult Religion Year: 2025 Not to be confused with Necromanteion from South Africa or Nekromantheon from Norway, what we’re dealing with here is Nekromanteion from Bolivia. Their most recent release ‘The Sinister…